Day 11
We schooled from 8:45 - 12 noon today and will do another hour in the afternoon for math. Mondays and Fridays will be my days to get to everything since we have swimming on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Spanish on Wednesdays.
We listened to Rascal during breakfast. I love his beautiful descriptions of Wisconsin. In this chapter, they went to Lake Superior and stayed in the woods. I was swept away with his word pictures. It really is a lovely story. I took the opportunity to teach a bit about Wisconsin geography, and we talked about sending a Flat Stanley to Auntie Barb, Uncle Andy and the girls (Former teammates in Malaysia) in order to learn about Wisconsin. I printed off a Wisconsin map, and we will color areas from the book. I also sent an email off to the Krauses, and I hope Michael will write a letter to them regarding Flat Stanley tomorrow for his writing experience.
Then, we read about Isaac and Rebekah and how the servant prayed that he would be led straight to Rebekah. Again, I am hit with prayer. Sermon yesterday was about prayer, James hit me with prayer, Acts and the early church hit me with prayer. With this "funk" that I have been in, I feel the need to pray for direction in ministry. This was just another confirmation; but one thing is for certain, my primary ministry is this 4 hours a day that I spend investing in my children during homeschool and our bible time. No doubt about this. It is a season of my life that I relish.
After this we studied John 2. They continue to like doing the story boards, and I am tickled that it ties into the DVD. I think they have the potential to be the next brother producing team for movies. So, this is a way for them to understand the process, but more importantly, they are looking more deeply at Scripture for the first time in their lives. They are not rejecting it either, and this makes me so very happy.
Then, we prayed for the Lumbee and highlighted the tribe in our American Indian Map that we have as a bookmark in the American Indian Prayer Guide. What a great tool Sonlight has made for us to enjoy.
After our Bible/Prayer, we feasted on the paintings in Introduction to Art (Blessing to Colleen for her hot tip!). We read about portraits and landscapes. Paul fell in love with the landscape by Hopper. He exclaimed with enthusiasm, "It is just like a photograph!" Reminded me of the Hopper in the Art Institute of Chicago. Makes me want the boys to experience this art in person. Another reason for us to visit the Rohrers in New Hampshire and take a trip to D.C. and New York with their world-class art museums! I have decided to get through the pages of Intro to Art to where we are caught up with where we are in history. This means getting through Ancient and Renaissance art. So, we won't be doing SOTW/SL history for a couple of weeks. Then, we will go at a slower pace through ITA.
I did manage to copy off all the American Maps from the Knowlege Quest Blackline Maps of American History (www.knowledgequestmaps.com) through the War Between the States, and I am so impressed by this CD-Rom and the upgraded quality of her maps! I realized she had a 9x11 foot map, but it wouldn't print and she offered to send me a preprinted one for free. We will put it in our office and mark the states as we learn them this year. I still need to go through the World History maps for this time period too. We put these in their history section of their notebooks.
Then, I read a couple of pages from Usborne Science Encyclopedia about Radioactivity. They watched a couple of free Brainpop movies because it said we had already exceeded our daily limit (which we hadn't!) Still debating whether a $80 yearly brainpop subscription would be worth the money when I can do two free movies a day.
After this, we set up our potato and battery experiment. It takes an hour to complete. So, we set it up and went to our seatwork.
We copied John 2:23 on notecards, and I showed them their notecard file boxes which they thought were pretty coolacious.
I figured this was a good time to introduce them to greek and latin words from Vocabulary Vine because this is the original reason why I bought those card boxes. I have simplified Paula's writing on notecards. They just wrote TELE and the definition and words that give examples of tele, but I didn't have them write out definitions for each word. I also had them write the word in large caps on the other side so they can use the cards as flash cards. We just went over the definitions of telescope, telephone, telegraph, etc. verbally.
We did our usual grammar, but I am having them use the answer key to check their own work now. Spelling is smoothly sailing too. Paul prefers writing his answers on a white board, and I feel like I am in an old schoolhouse when they wrote on slates. It saves a tree to not write on paper, but Michael likes the paper route (not to be confused with the other kind of paper route!). I am so happy with my grammar and spelling choices. I will switch Michael to spelling power after 6th grade, but I love the other things he learns through the Spectrum method.
We checked the results of the hour long potato experiment and the positive charge of the battery reacted with the negative charge of the potato to make a green ring from the penny on the one marked positive. The one connected to the negative side made no ring. We talked about the whys and we will write it up tomorrow for our writing time.
Michael has been reading aloud about an hour each night in his Ramona books. So, he isn't reading during the day, but Paul went downstairs and read a book. They are both rereading all their Dr. Seuss and Dr. Seuss-a-likes. I want Paul to have joy in reading because he keeps saying he doesn't like it. So, I am not stressing over his choices that are really easy for him. He read Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo, . Reminds me of our time in Malaysia when Michael was 6 and Paul was 3. Our second nanny, Bega, gave them this book as a gift, and we have read it over and over and over and over since then! He forgets how well I know the story because he excitedly narrated the whole story back to me after he was done reading it!
We ended at Noon (Paul read later than this.) and will pick up Math for about an hour in the afternoon. I am off to spend some more time in Acts and prayer about all the things that are swirling in my head lately! I also hope to read a bit of Uncle Tom's Cabin. I am loving this classic. What a story and what a stir it must have caused in the 1850's South!
