Week 2

This week I am breaking the work into time increments, because there are some folks in my group who are wondering about scheduling and how it can all possibly fit into a day.  At the beginning of the week it always seems like fitting in all this reading will be difficult, but after it is broken up into daily work, the amount is easily handled.  Monday was an odd day, because Daddy was home for the holiday...he always throws us off our game somehow. We can handle it though...we are flexible!

MONDAY 

History/Geography

• I read Our Island Story, the Coming of Hengist and Horsa, and asked for narration-which Truman did while building a tower out of erasers.  (Time-10 minutes) 
• We read the first section of Story of the World-Ch 2 The Celts of Britain-Truman drew a map of their route. (6 minutes)
• Tree in the Trail-Truman read out loud, chapter 3 (4 min) no narration

Literature

• Truman and I read the first Chapter of Understood Betsy, and so far-we can tell we will love it! (15 minutes)
• We also read the second half of the first chapter of Dangerous Journey (Pilgrim's Progress) (10 minutes) Made a character list.
• Peter Pan -read by mom while boys watercolor (15 minutes)
• The Whipping Boy-Truman took this to bed and read for who knows how long....

Science

• Truman read Burgess Animals to himself-Ch. III, and colored the Peterson's reference. I asked about the new rabbits he read about (I read the chapter earlier while I was setting up the day), and he tried to stump me with a question from the chapter (20 min)

Math

• One Mad minute (addition skills) (1 minute...ha) (but at least 2 minutes prep. Find your pencil.....find your pencil...turn the light off in the bathroom...sit down.. )
• Truman continued his graph on temperature, did a whole page on snake pre-algebra (from our district curricula) (4 minutes)
• Played Ticket to Ride with Dad, and kept the entire score (40 minutes total)

Other

• Truman read his Wordly Wise definitions, and did the first exercise. (10 minutes)
• Sequential Spelling Test 19 (20 minutes)

TUESDAY

History/Geography

• Story of the World Ch 2. Barbarians come to Britain, Beowulf .  Colored a picture of Beowulf (10 min)
• Our Island Story-Hengist's Treachery (5 minutes) narrated by Truman.
• Usborne Internet Linked World History (5 minutes)

Literature

• Peter Pan (15 minutes)
• Poetry of Walter de la Mare (2 poems-5 minutes)

Math

• One Mad Minute (1 min) Pre-Algebra sheet (2 min)
• Right Start Lesson 13 Roman Numerals-wrote numerals to 34 (15 minutes)

Other

• Cursive copywork (2 minutes)
• Sequential Spelling (15 minutes)
• What Do You Stand For? Character connection. (5 min)
• Composer study-The Chiming Tower Bells-Truman read to himself, listened to "Anger over a lost Penny" (20 minutes)
• Leathercraft-Truman stamped a pattern and a T into a keychain. (30 min)
• Swimming (70 minutes of fun!)
• Piano (15 min)

WEDNESDAY

History/Geography

• The Little Duke, 2nd half of Chapter 1, plus Truman wrote a character list (20 minutes)
• OIS, ch 11 and 12  The Story of how the Giants Dance was brought to Britain. (The story of Stonehenge) This was narrated with a very elaborate skit directed by Truman, involving stuffed animals, lego men, and a shark hat. (20 minutes)

Literature

• Peter Pan (15 Minutes)

Science

• Chemistry experiment-The slime that ate Slovenia (15 very messy minutes)

Math

• One Mad minute (1)
• Right Start Lesson 14, Multiples and Roman Numerals to 499 (15 minutes)
• Continued graphing temperature...which is sadly getting lower each day...(1)

Other

• Piano (20 min)
• Cursive copywork from Peter Pan (4 min)
• Truman read the 1st chapter in his Wolf Book (10 min)
• Sequential Spelling (20 minutes)
• Peaceful Piggy Meditation-read by Truman to Mom....then practiced by both (10 minutes)
• Fingerpainting

THURSDAY

History/Geography

• Our Island Story, The Coming of Arthur, and The Founding of the Round Table (20 minutes) Narrated by skit with Lego Men (Truman is still on a production high from yesterday)
• Truman read Ch 3 Tree in the Trail out loud to Mom and Henry (who fell asleep) (10 minutes)

Literature

• Walter de la Mare 2 poems (5 minutes) read by Truman
• Peter Pan (15 minutes)
• Understood Betsy-2nd half of Chapter 1 (10 minutes)

