Saxon's 2010 Reading List

Saxon's main goal is to read our entire collection of G.A. Henty books.
We actually have an almost complete collection, 98 books. I thought we had all the books and then discovered we were one book short. I keep meaning to get this but keep forgetting.

The above image is of part of our bookcase that holds the books. If you count they aren't all there because some are in circulation at the moment.

I think this is an enormous task for the year along with everything else he reads.
Blessings,

Autumn's 2010 Reading List

Here is Autumn's proposed free Reading programme for 2010 ~
These are all her own choices:

1. Nickolas Nickleby
2. A Christmas Carol.
3. The Pickwick papers.
4. Little Nell(also known as "The Old Curiosity Shop".)
5. David Copperfield.
6. The Three Musketeers.
7. Jane Eyre.
8. Wuthering Heights.
9. The Scarlet Pimpernel.
10. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
11. The Kings Fifth.
12.Tom Sawyer Abroad.
13. The Wind In The Willows.
14. Beau Geste.
15. The Prince and The Pauper.
16. The Young Pretenders.
17. Two Years Before The Mast.
18. The Hiding Place.
19. The Trapp Family On Wheels.
20. Applesauce needs Sugar.
21. Mama's Bank Account.
22. Butter At The Old Price.
23. Lords Of Atlantis.
24. Beloved Of The Gods.
25. The Rouges Of Alwyn.
26. April Gold.
27. The Guardians.
28. Pride And Prejudice.
29. Emma.
30. Sense And Sensibility.
31. The Conquest Of Montezuma's Empire.
32. The Phantom Of The Opera.
33. The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde.
34. Artic Prairies.
35. Bannertail.
36. Wild Animals At Home.
37. Woodland Tales.
38. The Swallows And Amazons Series.
39. Alvin Fernald Foreign Trader.
40. Madeline Takes Command.
41. The Drovers Road Collection.
42. The Poet And The Pauper.
43. With The Knights Of Malta.
44. Tad Or "Getting Even With Him."
45. Kidnapped.
46. The Master Of Ballantraye.
47. In The South Seas.
48. Jim Davis.
49. Master Man Ready.
50. Westward Ho!
51. Just David.
52. Any Of The Pollyanna's We Own That I Have Not Read.
53. Came A Cavalier.
54. Any Of The Rosemary Suttcliff Books I Have Not Read And Am Allowed Too.
55. The Keys And The Candle.
56. The Trumpeter Of Krakow.
57. The Black Arrow.
58. 18 G. A. Henty's.
59. Adam Of The Road.
60. Saint Thomas More.
61. Saint Catherine Laboure'.

Blessings,

Vellvin's 2010 Reading List

Here is Vellvin's proposed free Reading programme for 2010 ~
These are all her own choices:

1. All the Bobbsey twins books.
2. Treasure Island and Kidnapped.
3. Malory Towers.
4. The Belgariod Series
5. Coral Island.
6. Finish The Lord Of The Rings.
7. William books.
8. A Christmas Carol.
9. Lorna Doone.
10. The Anne of Green Gables series.
11. Emily Climbs, Emily's Quest, Emily of New Moon.
12. Swallows and Amazons.
13. The Marguerite de Angeli books.
14. All the Narnia books.
15. The Crystal Snowstorm, Following the Phoenix, Angel and Dragon, The Rose and Crown.
16. Gene Stratton Porter books.
17. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Wiggin



Blessings,

Rogan's 2010 Reading List

Here is Rogan's proposed free Reading programme for 2010 ~
These are all his own choices:

Grimm's fairy tales .
1 of Vellvins Bobbsey Twins .
Enid Blyton books .
Elsa Beskow books .
All the Nania's
The Little's Series.
Some of the william books .
Huckleberry Finn .
The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk
The Adventures of Johnny Chuck.
The Adventures of Prickly Porky
Magic School Bus Butterfly Battle
Jungle Doctor .
Farmer Boy
The Spiderwick books
All the American Girls Series books we own
The Bush Boys Series - Father Tierney

Blessings,

Spiderwick Themed Study

♥ These are the Ideas we brainstormed last week ☺ for our Spiderwick study

♥♥Resources♥♥

♥The Spiderwick books:
- 1) The Field Guide
- 2) The Seeing Stone
- 3) Lucinda's Secret
- 4) The Ironwood Tree
- 5) The Wrath of Mulgarath
- Care and Feeding of Sprites
- Arthur Spiderrwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You
- The Chronicles of Spiderwick: A grand Tour of the Enchanted World, Navigated by Thimbletack

