Ambleside Classical

Week 19 Report - Beginning 'Russia'

This week we began our "Russia" home-designed unit study. Unlike studies done in younger years, this unit is high on reading/writing and lower on crafty activities. We are using Russia by Eyewitness Books as a spine - and the book is gorgeous!

Here is what Miss M completed in her thematic studies this week:


Cultural Studies

Eyewitness Russia - selections

□ “Early Russia” □ “A varied land” □ “Peoples of Russia” □ “Wealth of a nation” □ “A life of serfdom” □ “Orthodox religion”

• VIDEO: "Russia Land of the Tsars" - Disc 1

• Russian Fairy Book by Dover - finished

• Peter the Great by Diane Stanley - finished

• Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743 (The Royal Diaries) - 1/3 of the way through

Science

• researched and gave an oral mini-report on the gray wolf of Siberia

Writing

• Wrote a narrative story about "a day in my life" as a peasant (serf) in old Russia
• Copywork from Eyewitness Russia

Music

• "All About Tchaikovsky" lesson at Classics for Kids

Art

• Using Eyewitness Russia's photographs as a resource, sketched a portrait of herself dressed as a peasant in Old Russia

Additionally, she completed daily lessons in Language Arts, Typing and Math.

We plan to take a field trip to a local Russian market in the next weeks, so I'll post about that when and if we go! We will likely be studying Russia for the next 3-4 weeks before resuming our usual, non-thematic "CM" studies. It was a fun week, and a very simple unit to implement.

Blessings to you!