Cherished Hearts Learning at Home

Eden's Weekly Schedule

2012-01-25T18:12:00.000+11:00

This is Eden's breakdown for each day over a 4 week cycle:

Daily Drills: approx times
Spelling - 15mins
Grammar - 10 mins
Dictation - 10 mins
Poetry - 10 mins
Spanish- 20 mins
Maths - 1 hour
Music practise - 20mins
Assigned reading
Faith - 30mins
Hand writing 10mins
Writing - blog, journal or other 20mins
Art Appreciation- while walking past

Week One:
Daily drills - above
English and Science (see your yearly list) 2 -2 1/2 hours

Week Two:
Daily Drills -above
Art, Music Appreciation and Nature writing and nature notebook, Information Reading (see your yearly list) 2 -2 1/2 hours

Week Three:
Daily Drills
History (both Australian and World) and Geography, (see your yearly list) 2 -2 1/2 hours

Week Four:
Daily Drills
Shakespeare, Logic and Writing Analysis (see your yearly list) 2 - 2 1/2 hours

Blessings,

Saxon's Weekly Schedule

2012-01-25T17:58:00.001+11:00

This is Saxon's breakdown for each day over a 4 week cycle:

Daily Drills: approx times
Spelling - 15mins
Grammar - 10 mins
Dictation - 10 mins
Poetry - 10 mins
Latin- 20 mins
Maths - 1 hour
Music practise - 20mins
Assigned reading
Faith - 30mins
Hand writing 10mins
Writing - blog, journal or other 20mins
Art Appreciation- while walking past

Week One:
Daily drills - above
English and Science (see your yearly list) 2 -2 1/2 hours

Week Two:
Daily Drills -above
Art, Music Appreciation and Nature writing and nature art, Information Reading (see your yearly list) 2 -2 1/2 hours

Week Three:
Daily Drills
History (both Australian and World) and Geography, Technology (see your yearly list) 2 -2 1/2 hours

Week Four:
Daily Drills
Shakespeare, Logic and Writing Analysis (see your yearly list) 2 - 2 1/2 hours

Blessings,

Vellvin's Weekly Schedule

2012-01-25T13:03:00.000+11:00

This is Vellvin's breakdown for each day over a 4 week cycle:

Daily Drills: approx times
Spelling - 15mins
Poetry - 10 mins
Italian - 20 mins
Maths - 1 hour
Music practise - 20mins
Assigned reading
Faith - 30mins
Hand writing 10mins
Writing - blog, journal or other 20mins
Art Appreciation- while walking past

Week One:
After daily drills - above
English and Science (see your yearly list) 2 -2 1/2 hours

Week Two:
Daily Drills -above
Art, Music Appreciation and Nature (see your yearly list) 2 -2 1/2 hours

Week Three:
Daily Drills
History (both Australian and World) and Geography (see your yearly list) 2 -2 1/2 hours

Week Four: This is your creative week therefore no daily drills
Activities for the week~
information reading - Newness, Arthur Mees, children's world and other non-fiction reading etc
Assigned reading
sewing
cooking
making Christmas presents
felting
knitting
embroidery
write story
board games, cards, puzzles
Messy crafts see your yearly list)
Use creative books see your yearly list) for ideas

Blessings,

Plans for Saxon 2012

2012-01-24T17:53:00.001+11:00

ENGLISH -
Lingua Mater

Grammar:
Grammar Land (finish)
Grammar for Dummies (library resource)

Spelling:
Words from Dictionary
The Essential Spelling List - Fred J Schonell

Poetry:
Memorise approx 8 per term (to be chosen each week)
A 4-5 stanza poem should be able to be memorised in a week
OR
Inspirational Speeches eg Michael Collins, William Wallace etc

Handwriting:
Copywork of set Scripture or inspirational quote in both manuscript and cursive.
Improve Cursive using one of our resources in the style you prefer

Logic:
The Fallacy Detective: Nathaniel Bluedorn (when purchased thanks Erin)

Writing Analysis:
Windows to the World (when purchased thanks Erin)

Shakespeare:
Read, listen and watch over the year - Hamlet, MacBeth, A Midsummer's Night Dream, The Merchant of Venice
using the resources below
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - Edith Nesbit
Tales From Shakespeare Charles and Mary Lamb
Shakespeare for Children – Jim Wiess (Audio)
In Search of Shakespeare - library resource
Shakespeare Works - library resource
Library resources as available

Writing:
Blog Posts or journal 2 entries per week
Letters to Pen friends, brothers away and others
Continue to write out own creative stories
Sparrow Post notes

Assigned Reading: 2 from each category below for each term
Saint/Missionary:
The Children of Fatima - Mary Fabyan Windeat
Saint Paul the Apostle - Mary Fabyan Windeat
Saint Hyacinth of Poland - Mary Fabyan Windeat
Saint Francis Solano - Mary Fabyan Windeat
Mother Seton - Mary Fabyan Windeat
Patron Saint of First Communicants - Mary Fabyan Windeat
Saint Margaret Mary - Mary Fabyan Windeat
Saint John Masias - Mary Fabyan Windeat

Nature or Science:
Freckles - Gene Stratton-Porter
Gentle Ben - Walt Morey
Two Little Savages - Ernest Thompson Seton
Laddie - Gene Stratton-Porter
A Girl of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton-Porter
The Young Livingston - Patrick Pringle
Fabre's Book of Insects - Jean Henri Fabre
The Garden and Forest Behind Grandpop's House - Vincent Iezzi

Classic/History:
Anne of Avonlea - L M Montgomery
Anne of the Island - L M Montgomery
Anne of Windy Poplars - L M Montgomery
Anne of Ingelside - L M Montgomery
Rainbow Valley - L M Montgomery
Rilla of Ingelside - L M Montgomery
Pride and Predjedice - Jane Austen
The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien

G.A. Henty:
Wulf the Saxon
The Lion of St Mark
Under Wellington's Command
A Knight of the White Cross
At Agincourt
At Aboukir and Acre
By Conduct and Courage
Beric The Brition

Australian : See below in Australian History

Information Reading:
Arthur Mee Encyclopedia
Newnes Encyclopedia
Other non-fiction from Home Library

FAITH -
The First Christians - Marigold Hunt
St Patrick's Summer - Marigold Hunt
Church History - Father John Laux
The Faith Explained - Leo J Trese

A Philadelphia Catholic in King James Court and use the Study Guide with this
Credo (Printed notes)
Memorise The list of important facts on printed sheet

Read from Catholic Culture and be able to talk about it intelligently

The Catholic Guide for Boys

HISTORY -
World:
Story of the World 4 - The Modern Age
Supplementary books from Home Library

Australian History:
History of Australia- Manning Clark, Meredith Hooper and Susanne Ferrier (spine)
The Australian Book -Eve Pownell (Interesting Note this is a new edition and varies dramatically from the old edition called 'We live in Australia' published in 1966. My initial reaction is that it is a 'politically corrected' book.
Write and illustrate, map information

Supplementary Reading ( 2 or more per term): this is part of your Assigned Reading
Man-Shy - Frank Dalby Davison
A Saddle at Bonthatambo - H J Samuel
The Bushrangers - William Joy and Tom Prior
A Little Bush Maid- Mary Grant Bruce
Southern Rainbow - Phyllis Piddington
Bakers Dozen -Celia Syred
The Smugglers Den - Jeff Townsend

MATHEMATICS -
mathsonline
Dux Mental Arithmetic -K. Perrett and E. Whiting
Betty and Jim Mental Arithmetic A.A. Parkes
Quick Practice Maths- K E Couchman, S B Jones, W Nay
Figue it out It Our Thinking like a Math Problem Solver - Sandra R Cohen (www.curriculummassociates.com)
The Mathematical Toolbox- Rosamond Welchman-Tischler
Read Living Maths books from Home Library

Board games and card games and puzzles

SCIENCE-
Term 1:
Exploring The World of Physics-John Hudsen Tiner
Exploring the World of Mathmatics-John Hudsen Tiner
Term 2:
Exploring The World of Chemistry -John Hudsen Tiner
Exploring The World of Medicine-John Hudsen Tiner
Exploring Planet Earth-John Hudsen Tiner
Term 3:
Geology - focusing on precious metals stones, mining etc
Term 4:
Biology (Kids Bilogy Site) and Anatomy Home library and using library resources, (add in names when they arrive on interlibrary loan)

Nature Study:
A)Keep a Nature Notebook all year. B)As part of this try to have an area or tree or other that you can document the change of with the seasons.

Using the books below divided into 4 terms - read, illustrate, and write information about them
Term 1: Key guide to Australian Wildflowers- Leonard Cronin
Term 2: The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia - Michael F Braby
Term3 : A Field Guide to Insects in Australia - Paul Zborowski and Ross Story
Term 4: Field Guide to the Birds of Australia - Ken Simpson

Watch Science and Nature DVDs eg Steve Irwin, Mythbusters, MacGyver etc and Magic School Bus (by your request)

Technology:
Learn to about computers Including webcam, blogs, email, online chat, google sites webpages, Word, Excel, power point presentation
Create your own website for a specific purpose (eg a business)
Use parts to rebuilt computers
Learn about computer software/programming
Use the ' For Dummies' books as we get from the library

GEOGRAPHY -
Road Trip Around Australia:
This involves choosing a destination for a 'holiday' and the route to take to get there. You will document the distance between towns, any significant physical landmarks and made made historical or cultural landmarks. You will chart your way and record information on the towns you pass through including population, what state it is etc.
Mapping and memorising
Use online and Home library Resources
Have a map to pinpoint the towns on

Watch DVDs of Michael Palin and his various travels around the world. Keep a world pin point map of the various places he visits

Around the World Trip:
Similar to the Australian one
Use online and Home library resources

MUSIC-
Appreciation:
Listen to The Masters Series
Classical Kids Collection Vol 1 and Vol 2

Piano and Guitar Lessons (self teach)
Ballroom Dancing - use the DVD we have
Continue to learn new Hymns and songs

ART-
Appreciation:
One Art picture a week for Picture Study (Charlotte Mason style)
Term 1:
Monet
Robert Duncan
Term 2:
Jessie Wilcox Smith
Waterhouse
Term 3:
Thomas Kinkade
Van Gough
Term 4:
John Constable
Tom Roberts

Practise:
Draw from approved sources
Draw/colour/paint own designs and creations

LANGUAGES-
Latin
Live Mocha
Library resources (waiting for them to arrive- update when have)

GENERAL CRAFT -
Cooking
Creative writing

MESSY CRAFT-
Resources:
All Year Round
The Children's Year
Global Art MaryAnn F Kohl
Discovering Great Atrtists
Mudworks
Craft Basket and Nature Study Basket books from on my Book Blog

(Weekly breakdown to follow)
Blessings,

Plans for Eden 2012

2012-01-24T16:27:00.004+11:00

ENGLISH -
Lingua Mater

Grammar:
Finish Grammar Land
Grammar for Dummies (library resource)

Spelling:
Words from Dictionary
The Essential Spelling List - Fred J Schonell
Kids Spelling Site

Poetry:
Memorise approx 8 per term (to be chosen each week)
A 4-5 stanza poem should be able to be memorised in a week

Handwriting:
Copywork of set Scripture or Inspirational quotes in both manuscript and cursive.
Improve Cursive using one of our resources in the style you prefer

Logic:
The Fallacy Detective: Nathaniel Bluedorn (when purchased thanks Erin)

Writing Analysis:
Windows to the World (when purchased thanks Erin)

Shakespeare:
Read, listen and watch over the year - Hamlet, MacBeth, A Midsummer's Night Dream, The Merchant of Venice
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - Edith Nesbit
Tales From Shakespeare Charles and Mary Lamb
Shakespeare for Children – Jim Wiess (Audio)
In Search of Shakespeare - library resource
Shakespeare Works - library resource
Library resources as available

Writing:
Blog Posts
Letters to Pen friends, brothers away and others
Continue to write out own creative stories
Sparrow Post notes

Assigned Reading: 2 from each category below for 1each term

Saint/Missionary:
Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity - Alma Power-Waters
Saint John Bosco and Saint Dominic Savio - Catherine Beebe
Saint Isaac and the Indians - Milton Lomask
Saint Margaret Mary - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Saint Thomas Aquinas - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Saint Dominc an dthe Rosary - Catherine Beebe
Father Marquette and the Great Rivers - August Derleth
Edmond Campion - Harold C Gardiner

Nature or Science:
Two Little Savages -Ernest Thompson Seton
The Garden and Forest Behind Granpa's House - Vincent Iezzi
First Studies in Insect Life in Australia - William Gilles
The Harvester - Gene Stratton-Porter
Moths of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton-Porter
The Song of the Cardinals - Gene Stratton-Porter
Fabre's Book of Insects - Jean Henri Fabre
Laddie - Gene Stratton-Porter

Classic/History:
Warrior Scarlet - Rosemary Sutcliff
The Hound of Ulster - Rosemary Sutcliff
The Shinning Company - Rosemary Sutcliff
The Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff
Outcast - Rosemary Sutcliff
The Lantern Bearers - Rosemary Sutcliff
The Mark of the Horse Lord - Rosemary Sutcliff
Betsy and Tasey Downtown - Maud Hart Lovelace

G.A. Henty:
Both Sides of the Border
At Agincourt
Won By The Sword
A March On London

Australian : See below in Australian History

Information Reading:
Arthur Mee Encyclopedia
Newnes Encyclopedia
Other non-fiction from Home Library

FAITH -
The First Christians - Marigold Hunt
Saint Patrick's Summer - Marigold Hunt
Church History - Father John Laux
The Faith Explained - Leo J Trese

A Philadelphia Catholic in King James Court and use the Study Guide with this
Credo (Printed notes)
Memorise The list of important facts on printed sheet

Read from Catholic Culture and be able to talk about it intelligently

The Catholic Guide for Girls

HISTORY -
World:
Story of the World 1 - Ancient Times (finish this one first) (as a spine)
When Finished Story of the World 4 - The Modern Age
Supplementary books from Home Library

Australian History:
History of Australia- Manning Clark, Meredith Hooper and Susanne Ferrier (spine)
The Australian Book -Eve Pownell (Interesting Note this is a new edition and varies dramatically from the old edition called 'We live in Australia' published in 1966. My initial reaction is that it is a 'politically corrected' book.

Supplementary Reading ( 2 or more per term):
Man-Shy - Frank Dalby Davison
Hills End - Ivan Southall
A Saddle at Bontharambo - H J Samuel
The Undercover Secret - Colin Thiele
The Boundary Riders- Joan Phipson
Family at the Lookout - Noreen Shelley
The Australian Twins - Daphne Rooke

MATHEMATICS -
mathsonline
Dux Mental Arithmetic -K. Perrett and E. Whiting
Betty and Jim Mental Arithmetic A.A. Parkes
Quick Practice Maths- K E Couchman, S B Jones, W Nay
Figue it out It Our Thinking like a Math Problem Solver - Sandra R Cohen (www.curriculummassociates.com)
The Mathematical Toolbox- Rosamond Welchman-Tischler
Read Living Maths books from Home Library

Board games and card games and puzzles

SCIENCE-
Term 1- Botany:
The Wonderland of Nature Nuri Mass
Shaleya's Quest Thomas J Elpel
Botany in a Day -Thomas J Elpel
Exploring Creation with Botany (Young Explorer Series) Jeannie K Fulbright Apologia Press
Christopherous Unit Study Botany by Donna Simmons
Term 2:
Exploring The World of Chemistry - John Hudson Tiner
Exploring The World of Physics - John Hudson Tiner
Exploring Planet Earth - John Hudson Tiner
Term 3:
Astronomy (using books from Home Library) Kids Astronomy site
Create a solar system
Term 4:
Biology and Anatomy Home library and using library resources, (add in names when they arrive on inter library loan) Kids Biology Site

Nature Study:
a) Keep a Nature Notebook all year.
b)As part of this try to have an area or tree or other that you can document the change of with the seasons.

