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Annie: Here are some Journey I wrote last week:
September 16th, 2005, Friday
Meeting with Mary at TLC:
Curriculum: 1. Oak meadow-unit study approach/its gentle approach to academics and its promoting creative play seems to suit Sarah’s personality.
2. Moore formula-work, study and service approach based on scripture and character building.
3. supplement with saxon math, additional reading program (not decided yet)
Extra curriculum: 1. “Imaginative express” class with Junior Theatre
2. Gym class with city recreation department
3. Dance class with city recreation department
4. art class with city recreation department
2. Study:
Scripture memorization: Psalm 23:1
Reading: Read-aloud Bible Stories (2) (2nd time)
Simon and His Boat
The boy who went away
The boy who shared his lunch’
The man who helped
A sad day and a happy day
Unit study on character-building: the ladder of life series
Read “Temperance” story book (submission, discipline self-control, resistance, obedience, sanitation, moderation, system, health habits, regularity, thrift, sacrifice)
Social studies: recognizing signs on freeway (roads, arrows and numbers)
Shopping at Trader Joe’s/learn to read nutritional labels on cereals to compare sugar content.
Art: Free crayon drawing
3. Service: Made bed in her bedroom with mommy’s help,
Sort and put away her clothes,
Help mommy cleaning dishes (she cleaned fork and spoon while mom cleaned big dishes, when we done, she started playing aquarium: the sponge is the fish, the sink is the fish tank. )
September 17th and 18th, 2005, Saturday and Sunday
We spent two days weekend with Grandma’s mom and Grandma’s brother at their apartment in Holtville, Imperial Valley. Here are some learning experience occurred during that time:
1. Scripture memorization: Psalms 23: 1 and 2
2. Reading:
Read-aloud bible stories 3 (1st time): God gives his people bread to eat
Daniel and the lions
Baby Jesus and the good news
Read-aloud bible stories 4 (1st time): Joseph and his brothers
The baby in the Basket
Your Big Backyard (09/2005): Raccoon Moon
3. Poems/songs:
指甲歌
核桃歌
向日葵歌
4. Science:
On the way to Imperial Valley, Sarah noticed that when we were driving through the Rock Mountains, there was nothing but cactus plants on the Rock Mountains. She asked why only cactus was growing there. I responded that it appeared to be very dry in the area. It seemed that only cactus can survive there. I went on explained that cactus has a meaty body where it can store water and while it also has needle like leaves that will prevent water from evaporation. Cactus can grow on very dry lands. We also noticed that other plants growing in the area also have a dry appearance and tiny leaves. Sarah asked why the trees with big leaves were not growing there. I said because the big leaves tree will breathe out a lot of water via the big leaves thus required a lot more water than the trees with tiny leaves. The trees with big leaves can’t survive on very dry lands. Around the apartment where the Great-Grandma lives, Sarah has also noticed that majority plants there had tiny leaves and appeared dry and there were some cactus plants as well, different from the plants we see in San Diego.
Your big backyard (09/2005): Apple tree sequencing
Food hunt
5. Social studies:
Around the apartment complex where great-grandmother lives, we saw many Mexican flags displaying outside residents’ windows and doors. Grandma told us that Mexican independent day was celebrated on 09/16 which is equivalent to July 4th independent day of the United States. Sarah and I observed the flag very closely first time in her life. She noticed that in the middle of the flag, there was a symbol of an eagle sitting on some cactus plants holding a snake in its mouth. Daddy told us the legend behind the flag symbol: many years ago, Aztecs (Indian tribes then living in Mexico) asked God for sign of the land that they can build their country on. God gave them this sign of an eagle sitting on the cactus plants holding a snake in its mouth. Based on that sign, they found the land where they built the country on and now becomes the Mexico City.
6. Math:
While we were eating in Subway on the way back home, we were practicing counting to 100 in English and Chinese.
7. Service:
Sarah drew a picture of Thumbelina for great-grandma and a picture of cars for grand Uncle Andy. She made a card with her drawing of our neighbor’s house for Abigail’s mom since she is going for surgery on Monday.
September 22nd, 2005, Thursday
Scripture memorization: Psalms 23: 1-3
Social Study: Sarah and I reorganized her clothes drawers, sorting shorts, long pants, skirts, short sleeve tops, long sleeve tops, underwear and socks.
Language Arts:
Learn poems: 磨菇歌
葡萄歌
草莓歌
Song: Only a boy named David
Reading: The Word and song bible “David and Goliath”
“Kindhearted King”
Science? During afternoon quiet time, Sarah was out in the backyard with Jimmy. She has a plastic jar (ABC cookie jar) in her hand with opening upside down. She said she was going to catch flies that way. She attempted several times with no success. She asked me to help. I tried a couple of times. But flies were just too fast for us to catch them. I asked Sarah to quit. But she said Jimmy wanted flies as pet and she did not want to disappoint him. She thought a bit and said how about letting jar stand upright with the opening open on the top and let flies flying in on their own. Then she said we needed some bait. She wanted to put some Pupu in the jar. I discouraged that idea and offered to put some overriped apple in the jar. Before long, we caught 2 flies in the jar trying to reach in to the apple. Sarah and Jimmy were very excited that they found a way to catch the flies. They enjoyed observing two captured flies.
September 23rd, 2005, Friday
1. Reading: The Word and Song Bible: Joseph: God Put a Dream in My Heart
Joseph: From Prison to A Palace
Joseph: Father and Son Reunion
2. Song and Poems: Joseph Had a coat of Many Colors
Awesome God
磨菇歌
草莓歌
葡萄歌
莲花歌
穿衣歌
大雁歌
琢木鸟歌
3. Science: Read felt book “A Visit to Grandparents’ farm”. Learned the process from milking cow to milk in the store, learned the names of different animal moms and their babies, ie, mother cow vs. baby calf, mother duck vs. baby duckling, Mother Hen vs. baby chicks, Mother pig vs. baby piglets, mother cat vs. baby kitten, etc.
4. Scripture memorization: Genesis 37:5, Genensis: 50:19-20, Psalms 23: 1-3
September 24th, 2005, Saturday
I made a Home school Schedule for the Month of October:
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
7:00am wake up/morning routine
8:00am Breakfast
9:00am Bible story/Scripture memorization Service/work day
9:30am Outdoor play/Game 1. clean/organize
10:00am Home school co-op oak meadow oak meadow oak meadow 2. make/bake food for
main lesson main lesson main lesson church potluck
11:00am Lunch preparation 3. others projects
12:00am Outting Lunch
1:00pm arts Junior Theatre science
2-3:30pm
3:00pm swimming swimming Swimming swimming ballet/creative dance
4-4:30pm 4-4:30pm 4-4:30pm 4-4:30pm 4:15-5:15pm
5:00pm dinner preparation dinner preparation
5:30pm dinner dinner
6:00pm outting outting outting
7:30pm Bedtime routine bedtime routine Awana Bedtime routine Bedtime routine
7-8:30pm
8:30pm Family devotion family devotion family devotion family devotion family devotion
9:00pm bedtime bedtime bedtime bedtime bedtime
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发表于 2005-9-25 14:38:21