Group Lessons with Ignatius, Saxon & Genevieve

Church History – 6 Sections, 2/week.

  • Church Through the Ages – Vidmar. Read about the Jewish and Roman Persecutions, the catacombs, rival religions: Gnosticism and Montanism, the life of the early church, its structure and the liturgy, apostolic succession and the primacy of Peter, the fathers of the church, and the first councils of the church and the church in the west and east.

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Genevieve

All About Spelling – 9 Lessons, 3/week. Looked at Spanish, French and Italian words. We have finished Level 7! This means Genevieve has finished All About Spelling!! Though I do want to do a revision of all the words we’ve covered.

Logic – 2 Lessons, 2/wk. We covered: Analysing sources and Primary and Secondary sources.

Maths –18 Lessons, 5/week. Topics covered included: Algebraic Fractions – Multiplication & Division, Multiplication & Division with Powers, Grouping with Symbols, Factorisation by a common factor and binomial expansions.

Faith Novel – 6 Chapters, 2/week.

  • Lay Siege to Heaven. Genevieve steadily reading, meaty read.

Science – 1 chapter, 2/wk

  • World of Chemistry – Tiner. Finds interesting.

Science Novel – 4 Chapters, 2/wk

  • Mystery of the Periodic Table

Biographies – 3 chapters, 1/wk

  • Marco Polo

Free Read – 1 chapter, 4/wk

  • Jo’s Boys – LM Alcott. Found boring

Art

  • Pastel Drawing

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Group Lessons with Saxon & Genevieve

Read Aloud – 8 Chapters, 4 /week.

  • The Long Way Home – Margot Benary – Christoph escapes from East Germany, makes his way to America, on his way to his adopting family.

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Saxon

Saxon has been putting in a huge effort all term, determined to finish his weekly assigned work, so proud of him.

All About Spelling – 9 Lessons, 3/week. Looked at Spanish, French and Italian words. We have finished Level 7! This means Saxon has finished All About Spelling!! We will now revise all the words we’ve covered.

Dictation – 6 Lessons, 2/week. Consistent and spelling well.

Grammar – 3 Lessons, 1/week.

  • English Course for Juniors. Focusing on Comprehension and Sentences.

Creative Writing – 2 Lessons, 2/week. Working on his Dino- Terror story still.

Narrations – 2 narrations, 1/wk. Wrote about a couple of saints.

Maths – 15 Lessons, 5/week. Topics covered included: Factor trees, square roots, geometric patterns, improper fractions and addition and subtraction with equal denominators.

Faith Study – 7 Sections, 1/week.

  • Catechism of the Seven Sacraments, Lego format. Powered through and has finished.

Science – 4 Chapters, 2/week.

  • Mystery of the Periodic Table

Science Novel – 4 chapters, 2/week.

  • Wright Brothers – Charles Ludwig. Finished, enjoyed.

Nature Novel – 4 Chapters, 2/week.

  • King of the Ranges – CK Thompson

Australian History – 6 Sections, 2/week.

  • Pictorial History of the Catholic Church. Finished Volume 2 and started V3.

Australian History Novel – 4 Chapter, 2/week.

  • Strange Seeker – Keith Willey

World History – 6 Chapters, 2/wk

  • Great Events & People: Vol 9 Bookshelf

Geography Novel – 6 Chapters, 2/week.

  • Stories of Famous Explorers By Sea

Fairy Tales – 6 Stories, 2/week!!

  • Bookshelf for Boys & Girls Vol3: Folk & Fairy Tales.

Poetry – 24 Poems, 8/week!!

  • Collected Verse of AB Paterson.

Literature – 12 Sections, 4/week

  • Queensland Reader Grade 7. Australian History Focus

Free Reads – 22 Chapters!!

  • Mapmakers Chronicles Books 2

Art – 2 Works, 1/wk

  • Art Eye Deer

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Group Lessons with Ignatius & Saxon

Logic – 6 Chapters, 2/week.

  • Fallacy Detective. Discussed: whole to part, part to whole fallacies, generalisations, hasty generalisations, analogies.

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Ignatius

All About Spelling – 6 Lessons, 3/week. Ignatius has finished Level 5!!

Dictation – 4 Lessons, 2/week. Improving needs to study a little longer though.

Creative Writing – 3 Lessons, 1/week. Working with Rose on their epic novel still, using Zoom to chat, edit and discuss.

Maths – 3 Lessons, 5/week. Played hours of Number Quest with Chiara, absolutely brilliant for multiplication skills.

Nature Novel – 4 Chapters, 2/week.

