Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Morning Time Plans September 2008
Artist:
Van Gogh
Composer:
Bach
Bach Cello Suites from eClassical
Folk Songs:
Follow the Drinking Gourd
An Emigrant's Daughter
Shakespeare:
Love's Labour's Lost
Here I will admit this least favorite play of many is one of my favorites. The word play is just jolly good fun.
Plutarch:
Camillus
Grammar Moment:
Mother Tongue II
Bible Time:
I am using a book that my friend Linda gave me called Suffer Little Children Book 3 by Gertrude Hoeksema. We go through one lesson a week. We were taking such a long time to get through OT, I thought it was high time we studied the life of Christ. I highly recommend this study.
We are still in Psalm 91 because basically after last March our life fell apart. We had company for over a month last spring with lots of family visits during school spring breaks. Then my mom had a brain aneurysm. The good news is that she is home and though recovering, alive and well.
Review:
Romans 6
Books of the Bible
Psalm 20
Psalm 23
Hymns:
Non Nobis Domine
Review:
Rock of Ages ( I wish people would quit messin' with this one. The original poetry was spot-on)
O, Sacred Head
Saviour Like a Shepherd Lead Us
Softly and Tenderly
Soldiers of Christ Arise
Poetry:
Finishing finally How Sweet the Moonlight and The Man that Hath no Music from The Merchant of Venice.
Review:
I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General Here is a clip of the song...we don't sing it....with Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline.
The 2nd Coming Yeats
Horatius at the Bridge. Good news: you can find this at Librivox which saves some breath.
To Be a Pilgrim. I may add this to our list to re-memorize. It is by John Bunyan and I like it!
Where the Boats Go. RLS
Misc Memory:
Presidents Biographies. From the back of The Buck Stops Here
. One a day. We just did Abe Lincoln.
Review:
Presidents Bee
Bill of Rights #s 7,8,9,10
Gettysburg Address
Reading Aloud:
While we did finish about 20 books last year, you will be happy to see we really are going very slow through some of these.
English Literature for Boys and Girls. I hope to finish this one up soon. We are on Burns.
The Little History of the World. Also coming to a close.
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom. Probably shouldn't have started this last year but I didn't know how the year would end up. This book is on my top ten list.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
Pilgrim Stories by Margaret Pumphrey
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Rod and Staff Manners 2nd Grade. I have this very, very old workbook from R&S and I just love it for teaching manners and hygiene. We discuss one page a week.
Van Gogh
Composer:
Bach
Bach Cello Suites from eClassical
Folk Songs:
Follow the Drinking Gourd
An Emigrant's Daughter
Shakespeare:
Love's Labour's Lost
Here I will admit this least favorite play of many is one of my favorites. The word play is just jolly good fun.
Plutarch:
Camillus
Grammar Moment:
Mother Tongue II
Bible Time:
I am using a book that my friend Linda gave me called Suffer Little Children Book 3 by Gertrude Hoeksema. We go through one lesson a week. We were taking such a long time to get through OT, I thought it was high time we studied the life of Christ. I highly recommend this study.
We are still in Psalm 91 because basically after last March our life fell apart. We had company for over a month last spring with lots of family visits during school spring breaks. Then my mom had a brain aneurysm. The good news is that she is home and though recovering, alive and well.
Review:
Romans 6
Books of the Bible
Psalm 20
Psalm 23
Hymns:
Non Nobis Domine
Review:
Rock of Ages ( I wish people would quit messin' with this one. The original poetry was spot-on)
O, Sacred Head
Saviour Like a Shepherd Lead Us
Softly and Tenderly
Soldiers of Christ Arise
Poetry:
Finishing finally How Sweet the Moonlight and The Man that Hath no Music from The Merchant of Venice.
Review:
I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General Here is a clip of the song...we don't sing it....with Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline.
The 2nd Coming Yeats
Horatius at the Bridge. Good news: you can find this at Librivox which saves some breath.
To Be a Pilgrim. I may add this to our list to re-memorize. It is by John Bunyan and I like it!
Where the Boats Go. RLS
Misc Memory:
Presidents Biographies. From the back of The Buck Stops Here
. One a day. We just did Abe Lincoln. Review:
Presidents Bee
Bill of Rights #s 7,8,9,10
Gettysburg Address
Reading Aloud:
While we did finish about 20 books last year, you will be happy to see we really are going very slow through some of these.
English Literature for Boys and Girls. I hope to finish this one up soon. We are on Burns.
The Little History of the World. Also coming to a close.
