Day 95

Kieron

• Creed in Slow Motion -- we finished Chapter VIII , reviewed and discussed
• Math -- MEP Year 7 13.2 -- he got 3 wrong and corrected
• Boy Scientist -- finished chapter on Newton's Three Laws
• This Country of Ours -- The Rebellion of Pontiac, narrated
• Johny Tremain -- finished Chapter 2 and started Chapter 3
• Robinson Crusoe -- started this today and read chapter 1

Paddy

Some of this is from Wednesday.

Wednesday

• 2 Aesop's Tales (easy reader version) -- we "round robin" read them.
• 2 more Aesop's Tales from Milo Winter -- I read them to him.
• A storybook of parables.
• My Father's Dragon (we read the whole book again at bedtime)

Thursday

• 2 poems from Child's Garden of Verses
• James Herriot Treasury -- Moses the Kitten
• Fifty Famous Stories -- King Alfred and the Beggar

Aidan

• Went to clinic and was quiet but responsive with the "team"
• Went to labs -- coped great as usual.
• Helped with fire
• listened to stories I was reading to other people, a bit.
• I wrote another story with him while we were waiting for labs.
• He spelled "cooler" with a little phonetic prompting from me.
  

Day 94

Kieron

• Johny Tremain.
• Creed in Slow Motion "conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary" -- first half of chapter.
• George Washington's World, up to page 28, narrated
• Ways of the Wood Folk, first half of Fox-Ways, commented.
• The Boy Scientist, first 6 pages of Newton's Laws of Motion (chapter 4), commented. This book may run into next year.
• Tennyson, poem #3.
• I'm setting up his math now.

Paddy

• Golden Bible, Noah -- the ark, and the flood
• Paddle to the Sea, chapters 3 and 4.
• 3 poems from Child's Garden of Verses
• He told me about a birthday toy and I wrote it down and had him read it back.

Aidan

• He talked about his Dad going off to town and I wrote it down (3 sentences) and then we went over it a couple of times using phonetic principles.
• He's in a mood -- doesn't like Daddy being gone.

Music (background)

• Mick Malone and Robbie O'Connell -- Irish folk songs.

Year 1 schedule modified from one in the Ambleside files.
Year 1 Schedule (MS Word 2007)

Day 93

Kieron

• This Country of Ours chapter 49
• Johny Tremain
• weekly chores
• The rest of Midsummer Night's Dream from Tales of Shakespear
• The Eagle by Tennyson

Aidan and Paddy

• Literature Primer (trying to read bits of it with Aidan, and then Paddy read some of it for himself)
  
• Worked with occupational therapist -- she brought a concentration game with faces of children from different countries and Paddy and I discussed what countries they were from.

Sometime during the past few days I read Dragons of Blueland to Paddy, The Story of Ferdinand, and The Drinking Gourd. Drinking Gourd bothered him a bit because he didn't find out if the slaves had escaped or not.

We went to the library and market, and Clare found the lost box of old photos so all the kids have been looking through them.

Day 92, and schedule for next week for Year 7

I made a weekly schedule for Kieron -- based loosely on a sample schedule in the Ambleside group files.

I uploaded it in 2 doc forms:

Microsoft 2007
Microsoft 1997 -2003

• Today Kieron read up to page 14 in George Washington's World.
• He also read several pages of the Introduction to Bulfinch.
• He read a Tennyson poem.
• He did math (angles -- he had surprising difficulty -- usually everything is easy for him).
• I read him another page of Romulus.

Still light days as you see but next week we'll be close to full schedule (the jpg shows the details).


Paddy:

• Sleeping Beauty
• The Elephant's Child
• Gingham Dog and Calico Cat
• Macavity
• The Fairy Who Didn't Believe in Children

(all from some sort of anthology of good childrens' stories -- we also read a section of My Father's Dragon which inspired Paddy to go dig out the complete versions by Ruth Gannet that we have around here -- so now he wants me to read those).

Paddy knows how to "add ten" --- and I had him do a bit of spelling from SWR.

Aidan

• Wrote numbers with my help.
• A "together story" -- at the doctor's office -- write and reread.