I decided for our composer and artist studies, that we would choose Mozart and Van Gogh, and continue on with more popular individuals in starting out with the kids. The reason is, there's a lot more available information for their age level, along with fun books, and easy to find prints and music. And hopefully, later on, when we all know a little more about some of the basics of art/music history, we can join in with Ambleside's schedule.
Mozart- I'll pick up a bunch of resources from the library next week. I decided to start with him, rather than Beethoven in keeping with chronology. Beethoven will be next.
Van Gogh- I have a book on him, and we will read The Yellow House, by Susan Goldman Rubin. Also we will look at Ambleside's selection of prints.
History- I checked out Story of the World, by Susan Wise Bauer (again), which we will read along with a few other resources. I'm separating Bible history to read during our Bible time in our children's Bible. So I guess this is take 2 (or 3 or 4) for history. I'm sure we'll figure it out at some point.
Science- I'm planning to learn about Birds for the whole five weeks, though we may try to finish up our pages of our tree book we're making.
Math- We may just work on Miquon math for now to try to get in a groove with it.
Language Arts- Continue with Sing Spell, and I think we have another Shakespeare story on the schedule. We may also read our first Plutarch. I think I may drop First Language Lessons for now. So maybe I'll have Z choose a poem to memorize in its place. Go back to working on our Handwriting book.
Bible- Read the bible stories that correspond with history studies to both kids. Also, memorize Psalm 23. Also work on Leading Little Ones to God (I'm looking forward to having these discussions with Z), though I may do this at a different time.
That's it for now.
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