Our School Year in Review
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| Cute girls at the Zoo |
We have been busy around here, busy with learning and lots of fun! It was a successful school year, with lots of activities, field trips and read alouds. We are still continuing onward till June and then will phase into easier "summer school". But here are a few of the things we have accomplished thus far.
Read Aloud Books for School
Year of 2015-2016
Ancient History:
Gilgamesh The King: Retold By
Ludmilla Zeman
Ancient Egypt: Tales of The
Gods: Retold By Marcia Williams
Classic Starts: The Iliad
Classic Starts: Roman Myths
Seven Wonders of the Ancient
World: By Lynn Curlee
Who was King Tut: By Roberta
Edwards
The Childrens Plutarch: Tales
Of the Romans
Greek Myths: Retold by Ingri
and Edgar D’Aulaires
Voyage To the Pharos: BY Sarah
Gauch
Cleopatra: By Diane Stanley and
Peter Vennema
Holiday Reading:
Rip Van Winkle
Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
Tell Tale Heart
The Gift of The Magi
A Christmas Carol
Magic Tree House Blizzard
Magic Tree House Leprechaun
S is for Shamrock
New Testament for Christmas
Story and Resurrection Story
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| We made Applesauce about 3 times this past year, with friends and just as a family |
Literature:
Twelfth Night (picture book)
Julius Caesar (picture book)
The Lion The Witch and The
Wardrobe
Tales from Shakespeare By:
Charles and Mary Lamb
Shakespeares Story book By:
Patrick Ryan and James Mayhem
The Random House Book Of
Shakespeare Stories
History:
Who was William Shakespeare By:
Celeste Davidson Mannis
The Master Playwrit William
Shakespeare By: Haydn Middleton
For Fun:
Zooman Sam
Cupcake cousins
Lemonade War
Flora and Ulyses
Mountain Dog
Harry Potter and The Sorcerers Stone
Read Aloud With Elly exclusively:
Anne Of Green Gables
My Book House Volume 6
The Adventure of Alice Laselles
by Queen Alexandria Victoria
Read Aloud with Brinley exclusively:
Charlottes Web
The Complete Peter Rabbit
Collection By Beatrix Potter
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| Cupcake wars! Hey There is Science and Math in there since the girls made the cupcakes themselves! |
Activities For 205-2016 School
Year: Most of these activities are done with our friends whom also homeschool
1) Apple Sauce Making, with apple
craft, and diagramming parts of an apple, read a book about apples
2) Egyptian Day: decorating the
cake as the nile river with pyramids, made Egyptian jewelry, read Egyptian
story about Gods and acted out parts from story.
3) Columbus Day: Crafts making the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria, Read about Christopher Columbus, Maps and Themed Cupcakes
4) Fall Poetry Party: Students
memorized fall poems, created props and hand motions and presented in a group
5) Halloween Party: games, food
and dress up
6) Thanksgiving party: crafts,
food, story about Thanksgiving
7) Christmas Party
8) Gingerbread house making
9) Caroling Party
10) Greek Day: Read a Greek Myth,
kids then put on a play acting it out, ate Greek food
11) Chinese New Year (books, crafts-lanterns, Chinese New year Meal, games)
12) Martin Luther King Day: Read 3
picture books about Martin Luther King, did a craft, ate snacks
13) Presidents Day Book Reports and
ate some of the Presidents favorite foods
14) Poetry Party: Memorized another
poem and acted it out, then wrote their own poems, snacks
15) Cupcake Wars: Kids made their
own cupcakes, decorated them and presented, yummy fun!
16) St. Patrick’s Day: read about
five books about Ireland and Saint Patrick, drew pictures, did copy work, made
an Irish meal and brought it to Nonna and Pop Pops where girls presented oral
reports, shared their art and writing and shared our meal. (potato soup,
rainbow salad, and rainbow cookies)
17) Fire Safety Day: Read a Book, Made an escape Route, tested the Escape route blind folded, snacks
18) Easter Egg Hunt and crafts
(hosted by our friends the Stokers)
19) Jerusalem dinner for Easter
read with scripture and picture books, and washing the girls feet
20) Reading Recital hosted by tutor
21) Shakespeare Birthday party:
Read The Tempest (kids version) they acted it out and dressed up, learned about
William and had a trivia game afterwards, wrote pictures and poems with quill
pens, sang “Happy Birthday” to Shakespeare and ate cake
22) Harry Potter Crafts, Discussion of Book, Themed Food, Game of Quidditch and then Movie
23) Gardening 101: Learning the Basics of Gardening by planting our own things with Dad
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| Re-enacting Shakespeare's "The Tempest" |
Field
Trips:
August-May 2015-2016
1) 3 day camping and canoeing trip
on the Delaware River as a family with the Beardall Family
2) Lake Nockamixon and Oh Wow Cow
Ice Cream
3) Scarecrow Festival at Peddlers
Village
4) Philadelphia Zoo
5) Byers Choice Ltd.
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| Byers Choice |
6) Rollerskating (2x)
7) Lehigh Valley Zoo (Christmas
lights)
8) Little Mermaid Play (Bethlehem middle
school)
9) The King and I Play (Palisades
High School)
10) Doyelstown Castle Park
11) Natural Museum of History (Philadelphia) and cheesteaks
at Geno’s and the Pat’s
12) Fonthill Museum
Extracurricular Activites:
Elly (8):
1) Girls Scouts
2) Singing lessons
3) Acheivement days (Church)
4) Mother Daughter Book Club at
The Library
5) Tutor: Elly is profoundly dyslexic and meetings with
a reading specialist three times a week
Special Event: Elly was baptized this past September. She also has taken a knack to drawing
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| Elly's drawing |
Brinley (5):
1) Gymnastics
2) Story hour and activities at
the Library
Special Event: Besides Brinley picking up reading fairly well, she has also learned to ride a bike on 2 wheels!
Hayzel (2):
1) Story Time with Mom everyday: Story, Song, Alphabet
I definitely feel like I am in my groove as a homeschool Mom now. We are learning so much together!! I have seen the girls blossom this year.
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