Our Week Ahead ~ April 07 2014

It's a lighter workload for us the next few weeks. 

Starting Monday April 07 2014, once academic/ scheduled learning is done the children are working on delight led (personal interest)  areas of learning.
Daisy is sewing, concentrating on piano, and is focused on getting the garden ready for autumn.
Bobs is delving deep into all things chess (playing online, a game with a friend via "correspondence", and up-skilling himself), concentrating on drums and helping mum with yardwork so his turkeys, and the ducks, can have a 'nicer' spot to forage in.
The weather is starting to cool off and so as much time as we can spend outside, we're taking it.
Lego is using up much of Bob's free time .... the annual Lego competition in NZ is now open for submissions.

The list below is our proposed schedule for the week the reality often pans out differently.. I think I'll come back and cross out the things we didn't do :D

• Bible 

All: 1 Corinthians ch:13 (study)

Memorisation & Cursive Copywork: wk 3 of 4)
Hymn: O God, Thou Art the Father
Scriptures: Ephesians 4:32

• History & Geography

Topic: The Rise of Islam
Biblioplan Ch: 5 The Rise of Islam (selections)

Differences between Islam & Christianity

Mapping: Arabian & Sinai Peninsulas (Biblioplan)
Encyclopedia Research: Islam
Audio: True Tales RRR Vol 2: The Islamic Empire ~ Diana Waring
 

(Last week of Side study: St. Columba

Audio: This Sceptred Island 01: St. Columba Comes to Iona onwards)

Audio: True Tales RRR Vol 2: St Columba ~ Diana Waring )

 

Family 
Read Alouds: Book Basket selection

One Thousand & One Arabian Nights ~ McCaughrean (selections)

Car time audio: book basket choice

N/F: The Arabs of the Golden Age ~ Moktefi (SL F) (selections only)

Famous Men: Mohammad (570-632AD)

Poetry:  Oxford Book of Poetry



Daisy ~ History & Literature:
SOTW 2: Ch 6 & 7: Islam (audio)

Reader: Made You Look: How Advertising Works and Why You Should Know ~ Graydon

Shadow Spinner ~ Fletcher (SL)  already completed   

Poetry: A Child's Introduction to Poetry ~ Driscoll

Bob ~ History & Literature:
GGML ~ Shearer Lesson 5 : Beowulf 3, lines 701 - 1250

Reader: The World of Chess ~ Saidy & Lessing (oop)

• English

Daisy:
All About Spelling (finished up book 4 this week. Yay!!!!!)

Grammar in Rod n Staff 4
S.F.W.W.E (level 4)  ~ Bauer

 Daisy is really focused to complete the last few lesson in her current AAS book - as then it's rewards week for her. Rewards week equates to:  complete a level/workbook and you get to choose a take out tea, and earn computer time credits.

Bob:
WWS 2

AAS rules  

Grammar in Rod n Staff 6

As soon as Bob has finished his review in AAS I'm proposing to switch him over into Visual Latin as a regular lessons session and use it as a language arts tool as oppose to fitting it into our foreign languages slot for 2 terms a year.

• Math

Daisy:

Select topics in:  IXL , Khan, and,

Dr. Wright’s Kitchen Table Math Bk 3  (mum to read)
 

Bob:

IXL

Khan Academy

 

• Science (both)

Chemistry 101 (Friday)

The Periodic Table of Videos   (Delight led)

Bob:  Coursera: The Science of the Solar System