Monday, September 08, 2008

Boys September

So, I have been lax with planning material for the boys because I thought we'd be starting much later and we probably still will.

September
Finish Master Puppeteer (Japan)
Finish Commodore PErry in the Land of the SHogun
Read Born in the YEar of Courage (Japan) Pike
Read The House of the 60 Fathers (Japan) Jesse Pike
Explore the culture, feudal system and city of Edo in virtual tour

order this book and find someone to scan pages in until I can get the book myself

Continue to read Tales of a Korean Grandmother (Korea) for TTT
Read The Kite Fighters (Korea) Jesse Pike

(after China)
maybe we should start in on Ancients and let these books be readers
Finish Glorious Age in Africa
Read Journey to Jo'Burg (Africa) Jesse Pike
Read Island of the Blue Dolphins (California) Pike
Read Around the World in 80 Days Pike
Read Water Sky (First Nation) Pike

Start WJ Dictations
Start WJ Communication Game
Continue TTT
Continue FF
Continue Copywork

Continue Teaching Textbooks

Add Art day weekly (waiting materials)

week of Sept 22
week of Sept 29
week of Oct

Sunday, September 07, 2008

Girls dip into Egypt and Mesopotamia

yikes, I need to totally re-do this I think but my brain is full...

Science for the Girls
Storybook of Science
Seed Babies

Story of Mankind (SOM) Chapters 1-3
create a timeline

SOM chapter 4
SOTW Chapter 2 (Egypt)
SOTW AG for chapter 2 until I get a hardcopy
Usborne ILWH pages 114-117, 134-139 and quicklinks
send postcards
CHOA Chapters 2

Read at least to page 7 of History of Religion (pdf on black drive) or up to page 12

SOM Chapter 5-6
SOTW Chapter 4 (Egypt)
SOTW AG
Tut's Mummy Lost and Found
Explore Mr Donn's Egypt
Read up to page 12 of History of Religion

SOTW Chapter 3 (Egypt)
SOTW AG for chapter 3 until I get a hardcopy
A Place in the Sun
Classical Kids: An Activity Guide (don't I have Egypt already?)
Ancient Egpyt Treasure Chest (not sure)
when bored don't forget Storynory

SOM Chapter 7-8
SOTW Chapter 5, 6 (Mesopotamia)
SOTW AG chapter 5, 6
Gilgamesh the King trilogy
Usborne ILHW pages 111-113
use quicklinks for Usborne book
CHOA Chapter 3
Explore Mr. Donn's Mesopotamia site
History Pockets Mesopotamia ?

From Unschooling to Homeschooling

I have decided to start this blog up again but it will be our homeschooling blog. I'll be changing the links and posts and stuff but I'll keep blogging day to day stuff at http://www.hopalog.com. Don't want to buy another domain name just for homeschooling.

I'll write a post about why I've decided to give homeschooling a try after years of radically unschooling but for now I need to brain dump.

I might come back and update this with the above journey. That would make sense.