Sunday, February 21, 2010

Outline Plans for Along the Alphabet Path - G Week


♥ List of Ideas~
God
giraffe
goat
giant
Grinch
guppy
guardian
guitar
grandfather
gown
games
glass
girl
gardener
Gypsy
geometric
gift
gnomes
gyprock
goanna
gecko
gum tree
goop
glitter
glue
gel pen
gallop
grease
goose
gallon
garbage bin
goldfish
gun
gore
gumboot
guard
glove
gold
grass
galley
gas
guinea pig
giggling
glasses
gorse bush
Gabriel the Archangel
Guardian angels
Curious George books

♥ G Saints ~
Complete List of G saints
More G Saints
St George
Saint Gianna Beretta Molla
Saint Gerard Majella
Saint Gertrude the Great
♥ Famous People ~
Gershwin
Galileo
Vincent Willem van Gogh
Goya
Giovanni Bellini
Thomas Gainsborough

Theodor Seuss Geisel - Dr Seuss

Mahatma Gandhi
Jane Goodall
Benny Goodman
Billy Graham
William Goldman (author- The Princess Bride)
Kate Greenaway 9author illustrator)

James Garner (actor)
Judy Garland (actress)
Whoopee Goldberg (actress)
Mel Gibson (actor)
Clark Gable (actor)

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Gorse

Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to G song
Colour the Gorse Fairy from here

♥ Food ~
gummi bears
Grilled cheese
gingerbread cookies
Gingerbread cake
Garlic on anything
Egg Nog
grapes
Greek salad
Green Apples
Golden delicious apples
Gourmet food
goose
gnocchi
G shape cookies

♥ Movies ~
The Grinch who stole Christmas
George of the Jungle
Get Smart (the old TV series)

♥ Fairy Tales ~
The Goloshes of Fourtune (A)
The Goblin and the Hukster (A)
Grandmother (A)
The Gardener and the Noble Family (A)
The Girl who trod on the Loaf (A)
The Goblin and the Woman (A)
Great-Granfather (A)
The Great Sea Serpent (A)
The Gate Key (A)
Grandfathers Picture Book (A)
A Great Grief (A)
The Golden Treasure (A)
The Good Bargain (G)
The Girl Without Hands (G)
The Godfather (G)
Godfather Death (G)
The Golden Bird (G)
The Golden Goose (G)
Gossip Wolf and the Fox (G)
Gambeling Hansel (G)
The Gold-Children (G)
The Goose-Girl (G)
The Gnome (G)
Going a Traveling (G)
The Glass Coffin (G)
The Goose-Girl at the Well (G)
The Giant and the Tailor (G)
God's Food (G)

♥ Games to Play ~
use the Geo boards
Some great games here at I blog, Therefore I am

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
Home among the Gum Trees
Grandma's Spectacles
G tongue twister - Three Grey Geese....

♥ Musical Instruments ~
guitar
Gibson guitar
Gretch Drums

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ need to link to each letter
Activities for G activities
Read the Serendipity G Story
Learn the Gorse Fairy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax G
embroider G on felt or calico

play with glue and glitter
glue things in place- geography ???

Good Samaritan activities
The Good Shepherd activities

Colour G for Gratitude from Pondered in My Heart
Colouring G things
colour Giraffe
colour girl
colour glasses
colour goat
colour goldfish
colour goose
colour gorilla
colour grapes
colour guinea pig

draw animals that start with G
pin prick G shape and/or G shape animals
G stickers on paper and draw a G
Jan Brett and little handwriting G shape pages
use the G sound pouch
drawing G in cornmeal

make a guinea pig or guardian angel from felt

St George Painted saint

Blessings,

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Weekly Review 16th - 20th February 2010

Well, last week wasn't a great week at all.
Mostly we were in survival mode with illness in the house Emergency trips to the hospital.
Picking up Kynan on Monday, shopping and taking Moran for a blood test

Not much to report except that we read some books aloud and the well children played Risk for most of the week, on and off. Assigned reading was done and any crafts and then nursing and cleaning that needed doing by well people.
The little ones did bits and pieces of F Week stuff even though we had officially finished.

Our night routines were shattered mostly but we did not watch any DVD's during the week at all.

I'd love to make it sound better but this is real life so.....

Blessings,

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Weekly Review 8th - 12th February 2010

This second week of lessons for us had the older children really working hard to keep up to date with the weekly list of work.
Most of the kinks have been worked out of the schedules and finding resources.
They have enjoyed the Geography programme I have for them and still loving the History.
Some of the children are going very well with the Human Body study and their Latin. Others know they need to put in a little more effort. You know who you are!

