Do you hear it? Well, I do! The sound of the Angels rejoicing- I'm done with the year's schedule!!!!
Oh, I can't even tell you how wonderful it feels to a gal who HATES to plan. I always do it because it's needed- but I'm not one of those rare women who loves it.
So glad this is over with.
You can visit my schedule by clicking here.
Like I mentioned before, Laura is in year 5 of Ambleside Online, so we are keeping to that schedule. The way Ambleside gives you the schedule is in a week format ant it's up to you to schedule the readings throughout the week. For example a week in year 5 will look like this on the schedule (this does not include the daily work such as grammar, piano, handicraft, free read, etc ):
The Bible
This Country of Ours ch This Country of Ours ch 64. Washington First in War, First in Peace
Abraham Lincoln's World: 1809 pg ix-x, Napoleon pg 5-8, The Next Emperor pg 9-10, Because of England and Napoleon pg 11--14, Young Creoles of Venezuela pg 15-18
Trial and Triumph ch 36. William Carey Father of Modern Missions (1761-1834) 219
Of Courage Undaunted (Across the Continent with Lewis and Clark) pg 13-20
Explore the Holy Land, Turkey, ch 1 OR Hillyer's Childs Geography of the World ch 1, 2 OR Halliburton
Wild Animals I Have Known: Lobo, first third
Physics Lab in A Housewares Store: Measurements, Measuring Devices p. 17, 18
Spread this term's Shakespeare play and Life (from Plutarch's Lives) over the 12 week term
Poetry of Rudyard Kipling
biography of Isaac Newton to be read over the 12 week term as desired
Pyle's King Arthur: Part I, The Winning of Kinghood, ch. 1 and 2 or Roger Lancelyn Green: Bk 1 ch 1 The Two Swords, ch 2 Balyn and Balan
Age of Fable ch 15 The Graeae, Perseus and Medusa, Perseus and Atlas
In the past, I would have just spent some time on Monday morning recording the readings in a teachers record book (which always took about 15-20 minutes out of the morning), so taking this past week to put it into a spreadsheet for the whole year will save an incredible amount of time next year.
If you looked at my weekly PDF schedule, you would have noticed a time when we will have Family Work time. It is during this time that Timothy and Audrey will join Laura in a history reading. I used Truthquest History (American 1800- 1865) as a guide to help me find living books at my library. (That's what took so much time- researching my library files- so if you happen to have k-3 year old kids (and Live in the San Antonio area)and are using this Truthquest guide just copy the books I recorded. Trust me, I'm saving you HOURS of work).
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