Here is an outline of our September school plans. It is time to get ready for our homeschool support group's geography night, which we call Homeschool International Night. It is at the end of September. My kids love doing this each year and it is really a fun event. We have decided to do Italy this year since my Father and Stepmother went there this summer.
The little ones have a list of things they will present. First, our Flat Stanley Project has returned from Italy safe and sound. He had an exciting journey, and the kids are looking forward to making a display about his adventures. They will map out his journey and make a scrapbook of his adventures. The children will also be studying Leonardo Da Vinci and doing a report on him. We have several wonderful kid-friendly books about this artist. Additionally, they will be making a flag, diorama of Venice, and Italian finger food. Lastly, they will narrate book reports from Papa Piccolo and The Clown of God. Both of these FIAR books were studied by the little ones last year and take place set in Italy. They will be a nice review.
The big teen's contribution to the project will be a report on an Italian artist and a general report on art in Italy. He will also make an example of Fresco artwork. This will count toward his art history course. He will also be doing a report on religion in Italy for his world religion course. In addition, he will do an essay on The Prince by Machiavelli, which he is reading for his world literature course. All of the reports will count for his creative writing course. Now I just have to figure out the kids' costumes and what food we will be taking. I think I am as excited about this study as the kids are. LOL!
The big teen will continue his usual lessons. I am putting FIAR and SOTW on the back burner for the little ones this month. We will have our hands full with circle time, tea time stories, reading, and math lessons -- on top of our unit study of Italy. We also have another Tomatis loop that starts on September 8, so we will be super busy.
Blessings, Dawn
We did Flat Stanley last year. We sent several Stanleys at the same time (worked better for us...) to the missionaries we write each month. It was amazing timing... one FS was in Burma for the cyclone, and one experienced the earthquake in China!!! Plus we got them back from Tonga, Japan, and Australia too. It was really fun. Anna will be writing these adventures up into a demonstration speech for our homeschool geography night, and for the local 4-H demonstration speech contest. I love combining all those experiences!
ReplyDeleteIt looks as if you'll be 'crazybusy' yet again, but I'm anxious to see your posts. I just wanted to stop by and say what a blessing you are to me. It's always great to see your coments on my blog. I'm not sure how our paths crossed, but I'm so glad they did. Enjoy your evening, Dawn.
ReplyDeleteWow - all the work your kiddos are doing sounds awesome. I can see why they enjoy contributing.
ReplyDeleteI homeschooled my kiddos until their last year and it was fun to be part of group events.
Good luck.
Susan from http://fruitfulwords.wordpress.com/
What a WONDERFUL project !! I sure hope you share more of this. This would make a AWESOME S&T !! ((hint , hint))
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-Mary