Far Above Rubies

Emilie completed most of unit 6, still will have a few more archery lessons, carving a canoe, notebooking states, and Texas history. Notebooking the states and Texas History will be a year long project. She has moved on to unit 5. She seems to have an interest in the nursing projects, but if you ask her she will say she doesn't want to be a nurse. I"m okay with that.

I'd really like her to blog about her lessons. I think "Educating Emilie" is a cute name for a blog, but she doesn't have an interest in that, which is strange since she loves being on the computer.

She says she can't remember what she is suppose to be learning/reading; I know I'd get the same response if

she was in PS so I'm not that worried. Although I am having her do more reports, notebooking/scrapbooking for this unit.

She has become much more self directed and is very conscientious and diligent to work in each subject area everyday.

Cake of Education

Okay, even though we started last week we didn't get a lot of actual curriculum work done.
Mostly it was organizing and figuring out what Emilie wanted to do and transferring all that to
a chart. So this week we are ready to begin the stuff she picked out.

I think I was getting way crazy about all the points. It was really stressing me. Once I saw that reading books about the historical period and biographies was listed I had a light bulb moment and said "HEY, I can do this more Charlotte Mason style like I wanted and still have some projects too."

We are doing Apologia Biology, High Way to English for grammar ( diagramming the book of Romans, i'm so excited) and Math separate. But Emilie marked a few things of interest in science and math so I said "That's just extra frosting on the cake of education." Emilie liked that, thought it was funny. I think she added it to her favorite quotes on Facebook LOL.

Anyway, I don't think she is spending as much time on each subject as she needs to finish in the time allotted. We are doing 4 units; 9 weeks on each unit. I want to finish American History in chronological order. Then next year go back and start at unit 1.
So now I just have to encourage her to spend more time going deep and narrow rather than wide and shallow.

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!

A Special Day!

Today 14 years ago the Lord blessed us with a miracle!



¸.•*¨ ¨`*•.¸And she grew and she grew and she grew!¸.•*¨ ¨`*•.¸



I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living,
My baby you'll be!

`•.¸¸.•´¯`•._.•´Happy Birthday!`•.¸¸.•´¯`•._.•´