Week Eight, Grade Ten Reading List

Our reading list is quite heavy this week. I will be doing a few posts to help give you some more background information about some of the books you are studying. Don't forget you have a science test on Wednesday. On Thursday we will be going for a nature walk, look at the blog for a post on Thursday morning to see what we will be studying. Enjoy your week...and tackle your work especially Math so you will be able to spend lots of time practicing your guitar.

Monday: CO-OP

Tuesday:
Bible
Up From Slavery ch 12

Thinking Like a Christian - ch 8 Law
The Law, Bastiat, The Leader of the Democrats,
Uncle Tom's Cabin ch 29
Eothen ch 13
Copywork
French


Wednesday:
Bible
Character is Destiny ch 8
The Law, Socialists Want Forced Conformity, Legislators Desire to Mold Mankind,
History of English Lit Ch 79 Byron--Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; spend two weeks
Uncle Tom's Cabin ch 30
Eothen ch 14
Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin ch 10
Devotional: Knowing God JI Packer ch. 15
Copywork
Six Easy Pieces pg 10-15 Atomic Processes
French
Julius Ceasar

Up From Slavery Chapter 13

Thursday:
Bible
Character is Destiny ch 9
Essay by Montaigne Of Repentance
The Law, Legislators Told How to Manage Men, A Temporary Dictatorship,
Ourselves, Book 2 pg 14/15
Uncle Tom's Cabin ch 31
Eothen ch 15
Copywork
Churchill: The Crimean War from "Foreign affairs and the threat of war" to end
French
Nature Study

Friday:
Bible
Evaluating Books pg 59-65
The Law: Socialists want Equality of Wealth
Uncle Tom's Cabin ch 32
Arguing Slavery ch 13 and half of 14 (pg 173)
Devotional: Knowing God JI Packer ch. 16
Copywork
Walden 4. Sounds - allow 2 weeks
Fallacy Detective by N and H Bluedorn - Lesson 8
French

Week Eight, Grade Eight Reading List

Here is your reading list for this week. You will be having a science test on Wednesday....so study up! On Thursday we will be going on a nature walk, look for directions on the blog for your nature study work Thursday morning. You have been doing great on your math...keep up the good work! On Wednesday morning look for map work to be posted.

All in all, have a great week...learn lots!

Tuesday

Bible
A Man for All Seasons Act 2 for 4 wks
Christopher Columbus
Utopia Of Their Towns, of their Magistrates
Copywork
French
Westward Ho chapter 12

Wednesday

Everyman: A Morality Play spread over the 12-Week term as desired
Francis Bacon essay - Of Innovations
Fierce Wars Faithful Loves Canto 8
Copywork
French
Churchill's The New World first half of ch 7, to page 97, "Catholic Empire of Hapsburgs" (Mary's reign) (Questionable section on page 87 about "romps" and scandal involving 'the young princess')
Map drills


Thursday

Marshall's English Literature Ch XXXIX How the Sonnet Came to England
Whatever Happened to Justice pg 54-59 ch 10
Nature book - space your choice out (Cooper or Teale) over the year by seasonal chapters
Poetry Anthology
Copywork
French
Chapter 9 The Case For Christ


Friday

Shakespeare Sonnet XCIV 94
This term's Life from Plutarch's Lives
This term's Shakespeare play
Foreign language
Westward Ho chapter 13
Copywork
Composer
Nature Study
Picture Study

The How and Why of Nature Study

Every week we do Nature Study, this in and of itself has been one of the most challenging subjects for our homeschooling. The topic is not difficult, and yet I really never 'studied' the world around me before. I understand that in order to encourage our children's natural curiosity of the world around us I need to have them participate in exploring and studying the earth. The weeks just seem so packed, we have math and science and of course the reading lists and everything else that we are doing...and I think that many a time I could convince myself that we were 'learning' about these topics in our books.

So lots of times there have been missed opportunities, and weeks gone by without the 'nature walk' and yet I continue to be drawn back to this aspect of schooling time and again.

So this year we are purposing to go out..rain or shine, and explore God's Creation...and every time we do something special happens. The week seems to slow down, the smiles come out and eyes sparkle. So, I ask myself...how could I miss this?

