Bella Birthday with the Grammas, 2010

Bella and Clover Club

May 27 Clover Club spent the day together at a members home and learned about horses, got to ride a horse and painted horse shoes. It was a fun day for us all.

School Week

Click to see Bella's Lesson plans for the past week. And here are our plans for this week (10/19-10/23)

~Sisters~

10/12-10/16

Bible-AWANA, Missionaries

Literature-Calico Captive

Grammar-LLATL-dictation, creative writing

Math

History-New Jersey, N & S Carolina, Pirates, The Story of the Thirteen Colonies ch. 44, This Country of Ours Ch 38, timeline

Science-Test unit 2, Start unit 3, 4 experiments

Home Economics-Apple Crisp

I'm seriously thinking about adding MuGuffey readers.

Learning at Home 9/21-9/25

Bella~

Bible-AWANA Matthew 6:9-13

Character-Hero Tales-Tyndale

History/Social Studies-Middle Ages, Industrial Revolution, Modern Times, People Around the World, John Oglethorpe

Science-Rainforest, Oceans, Waves, Currents, Coast

Math-word problems

Reading-Besty and Tacy

Literature-poems, James Harriot Bonny's Big Day & Only One Woof, fiction/non-fiction

Grammar-capital I, copywork

Spelling-Lesson 4; Explode the Code book 5

Free Reading- Clarice Bean, The Swan Princess

~The Sisters~

Bible-AWANA

Literature-Finished Amos Fortune, started Calico Captive

Grammar-Dictation, topic sentence, paragraph,

Math

History-Baroque Art, Charles I & Cromwell

Science-review and test

Home Economics-clean house, entertain guests

Free Reading-Emilie-Sister of the Bride, Olivia-Warriors Into the Wild

Another week of learning

Time sure is flying!

~Bella school week~

AWANA

History/Geography-Virginia notebook sheets, World timeline overveiw, Egypt, Rome

Science-Reading and notebooking about Volcanoes, Rivers, Mountains, Deserts, Grasslands

Math- counting by 5 and story problems

Reading- finished The Boxcar Children

Spelling-100% & Explode the Code book 5

LLATL- rhymes, opposites, copywork

Literature-Poems, rhymes, copywork

~Sisters school week~

Emilie said 2 sections in Journey (HS AWANA) and 1.5 sections in T&T

LLATL-The Eagle dictation, similies

Literature-Amos Fortune, Free Man-excellent book

History-Virginia state sheets, Native Americans, John Eliot-missionary to the Native Americans, Read Story of the Thirteen Colonies chapters 2 and 3, Time Line states studied so far-Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine.

Reading-Emilie read Alice in Wonderland Olivia is reading Harry Potter

Science-study questions, chapter summary worksheets

Olivia and Bella got a hair cut. Super Cute!

Recent Happenings-Bella's Birthday

Just a bunch of Birthday pictures.

Bella's birthday!

Pictures to come!

Fell off the FIAR wagon

I don't know exactly when it happened but I fell off the FIAR wagon. I still love the the curriculum, but after a couple weeks of not being able to find the books at either local library, I just stopped trying. I didn't abandon 1st grade though. Bella read daily, did Explode the Code, copywork and math.



I had Classics At Home on the shelf so brought that down and started using it. It is very "Charlotte Mason" We read a story, do vocab aloud, do some narration, answer questions, do further research about animals, do copywork. At times other subjects like "social studies", and nature walks/journals are brought in. So I'm going to be going back and forth between FIAR and CAH.