Day 47 or, Week 7 of winter term

Our plans for this week are pretty much the same as last week, since Shmoo and The Boy were both sick. We did manage a lot of reading, but no mainlessons or table work.

this term's composer~ Chopin (we’ve stopped playing his music during table work, because The Boy finds it too distracting- and doesn’t like it much, either ;-)

fun read-aloud~ we’ve finished The Borrowers Afloat, and we have moved on to The Borrowers Aloft (we read the first two in this series last fall)

classic~ we’ll be finishing up Little House on the Prairie and starting Farmer Boy - we decided to continue Laura's story with On the Banks of Plum Creek

table work~ penmanship, phonics, math

continuing~ we’ll be working on cementing math facts and keeping the four operations straight. Shmoo wants to continue with some fun math we played with over the summer, and The Boy wants to work on some notebook pages in his math mainlesson book (I’ll post some things he’s working on when I get my pictures uploaded from my camera).

mainlessons

Canadian geography (S is for Spirit Bear- British Columbia):

I (the Iceman- Kwaday Dän Ts'inchi)~ read the relevant chapter from Bodies From The Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past by James M. Deem

J (Jade, Steller’s Jay- provincial symbols)~ colour pictures and add to notebook with geological/ ornithological info

Plus:

For our Artist Study (E is for Emily Carr), we’ll read some more about her life and study a new painting this week. Gracie is reading Klee Wyck, Carr’s story of her time among the Northwest coast natives as a young woman.

We’ll be continuing to learn about the Overland Trail (G is for Gold Rush), reading Pay Dirt!: The Search for Gold in British Columbia by Laura Langston

science:

~ add narrations and illustrations from Born With a Bang to notebook

~ read books that flesh out topics touched on (this week- star formation and galaxies)

poetry (R is for Rhyme):

~ read C (Cinquin) and take ideas from lesson here (Wow, we’re slow with poetry this term! We’ve been picking away at it, but there is just so much to read and do, that it seems to be dragging on- but that’s okay, we’d rather take it slow and enjoy it.)

natural history:

native moon (snow)~ read from list of both fiction and non-fiction books (list later)

~ read a chapter or two of Bambi by Felix Salten

~ at least on nature walk to see what's happening on our favourite trail

~ we’ll try to catch snowflakes on a piece of felt to get a closer look

religion:

~ read two chapters from The Golden Children's Bible

other stuff

art:

~ this week we'll be doing a painting in the style of Emily Carr

handwork:

~ continuing with the crocheting and finger knitting, and doing a little sewing and knitting

French:

~ review and a new lesson (oral for the littles, Gracie is doing the reading and written assignments), work vocabulary into daily life.

home ec. and habits:

~ keep up our peaceful (and predictable) routine, reinforce our cleaning schedule