Assigned Reading Lists - November

Children's Assigned Reading for November:

♥ Autumn.
*The Coral Island-R.M.Ballantyne.
*Riverman-Allan Baillie.
*Pioneers Of The Air-James Prunier.
*On The Clouds To China-Cyril Davey.
*In The Hands Of The Cave Dwellers-G. A. Henty.
*The Winged Watchman-Hilda Van Stockum.
*Woodland Tales-Ernest Thompson Seton.

♥ Vellvin.
*The Coral Island-R.M.Ballantyne.
*Mates At Billabong-Mary Grant Bruce.
*Laddie-Gene Stratton Porter.
*Hudson Talyor-Phyllis Thompson.
*Rujub The Juggler-G.A.Henty.
*Voyage on the Great Titanic-Ellen Emerson White.
*The Book Of The Forest-James Gourier

♥ Saxon
*Saint George for England-G.A.Henty
*Mr. Hornbeams treasure hunt-Louise Elliott
*The Borrowed House- Hilda van Stockum
*Saint Ignatius-August Derleth
*A Christmas carol-Charles Dickens
*Albert Einstein-Marie Hammontree
*Nuclear arms race-Nigel Hawkes

♥ Eden
* The Southern Rainbow by Phyllis Piddington.
*The Tiger of Mysore by G. A. Henty.
*My Heart Lies South by Elizabeth Borton De Trevino.
*Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter.
*St Louis De Montfort by Mary Fabyan Windeatt.
*Cotton,The Story of Cotton Farming in Australia byNicol Taylor.
*The Man in the Iron Mask byAlexandre Dumas.

♥ Rogan

* Deserts - Nicola Barber
* Little Old Mrs Pepperpot - Alf Proysen
* Ollies Ski Trip - Elsa Beskow
* Once Upon a time Saints - Ethel Pochocki
* Squire Terrence and the Maiden's Knight - Gerald Morris
* The Adventures of Bobby Raccoon - Thornton W Burgess
* Twister Trouble - Magic School Bus Chapter Book


Blessings,

Outline Plans for Along the Alphabet Path - D Week

♥ List of Ideas~
Daddy
Dogs
dolphins
daffy duck
Donald duck
daisy duck
Dr Seuss
dolls
ducks
daisies
Disney
Disneyland
dancing
dentist
driving
dingos
doctor
donkey
deer
dinner
dinosaurs
dragons
dragonfly
Denmark
damsel
dollar
Drawing
decoupage
Doves

♥ D Saints ~
Dominic
Damien of Molokai
Dunstan
Dorothy
King David
Daniel in the Lions Den
Divine Mercy

♥ Famous People ~
Walt Disney
Debussy
Dvorak
Edgar Degas
Tomie De Paola
Leonardo daVinci
Donut Man
Doris Day

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Double Daisy
Daisy

♥ Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to D song
colour Double Daisy Fairy form here

♥ Food ~
Donuts
dumplings
devil food cake
date cake
D cookies
Sticky Date pudding
devilled Eggs
dips

♥ Movies ~
Dudley Do right
Daddy Daycare
Donald Duck
Daffy Duck

♥ Fairy Tales ~
The Darning Needle (A)
The Daisy (A)
The Dumb Book (A)
The Days of the Week (A)
Dance Dance Doll of Mine (A)
The Drop of Water (A)
The Dryad (A)
The Devil and the Three Golden Hairs (G)
The Death of the Little Red Hen (G)
Doctor Know all (G)
The Devil's Sooty Brother (G)
Donkey Cabbages (G)
The Devil and his Grandfather (G)
The Donkey (G)
The Ditmars Tale of Wonders (G)
The Duration of Life (G)
Deaths messengers (G)
The Drummer (G)

♥ Musical Instruments ~
Drums
Didgeridoo
Dulcimer

♥ Activities ~
letter D ideas
Various alphabet pages ~ need to link to each letter
doe colouring page
Family dinner colouring page
dragon dot to dot
Colour St Damien
St Dominic colouring page
King David colouring page
colour do your Duty
colour the St Dominic Eden drew for us

Read the Serindipity D Story
Learn the Double Daisy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
learn 'doe a deer' from sound of music
make a bees wax D
embroider D on felt or calico
make Paper dolls from our pattern we have used for years
sew a small felt doll
draw animals that start with D
pin prick D shape and/or d shape animals
D stickers on paper and draw a D
Jan Brett and little handwriting D shape pages
use the D sound pouch
digging for dinosaurs
make dragon wings
drawing D in cornmeal
make dragon fly's
Learn a D poem
make a D saint from wooden people (along with the others we missed)

This is all I can think of at the moment.

