Posted on December 11, 2009 - by Kay
Year 1: Week 13
(December 7 – 11, 2009)
Our school week will see the heavier loads on Tuesdays and Thursdays, as those are the days that ds is at Mother’s Day Out so that dd and I have less interruptions. Each activity is designed to take only 10-15 minutes at the most as this is one of the defining characteristics of a Charlotte Mason approach to education.
*Please feel free to leave your comments or questions below. I always love learning from other people!*
Planning Day
- Literature – Free Reading:
Ginger and Petunia, by Patricia Polacco.
Cute book about a pig who takes on the persona of her owner who is away on vacation for a few days. A bit wordy for my 3 and 4 year old, my 6 year old was entranced by the descriptions of all the funny things that Petunia the Pig did in her owner’s stead.
School Day
- To Start: Pledge/Calendar/Weather
- Reading Log: Record non-school books Kate’s read for the reading program called Book It!.
- Memory Work: “God became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son.” John 1:14 (My mix of The Message and NLT)
- Spirituality: “Albert Schweitzer” Ten Amazing People: And How They Changed the World, by Maura D. Shaw.
- History:
- “Bruce and the Spider”, from Fifty Famous Stories Retold, by James Baldwin.
- Add this story to the timeline in our Book of Centuries.
- Add this story to the timeline in our Book of Centuries.
- Literature: “The Ants and the Grasshopper”, from Aesop’s Fables (Milo Winter Edition).
- Math: Time: Half Past, from Hello Kitty Learning Workbook: Time and Money, pgs 4-5.
- Natural History: An Old Friend in a New Home, from The Burgess Bird Book, by Thornton Burgess.
- Phonics: Long Vowel E (ea, ee), from Phonics: Grade 1, by The Clever Factory, pgs 13.
- Literature: “Beauty and the Beast”, from The Blue Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang
- Poetry: Selected Poems from A Child’s Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson. (during Tea Time.)
Library Day
- Science – Free Reading:
The Bizarre Body, by Katharine Kenah.A great beginning reader about the body. Interesting facts about the eyes, heart, finger nails, etc. The kids have loved digging into this book and then looking at eachother’s fingernails and eyes to see what the book is talking about.
School Day
- To Start: Pledge/Calendar/Weather
- Reading Log: Record non-school books Kate’s read for the reading program called Book It!.
- Memory Work: “God became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son.” John 1:14 (My mix of The Message and NLT)
- Phonics: Long Vowel E (ea, ee), from Barbie Phonics, by Bendon Publishing, pgs 12-13.
- World History:
- “Vortigern and King Constans”, from Our Island Story
- Add this story to the timeline in our Book of Centuries.
- Literature: “The Ass Carrying the Image”, from Aesop’s Fables (Milo Winter Edition).
- Math: When It’s Six O’Clock in San Fransisco, by Cynthia Jaynes Omololu.
- Geography:
- Chapter 10 of Paddle to the Sea, by Holling C. Holling.
- Fill in another square of our Paddle to the Sea Story Board with a picture depicting this chapter and a one sentence summary on the back.
- Artist Study: Introduce the new artist for Term 2: John Singer Sargent.
- Read bits of his biography here.
- Enjoy Sargent’s protrait of Robert Louis Stevenson before reading some of Stevenson’s poetry.
- Poetry: Selected Poems from A Child’s Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson. (during Tea Time.)
Field Trips/Nature Study
- Handicrafts:
Project of the Month Club, a unique website that delivers craft, woodworking, and science projects to your door, sent me a couple of products to try out and blog about on this site and my other site The Mommy Journal. We have a stepstool and a tissue box cover to choose from for our craft today. If you’re interested in joining the club, be sure to enter the promo code “homeschoolme” for a 10% discount. Check back on this site for my blog article after we attempt this craft, too. Should be fun!
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