Sonlight 5 Art Schedule

I am so excited that we will be doing Sonlight Core 5 : Eastern Hemisphere this fall!!! Ever since I first saw it in that glossy catalogue four or five years ago, I knew we wanted to use this core someday. This will be our 6th year HSing, first year of Sonlight. Since we need some hands-on to supplement our reading, I will try to post any hands-on supplemental schedules as they are made.

This is my SL 5 art schedule using Global Art: Activities, Projects, and Inventions from Around the World by MaryAnn F. Kohl and Jean Potter. Most of the projects I chose are of the higher difficulty level for my rising 5th grade, but there are many simpler projects inluded in the book. I think some of them could even be done by preschoolers with a little help from Mom.

Here is the Global Arts schedule:

Weeks 1-2 (Pacific Islands)

Stuffy Cod Hanging (Fiji) p 144
Soft Coral Watercolor (Fiji) p 145
Siapo Cloth (Samoa) p 147

Weeks 3-5 (Australia & New Zealand)

Yumbulul Story T-shirt (Aboriginal) p 139
Mimi Rug (Aboriginal) p 140
Dreamtime Painting (Aboriginal) p 141

Week 6 (Antarctica)

Snowy, Blowy Stencil p 41

Weeks 10-15 (China)

Eraser Signature p 49

Weeks 17-19 (Russia)

Jeweled Eggs p 101

Week 21 (Southeast Asia)

Tet Trung Thu Lantern (Vietnam) p 72

Weeks 22-27 (India)

Clay Stone Inlay
p 57

Weeks 28-30 (Middle East)

No-Ruz Centerpiece (Iraq) p 58
Stone Mosaic (Israel) p 61

Weeks 31-36 (Africa)

Tie-Dye Top (West Africa) p 34
Clay jewelry (Egypt) p 18
Ivory Carving(Congo) p 23
Bambulina Hanging(South Africa) p 28

Frogs and Flowers

First day of Apologia Exploring Creation with Botany yesterday. It was a gorgeus spring day, so we picked up a friend and headed out to a nearby park. Having our lesson under a tree while the sun was shining was glorious! Soon we were hiking around the lake and looking for flowering plants, angiosperms and gymnosperms. The first day with Apologia Botany was a HUGE hit!



Oh, and Cameron the Frog interrupted our Botany lesson before deciding to listen in for a while. Cameron the Frog was a lot of fun, and all the kids at the park had to come over and say 'Hello!' to him. He was a friendly sort of fellow as you can see!

Hot Resource! Miss Mason's 1908 PNEU Weekly Schedule

Scheduling the Charlotte Mason Way

I admit it. The more that we implement Miss Mason's ideas in our homeschool, the more smoothly things run and the more productive we are. This past week I have been looking at Mason's PNEU school schedules for the grade level we will be doing next year. This would be Class II, or approximately 4th-6th grades. Her schedule looks refreshing and do-able. There is plenty of food for the mind here! We are planning on Greek instead of Latin, and science over the summer, but other than that I am following her weekly subjects and time tables pretty closely. We 'school' from 8am-12:00 using
short lessons and a timer. If you've never tried this, I recommend you give it a two week trial. What do you have to lose? After a morning of concentrated effort, afternoons are for productive free time!

We are using Sonlight 5 and most of our 'Reading' will come from that. However, I'm sure we'll add in some AmblesideOnline literature titles and some library finds.


Monday
Reading---(30-60 min)
Memory Work & Poem-a-Day---(10 min)
Bible---(20 min)
Composition---(30 min)
Music & 15 min play---(30 min)
Spanish---(20 min)
Reading---(30 min)
Math---(40 min)
Copywork---(10min)

Tuesday
Reading---(30-60 min)
Memory Work & Poem-a-Day---(10 min)
Bible---(20 min)
English Grammar---(30 min)
Phy-Ed & 10 min play---(30 min)
Reading---(30 min)
Math---(40 min)
Dictation---(10min)
Spelling---(20 min)

Wednesday
Reading---(30-60 min)
Memory Work & Poem-a-Day---(10 min)
Bible---(20 min)
Composition---(30 min)
Music & 15 min play---(30 min)
Math---(40 min)
Reading---(30 min)
Spanish---(20 min)
Copywork---(10min)


Thursday -- Hands-on Day
Notebook Time---(60 min+)
Reading---(30-60 min)
Geography---(30 min)
Hymn/Folk Song---(10 min)
Art and Projects---(60 min+)

Friday
Reading---(30-60 min)
Memory Work & Poem-A-Day---(10 min)
Bible---(20 min)
English Grammar---(30 min)
Phy-Ed & 10 min play---(30 min)
Math---(40 min)
Dictation or Spelling---(10 min)
Spanish---(20 min)
Reading---(30 min)

Now that I have my fall schedule done and books purchased, I can spend the summer at the beach relaxing. We do summer science, but since we enjoy science so much, it doesn't seem like school work!

For this year's summer science, we are trying Apologia's Botany using the supplies kit from Home Science Tools. We will probably get started sometime this week. Dd has a few math lessons to finish up and that is about it. Woo hoo! She is nearly a 5th grader! ; )

***UPDATE 8/5/07
I have tweaked the above schedule a bit from the original to accommodate Sonlight 5 better. You can also download as a PDF here: http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?id=135458

Finishing Up

The year has zipped by. It's hard to believe that this week's history project was our final one! Dd chose 2 projects this week: A Famous Woman of the Civil War 3-D Report and a Civil War Photo Scrapbook.

Here are some pics of the Clara Barton (Famous Woman) report from front, back, and open views.

After reading a biography of Clara Barton from the Childhood of Famous Americans series, she was amazed by all that Clara Barton did! Great job, kiddo!

Her other project was to pick out favorite Civil War photos and put them together in a home-made scrapbook. She used the Civil War Photo postcards from Dover, and it ended up being 14 pages long! It was a fun and easy project to close our history adventure with.

Here are some pics:

This Week's Project

We have been studying the Civil War for several weeks, reading a ton of good books, writing, and doing projects here and there. This week we made Civil War camp postcards. I had dd and her friend write imaginary postcards 'home.' After they were done addressing the postcards, we sealed them with an image of a Civil War era Andrew Jackson stamp we found on the internet.

Here dd is posing as Clara Barton, Civil War nurse. No smiles!

Hot Resource: Noble Call

MACHE Conference

Just got back last night from the MACHE conference. It was bigger and better than ever! This year over 5,000 people registered. I'll post some pics of my friend and I and some conference highlights. (I'm in the white shirt). I enjoyed Chris Hogan's talks (no more complaining, blaming, and explaining!) and found time to do a little bit of shopping!

The goodies I bought!

Chris Hogan of www.noblecall.org

I had the opportunity to attend two of his presentations, and highly recommend his "Courageous Conversations" talk. Check out his website for more info. If you ever have a chance to hear him speak, go for it -- or just buy a couple of his DVD's!

Our Keynote Speaker was Jay Wile of Apologia Elementary Science Courses. I picked up Apologia's Exploring Creation with Botany this week-end and can't wait to get started. The course looks fantastic!

Biggest conference yet at 5,ooo plus!

I had a great time and look forward to the 2008 conference!