28th May ~ Our Week Ahead

This was our line up for this week, and we've managed to achieve a good chunk of it:

Math 

Bobs: to work steadily through more of the Algebra course on Khan Academy.  He's doing really well with LOF, Advanced Algebra, so we'll continue with that.

On free-Friday, Bobs wants to go through some of Sal Khan's finance lectures... for fun.

Daisy: Continue to work through some more lessons in MMM, she'd rather just do her LOF, Goldfish, book but needs the extra computation practice MMM gives.  I've been switching her between some Khan courses and MMM - which seems to give her math time more sparkle.

She really enjoys Math-it and will use that on free-Friday.

Spelling

Daisy has 1 more lesson to complete in her AAS book, and Bobs has 3 in his. 
They are aiming to have those done tomorrow as mastered, and completed,  lesson books generate take out pizza for tea.

Grammar
(which ds calls Grandma because RnS has a very old fashioned flavour.)
Complete a lesson each day (4 each this week).
Both children like these grammar texts.

Writing With Skill
I think Bobs is doing very well with this writing curriculum, which he's dubbed Writing that Kills (Sorry Susan ☺) 
I wonder if perhaps some of the secret to the success for him is that we are purposely keeping the lesson times shorter, no more than 40 mins, and that seems to ensure that the writing he generates is "fresher".  We just stop if it looks like the lesson is going to become an epic one, he stops at a place that is comfortable for him to pick it up again, the next day.

Hymn
for the next 4 weeks: When the Roll is Called up Yonder

Composer
for the next 4 weeks: Antonin Dvorak
Unit 9 (1841-1904)

We're hoping, Daisy & I,  to camp down around some Russian Fairy Tales and Chinese Tales, I said Japanese somewhere else on the web ... those come later.

History
SOTW4 chapts 13 & 14
Builders of NZ pgs 128-131
(with our time focus being 1889-1896 and zeroing in on Russia and New Zealand)


SL books:
Mary Slessor SL5 (start)
Helen Keller R/A 3/4 (Daisy to complete)
The Terrible Wave R4 (Daisy - next reader .. might read this with her)
The Big Wave R5 (Bobs)

Tie-in Reader for Bobs: Helen Keller's Teacher

We should wrap up Maori and the Settler and then we have a few options to choose from.

Bobs is enjoying reading all the sequels to Wolves of Willoughby Chase (which is now a discontinued SL Core F title.  Thank goodness Susan Bauer includes lessons on it in Writing With Skill or I may have just ignored that book.)
It's nice to see him reading something other than non-fiction for free reading!!


Daisy's audio is The Wizard in Oz (again)
Her free reader (nearly finished) is Elsie at Roselands,  then she'll start Roller Skates (another discontinued SL title).

Proposed Week Ahead starting 31/04/2012

Family Read Aloud
Maori and Settler ~ G.A. Henty
Dn started reading this quietly to himself and was enjoying it so much, he decreed it as the next family RA {smile} …… Fanny Crosby ~ Heroes of Faith will have to wait

Science R/A to Bobs and Daisy
History Of Medicine ~ Tiner - SL Sci5

Bobs Readers
Explorer the World of Mathematics ~ Tiner
Black Hearts of Battersea ~ Aiken

Daisy’s Readers
Adopted Jane ~ Daringer
Shoes for Everyone -  discontinued SL RA 4

World History
SOTW 4, Chapt 8: Becoming Modern, and, Dvd; Bell – Telephone
SOTW 4 Chapt 9: Two More Empires, Two Rebellions, and,  Audio Book; Around the World in 80 Days - SL R5
(no story of the world history outlines this week as it’s an NZ history focus for us for a wee bit.)

New Zealand History
The NZ Wars ~ Calman ( End of the Wars, pg 43-44)
Illustrated History of NZ (Changing Ways of Earning, pg 56-61) This book is so PC, our family prefer Builders of NZ much more.

Math
Both: Khan Academy, and, reading Murderous Maths books.
Daisy: continues with some lessons in Making Math Meaningful.

L/As
Bobs: WWS, RnS (grammar orally with mum), AAS rules
Daisy: WWE, RnS (grammar small amounts orally), AAS

Science
Next Lesson in Apologia Human Anatomy.

Art
No art this week.  Bobs is working on his World War II models, and Daisy is all geared for baking and sewing lessons with mum.

Latin
Continue with Visual Latin.  We've been a bit slack with this the last few weeks.

Music for the next month
Hymn: Pass me Not, O Gentle Saviour
Fanny Crosby’s Life and music (you tube clip notated on our SOTW4 schedule)
(I think I’ll have to toss up a notebooking page, that will work for us, to jot down some Fanny Crosby facts.)

Classical Composer: Tchaikovsky  - Unit 8 pg 31

Story of the World Vol.4 Schedule ~ 2012

We're up and running with our updated, 2012, SOTW 4 schedule and are at the end of week 1A
(the initial, 2010, type up can be found here ).

I've removed some titles and made this years emphasis New Zealand history, while we read through Story of The World ~ Modern Times, by adding in the following NZ history books:

Builders of New Zealand By A.W. Reed (mentioned in previous posts & sadly, O.O.P) (Reader)

Illustrated History of New Zealand by Marcia Stenson (Read Aloud)

The Kauri & The Willow by Elsie Locke (Read Aloud)

The New Zealand Wars by Ross Calman (Read Aloud)

How Parliament Works by John Lockyer (Read Aloud)

We're not sticking, strictly, to Sonlight's cores 4/E and 7 /H this year, choosing instead to mix and match up the read alouds and reader titles from various cores to suit us. Namely a few titles from the old Core K, Core 5/F, and Core 100.

Geography will remain an ongoing study through this year.

We've added in a few good splashes of Australian literature too and will also be continuing our studies of hymns, composers, and artists.

While all the other subjects are sorted, with pdfs downloaded and printed, or books labelled and placed in work baskets, I'm still mentally juggling our grammar instruction choices.
*I* like Maxwells book, but ...