Using the books below divided into 4 terms - read, illustrate, and write information about them
Term 1: Key guide to Australian Wildflowers- Leonard Cronin
Term 2: The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia - Michael F Braby
Term3 : A Field Guide to Insects in Australia - Paul Zborowski and Ross Story
Term 4: Field Guide to the Birds of Australia - Ken Simpson

Watch Science and Nature DVDs eg Steve Irwin, Mythbusters, MacGyver, Magic School Bus too if like

GEOGRAPHY -
Road Trip Around Australia:
This involves choosing a destination for a 'holiday' and the route to take to get there. You will document the distance between towns, any significant physical landmarks and made made historical or cultural landmarks. You will chart your way and record information on the towns you pass through including population, what state it is etc.
Use online and Home library Resources
Have a map to pinpoint the towns on

Watch DVDs of Michael Palin and his various travels around the world. Keep a world pin point map of the various places he visits

Around the World Trip:
Similar to the Australian one
Use online and Home library resources

MUSIC-
Appreciation:
Listen to The Masters Series
Classical Kids Collection Vol 1 and Vol 2

Piano and Flute Lessons (self teach)
Ballroom Dancing - use the DVD we have
Continue to learn new Hymns and songs

ART-
Appreciation:
One Art picture a week for Picture Study (Charlotte Mason style)
Term 1:
Monet
Robert Duncan
Term 2:
Jessie Wilcox Smith
Waterhouse
Term 3:
Thomas Kinkade
Van Gough
Term 4:
John Constable
Tom Roberts

Practise:
Copy and colour/paint from approved sources
Draw/colour/paint own designs and creations

LANGUAGES-
Spanish
Live Mocha
Library resources (waiting for them to arrive- update when have)

GENERAL CRAFT -
Cooking
Creative writing
Painting
spinning
crocheting
hand sewing
machine sewing
felting
embroidery
learn to knit
sculpy

MESSY CRAFT-
Resources:
All Year Round
The Children's Year
Global Art MaryAnn F Kohl
Discovering Great Atrtists
Mudworks
Craft Basket and Nature Study Basket books from on my Book Blog

(Weekly breakdown to follow)
Blessings,

Assigned Reading for 2112

2012-01-24T13:55:00.000+11:00

To make life easier for this year, 2012, this is the list of Assigned Reading for Eden, Saxon, Vellvin and Rogan. This should avoid the 'oh I am finished what will I read next' problem and the resulting sometime 'forgetting of' getting another book for that subject.

EDEN ASSIGNED READING FOR THE YEAR: Approx 2 books per term per category

Saint/Missionary:
Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity - Alma Power-Waters
Saint John Bosco and Saint Dominic Savio - Catherine Beebe
Saint Isaac and the Indians - Milton Lomask
Saint Margaret Mary - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Saint Thomas Aquinas - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Saint Dominc an dthe Rosary - Catherine Beebe
Father Marquette and the Great Rivers - August Derleth
Edmond Campion - Harold C Gardiner

Nature or Science:
Two Little Savages -Ernest Thompson Seton
The Garden and Forest Behind Granpa's House - Vincent Iezzi
First Studies in Insect Life in Australia - William Gilles
The Harvester - Gene Stratton-Porter
Moths of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton-Porter
The Song of the Cardinals - Gene Stratton-Porter
Fabre's Book of Insects - Jean Henri Fabre
Laddie - Gene Stratton-Porter

Classic/History:
Warrior Scarlet - Rosemary Sutcliff
The Hound of Ulster - Rosemary Sutcliff
The Shinning Company - Rosemary Sutcliff
The Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff
Outcast - Rosemary Sutcliff
The Lantern Bearers - Rosemary Sutcliff
The Mark of the Horse Lord - Rosemary Sutcliff
Betsy and Tasey Downtown - Maud Hart Lovelace

G.A. Henty:
Both Sides of the Border
At Agincourt
Won By The Sword
A March On London

Faith-
The First Christians - Marigold Hunt
Saint Patrick's Summer - Marigold Hunt
Church History - Father John Laux
The Faith Explained - Leo J Trese

A Philadelphia Catholic in King James Court

Australian History:
Man-Shy - Frank Dalby Davison
Hills End - Ivan Southall
A Saddle at Bontharambo - H J Samuel
The Undercover Secret - Colin Thiele
The Boundary Riders- Joan Phipson
Family at the Lookout - Noreen Shelley
The Australian Twins - Daphne Rooke

SAXON ASSIGNED READING FOR THE YEAR: Approx 2 books per term per category

Saint/Missionary:
The Children of Fatima - Mary Fabyan Windeat
Saint Paul the Apostle - Mary Fabyan Windeat
Saint Hyacinth of Poland - Mary Fabyan Windeat
Saint Francis Solano - Mary Fabyan Windeat
Mother Seton - Mary Fabyan Windeat
Patron Saint of First Communicants - Mary Fabyan Windeat
Saint Margaret Mary - Mary Fabyan Windeat
Saint John Masias - Mary Fabyan Windeat

Nature or Science:
Freckles - Gene Stratton-Porter
Gentle Ben - Walt Morey
Two Little Savages - Ernest Thompson Seton
Laddie - Gene Stratton-Porter
A Girl of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton-Porter
The Young Livingston - Patrick Pringle
Fabre's Book of Insects - Jean Henri Fabre
The Garden and Forest Behind Grandpop's House - Vincent Iezzi

Classic/History:
Anne of Avonlea - L M Montgomery
Anne of the Island - L M Montgomery
Anne of Windy Poplars - L M Montgomery
Anne of Ingelside - L M Montgomery
Rainbow Valley - L M Montgomery
Rilla of Ingelside - L M Montgomery
Pride and Predjedice - Jane Austen
The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien

G.A. Henty:
Wulf the Saxon
The Lion of St Mark
Under Wellington's Command
A Knight of the White Cross
At Agincourt
At Aboukir and Acre
By Conduct and Courage
Beric The Brition

Faith -
The First Christians - Marigold Hunt
St Patrick's Summer - Marigold Hunt
Church History - Father John Laux
The Faith Explained - Leo J Trese
A Philadelphia Catholic in King James Court

Australian:
Man-Shy - Frank Dalby Davison
A Saddle at Bonthatambo - H J Samuel
The Bushrangers - William Joy and Tom Prior
A Little Bush Maid- Mary Grant Bruce
Southern Rainbow - Phyllis Piddington
Bakers Dozen -Celia Syred
The Smugglers Den - Jeff Townsend

VELLVIN ASSIGNED READING FOR THE YEAR: Approx 2 books per term per category

Saint/Missionary:
Bernadette Our Lady's Little Servant - Hertha Pauli
Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity - Alma Power-Waters
Pauline Jaricot- Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Saint John Bosco and Saint Dominic Savio - Catherine Beebe
Saint Isaac and the Indians - Milton Lomask
Saint Elizabeth's Three Crowns - Blanch Jennings Thompson
Saint Margaret Mary - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Saint Thomas Aquinas - Mary Fabyan Windeatt

Nature or Science:
A Tippy Canoe and Canada Too - Sam Campbell
The Wolfling - Sterling North
Laddie - Gene Stratton-Porter
Old Bob's Birds - C. K. Thompson
Canada Ride - Mary Bosanquet
The Garden and Forest Behind Grandpop's House - Vincent Iezzi
The Young Milton - Mary Hobbs
Marie Curie - Beverly Birch

Classic/History:
The Silver Branch - Rosemary Sutcliff
Tom Sawyer Abroad - Samuel Clemens
Heidi - Johanna Spyri
Legend Led - Amy Le Feuvre
Tom Sawyer Detective - Samuel Clemens
The Enchanted Island - Ian Serraillier
The Story of Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

G.A. Henty:
A Roving Commission
By England's Aid
The Lion of St Mark
St George for England
In the Reign of Terror
Rujub the Juggler

Faith:
The First Christians - Marigold Hunt
With God in Russia - Walter Ciszek
A Philadelphia Catholic in King James Court
and others of choice

Australian History:
By the Sandhills of Yamboorah - Reginald Ottley
Southern Rainbow- Phyllis Pinddington
Verity of Sydney Town - Ruth C Williams
Bakers Dozen - Celia Syred
They Came South - Mavis Thorpe Clark
Gold on the Wind - Valerie Thompson
From Billabong to London - Mary Grant Bruce
The Green Laurel - Eleanor Spence

ROGAN ASSIGNED READING FOR THE YEAR: Approx 2 books per term per category

Saint:
Francis and Clare: Saints of Assis - Helen Walker Homan
Saint Rose of Lima - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Blessed Marie of New France - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
The Little Flower - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
The Cure of Ars - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Saint Martin De Porres - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Saint Benedict - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Saint Catherine of Sienna - Mary Fabyan Windeatt

Nature or Science:
Actos the Grizzly -Rhoda Leonard
Gatie the Aligatter -Rhoda Leonard
Mattie - G D Griffiths
Animals that Eat Nectar and Honey - Alice L Hopf
Monarch The Big Bear of Tallac -Ernest Thompson Seton
James Herriot's Animal Stories - James Herriot
Little Rascal - Sterling North
My Side of the Mountain -Jean George
The Wofling - Sterling North

Classic:
Nurse Matilda - Chritiana Brand
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Black Beauty -Anna Sewell
The Hundred and One Dalmations - Dodie Smith
The Silver Sword - Ian Serrallier
The Family from One End Street - Eve Garnett
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson
Maddie - Astrid Lindgren

History:
Children on the Oregon Trail - A Rufgers van der Loeff
Legions of the Eagle- Henry Treece
The Bronze Bow - Elizabeth George Speare
The Sign of the Beaver - Elizabeth George Speare
The Borrowed House - Hilda van Stockum
The Winged Watchman - Hilda van Stockum
The Children's Crusade - Henry Treece
The Eagle - Rosemary Sutcliffe

Faith:
St Patrick's Summer - Marigold Hunt
A Life of Our Lord for Children - Marigold Hunt
The First Christians - Marigold Hunt
The Rebel Prince - Raymond H Belton
The Heroic Messenger - Ambrose Haynes

Australian History:
By the Sandhills of Yamboorah - Reginald Ottley
Cousin Come Lately - Eve Pownell
John of the Sirius - Doris Chadwick
Trim- Mathew Flinders
The Bay Whalers - Ira Nesdale
The Boundary Whalers - Joan Phipson
Courageous Crew- Kathleen Allanby
The Australian Twins -Daphne Rooke

Blessings,

Plans for Vellvin 2012

2012-01-20T22:39:00.002+11:00

ENGLISH -
Lingua Mater
Imitation in Writing Fairy Tales

Grammar:
Grammar for Dummies (library resource)

Spelling:
Words from Dictionary
The Essential Spelling List - Fred J Schonell

Poetry:
Memorise approx 8 per term (to be chosen each week)
A 4-5 stanza poem should be able to be memorised in a week

Handwriting:
Copywork of set Scripture in both manuscript and cursive.
Improve Cursive using one of our resources in the style you prefer

Writing:
Blog Posts
Letters to Pen friends, brothers away and others
Continue to write out own creative stories
Sparrow Post notes

Assigned Reading: 2 from each category below for 1each term

Saint/Missionary:
Bernadette Our Lady's Little Servant - Hertha Pauli
Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity - Alma Power-Waters
Pauline Jaricot- Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Saint John Bosco and Saint Dominic Savio - Catherine Beebe
Saint Isaac and the Indians - Milton Lomask
Saint Elizabeth's Three Crowns - Blanch Jennings Thompson
Saint Margaret Mary - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Saint Thomas Aquinas - Mary Fabyan Windeatt

Nature or Science:
A Tippy Canoe and Canada Too - Sam Campbell
The Wolfling - Sterling North
Laddie - Gene Stratton-Porter
Old Bob's Birds - C. K. Thompson
Canada Ride - Mary Bosanquet
The Garden and Forest Behind Grandpop's House - Vincent Iezzi
The Young Milton - Mary Hobbs
Marie Curie - Beverly Birch

Classic/History:
The Silver Branch - Rosemary Sutcliff
Tom Sawyer Abroad - Samuel Clemens
Heidi - Johanna Spyri
Legend Led - Amy Le Feuvre
Tom Sawyer Detective - Samuel Clemens
The Enchanted Island - Ian Serraillier
The Story of Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

G.A. Henty:
A Roving Commission
By England's Aid
The Lion of St Mark
St George for England
In the Reign of Terror
Rujub the Juggler

Australian : See below in Australian History

Information Reading:
Arthur Mee Encyclopedia
Newnes Encyclopedia
Other non-fiction from Home Library

FAITH -
The First Christians - Marigold Hunt
With God in Russia - Walter Ciszek

Church History - Father John Laux
The Faith Explained - Leo J Trese

A Philadelphia Catholic in King James Court and use the Study Guide with this
Credo (Printed notes)
Memorise The list of important facts on printed sheet

Read from Catholic Culture and be able to talk about it intelligently

The Catholic Guide for Girls

HISTORY -
World:
Story of the World 2 - Medieval (finish this one) (as a spine)
When Finished Story of the World 3 - Early Modern Times
Supplementary books from Home Library

Australian History:
History of Australia- Manning Clark, Meredith Hooper and Susanne Ferrier (spine)
The Australian Book -Eve Pownell (Interesting Note this is a new edition and varies dramatically from the old edition called 'We live in Australia' published in 1966. My initial reaction is that it is a 'politically corrected' book.

Supplementary Reading ( 2 or more per term):
By the Sandhills of Yamboorah - Reginald Ottley
Southern Rainbow- Phyllis Pinddington
Verity of Sydney Town - Ruth C Williams
Bakers Dozen - Celia Syred
They Came South - Mavis Thorpe Clark
Gold on the Wind - Valerie Thompson
From Billabong to London - Mary Grant Bruce
The Green Laurel - Eleanor Spence

MATHEMATICS -
mathsonline
Dux Mental Arithmetic -K. Perrett and E. Whiting
Betty and Jim Mental Arithmetic A.A. Parkes
Quick Practice Maths- K E Couchman, S B Jones, W Nay
Figue it out It Our Thinking like a Math Problem Solver - Sandra R Cohen (www.curriculummassociates.com)
The Mathematical Toolbox- Rosamond Welchman-Tischler
Read Living Maths books from Home Library

Board games and card games and puzzles

SCIENCE-
Term 1- Botany:
The Wonderland of Nature Nuri Mass
Shaleya's Quest Thomas J Elpel
Botany in a Day -Thomas J Elpel
Exploring Creation with Botany (Young Explorer Series) Jeannie K Fulbright Apologia Press
Christopherous Unit Study Botany by Donna Simmons
Term 2:
The World of Chemistry
The World of Medicine
Planet Earth
Term 3:
Astronomy (using books from Home Library)
Create a solar system
Term 4:
Biology and Anatomy Home library and using library resources, (add in names when they arrive on interlibrary loan)

Nature Study:
Keep a Nature Notebook all year. As part of this try to have an area or tree or other that you can document the change of with the seasons.

Using the books below divided into 4 terms - read, illustrate, and write information about them
Term 1: The Burgess book of Birds for Children - Thornton W. Burgess
Term 2: Wild Animals at Home -Ernest Thompson Seton
Artic Prairies -Ernest Thompson Seton
Bannertail - Ernest Thompson Seton
Term3 : The Burgess Flower Book for Children - Thornton W Burgess
Term 4: The Best of Ernest Thompson Seton -Ernest Thompson Seton
Woodland Tales -Ernest Thompson Seton

Watch Science and Nature DVDs eg Steve Irwin, Mythbusters, MacGyver

GEOGRAPHY -
Australian: mapping and memorising

World: Geography in Seven Months (on line mapping etc)
Using Home Library choose countries and write about culture, commerce, history etc
Pin point map for each country you do

Watch DVDs of Michael Palin and his various travels around the world. Keep a world pin point map of the various places he visits

MUSIC-
Appreciation:
Listen to The Masters Series
Classical Kids Collection Vol 1 and Vol 2

Piano and Guitar Lessons
Ballroom Dancing - use the DVD we have
Continue to learn new Hymns and songs

ART-
Appreciation:
One Art picture a week for Picture Study (Charlotte Mason style)
Term 1:
Monet
Robert Duncan
Term 2:
Jessie Wilcox Smith
Waterhouse
Term 3:
Thomas Kinkade
Van Gough
Term 4:
John Constable
Tom Roberts

Practise:
Copy and colour/paint from approved sources
Draw/colour/paint own designs and creations

LANGUAGES-
Italian
Live Mocha
Library resources (waiting for them to arrive- update when have)

GENERAL CRAFT -
Cooking
Creative writing
Painting
knitting
hand sewing
machine sewing
felting
embroidery

MESSY CRAFT-
Resources:
All Year Round
The Children's Year
Global Art MaryAnn F Kohl
Discovering Great Atrtists
Mudworks
Craft Basket and Nature Study Basket books from on my Book Blog

(Weekly breakdown to follow)
Blessings,

Plans for Rogan 2012

2012-01-20T16:11:00.005+11:00

ENGLISH -
Stories of the Saints
Imitation in Writing Fairy Tales
Participating in (Listening and Narrating) Read alouds that are part of younger children lessons. (Link Later)

Grammar:
Ruth Heller : World of Language- Read and narrate when finished use Grammar Land
Intermediate Language Lessons -Emma Serl.

