April A.D. 2024 || Week 2

The world's exploding with green and blossoms everywhere. Simultaneously feeling exhilarated and panicked and overwhelmed at there being so much to do + also just generally wiped out. (Lots of emotional ups and downs this week + bad hay fever.) It was still a good week, though. And we got a new vacuum cleaner!! Have only used it once thus far, but very very excited.

Daily

Bible

Beginner's Bible + narration

Memory Work

Children's Catechism

Verse Memorization -- review & Colossians 3:17

Psalm/hymn/song of the week: 

Patriarch Song (Jamie Soles)

Poem: Spring Rain by Marchette Chute

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

Phonics / Reading

Alpha-Phonics by Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Math

Saxon Math 1

The lilacs are blooming! (They make my hay fever so bad, but I'm so happy to see them. xD)

Picture Books (English/Lit), alphabetically

All Things Bright and Beautiful illustrated by Jean Claude

Don't Forget to Remember by Ellie Holcomb

Fritz and the Beautiful Horses by Jan Brett

Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino

Pancakes, Pancakes! by Eric Carle

Our ornamental cherry blossoms

Rotating Subjects

Monday (Art)

Metropolitan Museum of Art: ABC

Classical listening:

more from the Maiden's Prayer album:

• On Wings of Song, Op. 34, No. 2 by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) || mm 24:35
• Minuet from String Quintet in E Major, G.275 (arr. Balázs Szokolay) by Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) || mm 29:14
• Liebesleid (arr. Sergey Rachmaninov) by Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) || mm 32:58
• Rustle of Spring, Op. 22, No. 3 by Christian Sinding (1856-1941) || mm 36:50
• Chanson triste in G Minor, Op. 40, No. 2 by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) || mm 39:35

Tuesday (Nature walk/study)

Saw an intriguing centipede, so drew a picture and tried to identify it. After looking at literally hundreds of pictures (and googling every combination of words we could think of!) we were on the point of admitting defeat... but then brought Daddy in and he knew what it was right away. A Scolopendra polymorpha aka. Common Desert Centipede. Apparently they're commonly brown; but can be blue, yellow, orange, or any combination thereof. (And our Scolopendra polymorpha sighting seems to have been bluer than any of the internet pictures. xD)

Also discovered this fascinating nature site in the process.

Poppies at Daddy's shop

Wednesday (Nature Book / Geography)

Slow Down by Rachel Williams (pp. 40-45: A Sunflower Tracks the Sun, A Game of Cat and Mouse, A Shooting Star Lights Up the Night Sky)

Atlas of Ocean Adventures (pp. 20-21: Dancing with the Blue-Footed Boobies, Galapagos Islands)

Started the NatGeo vid, but the narration was pretty goofy so switched over to the following:

And found out about this stunning creature earlier in the week:

(Saw it on social media then looked it up further and it's real! A microscopic sea slug living mostly around Japan... Definitely a mark of intelligent design. And isn't it just the cutest??)

Thursday (Further English / Language / Myth)

Rhyme / Poetry

A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Gyo Fujikawa

Fairy tales:

Classic Fairy Tales by Scott Gustafson: Cinderella

Also watched the 2015 live action Cinderella as a family <3

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.)