Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
2009-2010 School Year
Kindergarten:
Math: Saxon K
Reading: Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, Bob Books Box 1
Handwriting: Seton Handwriting K
Religion: Catholic Children's Picture Bible and Leading Little Ones to Mary
(History and Science, I will not formally teach at this age but the K'er will be able to participate with the 2nd grader)
Literature: Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes
Second Grade:
Math: Saxon 2
Reading: McGuffey's Eclectic Readers, National Catholic Readers, Faith and Freedom Readers and books from the library at appropriate reading level
Handwriting: Seton Handwriting 2
Spelling: Spelling Workout B
Grammar: First Language Lessons (pt. 2)
Writing: Writing with Ease (I don't know if we will like it but I'm going to give it a try)
History: Story of the World 2 (Middle Ages), plus a study on lives of the saints, popes and some councils in this time period
Science: Geology, Astronomy, and Weather, various books and experiments
US Geography: State capitals
World Geography: North American (including Latin America) countries
General Geography: Maps, Charts, and Graphs Level B
Art Appreciation: Child-Size Masterpieces
Art: Drawing, still undecided
PE: Hopefully we'll be doing either bowling or swimming
Music: Listening to Classical music, piano lessons still pending necessary funds
Religion: Our Holy Faith book 1, preparing for First Holy Communion in May or June of 2010.
Literature will be books that fit in with curriculum, independent choices and read-alouds from classics
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Memory Work- Where we are
O Come O Come Emmanuel
Like foolish folk of old I would not be,
Who had no room that night for
Him and thee.
See, Mother Mary, here within my heart
I've made a little
shrine for Him apart;
Swept it of sin, and cleansed it with all care;
Warmed it with love and scented it with prayer.
So, Mother, when the
Christmas anthems start,
Please let me hold your baby--in my heart.
Sr. Maryanna, O.P.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Phonecian Bread from STOW
We all enjoyed making the Phonecian (pita) bread in the Story of the World Activity Book.
Recently, Boo built a seige tower for the chapter on the Assyrians. This led to both Meenie and Boo looking up seige towers on the internet with their father. Afterwards, Meenie proceeded into the kitchen to give me an oral report about seige towers and how they work, while I was baking cookies. It was from the perspective of a three year old, so it went like this:
Siege towers, yeah, um the bad guys had a seige tower and then they tried to
get over the wall. The other guys were shooting arrows. The they had a door
knocker to knock down the wall. Yeah, they were bad.