It has been a long time since my last post…
It has been an even longer time since I posted about the plans for my children’s education at home…I think the last time was at my old blog.
My plans for our up coming year are pretty much done and dusted. We still follow a Charlotte Mason approach. I am not a purist by any stretch of the imagination, but I do appreciate the joy and gentle pace she brings to the every day.
This year is a milestone for us, as Elianna enters ‘high school’ ~ Year 7/grade 6
Rose will be going into Year 4/grade 3
Family Read Alouds:
Under blankets on the sofa, cuddled up in bed, or lazing in the sunshine, read aloud time is my favourite part of ‘school’.
~ Lots of Fairy Tales
~ The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe
~ The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood
~ The Story of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
~ A Christmas Carol (ours is a vintage, unabridged version)
~ The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
History Read Alouds:
~ The World Of Columbus & Sons
Science Read Alouds:
~ The mystery of the periodic table
~ Mathmaticians are people too V1
~ Great scientists & their discoveries
~ Mathmaticians are people too V2
~ Great inventors & their inventions
Nature Study Read Alouds:
~ Silverstein’s World in a Drop
There will be *lots* of discussion around our reading..
ELLIE’S READING
The Story Of The Romans
Bulfinch’s Greek & Roman Mythology – The Age of Fable
These books I had planned as historical fiction; I may switch out for more ‘classic’ lit.
Twilight Child
Rider in the dark
The Pirate’s son
The Orange Trees of Versailles
Stink Alley
The minister’s daughter
Marie Curie (Giants of science)
Watchers at the pond
Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity by Robert Cwiklik
MATHS
Various games & living maths
ENGLISH
Primary language lessons ~ Rose
Intermediate language lessons ~ Elianna
For Elianna:
Reading through The Sentence Family at our leisure as review.
Keeping a Common Place Book
POETRY
Poetry tea once a week
Memory Work
Reading a poem a day, focusing on one poet per term. (Walter De La Mare, William Blake, Sara Teasdale)
Nature poems in our nature notebooks (yes, I have one too!)
Poetry analysis 1 x month
With Elianna:
Rose, where did you get that red?
SHAKESPEARE
With Elianna
PLUTARCH ~ Elianna
LATIN ~ Elianna
LOGIC ~ Elianna
Mind Benders
DAILY MEMORY WORK
Poetry & Shakespeare
Poetry of their own choice
Grammar –
Maths – times tables
Multiplication facts in 7 days ~ We need to get this down – Elianna struggles with some facts. I plan to take 7 weeks to use this resource!
Sci – periodic table
colouring book
Making our own Periodic table
Latin ~ Elianna
Flash cards from Getting Started With Lain
Map Work – wkly
Keeping up our wall Time Line
SCIENCE
Bi-Weekly Experiment – cool chemistry concoctions
Basher The Periodic Table
Basher Chemistry
Albert Einstein & the theory of relativity ~ Elianna
Galore Park – SYRWTL Science book 1 ~ Elianna (This I am undecided about. Maybe, maybe not)
NATURE STUDY
As well as our regular journal keeping, I plan for us to undertake a year long study of our local pond!
We have multiple resources:
Natural science through the seasons
Concise Pond Life
The World of the Microscope
One Small Square – Pond
Rivers Ponds & Lakes
Tell me Tree
First Book Of Pond Life
Elianna will be reading: Watchers at the pond
Rosie: Pond Life, Pond & River Birds, What to look for in Autumn, What to look for in Winter, What to look for in Spring
What to look for in Summer, amongst many others…
ARTIST STUDY
Artist tea once a week:
Michelangelo
Degas
HANDCRAFTS & CREATIVE ARTS
HISTORY / GEOGRAPHY
~ Elianna: Outlining & summaries using:
The Medieval and Early Modern World: Primary Sources and Reference Volume
Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
Rose will be reading & narrating.
A great resource: What on earth
LITURGICAL YEAR
Following the liturgical year & seasons
LIFESKILLS
Learning as we walk along the way..
Typed out like this, my lists look overwhelming. But with short lessons, some subjects for only a term & lots of time for contemplation I know this is going to be a beautiful year…
Can’t believe your girls are so big now! Julia has completed the first year of Sixth Form and Lydia graduated from University this year! My eldest daughter is expecting her third baby and embarking on her own home-ed journey with her eldest who will be 5 in December. Hope you still find time for spinning and knitting. God bless, Lynn x
Wow, Lynn! How time flies.
It is so lovely to hear from you. And how wonderful to hear that your daughter is home educating 🙂
What did Lydia study at uni?
Lx
She did English Literature and Creative Writing, and she has a place to do an MA in Linguistics in 2015, obviously has an appetite for learning! Xx
Wonderful! You must be so very proud.
Lynn, just letting you know the ‘anonymous’ comment was mine – I was on my Kindle last night & not signed into my account 🙂
Thanks for thhis blog post