Halfway through the year with five students, Grade 2 to Grade 11.
*Our extra curricula activities with Homeschool Group are a little uncertain due to a NSW Health Covid restrictions. However we’ll plan for ‘business as usual’.
Timetable:
8am – Prayers & Reading Basket 1– All
9:00am – Table Time: Maths, Logic & Language Arts: Spelling, Dictation, Grammar, Composition, Creative Writing, Handwriting, Reading (Siena)
11:00am – Subject Studies: Science, Nature, History, Geography, Faith, Shakespeare – Assigned Research, Notebooking & Narrations
Reading Basket 1 – Youngers: Faith, Literature, Group Subject Studies
12:00 – Angelus
1:00pm – Lunch
1:30pm – Reading Basket 2 – Teens: Faith & Literature, Discuss Group Subject Study Readings
Mondays
- Writing Club
Afternoons
- Poetry Tea – Tuesday Afternoon
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Reading Basket 1
~Morning Prayers & Faith~ All
- Prayers, using the laminated cards to cover some new prayers
- Read Gospel of the day
- Sing a hymn, each child takes turns to choose
- Catechism questions
- Friendly Defender Cards
- All- St Patrick’s Summer
- Read the saint/feast of the day, Colouring Sheets, Narration
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~Subjects – Independent Study~
Australian & World Geography
- All – Australian Geography Unit
- All – An Assignment approach with mapwork & suppl readings
- All – Continent Study/month – Cultures & Mapping
- All – An Assignment approach with mapwork & suppl readings
- Mega Maps & Mapping weekly
Australian & World History
- World History – Modern History: 1920s – 1930s – Roaring Twenties & Depression
- Genevieve – Paul Johnson Modern Times
- Boys & Siena – An Assignment approach with suppl readings
- Australian History – Modern History: 1920s – 1930s – Roaring Twenties & Depression – Books from Aust 20th Cent
- Genevieve – Manning Clark set
- Boys & Siena – An Assignment approach with suppl readings
Civics & Government
Science
- Boys –
- Siena –
Nature
- Boys – Australian Backyard Explorer – Peter Macinnis
- Siena – Books from Australian Nature list
Faith
- 4 Youngest – Faith & Life
- 4 Oldest – Church History
- All – St Patrick’s Summer
- Individual Spiritual Novels
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4 Rs Daily
1)Faith Instruction/Spiritual – See Reading Basket 1 & 2
2)Maths – Mathsonline
3)Writing & Grammar – All: Rod & Staff
Narrations & Notebooking – All – Huge Daily focus
Spelling – All About Spelling
Handwriting – All – Boot camp with Running Writing
Dictation – Spelling Wisdom
Writing Club – Weekly all
4)Literature – Shakespeare, assigned readings: Great and Good Booklists
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~Daily Reads 2 ~ Separate Gatherings
*Teens – Genevieve, Saxon & Ignatius
*Youngers – Sebastian & Siena
Faith Instruction
- Teens –
- Youngers –
- Siena –
Saints Novel
- Teens –
- Youngers – Vision Books
Read Alouds
- Teens –
- Youngers –
Logic
- Genevieve & Older Boys – Thinking Toolbox