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom. Probably shouldn't have started this last year but I didn't know how the year would end up. This book is on my top ten list.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
Pilgrim Stories by Margaret Pumphrey
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Rod and Staff Manners 2nd Grade. I have this very, very old workbook from R&S and I just love it for teaching manners and hygiene. We discuss one page a week.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Morning Time Plans: January 2008
MORNING TIME PLANS FOR
January 7, 2008
Artist:
Rembrandt
Composer:
Handel
The Water Music
Folk Song:
Arkansas Traveler
Shakespeare:
The Merchant of Venice
Plutarch:
Philopoemen
Prayer Request
Bible Time
The Book of Life
Daily Proverbs
To Learn:
Psalm 91
To Review:
Books of the OT
Lord’s Prayer
12 Tribes of Israel:
12 Apostles
John 1:1-14
Gen 1:1-5
Books of NT
Hymn Singing
To Learn:
In Christ Alone
To Review:
O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
Glorious is Thy Name
God Leads us Along
O God our Help
Great is Thy Faithfulness
Poetry
To Learn:
Lake Isle of Innisfree
Cuddle Down
To Review:
Isn't that an awesome poem?
Where the Boats Go? RLS
The Second Coming Yeats
The Lamb Blake
Little Things "Little drops of water...."
The Charge of the Light Brigade Tennyson
Misc. Memory:
Read Amendments: 1-27 One a day
Preamble
Bill of Rights 1
Bill of Rights 2
Bill of Rights 3
Bill of Rights 4
Reading Aloud :
English Literature for Boys and Girls We are on this chapter and we don't read a whole chapter in a sitting.
Famous Men of the Middle Ages I have a vintage copy of this.
Dave Barry Slept Here OK, this is completely random but as I said before the children were picking this one up and reading it so I thought it would be safer to read out loud. It is very funny if you already have a working knowledge of American History. The language is pretty bad though, hence the reading aloud.
The Little History of the World
Fiction:
The Tale of Desperaux Recommend by dear friend Linda. Lots of fun. We have a little mouse in our family with big ears and big eyes, the runt of the litter: Alex.
Sentinel, City of Destiny by Landel Bilbrey. I am reading a review copy of the book and I must say that my 2 little boys, 9 & 6 are enthralled. It is somewhat along the lines of Pilgrim's Progress. We read the chapter slowly discussing as we go. Andrew and Alex are great little boys to discuss books with. They make random jumps of logic into subjects yet to be discovered by philosophers. This has made reading this book a lot of fun.
Ambleside Time:
Little Pilgrims Progress
Anderson’s Fairy Tales
Asking Father
Pilgrim Stories
January 7, 2008
Artist:
Rembrandt
Composer:
Handel
The Water Music
Folk Song:
Arkansas Traveler
Shakespeare:
The Merchant of Venice
Plutarch:
Philopoemen
Prayer Request
Bible Time
The Book of Life
Daily Proverbs
To Learn:
Psalm 91
To Review:
Books of the OT
Lord’s Prayer
12 Tribes of Israel:
12 Apostles
John 1:1-14
Gen 1:1-5
Books of NT
Hymn Singing
To Learn:
In Christ Alone
To Review:
O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
Glorious is Thy Name
God Leads us Along
O God our Help
Great is Thy Faithfulness
Poetry
To Learn:
Lake Isle of Innisfree
Cuddle Down
To Review:
Weathers
(I)
This is the weather the cuckoo likes,
And so do I;
When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,
And nestlings fly;
And the little brown nightingale bills his best,
And they sit outside at 'The Traveller's Rest,'
And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest,
And citizens dream of the south and west,
And so do I.
(II)
This is the weather the shepherd shuns,
And so do I;
When beeches drip in browns and duns,
And thresh and ply;
And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe,
And meadow rivulets overflow,
And drops on gate bars hang in a row,
And rooks in families homeward go,
And so do I.
-- Thomas Hardy
Isn't that an awesome poem?
Where the Boats Go? RLS
The Second Coming Yeats
The Lamb Blake
Little Things "Little drops of water...."
The Charge of the Light Brigade Tennyson
Misc. Memory:
Read Amendments: 1-27 One a day
Preamble
Bill of Rights 1
Bill of Rights 2
Bill of Rights 3
Bill of Rights 4
Reading Aloud :
English Literature for Boys and Girls We are on this chapter and we don't read a whole chapter in a sitting.
Famous Men of the Middle Ages I have a vintage copy of this.