♥ Other books related to the Study:
- How to draw and Paint Fairies...Linda Ravenscroft
- Blue skies, Green Days
- The Burgess Big Book of Flowers (if we can get it)
- The Fairy Series ... Margaret Tarrant
- the Flower Fairy Collection... Cecily Mary Barker
- The Gnome Series books and the Large Gnome Book... Rein Poortuliet and Wil Huggen
- The Rainbow Goblins...
- Fairy House books...
- Shirley Barber books
- Puck the Gnome...
- Catkin...
- Gnomes and Gardens...Nigel Suckling
- The Story of the Root Children, Butterfly Children, Wind Children, Snow Children and the Princess in the Forest... Sybille Von Olfers
- My Side of the Mountain...Jean Craig George
- One Small Square Series
- Fairy Tales: Grim, Anderson, Lang and from other lands
- Naturalist Biographies and works

♥ Read and provide a report on these books

♥ For Independent Reading:
- 5 Children and it
- The Amulet
- The Phoenix and the Carpet
- The Enchanted Castle...... all by E. Nesbit

♥ Beyond Spiderwick
- The Nixie's Song
- A Giant Problem

♥ The Spiderwick Chronicles DVD

♥ Find out about various Fairy Folk from different countries.
- narrate and illustrate

♥ Research Fencing:
- History of
- modern times
- basic moves

♥ Make your own field guide

♥ Collect your own Insect collection

♥ Make an acrostic from Spiderwick and Chronicles

♥ Make up your own quiz

♥ Make snap cards

♥ Make Spiderwick quiz cards

♥ Write a story using fairy folk complete with illustrations

♥ Do a puppet show: Create your own backdrop, scenery, props and puppets.
-Write a script for the puppet show.

♥ Learn Fairy poems and rhymes

♥ Leave milk out for a Brownie

♥ Make a lifesize troll or Goblin and then use it for target practise and fencing practise( like the "buster you have made before"

♥ Geometry: do the various geometry exercise from the maths books( check with me which I would like you to do)

♥ Form drawing: work through the books we have working up to the difficult Celtic knot ones.

♥ Make a "Fairy Folk" activity book for the younger children: include things like
- colouring pages
- mazes
- dot to dot
- spot the differences
- word searches
- crosswords etc.

♥ copy the Spiderwick map

♥ make a fairy treasure chest
- fill with fairy treasure

♥ From our own property - draw map and assign fairy folk to each area

♥ What fairy folk are you? Create characteristics for each type

♥ Make Characters from felt, wood, felted and sewn or other means

♥ Beeswax Theatre Use Evolgia as an example.

♥ Research dumbwaiters and build a miniature one

♥ Research and grow your own mushrooms
- visit mushroom farm down the road
- Also identification of the mushrooms that grow on our property
- Draw and identify from Mushroom and toadstool book

♥ Research recycling; what is recycled, what happens to it, how is it reused etc


♥ Botany: (using the resources from the weekly botany Studies)
- Herbs and their uses
- Herbs in medicine
- Herbs in cooking

♥ Botany books:(still in progress with books)
- Handbook of Nature Study: Anna Botsford Comstock
- Shanleya's Quest... Thomas J. Elpel
- Botany in a Day...Thomas J. Elpel
- Exploring Creation with Botany...Fulbright
- Nature Journaling...Clare Walker Leslie
- The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady... Edith Holden
- The Edwardian Lady... Edith Holden
- Painting Nature in Pen and Inkwith Watercolour... Claudia Nice
- The Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature...Cathy Johnson
- A Kids Herb Book...Leslie Tierra
- Australian and New Zealand Concise Book of Herbs.... Henry B. Cryan
- Christopherus Unit Study: Botony... Donna Simmons
- Montessori for Everyone: Lifecycle of Pumpkin, Apple and Spring Matching Cards
♥ Paint 5 paintings with Fairy folk in them

♥ Look at old houses in Victorian times and the secret passages etc.
- were they all similar in different parts of the wold eg, Britain. USA and Australia
- draw and design an old house with secret passages and attics etc.

♥ Look at the Fairy Houses books
- what are the materials used , can you draw a design of one or more of them.

♥ Make Fairy Houses and the small items for a fairy house.

