Weekly Report

I haven’t done “weekly” report since January!!

History – Our first week of doing SOTW3 together was GREAT! We really liked going learning about Captain Cook because 1. He explored locally. 2. We read about Australia and made another pavlova which was really good. 3. We got to read a lot of books. There we’re probably some other reasons but those are the most obvious. We’ll be finishing up on Captain Cook today and on Monday we’ll be doing the French Revolution, there are mixed feelings about this. We’re getting a bit tired of revolutions because we just spent two weeks on the American Revolution but we also know people who live in France and we’re asking them what they think about the revolution which will be interesting.

Science – Thoughts on science are whizzing through my brain faster than I can process them! Trivium Academy has been such a blessing because of their Science by Seasons plans which I’ve adapted for us and because there’s a lot of science planning going on there too. Right now we’re doing Green Hour (yes, we’re still doing them even though I haven’t been posting) and science projects for the upcoming science fair. By Monday I want everyone to have decided what they’re doing. We were doing chemistry and physics but they’ve been dropped except for informal reading which the kids do during free time.

Art and music appreciation – We’ve gotten back into them after a two month break. We studied Mozart and Rembrandt this week and will continue for a week or two. After that we’ll do Van Gogh and Beethoven, then Monet and Tchaikovsky (?) if we need to do some more I’ll think about that later. We’re really enjoying both our artist and musician, we do Rembrandt colouring pages while listening to Mozart. There was great disappointment over the fact that we couldn’t find any Mozart music in our violin/piano books.

Logic – We’ve stopped doing Fallacy Detective this year. I LOVE that book, love, love, LOVE it. But for now I feel that we would be more productive spending our time elsewhere. I have put our logic/critical thinking books and games in a prominent place so that if interested DC can take a look at them. When I’m not thinking about science I’m thinking logic. Next year Chelsea begins the “logic years” and I have every intention of her beginning a logic/critical thinking curriculum. David and Mariah will do Fallacy Detective and I know that Chelsea could too. She has a mathematical/logical brain and would be mentally ready for FD, but I’m not sure about emotionally. What really worries me is abortion, which seems to be a major topic FD. It would bring Chelsea to tears, it brings me to tears too but I’m not sure there is any way that she’d understand or want to understand. I’ve looked at other things, but FD still seems to be the best fit. I’m going to have to think and post about this.

I’m trying to organize all our books on Shelfari, now easy task when you have over 2,000! I haven’t done any in days, I think I’ll try for 25 a day and when I get more into it I’ll try for more. The hardest part is choosing where to start, I settled on first grade biology and I’m still there. :D I also have to buy our science books and there seem to be so few on biologists, ancient scientists and hibernation. I’m sure that as I buy and catalogue some more I’ll find even more topics that I can’t find books on. *Sigh*

Weekly Report

Canada - We "went" to Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. I've decided to study Quebec next month when we study French Canadians.
I designed another lapbook, this one for the maritime provinces. We had lots of fun with it and Megan thought it was the best ever! Yeah, maybe I'm bragging. :D
The _if for ____ books are favourite here so the kids cheered when they heard that A is for Algonquin, F is for Fiddlehead and P is for Puffin were on the book list. They have way more information than your average alphabet book which makes them a learning tool for all ages.
I was nervous about doing Anne of Green Gables as a read aloud but everyone is loving it, even Cassidy! She has an Anne colouring book and is really careful about staying in the lines. Chelsea read Emily of New Moon and loved it, even staying up till midnight to read!

Science - I'm feeling back on track here! We've started studying electricity and I was able to find books to read! The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip was great for the little ones, where would we be without Ms. Frizzle? Chelsea gobbled up a Horrible Science book, Killer Energy and Shocking Electricity and loved Electricity almost as much.

Math - I've hit a jackpot with Megan! Miquon Orange and a homemade math fact CD, what could be better for a young, auditory, discovery loving learner? She's finished up the entire A section of the book which is on counting. She listened to the counting part of our CD and memorized One, Two Buckle My Shoe.

Okay, I'd write more but I need to back to go to France and sometime I have to sleep. :D

Weekly Report

Well, another week has flown by! Here's some of what we did at Morning Glory Academy:

Canada - We studied the Prairie Provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) this week. I designed a lapbook to go with our studies and it was a HIT!! Megan and Cassidy absolutely adored See Saw Saskatchewan and Eenie Meenie Manitoba. They almost have the books memorized! We also did really well on our quizzes in the Canadian Sites and Symbols books. Chelsea added more cities and sites to our map.

Art - We love Emily Carr!!! Maybe we'll just study her for the rest of the year. :D I read Discovering Emily to Megan and Cassidy (but Cassidy only half listened) and The Book of Small to Chelsea. We'll keep reading this over the next few weeks. Next week we might try painting but I'm NOT making any promises. :D

Cooking- This was a lot of fun! The pavlova was delicious and we've invited our New Zealand friends around for dinner and pavlova sometime. We also learnt about our country for the week, Australia. We read Australia, Australia and Outback Adventure Megan read some of this (YAY!!).

Latin - Chelsea got everything right on her Latin quiz!!

Spelling - This must be a good week for Chelsea, she aced her spelling test too!

Math - Math is great for Chelsea. :D She did lessons 4, 5 and 6 this week. The first Miquon book came yesterday. Today Megan did the first page which she liked, I think. :D I'm working on making a math fact CD. I think using this with Miquon would work really well for Megan.

Science - We finished reading Chapter 5 of RS4K Physics . No projects (I'm feeling in an anti- project mood) or supplementary books (I had a lot of trouble finding ones). But I don NOT want to be doing our full school curriculum in France. I'm taking some workbooks for the plane and educational books to read but there is no way we're going to be doing science experiments.