Dave Barry Slept Here
OK, this is completely random but as I said before the children were picking this one up and reading it so I thought it would be safer to read out loud. It is very funny if you already have a working knowledge of American History. The language is pretty bad though, hence the reading aloud.The Little History of the World
Fiction:
The Tale of Desperaux
Recommend by dear friend Linda. Lots of fun. We have a little mouse in our family with big ears and big eyes, the runt of the litter: Alex.Sentinel, City of Destiny
by Landel Bilbrey. I am reading a review copy of the book and I must say that my 2 little boys, 9 & 6 are enthralled. It is somewhat along the lines of Pilgrim's Progress. We read the chapter slowly discussing as we go. Andrew and Alex are great little boys to discuss books with. They make random jumps of logic into subjects yet to be discovered by philosophers. This has made reading this book a lot of fun.Ambleside Time:
Little Pilgrims Progress
Anderson’s Fairy Tales
Asking Father
Pilgrim Stories
Morning Time Plans: November 2007
Artist:
Da Vinci
Composer:
Tchaikovsky
(Taking a break from Rimsky-Korsakov but continuing with a Russian and longing for a little
melody.)
Folk Song:
Go Get an Ax
Star of the County Down
Shakespeare:
Measure for Measure
Plutarch:
Philopoemen with Anne White's notes
Bible Time:
The Book of Life: David and Absalom
Proverbs: one daily
Bite-Sized Theology
Finish learning John 1:1-14
Review:
Micah 6:8
Lord's Prayer
Habakkuk 3:17-19
12 Tribes of Israel
List of Judges
Hymns:
Continue learning: In Christ Alone
Review:
We Gather Together
Tender Mercies
Arise, Arise
Come Ye Thankful People Come
Bringing in the Sheaves
Now Thank We All Our God
Poetry:
Begin learning: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
and Where the Boats go for the little guys
Review:
How Did you Die? Cooke
Opportunity by Sill
Casey at the Bat
Sail On by Miller
Misc Memory:
Finish learning the Preamble
Read through the 27 amendments to the Constitution one a day
Review:
Planets
State Capitals
We Shall Fight by Winston Churchill
The Apostles Creed
Continents and Oceans
Read Aloud:
English Literature for Boys and Girls. We are on Dryden this week.
Famous Men of the Middle Ages. We are on Robert the Bruce.
A Little History of the World. This book is growing on me after a bad start.
Just David. This is growing on me also. I hope we can finish it in the next couple of weeks.
The Magician's Nephew. Finish this week.
Dave Barry Slept Here (edited by me) They were all picking it up and reading it so I thought it would be safer if I read it out loud. It is a little confusing for Alex.
Ambleside Time:
Russian Fairy Tales
Little Pilgrim's Progress
Asking Father. I keep avoiding this one.
Pilgrim Stories by Pumphrey and old favorite revisited.
A Thanksgiving Story in Vermont by Jeff Barth
Da Vinci
Composer:
Tchaikovsky
(Taking a break from Rimsky-Korsakov but continuing with a Russian and longing for a little
melody.)
Folk Song:
Go Get an Ax
Star of the County Down
Shakespeare:
Measure for Measure
Plutarch:
Philopoemen with Anne White's notes
Bible Time:
The Book of Life: David and Absalom
Proverbs: one daily
Bite-Sized Theology
Finish learning John 1:1-14
Review:
Micah 6:8
Lord's Prayer
Habakkuk 3:17-19
12 Tribes of Israel
List of Judges
Hymns:
Continue learning: In Christ Alone
Review:
We Gather Together
Tender Mercies
Arise, Arise
Come Ye Thankful People Come
Bringing in the Sheaves
Now Thank We All Our God
Poetry:
Begin learning: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
and Where the Boats go for the little guys
Review:
How Did you Die? Cooke
Opportunity by Sill
Casey at the Bat
Sail On by Miller
Misc Memory:
Finish learning the Preamble
Read through the 27 amendments to the Constitution one a day
Review:
Planets
State Capitals
We Shall Fight by Winston Churchill
The Apostles Creed
Continents and Oceans
Read Aloud:
English Literature for Boys and Girls. We are on Dryden this week.
Famous Men of the Middle Ages. We are on Robert the Bruce.
A Little History of the World. This book is growing on me after a bad start.
Just David. This is growing on me also. I hope we can finish it in the next couple of weeks.
The Magician's Nephew. Finish this week.
Dave Barry Slept Here (edited by me) They were all picking it up and reading it so I thought it would be safer if I read it out loud. It is a little confusing for Alex.
