Ambleside: Week 4 Planning

Devotional: The Bible
Review 1st and 2nd commandments. Work on the 3rd commandment "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain."

Fifty Famous Stories Retold: "Alexander and Bucephelas"; and "Diogenes" (Greek)
Alexander the Great and his horse, Bucephelas
Possible discussion questions: Based on our nature study, why is a horse afraid of his shadow? What do you think would happen if you were mean to a horse, just because it was afraid? How did Alexander help the horse to feel better and trust him?

Diogenes was a very wise man who taught that "no man should have more than he really needed and no man needed very much." Make a list of your favorite things. Which of them are things that you *need*. How is a need different than a want? Choose something to give away so someone else can have it.

Burgess's Bird Book: chapter II "The Old Orchard Bully - The English or House Sparrow"

Aesop's Fables: "The Kid and the Wolf" (pg. 13 in the Milo Winter version) and "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" (pg. 14 in the Milo Winter version)

James Herriot's Treasury: "Moses the Kitten"

Some topics for discussion:
Why did the farmer's wife put the kitten in the oven? How is the oven in the picture different than our oven?
When the farmer put Moses in with the pigs, what happened?
What can we learn from Moses?

A Child's Garden of Verses: a poem every day

Nature Study: horses
Latta equestrian center (pony rides - $8.00)
Craigslist ad posted

Composer Study: Beethoven's Piano Sonata 8 (Pathetique) Opus 13

Artist Study: Delacroix's "The Sultan of Morocco and His Entourage."

Ambleside: Week 3 Planning

Coming up in week 3 (ohpleaseohplease let me do a better job than this week!)...

Reading:
The Bible and Hymn
"Nearer My God to Thee"
3rd Commandment: Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
4th Commandment: Thou shalt remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy.

An Island Story: chapter 2 "The Coming of the Romans"

Fifty Famous Stories Retold: "The Brave Three Hundred"
The story of the Spartans taking a stand against the Persian Army and how 300 brave men killed 20,000 Persian soldiers. As I read this, two lines stood out to me:
"No, we will be free."
"To the Spartans there was no such thing as fear."

Aesop's Fables:
"The Boy and the Filberts" (pg. 12 in the Milo Winter version)
"Hercules and the Wagoner" (pg. 13 in the Milo Winter version)

Blue Fairy Book: "Beauty and the Beast" OR "The Glass Slipper"

A Child's Garden of Verses: a poem every day

Paddle to the Sea: chapter 3
This week's chapter is when the ice melts slowly, forming a canyon, until Paddle actually begins his journey to the sea. The little boy gets there just in time to see his boat start down the hill. I think I will freeze a large block of ice that we can place on the table in the morning and watch how it melts--evenly and unevenly throughout the day.

Nature Study

Artist Study

Composer Study

Foreign Language