Spelling:
Common Word Spelling List Grade 4-6 (From you can teach your child Successfully)
The Essential Spelling List - Fred J Schonell

Dictation:
Spelling Wisdom

Poetry:
Memorise approx 8 per term (to be chosen each week)
A 4-5 stanza poem should be able to be memorised in a week

Handwriting:
Copywork of set Scripture in both manuscript and cursive.
Start Cursive using one of our resources in the style you prefer

Writing:
Blog Posts 2 per week of written content (not just pictures)
Letters to Pen friends, brothers away and others
Continue to write out own creative stories

Assigned Reading: 2 from each category below for 1each term (to be decided as go along)
Saint:
Francis and Clare: Saints of Assis - Helen Walker Homan
Saint Rose of Lima - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Blessed Marie of New France - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
The Little Flower - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
The Cure of Ars - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Saint Martin De Porres - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Saint Benedict - Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Saint Catherine of Sienna - Mary Fabyan Windeatt

Nature or Science:
Actos the Grizzly -Rhoda Leonard
Gatie the Aligatter -Rhoda Leonard
Mattie - G D Griffiths
Animals that Eat Nectar and Honey - Alice L Hopf
Monarch The Big Bear of Tallac -Ernest Thompson Seton
James Herriot's Animal Stories - James Herriot
Little Rascal - Sterling North
My Side of the Mountain -Jean George
The Wofling - Sterling North

Classic:
Nurse Matilda - Chritiana Brand
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Black Beauty -Anna Sewell
The Hundred and One Dalmations - Dodie Smith
The Silver Sword - Ian Serrallier
The Family from One End Street - Eve Garnett
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson
Maddie - Astrid Lindgren

History:
Children on the Oregon Trail - A Rufgers van der Loeff
Legions of the Eagle- Henry Treece
The Bronze Bow - Elizabeth George Speare
The Sign of the Beaver - Elizabeth George Speare
The Borrowed House - Hilda van Stockum
The Winged Watchman - Hilda van Stockum
The Children's Crusade - Henry Treece
The Eagle - Rosemary Sutcliffe

Australian:
see below in Australian History section

Free Choice:
as you choose during the year

Information Reading:
Arthur Mee Encyclopedia
Newnes Encyclopedia
Other non-fiction from Home Library

FAITH -
St Patrick's Summer - Marigold Hunt
A Life of Our Lord for Children - Marigold Hunt
The First Christians - Marigold Hunt
The Rebel Prince - Raymond H Belton
The Heroic Messenger - Ambrose Haynes

St Joseph's Baltimore Catechism Book 2
Memorise The list of important facts on printed sheet

VIRTUE -
The Catholic Guide for Boys

HISTORY -
World:
Story of the World 2 - Medieval (as a spine) you may do 2-3 activities on Friday
Supplementary books from Home Library

Australian History:
History of Australia- Manning Clark, Meredith Hooper and Susanne Ferrier (spine)
The Australian Book -Eve Pownell (Interesting Note this is a new edition and varies dramatically from the old edition called 'We live in Australia' published in 1966. My initial reaction is that it is a 'politically corrected' book.

Supplementary Reading ( 2 or more per term):
By the Sandhills of Yamboorah - Reginald Ottley
Cousin Come Lately - Eve Pownell
John of the Sirius - Doris Chadwick
Trim- Mathew Flinders
The Bay Whalers - Ira Nesdale
The Boundary Whalers - Joan Phipson
Courageous Crew- Kathleen Allanby
The Australian Twins -Daphne Rooke

MATHEMATICS -
Start Maths Buddy (When we get it)
Lessons in numbers
Concentrate on X Tables
Online Math Drills Worksheets
Worksheets
Read From Home Library Living Math Books
Board games and card games and puzzles

SCIENCE-
Term 1- Botany:
The Wonderland of Nature Nuri Mass
Shaleya's Quest Thomas J Elpel
Botany in a Day -Thomas J Elpel
Exploring Creation with Botany (Young Explorer Series) Jeannie K Fulbright Apologia Press
Christopherous Unit Study Botany by Donna Simmons
Term 2:
Wonderland Of Nature - Nuri Mass
Children of Summer Jean -Henri Fabre
Fabre's Book of Insects- Jean Henry Fabre
Term 3:
Astronomy (using books from Home Library)
Create a solar system
Term 4:
Read through Habitat books (One Square Foot)
Plant a garden to produce vegetables and herbs (keep a journal on when planted and growing record)

Nature Study: Nature in the Neighbourhood - Gordon Morrison
Keep a Nature Notebook
Create an Animal Notebook (draw animal and fill with facts including paw prints, special considerations)

Watch Science and Nature DVDs eg Steve Irwin, Mythbusters Magic School Bus etc

GEOGRAPHY -
Road Trip Around Australia:
This involves choosing a destination for a 'holiday' and the route to take to get there. You will document the distance between towns, any significant physical landmarks and made made historical or cultural landmarks. You will chart your way and record information on the towns you pass through including population, what state it is etc.
Use online and Home library Resources
Have a map to pinpoint the towns on

Watch DVDs of Michael Palin and his various travels around the world. Keep a world pin point map of the various places he visits

Around the World Trip:
Similar to the Australian one
Use online and Home library resources

MUSIC-
Appreciation:
Listen to The Masters Series
Classical Kids Collection Vol 1 and Vol 2

Piano Lessons
Ballroom Dancing - use the DVD we have
Continue to learn new Hymns and songs

ART-
Appreciation:
One Art picture a week for Picture Study (Charlotte Mason style)
Term 1:
Monet
Robert Duncan
Term 2:
Jessie Wilcox Smith
Waterhouse
Term 3:
Thomas Kinkade
Van Gough
Term 4:
John Constable
Tom Roberts

Practise:
Copy and colour/paint from approved sources
Draw/colour/paint own designs and creations

PHOTOGRAPHY -
Experiment with taking different photos eg, still life, portrait, nature and then use photo editing to Edit these with different options to show effects
Use these to create collages and for blog posts etc

LANGUAGES-
French:
Usborne French
Live Mocha
Library resources (waiting for them to arrive- update when have)

GENERAL CRAFT -
Sculpy
Cooking
Candle making
Creative writing
Painting
Spider knitting

MESSY CRAFT-
Resources:
All Year Round
The Children's Year
Global Art MaryAnn F Kohl
Discovering Great Atrtists
Mudworks
Craft Basket and Nature Study Basket books from on my Book Blog

(Weekly breakdown to follow)
Blessings,

Vellvins Learning

2011-09-18T18:35:00.000+10:00

This is Vellvin's list of things she wants to learn at the moment.
This is her own list based on her interests and desires at the moment.
We are traveling and experimenting with a different learning path for Vellvin at the moment, leaning towards unschooling.
I will be sharing how this came about on my main blog

Things I want to learn and improve/do:
Learn to Carve
Do some more knitting
Lots more reading of whatever I want!!!
Writing my book.
Learn how to cook some more cakes and that sort of thing. ;)
Learn some more embroidery stitches
Make my Christmas presents.
Do some more Geography
Research some foreign country
Do some more of my water-colour pictures,
Enjoy reading my assigned reading. :)
Do some more outside activities/play
Play more board games.
Do more blog posts instead of occasionally.
Read some more of History and that sort of thing.
Read some more of my Faith.
Play more on the piano and be able to devote more time to it because its fun :)
Play some more Table-Tennis
Continue learning to do cursive
Continue with Latin
Do some more of Orchard House Circle activities
Talk more in the evening and family time instead of going to bed.
Read Murderous Maths,
Learn how to sketch,
Maths twice a week.

Things I don't want to do:
English,
Grammar,
Science,
Nature journal,
Dictation.

Blessings,

Eden's Assigned Reading

2011-08-08T13:21:00.000+10:00

The Quiet light (a Novel about Saint Thomas Aquinas) by Louis de Wohl.

By Pike and Dyke by G .A. Henty.

Marie Curie By Ann E. Steinke.

Farming Naturally and Organic Animal Care By Pat Coleby.

Dixon of Botany Bay by Vivenne keely

Blessings,

Weekly Review - 17th July- 7th August

2011-08-07T23:47:00.000+10:00

Well this is the third time I have attempted to record out Week in review. i use the term week in review very loosely now. First off I lost my week in review (a very long detailed post) and then the other weeks I started and then did not finish. So her is a round up again, sigh!!

We had a very good week initially with getting work going. I was especially pleased that we still had Anna-Lisa here and we were trying to get everyone back on track with lessons.

I was and have been fairly happy with Moran and Myffwyn's lessons. We have really been doing a lot of letters and work sheets and not really that much in creativity. I have introduced the Christopherus 1st Grade Curriculum into our work and this has a very quick introduction to learning the letters of the Alphabet.
They girls have loved the story and the chalk board pictures I have done to illustrate the letters, most of which have been review letters from our Alphabet Path.

We have also introduced some nursery rhymes that I used with the older children that we have on tape. I just randomly put this on one day and the children have loved memorising the songs. It was also a trip down memory lane for me. However it also has great action songs which Corbyn especially loves too.

We have varied from day to day the amount of work done and books read, partly due to them playing other games and partly because I was tending the baby or not quite organised at the time.

Moran has taken a real interest in recognising letters though and when we brought back new library books last week she quickly claimed a book to 'read through' which involved looking for letters she has learned.

I have also been trying to blend letters together but she struggles with this blending and really needs a lot of work to 'remember' how to do this each day. Myffwyn I am sure know how to do this but is much more interested in still being a little girl and not putting in the effort that I think she can. I tend to think her a little lazy with this.

Rogan has greatly improved (perhaps matured) over the last month or more. He is getting up very early to achieve an early start and therefore finish time for all his work. I am greatly impressed with his diligence and the quality of work he is doing. He has also seems to finally have a desire and love of reading. I was thinking this would never come for him but once again it just needs the right type of books: for him The Mismantle Chronicles.

Vellvin as ever is very diligent in all her work, she rarely does not complete her assigned work for the day and even gets work done when others are not as motivated. Vellvin is making progress in each of her areas but maths still is the one area that she has more difficulty in.

Saxon has I think been the most distracted in his work over the month or so since starting back. He seems to find the fact that starting later a bit of an detriment to finishing work. He does have better days than others with this but can be quited distracted with other things. However unlike many of his siblings Saxon LOVES maths and would do this as his only subject if allowed too. He is intense with all his work (and play and thus life itself) and so can be totally absorbed in the lesson if he has enough interest in it.

Eden has done a lot of good work over the last month or so but can get bogged down in her understanding of a maths point and then spend too much time on it and not finish other work. This then makes her quite distressed at not completing the other work, especially her favourite subjects. Eden however does read more than her fair share of books and finished three new Redwall books in 2 days. She would have finished sooner but I did require some other input into family life.

Autumn is working hard especially on her Literature and Apologetics.
She is my Elementary helper with the younger children but depending on her mood that day she is better at it than others.
Autumn is currently trying to work out what it is she wants to do with her life and I think this is a little irritating for her as well as frustrating and thus this can affect the amount of work she does and also her motivation.

We have also started two read alouds.
The Penderwicks at Point Mouette which we are reading together at night and Beezus and Ramona which is our lunch time read aloud along with the children's bible, as we have a sit down lunch together.

In the afternoons we have been doing a 1/2 hour exercise walk together (myself included) and most of us have been doing some sort of craft work, mostly knitting or crocheting when we can find the time.

Of course free reading especially of those new and library books has been high on the list of preferred free time choices

And last but not least we have been watching The Victorian Farm and The Edwardian Farm and have learned a great deal about farming and household tips, not to mention the time period too.

Oh, I nearly forgot, some of the children have started to make Christmas gifts already and I am working on my list too.

Hoping to have a review at the end of this week.

Blessings,

Rogan's New Assigned Reading

2011-08-07T14:09:00.000+10:00

I have been a bit slack in requiring Assigned Reading and the recording of that reading too. The children read so much anyway, but I dolike to have them cover the 'lesson topics' Hopefully we will ge the next lists up now!

Rogans assinged reading .

The Cat of Bubastes by G. A. Henty .
My Side of the Mountain by Jean George .
The lion, The witch and the wardrobe by C. S. Lewis .
St Maximilian Kolbe (Mary' Knight) by Patricia Edward Jablonski.
Gully of Gold by Mavis Thorpe Clark .
Chicken-Keeping .by Katie Thear.
Raising a Calf for Beef by Phyllis Hobson .
Sheepkeeping on Small Scale by Edward Hart.
Raising Milk Goats the Modern Way by Jerry belanger.
Pigs by Ralph wWitlock.

Free Reading: The Rage Tide - The Mismantle Chronicles M. I. McAllister

Blessings,

Term 3 Schedule - Autumn

2011-07-10T13:21:00.000+10:00

This only deals with the time frame and organisation of the 'School Day' the resources are still the same we have used previously listed

Maths 1 1/2 hours
Literature 45 mins
History 45 mins
Apologetics 30 mins
Elementary School 30 mins
Latin
Music practise
Exercise 30 mins structured
Bonus work 30 mins to 1 hour - choose one day from below. Do a different day each day of the week.
Creative Time 30 mins

Keep a running list of books you have read

Bonus Work~
Day 1- Music lessons
Day 2- Art and Education
Day 3- Writing and craft
Day 4- Liturgical Year
Day 5- Orchard House Circle

Blessings,

Term 3 Schedule - Rogan

2011-07-10T12:04:00.000+10:00

This only deals with the time frame and organisation of the 'School Day' the resources are still the same we have used previously listed

Maths 45 mins
English one complete lesson
History 45 mins
Catechism 30 mins
Music Practise
Assigned Reading - one chapter from each book
Exercise-30 mins structured
Bonus Work 30 mins to 1 hour - choose one day from below. Do a different day each day of the week.
Creative Time 30 mins

Bonus Work~
Day 1- Geography and Nature Journal
Day 2- Art and Science
Day 3- Poetry and read to mum
Day4- Dictation and read to little children
Day 5 Scribbling Squires

Blessings,

Term 3 Schedule - Eden, Saxon Vellvin

2011-07-10T11:52:00.000+10:00

This only deals with the time frame and organisation of the 'School Day' the resources are still the same we have used previously listed

Maths 1 hour -1 1/2
English 30 mins
History 40 mins
Faith/ Apologetics 30 mins
Assigned Reading 1 chapter from each book minimum
music practise
Bonus Work 30 mins to 1 hour - choose one day from below. Do a different day each day of the week.
Exercise 30 mins structured
Creative Time 30 mins

Bonus Work is ~
Day 1- dictation, Theory, grammar and Cursive
Day 2 - Geography and Art
Day 3- Writing and Nature journal
Day 4- Poetry, Science and Latin
Day 5- Orchard House Circle or Scribbling Squires

Blessings,

Main Lesson Blocks - from Seasons Of Joy

2011-07-10T11:36:00.000+10:00

I am posting this here for my own benefit for Main Lesson Planning ~ this is a direct copy form Annette at Seasons Of Joy.

While I do love lots of the Waldorf style lessons I DO NOT agree with the anthroposophy behind the teaching.

So you want to put together a main lesson block/unit study…

Here are some of the places I like to check when I am planning..,

First
I like to check out what Eugene Schwartz has to say about the lesson. I might also pop over to A Little Garden Flower and see what Melisa has to say. The last expert I like to check is Christopherus. I don’t necessarily buy anything– I just like to get a feel for what they have to say about the lesson.

Next
I like to check out the following free resources:
My library (put books on hold!)
I pop over to mainlesson.com to pick some stories.
The Online Waldorf Library always has some good stuff as well.
Homeschool Share has free printables, lapbooks, etc.
I look for inspiration in the Waldorf Teacher Gallery.

Finally
If I have a little money to spend I might go over to Currclick and see what they have:

I also have a few favorite blogs I like to check out for inspiration:
Faerie School archives
Our Little Nature Nest
The Parenting Passageway
Hawaii’ian Dreaming
Ancient Hearth
Schooling from the Heart
Mind you, these are just some online resources. I haven’t even begun to list all the print resources out there!

Blessings,

Weekly Review - 10th July

2011-07-10T10:58:00.000+10:00

At the moment with the children they are working on the revised plans we worked on after Trahaearn's birth. These have been not completed fully each day even so as we have had an influx of appointments and visitors that tend to disrupt things even if the intention is still there to complete a full day of lesson work.

However as usual the trend to read more and do other activities becomes more evident when there is more free time so to speak.
I am looking into the term unschooling and how this may apply to us, as I do see that although structure is a must in a large family that this can also stifle creativity with too many activities for lessons and the resulting general lifestyle chores etc.

We need to address the fact that DVD watching has become more active in the home with older and younger children alike. Although I monitor computer games a lot and this is not a big thing with the children anyway, the older girls tend to spend too much time just browsing on blogs and random computer time. This needs to be cut back as well.

I also notice that without a routine (which is life at the moment) that Vellvin especially stresses over the lack of accomplishment of the lesson check off list and this comes into other aspects of her day.

Early rising has been non existent since Trahaearn's birth and the little ones start their day with no structure as I have not organised anything and am still in bed with him. The oldest girls and Saxon are not up either and only Vellvin and Rogan are up to help with the little ones, thus resulting in stress levels again for all.