Ambleside Time:
Russian Fairy Tales
Little Pilgrim's Progress
Asking Father. I keep avoiding this one.
Pilgrim Stories by Pumphrey and old favorite revisited.
A Thanksgiving Story in Vermont by Jeff Barth
Morning Time Plans: October 2007
MORNING TIME PLANS FOR
First Week of October 2007
Artist:
Da Vinci
Composer:
Rimsky-Korsakov
Folk Song:
Go get an Ax,
Star of the County Down
Shakespeare:
Measure for Measure
Plutarch:
Demetrius
Bible Time
The Book of Life ( KJV Bible readings with supplements, photographs, fine art and poetry)
Bitesize Theology by Peter Jeffery (Thank-you, Just Janet! This is the perfect MT complement, tiny chapters on theological topics.) I just added the Amazon link to this book.
Proverbs
To Relearn daily: John 1:1-14
For review one each day:
III John 1:4
Is 40:28-31
III John 1:4
Is 40:28-31
Jude 1:20-25
Hymn Singing:
Arise, Arise: last week sing daily
For Review:
Brethren we Have Me to Worship (Ok, I realized as we sang this today that I don't LIKE this song. Do you?)
Bringing in the Sheaves
Brother’s Keeper (old Promise Keepers chorus)
Christ the Lord is Risen Today
Come Thou Fount
Poetry:
The Second Coming, repeat daily
For Review:
The Statue of Liberty Emma Lazarus
The Boy we Want (From the Book of Virtues by William Bennett)
The Creation Cecil Frances Alexander
Obedience to Parents Issac Watts
Misc. Memory
Preamble, Daily
Contemplate Samuel Adams
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights #1
Bill of Rights #2
Bill of Rights #3
Civics Lesson
Reading Aloud:
English Lit for Boys and Girls
Famous Men of the Middle Ages
A Little History of the World I am not ready to recommend this book although it is highly thought of elsewhere.
Fiction:
Just David
The verdict is still out on this one.
Ambleside Time:
My Book House Vol 1 & 2
Russian Fairy Tales
Little Pilgrims Progress
Anderson’s Fairy Tales
Asking Father
First Week of October 2007
Artist:
Da Vinci
Composer:
Rimsky-Korsakov
Folk Song:
Go get an Ax,
Star of the County Down
Shakespeare:
Measure for Measure
Plutarch:
Demetrius
Bible Time
The Book of Life ( KJV Bible readings with supplements, photographs, fine art and poetry)
Bitesize Theology by Peter Jeffery
(Thank-you, Just Janet! This is the perfect MT complement, tiny chapters on theological topics.) I just added the Amazon link to this book.Proverbs
To Relearn daily: John 1:1-14
For review one each day:
III John 1:4
Is 40:28-31
III John 1:4
Is 40:28-31
Jude 1:20-25
Hymn Singing:
Arise, Arise: last week sing daily
For Review:
Brethren we Have Me to Worship (Ok, I realized as we sang this today that I don't LIKE this song. Do you?)
Bringing in the Sheaves
Brother’s Keeper (old Promise Keepers chorus)
Christ the Lord is Risen Today
Come Thou Fount
Poetry:
The Second Coming, repeat daily
For Review:
Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson
In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!
Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The grey smoke towers.
Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!
The Statue of Liberty Emma Lazarus
The Boy we Want (From the Book of Virtues
by William Bennett)The Creation Cecil Frances Alexander
Obedience to Parents Issac Watts
Misc. Memory
Preamble, Daily
Contemplate Samuel Adams
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights #1
Bill of Rights #2
Bill of Rights #3
Civics Lesson
Reading Aloud:
English Lit for Boys and Girls
Famous Men of the Middle Ages
A Little History of the World
I am not ready to recommend this book although it is highly thought of elsewhere.Fiction:
Just David
The verdict is still out on this one.
Ambleside Time:
My Book House Vol 1 & 2
Russian Fairy Tales
Little Pilgrims Progress
Anderson’s Fairy Tales
Asking Father
Morning Time Plans: August 2007
MORNING TIME PLANS
August 200
Artist:
Da Vinci
Composer:
Downloaded from Eclassical
Rimsky-Korsakov
The above is the exact file I downloaded. I plan to just have it playing every morning for a while, offer some introductory information and that is all for now. Later I will try to come back and discuss the selections more fully with the children.