I have found a few resources that are amazing for nature study...you can go HERE to do the outdoor challenge each week. My best resource for Nature study has to be THIS book from Anna Botsford Comstock: A Handbook Of Nature Study. Enjoy!

Week 7, Grade Ten Reading List

This week we have a heavy reading list....make sure you use your reading time carefully. You also have a science test on Friday, be sure to study! I would like you to include 2 sermons this week to listen to, I will listen along with you and we are going to make a sermon outline as we listen. Enjoy the week...keep up the great work!


Monday: Home school Co-Op

Tuesday:
Thinking Like a Christian - ch 7 Sociology
Uncle Tom's Cabin ch 25
Eothen ch 11
Devotional: Knowing God JI Packer ch. 13
The Book on Writing ch 7
Plutarch
Nature Study: Handbook of Nature Study: pg 632 The Sugar Maple: read all of the autumn work, choose 2 things that you are going to teach the younger children today on our nature walk.


Wednesday:
Churchill: The Crimean War from beginning to "arts and to socialism in politics
Arguing Slavery ch 11 and 12
Uncle Tom's Cabin ch 26
The Law, Bastiat, The Idea of Passive Mankind,
Eothen ch 12
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar


Thursday:
Up From Slavery ch 11,12
Uncle Tom's Cabin ch 27
History of English Lit Ch 79 Byron--Childe Harold's Pilgrimage spend two weeks
The Law: Socialists Want to Regiment People, A Famous Name and an Evil Idea,
Character is Destiny ch 7
Fallacy Detective by N and H Bluedorn - Lesson 7


Friday:

Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin ch 9
Uncle Tom's Cabin ch 28
The Law: A Frightful Idea
Evaluating Books pg 52-58
Devotional: Knowing God JI Packer ch. 14."
Walden 4. Sounds - allow 2 weeks

Week 7, Grade Eight Reading List

Monday: Homeschool Co-Op

Tuesday
Bible

Churchill's The New World second half of ch 6 page 75, from "In the Autumn, when the new taxes," to the end of ch 6 (other wives of Henry VIII and his death)
A Man for All Seasons Act 2 for 4 wks
Handbook of Nature Study: start at page 622 How to Begin Tree Study, look carefully through the section of Autumn Work: and choose 2 ideas to teach the younger children as we do our nature walk


Wednesday:
Everyman: A Morality Play spread over the 12-Week term as desired
Fierce Wars Faithful Loves Canto 7
Westward Ho, chapters 10, 11

Thursday:
Marshall's English Literature Ch XXXVIII The Death of Sir Thomas More
Whatever Happened to Justice pg 49-53 ch 9
Utopia Discourses of Raphael Hythloday

Friday:
Roar on the Other Side pg 23
Poetry Anthology
Shakespeare Sonnet LXXIII 73
The Case for Christ ch 7, 8
Plutarch's Lives
Shakespeare play: Julius Caesar

Week 7, Grade Four Reading List

This week we have lots to do! We need to make a detailed map of Minn for our map study, in our nature walk we are going to be collecting leaves so that we can wax them for a special project. Also this week 'scope out' a good location for our winter bird feeder...I have some ideas of what we could do to feed our 'feathered friends' this year!


Monday: Home school Co-Op

Tuesday:
The Bible
Poor Richard pg 79-89
Explore His Creation
Minn of the Mississippi, chapter 4, following Minn's trail on a map
Nature Walk

Wednesday
The Bible
Shakespeare: Midsummer's Night Dream
Plutarch:
Poetry: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Thursday:
The Bible
Age of Fable ch 3 Apollo and Daphne

Friday:
The Bible
Robinson Crusoe:
Poetry: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Week 7, Grade One Reading List

Monday: Home School Co-Op

Tuesday: The Bible

Nature Walk

An Island Story: chapter 4 "How Caligula Conquered Britain and How Caractacus Refused to be Conquered

"Fifty Famous Stories Retold: "Horatius at the Bridge" (Roman)

Shakespeare: "Midsummer Nights Dream"

Wednesday:

Paddle to the Sea: chapter 6

Trial and Triumph: chapter 2 "Blandina Martyr of Lyons" (155-177 AD)

Thursday:

Aesop's Fables: "The Lion and the Mouse" (pg. 19 in the Milo Winter version)

Friday:

Classic Animal Stories: Old Noah's Ark

The Raven

Good Morning

Welcome to school this week. We had a great time yesterday at co-op...we did some baking and phys-ed. The grade one class had a visit from one of our community helpers, a wonderful Doctor that happens to be a home school mama too! We have lots of fun activities this week!

