Morning Time
Prayer, doxology
Bible reading - Mark 1:22. We discussed who the 'Doctors of the Law' were, and what 'authority' and 'astounded' mean.
Christian biography - the 9yo continued reading about Jan Hus. We discussed idol worship and why some faiths use statues to represent holy figures. The 7yo read about Anne Lawson's work in Tanzania - we talked about how her missionary work involved multiple facets.
Memory work - days of the week, months of the year, the Lord's Prayer up to 'On earth as it is in Hevaen', the books of the Bible up to Judges, and added on the province of British Columbia.
History - We discussed wool processing in Medieval times. Firstly we looked at pictures of spinning and carding in these two books:
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Then we took our very own bag of unwashed, dirtier 'second class' sheep wool (I specifically wanted dirty wool and not necessarily of the best quality to mimic what a farmwife of the era would have had to work with) and dumped it out on the porch to talk about. Why does it smell? What is all the hay doing in there? Is that poo!!?? We looked at how the wool was all held together, how some little locks were flatter and some lovely and curly, and I introduced the word lanolin to everyone. Then we filled up a bucket with cold water and washed our fleece, each getting a chance to plunge it up and down. "I'm pretending to be a medieval woman!" shrieked the 5yo. We let our fleece soak in cold water in the sun to soften any particularly hardy dirt, and got back to it in the afternoon.
After lunch we agitated the wool and rinsed over and over again until our water ran clean. Then we laid it on a hot rock to dry in the sun.
Individual Lessons
9yo
R&S English - lesson 4: the asking sentence.
30 minutes silent reading
7yo
Piano lesson
R&S Math 2 - Lesson 4: numbers that add to 6 + review
Cursive practice A-C capitals, a-c lowercase, Aa, Bb, Cc combos.
5yo
100 Easy Lesson - lesson 23 review
R&S Math 1 - Lesson 4: The number 3
Tuesday
Morning Time
Prayer, doxology
Bible reading was Mark 1:23. We discussed what an 'unclean spirit' meant.
Read alouds - the 9yo read to us about Jan Hus' father's funeral. The 7yo read to us about Anne Lawson's emergency flight in Tanzania.
Memory work - we reviewed days of the week, months of the year, the Lord's prayer up to 'On earth as it is in heaven', added Ruth to our books of the Bible.
Individual Studies
9yo
The 9yo had piano lessons at the conservatory.
7yo
Nothing formal got done.
5yo
Nothing formal got done.
Wednesday
Morning Time
Prayer, doxology.
Bible reading was Mark 1:24-25. We discussed how the unclean spirit knew who Jesus was.
Read alouds - The 9yo read to us about Jan Hus asking the priest if his father was in heaven. We defined purgatory. The 7yo finished the story of Anne Lawson. We talked about whether missionary work seemed glamourous and exciting or not.
Memory work - We have dropped the days of the week, but reviewed months of the year once. We added 'Give us this day our daily bread' to the Lord's prayer and 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel to the list of OT books. We added 'Alberta' to our list of provinces.
Geography - It's geography day! The 7yo and 5yo listened in a bit but this is mainly for the 9yo. We reviewed last week's lesson 1 when we defined Climate, Weather, Climate Zone, Equator, Tropic of Cancer and of Capricorn, the Arctic and Antarctic circles, the Northern and Southern Frigid Zones, the Northern and Southern Temperate Zones, the Tropical Zone, and what is a continent. We worked for a bit with the globe and then went through the questions at the back of lesson one orally instead of writing anything down.
Independent Studies
9yo
30 minutes piano
30 minutes silent reading
R&S English 2 - Lesson 5: Review
7yo
30 minutes silent reading
30 minutes piano
R&S Math 2 - Lesson 5: Addends to 6
5yo
100 Easy Lessons - we are done previous lesson review and today did Lesson 24.
R&S Math 1 - The number 4
You'll notice we didn't get much done on Wednesday. Sometimes thems the breaks.
Thursday
Morning Time
Prayer, doxology
Bible reading was Mark 1:25. We discussed why Jesus had the authority to tell the unclean spirit to leave the man.
Christian biography read-alouds - the 9yo read about Jan Hus leaving for university in Prague. The 7yo started the biography of Selina, Countess of Huntington with an introduction to her family tree.