♥ Read the fairy tale books we have, eg Grimms, Hans Christian Anderson, Tales form Italy etc and the Andrew Lang tales books
- make a list of the ones you read and a short summary of the Fairy tale

♥ List what would be in a fairy folk survival kit
- then make a miniature one that a small doll or "fairy folk" you have made can use

♥ "Fairy Medicine"

♥ Draw different types of fairy's using the sketching guides we have: Particularly-
how to draw and paint Fairies
- use the different techniques so you cover a broad varieties of mediums.

♥ Make a Dragon out of any material and write about it.
- Find out about dragon lore from various sources.
- draw and label different dragons from around the world (use Autumn's calender for this)

♥ Grow different types of tomatoes- do this at the start of the study so you can harvest and use your own tomatoes for the tomato sauce you make

♥ Make tomato Sauce

♥ Learn about Honey
- Magic tree house book
- Read honey books
- visit bee Farm
- Watch -The Bee Movie: How true is this to actual Honey production
- how has honey production changed over the years
- how have bee hives changed
- make a miniature bee Hive



♥ Create your own Fantasy world and make up characters with specific names and roles eg. Albania
- write and illustrate providing a map as well

♥ Research Famous Naturalists- Provide a written and illustrated account of their lives:
- Matthew Flinders
- Amy Mack
- May Gibbs
- Beatrix Potter
- Cecily Mary Barker
- Ernest Thompson Seton
- Henry David Thoreau
- Sterling North
- Thornton Burgess
- Gene Stratton Porter
- Edith Holden
- William Barton
- James Audubon
- Clare Walker Leslie
- any other naturalists you can find

♥ Plan your ideal garden: either vegetable or flowers of mixture and find out about the plants.

♥ Press flowers and herbs
- use these in various decorative plans eg, book marks, to decorate theme pages in your study.

♥ DVD's
- The Spiderwick Chronicles
- Shrek 1, 2, 3,
- Fairytale: a True Story
- Peter Pan- various versions
- The Lord of the Rings series
- Eragon

♥ Nature DVD's
- Beatrix Potter
- Tasha Tudor

♥ Audio Tapes:
- The Secret of the Unicorn
- Beatrix Potter
- Shirley Barber
- Ernest Thompson Seton Downloads from Gutenberg

♥ A Spiderwick Theme Party

♥ Do some of the work pages from Below

♥ Other Great Ideas
-This is from Therese at Lapaz Home learning

Tony DiTerlizzi's Blog for information about the books

-Great Activity pages on the Spiderwick home page.
♥♥♥

Enjoying the Journey Through August

FAITH:

♥ The Month of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ♥
- 2nd Our Lady of the Angels
- 4th St Dominic
- 5th Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary Major in Rome (Our Lady of the Snows)
- 6th Transfiguration of Our Lord
- 8th Blessed Mary McKillop
- 8th St JohnMary Vianny( The Cure Of Ars)
- 9th St Theresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
- 11th St Philomena
- 12th St Clare of Assisi
- 14th St Maximillian Kolbe
- 14th Vigil of the Assumption
- 15th Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- 16th St Joachim
- 17th St Hyacinth of Poland
- 18th St Helena
- 21st St Pius X
- 21st Our Lady of Knock
- 22nd Feast of the Queenship of Mary
- 24th Our Lady, Health of the Sick
- 24th St Bartholomew the Apostle
- 26th Our Lady of Czestochowa
- 27th St Monica
- 28th St Augustine
- 29th Beheading of John the Baptist
- 30th St Rose of Lima

♥ HOMEMAKING:
- make sure we have a heap of hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows and our favourite Snowflake cookies.
- make a night of baked potatoes with the works
- try different citrus fruits that are in season
- dry some orange slices for Christmas prepartions
- make some old fashioned 'candies' from books
- have a back to back film feast of our favourite trilogy movies
- start looking at what we need to o for Spring Cleaning ie. washing all the blankets and quilts
- make some Gingerbread cookies( we usually only have these for Christmas so will have to do them quite different.)
-Make Snowmen out of Marshmallow- have a contest to see who makes the best one
- watch my Tasha Tudor DVD's for inspiration and relaxation
- make and wear Aprons of different styles
- make little pinafore aprons for little girls
- check the spring summer clothes and make a list of any future needed purchases
- make a list of books needed for Christmas studies and other Lesson studies
- make the little girls Mob Caps
- make Arwen a Sunbonnet