The non structure has not helped Corbyn and Moran with he sensory issues they have and Moran needs more structure for her development ability. This is resulting in behavioural issues that need to be addressed as well. They tend to view all the time as free time and are not keen to do their learning, as I am otherwise occupied with the baby while doing the lessons it is harder to enforce this .

Even though we still have Ann-Lisa visiting it will be a full return to the revised lesson plan tomorrow the 11th (even though we have sick flu children).

I realise I have not posted the plans we worked out (for our own benefit and records) and will attempt to do this today with the daily chore list as well.

Hoping to get weekly review happening again this week.

Blessings,

A Very Vague Update

2011-06-08T14:26:00.000+10:00

Well I am finally doing an updated post to my poor neglected Learning Blog.

Since starting lessons this year I actually have found it hard to keep on top on the plans I made, mostly for the little ones. The progress of the little girls reading was not to my satisfaction and I am disappointed in what I achieved with them.
It is a constant battle for me to vary the creative side (my Alphabet Path ideas) and the actual more fundamentals of learning to allow the balance to happen.
I am trying and have been over this week to balance this a bit more and will be posting more achievements for the little ones soon as well.

Our older children have waxed and waned with their enthusiasm for the prepared lessons and the completion of these has varied too form week to week.

Partly this has been due to my lack of energy during my pregnancy, frankly it hasn't been until after Trahaearn was born that I recognised how tired I had been.

This seemed to not help the focus of the older children and the completion of set work. Especially towards the end of my pregnancy when most of the time was anticipation of the baby coming home and waiting for this to happen.

However I do know that the 'extra' things they attempted and achieved were quite numerous.
We had many books read, crafts attempted and completed and lots of games and outdoor time in the warmer weather.

We have adjusted our learning and chore schedules to help ease into the new life we have with our baby and I am hoping to get back to regular and more complete weekly reviews.

Blessings,

Early Learning Week

2011-02-20T02:02:00.000+11:00

ALPHABET PATH~

Monday: Read the Serendipity story
Read these Alphabet books:
The letter appropriate to the week.
The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies
Waldorf Alphabet Book
L M N O P and All the Letters A to Z
An Alphabet of Catholic Saints
The Angels' Alphabet (Lamb Time)
Museum ABC
A Stands for Angel
A is for Altar B is for Bible
Letters from Heaven
Saints
More Saints: Lives & Illuminations Read about the Saint
Use sandpaper letters
use the cornmeal
Make the letter with the Handwriting Aids
Use the playdoh or bees wax
Colour the Flower Fairly
Colour the Saint picture
Do the work sheets associated with the letter

Tuesday~
Circle Time
Intense Phonics
Rebus Story (made up ones)
Read Alphabet books for the letter
Copy Work Sheet home made ones
Maths lessons - see below
Free craft time...sewing, crocheting, finger knittting, felting

Wednesday~
Circle Time
Intense Phonics
Copy Work Sheet- home made
Activities from Alphabet path ie crafts, making
Read Alphabet Stories
Maths Lessons -see below
Early Reading ideas from Kimberlee

Thursday~
Circle Time
Intense Phonics
Cooking based on Alphabet Path
Maths- see below
Read Alphabet Stories
Copy work sheets- home made
Free craft time...sewing, crocheting, finger knittting, felting

Friday~
Circle Time
Intense Phonics
Read Alphabet Stories
Activities form Alphabet path, ie crafts, making
Maths- see below
Write out books and illustrate them
Early Reading ideas from Kimberlee

MATHS~
First Lesson in Numbers
Montessori maths hands on
Oak meadow maths
File Folders
Many counting

POETRY~
Orally learn poems from A Child's Garden of Verses...R.L. Stephenson and Rhymes for Annie Rose..Shirley Hughes

BIBLE~
Read bible story and have them narrate orally and then draw picture
Get them to copy a small verse from story

Blessings,

Circle Time

2011-02-20T00:13:00.000+11:00

CIRCLE TIME:
Light Candle
Morning Prayer
Bible Story read aloud and Saint of the Day
Hand and word games and rhymes
Singing ...Seasonal song as well as a liturgical hymn if I can be organised enough (otherwise just some songs and hymns)
read Treasure Box Series (to start with)
Read from this ListListen to rhymes on tape or learn poem
Blow out Candle
Seasonal/month/day and date calender
Drawing from Drawing with your 4- 11year old book
Nature walk

Note to self: Tracy has some great plans her for download

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Alphabet Path - Z Week...the end

2011-02-18T13:31:00.001+11:00

♥ List of Ideas~
zoo
zebra
zany
zap
zealot
zephyr
zero
zest
zip
zinc
zone
zoom
Zion
zig-zag
Zambia
Zimbabwe
New- Zealand

Read Z books(from basket)

♥ Z Saints ~
Complete List of Z Saints
St Zita

♥ Famous People ~
Z Artists
Z Composers

Other famous people Z list
Paul Zelinsky
Charlotte Zolotow

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Zinnia fairy

Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to Z song and Colour the Z Fairy from here

♥ Food ~
ziti pasta
zucchini
Alphabet soup..to mark the end of the alphabet
Any alphabet letter food I can find

♥ Movies ~
Zoo...Madagascar

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:
nil

Anderson:
nil

♥ Games to Play ~
Put the tale on the Zebra
Dressing up as a alphabet fairy

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
Wer'e going to the zoo, zoo, zoo. How about you, you, you....
On the river of Babylon...when we rembered Zion

♥ Prayer~
Zacharia's prayer

♥ Musical Instruments ~
zither

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activities for Z themes- abc teach
Read the Serendipity Z Story
Learn the Fairy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Zz or playdoh
embroider Zz on felt or calico

These are flower fairy three part cards I found just today
choose favourite alphabet books, one form each letter and make a mini book as a keepsake draw a giant zebra and colour it in
Set up a zoo
pretend to be zoo animals...charades style
follow zig-zag path.
Alphabet fairies....dress up/ draw them
zoo cardboard animals
make a zephyr

FLOWER FAIRY PARTY TO CELEBRATE THE END OF THE ALPHABET PATH:
Charlotte has one here

Zz activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning Z
Kidz zone alphabet activities - Letter Z

draw animals that start with Z
pin prick Z shape and/or Z shape animals
Z stickers on paper and draw an Z
Jan Brett and little handwriting Z shape pages
use the Z sound pouch
drawing Z in cornmeal
abc teach Z activities

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Alphabet Path - X and Y Week

2011-02-18T13:31:00.000+11:00

♥ List of Ideas~
x-ray
yo-yo
pirates
yak
yuck
yokel
eXperiments
X ray
xylophone
You
yours
young
yard
yank
yabby
yam
yacht
yawn
yell
year
yearling
yellow
yes
yesterday
yoke
youth
youngling
York
yowie

Read X and Y books(from basket)...books about You, Max Lucardo

♥ X and Y Saints ~
Complete List of X Saints
St Francis Xavier
St. Francis Xavier Cabrini
Y Saints
St Joseph Yuen

♥ Famous People ~
X Artists
Jan Baptist Xavery

X Composers
Other famous people X list

Y Artists
Jack Butler Yeats

Y Composers
Other famous people Y list
Jane Yolen

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Yellow Deadnettle Fairy
Yew Fairy

Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to Xand Y songs and Colour the Fairies from here

♥ Food ~
yogurt
yabby
Yeast foods...bread, quick breads etc
Yorkshire Pudding

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:
The Story of the Youth who went forth to Learn what FearWas
The Young Giant

Anderson:
The Story of the Year

♥ Games to Play ~
You, me ....simon says type
Yanking...tug a war

♥ Movies~
The Yearling

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
You and me, were going to be partners....
Yankee Doodle

♥ Prayer~
Make up a prayer that is is special for YOU

♥ Musical Instruments ~
xylophone

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activities for X themes- abc teach
activities for Y themes- abc teach
Read the Serendipity X and Y Story
Learn the X and Y Fairy Poems from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Xx and Yy or playdoh
embroider Xx and Yy on felt or calico

play with yo-yos
pretend to take x-rays and do some pictures of the body parts, skeletons
Yak make from toilet rolls
X marks the spot....mapping for treasure
get out various eXperiments from our books
yacht.. make one, draw one
the seasons of the year
the months of the year...draw a time line/calender for both
find different colours of yellow
yelling competition
concept of yesterday
yoke- make a model one
youngling...Jedi draw print one out
make a yowie..puppet/do a puppet play
play with xylophones
find out what X's represent

Another link enchanted learning X
Kidz zone alphabet activities - Letter X
Another link enchanted learning Y
Kidz zone alphabet activities - Letter Y

draw animals that start with X and Y
pin prick X and Y shapes and/or X and Y shape animals
X and Y stickers on paper and draw an X and Y
Jan Brett and little handwriting X and Y shape pages
use the X and Y sound pouchs
drawing X and Y in cornmeal
abc teach X activities
abc teach Y activities

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Alphabet Path - W Week

2011-02-17T23:51:00.001+11:00

♥ List of Ideas~
weather
wind
waves
wale
walking
wall
walrus
wonderland
wallet
wallaby
white
why
what west
winter
winkle
warts
waltz
whistle
wad
wagtail
waiter
wallop
warden
wagon
wattle
whistle
warm
wash
wax
weasel
web
weeding
weaving
wool
wandering
wardrobe
worship
wick
whip
wigs
warthog
wish
wise

Read W books(from basket)

♥ W Saints ~
Complete List of W Saints
St Wenceslaus
♥ Famous People ~
W Artists
N.C. Wyeth

W Composers
Wagner
Werner

Other famous people W list
Winnie the Pooh
Wonderwoman
Wolverine

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Wallflower Fairy

Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to W song and Colour the W Fairy from here

♥ Food ~
waffle
water
whip cream
whisk egg whites
white sauce
waldorf salad
watermelon
wagon wheels

♥ Movies ~
The Wizard of Oz
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Waltons
Free Willy

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:
The Wolf and Seven little Kids
The White Snake
The Willow Wren and the Bear
The Water of Life
The Wilful Child
The Old Woman in the Wood
The White Bride and the Black One
The Willow Wren

Anderson:
The Wild Swans
What the moon Saw
The Wicked Prince
Under the Willow Tree
The Windmill
The Will o the whisp is in town says the moor woman.
The Story of the Wind

♥ Games to Play ~
wheel barrow races
whispering lane

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
A dream is a wish your heart makes...
When I am calling you.....

♥ Prayer~
Little White Guest

♥ Musical Instruments ~
Irish Tin Whistle

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activities for W themes- abc teach
Read the Serendipity W Story
Learn the Fairy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Ww or playdoh
embroider Ww on felt or calico

make waistcoat
make warts and put them on people
make a whistle
make paper wads to blow out the whistle
play waiters
make waiter trays
make
little waistcoat
washing dogs, clothes
water colour paints
paint whales
make artificial waterfall
polishing wood with bees wax
make spiders web
weeding in garden
wool weaving
make some leather whips
timed wagon races
whittle wood
play with the wedgits
make wigs out of yarn
teach them to wink
making a wishing well
map of Western Australia
dress up as wishing fairies
make bees wax whales

Ww activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning W
Kidz zone alphabet activities - Letter W

draw animals that start with W
pin prick W shape and/or W shape animals
W stickers on paper and draw an W
Jan Brett and little handwriting W shape pages
use the W sound pouch
drawing W in cornmeal
abc teach W activities

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Alphabet Path - U and V Week

2011-02-17T22:59:00.000+11:00

♥ List of Ideas~
umberella
victory
volcano
unicorn
vestments
unlucky
vector
vision
victor
um
universe
untidy
United Kingdom
United States of America
ugly
underwater
voice
verity
vision
velvet
veneer
unique
Venerable
Venice
various
vivacious
version
urchin
udder
uncomfortable
under
underwear
unequal
unhappy
urban
urgent
visor
uncle
visionary
vulture
vivid
vine
vitamin C
vogue
vole
vomit
van

Read U and V books(from basket)...books about

♥ U and V Saints ~
Complete List of
U Saints
St Ursula

V Saints
St Valentine
St Vincent de Paul
Virgin Mary

♥ Famous People ~
U Artists
U Composers
Other famous people U list

V Artists
Vincent van Gogh

V Composers
Vilvaldi
Listen to Vilvaldi' Ring of Mystery

Other famous people V list

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Valerian Fairy
Verbena Fairy
Violet Fairy
Vetch Fairy
Van Diemens Land
vine

Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to U and V songs and Colour the U and V Fairies from here

♥ Food ~
vegetables
vanilla
vegemite..toast and sandwiches
Upside down cake
unhappy face cookies
vinegar on chips
salt and vinegar crisps

♥ Movies ~
A series of Unfortunate Events

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:
The Valiant Little Tailor
The Ungrateful Son

Anderson:
None

♥ Games to Play ~
Over and Under...Bluebird
Pin the tongue on the viper....
upwords

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
Under the sea....
We're happy little vegemites.....
I am the vine and you are the branches....

♥ Prayer~
Prayer to the Virgin Mary

♥ Musical Instruments ~
violin
viola

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activities for U themes- abc teach
Activities for V themes- abc teach
Read the Serendipity U and V Stories
Learn the Fairy Poems from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Uu and Vv or playdoh
embroider Uu and Vv on felt or calico

Make umbrella cookies
put umbrellas in drinks
make bees wax violin
self portrait like Van Gough
universe make one out of Styrofoam balls
make ugly masks
draw maps, colour maps of UK and USA
make voice recordings
make a velvet heart
Venice map
make udders out of rubber gloves
different underwear pictures: petticoat, long johns, boxers, knickers
Unequal balancing
unequal amounts
draw unhappy faces
valley - use Montessori landforms
felt a vole
mix up a vomit concoction
vulture hand puppet
vine...squash grapes

Uu activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning U
Vv activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning V

Kidz zone alphabet activities - Letter U
Kidz zone alphabet activities - Letter V

draw animals that start with U and V
pin prick U and V shapes and/or U and V shape animals
U and V stickers on paper and draw a U and V
Jan Brett and little handwriting U and V shape pages
use the U and V sound pouches
drawing U and V in cornmeal
abc teach U activities
abc teach V activities

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Alphabet Path - T Week

2011-02-17T22:00:00.000+11:00

♥ List of Ideas~
Time
tree
team
torch
together
train
thoughts
twist
take away
turtle
triceratops
tiger
Tatiana
tin can
tractor
tent
trying
tooth fairy
tea
triplets
two
treasure
twaddle
tea pot
tea cup
tea set
telephone
tilt
table
tick
tock
trailer
trophy
trolley
tram
tired
trill
troll
ticket
toothbrushtoothpaste
timid
trap
torn
tool man
television
tee pee
trouble
terrible
teeth
twins
tactics
tantrums
tickle
tail
tale
tumble
tarpaulin
trampoline

Read T books(from basket)

♥ T Saints ~
Complete List of T Saints
Saint Therese of the Child Jesus
Mother Teresa
Saint Thomas More

♥ Famous People ~
T Artists
Toulouse-Lautrec

T Composers
Tchaikovsky
Listen to Tchaikovsky Discovers America

Other famous people T list
Tasha Tudor
Tomie de Paola
Tinkerbell
Tigger
Mr Todd

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Thrift Fairy
Tulip Fairy
Traveller's Joy Fairy

Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to T song and Colour the T Fairy from here

♥ Food ~
tiger toast- Vegemite with cheese slices across it
tacos
tarts
turkey
tuna
tomato dishes
tortellini
TV snacks...biscuit
toffee
tangelos
tea- drink
twisties

♥ Movies ~
Toothless
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Tangled
National Treasure
National Treasure 2
The Tigger Movie
Tool man...ie Home Improvements

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:
Thumblings
The Three Languages
Thumbling as Journeyman
The Thief and his Master
The Three sons of Fortune
The True Sweetheart
The Three Army Surgeons
The Twelve Apostle

Anderson:
The Tinderbox
Thumberlina
The Travelling Companion
The Brave Tin Soldier
Little Tuk
The Top and Ball
In a Thousand Years
The Thorny Road of Honor
The Toad
The Teapot
Two Brothers

♥ Games to Play ~
twister
tag
touch football
trouble
T-ball
tunnel ball
tricks
tumbling games
tic tac toe

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
tongue twisters
Theophilous Thistle
Teddy Bears Picnic
Twinkle twinkle little star..

