Autumn Themes

With that in sight I'm thinking through our themes for this year. Our trip to Wellington has shaped that.

My first attempt at brainstorming a list of topics gave us 12 subjects and 13 skills - which may of may not be possible in a ten week term. I would like to deal with one idea at a time, not lots but there is no reason why we have to do a topic a week.

In terms of skills,

1. Art - Texture & Colour teaching around an autumn theme.
2. Progym - Theon's 6 attributes and identifying the authors emphasis.
3. Using Theon's 6 as an outline.
4. Diagramming Skills 1
5. Poetry
6. Art - Shape and line
7. Swimming
8. Diagramming Skills 2 Linking Verbs and Adverbs
9. Logic - introduction.
10. Logic what is simple Apprehension
11. Poetry

In terms of Topics

1. Narnia - The Magicians Nephew,
2. The Flood, and Babel,
3. People of the Eastern World - Egypt
4. Historical overview of Science - timeline
5. Abraham
6. How Scientists think/Lab Skills
7. Swimming
8. Other Ancient peoples of the Fertile Crescent
9. Issac, Jacob and Joseph - Birth & Sacrifice Of Isaac Jacob & Esau Isaac & Rebekah Joseph As A Slave Famine In Egypt
10. Science Experimentation 2 Apologia How to Analyze and Interpreting Experiments
11. Ancient India, China and and Africa

I still have to flesh out the details and think through what this will look like on a day by day basis but it is good to have a general roadmap ahead of me.