This Week

January 17, 2010 at 10:50 am · Filed under Family, Home Education, Plans, Puggle, This Week

Week 2, Block 1, Boronia Term
We’re not fully into the swing of things, but this week I anticipate a full week of work. Not all subjects, but Copywork (d, f); Latin (need to work out what comes after choosing a name aka pronunciation); Maths (about time!); Recorder (getting back to practicing daily) and Reading.
In addition, we should get to something for each of the focus areas (Classical Studies—Norse Myths (more Greek ones too, if the book arrives in time:-) ); Science—Nature Study (I keep hoping… but actually, if it continues so hot, I’ll be happy enough to see it go… although, he’ll probably observe stuff at VacSwim); English Studies—memorising from ‘Now We Are Six’, beginning ‘Blinky Bill’ (as a read aloud) and beginning Narration with ‘50 Famous Stories Retold’; History—Story of the World, volume 2; and probably no art to speak of this week:-) There’ll also be some Geography, as we begin our journey around the world in Japan (not that I’ve managed to reserve any books from the library… the online catalogue has been down each time I’ve thought to do it:-( ), and we should manage to cook appropriately on Saturday night:-)
And of course, our weekly French lesson. We’re beginning a new topic this week, Wild Animals (we did farm animals just before Christmas). We’re starting in Asia.
That actually sounds like quite a bit… especially with daily swimming lessons! Ah well, we’ll see how we go:-)

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2010, I resolve…

January 1, 2010 at 2:41 pm · Filed under Baking, Domestic Life, Food, For the Future, Organisation, Plans, Season

I’m sticking quite close to the resolutions of the past couple of years. They haven’t been resounding successes (probably because they’re not SMART:-) ), but I am still referencing them.

So, in 2010, I plan to Make More Music, and Play More Games. In some ways, these both get easier as the kids get older:-)

I plan to add Make More (interesting) Bread. (I do a couple of loaves a week, but they’re a pretty standard loaf. I have a few specialist loaves I’ve been meaning to experiment with, so i reckon one every couple of months would be a good effort. Turkish Bread, Ciabatta, Naan, Pita… I have a feeling there was another I was considering [Paddington has suggested Parathas:-) ]. Basically though, if I can master the first two, I’ll count it as a successful year:-) )

I need to Drink More Water, and I really do need to do something to get more fit (hmm… I didn’t even deign to capitalise that… that says a lot!)

I’m hoping to start reading (well, if we’re doing Don Quixote, I’ll be listening!) through some Great Books with another Home Schooling mum:-) We’ve been talking about it… but maybe it’s a good time to start:-)

That’s quite a bit! So a good place to stop:-)

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This Week

August 2, 2009 at 11:05 pm · Filed under Bilby, Home Education, Plans, Puggle, This Week

Our plans for
Week 5, Block 6, Dorothea Term (Break Week)

With the end of this term, I had planned that Puggle would have finished a couple of books, so we can move on to something else… we’re not quite there, so we’ll read a couple more Aesop’s Fables over the week, and another chapter of The Orchard Book of Roman Myths.

He’s also (I think?) at a bit of a cusp with his maths work, so we’ll do a couple of lessons (probably Tuesday and Thursday) just to keep it in his mind. For the same reason, I’ll get him to read something each day.

He has already said he still wants his boxes, even though it’s Break Week! (My task for Break Week is going to be to get the ’structural’ aspects of his boxes set up. I still need to laminate his numbers, and then attach all the velcro dots.)