♥ Prayer~
St Therese Novena

♥ Musical Instruments ~
tambourine
trumpet
trombone
triangle

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activities for T themes- abc teach
Read the Serendipity T Story
Learn the Fairy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Tt or playdoh
embroider Tt on felt or calico

set up the Thomas trains
Tea Parties with Teddy's
Teddy Bears Picnic
felt a turtle
play on the trampoline
bees wax turtles
make trees from playdoh, or bees wax or sculpy
Tatiana -- the fairy queen make her from peg dolls or other
Tiger
play with the tractors
tom thumb finger play
tie dye shirts
tickle game
tooth fairy letters
camp in a tent
play with tree blocks
treasure hunt
make a tin can telephone
put up Autumns Tee Pee
table cave
teeth...play dentist
draw a set of teeth
make tickets
team games....tunnel ball
make a tent similar to this

Free St Therese paper dolls
St Therese activities

Colour the T picture from the P-T pages from Kimberlee at Pondered in My Heart
Tt activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning T
Kidz zone alphabet activities - Letter T

draw animals that start with T
pin prick T shape and/or N shape animals
T stickers on paper and draw an T
Jan Brett and little handwriting T shape pages
use the T sound pouch
drawing T in cornmeal
abc teach T activities

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Alphabet Path - S Week

2011-02-17T18:50:00.001+11:00

♥ List of Ideas~
snow
sacrament
sacrifice
superheroes
staff
sad
sacrifice
soul
sole
saddle
safari
sailor
sphinx
sand
stars
sapphire
sunflowers
school
socks
scissors
scoop
star fish
spiders
seal
shells
seed
sell
sale
send
sermon
slugs
snails
server
sequin
seagulls
sesame
spatula
sew
sewer
shark
sharp
sheep
sheet
sheriff
shine
shoot
shoe
shotgun
Shepherd

Read S books(from basket)

♥ S Saints ~
Complete List of S Saints
Sacred Heart of Jesus
St. Sharbel
Saint Stephen
Saint Sebastian
Jesus the Good Shepherd

♥ Famous People ~
S Artists

S Composers
Strauss
Syhmpony

Other famous people S list
Spider man
Superman
Strawberry Shortcake

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Strawberry Fairy
Self-Heal Fairy
Sloe Fairy
Snowdrop Fairy
Speedwell Fairy
Stitchwort Fairy

Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to S song and Colour the Fairy from here

♥ Food ~
strawberries
scallops
soup
stew
sausages
ship
sea
saloon
sandwiches
scones
sunflower seeds
strawberry shortcake
skittles
sunflower cupcakes
steak
salad
sweet potato
spaghetti

♥ Movies ~
Strawberry Shortcake
Swiss Family Robinson
Sinbad
Any saint movies
Shrek
Shrek 2
Shrek the Third
Shrek goes Fourth
Skippy

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:
The Seven Ravens
The Six Swans
The Six Servants
Little Snow White
The Sea Hare
Strong Hans
Snow White and Rose Red
The Shepherd Boy
The Star Money
Simeili Mountain
The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces
The Shroud
Stories about Snakes
The Spirit in the Bottle

Anderson:
The Snow Queen
The Saucy Boy
The Storks
The Shepherds story of the bond of Friendship
The Shepherdess and the Sweep
The Sunbeam and the Captive
The Shadow
The Shirt Collar
The Swan's Nest
The Great Sea-Serpent
Sunshine Stories
The Storm Shakes the Shield
The Silver Shilling
The Snail and The Rose Tree
The Snow Man
A Story from the Sand Hills
Soup form a Sausage Skewer
Something

♥ Games to Play ~
scavenger hunt
sea saw
shuttlecock
snakes and ladders
skittles
swings
slippery slide
scooters
skipping rope: individual and long rope

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
simple simon..
sings a song of sixpence.....
sea saw Margery daw...
She sells sea shells down by the sea shore...

♥ Prayer~
Sacred Heart of Jesus

♥ Musical Instruments ~
synthesiser
saxaphone

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activities for S themes- abc teach
Read the Serendipity S Story
Learn the Fairy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Ss or playdoh
embroider Ss on felt or calico

sack race
have a mini safari
mini safari animals
set up a ship and pretend to be sailors
set up a saloon
make a sphinx from clay
sandcastle competition
watch the stars one night
pairing socks
Scooping competitions
riding scooters
make a starfish from pipe cleaners and look at Sea Stars
draw stars
shining shoes
make some sheep form fleece
shepherd: use Atrium sheepfold
sew a sample square: or sew a star
shooting competition
make snakes
paper seagull with baby ones or fish in mouth made form paper
sewing kits
sewing felt Flowers.....especially sunflowers
make wax snails with shells
sort and count shells
make spiders form egg cartons
sword fights
make swords
make staffs

learn about the sacraments

Colour the S picture from the P-T pages from Kimberlee at Pondered in My Heart
Ss activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning S
Kidz zone alphabet activities - Letter S

draw animals that start with S
pin prick S shape and/or S shape animals
S stickers on paper and draw an S
Jan Brett and little handwriting S shape pages
use the S sound pouch
drawing S in cornmeal
abc teach S activities

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Alphabet Path - R Week

2011-02-17T17:04:00.001+11:00

♥ List of Ideas~
rose
rat
rags
ruin
rap
riddle
riot
royal
race
rot
rapid
radiate
radicle
radio
raffia
raft
rainbow
rain
rake
ramp
ramble
ranch
random
rangerrapid
reading
rapture
rabbit

Read R books(from basket)

♥ R Saints ~
Complete List of R Saints
St Rose of Lima

♥ Famous People ~
R Artists
Renoir
R Composers

Other famous people R list

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Ragged Robin Fairy
Ragwort Fairy
Red Campion Fairy
Red Clover Fairy
Rose Fairy

Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to R song and Colour the Fairy from here

♥ Food ~
ratatoille
Rigatoni
rasberries
rabbit stew
matchsticks
rose from rollups
ranch dip to have with salad or dipping
ricemold
raisin bread
risotto
ravioli
roast anything

♥ Movies ~
Robinson Curosoe
The Railway Children
Robin Hood Series
Robin Hood disney version
Tangled...repunzel
Hoodwinked...red riding hood

Rangers Apprentice Audio

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:
Snow White and Rose Red
Rapunzel
The Robber Bridegroom
Little Red Cap
Little Briar Rose
The Raven
The Rose

Anderson:
The Elf of the Rose
The Red Shoes
The Races

♥ Games to Play ~
running races
rolling in the grass
red rover crossover

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
Raindrops on roses.....
Ring around the rosie...
row row row your boat...
rock a bye baby..
Rymes
Riddles
rollcall

♥ Prayer~
The Rosary

♥ Musical Instruments ~
recorder

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activities for R themes- abc teach
Read the Serendipity R Story
Learn the Fairy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Rr or playdoh
embroider Rr on felt or calico

make paddle pop stick rafts
raffia tying
make rag carpet
draw rainbow, make a rainbow
bike ramp
ramble in the bush
rangers apprentice day
ransom someone
make rabbit ears
make rainbow from water oil and food colouring
make ribbon or paper roses
make rings

Colour the R picture from the P-T pages at Kimberlee at Pondered in My Heart
Rr activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning R
Kidz zone alphabet activities - Letter Rr

draw animals that start with R
pin prick R shape and/or R shape animals
R stickers on paper and draw an R
Jan Brett and little handwriting R shape pages
use the R sound pouch
drawing R in cornmeal
abc teach R activities

Ranger Apprentice colouring pages

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Alphabet Path - Q Week

2011-02-17T16:10:00.002+11:00

♥ List of Ideas~
quilt
quack
quiet
quick
quaint
quillow
queen
quantity
quality
quiver
quinine
quiz
quadruple
quail
quake
quarrel
quarantine
quarry
quart
quest
quench
query
question
queue
quibble
quicksand
quicken
quill

Read Q books(from basket)

♥ Q Saints ~
Complete List of Q Saints
Mary Queen of Heaven
Queen of all Saints

♥ Famous People ~Listing here
Q Artists

Musicians~
Q Composers

More Famous People:
Q list

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Queen of the Meadow

♥ Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to Q song
Colour the Fairy from here

♥ Food ~
Quiche
Queen of Hearts Tarts
Quilt cake, cut large square cake into small pieces, ice and put together

♥ Movies ~
The Young Victoria...Queen

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:

Anderson:
The Snow Queen

♥ Games to Play ~
quoits
quest- have a quest to find something
Stuck in Quicksand..instead of stuck in the mud

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
The Queen of hearts

♥ Prayer~
Hail Mary
Hail Holy Queen

♥ Musical Instruments ~
qin...chines instrument

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activities for Q themes- abc teach
Read the Serendipity Q Story
Learn the Fairy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Qq
embroider Qq on felt or calico

Queen of Hearts Tea Party
make queen crowns...felt and paper.
Make paper quilts
Make a paper quilt (weaving)
Quilling
make a quiver
Design a quilt..draw a pattern
Make a quilt with holes in the paper and sew together (like Threading)
quantine centre with stuffed animals

Colour letter Q from P- T pagesfrom Kimberlee at Pondered in My Heart
Qq activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning Q
Kidz zone alphabet activities
draw animals that start with Q
pin prick Q shape and/or Q shape animals
Q stickers on paper and draw an Q
Jan Brett and little handwriting Q shape pages
use the Q sound pouch
drawing Q in cornmeal
abc teach Q activities

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Alphabet Path - P Week

2011-02-16T17:29:00.000+11:00

♥ List of Ideas~
Peter Rabbit theme - use this for a jumping off point
penguins
pens
paper
peacocks
physical education
pots
pot plants
plants
pie
party
prime
piles
posh
puppy
pious
pretty
plain
plane
pink
park
purple
princess
prince
poison
piglets
Pooh Bear
pen pals

Read P books(from basket) and Listen to Peter and the Wolf on our old audio cassette

♥ P Saints ~
Complete List of P Saints
Padre Pio
Anthony of Padua
Pope Benedict
St Patrick
St Peter
St Paul
St Perpetua

♥ Famous People ~Listing here
Artist P List here
P Artists
Picasso
Beatrix Potter
Porky Pig
Pooh Bear

Musicians~
P Composers
Sergei Prokofiev- Peter and the Wolf

More Famous People:
Other famous people P list
Beatrix Potter
Patricia Pollacco

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Pansy Fairy
Petunia Fairy
Pear Blossom Fairy
Phlox fairy
Pine Tree Fairy
Poppy Fairy

♥ Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to P song
Colour the Fairy from here

♥ Food ~
porridge
peas
Peter Rabbit salad
Peter Rabbit soup
potato..baked, with sour cream etc
pumpkin soup
pudding - chocolate of course
pasta
peanut butter sandwiches in a rabbit head shape
pizza
pineapple
popcorn
peaches
plums pears...combine for a fruit salad
pancakes/pickets
pringles
pork
parsley

♥ Movies ~
Peter Pan
Peter Rabbit and Friends
Pirates of the Caribbean (for the older children)
Princess Bride
Prince of Persia ( big kids)
Princess Diaries 1 and 2
Pride and Prejudice TV series

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:
Pied Piper
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
The Pink
The Poor Man in the Grave
Master Phiem

Anderson:
Princess and the Pea
The Real Princess
The Phoenix Bird
The Puppet Show Man
The Pea Blossom
The Penman
Lucky Peer
Peiter, Peter and Peer
The Porter
The Pen and the Inkstand

♥ Games to Play ~
Piggy in the Middle

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
Peas porridge hot
Polly put the kettle on
Peter Piper
Penguin Strut- Don Spencer
Pop goes the weasel

♥ Prayer~
St Patrick Prayer

♥ Musical Instruments ~
Pan pipes
Piano
piccolo

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activities for P themes- abc teach
Read the Serendipity P Story
Learn the Fairy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Pp
embroider Pp on felt or calico

Use the various vegetables from the Mr McGregors Garden to make a salad.
Learn about different vegetables...draw them
Make vegetable soup
St Patrick Ideas from blog
Pope Benedict XVI - ideas
make petal people...like flower fairies from flower petals we have
make a princess and prince ( paper dolls, wooden peg doll, other ways)
Felt five peas and put them in a pod
Make pigs in a blanket
Peter Rabbit activity book
make little blue felt jacket and a scarecrow to put it on.
make pockets

Colour from A from the P -T pages from Kimberlee at Pondered in My Heart
Pp activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning P
Kidz zone alphabet activities

draw animals that start with P
pin prick P shape and/or P shape animals
P stickers on paper and draw an P
Jan Brett and little handwriting P shape pages
use the P sound pouch
drawing P in cornmeal
abc teach P activities

Pope John Paul II colouring page
Pope Benedict colouring page
Find a Phoenix picture to colour

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Alphabet Path - O Week

2011-02-16T17:28:00.000+11:00

♥ List of Ideas~
Ocean
octapus
orange
ornate
Oh...
original
opposites
outside
out
orchids
owls
opals
Oscar
oar

Read O books(from basket)

♥ O Saints ~
Complete List of O Saints
St Odilia
Our Lady of Altagracia
Our Lady of Lourdes

♥ Famous People ~Listing here
Famous People
Artist O List here

Musicians~
Classical Composers O List
Orchestra
More Famous People:
Lawrence Olivier

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Orchis Fairy

♥ Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to O song
Colour the Fairy from here

♥ Food ~
oatmeal
omelets
olives
Oreos
oranges
orange juice
O shape food:
Cheerios
Fruit loops
Cocoo pop's O's
Burger rings
Mini Cheesels
Owl sandwiches
Sprinkle O cut out sandwiches

♥ Movies ~
Ocean theme: Nemo
Karate Kid...Mr Myagi is from Okinawa
Oliver and Company
Oliver Twist

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:
Our Lady's Child
Old Sultan
Old Rinkrank
One-eyes, Two-eyes and Three-eyes
Old Hilderbrand

Anderson:
The Old House
The Old Grave Stone
The Old Church Bell
Ole The Tower-Keeper
The Old Bachelor's Nightcap

♥ Games to Play ~
Circle games
Origami
Oranges and Lemons

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
Old MacDonald
Over the river.....
Over in the meadow
Once upon a time stories
Oil in my lamp

♥ Prayer~
Our Father, Who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy Name;
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.

♥ Musical Instruments ~
Oboe

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activities for O themes- abc teach
Read the Serendipity O Story
Learn the Fairy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Oo
embroider Oo on felt or calico

Make a toilet paper octopus
Draw an ocean scene
Felt board ocean scene
make an owl from toilet roll
Squeeze oranges

Colour O page from the K-O pages from Kimberlee at Pondered in My Heart
Oo activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning O
Kidz zone alphabet activities

draw animals that start with Oo
pin prick O shape and/or O shape animals
stickers on paper and draw an O
Jan Brett and little handwriting O shape pages
use the O sound pouch
drawing O in cornmeal
abc teach O activities

Blessings,

Intense Phonics for Moran and Myffwyn

2011-02-08T09:34:00.000+11:00

The Idea here is to spend devoted time on this as well as our Alphabet path each day :perhaps 30 mins with me and a little bit of time with Autumn especially.

These are the resources I am using some more than others and I will see what meets the needs best especially with Moran who needs more help with her learning issues

Main Ideas:
Alphabet Path
How to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
CHC letters
Jan Brett Letters
Start to word blend with letters they know
Read A little Flower Book Series- this is for them to realy memorise and actually 'read a book aloud'
Start It is Fun to Read Series- very slow
Flash Cards- Phonics
Flash Cards- easy words
Jan Brett- Easy words
Word Families????? Cards
Ideas from Games for Reading 1 different idea per week
Seton flash cards
Charlotte Mason Reading kit I made years ago.

Sensory ideas:
Felt Letter Book
Sandpaper Letters
Draw giant chalk letters and walk them
Bees Wax/playdoh
Cornmeal letters
Wooden letters- make words
Montessori letters (laminated ones)- make words
Handwriting Aids

Computer Aided Alphabet/Phonics:
Starfall- online
Phonics 3D Adventure Eureka (can't find link)
My First ABC's and Spelling
Reader Rabbit Pre School
Reader Rabbit Kindergarten
Reader Rabbit 1st Reader
The free reading programme

Well that will do for a start I think!