Enjoy your day today and don't forget to be memorizing your scripture passage, next week we will begin narrations, as you are writing it out this week I need you do do at least 6 verses per day in your copy work.

Love ya,

Mom

Grade 4 Spelling List 4

Way to go on your last spelling test! You really are getting the hang of it! Have some fun playing some games with your new list....you have lots of 'o' and 'ou' words this time.

Click HERE to play some games. After you are done, write out your list words 2 times. Great Job!

Grade 4 Spelling List 3

We are on Spelling List Three!

You will be learning a lot about the vowel O.

If you do the unscramble game or the word search this will help you learn them very quickly!

Click HERE to play!

Beethoven: Composer Study

Ludwig van Beethoven

12 year old Beethoven

At an early age Beethoven took to playing the piano and had his first public appearance at the age of 6! Click on HERE for some interesting facts!

Week 6, Grade 10 Reading List

Bible Everyday

Monday: Thanksgiving Day

Tuesday:

Devotional: Knowing God JI Packer ch. 11,
Churchill: Reform and Free Trade from "In 1837 King William died." to end

Arguing Slavery ch 10

Eothen: Chapter 8

Up From Slavery chapter 9

Wednesday

Robert Peel's resignation speech 1846

Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin ch 7

Up From Slavery chapter 10

Eothen ch 9

Ourselves, Book 2 pg 12/13

Plutarch: follow Ambleside Online's schedule

Thinking Like a Christian - ch 6 Ethics

Character is Destiny ch 6

Thursday

Evaluating Books pg 44-51

The Law, Bastiat, 6, A Confusion of Terms, The Influence of Socialist Writers, The Socialists Wish to Play God, The Socialists Despise Mankind, A Defense of Compulsory Labor, A Defense of Paternal Government Current Events:

Keep up with your choice of periodicals or blogs

Essay by Montaigne Of the Inequality Among Us

Uncle Tom's Cabin ch 21-24

Nature study: look on the blog to see what we are doing today

Shakespeare: (Julius Ceasar)

Friday

Poetry

The Book on Writing ch 6

Copy work

Dictation

Devotional: Knowing God Chapter 12

Walden 3. Reading - allow 2 weeks

Six Easy Pieces pg 4-10 Matter is Made of Atoms

Fallacy Detective by N and H Bluedorn - Lesson 6

Picture Study:

Composer Study

Week 6, Grade 8 Reading List

You have a pretty heavy book list this week on top of all of your other studies....press on...I KNOW you can do it!

Bible: Everyday

Monday: Thanksgiving Day!

Tuesday

The Case for Christ ch 6

Churchill's The New World second half of ch 5 and beginning of ch 6 pg 61, from "having established his supremacy, to page 75, 'Catholic and economically backward North" (Thomas More, Elizabeth's' birth, Cromwell, Jane Seymour

A Man for All Seasons Act 2 for 4 wks

How to Read A Book chapter 7

Wednesday

David Howarth's Voyage of the Armada ch 6

Christopher Columbus Mariner, read about 12 pages a week

Utopia Discourses of Raphael Hythloday spend 6 weeks

This terms Shakespeare play (JC)

Thursday

Everyman: A Morality Play spread over the 12-Week term as desired

Fierce Wars Faithful Loves Canto 6

Westward Ho ch 9

Nature Book See blog post on Thursday

Friday

Marshall's English Literature Ch XXXVII The Land of Nowhere

Whatever Happened to Justice pg 41-48 ch 7, 8

Shakespeare Sonnet LVII 57

This term's Life from Plutarch's Lives

Composer Study

Week 6, Grade 4 Reading List

Good Morning:



Hope you had a great weekend, and ate lots of turkey!
We have lots of fun things that we are going to be learning about.

Monday: Thanksgiving Day!