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This Week

July 26, 2009 at 8:42 pm · Filed under Bilby, Home Education, Plans, Puggle, This Week

Our plans for
Week 4, Block 6, Dorothea Term

Puggle
Chapter 20 ‘The Face’ from Song School Latin by Amy Rehn
‘The Guardian Geese’ from The Orchard Book of Roman Myths by Geraldine McCaughrean
”The Ass in the Lion’s Skin’, ‘The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, ‘The Lark and her Young Ones’ from Aesop’s Fables for Children Illustrated by Milo Winter
The Muddle-headed Wombat by Ruth Park
‘The Three Musicians’ from Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
‘Limericks’ The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense by Edward Lear
Copywork: ‘ay’, ‘ai’
RightStart B

Bilby
‘Out West’ from European Word Book by Richard Scarry
‘The Grand Old Duke of York’, ‘Mrs Mason Bought a Basin’ from My Very First Mother Goose Iona Opie
‘North West Passage’ from A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert L. Stevenson
‘The Story of Sigurd’ from The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
The Tale of Pigling Bland by Beatrix Potter (I’ve borrowed a number of these on CD, and have found that’s helped a lot with reading them this time around!)
Hieronyme de Carmot et ses droles d’animaux/Hieronymus Betts and His Unusual Pets by M. P. Robertson

Everyone
Minimus araneus compluvium ascendit
Lente! (Slowly!)
J’ai des rubans sur mes souliers
Arrete! (Stop!)
Folksong: The Fair Janet
Composer: Franz Liszt
Work: Mephisto Waltz
Artist: Caspar David Friedrich
Work: Woman at a Window
Music: Accent (p. 25 The Kodaly Method I)
Rise Sally Rize
Art: Wax Crayons
Sheep on a Hill (p. 172 The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas)
‘Mouth’, ‘Ocean’, ‘Ocean Ridge’ from Geography from A to Z: A Picture Glossary by Jack Knowlton
‘Babylon Takes Over Again’, ‘Life in Early Crete’ from The Story of the World: Ancient Times by Susan Wise Bauer
Recorder ‘Hot Cross Ending’ from Black Belt Recorder 1

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This Week

July 19, 2009 at 8:02 pm · Filed under Bilby, Home Education, Plans, Puggle, This Week

Our plans for
Week 3, Block 6, Dorothea Term

Puggle
Chapter 19 ‘The Body’ from Song School Latin by Amy Rehn
‘Kissed By the Moon’, ‘The Man who Chopped down Trees’ from The Orchard Book of Roman Myths by Geraldine McCaughrean
‘The Wolf, The Kid and the Goat’, ‘The Swallow and the Crow’, ‘The Cock and the Fox’ from Aesop’s Fables for Children Illustrated by Milo Winter
The Muddle-headed Wombat by Ruth Park
‘The Story of a Clever Tailor’ from Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
‘Limericks’ The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense by Edward Lear
Copywork: ‘ar’, ‘ch’
RightStart B

Bilby
‘Cars and Lorries’ from European Word Book by Richard Scarry
‘Whose little pigs are these, these, these?’, ‘Chook, chook, chook, chook’ from My Very First Mother Goose Iona Opie
‘Winter-Time’, ‘The Hayloft’ from A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert L. Stevenson
‘The Marvellous Musician’ from The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes by Beatrix Potter (I’ve borrowed a number of these on CD, and have found that’s helped a lot with reading them this time around!)
Hieronyme de Carmot et ses droles d’animaux/Hieronymus Betts and His Unusual Pets by M. P. Robertson

Everyone
Minimus araneus compluvium ascendit
Lente! (Slowly!)
J’ai des rubans sur mes souliers
Arrete! (Stop!)
Folksong: The Fair Janet
Composer: Franz Liszt
Work: Piano Sonata in B Minor
Artist: Caspar David Friedrich
Work: Woman at a Window
Music: Accent (p. 25 The Kodaly Method I)
Looby Loo
Art: Oil Pastels
Lizards (p. 124 The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas)
‘Mountain’, ‘Mountain Pass’, ‘Mountain Range’ from Geography from A to Z: A Picture Glossary by Jack Knowlton
‘The Phoenicians’, ‘The Return of the Assyrians’ from The Story of the World: Ancient Times by Susan Wise Bauer
Recorder ‘Hot Cross Ending’ from Black Belt Recorder 1

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This Week

July 12, 2009 at 8:00 pm · Filed under Bilby, Home Education, Plans, Puggle, This Week