Blessings,

Eden's Schedule 2011- Term 1

2011-01-13T02:05:00.000+11:00

Monday~

Maths -P.c,X tables, speed-maths 1 hour

Story of the world 40mins

Geography-p.c capitals, citys and book 30mins

English aka stories of saints 3o mins

Music practice 2o mins

Theory 2o mins

Prima Latina 1o mins

Cursive 10 mins

Exercise______

Reading 30 mins

Art 30 mins

Dictation/spelling 10mins

Virtue 30 mins

Tuesday

Maths (p.c , Xtables, speed-maths)1 hour

Story of the world -40 mins

Geography (P.c, citys capitals and book)-30 mins

English =stories of the saints- 30 mins

Music practice=guitar 20 mins

Theory 20 mins

Prima Latina 10 mins

Cursive 10 mins

Exercise________

Reading 30 mins

Art 30 mins

Dictation/spelling 10 mins

Orchard house circle 30 mins

Wednesday

Maths (p.c , X tables, speed-maths)1 hour

Story of the world 40 mins

Science 30 mins

English- stories of the saints 30 mins

Music practice- flute 20 mins

Poetry 20 mins

Lingua angelica 10 mins

Cursive 10 mins

Exercise__________

Reading 30 mins

Nature journal 30 mins

Dictation /spelling 10 mins

Orchard house circle 30 mins

THURSDAY

Maths (P.C, X tables, speed maths ) 1 hour

Story of the world 40 mins

Science 30 mins

writing 30 mins

Music practice 20 mins

Latin with laughter 10 mins

Cursive 10 mins

Exercise ___

Reading 30 mins

Nature journal 30 mins

Dictation/spelling 10 mins

Orchard house cirle 30 mins

FRIDAY

Maths (P.C, X tables , Speed maths )

Story of the world 40 mins

Grammar land 30 mins

Music practice 20 mins

Apologetics 20 mins

Latin with laughter 10 mins

Cursive 10 mins

Exercise _________

Reading 30 mins

Music appreciation 30 mins

Dictation/spelling 10 mins

Orchard house circle 30 mins

Blessings,

Saxon's Schedule 2011- Term1

2011-01-13T01:54:00.000+11:00

Monday~

Maths-1 hour

Story of the World-40 mins

Geography-30 mins

English-30 mins

Music practice-20 mins

Theory-20 mins

Prima Latina-10 mins

Cersive-10 mins

Exercise-========

Reading-30 mins

Art-30 mins

Dictation-10 mins

Virtue-30 mins

Tuesday~

Maths-1 hour

Story of the World-40 mins

Geography-30 mins

English-30 mins

Music practice-20 mins

Theory-20 mins

Prima Latina-10 mins

Cersive-10 mins

Exercise- =========

Reading-30 mins

Art-30 mins

Dictation- 10 mins

Maintenance- 30

Wednesday~

Maths-1 hour

Story of the World-40 mins

Science- 30 mins

English-30 mins

Music practice-20 mins

Poetry-20 mins

Lingua Angelica-10 mins

Cersive-10 mins

Exercise- =========

Reading-30 mins

Nature Journal-30 mins

Dictation- 10 mins

Maintenance- 30 mins

Thursday~

Maths-1 hour

Story of the World-40 mins

Science- 30 mins

Writing-30 mins

Music practice-20 mins

Poetry-20 mins

Laughing Latin-10 mins

Cersive-10 mins

Exercise- =========

Reading-30 mins

Nature Journal-30 mins

Dictation- 10 mins

Orchard House Circle - 30 mins

Friday~

Maths-1 hour

Story of the World-40 mins

Grammar-land- 30 mins

Writing-30 mins

Music practice-20 mins

Apologetics-20 mins

Laughing Latin-10 mins

Cersive-10 mins

Exercise- =========

Reading-30 mins

Music Apretiation-30 mins

Dictation- 10 mins

Scribbling Squires- 30 mins

Blessings,

Rogan's Learning for 2011- Term 1

2011-01-13T01:48:00.000+11:00

Monday~
Board Game
Maths

English Lesson in lit

Dictation

Copy work

Spelling + Keep word book

Poetry writ out and draw pic

Story of the world lesson1

Catechism

Music prac

Geography look at book writ draw

Exercise

Art

Read to Little 1s

Big kid Little kid

Mum Read

A/R 3 1 1

Tuesday~

Maths

English Lesson in lit

Dictation

Copy work

Spelling + Keep word book

Poetry

Story of the world 2

Science

Music prac

Geography Reed H.C . Holling Book and Computer

Exercise

Art

Read to Little 1s

Bib kid Little kid

Mum Read

A/R

Wednesday~

Board Game

Maths

English Lesson in lit

Dictation

Copy work

Spelling + Keep word book

Poetry

Story of the world lesson1

Catechism

Music Lesson

Geography look at book writ draw

Exercise

Science E X P

Read to Little 1s

Bib kid Little kid

Mum Read

A/R

Maths

English Lesson in lit

Copy work

Dictation

Spelling + Keep word book

Poetry

Science

Music prac

Story of the world 2

Nature journal

Exercise

Scribbling Squires

Thursday~

Maths

English Lesson in lit

Copy work

Dictation

Spelling + Keep word book

Poetry

Science

Music prac

Story of the world 2

Nature journal

Exercise

Scribbling Squires

Read to Little 1s

Bib kid Little kid

Mum Read

A/R

Friday~

Board Game

Maths

Dictation test

Story’s With a View

Copy work test

Spelling + Keep word book

Poetry recite Poem

Music apparition

writing

Music prac

Nature journal

Exercise

Scribbling Squires

Read to Little 1s

Bib kid Little kid

Mum Read

A/R

Blessings,

Autumn's Schedule for 2011

2011-01-13T01:16:00.001+11:00

Monday ~
Maths: 1hr and 20 mins.
History: 1 hr.

Literature: 1 hr.

Apologetics: 45 mins.

Latin, Lingua Angelica: 15 mins.

Elementary school: 30 mins.

Music: Guitar+ singing.

Moran’s piano lesson.

Writing: blog, stories etc.

Sewing/craft: 1 hr.

Exercise: Run and Yoga.

Tuesday~
Maths: 1 hr and 20 mins.

History: 1 hr.

Literature: 1 hr.

Elementary School: 30 mins.

Art: sketching.

Grammar: 1 lesson.

Music: Piano+ singing.

Liturgical year planning stuff.

Writing: blog, stories etc.

Autumn’s Caring Kitchen.
Exercise; Run and Yoga.

Wednesday~
Maths: 1hr and 20 mins.

History: 1 hr.

Literature: 1 hr.

Apologetics: 45 mins.

Elementary School: 30 mins.

Latin, Latina Christiana: 15 mins.

Sewing/craft: 1 hr.

Music: Guitar + Singing.

Rogan, piano lesson.

Writing: blog, stories etc.

Exercise; Run and Yoga.

Thursday~

Maths: 1 hr.

History: 1 hr.

Literature: 1 hr.

Elementary School: 30 mins.

Music: Piano + Singing.

Latin, Latin with Laughter: 15 mins.

Grammar: 1 lesson.

Liturgical year planning stuff.

Art: sketching.

Writing: blog, stories etc.

Autumn’s Caring Kitchen.

Exercise: Run + Yoga.

Friday~
Maths: 1 hr and 20 mins.

History: 1 hr.

Literature: 1 hr.

Elementary School: 30 mins.

Sewing / craft : 1 hr.

Writing: blog, stories etc.

Music: Guitar + singing.

Vellvin’s piano lesson.

Autumn’s Caring Kitchen.

Exercise: Run and Yoga.

BGD.

Keep a running list of books read.

Literature Info.

Choose some books. Read Shakespeare. Write as reading great quotes.

Be able to give some account of what has been read in each book with outlines of chief characters.

Learn 100 lines of poetry.

Plutarch’s lives

To kill a mocking bird

Using these sources:

The Catholic Knight

Catholic Culture

The Curt Jester

The Red Cardigan

A Catholic Mom in Hawaii.

And others as we remember.

And read the news therein, keep a calendar of events. Choose 3 or 3 stories of the week and rewrite in own words and then put in folder.

Essay: read Monday, outline Tuesday, rewrite from outline Wednesday, polish up rough draft Thursday.

Blessings,

Autumn's Reading List 1

2011-01-10T16:48:00.000+11:00

Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter
Rangers Apprentice by John Flanagan
The Harvester by Gene Stratton Porter
The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
Saint Hyancith of Poland by Mary Fabyan Windeatt
The ABC's of Choosing a Good Husband by Stephen Wood
Approx 4 weeks worth plus Literature readings etc.

Blessings,

Rogan's Assigned Reading List 1

2011-01-10T16:33:00.000+11:00

The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat by Enid Blyton
The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters by Enid Blyton
The Mystery of the Missing Necklace by Enid Blyton
The Myster of the Hidden House by Enic Blyton
The Mystery of the Secret Room by Enid Blyton
The Adventure of the Secret Necklace by Enid Blyton
Each of these books to read 3 chapters a day

Farmer Boy by L. I. Wilder
1 chapter to be read each day.

Saint Benedict by Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Saint Dominic by Mary Fabyan Windeatt
1 chapter to be read each day.

All of these will take about 5 weeks.

Blessings,

Eden's Assigned Reading List 2011 -1

2011-01-10T15:50:00.000+11:00

Classic ~Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Nature/Science ~ Animals that Eat Nectar and Honey by Alice L Hopf
Saint ~ Saint John Masias by Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Biography ~the Story of George Washington by Sampson Low
Australian ~The Smugglers Den by Jeff Townsend
To be read by 14th February 2011

Blessings,

Saxon's Assigned Reading List 2011 -1

2011-01-10T15:28:00.000+11:00

Classic ~ In freedom's Cause by G.A. Henty
Nature/ Science ~ Wilbur and Orville Wright: Young Fliers by Augusta Stevenson
Saint ~ St Matain De Porres by Mary Fayan Windeatt
Biography ~ Mother R ( Eleanor Roosevelt's Untold Story) by Elliot Roosevelt and Janmes Brough
Australian ~ World's End was Home by Nan Chauncy
To be Read by 14th February 2011

Blessings,

Vellvin's Assigned Reading List 2011 - 1

2011-01-10T15:27:00.000+11:00

Classic ~ The Chimes by Charles Dickens
Nature/Science ~ Albert Einstein: Young Thinker by Marie Hammontree
Saint ~ Saint Francis of the Seas by Albert J Nevins
Biography ~ J. R.R Tolein The man who created Lord of the Rings by Michael Coren
Australian ~ Nora of Billabong by Mary Grant Bruce
To be read by 14th February 2011

Blessings,

Outline Plan forAlphabet Path - N Week

2010-11-14T18:11:00.002+11:00

♥ List of Ideas~
noses
names
nouns
nice
nail
night
net
nanny
nine
none
no
not
note
nudge
nutcracker
nursery
nursery rhymes on line list
night sky
necktie
number line
new testament
night prayers
noise makers
nurse

Read N books(from basket)

♥ N Saints ~
Complete List of N Saints
St. Nicholas
Noah and the Ark

♥ Famous People ~
N Artists
N Composers
Other famous people N list

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Nasturtium
Narcissus
Night Shade

Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to N song and Colour the Fairy from here

♥ Food ~
nectarine
noodles
nuts
nachos
St Nicholas cookies
St Nicholas peppermint hot chocolate
St Nicholas cupcakes

♥ Movies ~
Nanny McPhee
Nanny Mcphee and the big Bang
Narnia
The Nightingale
Neverland
Nancy Drew movie
Nancy Drew Series

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:
The Nail

Anderson:
The Nightingale
In The Nursery

♥ Games to Play ~
What comes next

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
Nicky Knacky Noo
Learn lots of nursery rhymes form our books

♥ Prayer~
Nicene Creed
We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, light from light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father;
through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven,
was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary
and became truly human.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father [and the Son],
who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Prayer to St Nicholas
God of joy and cheer,
we thank you for your servant,
the good bishop Nicholas.
In loving the poor,
he showed us your kindness;
in caring for your children,
he revealed your love.
Make us thoughtful
without need of reward
so that we, too, may be good
followers of Jesus.
♥ Musical Instruments ~
numerous instruments

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activities for N themes- abc teach
Read the Serendipity N Story
Learn the Fairy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Nn or playdoh
embroider Nn on felt or calico

Necklace making
needle threading
Make a Noah's Ark
using gold stars make a night time sky
write a note to someone
make a toilet role St Nicholas
use the number nine is things
making a nest
nursing
Playing Nurse Nancy
make some noise makers

Colour the N picture form K- O pages Kimberlee at Pondered in My Heart
Nn activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning N
Kidz zone alphabet activities - Letter N

draw animals that start with N
pin prick N shape and/or N shape animals
N stickers on paper and draw an N
Jan Brett and little handwriting N shape pages
use the N sound pouch
drawing N in cornmeal
abc teach N activities

Paper Dali St Nicholas colouring page
A whole host of St Nicholas pictures from the St Nicholas Center

Blessings,

Adjusted Plans for Third Term 2010

2010-08-19T01:12:00.003+10:00

MONDAY~

Stories of the Saints 1 hour

Liturgical Yearand or seasonal preparations 45 mins to 1 hour

Logic ( if not finished)