♥ CRAFTS:
-Continue to make silk puppets for story telling(Me)
-Make some wooden painted or felt saints
-Make Shadow puppets
-Make silhouettes
-Build a bird house for birds to nest in for spring
-Make some new items for Month of Immaculate Heart of Mary.
-Make some 'mantel letters' for Bookcase display.
-Freshen up the notice board as it looks tired.
-Make the Seasons Round Exchange Projects for sending off
-Make Catkin children on branch
- make fences and railings for young ones play
- make plywood doll houses that string together as rooms
- make wooden dolls for Arwen, carved from branches
- make a large horse type animal for outside for playing on
- continue with making of Christmas presents
- start to make crib figures for Christmas and work on thes over the next few months
- make awnings for playstand
- make a folding play house or camp for little ones
- embroidery workshop

♥ NATURE:
- watch for the migrating birds coming and going.
- observe the changing daily patterns of the Wallabies, possums, water birds, ducks, rabbits, and other small birds we see regularly.
-Choose one Small square and see how nature varies within over a period of 3 weeks

♥ GOALS:
- Make sure Breakfast is started on time with everyone together and the Devotional Readings and Saint for the Day.
- To have Lesson time start on time each day.
- Continue early rising for early night routine
- Have Night time routine down pat: Dinner, clean up, teeth , prepare little ones if not done earlier, Bible Story, Rosary, Night Time Read aloud. Then off to bed for Eden down for Private reading time. Prayers individually and My Good night Prayers with them.
Older children free time (or help get 3 youngest to sleep, not Arwen, if needed) and work on Assignments or free time for personal activities or Reading.
- keep my desk tidy
- have all my lesson plans completed and computer areas tidy
- plan an exercise programme that actually is achievable for all(me included)
- set up an obsticle course for children to navigate when ever they want

♥ RITUALS:
- have as many read alouds by the fire as possible
- change the liturgical bookcase to the Immaculate Heart theme.
- change the seasons table and areas to reflect a new look for this last month of winter.
- check liturgical colours for Mr Pine and Altar daily and change them -- rotate whose 'job' this can be.
- continue with 15 minute cleaning jobs and daily chore list
- keep the 5 min tidy up happening
♥ LEARNING:
-Finish Indian Study as it isn't progressing well
- Plan together and start a Spiderwick Literature Themed Study
- continue with Africa in Geography(from lesson plans that aren't published yet)
- continue reading at Lunch time--current book The Heroic Messenger
- do circle time EVERY day with little ones
- encourage Rogan's reading
- captivate Moran and Myffwyn's interest in learnign to read.
- prepare Rogan for First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion
- have a story telling night with people coming in character, based upon the Medieval ritual of feasting with the bard telling stories.
- adapt Shakespeare Plans to suit our needs
- adapt Liturature for The Young Lady to our needs for the older girls
- especially celebrate St Rose's feast day as this is one of Autumn's confirmation saints.
- also on the 8th as the Cure of Ars is one of our family favourite saints and Saxon is especially looking to him for Confirmation.
- look at the twoPolar regions and compare the two; discover what animals live on each
- make an igloo out of sugar cubles
♥ SPECIAL DAYS:
- 9th Nanny's Birthday
- 13th Stephen's Birthday
- 14th Hans Christian Anderson's Birthday
- 28th Kynan's Birthday

-28th Tasha Tudor Day(we will do this on the 29th)
- More details for this to be sorted out in lesson plans BEFORE the day arrives

Have a most enjoyable and Blessed month ♥
Blessings,

Pre-Set Picture Book Story Sack: Week1

♥This weeks Set Picture book Story Sack...☺



Blessings,

Little ones Reading list for the week: M&M's ABC

I found this really cool way of displaying the books I will use for the week with the little ones.
This Amazon carousel Widget. I LOVE how it displays the books I am going to use.
In case no one has noticed I am a very visual person and I really like seeing what I am doing with planning, which leads to this gadget.
I plan on using this as a reminder each week, displaying different books I will use for the little ones.
These are the books I will be adding to our variation of the talked about Story Sack.
I have often resorted to putting the little ones learning in a bag like our Birthday and Christmas bags.
Sometimes it is just the books, sometimes it has other related ideas as well, or it could be just whole heap of Learning based ideas for the week.
It is a season that comes and goes. I am renewing it though and these will be the first lot of books in the Story Sack

Blessings,