Tuesday: Poor Richard pg 71-79

Alfred Lord Tennyson Poem

Trial and Triumph : The Two Margarets; The Solway Martyrs

Wednesday: Alfred Lord Tennyson Poem

Minn of the Mississippi chapter 2

Thursday: Alfred Lord Tennyson Poem

Minn of the Mississippi chapter 3

Friday: Alfred Lord Tennyson Poem

Shakespeare

Week 6, Grade 1 Reading List

Good Morning,

This week we will be learning about some amazing things. In Science we will be learning about our bones. In our bird study we will be learning about Doves. Along with all of your math, language and french we are going to be learning a lot!

Monday: Thanksgiving Day!

Tuesday: Fifty Famous Stories Retold:Cornelia's jewels

Paddle to the Sea: chapter 6

Wednesday: Aesop's Fables: The Oxen and the Wheels

Thursday:Burgess's Bird Book: pg 189

Friday: Classic Animal Stories: The Three Billy Goats Gruff pg 32

Week 6: The New World

Jane Seymour

Born: 1509

Married: 30 May 1536

Died: 24 Oct 1537

Well this certainly is an interesting chapter....we start today at page 61 and you are going to read through to page 75.

This chapter talks about the crazy details of King Henry's life, and the casual way he treated marriage.

I think it will be an interesting narration today!

Nature Lesson Week 5

Along with our nature walk today I would like you to read Parables From Nature, by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, read A Lesson of Faith pg. 5. As we are walking today, I would like you to narrate the story for me, so try and remember the story as written, and look deeper into the meaning of the parable and how it may apply to your life.

We are also going to be studying some of the birds that we see today at the conservation area. I would like you to read chapter chapter 33 (A Royal Dresser and A Late Nester) in the Burgess Bird Book for Children, by Thornton W. Burgess.

The Handbook of Nature Study, by Anna Botsford Comstock, tells us some amazing things about nature and our environment. I would like you to start reading at page 130 about geese. We are going to continue reading until the questions and observations page. Read through the observations and as we are out for our nature walk we can see if we are able to catch a glimpse at a Canada Goose. In your nature journal answer questions 1 and 3.

Good Morning!

Hi Guys,
Just wanted to say good morning. Today is going to be a great day. I am hoping to be able to go on a nature walk this afternoon if we get all of our book work done. Since in Paddle to the Sea we are learning about the Great Lakes I thought you might like to checkout THIS site when you have some free moments throughout the day.
Have Fun.
Love,
Mom

Grade One Spelling List One

Today you get to play some games!

Click your mouse on HERE and you will go to your spelling list.

Have fun!

Spelling Quiz 2

Today we are going to study for our quiz in Spelling...so what I would like you to do is review your spelling list in your language program and then click on HERE! Have fun while you play a few games....maybe HangMouse or Missing Letter.

Thinking Like A Christian: Chapter 5 discussion

Today as you were reading, Thinking Like A Christian, by David Noebel, the Summary for chapter 5 details how Christanity with an emphasis on the spiritual and a clear understanding of man's fallen condition (Romans 1-2) can really address the concerns of the individual. Please think through this worldview and then come and discuss with me the difference between the humanistic worldview of blaming individual moral failings on society or the environment, and the Christian worldview that we hold.

Artist Study: Albrecht Durer

Albrecht Durer

Today we are going to take a quick look at one of the Artists that we are studying. Take a special look at the shadow that is cast from the form of the bunny as that is what you will be painting today. Also do you notice his unique signature? Use the pattern that he is using to make your own rendition...you can use your sketch book for this. Be sure to show me!

I would like you to take special note of where he was born, as you will be showing me when we do our map drills.

Here are some interesting facts about Albrecht Durer.

The central figure in the German Renaissance was Albrecht Dürer, a painter and graphic artist, one of the most outstanding personalities in the history of art.

Albrecht Dürer was born on 21 May, 1471 in Nuremberg, south Germany, son of a prosperous goldsmith Albrecht Dürer the Elder (1427-1502), and Barbara Holper. His early training was in drawing, woodcutting and printing, which were to remain his main and favorite media throughout his artistic career. 1486 through 1489 he was apprenticed in the workshop of Nuremberg artist Michael Wolgemut.

He traveled much. In 1490 he left his native city for four years, probably initially visiting Cologne and possibly the Netherlands. He traveled to Italy twice in 1494-95 and 1505-07, visited Venice and Bologna, perhaps Florence and Rome.

