Thursday, January 05, 2006

Term 2

Our formal studies will include:

Ambleside Online
Term 2 2006

Artist - Jan Vermeer
Composer - Henry Purcell
Poet - Year 6 - Carl Sandburg
Nature Study - Year 6 Astronomy (along with birding of course)
Plutarch - We will be continuing on with Demetrius as we have not finished this study yet.
Shakespeare - We are actually going out of sequence and studying Winter's Tale this term instead of Term 3

For other subjects we are very eclectic:

American History - Roaring Twenties/Harlem Renaissance
World History - as yet undecided
Math - living books and some worksheets covering such things as fractions, geometry, as well as Julie Brennan's Living Math site
Language Arts- Julie Bogart's Bravewriter's Lifestyle, Cay Gibson's House of Literature, as well as Elizabeth Foss's 4 Real Learning
Science - Chemistry study with experiments
Birthday Wall - includes current events and celebrating birthdays of famous people and events during the year

Looks good on paper huh? lol We will do our best to immerse ourselves in these fields and see where they lead us for the next few months.

2 Comments:

Blogger Theresa said...

WOW! Sounds amazing. I showed your plans to Superboy and he was really impressed by how much you guys do. I think it made him a little nervous, too! lol! We have never really done much with the arts and I keep thinking we need to eventually, but I don't think this is the year for it for us. There is just NO interest there for Superboy and I don't want to force it,ya know? There's always next year...
Good luck with it all!

12:46 PM  
Blogger barbara said...

Theresa,

I had to smile at your reply because when I read YOUR blog post about what you are doing I thought that very same thing about you and Superboy and your studies!

We've already "tweaked" a few things. lol We are going to do Henry V instead of The Winter's Tale for Shakespeare. We thought we could tie this into a neat World History study. We are adding Langston Hughes into poetry to go along with our American History.Josh is already familiar with him so we always enjoy his poetry. He is also really wanting to read about the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties which ties Hughes's poetry and also jazz into this.

All of this stuff seems like alot but we really only spend the morning in "studies". With homeschooling only one child it goes pretty quick and then we "life learn" the rest of the day lol.

We have really been enjoying having Josh's oldest sister home during the day while she is on vacation from college classes. There is MUCH discussion that goes on with her in so many things. Today per the Learning Calendar (mine came in the mail yesterday and once again thanks so much for posting about it on your blog!) we read the section on Alexander Hamilton and Kate started telling Josh and I about discussions she had recently had in a class when they studied Hamilton's Federalist Papers. Tied that into current events and we had SOME discussion ourselves lol.

Good luck with your own studies. We are looking foward to hearing about them.

3:49 PM  

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]

<< Home