  • Ponny the Penguin. Finished!

Australian History Novel – 15 Chapters, 2/week.

  • Journal of Watkin Stench. Finished!
  • Our Australian Story: Ned Kelly – fascinated.

Biographies – 6 Chapters, 2/week.

  • Amerigo Vespucci, World Explorer Series

Literature – 8 Chapters, 4/week

  • The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

Free Reads

  • Edge of Extinction – Began and finished entire book the last three weeks!!!

Poetry – 8 Poems, 8/week.

  • Treasury of Poetry for Young People

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Group Lessons with Siena, Sebastian & Ignatius

Grammar – 6 Lessons, 2/week

Australian History – 3 Chapters, 1/wk

  • Australia from the Beginning – Eve Pownall. Rather happy with this book thus far, we skipped forward to the Gold Rush and reading from there. Covering parts of history missed out in our other spines, and mostly happy with their language use and representation of our First Nations. We were pleasantly surprised that they even covered the period of when South Sea Islanders were kidnapped to Australia to work in the cotton and sugar cane fields.

World History – 6 Chapters, 2/week.

  • The Story of the World 1 – Ancient Civilizations. We’ve covered: Ancient Greek, the Spartans and the Peloponnesian War.

Geography Novel – 3 Chapters, 2/week.

  • A Single Shard – Linda Sue Park. Finished.

Read Aloud – 15 Chapters, 5/week.

  • The Good Master – Kate Seredy. Enjoying

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Sebastian

All About Spelling – 9 Lessons, 3/week. Finished Level 4!!

Dictation – 6 Lessons, 2/week. Studying then taking dictation.

Copywork – 6 Lessons, 2/week. Continuing our focus on letter direction, improving.

Creative Writing – 3 Lessons, 1/week.

Narrations – 3 Narrations, 1/week. Sebastian narrates to me, I scribe.

Maths – 15 Lessons, 5/week. Topics covered included: table of values, number sentences, multiplying decimals by 1000s, short division and with fractional remainders, area of triangles, squares & rectangles and mass and capacity

Faith Novel  – 9 chapters, 3/week.

  • Catholic Tales for Boys & Girls

Science Novels – 6 Chapters, 2/week.

  • Down the Plughole
  • Magnets

Nature Novels – 6 chapters, 2/week.

  • Willy Wagtail – Whitcombe Story Books
  • Ants

Australian History Novels – 6 Chapters, 2/week.

  • Saddle at Bonthrambo

Biographies – 6 Chapters, 2/week.

  • Davy Crockett – Finished.
  • Roald Amundsen

Literature – 12 Sections, 4/week

  • Queensland Reader Grade 3.

Free Reads

  • a pile of picture books

Poetry – 24 Poems, 8/week.

  • A Child’s Garden of Verses – RL Stevenson

Artventure – 2 Sessions

  • 3 lessons Artventure including a Pirate, terrfic!

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Siena

All About Reading – 5 Lessons, 5/week. Doing well, keen, down to me that we didn’t do as much these last few weeks.

All About Spelling – 6 Lessons, 2/week. Finished Level 2!

Copywork – 6 Lessons, 2/week. Letter direction.

Creative Writing – 2 Lessons, 1/week.

Narrations –1 Narrations, 1/week.

Maths – 12 Lessons, 5/week. Topics covered included: Subtraction to 30, 2 digit subtraction, trading and fractions quarters and halves.

Faith Picture Books  – 3 Books, 1/week.

      • St Francis Poor Man of Assisi
      • St Francis & the Nativity – Strassur
      • Our Lady of Guadalupe – Bernier-Grand

Science Picture Books – 2 Books, 1/week.

      • I Wonder Why the Wind Blows
      • Rain, Hail, Sleet or Snow – finished.
      • Watched 4 episodes of Wild Krats

Nature Picture Books – 3 Books, 1/week.

      • The Cassowary’s Egg – Gary Fleming
      • Tenrec’s Twigs
      • Desert Lake – Pamela Freeman

Australian History Picture Books – 4 Books, 1/week.

      • Meet…Nellie Melba
      • Papa and the Olden Days – Rachel Tonkin
      • Mustara
      • Burke & Wills – Roland Harvey

World History Picture Books – 4 Books, 1/week.

      • We’re Sailing Down the Nile
      • Johnny’s Secret
      • Crazy Horses’s Vision
      • Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine

Poetry – 24 Poems, 8/week.

      • Now we Are Six – A A Milne

Art – 3 Sessions

  • Artventure
  • Painted Wooden Dolls. Did a terrific job! Past my expectations.