Welcome To Educating with Integrity

Welcome to school today.

As you can see I was busy last night...I had been on a blog post from a sweet mom who described a blog that she created to keep track of the children's assignments and lesson plans. I had a great sense that this would be revolutionary for our home school. Of course this meant coming up with a name for our school, and those who know us will notice the similarity to our home building business name. I was thinking of different names, but I kept on coming back to the purpose we home school our children. We would like to provide our family with an education that instills a deep understanding of integrity.

Integrity can be defined as a consistency of ones actions, or the quality of having an intuitive sense of honesty and truthfulness in regard for the motivation of ones actions.

This is what we desire, we want our children to have every opportunity in their formative years to be in an environment that encourages a consistent teaching of the Bible with a firm understanding of how we should act everyday. More importantly we desire to give our children an education that teaches them how to act in the defining moments of their lives.

We believe this requires an education in integrity, in a caring home learning environment. As our children grow and start lives of their own, as they travel through each circumstance, our prayer is that they will choose to act in a Biblical manner. So, I think the name is appropriate, but the motto is my favorite...educating with Integrity...because that is our desire.

Grade One Welcome!

Hello little one....I can't believe that you are starting grade one. It seems like yesterday that I was bringing you home from the hospital. We are going to have such a great year together, learning how to read, and doing lots of fun experiments. We will have lots of time together to read our books on the couch and snuggle up with a blanket. I can't wait!

Love,

Mom

Grade Ten

Grade Ten. I can't believe it! You are not supposed to grow up this fast. I am looking forward to this year, probably more than you right now...after all it is school!I am sure that you are looking forward to one thing about your education.....drivers ed. And that's another thing....where did the time go? Well, back to school stuff...this is going to be a good year, the reading lists are quite detailed but I know that you can do it. Math should go well for you as you really are doing great in it now. It is a lot of work but I know that you will do it well.

Love ya,

Mom

Grade Eight

Can you believe it...grade eight!
Where did the time go? Welcome to your
final year of grade school. I hope you are feeling
older, because I sure am! This is going to be a great year!
The reading lists are getting harder...but I know you can do it.
I will be your number one cheerleader.

Love,

Mom

Grade Four Welcome

Welcome to Grade Four!
This is going to be an exciting year!
We will be learning about cells, and the human body.
Your books are amazing! You will be taking many adventures as you read the stories.
I am looking forward to learning along with you!

Love,

Mom

This Years Booklist

Trial and Triumph (Church history from a definite Protestant perspective) by Richard Hannula
An Island Story by H.E. Marshall, chapters 1-21 (this book known as Our Island Story in England) Free Audio at Librivox Part 1, Part 2
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin (see note below detailing which ones to include this year)
Viking Tales by Jennie Hall (hero stories and myths of Norway) Part 1, chapters 1-11
Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling
Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock,
The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess (six chapters per term)
Online pictures and information for each chapter More Bird Photos Bird songs online
AO's free collection of over 200 classic children's poems.Available by month, 20 poems per page (click Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec) or as a single document
The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter (also online here )
Nine Tales
Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder


Fifty Famous Stories Retold

The following chapters are scheduled:
The Sword of Damocles (Greek)
Damon and Pythias; and A Laconic Answer (Greek)
The Brave Three HundredAlexander and Bucephelas; and *Diogenes (Greek)
The Story of Regulus (Roman)
Cornelia's Jewels (Roman)
Horatius at the Bridge (Roman)
Cincinnatus (Roman)
Androclus and the Lion (Roman)
King Alfred and the Beggar (Saxon England)
The Story of William Tell (Switzerland 1300's)
Arnold Winkelried; (1386)
Bruce and the Spider (Britain, 1329)
The Black Douglas (James Douglas, Britain, d 1330)
Whittington (Britain, 1423)
The *Inchcape Rock (1500's)
Casablanca (1500's)
Sir Philip Sidney (1586) and *The Ungrateful SoldierGeorge Washington and his Hatchet; .5 page and *Doctor Goldsmith (1774)
Picciola (1800's)
How Napoleon Crossed the Alps (1800's)
Maximillian and the Gooseherd (King of Bavaria, 1800's)
Antonio Canova (1822)
Grace Darling (1842)
The Kingdoms (Frederick William, King of Prussia)