New Year

The new year is beginning.

For better record keeping, I'm leaving this blog as a record of the 2013/14 school year and starting a new blog for 2014/15.

Content Not Commentary Homeschool 2014

Here is my example for my kid to learn coding.

I will tell her how the editor works to make the text bold and big.

I will show her how to make italics and smaller text and text in color.

 

Then I will show her how Arial is a different font.

 

The last thing I will do is put in a  link. 

 

Oh, one more thing, let's add a picture.

 

 

8/8/14

Trip to Boston, Tea Party museum, Freedom Walk, time on dock and in kayaks.  Visit with family.


Gathering firewood, watched video on Everybody Loves Raymond in Russia, Young Indiana Jones.


Continued drama program, skate lessons, food bank, national park volunteering and hikes.

7/28/15

saw part of friend's play, spotted fawn still torturing dogs, wild turkey flock, meal to family, Mass, finished Silas Marner

7/26/14

Oldest in Shakespeare camp play, others in library play, park time, library time, amusement park with friends, over to friend's house, home school ball

7/15/14

Four mile hike, saw hummingbird moth feeding in a field of honeysuckles
Library
Carmen in car
Yesterday three hours volunteering food bank

7/11/14

Drama class and playground time yesterday
Shopping thrift store today for dresses for dance and costume for play
outside time
thrift store mandalin played with all afternoon, watched youtube video and looked up mandolins
one of three moths out of cocoon, took apart after he was gone

7/9/14

Oldest volunteered national park
outside time, junk movie time, library

scared baby deer again

7/9/14

Twice scared hidden baby deer out of the brush in our yard (accidentally).
Hiking, saw elk in distance, maybe being stalked by lion?
Finished Three Men in a Boat, excellent.
Listened to "Bollywood Fusions", liked it.

7/7/14

Mass, errands, sleepover with friend, outside time, bugs, individual reading, memorizing lines, "The King and I"

7/4/14

Garage sales, visiting with community, watched Hello Dolly, lots of listening to musicals, individual reading (Good Earth, Silas)

List of girl fiction

up to 7/4

Watched Daddy Long Legs -- companion piece to American in Paris
individual reading, drama program, volunteering at national park for oldest, outside time, playing with oil pastels, oldest turned in writing contest story

6/30/14, 7/1/14

skating, library errands, finished "Cats"

three mile hike with friends

many hours outside

6/30/14

Saturday, hiking with friends, turned in library contest story
Sunday, family birthday parties, extended, Mass, big salad, Cats, book store
Monday, skating

Links:

Keep Calm

Book endpapers

Year's Summary

Will continue to list summer activities, and some is missed here, but a rough summary

Activities -- park time, visiting at homes, hiking, river time, swimming, amusement park, and co-op with friends, probably averaging 4 visits a week
zoo, hikes, museums, some programming, some woodburning and soldering for olders, painting, archery, NaNoWriMo, library contests, piano lessons and playing, quizzes, crafts, autobiographies, skating lessons and play, national park volunteer work for oldest, babysitting, several dramas, typing, Saxon math, Math Mammoth


Books all read together:

Play Piano in a Flash -- part
Life of Fred math books -- part
Murderous Maths
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
6 Minutes a Day Spelling -- part
Ode to a Nightingale -- Keats
Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner (?)
Vicksburg, the Battle That Won the Civil War
Gettysburg Address
The Roof of the World
The Killer Angels
Edgar Guest poems
Ode to a Louse -- Robert Burns, couple more
Our Marvelous Native Tongue -- part
A Modest Proposal
The 39 Steps
A Room with a View
Extraordinary, Ordinary People -- autobiography of Condaleezza Rice
The Hiding Place
The Story of a Soul
The Autobiography of Malcolm X -- part
The Guns of August -- part
A Little History of the World
The Remains of the Day
The Story of the World -- Modern History
Baa Baa Black Sheep -- part
The Road to Serfdom
Einstein's Universe
The Usborne Book of WWI
Brooks, Owen Poems
The Flame Trees of Thika
Proverbs -- part
Kipling stories, poems, part of autobiography
Almayer's Folly (Joseph Conrad)
The Hiding Place

Movies watched:

Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego series
The Elegant Universe (string theory, NOVA)
Shadowlands (biographical, C.S. Lewis)
Life in the Freezer (penguins)
Head Rush (Myth Busters spinoff)
Grapes of Wrath
Gallipoli
The Flame Trees of Thika (colonial Africa)
The Hanging Gale (miniseries about the Irish potato famine)
Rivers and Tides (art)
The Great Escape (WWII)
Hotel Rwanda (oldest)
Victory at Sea -- small part
The World at War (couple episodes)
Castle
many Maths Challenge videos
many The Way Things Work physics videos
Guns, Germs, and Steel
How the States Got Their Shapes
Custer -- The American Experience
Pilgrim's Progress
The Story of One (?) -- history of numerals
A Room with a View
The Maltese Falcon
Connections, several episodes
Sarah, Plain and Tall
The Privileged Planet
Glory
Wild America, several episodes
King's I Have a Dream speech
Under Siege (medieval)
Pim on Mandarin
Roman Holiday
Camelot -- part
Sound of Music
True Grit (old version and new for older girls)
Pirates of Penzance
Fiddler on the Roof
American in Paris
Funny Girl
New York, New York
Phantom of the Opera musical
Comedy of Errors
Hamlet
Casablanca
Midsummer Night's Dream
Julius Caesar
Les Miserables music
Carmen Jones, part
Othello