Folk Song:
Go Get an Ax
Star of the County Down
Shakespeare:
King Henry VIII
If you are paying attention you may notice that this was our play from last term. For the sake of honesty let me now admit with 2 weddings and a husband working out of town and a few more things besides, there never really was a last term. It happens. All the more reason to make hay while the sun shines. Which reminds me, it is going to be in the 100's all this week. I am so thankful for air conditioning. If you walk outside your breath gets sucked away.
Plutarch:
Demetrius
Ambleside Online is my source for the above selections.
Prayer Request:
Bible:
The Book of Life
Continue from where we last left off. I just read a page or two a day.
Bitesized Theology Great for discussion.
I am adding back in the reading of one Proverb daily since I am not satisfied that my younger children have absorbed as many Proverbs as my older children.
Review M-F:
II Timothy 2:5
Psalm 139
Hebrews 11:1-6
Psalm 4:4-8
Psalm150
Hymn Singing
Note: As the year goes along I am going to switch gears on our hymn singing to incorporate our church bulletin. You know you are going to a good church when you put the bulletin in a binder every week.
New Song to Learn:
Tender Mercies
Songs to review: M-F
A Mighty Fortress
Alas and Did my Saviour Bleed
All Creatures of our God and King
All Glory Laud and Honor
All Hail the Power
Poetry:
The Second Coming Yeats
Review M-F:
Nobility
Solitude
Friends, Romans, Countrymen..
Awaken
The Fools Prayer
Misc. Memory
To re-learn:
The Nicene Creed
Review M-F:
Planets
Give me Liberty
President's Bee
President's Bee
Planets
Reading Aloud:
English Lit for Boys and Girls
Gombrich's A Little History of the World
Fiction:
The Rose of Paradise Howard Pyle This might possibly be the rarest book I own and it come highly recommended by the Bluedorns.
Ambleside Time:
Slow and steady wins the race. Yes, these are the same books we were reading last year.
*Viking Tales
*Poetry
*My Book House
*Little Pilgrim's Progress
I know I have many new readers and I always get lots of questions whenever I post one of these. I don't mind at all answering questions but there is already a vast amount of info in my archives about this subject. Much of this list will stay the same through the whole term but the review work changes each week.
August 200
Artist:
Da Vinci
Composer:
Downloaded from Eclassical
Rimsky-Korsakov
The above is the exact file I downloaded. I plan to just have it playing every morning for a while, offer some introductory information and that is all for now. Later I will try to come back and discuss the selections more fully with the children.
Folk Song:
Go Get an Ax
Star of the County Down
Shakespeare:
King Henry VIII
If you are paying attention you may notice that this was our play from last term. For the sake of honesty let me now admit with 2 weddings and a husband working out of town and a few more things besides, there never really was a last term. It happens. All the more reason to make hay while the sun shines. Which reminds me, it is going to be in the 100's all this week. I am so thankful for air conditioning. If you walk outside your breath gets sucked away.
Plutarch:
Demetrius
Ambleside Online is my source for the above selections.
Prayer Request:
Bible:
The Book of Life
Continue from where we last left off. I just read a page or two a day.
Bitesized Theology Great for discussion.
I am adding back in the reading of one Proverb daily since I am not satisfied that my younger children have absorbed as many Proverbs as my older children.
Review M-F:
II Timothy 2:5
Psalm 139
Hebrews 11:1-6
Psalm 4:4-8
Psalm150
Hymn Singing
Note: As the year goes along I am going to switch gears on our hymn singing to incorporate our church bulletin. You know you are going to a good church when you put the bulletin in a binder every week.
New Song to Learn:
Tender Mercies
Songs to review: M-F
A Mighty Fortress
Alas and Did my Saviour Bleed
All Creatures of our God and King
All Glory Laud and Honor
All Hail the Power
Poetry:
The Second Coming Yeats
Review M-F:
Nobility
Solitude
Friends, Romans, Countrymen..
Awaken
The Fools Prayer
Misc. Memory
To re-learn:
The Nicene Creed
Review M-F:
Planets
Give me Liberty
President's Bee
President's Bee
Planets
Reading Aloud:
English Lit for Boys and Girls
Gombrich's
A Little History of the WorldFiction:
The Rose of Paradise Howard Pyle This might possibly be the rarest book I own and it come highly recommended by the Bluedorns.
Ambleside Time:
Slow and steady wins the race. Yes, these are the same books we were reading last year.
*Viking Tales
*Poetry
*My Book House
*Little Pilgrim's Progress
I know I have many new readers and I always get lots of questions whenever I post one of these. I don't mind at all answering questions but there is already a vast amount of info in my archives about this subject. Much of this list will stay the same through the whole term but the review work changes each week.
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