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Saturday, April 25, 2009

Autumn Topics



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 - Form
  7. Swimming
  8. Diagramming Skills 2
  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. Narnia The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
  9. Other Ancient peoples of the Fertile Crescent
  10. Issac, Jacob and Joseph
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.

1 comment:

  1. Wow, I am so glad they start out with preschool. I am homeschooling my little ones and when I look ahead @ what you other moms are doing with your older children I get overwhelmed. I definately don't have it all together like that. I love learning from you all just the same.

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