What We Studied

Between my retreat and a lot of field trips, we ended up having two weeks of part-time homeschool. Thank goodness I built in a break week for mid-October. We aren’t going to take that break, but use it to catch up on some parts of schedule.

Literature and Poetry

We covered a variety of Arthurian Tales for week 8 and then moved on to American Trickster Tales for week 9. I really enjoyed reading multiple different versions of the same style of stories.

Young Arthur by Robert D. San Souci
Excalibur by Hudson Talbott
The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur by Margaret Hodges
Favorite Medieval Tales by Mary Pope Osborne
Trickster Tales by Josepha Sherman
A Ring of Tricksters by Virginia Hamilton
10 Minutes a Day Spelling

Math

We’re deep into Unit 3 focused on multiplication and division. I imagine that we are going to stay on this unit for awhile. I would really like Arthur to attain some mastery of multiplication and division before we move on.

Singapore Math Common Core Edition 3A
Primarily Logic

Social Studies

For history we covered the British Isles during the early medieval period. This was a great connection to our Arthurian tales.

DK Timelines of Everyone
DK History
The Duke and the Peasant: Life in the Middle Ages by Sister Wendy Beckett
DK Eyewitness: Knight
DK Castles and Knights
The Hawk of the Castle: A Story of Medieval Falconry by Danna Smith
Magic the Margins: A Medieval Tale of Bookmaking by W. Nikola-Lisa

Arthur Independent Time

To allow for one-on-one time with Quentin, I have added an hour of independent work time for Arthur. Each week, he will have a mix of packet work (mostly grammar and math review), independent reading time, and special projects. Many of his projects will be aligned with our literature selections (some taken from B&R Language Arts curriculum) and history. This week, he focused on some story writing prompts and packet work.

Science and STEAM Coop

Our theme for these two weeks was camping. We ended up canceling our first week due to a medical emergency and unpredictable weather. Our second week happened, but was a bit abbreviated. The park that we chose was infested with bees. Our lesson was cut a bit short, but we still talked about camping and made a craft project before going and playing at the playground.

Art/Music

None this week

Quentin

I have scheduled at least four 1-hour time blocks for one-on-one time with Quentin. I bought Blossom and Root’s Early Years Volume 2 curriculum to use as our base. I love the variety of activities and some of the bigger projects included. For ELA, we continued our big overview of the alphabet with the letters K, L, M, and N. We read multiple nursery rhymes and did some math activities.

ELA

Once Upon an Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers
My “k” Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure
Kylie Kangaroo’s Karate Kickers by Barbara deRubertis
My “l” Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure
Lana Llama’s Little Lamb by Barbara deRubertis
My “m” Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure
Maxwell Moose’s Mountain Monster by Barbara deRubertis
My “n” Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure
Nina Nandu’s Nervous Noggin by Barbara deRubertis
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff
If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff

Math

Other

High Five magazine volume
Smart Start STEM PreK

Field Trip

Multiple field trips these two weeks! We visited Vala’s twice! I love getting as much fall festival visits in that I can. We took advantage of their homeschool days to pick some apples and enjoy all the activities. We also visited Platte River State Park to walk the waterfall trail and play at the playground.