Our Week Ahead.... feels like a sprint :-)

Due to our Labour weekend holiday starting on Friday, and trying to organise the children to go away to camp (Christian Youth) academic learning feels like it is being tacked on to real life lessons, with 'schooling' finishing rather late each day.  And it's to be noted, Jay and Daisy have no trouble in getting literature read or their delight-led studies done ☺it's just the Te Kura booklets for Jay, and Algebra for Daisy, that gift us with heel dragging moments.  Jay has definite opinions (snort and grin) over things he does NOT want to have in his academic learning basket next year; and NCEA English is one of them.

Here is our proposed week ahead - some of which will carry over into other weeks:

Family

Bible

All:  Luke 23+
We're just taking our time reading slowly through the book of Luke, pausing to discuss and reflect and - when Dn is here for our morning book basket time - enjoying some wonderful theological studies.

History & Geography

Notes:   Israel becomes a Nation 1948

Post WWII Healing Revival 1947-1958.   (A controversial topic for many, and not one that I've seen any homeschool history curriculum provider cover.)

This portion of history is of great interest to me: it was at one of the A. Allen's (sp?) 1950’s healing Campaigns  that my dad became a Christian… which was nearly a ‘miraculous’ happening in and of itself.  

We're going to try and make a push to complete A Man Sent from God ~ G Lindsey this week (a very interesting book, which is generating a lot of discussion in our home... especially from Dn  :-D)

Christian of Note:   Bonhoeffer (1906-45)

Hymn:  It Took a Miracle  ~ John. W. Peterson (1948)

We tried to find a recording that was truer to the era this song was written in:
 
(Read: Then Sings My Soul Bk 2 ~ Morgan p.293)  

Audio:   Bonhoeffer ~ Eric Metaxas  (we're listening to this during our drive time excursions, and are all enjoying it.  Recommending this one!)

Economics  Economics for Everyone ~  R.C. Sproul  jnr   (hmm.  the vote is still out on this course... we get so distracted by the Charlie Chaplin excerpts :-D  that we aren't really focusing on the 'lesson' being presented.)

Jay

History & Geography  

1:  Bp Early Modern Times:      

o   Ch: 28 Israel etc.  p.425-433

3:  ITTC: 

o   Simone Weil  – Waiting for God (1950) p.345

o   Bonhoeffer – Letters and Papers from Prison (1951) p.349

Free Reading in Oct: 

Book relating to business Studies

Mapping:  

o   BP Map 28

History, Literature, & Book Basket:

1: Book Basket:  
1: To Kill a Mocking Bird ~ Lee
2: The Birth Order ~ Leman (selections) wk 2 of 4  (Leman can be rather loquacious so we're trimming the fill.)

2:  Audio’s in Oct: 

1:  Surfeit of Lampreys ~ Ngaio Marsh (1941)  NZ/Britain (content issues, with the way the murder happened.  See last weeks comments about this book)

Daisy

History & Geography  

1:  Bp Early Modern Times:      

o   Ch: 28 Israel etc.  p.425-433

2:  ITTC: 

o   Simone Weil  – Waiting for God (1950) p.345

o   Bonhoeffer – Letters and Papers from Prison (1951) p.349

3:  Encyclopedias

o   KFH     p.434-35,   424-423,    452-53   (1948-1956+)

o   DKH    Promised Land p.414-15

o   KFH     p.403, 425, 444-45   (1945-88)

o   DKH    Tiger Economics 456-57   (1915- present)

Mapping:   

o   BP Map 28 

History, Literature, & Book Basket:

1: Book Basket:

1:  After the War ~ Mastas (1948) SL.    Content issues needed editing out for us and others may like to know they are not noted in the IG.  Sensual attraction , and,  a passionate kissing scene between teens. 

Free Reading: 

From Billabong to London ~ Mary Bruce   Bk4
(Daisy is really enjoying these books, more so than the Anne of Green Gables series.... her family heritage and locality may be at work here, though Bruce's Billabong series is very good.)