Maths 45 mins to 1 hour

Prima Latina 10 mins

Lingua Angelica 10 mins

Story of the world 1 hour

Poem- memorise

Spelling 15 mins

X tables 10 mins

English from the Roots Up 10 mins

Music Practice 20 mins

Assigned Reading 30 mins

Tea time 3pm - Divine Mercy Chaplet, Art lessons, while Mummy Reading aloud

Exercise 30- 40 mins or Aerobic activity

~~~~~~~~~~~~

TUESDAY ~

Stories of the Saints 1 hour

Prima Latina 10 mins

Lingua Angelica 10 mins

Maths 45 mins to 1 hour

Human body study - 30 mins

Geograhy in 7 months - 30 mins

Poem - memorise

Spelling 20 mins

X tables 10 mins

English from the roots up 10 mins

Music practice 20 mins

Assigned Reading 30 mins

Tea time 3pm - Divine Mercy Chaplet, Art lessons, while Mummy Reading aloud

Exercise 30- 40 mins or Aerobic activity

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

WEDNESDAY ~

Stories of the Saints 1 hour

Human Body 30 mins

Faith Training 30 mins

Maths 45 mins to 1 hour

Prima Latina 10 mins

Lingua Angelica 10 mins

Physics4kids 30 mins

Grammar 1 lesson: Read and narrate approx 30 mins

Poem- memorise

Spelling 20 mins

X tables 10 mins

English from the Roots Up 5 mins

Music practice 20 mins

Assigned Reading 30 mins

Divine Mercy Chaplet, Art lessons, while Mummy Reading aloud

Exercise 30 -40 mins or Aerobic activity

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

THURSDAY~

History of Science 1 hour

Orchard House Circle or Scribbling Squires Homework 1 hours

Faith Training 30 mins

Maths 45 mins to 1 hour

Nature Notebook 30 mins

Prima Latina 10 mins

Lingua Angelica 10 mins

Geography in 7 months- 30 mins

Poem-memorise

Spelling 20 mins

X tables 10 mins

English from the roots up 10 mins

Music practice 20 mins

Assigned Reading 30mins

Divine Mercy Chaplet, Art lessons, while Mummy Reading aloud

Exercise 30 -40 mins or Aerobic activity

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

FRIDAY ~

Stories of the Saints 1 hour

Story of the World 1 hour

History of Science 1 hour

Nature Notebook 30 mins

Lingua Angelica 10 mins

Prima Latina 10 mins

Poem - memorise

Spelling 20 mins

X tables 10 mins

English from the roots up 10 mins

Music practice 20 mins

Assigned Reading 30mins

Exercise 30- 40 mins or Aerobic activity

Divine Mercy Chaplet, Art lessons, while Mummy Reading aloud

Each Day -
Autumn- 40 mins on line to brows other blogs/news/articles of interest
Eden, Saxon and Vellvin - 30 mins on line to brows other blogs/news/articles of interest

Morning Tea Roster -
Monday- Eden
Tuesday- Autumn
Wednesday- Rogan
Thursday -Vellvin
Friday - Saxon
Weekends and odd times- Mummy
Each day finish by 3:00 o'clock~
Together we will have Tea-Time beginning with the Divine Mercy Chaplet
Then we will have tea with cookies or scones/cakes etc while the children do their art work based on Kimberlee's Art with Tea time and I will read Wind in the Willows, and incorprate this with a small Unit Study fr the little ones

Creative Free Time~
making Christmas presents
any craft
cooking
journaling
writing/drawing
sewing
semaphore practice
making mini books etc
board games
assigned reading
blog posts
random stuff
playing imaginative games
going into the bush
trampoline etc
detective skills
Anything else that isn't computer games or 'just looking'

Blessings,

Daily Plans for Rogan for Third Term 2010

2010-07-31T19:32:00.001+10:00

Monday~
Lessons in Literature
Spelling
Stories with a View
Prima Latina
Lingua Angelica
English from the Roots up
x tables practice 10 mins
Number Nut and then Maths CD 30 mins
Faith 30 mins
Poem: write out and illustrate
Read aloud 20 mins
Assigned reading 30 mins from this List
Piano practice 20 mins
Walk

Tuesday~
Lessons in Literature
Spelling
Story of the World: 1 complete lesson
Human Body Study: 30 mins
Geography: 30mins
Nature Notebook
Maths: Computer CD
x tables 10 mins practice
Prima Latina
Lingua Angelica
Practice Poem
Science: reading of Holling Clancy Holling books 30 mins
Pagoo
Minn of the Mississippi
Seabird
Tree in the Trail
Paddle to the Sea
Assigned Reading 30 mins
Piano Practice 20 mins
Walk

Wednesday~
Lessons in Literature
Spelling
English from the Roots up
Maths: Maths Books 30 mins
x tables 10 mins
Lingua Angelica
Latina Christiana
Poetry Practice
History of Science 45 mins
Story of the World - 1 complete lesson
Read aloud 20 mins
Assigned Reading 30 mins
Piano Practice 20 mins
Walk

Thursday~
Emma Serle - Primary Lessons in Language
Spelling
Prima Latina
Lingua Angela
Practice Poem
Maths: Book 30 mins
x tables 10 mins
Human Body 30 mins
History of Science 45 mins
Geography 30 mins
Assigned reading 30 mins
Piano Practice 20 mins
Walk

Friday~
Emma Serle
Spelling
Lingua Angelica
Prima Latina
Practice poem
Maths: CD and book 40 mins
x tables 10 mins
Faith Training 45 mins
Nature Notebook
Read Geography book (see Tuesday list)
Read aloud 20 mins
Assigned reading 30 mins
Piano Practice 20 mins
Walk

Each day finish by 3:00 o'clock~
Together we will have Tea-Time beginning with the Divine Mercy Chaplet
Then we will have tea with cookies or scones/cakes etc while the children do their art work based on Kimberlee's Art with Tea time and I will read Wind in the Willows, and incorprate this with a small Unit Study fr the little ones

Creative Free Time~
making Christmas presents
any craft
cooking
journaling
writing/drawing
sewing
semaphore practice
making mini books etc
board games
assigned reading
blog posts
random stuff
playing imaginative games
going into the bush
trampoline etc
Anything else that isn't computer games or 'just looking'

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Alphabet Path --M Week

2010-07-01T16:27:00.004+10:00

♥ List of Ideas~
Mass
Mop
Mother
Marshmallow
Mix
Mary- Mother of God
Monstrance
Menorah
Mint
Mountain
magical.
magnanimous.
magnificent.
majestic.
manageable.
mammoth.
mannerly.
marvelous.
masterful.
mature.
maximum.
meaningful.
mechanical.
meek.
memorable.
merciful.
metaphorical.
meticulous.
metropolitan.
mettlesome.
mighty.
miraculous.
mobile.
modern.
moderate.
modest.
monumental.
moral.
maths
movable.
muscular.
musical.
mythological.
map
mirror
Mother Goose

Read M books(from basket)

♥ M Saints ~
Complete List of L Saints
St. Martin de Porres.

♥ Famous People ~Listing here
Artist M List here
Monet
Manet
Michelangelo

Musicians~
Mozart.
Mendelssohn.

More Famous People:
Steve Martin.
Eddie Murphy
Steve McQueen.
Michelangelo.

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Mallow.

♥ Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to M song
Colour the Fairy from here

♥ Food ~
Mice cupcakes.
Mango,
meatballs,
mushrooms
milk
melon,
Mince pie
marshmallow
mint sauce
marzipan
marmalade
maple syrup.
Mint
Mandarin.
muffins
mozzarella cheese
mousse
milkshakes
macaroni and cheese
mint chocolate chip ice cream
Moroccan chicken
Mediterranean Lamb

♥ Movies ~
Monsters Inc.
Mary Poppins.
Madeline

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:
Mother Holle
The Poor Man and The Rich Man.
My Household.
The Star Money.
The Moon.
The Master-Theif.
Maid Maleen.

Anderson:
The Money Box.
The Metal Pig.
The Story of a Mother.

♥ Games to Play ~
Monopoly
Stuck in the Mud
Musical chairs
Play mothers.
Cats and Mice

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
My little buttercup.
Mary , Mary quiet contrary.
My Jesus, My Saviour.
Muffin Man
Five Little Monkey's
Mulberry Bush
Mother Goose

♥ Prayer~
Prayer to Mary Queen of the Home:
O Blessed Virgin Mary, you are the mother
and queen of every Christian family.
When you conceived and gave birth to Jesus,
human motherhood reached its greatest achievement.
From the time of the Annunciation
you were the living chalice of the Son of God made man.
You are the queen of the home.
As a woman of faith, you inspire all mothers
to transmit faith to their children.
Watch over our families.
Let children learn free and loving obedience
inspired by your obedience to God.
Let parents learn dedication
and selflessness based on your unselfish attitude.
Let all families honor you and remain devoted to you
so that they may be held together by your example
and your intercession.
Amen.

The Original Magnificat:
My soul doth magnify the Lord,
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour,
Because He hath regarded the humility of His handmaid:
for behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed;
Because He that is mighty,
has done great things to me; and Holy is His Name.
And His mercy is from generation unto generations,
to them that fear Him.
He has shewed might in His Arm:
He has scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.
He has cast down the mighty from their seat,
and has exalted the humble.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich He has sent empty away.
He has received Israel,
His servant, mindful of His mercy.
As He spoke to our fathers,
to Abraham and to his seed, for ever.
Amen

♥ Musical Instruments ~
mandolin
marimba
Moog organ
maracas

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activities for M themes- abc teadh
Read the Serendipity M Story
Learn the Fairy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Mm
embroider Mm on felt or calico

Count money
look through microscope
Make Mint tea
Felt some Monkeys.
Make mouse ears.
Make some maps.
Draw some pictures of Mothers.
Melt some chocolate and make monkey chocolates.
play with magnets
marble painting
Montessori three part cards
Look at Moon phases
make felt mouse
Mass Activities- Mass kit and play lok at the other Mass boks we have etc

Colour from A from the A to M pages from Kimberlee at Pondered in My Heart
Mm activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning M
Kidz zone alphabet activities

draw animals that start with M
pin prick M shape and/or M shape animals
M stickers on paper and draw an M
Jan Brett and little handwriting M shape pages
use the M sound pouch
drawing M in cornmeal
abc teach M activities

St. Martin de Porres Colouring Pictures
St. Martin de Porres Painted saint
St Martin de Porres paper dolls
St Margaret Mary colouring page
St Margaret of Scotland
St Mark
St. Maximillian Kolbe
St. Michael
St. Monica
St. Martin of Tours

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Alphabet Path --L Week

2010-07-01T12:42:00.015+10:00

♥ List of Ideas~
Lollies
Licorice.
Ladybeetles
Lions
Lambs
Lamps
Lanterns
Limbo
Lightbulb
Lizard
Lightning
Leaping
Laughing
Lunch
Laundry
Lumpy
Liver
Leopard
Lemons
Labeled
Love
Lucky
Lick
Lice
Ladder
Legs.
Leech.
Limp.
Lisp.
Lake.
Lawn.
Lark.
Leprechaun.
Lamas.

Read L books(from basket)

♥ L Saints ~
Complete List of L Saints
St. Lucy.

♥ Famous People ~Listing here
Artist L List here

Musicians~
Demi LOVATO.
Litz.

More Famous People:
Lucy Pevensie
Lucky Luke
Lucille Ball
Leonardo Da Vinci

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Lilly.
Lavender.
Lilac.

♥ Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to L song
Colour the Fairy from here

♥ Food ~
Lemonade
Lemon slice
Lemon cake
Licorice
Lollipops
Lunch
Leaf shaped cookies.
Lady Beetle Rice Crackers~
Directions: Spread strawberry jelly on rice cakes to make the ladybug's body. Place raisins on top for the spots.

♥ Movies ~
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.
A Little princess.

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:
Little Red Riding Hood.
The Brave Little Tailor.
Little Briar Rose.
Little Snow White.
Lazy Harry.

Anderson:
Little Ida's Flowers.
The Little Mermaid.
The Little Match Girl.

♥ Games to Play ~
Sleeping Lions
Lego
Leap frog.

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
Little Bo Peep
Mary had a little Lamb.
Christ be our light.
Jesus bides us shine.
Loopy lou.
Give me oil in my Lamp.

♥ Prayer~
Lovely Lady dressed in blue
Teach me how to pray
God was just your little Boy,
Tell me what to say!
Did you lift Him up, sometimes,
Gently, on your knee?
Did you sing to Him the way Mother does to me?
Did you hold His hand at night?
Did you ever try
Telling stories of the world?
O! And did He cry?
Do you really think He cares
If I tell Him things -
Little things that happen?
And
Do the Angels' wings
Make a noise?
And can He hear
Me if I speak low?
Does He understand me now?
Tell me - for you now?
Lovely Lady dressed in blue,
Teach me how to pray!
God was just your little Boy.
And you know the way.

A Prayer for the virtue of Love:
Loving Jesus, sweetness of my heart,
Your magnetic love draws me to You.
You taught me the meaning of true love
By mercifully forgiving all my sins
And dying on the Cross for my salvation.
Teach me to embrace such Divine love,
That my actions be the fruits of Your Spirit.
Transform my soul into pure abounding love,
Enabling me to always walk in righteousness.
Your endowment of love is priceless;
Being sought out by all living souls.
Repeatedly, inundate me with Your love!

♥ Musical Instruments ~
Lute
Lyre.

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activities for L themes- abc teadh
Read the Serendipity L Story
Learn the Fairy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Ll
embroider Ll on felt or calico

Make a jointed paper Leprechaun.
Make cardboard Lutes.
Make glass jar Lanterns.
Make lambs out of cardboard and stick cotton wool balls on for fleece.
Leaf rubbings.
Write a letter.
Make lips out of rasberry licorice.
Felt a Lady Beetle.
Leaf printing.

Colour from A from the A to Lpages from Kimberlee at Pondered in My Heart
Ll activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning L
Kidz zone alphabet activties

draw animals that start with L
pin prick L shape and/or L shape animals
L stickers on paper and draw an L
Jan Brett and little handwriting L shape pages
use the L sound pouch
drawing L in cornmeal
abc teach L activities

St Lucy Colouring Pictures
St Lucy
St Luke

St Lucy Painted saint

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Alphabet Path --K Week

2010-07-01T12:42:00.004+10:00

♥ List of Ideas~
kites
kangaroo
kitten
kind
kill
kick
knee
kitchen
kettle
kinder
kiss
Kris Kringle
kluas
knights.

Read K books(from basket)

♥ K Saints ~
Complete List of K Saints

♥ Famous People ~Listing here
Artist K List here

Muscians~

More Famous People:
Klaus Beudalaire.

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Kingcup.

♥ Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to K song
Colour the Fairy from here

♥ Food ~
Kebabs
Kitten cupcakes.
Koolaid
Fruit Kebabs.
KFC Take away.
Kettle Corn.

♥ Movies ~
The Karate Kid
The Karate Kid 2
The Karate Kid 3
Kungfu Panda
The King and I

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:
Knoist and his three sons
The Two King's children
Herr Korbes

Anderson:
None.

♥ Games to Play ~
Kings and courtiers.
Kicking a ball.
Flying kites.
Play with our knights.

♥ Songs
King of Kings.
Kookuburra sits.
Old King Cole.

♥ Prayer~
Kitchen Prayer
Bless this kitchen, Lord,
and those who gather here each day.
Let it be a place where we can meet
to love and laugh and pray.
Amen.

♥ Musical Instruments ~
Keyboard

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activites for K themes- abc teadh
Read the Serendipity K Story
Learn the Fairy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Kk
embroider Kk on felt or calico

Make Karate head bands
Make felted kittens
Make Kangaroo finger puppet
Make giant paper gum tree stick on wall and put cardboard koala, and kookaburra in tree and kangaroo underneath.
Make kites.
Draw and print pictures of Cupcake in a "Kitten Gallery."
Make crowns for playing Kings.
Make a Katy-no-pocket apron.
Finger knitting.

Colour K for Kindness from K-O from Kimberlee at Pondered in My Heart

Kk activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning K
Kidz zone alphabet activties

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

St Kateri Tekawitha painted saint.

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Alphabet Path --J Week

2010-07-01T12:27:00.001+10:00

♥ List of Ideas~
juggling
juice
jaguar
Jerusalem
jewelry
jewels
jangle
jolly
Jesus
jungle
jelly
Joseph
jeans
jump
jail
jumper
jallopy
jacks
jam
jar
jumble
jurry
judgement
June
July
job
joke
jacket
judge
jade
julienne
jet
jig
jazz
janitor
jaw
jerk
jest
journey

Read J books(from basket)

♥ J Saints ~
Complete List of J Saints
St Joseph
St. Joan of Arc.

♥ Famous People ~Listing here
Artist J List here

Muscians~
Julie Andrews
Scott Joplin
The Jonas Brothers

More Famous People:
Julius Ceaser
Jar Jar Binks
Jehosaphat
Jiminy Cricket
Jack and Jill
Jack Sparrow

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Jasmine

♥ Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to J song
Colour the Fairy from here

♥ Food ~
Jelly
Juice
Jam
Jam rolls
Jonny cakes
Jelly Beans
Jasmine tea

♥ Movies ~
The Jetsons
The Jungle Book
George of the Jungle

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:
The Juniper tree
Faithful John
Jorinda and Joringel
St.Joseph in the Forest

Anderson:
The Jumper
Jack the Dullard
Jack and the beanstalk.
♥ Games to Play ~
Jump rope
Jogging
Jacks
Jokes
Juggling
Jack in the box.
Do jumping jacks
jigsaw puzzles.

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
Jesus Loves Me
Jack and Jill
Jack Sprat
Jack be Nimble
Joy to the World

♥ Prayer~
The Joyfull myteries of the Rosary.

♥ Musical Instruments ~
Jews Harp.

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activites for J themes- abc teadh
Read the Serendipity J Story
Learn the Fairy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Jj
embroider Jj on felt or calico

Make Jungles from card board cylingers
Make jewelry
Make jelly
Make jam
Jelly bean counting
Japanese lanternes.
Make Jelly fish.
Make a Jack in the box.

Colour from A from the A to Jpages from Kimberlee at Pondered in My Heart
Jj activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning J
Kidz zone alphabet activties

draw animals that start with J
pin prick J shape and/or J shape animals
J stickers on paper and draw an J
Jan Brett and little handwriting J shape pages
use the J sound pouch
drawing J in cornmeal
abc teach J activities

St Joseph Colouring Pictures
Waltzing Matilda
thankevean origainal page
thankevann 1
thankevann 2

St Joan of Arc colouring 1 page
St Joan of Arc colouring page 2

St Joseph Painted saint

Blessings,

Outline Plans for the Alphabet Path - Week I

2010-05-10T10:30:00.002+10:00

♥ List of Ideas~
Icecream
Igloo
Iris
Ice
Iceskates
Icicles
Icypole
Imagination
Immaculate Conception
Indians
Ink
Inventions
Italy
Islands
Insects
Instruments
Itty Bitty

Read I books(from basket)

♥ I Saints ~
Complete List of I Saints
St Ignatius

♥ Famous People ~Listing here
Artist List here
Impressionests

Muscians~