Science

• Made notebook pages for Group 14, Silicon and Carbon, read, colored, glued (15 min)
• Truman read Burgess Chapter 4, colored in the new mammals, Mommy read up on phylogenetics so that the chart we start tomorrow is *accurate* (25 minutes)

Math

• Temperature graph, Mad Minute (3 minutes)
• Multiples of 5 and 10, Roman Numerals (Truman LOVES writing out long numbers in Roman numerals, asked for more.) (20 minutes)
• Prealgebra groundwork (5 minutes-kind of a harder graph to interpret...about Trees)

Other

• Kitsap Art in Olde Town Silverdale-Level 2 Homeschool class (90 minutes-1x per week)
• Character connection-more talk about How we show that we care about folks.
• Piano (10 minutes)
• Beethoven story, we have reached the part where he becomes deaf :( Listened to a few compositions) (10 minutes in a puddle of sunshine with the laptop)
• Truman read a Moby Dick pop-up book to Henry. Henry made a bookmark for the story shaped like an anchor.

FRIDAY

History/Geography

• Gregory and all the pretty children-OIS story (5 min) Oral narration
• Childs' History of the World-Camel Driver and Arabian Days (Arabian Days is all that is required of Ambleside Online for this week.  This is why we have supplemented with Story of the World-Truman LOVES history, and AO just isn't quite enough) (10 minutes)
• Found everything studied this week on a map, and on the timelime. (10 minutes)

Literature

• Peter Pan (10 minutes)
• 3 poems Walter de la Mare (5)

Science

• Started our poster size phylogentic tree of the animals in Burgess. I penciled the tree, Truman wrote the animals names, added the stickers from the Peterson's guide of animals we have already read about. (15 min)
• Marshmallow Carbon experiment. yuck (15 min)

Math

• Mad minutes, temp graph. (2 min)
• Lesson on Later Roman numerals and multiples of 5 and 2.  Right Start (15 minutes)

Other

• Visual Link Spanish DVD-Lesson 4.  Truman manipulates this all by himself (20 minutes while mommy vacuumed upstairs) Then I quizzed him.
• Beethoven-Chiming tower Bells, tracks 11 to 15. (8)
• Character connection-Caring (5 minutes) ***We also got to hand out our first lunch made for homeless people today on our way to the hardware store.***
• Sequential Spelling Day 22 Test (12 minutes) We are getting so fast at this, Truman never makes mistakes.  This is an amazing program!
• Read about our Artist, Albrecht Durer, looked at one woodcarving (5 minutes)
• Piano-Theory book and C5 and V7 chords, practiced all of our other songs.  Lessons with Dr. Bowling start next Monday! (30 minutes, Truman and Mommy)
• Surveyed the trees in our neighborhood to pick which one we might want to study and draw all year. (5 minutes)
• Discussed what Truman might want to write a story about.  Our district wants to see handwriting and composition examples occasionally.  I am hoping this will not be torture....but it always has been in the past. (3)
• Truman picked a recipe he wants to make, and wrote out the grocery list.  Sushi. (5 minutes while mommy unloaded dishwasher.)

Mondays' work took about two hours, not including including game time with Dad.
Tuesday 2 hours and 25 minutes, plus 70 minutes of swimming
Wednesday About 2 hours and 30 minutes
Thursday- About 2 hours 25 minutes of work, plus 90 minutes of drawing lessons.
Friday -almost three hours, which just so happens to be the length of time that Henry is at preschool.

What I didn't write about or time is the reading that we do first thing in the morning when the boys wake up and snuggle on the couch, usually one book per kid.  At night before bed we read longer books in mom's bed after they are bathed and jammied.  We read for a loooooong time, usually books from our library.  We JUST this week finished 20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne-this is a big deal-we have been reading it for months!  Truman will write a book report on it next week. Currently we are reading the AO free read- Little house on the Prairie, and also the Buddhist Bedtime stories, alternated with a bible story from my kid bible.
Each day doesn't take only 2 hours and 25 minutes to do school work...I wish it did, but it generally takes about 4 hours, usually starting about 9, ending after lunch.  We take breaks to have a snack, run around outside if he is getting antsy, play Legos with Henry.  Plus... I swear Truman has to go to the bathroom every ten minutes....Thursday our work was all done after lunch because Art took up the whole morning. I expect Friday will be a bit mixed up as well, since we are taking a looong break at lunch to eat at the hospital with on-call Daddy.  Friday is the day they have to wear their camouflage...my favorite day to visit. :)
Saturday the boys will go to Lowes and build their craft of the Day.  This counts as handcrafting!