The older ones have found it tiring with the extra work to be done and getting it done along with everyday life. Needless to say we have not got an actual cleaning schedule started yet.....clean as you go is the way at the moment.

Autumn created flash cards for the bones of the body...very creative idea honey. Well Done.

I have to still get Rogan's work all set out how I am going to do this.

As I have had to drive and pick up Braedon with work this week with Kynan away , this has made it a bit hard to keep the little girls work happening on the plan we had set up.
Bedtime routine is going well most nights but really requires a lot of preparation and planning to make it work well. However if we miss it Corbyn especially asks for 'milk and toast."

We have finished "F Week" as much as we will. WE did not cover most of what I wanted but both the girls can write and recognise the letter so we will move on to G Week next week.
We did complete some fun activities, read lots of books and said lots of finger plays and songs.
We did not do a lot of written or colouring in work this time.
The girls really enjoyed this time together and I can see them mastering the letters with this approach.

We did try to make play doh (missing a vital ingredient, so was postponed till today) and made edible paint to finger paint with so we could 'finger paint' for F Week.

We still haven't manged to get our afternoon sessions of Orchard House Circle or Scribbling Squires happening or Poor Box toys.

We did attempt to participate in Our Lady of Lourdes celebration but it didn't go well......a very bad day in other respects.

I noticed that it is very different again with the added situation of Kynan being away. I need to get Braedon driving so we are not just dependent on me driving when Kynan and Stephen are not here.

We have swapped Saxon and Eden on daily chores. Saxon is back on morning tea as he is a reliable early riser and Eden is now on washing, she does a great job on this too.

That is all I can remember at the moment.

Blessings,

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Eden and Vellvin's Daily Schedule

Eden ~
MONDAY

-Assigned reading

Guitar practice 20 min

Piano practice 20 min

Big kid with little kid 30 min

Spelling

Water colour drawing/painting

Prima latinia

P.C. math

Number nut

Poem

Introduction to classical studies

A history of science

Geography

Science experiment

Nature note book

Faith training (1 hour )

TUESDAY

Assigned reading

Guitar practice (20 min)

Piano practice (20 min)

Big kid with little kid time (30 min)

Grammar

Spelling

English from the roots up

Prima latinia

P.C. math

Story of the world

Poem Geography

Human body study

Nature note book

Confirmation preparation

WEDNESDAY

Assigned reading

Guitar practice (20 min)

Piano practice (20 min)

Big kid with little kid time (30 min)

Grammar

Spelling

Poem

Introduction to classical studies

Orchard House Circle Homework

English from the roots up

Enjoying the journey through.............

P.C. math

Geography

A history of science

Introduction to classical studies

Poor box toys (1 hour) while listen to music appreciation

Music appreciation :every week A NEW composer every 2 weeks

THURSDAY

Assigned reading

Guitar practice (20 min)

Piano practice (20 min)

Big kid with little kid time (30 min)

Spelling

English from the roots up

Prima Latina

Lingua angelica

poem

P. C. Maths

Human body study

A history of science

Confirmation preparation

Story of the world

FRIDAY

Assigned reading

Guitar practice (20 min)

Piano practice (20 min)

Big kid with little kid time (30 min)

Prima Latina

Spelling

poem

Introduction to classical studies

Science experiment

P.C. physics

Virtue Tree

Geography

Water colour drawing/painting

Blog Post time 1.5 hours and pre publish at least 4 post for the week


Vellvin~
MONDAY

-Assigned reading

Guitar practice 20 min

Piano practice 20 min

Big kid with little kid 30 min

Spelling

Water colour drawing/painting

Prima latinia

P.C. math

Number nut

Poem

Introduction to classical studies

A history of science

Geography

Science experiment

Nature note book

Faith training (1 hour )

TUESDAY

Assigned reading

Guitar practice (20 min)

Piano practice (20 min)

Big kid with little kid time (30 min)

Grammar

Spelling

English from the roots up

Prima latinia

P.C. math

Story of the world

Poem Geography

Human body study

Nature note book

Confirmation preparation

WEDNESDAY

Assigned reading

Guitar practice (20 min)

Piano practice (20 min)

Big kid with little kid time (30 min)

Grammar

Spelling

Poem

Introduction to classical studies

Orchard House Circle Homework

English from the roots up

Enjoying the journey through.............

