At a Glance: February Subjects & Reading List

Daily

Bible

Finished through Genesis in The Child's Story Bible (Catherine F. Vos). Really like it, but still finding a bit complex for kindergarten so planning to revisit later and currently switched over to:

The Children's Bible from Golden Press (1962/5) -- does have pictures, but going very well so far. Also started Bible narration.

Memory Work

Children's Catechism

Verse Memorization -- John 3:16

Psalm/hymn/song of the week: 

I Love to Tell the Story

The B-I-B-L-E Song

Other memory work: name, age, address, parents names, where Daddy works

Phonics / Reading

Alpha-Phonics by Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Math

Saxon Math 1

Picture Books (English/Lit), alphabetically

A Thing Called Snow by Yuval Zommer

Cranberry Valentine by Wende and Harry Devlin

Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter by Kenard Pak

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

The Tomten by Astrid Lindgren and Harald Wiberg

The Tomten and the Fox by Astrid Lindgren and Harald Wiberg

Calendula in our Hobbiton garden

Rotating Subjects

Mondays (Art)

You Can't Take a Balloon Into the Metropolitan Museum

(Lots of drawing and painting happening throughout the week)

Tuesdays (Nature walk/study)

Vet visit then took the dog to a nearby creek/river & skipped rocks

Dug in the mud

Observed worms & underside of a woodpecker on the gutter

Listened to the frogs chorusing

Observed snowdrops, johnny-jump-ups, apple and apricot blossoms, and rocks

Chased a gopher tunnel w/the dog

Tree climbing / daydreaming

Wednesdays (Nature Book / Geography)

Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner

Made pepperkakor and discussed Swedish heritage / studied world map / found Swedish flag

Scenic waterfalls dvd

Slow Down by Rachel Williams (pg. 2-9: A Bee Pollinates a Flower, Dew Collects on a Leaf, A Butterfly Emerges from a Chrysalis, A Duck Teaches Her Ducklings to Swim)

Atlas of Ocean Adventures (pg. 46-47: Albatrosses, South Georgia Island)

Thursdays (Further English / Language / Myth)

Cursive handwriting

Lower and uppercase A's

Rhyme / Poetry

Flower Fairies of the Wayside & A Flower Fairy Alphabet both by Cicely Mary Barker

Rain by Robert Louis Stevenson 

Fairy tales:

Snow White & Rose Red by Grimm Brothers and Barbara Cooney

Classic Fairy Tales by Scott Gustafson: Snow White

Violets (also in Hobbiton)

Note: in general, we're currently tracking along with the curricula outline from Veritas Press (swapping out a few of the resources) + trying to consistently add in Charlotte Mason inspired material/subjects (narration, nature study, poetry...) plus, of course, some additional important-to-our-family subjects (creation science, etc.)