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Along the Alphabet Path - C Week

♥ List of ideas ~
Church
clowns
canaries
candles
clothing
cards
creeks
canoes
colours
cat
cooks
cooking
castle
cuckoo
continents
clocks
crockery
cane
cross
cherubim
children
cross stitch
crafts
caves
clouds
crayons
caterpillar

♥ C Saints ~
Cecilia
Catherine of Alexandria
Catherine of Sienna
Christopher
Cosmos
Cyril of Alexandria
Columba (Columcille)
Clare
Pope Clement I

♥ Famous People ~
Mary Cassatt
Paul Cezanne
Chopin
Columbus
Captain Cook
Julius Caesar
Winston Churchill
Cleopatra

♥ Flower Fairies ~ this site
Columbine
Candy Tuft
Canterbury Bell
Chicory
Christmas Tree
Cornflower
Crocus
Cherry Tree

♥ Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to C song

♥ Food ~
custard
chocolate
caramel
cherries
cupcakes
cookies
celery
carrots
chips
crisps
cake
cream
corn
chicken
coconut
cream puffs
Cinnamon
coffee
croutons
crunchy salad
crackers

make cinnamon buns
make coffee cake
make a carrot cake
make cupcakes
cook crumpets
make caramel pie

♥ Movies ~
Cars
Prince Caspian
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Cheaper by the Dozen 1 & 2
Cinderella
Nanny mC fee (Braedon stretching it)

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Cinderella
Clever Hans
Clever Gretal
Cat and Mouse in Partnership
The Candles
The Court Cards

♥ Musical instruments
Celtic drums
cello
clarinet
clavier
cymbals
cowbell

♥ Activities
Bees wax C
learn a c poem
use the C sound pouches
play Candyland
play cards
make coconut shell play items
make a caterpillar
make a small cross stitch
make a clown mask
c shape cookies
C shape pin pricking
c shape sewing - back stitch
Alphabet wooden saints - painted
colour in C pages- St Cecilia, St Catherine,
Jan Brett C page,
C colouring Pages
caterpillar dot to dot
c colouring book
c words book
letter C ideas
Abc chameleon matching game
look at cloud formations-- use the Montessori cards
Decorate candles
make a cat from fabric
tissue paper SCRUNCHING onto a big C
make crayon blended drawings
make large chalk pictures outside
cutting out cardboard shapes
Matching Oreo Cookie game
make cornucopias
make paper chains
learn about colours in colour wheel and mixing colours
cloud experiment
Shopping for cupcakes (from the drawn, coloured cupcakes made in a craft activity)
Draw and colour cupcakes for a shop game.
Blessings,

Weekly Review 18 Sept - 9th October

Well this is hardly a weekly review is it?

Any way we have been very on and off with our progress
This week the older children started out very strong on the assigned work for the week.
However as we had feast days during this week we were not able to do all the set work.

They did start to get up very early again (5:30 am) and start the morning off very well. completing morning devotions, Bible reading, walk/run again and preparation for the morning chores.

The older 2 boys are still not as good at getting up although they did on a couple of days get up before 8:30am.

The little ones and I have been doing a lot of reading of the B books for Along the Alphabet Path.
We have done a lot of reading and not as much activity work as I wanted.
This I think is because we lost the momentum and once again took 3 weeks to do this.
this seems to be becouse we have a lot of interuption to the time we have spent together.

The older children are completeing lots of reading, both free and Assigned.

We have had a few major feast days which meant we have been focusing on these as well.

The older girls and I have started Orchard house Circle and we will continue to do this each week.

As I am completing this on Tuesday I have mentioned in Hearts for Home I think it is time for a review of what we want to achieve and what we actually are.

What is important and waht are are goals especially as we have not very long till we start Advent studies, which I need to get started planning on.


Blessings,