This year I have kept close records of all that we do, not daily, but yet still clearly for myself on a weekly and term basis.
Here's what we have learned, and loved:
Family ~
Bible stories from Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Judges
John Inductive Bible Study, Ch 1-10 (girls)
3 hymns, 1 carol (December), 1 folk song, 10 Spanish folk songs
Habits of attention and gentleness
Memory: Psalm 1, Psalm 23, Smells by Christopher Morley, 10 lines from Midsummer Nights Dream
Studied the world with Ms Mason's Elementary Geography
Studied trees in nature study (we need to be more intentional with journaling)
Read Aloud: Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian
Read Aloud: Winnie the Pooh
Read Aloud: 9 fairy tales from Lang and Grimm
Read Aloud: Shakespeare's Storybook
Read Aloud (December): A Christmas Carol {The Whole Story}
Read Aloud: Fables by Lobel
Read Aloud: Finished Little Pilgrim's Progress Part I
Read Aloud: 2 Parables from Nature
Read Aloud: Midsummer Night's Dream (with our recitation)
Audio: American Tall Tales
Audio: King Arthur and His Knights
Audio: Uncle Remus
Composer: Haydn
Artist: Van Gogh + 6 living picture books, 9 paintings, 1 DVD, 1 biography
Latin: 34 lessons of Getting Started with Latin, freely copying Winnie Ille Pu (girls)
Poetry: Milne & Blake & Thanksgiving poetry and praise
Mae ~
Exodus through the plagues
Luke through Ch 7
Our Island Story through Ch 21
Robin Hood
Arthur of Albion
Heidi
daily copywork or dictation, oral narration
daily maths {MEP, Life of Fred, Times Tales}
weekly typing
Free Reading: Bard of Avon, Inside Out and Back Again, Mary Poppins, Pinocchio, The Door in the Wall, The Saturdays, The Boy Who Grew Flowers, Castle Diary, Chanticleer and the Fox, Good Queen Bess, Apple and the Arrow, A Medieval Feast, Merlin and the Dragons, Saint Francis of Assisi, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Kitchen Knight, The Making of a Knight, The Minstrel in the Tower, William Tell
Viola ~
Family Bible stories
Our Island Story through Ch 21
14 Fifty Famous Stories Retold
Leif the Lucky, D'Aulaire
Pocahontas, D'Aulaire
James Herriot's Treasury for Children
Charlotte's Web
Free Reading: Robin Hood, Arthur of Albion, Apple and the Arrow, A Medieval Feast, Merlin and the Dragons, Saint Francis of Assisi, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Kitchen Knight, The Making of a Knight, The Minstrel in the Tower, William Tell, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Lola's Fandango, The Boy Who Grew Flowers, Pinocchio, Pippi Longstocking, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
daily copywork, oral narration, fables main lesson book
daily maths {MEP, Life of Fred, xtramath}
Zeb ~
daily handwriting {Delightful Handwriting}
daily maths {MEP, Everyday Number Stories}
daily reading {100EZ Lessons}
daily oral narration, fable main lesson book {illustration narration}
James Herriot Treasury
D'Aulaire
Memoria Press 1st-grade read alouds
My goals for our new term are to spend more time with art, handicrafts, nature journaling, and a musical instrument. We will also delve into creating a family timeline ... I have big beautiful plans for this in my head all ready for Kevin to bring to life, you know, after he buys us that antique farmhouse on acreage with barns and cows and chickens and goats. I'm also going to begin pre-reading each term's books for the girls and notebooking them myself to smooth their narrations and our discussions. I'm really eager for the self-education and the opportunity to pour into my children even more by letting them see me completely invested in their minds and souls.