Our plans for
Week 2, Block 6, Dorothea Term

Puggle
Chapter 15 ‘Pets’ from Song School Latin by Amy Rehn
‘Burning the Books’, ‘Little Old Boy’ from The Orchard Book of Roman Myths by Geraldine McCaughrean
‘The Mole and his Mother’, ‘The North Wind and the Sun’ from Aesop’s Fables for Children Illustrated by Milo Winter
The Muddle-headed Wombat by Ruth Park
‘The Riddle’ from Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
‘The Calico Pie’ The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense by Edward Lear
Copywork: Name, ‘ou’, ‘oo’
RightStart B

Bilby
‘Buildings’ from European Word Book by Richard Scarry
‘One, Two, Three, Four’, ‘One for Sorrow, Two for Joy’ from My Very First Mother Goose Iona Opie
‘Fairy Bread’, ‘Happy Thought’, ‘Time to Rise’, ‘From a Railway Carriage’ from A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert L. Stevenson
‘The Golden Goose’ from The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Puddingby Beatrix Potter (I’ve borrowed a number of these on CD, and have found that’s helped a lot with reading them this time around!)
Hieronyme de Carmot et ses droles d’animaux/Hieronymus Betts and His Unusual Pets by M. P. Robertson

Everyone
Hic, Haec, Hoc
Cito! (Quickly!)
Alouette
Oui Maman (Yes Mama)
Folksong: The Fair Janet
Composer: Franz Liszt
Work: Piano Sonata in B Minor
Artist: Caspar David Friedrich
Work: Moon Rising Over the Sea
Music: Accent (p. 25 The Kodaly Method I)
A Tisket, A Tasket
Art: Oil Pastels
Trees/Squiggles (p. 116/147 The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas)
‘Meander’ from Geography from A to Z: A Picture Glossary by Jack Knowlton
‘The New Kingdom of Egypt’, ‘The Israelites Leave Egypt’ from The Story of the World: Ancient Times by Susan Wise Bauer
Recorder ‘Hot Cross Ending’ from Black Belt Recorder 1

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This Week

July 5, 2009 at 8:10 pm · Filed under Bilby, Home Education, Plans, Puggle, This Week

Our plans for
Week 1, Block 6, Dorothea Term

Puggle
Chapter 15 ‘Pets’ from Song School Latin by Amy Rehn
‘The Man Who Cut Down Trees’, ‘ Tell Tale Tit’ from The Orchard Book of Roman Myths by Geraldine McCaughrean
‘The Ant and the Dove’, ‘The Man and the Satyr’, ‘The Lion’s Share’ from Aesop’s Fables for Children Illustrated by Milo Winter
The Muddle-headed Wombat by Ruth Park
‘Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle’ from Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
‘The Calico Pie’ The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense by Edward Lear
RightStart B

Bilby
‘Work Machines’ from European Word Book by Richard Scarry
‘From Wibbleton to Wobbleton’, ‘Cobbler, Cobbler, Mend My Shoe’ from My Very First Mother Goose Iona Opie
‘The Swing’, ‘Looking-Glass River’ from A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert L. Stevenson
‘Snowdrop’ from The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Puddingby Beatrix Potter (I’ve borrowed a number of these on CD, and have found that’s helped a lot with reading them this time around!)
Au lit, petit monstre! by Mario Ramos

Everyone
Hic, Haec, Hoc
Cito! (Quickly!)
Alouette
Oui Maman (Yes Mama)
Folksong: The Fair Janet
Composer: Franz Liszt
Work: Liebestraum for piano
Artist: Caspar David Friedrich
Work: Moon Rising Over the Sea
Music: Accent (p. 25 The Kodaly Method I)
Stars Shining
Art: Wax Crayons
Reflections in Water (p. 104 The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas)
‘Marsh’ from Geography from A to Z: A Picture Glossary by Jack Knowlton
Recorder ‘Hot Cross Ending’ from Black Belt Recorder 1

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This Week

June 28, 2009 at 1:32 am · Filed under Bilby, Home Education, Plans, Puggle, This Week

Our plans for
Week 5, Block 5, Dorothea Term (Break Week)
Absolutely nothing:-) Other than to rest up a bit:-)