Books read by one or more kids, or read to them -- usually more than one kid but less than three read each

Brideshead Revisited
Middlemarch
Inkheart
Celtic Fairy Tales
Night of the Twisters
Elsie Dinsmore
Martian Chronicles -- part
The Hobbit
Ender's Game
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
The Lord of the Rings series
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Benet poems
Wool
The Good Earth
Treasure Island
Black Beauty
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Kristen Lavransdatter series
The Son
Comma Sense (grammar book)
Seymore Simon's Mars
Twilight Land
Usborne Middle Ages
Pride and Prejudice
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Dover's Chinese Fairy Tales
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Giver
Sans Familia
Alcestis
The King of Ireland's Son - part
Seymore Simon's Planets
Reddy Fox (Burgess)
Knights
Castles
The Haymeadow
The Indian in the Cupboard
Usborne Planets and Moon
Pushkin stories
Ralph S. Mouse
The Hound of the Baskervilles
George and the Dragon
Little Women -- part
Usborne book of science -- physics
Hank the Cowdog books
The Wreckers
Chained
Strong Poison (Dorothy Sayers book)
Brian's Winter
Brian's Return
Because of Winn Dixie
A Christmas Carol
Sackett Louis L'Amour books
Book of Practical Cats (Eliot)
Stories of Checkhov
The Winter Pony
Gettysburg
Would You Lead the Fight

Plus the girls read dozens and dozens of fun books each

Music studied --

Renaissance composers
Civil War music
medieval music
Taps
Farther Along, several versions
Irish songs (Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill)
Ave Maris Stella
Tchaikovsky
Gregorian and plainchant
Scarborough Fair
Maple Leaf Rag and ragtime
Victor Borge
The Carter Family
June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash
Cab Calloway
Lindy Hopping
Benny Goodman
Peggy Lee
Shaker hymns, gospel hymns

6/25/14

Middle True Grit
Orthodontist appointment
Oldest volunteer national park
Oldest set up Etsy account
caterpillars spinning -- super cool, talked about chemical signals
listened to Three Men and a Boat

6/24/14 PIcs

6/22--24/14

Mass
individual reading
skating
library
Pirates of Penzance
oldest the new True Grit
hike with friends
drama class for oldest

Mexican rail link

6/21/14

Friend's summer solstice party
Found caterpillar, forest tent moth -- years ago brought a mourning cloak caterpillar through to adulthood, looked up this one, set up environment, hoping for continued living

6/20/14

Finished Fiddler on the Roof
couple hours with friends a the river
morning camp

6/18/14

Finished An American in Paris
Finished Rice autobiography
outdoor camp
youngest played with violin


LAST DAY OF OFFICIAL SCHOOL FOR 2013/2014

6/17/14

Finished "Funny Girl" (parents preview)
Finished "Phantom of the Opera" (parents preview)
Finished Hiding Place
day church camp

6/12 to 6/16/2014

Days with school interspersed with activities.
Drama class for oldest two, play for youngest.
More Rice, finished Story of a Soul, individual reading, biography rough draft, final drafts copied and typed
Hiding Place
Day camp, oldest volunteering, youngest two attending
Day with friend at outside venue

6/11/14

Finished New York, New York (parents should preview)
1/2 hour nonfiction
Story of a Soul
Hiding Place

6/11/14 Pics

editing out a passage

6/10/14

Dickens pictures

Books in the Soviet Union

Victorian clothing with video



visit with friends

6/9/14

hours working at food bank
one hour reading, Middlemarch done
Story of a Soul
Hiding Place
library

6/7/14

Story of a Soul, Hiding Place
brainstormed biographies
rag rug
individual reading for library reading game
one hour reading (celtic fairy tales youngest, Middlemarch oldest, Inkheart? middle)

6/6/14

Story of a Soul, Hiding Place
swimming with friends for middle and youngest, car problems
oldest sewed trampoline net together
individual reading

Link for oldest, parent preview, Stillwater

6/5/14

You're gonna miss me when I'm gone -- youtube following song back to Carter family

Followed to June Carter Cash (parent preview)

June and family

Carter family and Johnny Cash

last ice skating lesson
library (of course)
individual reading
local play practice, play with friends

6/4/14 Pics

Painting cabinet, Pollocky

Geography bowl

Hail day

Hair for talent show

Home made archery target

rag rug start

independent skirt project, oldest

last year's picture, framed