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