Memory work - we reviewed the Lord's Prayer up to 'give us this day our daily bread', the books of the OT up to 2 Samuel, and added Saskatchewan to the list of Canadian provinces and territories.
History - we read the chapter section on the monks who travelled with Augustine to Britain. We looked at this book as we discussed monastic life:
Individual Studies
Everything sort of fell apart at this point. I hadn't slept well, and there were a lot of dishes, and everyone was very, very cranky. So instead of doing school work we made a solar oven! We roughly used these instructions. Then we put a bunch of apples in it to see what would happen, and went for a nature walk. We saw a female mallard, and when we went to see her roost found some lovely feathers, including one with iridescent blue on it. We also saw a blue heron, and collected all the interesting stuff we could find. The 7yo discovered an oak leaf with a weird fuzzy orange thing stuck on it and we all debated what it could possibly be. The 7yo thought it was a caterpillar, the 9yo thought it was a mold or moss, I was sticking with cocoon as my guess, and the 5yo thought it was fur of some kind stuck to the leaf.
Guess what it was!
An oak gall! Read this interesting blog post about it. Ours looked just like this. It seems to be the gall from a Callirhytis furva wasp, which is quite tiny.
Other topics of conversation on the walk - identifying the parts of a mushroom, why seeds are often surrounded by fruit, examining the cocoons hidden along willow tree bark, crayfish, wild roses, whether or not we were going to make jam out of those rose hips (reader - we are not doing that, no.) and identifying a blue jay by his call. A very satisfying walk, all round.
We got home and checked on our apples (they had gotten browner, at least) and then spread out our nature treasures and got out the art supplies and sketched them, with a review of the four pencil grips from last week's art lesson included. We worked on blocking out our art in rough shapes before filling in details.
9yo
Science - Astronomy
Seemed like as good a day as any to start science with the 9yo. We have planned to study astronomy! We started by watching this video by National Geographic about two men who made a to-scale model of the solar system in the Nevada desert. After that we used this package, from the Canadian Space Agency, to discuss the solar system and lay our our own (very much not to-scale) solar system model in the backyard.
We read the fact sheet inside about the moon, which we were trying to focus on. I mean, we're trying, but...we tend to fall down a lot of rabbit holes in this house. We started reading this book
And read through page 7 - discussing the moon and light-seconds. We discovered, thanks to G.ooglemaps, that one light second is equivalent to driving to Grandma's house 415 times in a second. And then we started talking about satellites and ended up watching this video, a 20 minute documentary about the Voyageur spaceprobes...and then (you can see what I'm talking about with falling down rabbit holes here) we watched THIS video about the discovery of water on Mars.
Both the 9yo and the 7yo practiced the piano for 30 minutes. And that was the sum of school today. Some days the work gets done, and some days we just flop around a bunch.
Friday
Annnnnnd it didn't get any more organized today, either! Woohoo! We left the house early for a dr. appointment and got back sometime just before supper, at which point I had the 9yo do two math lessons. And that was essentially it.
Saturday
Okay so IN MY DEFENSE it was not going to necessarily get better on a Saturday, for heaven's sake. We reviewed a little bit of our memory work, and then we went and splashed around in the lake and found weird looking rocks and shells and such. And picked apples. And came home. And...didn't do school. The two oldest practiced the piano.
Tuesday
Morning Time
Prayer, doxology
Bible reading was Mark 1:23. We discussed what an 'unclean spirit' meant.
Read alouds - the 9yo read to us about Jan Hus' father's funeral. The 7yo read to us about Anne Lawson's emergency flight in Tanzania.
Memory work - we reviewed days of the week, months of the year, the Lord's prayer up to 'On earth as it is in heaven', added Ruth to our books of the Bible.
Individual Studies
9yo
The 9yo had piano lessons at the conservatory.
7yo
Nothing formal got done.
5yo
Nothing formal got done.
Wednesday
Morning Time
Prayer, doxology.
Bible reading was Mark 1:24-25. We discussed how the unclean spirit knew who Jesus was.
Read alouds - The 9yo read to us about Jan Hus asking the priest if his father was in heaven. We defined purgatory. The 7yo finished the story of Anne Lawson. We talked about whether missionary work seemed glamourous and exciting or not.