We listened to Rascal during breakfast. I love his beautiful descriptions of Wisconsin. In this chapter, they went to Lake Superior and stayed in the woods. I was swept away with his word pictures. It really is a lovely story. I took the opportunity to teach a bit about Wisconsin geography, and we talked about sending a Flat Stanley to Auntie Barb, Uncle Andy and the girls (Former teammates in Malaysia) in order to learn about Wisconsin. I printed off a Wisconsin map, and we will color areas from the book. I also sent an email off to the Krauses, and I hope Michael will write a letter to them regarding Flat Stanley tomorrow for his writing experience.
Then, we read about Isaac and Rebekah and how the servant prayed that he would be led straight to Rebekah. Again, I am hit with prayer. Sermon yesterday was about prayer, James hit me with prayer, Acts and the early church hit me with prayer. With this "funk" that I have been in, I feel the need to pray for direction in ministry. This was just another confirmation; but one thing is for certain, my primary ministry is this 4 hours a day that I spend investing in my children during homeschool and our bible time. No doubt about this. It is a season of my life that I relish.
After this we studied John 2. They continue to like doing the story boards, and I am tickled that it ties into the DVD. I think they have the potential to be the next brother producing team for movies. So, this is a way for them to understand the process, but more importantly, they are looking more deeply at Scripture for the first time in their lives. They are not rejecting it either, and this makes me so very happy.
Then, we prayed for the Lumbee and highlighted the tribe in our American Indian Map that we have as a bookmark in the American Indian Prayer Guide. What a great tool Sonlight has made for us to enjoy.
After our Bible/Prayer, we feasted on the paintings in Introduction to Art (Blessing to Colleen for her hot tip!). We read about portraits and landscapes. Paul fell in love with the landscape by Hopper. He exclaimed with enthusiasm, "It is just like a photograph!" Reminded me of the Hopper in the Art Institute of Chicago. Makes me want the boys to experience this art in person. Another reason for us to visit the Rohrers in New Hampshire and take a trip to D.C. and New York with their world-class art museums! I have decided to get through the pages of Intro to Art to where we are caught up with where we are in history. This means getting through Ancient and Renaissance art. So, we won't be doing SOTW/SL history for a couple of weeks. Then, we will go at a slower pace through ITA.
I did manage to copy off all the American Maps from the Knowlege Quest Blackline Maps of American History (www.knowledgequestmaps.com) through the War Between the States, and I am so impressed by this CD-Rom and the upgraded quality of her maps! I realized she had a 9x11 foot map, but it wouldn't print and she offered to send me a preprinted one for free. We will put it in our office and mark the states as we learn them this year. I still need to go through the World History maps for this time period too. We put these in their history section of their notebooks.
Then, I read a couple of pages from Usborne Science Encyclopedia about Radioactivity. They watched a couple of free Brainpop movies because it said we had already exceeded our daily limit (which we hadn't!) Still debating whether a $80 yearly brainpop subscription would be worth the money when I can do two free movies a day.
After this, we set up our potato and battery experiment. It takes an hour to complete. So, we set it up and went to our seatwork.
We copied John 2:23 on notecards, and I showed them their notecard file boxes which they thought were pretty coolacious.
I figured this was a good time to introduce them to greek and latin words from Vocabulary Vine because this is the original reason why I bought those card boxes. I have simplified Paula's writing on notecards. They just wrote TELE and the definition and words that give examples of tele, but I didn't have them write out definitions for each word. I also had them write the word in large caps on the other side so they can use the cards as flash cards. We just went over the definitions of telescope, telephone, telegraph, etc. verbally.
We did our usual grammar, but I am having them use the answer key to check their own work now. Spelling is smoothly sailing too. Paul prefers writing his answers on a white board, and I feel like I am in an old schoolhouse when they wrote on slates. It saves a tree to not write on paper, but Michael likes the paper route (not to be confused with the other kind of paper route!). I am so happy with my grammar and spelling choices. I will switch Michael to spelling power after 6th grade, but I love the other things he learns through the Spectrum method.
We checked the results of the hour long potato experiment and the positive charge of the battery reacted with the negative charge of the potato to make a green ring from the penny on the one marked positive. The one connected to the negative side made no ring. We talked about the whys and we will write it up tomorrow for our writing time.
Michael has been reading aloud about an hour each night in his Ramona books. So, he isn't reading during the day, but Paul went downstairs and read a book. They are both rereading all their Dr. Seuss and Dr. Seuss-a-likes. I want Paul to have joy in reading because he keeps saying he doesn't like it. So, I am not stressing over his choices that are really easy for him. He read Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo, . Reminds me of our time in Malaysia when Michael was 6 and Paul was 3. Our second nanny, Bega, gave them this book as a gift, and we have read it over and over and over and over since then! He forgets how well I know the story because he excitedly narrated the whole story back to me after he was done reading it!
We ended at Noon (Paul read later than this.) and will pick up Math for about an hour in the afternoon. I am off to spend some more time in Acts and prayer about all the things that are swirling in my head lately! I also hope to read a bit of Uncle Tom's Cabin. I am loving this classic. What a story and what a stir it must have caused in the 1850's South!
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