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).

Our Week - Started 7 May 2012

We’re well into Autumn here and it’s the time of year when I like us to be working diligently through our schedule.
If one can not have delicious summer days then .......there is something lovely about reading books while sipping hot chocolate in front of the fire place.

Family Read Aloud
Maori and Settler ~ G.A. Henty
(This is a really interesting book!  And just loaded with indepth NZ history.)
Prescribed audio: Around the World in 80 Days.

Mum's Friday house cleaning listen ☺  is Karen Savage reading  The Elusive Pimpernel.  She's such a skilled reader, we've enjoyed a few free reads by her. 
Karay is another free reading favourite.
I'm always on the look out for good free reads.

Science/Nature
History Of Medicine ~ Tiner - SL Sci5
-The children are working through reading the next lesson in Apologia Human Anatomy.
-The last of our monarch butterflies has hatched and will be off to shelter somewhere.
-Our King Emperor moth has not emerged yet.
-The baby guinea pigs (cavies) are ready to go to their own homes (it's always hard to part with them, they are just so sweet).

Bobs Readers
Explorer the World of Mathematics ~ Tiner
John Paton: Sinking the Day Spring
Apologia Human Anatomy: Lesson 2
Lots of free reading titles

Daisy’s Readers
Elsie Dinsmore: Bk2   Elsie Holiday at Roselands
Apologia Human Anatomy: Lesson 2
LOTS!!!!!  of free reading titles.

Daisy listened to the first Elsie Dinsmore book on audio and really enjoyed it!  So she's picked up bk 2 in the series to enjoy as her next free reader.  I'm being gifted with    a.lot   of unprompted narration snippets ☺

World History
SOTW 4, Chapt 10: A Canal to the East and A Very Dry Desert
(no story of the world history outlines this week – it’s an NZ history focus moment for us.)

New Zealand History
Builders of New Zealand: NZ Depression (1880s) pgs 126-129
I wished they’d bring this book back into print!  It creates a spring board for some very indepth converations in our home. 

Math
Both: LOF, Khan Academy , and reading Murderous Maths

Bobs has just finished LOF Geometry and really wants to have a go with Advanced Algebra …. I was really thinking I may end up needing to give him a break away from LOF for a while.
I wondered if he’s ready for that book? 
I found him quietly sitting at the table today working through LOF Advanced Algebra (it's Friday, and we don't have regular math schedule for today. At all. Ever!)  
Got to love LOF ☺ 
I'll mark the work on Monday and see how he's done.
He’s proved me wrong a time or 4 before, with things I didn't think he was ready for, so we’ll see.

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

Switching to Rod and Staff has been a good move for our family. They enjoy doing the books orally with mum (they read the content aloud to me) the lessons are short and each child seems to inject their own humour into the lesson.

Art
No art this week. This aspect just seems to have fallen off our create a space - can do art
The children are currently building a "world' with all the old playmobil sets - it's all over the library lounge floor - which does make it hard to get to the book shelves, the couches, and the fire place .... a small price to pay for creativity.
Latin
Must do Visual Latin. (repeat to myself 10 times !!)

Music for the next month
Hymn: Pass me Not, O Gentle Saviour Saviour
Fanny Crosby’s Life and Music
Classical Composer: Tchaikovsky Unit 8 pg 31

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