Charles Ives

Laura Ingalls Wilder- Author
Isobelle Carmody- Author
Isabella of Spain

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Iris

♥ Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to I song
Colour the Fairy from here

♥ Food ~
Icecream
Irish Breakfast Tea
Irish soda Bread
Italian food
Ants on a Log or a cream cheese and dried fruit version of our own
Indian (American )
Indian the county

♥ Movies ~
Incredibles
Bedtime Stories--Imagination
Gilligan's Island
Annie Get your Gun---Indians
Pocahantus--Indians
Five Children and IT
Inspector Gadget

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:
The Iron Stove
Iron Hans

Anderson:
Ib and Little Christina
The Ice MAIDEN

♥ Games to Play ~
I Spy
I Spy Bottles
Ice cream game
Inch worm counting game
Icecream counting (Kimberlee's Idea)
Play with Rogan's Indians

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
Incy Wincy Spider
Inchy Inch worm
I scream You scream we all scream for Icecream
Five Little Indians

♥ Prayer~
I believe - Apostles Creed

♥ Musical Instruments ~
All Instuments

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activites for I themes- abc teadh
Read the Serendipity I Story
Learn the Fairy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Ii
embroider Ii on felt or calico

Make miniture Indian Teppee from Cardboard and decorate
Make an igloo from Sugar cubes

Colour from A from the A to Jpages from Kimberly at Pondered in My Heart
Ii activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning I

draw animals that start with I
pin prick I shape and/or Ishape animals
I stickers on paper and draw an I
Jan Brett and little handwriting I shape pages
use the I sound pouch
drawing I in cornmeal
abc teach I activities

St Ignatius Painted saint

Blessings,

Outline Plans for the Alphabet Path... H Week

2010-04-29T16:01:00.000+10:00

♥ List of Ideas~
hearts
heat
hear
hands
horse
hero
hot
hose
hire
hose
head
hay
hayride
honey
honeycomb
hard
haybales
hug
hat
hose
hot air ballons
hippopotomus
house
home
humpty dumpty
holy
holidays
hen
Hobbitt
herse
hospital
Halleluia
health
history
hero
hop
Hercules
hephalumps
hedgehog
hobbits

♥ H Saints ~
Complete List of H Saints
St Helena

♥ Famous People ~Listing here
Artist List here
Winslow Homer

Muscians~
Handel
Hayden

Henry Ford
Helen Keller

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Hawthorn
Honey suckle
helliotrope
Holly
Herb Twopence

♥ Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to H song
Colour the Fairy from here

♥ Food ~
H shape cookies
Holey Pokey Icecream
Hot dogs
Hot Bread
Hmaburgers
Hummus
Heart shape cookies
Honey bee cookies- nuse shugar cookie dough and shape into bees and then pipe chocolate on top for stripes

Hedgehog Slice

180g butter
2/3 cup milk
1 cup caster sugar
¼ cup cocoa
2 teaspoons vanilla essence
2 x 250g packet Arnotts Morning Coffee biscuits( scotch finger or milk arrowroot)
2 tablespoons desiccated coconut

Grease a 19cm x 29cm lamington pan and line with enough baking paper to cover the base and extend over the sides.

Combine the butter, milk, sugar, cocoa and vanilla in a saucepan. Stir over low heat until sugar has dissolved, then bring to the boil and remove from heat.

Place biscuits in a large plastic bag and roughly crush with a rolling pin. Tip the crushed biscuits into a large bowl, add the melted butter mixture and mix well.

Press the mixture firmly into a prepared pan Refrigerate until firm.
Icing:

1½ cups icing sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
2-3 tablespoons water

To make icing, combine icing sugar and cocoa in a bowl and stir in enough water to form a spreadable paste.

Spread icing over slice and refrigerate overnight (this makes slicing much easier).

Use lining paper to remove slice from the pan and cut into small pieces to serve.

Makes approximately 30 pieces.

♥ Movies ~
Horton hears a Who
Hercules
Hogan's Heros
Heidi

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Grimms:
Hansel and Gretel
Herr Kobes
The Hare's Bribe
How Six Men got on in the World
Gambling Hansel
Hans in Luck
Hans Married
Hans The Hedgehog
Iron hans
My Household
The Hurds
The Hare and the hedgehog
The Heavenly Wedding
The Hazel-Branch
Anderson:
The Happy Family
Holger Danske

♥ Games to Play ~
Hide and Seek
Hopscotch
Horseshoes

♥ Songs and poems to learn~
Hey Diddle Diddle
Higglety Piggley My Black Hen
Humpty Dumpty
Here we go round the Mulberry Bush
Drop the Hankie
Hello Dolly
Hokey Pokey
Gidyup Horsey

♥ Prayer~
Hail Mary
Hail Holy Queen

♥ Musical Instruments ~
Horn
Harp
Harpsicord

♥ Activities ~
Various alphabet pages ~ abc teach need to link to each letter
Activites for H themes- abc teadh
Read the Serendipity H Story
Learn the Fairy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax Hh
embroider Hh on felt or calico

Mad Hatter Party
make a felt horse
make a fleece honey bee
make a paper hat
Hand prints
Hand painting

Colour from A from the A to Jpages from Kimberly at Pondered in My Heart
Hh activities - Enchanted Learning
Another link enchanted learning H
heart spot the difference
House puzzle pieces
hot air ballon
horse puzzle
hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle
heart colouring
hot air ballons 2
hard hat
hen dot to dot

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

St Helena Painted saint

Blessings,

Reading List for 2nd Term

2010-04-19T14:34:00.016+10:00

♥ Autumn~
Pollyanna in Hollywood- Elizabeth Borton.
Westward Ho!-Charles Kingsley.
Tom Sawyer ABROAD-Mark Twain.
Tad: OR "Getting even" with him-Edward S. Ellis.
With the knights of Malta-Peter Wickloe.
The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyell And Mr. Hyde-R.L. Stevenson.
Just David-Eleanor H. Porter.
Adam of the Road- Elizabeth Janet Gray.

♥ Saxon~Any G. A. Henty books he choices

♥ Rogan~
The Magicans Nephew: CS Lewis
Farmer Boy: L I Wilder
The Sun Egg:Elsa Beskow
Meet Kit :Valarie Tripp
Molly's A+ Partner: Valarie Tripp
Felicity's Dancing Shoes: Valarie Tripp
Molly Marches On: Valarie Tripp
Molly Takes Flight: Valarie Tripp
Secret Seven Fireworks: Enid Blyton

♥ Eden~
By Pike and Dike : GA Henty
Rolf and the Viking Bow: Allen French
The Lark in the Morn: Elfrida Vipont
Flight into Spring: Bianca Brandbury
Stepping Heavenward: Elizabeth Prentiss

♥ Vellvin~
A Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm: Kate Wiggin
Malory Towers: Enid Blyton
Swallows and Amazons: Arthur Ransom
Black Fox of Lorne: Marguerite de Angeli
William the Conqueror : Richmall Crompton

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Term 2 2010

2010-04-15T14:51:00.001+10:00

Term 2 12 April to 25 June (26 April - ANZAC Day Public Holiday)

FAITH and VIRTUE TRAINING ~
Daily everyone~
24 Family Ways
Book of Virtues: read a story
Bible
Saint of the Day

Moran, Myffwyna and Corbyn~
Bible stories
Catholic Children's Treasure Box: Maryknoll Sisters
Once upon a Time Saints: Ethel Pochocki
Little Suzy Stories: Elizabeth Prentiss

Rogan,Moran, Myffwyna and Corbyn~
Mary's White League Level 1: Ann Frost
CGS presentations- Home Catechises: Moira Farrell
Catholic Mosaic: Cay Gibson

Autumn, Eden and Vellvin~
Orchard House Circle resources

Saxon and Rogan~
Scribbling Squires resources
Pilgrims of the Holy Family-Kerry and Nancy MacArthur, and Blue Knights-Dan Mcguire along with various Boy Hood books we have on hand.

Credo lessons- this is an old pamphlet I printed off the net about 1996 and cannot find a link to anymore (Autumn)
The Virtue Tree: Sandra Grant (Autumn, Eden Saxon Vellvin)
Life Work: Rick Sarkisian (Autumn, Eden Saxon Vellvin)
Confirmation Preparation for Young Catholics: Seton Press (Eden Saxon Vellvin)
Sacrament of Confirmation: Faith in the Family Cathechetics ( Eden Saxon Vellvin)
The New Saint Joseph Baltimore Catechism ( Eden Saxon Vellvin)
The Man Who Lived Forever: Rev Gerald T Brennan (Autumn, Eden Saxon Vellvin)
The Mass Explained to Children: Maria Montessori (Autumn, Eden Saxon Vellvin)

Rogan~
The Most Beautiful Thing in the World:~ Susan Brindle, Joan Bell, Miriam Lademan
The New St Joseph First Communion Catechism
My First Catechism: Father Lovasik
Receiving Holy Communion: Father Lovasik
Preparing for my First Confession: Helen Mills
My Picture Missal: Father Lovasik
Going to Confession: Father Lovasik
The Sacrament of Reconiliation: Rev Jude Winkler
The Holy Eucharist: Father Lovasik
The Sacrementals of the Church: Father Lovasik
The Seven Sacrementals: Father Lovasik
CGS presentations- Home Catechises Moira Farrell

Autumn, Eden, Saxon, Vellvin,Rogan, Moran, Myffwyn and Corbyn~
Saints and Feast Days -Sisters of Notre Dame
Companion to the Calendar - Mary Ellen Hynes
Celebrating the Gospels - Gaynell Cronin
Preparation and Participation in various Feast Days

Science -
A History of Science- Rebecca Berg
Experiments from various books 2 times week
Chemistry on

NATURE
Nature Journals/notebooks
Bush Rambles

GEOGRAPHY-
Geography in Seven Months (downloaded)
Geography if you haven't finished

ART-
Art Projects for Kids 1 project per week
Art Work-
in order left to right Autumn, Eden, Saxon, Vellvin and Rogan:
Sketching, Pen and watercolour, Sketching, Pen and water colour, Sketching.
Monthly Theme- Enjoying the Journey ideas for the month
Poor Box Toys - 1 hour per week

MATHS-
Autumn, Eden, Saxon, Vellvin
Mathmatics.com.au
Number Nut
Math worksheet site

Text books for Rogan -
Signpost Maths
DK - maths made easy
Profax
Montessori activities
Math worksheet site

Moran, Myffwyn and Corbyn-
Real life activites- ciiking counting etc
Simply Numbers- Shoelace Books
A First Lesson in Numbers-Benjamin Greenleaf
Gnomes and Numbers- Serendipity
An Easy Start in Arithmetic - Ruth Beechick
Montessori activities

ENGLISH ~
My Catholic Speller : Level A (CHC) (Rogan)
The Essential Spelling List-Fred J. Schonell. (Eden, Saxon and Vellvin)
Essentials in Teaching and Testing Spelling- Fred J. Schonell (Eden, Saxon and Vellvin)
Stories with a View: Margot Davidson 1 lesson over the week (Rogan)
Ruth Heller Books 1 book per week (Rogan)
Lessons in Literature: Adnil Pres (Rogan)
Stories of the Saints 1 and 2 (Eden Saxon and Vellvin)
Grammer Land - Nesbitt Downloaded version (Autumn, Eden, Saxon and Vellvin)
English - Lingua Mater: Margot Davidson (Autumn)
Logic- Introductory Logic: Douglas J Wilson and James B Nance ( Autumn and Saxon)
EnglishMaven - all once a week for fun

WRITING- Autumn
The Writers Jungle: Julie Bogart
Teen Inklings

POETRY ~
various sources dpending on the child

LATIN ~
English from The Roots up: Joegil K. Lundquist
Prima Latina: Leigh Lowe
Lingua Angelica: Cheryl Lowe Learn in Latin
Latin with Laughter-Mrs. Sydney Frankenburg

HISTORY-
Story of the World:
The Story of the World 'resource book' and The Story of the World Activity Book
for all 4 terms
volume 1-Eden and Rogan
Volume 2-Saxon and Vellvin
Volume 3- Autumn.

History Lessons for the term is 14

Unit Studies-
The Human Body finish up this term
Human Body Unit Study -Jennifer Steward
Human Anatomy in full Colour - John Green
Life Science- Seton programme Chapter 15:Introduction to Systems

Sport-Basketball

Music Appreciation:- Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mozart

READING FORMATION ~ Moran and Myffwyn essentially but Corbyn joins in
Along the Alphabet Path
Serendipity
Letters of Grace

plus bits an pieces from these sources
Oak Meadow Curriculum
Christopherus Curriculum
Charlotte Mason Method and all the books we have
Ruth Beechick
Maria Montessori Method on line and all the books we have

SIGN LANGUAGE ~everyone try and learn
from basic notes I have printed out
Alphabet
sign with me cheat sheet
Australian version
Another
aslopro

These plans will be adjusted to daily learning schedules by the children.
Moran, Myffwyna and Corbyn will be using their daily plans from last term and I will update the Alphabet Path as we do it.
First week for them is "H Week"

Blessings,

Alphabet Path Review Week A-G

2010-03-06T12:16:00.012+11:00

This week I will be reviewing the Letters A through G with Moran, Myffwyn and Corbyn.

Ideas for this week will come from:

~ Cuisenaire rods for the Cuisenaire Alphabet book. Review from A-G
~ make some homemade matching work sheets :
matching up the Capital and lowercase letters
matching drawn pictures with letter sounds
~ tracing over letters
~ writing out letters
~ reviewing the sound pouches
~ make up a story about the letters A-G and tell it using chalk board drawings.
~ use flash cards and ask for identification
~ do concentration card games
~ blend some of the sounds together using A-G as well as some of the other letters they know ie. M, N, O, R, S perhaps more. ( Ruth Beechick: A Home Start in Reading)
~ colouring in some more pictures
~ read from some of the Alphabet books
~ do some form drawing
~ do some counting with the manipulates
~ do some 'sight' words with our Montessori farm game
~ paint letters A-G
~check on the past posts about the Letters
A - still to do as I didn't write it out
B
C
D
E
F
G
for other ideas if needed.

Blessings,

Weekly Review 1st - 5th March

2010-03-05T18:13:00.017+11:00

This week we had a very busy, interesting and intense week.
We actually managed a couple of field trips .

The first was to the Imaginarium which is the small science Museum in our town.
The children all really enjoyed the puzzle theme they had at the moment and racing the T-Rex to see if they could get eaten.
There is a Dinosaur Exhibition in May they are all keen to go to.
On Saturday we went to the Gowrie Park Rodeo and saw some close up views of the animals and the Rodeo competitors.

As to formal lessons the older children were very committed to finishing their work for the week.

The older children have really liked the change to GramarLand and Stories of the Saints.
They continue to keep up the pace with History of the World studies and The History of Science. The History of Science is a more involved study that they are going well with.
Science experiments continue to be well liked and they are recording thee well in their books. Rogan especially loves these.

Latin is going well and Eden is the only one who isn't really keen on it.
All the Art lessons are progressing well. I can see an improvement in all the children's work and they are all enjoying this, especially Saxon still.

Nature Journal entries are very involved and they are real works or art and observation.

Geography has continued to be a very popular topic and all the children have progressed with their learning .

Maths seems to be a slight challenge for Eden and Vellvin. Saxon and Autumn seem to be managing the Maths challenge at this stage.
Rogan's math is a challenge for me as I find I don't have a lot of explaining time and am hoping to get some Math U See for him to use. Which would allow me not to be involved in the explaining process.

Autumn loves her Logic and has completed about half of the book but Saxon isn't that keen and tends to leave it till last.

We still haven't fine tuned the Reading/quiet time and our Scribbling Squires and Orchard House Circle activities yet. Hopefully this week.

The little girls finished "G Week" in Along the Alphabet Path. We read a lot of stories again and spent time in a "Table Top Activity Day".
I am planning a review week this coming week of the Letter A-G with a lot of writing and using different methods to check how much they actually know.

Blessings,

Alphabet of Saints

2010-03-05T00:34:00.001+11:00

Here is our complete listing of the Alphabet of Saints to use along with our Alphabet Path studies,
I used An Alphabet of Catholic Saints as a guide along with Jessica's and Blair's already painted Saints.
A is for St Agnes
B is for St Bernadette
C is for St Cecilia
D is for St Dominic
E is for St Elizabeth Ann Seton
F is for St Francis
G is for St George
H is for St Helen
I is for St Ignatius
J is for St Joseph
K is for St Kateri Tekawitha
L is for St Lucia
M is for St Martin de Porres
N is for St Nicholas
O is for St Odilia
P is for St Patrick
Q is for Queen of Heaven (Mary)
R is for St Rose
S is for St Sharbel
T is for St Therese
U is for St Ursula
Vis for St Vincent de Paul
W is for St Wenceslas
X is for St Francis Xavier
Y is for St Joseph Yuen
Z is for St Zita

The whole Alphabet of Saints
Back views of Saints
More back views of some Saints
Some side views of the Saints
Opposite side view

Blessings,

Weekly Review 22nd-26th February

2010-03-03T17:24:00.003+11:00

Well as I am posting this on Thursday the main things I remember from last week is that we had to change a couple of resources.

The Introduction to Classical Studies just wasn't working for Saxon Velllvin and Eden. It was very time consuming and they really didn't like the Greek Myths stuff at all.

The other change was in Grammar. We had bought Simply Grammar as one of the first books for Homeschooling back in ...... This is the forth time I have tried it with the children and it just doesn't work for our children.
So we are now using until we finish it, Grammar Land by M. L. Nesbitt. This is more to the children's liking as well.

The younger ones are going well with the Alphabet Path but I still need to get their other work moving along better.

Rogan still struggles with independent work as he would rather be doing what the younger ones do or play still.

Autumn, Eden, Saxon and Vellvin as well as Rogan are really enjoying their Art work. I am especially pleased with Rogan's increased ability and not it only is Saxon improving in Sketching as well but he actually LOVES it. This is a dramatic change in attitude for Saxon and it goes to show that you just need to find the right type of Art work to begin with.

Geography, Science and History are still going really well. Math is difficult for some on some days and not on others. Poetry, spelling, Latin and Music seem to be going at a reasonable progress.

All in all we still need to keep on track with finishing work but the older ones especially are committed to their lessons each day and are progressing well.

Blessings,

Outline Plans for Along the Alphabet Path - G Week

2010-02-21T00:13:00.003+11:00

♥ 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,

Weekly Review 16th - 20th February 2010

2010-02-20T22:17:00.003+11:00

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,

Weekly Review 8th - 12th February 2010

2010-02-13T14:56:00.003+11:00

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,

Eden and Vellvin's Daily Schedule

2010-02-07T22:54:00.003+11:00

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

2010-02-07T21:43:00.000+11:00

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,