Memory work - We have dropped the days of the week, but reviewed months of the year once. We added 'Give us this day our daily bread' to the Lord's prayer and 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel to the list of OT books. We added 'Alberta' to our list of provinces.
Geography - It's geography day! The 7yo and 5yo listened in a bit but this is mainly for the 9yo. We reviewed last week's lesson 1 when we defined Climate, Weather, Climate Zone, Equator, Tropic of Cancer and of Capricorn, the Arctic and Antarctic circles, the Northern and Southern Frigid Zones, the Northern and Southern Temperate Zones, the Tropical Zone, and what is a continent. We worked for a bit with the globe and then went through the questions at the back of lesson one orally instead of writing anything down.
Independent Studies
9yo
30 minutes piano
30 minutes silent reading
R&S English 2 - Lesson 5: Review
7yo
30 minutes silent reading
30 minutes piano
R&S Math 2 - Lesson 5: Addends to 6
5yo
100 Easy Lessons - we are done previous lesson review and today did Lesson 24.
R&S Math 1 - The number 4
You'll notice we didn't get much done on Wednesday. Sometimes thems the breaks.
Thursday
Morning Time
Prayer, doxology
Bible reading was Mark 1:25. We discussed why Jesus had the authority to tell the unclean spirit to leave the man.
Christian biography read-alouds - the 9yo read about Jan Hus leaving for university in Prague. The 7yo started the biography of Selina, Countess of Huntington with an introduction to her family tree.
Memory work - we reviewed the Lord's Prayer up to 'give us this day our daily bread', the books of the OT up to 2 Samuel, and added Saskatchewan to the list of Canadian provinces and territories.
History - we read the chapter section on the monks who travelled with Augustine to Britain. We looked at this book as we discussed monastic life:
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| Image from Amazon |
Everything sort of fell apart at this point. I hadn't slept well, and there were a lot of dishes, and everyone was very, very cranky. So instead of doing school work we made a solar oven! We roughly used these instructions. Then we put a bunch of apples in it to see what would happen, and went for a nature walk. We saw a female mallard, and when we went to see her roost found some lovely feathers, including one with iridescent blue on it. We also saw a blue heron, and collected all the interesting stuff we could find. The 7yo discovered an oak leaf with a weird fuzzy orange thing stuck on it and we all debated what it could possibly be. The 7yo thought it was a caterpillar, the 9yo thought it was a mold or moss, I was sticking with cocoon as my guess, and the 5yo thought it was fur of some kind stuck to the leaf.
Guess what it was!
An oak gall! Read this interesting blog post about it. Ours looked just like this. It seems to be the gall from a Callirhytis furva wasp, which is quite tiny.
Other topics of conversation on the walk - identifying the parts of a mushroom, why seeds are often surrounded by fruit, examining the cocoons hidden along willow tree bark, crayfish, wild roses, whether or not we were going to make jam out of those rose hips (reader - we are not doing that, no.) and identifying a blue jay by his call. A very satisfying walk, all round.
We got home and checked on our apples (they had gotten browner, at least) and then spread out our nature treasures and got out the art supplies and sketched them, with a review of the four pencil grips from last week's art lesson included. We worked on blocking out our art in rough shapes before filling in details.
9yo
Science - Astronomy
Seemed like as good a day as any to start science with the 9yo. We have planned to study astronomy! We started by watching this video by National Geographic about two men who made a to-scale model of the solar system in the Nevada desert. After that we used this package, from the Canadian Space Agency, to discuss the solar system and lay our our own (very much not to-scale) solar system model in the backyard.
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We read the fact sheet inside about the moon, which we were trying to focus on. I mean, we're trying, but...we tend to fall down a lot of rabbit holes in this house. We started reading this book
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| Image from Amazon |
Both the 9yo and the 7yo practiced the piano for 30 minutes. And that was the sum of school today. Some days the work gets done, and some days we just flop around a bunch.
Friday
Annnnnnd it didn't get any more organized today, either! Woohoo! We left the house early for a dr. appointment and got back sometime just before supper, at which point I had the 9yo do two math lessons. And that was essentially it.
Saturday
Okay so IN MY DEFENSE it was not going to necessarily get better on a Saturday, for heaven's sake. We reviewed a little bit of our memory work, and then we went and splashed around in the lake and found weird looking rocks and shells and such. And picked apples. And came home. And...didn't do school. The two oldest practiced the piano.
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