P.C. math

Geography

A history of science

Introduction to classical studies

Poor box toys (1 hour) while listen to music appreciation

Music appreciation :every week A NEW composer every 2 weeks

THURSDAY

Assigned reading

Guitar practice (20 min)

Piano practice (20 min)

Big kid with little kid time (30 min)

Spelling

English from the roots up

Prima Latina

Lingua angelica

poem

P. C. Maths

Human body study

A history of science

Confirmation preparation

Story of the world

FRIDAY

Assigned reading

Guitar practice (20 min)

Piano practice (20 min)

Big kid with little kid time (30 min)

Prima Latina

Spelling

poem

Introduction to classical studies

Science experiment

P.C. physics

Virtue Tree

Geography

Water colour drawing/painting

Blog Post time 1.5 hours and pre publish at least 4 post for the week


Blessings,

Weekly Schedule Saxon 2


Saxon's list for him to do what he likes with:

Human body: 1 system per week
Geography in 7 months : 2 lessons per week
Geography for fun: 30 minutes per week
Blog post: 4 post's per week assigned day is Monday for 1.5 hours *
Assigned reading 45 mins each day during quiet time *
Piano practice: every day 20 mins *
guitar practice: every day 20 mins *
Volley ball – every day before lunch *
Sport: 1-2 times per week
Sketching: 2 times per week *
Enjoying the journey through February – 2 hours? per week Wednesday *
Logic: 5 lesson's per week *
Poetry: 5 verses per week
Faith training: Confirmation preparation 2 hours per week divided into 2 x 1 hour sessions *
Lingua Angelica: 1 prayer per week
Prima Latina – 4 x per week *

English from the roots up: 3 words per week
Math's on line: 4 times per week. *
Introduction to classical studies: 3x times per week on seperate days *
Preparation for mass and coming week. Friday *
Scribbling sqiures: 2 hours on wed. *
Poor box toys: 1 hour on wed with music appreciation *

Music appreciation :every week on wednesday A NEW composer every 2 weeks*

History of science – 2 full lesson per week

Science experiments 2 x per week and write up report *

Physics on line: 30 mins each week

Story of the world 2x week - complete one full chapter and activities per week

Spelling 3 seperate days per week - *

Grammar 2 x week

* denotes exact days or seperate times per week

Blessings,

Friday, February 5, 2010

Weekly Review 10th - 5th February 2010

As we are starting a new school year here I am going to try to keep a weekly review/overview of what we did each week.
This being the start we were allowing the whole week to iron out any kinks in the schedules we had prepared. We discovered that there were a few kinks in time management of the organising of getting everything covered.

Autumn seemed to have her time which she planned by herself thought out carefully and had allowed Friday to be an easy day.

Eden got caught up in her Grammar story and so was behind in other work because of it. She also did not understand about splitting up the 1 week worth of work into 2 or more parts, especially history.

Saxon seemed to be all over the shop and not being able to focus on the getting done of the major points. Very unlike him. I wonder if the 5.30am starts are too much for him at the moment?

Vellvin seemed to have a similar problem to Eden in not understanding the breakdown of the tasks into time management phases.

I think I will have to help them re organise some of the wok.

Rogan was keen and did a lot of work compared to last year but I need to have everything organised for him. I am considering having a work basket approach for him.
Note to self- have a look at Lynn's stuff

All the children were very keen and said they enjoyed the subjects very much. They especially like the History of the world.
Note again. See if we can get an audio book of this especially for Rogan.

Some of the subjects did not happen:
~ music practise, we have a broken piano keyboard cord (as of start of term), I need to source a new one.
~ we did not get Orchard House Circle or Scribbling Squires happening or quiet time with reading in the afternoon.

I was pleased with the breakfast routine and the learning that is happening in covering our faith and prayers along with the singing of hymns.

Moran, Myffwyn and Corbyn did not get as good a start as I would have liked as I was helping the older ones with sorting out which books to use for subjects as well as how to do this and that.

We did get some of our F week activities done and did some candle dipping for Candlemass. We read stories (more than these as well) and did some of Moran's and Arwen's OT exercises.

I need to get better at making these happen in the day.

Our new night time routine has gone well most nights and I have done some craft with Autumn and some special time making potato people with Myffwyn especially.

I did sense some unsettledness with Moran and need to give her some more one on one attention I think.

Another idea is to make sure that we ALL get up early enough to get a great early start.

All in all I am happy with how the week went and the children were too. They are keen to get things rolling at an even better pace and order next week.

Blessings,