What will we be nourishing our hearts with this month?
Scripture
Book of Mormon
✔️Introduction through 1 Nephi 15
Music
English Folk Songs
✔️Beethoven
String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major op. 130
5: Cavatina (this piece was sent to space in the Voyager 1 Probe)
✔️Ubi caritas et amor
Maurice Durufle
(Gregorian Chant style)
✔️Dirait-on from les chansons des roses
By Morten Lauridsen
(Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke poem)
✔️Robert Burns
My love is like a red, red rose
(highly recommended by Bob Dylan)
Poetry
Shakespeare Quotes
✔️Be like the Bird
-Victor Hugo
Be like the bird, who
Halting in his flight
On a limb too slight
Feels it give way beneath him,
Yet sings
Knowing he hath wings.
Art
Children's History of Art
✔️Claude Monet
✔️Project: linocut prints for journals for the year.
Read Alouds
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children by E. Nesbit
Tales from the British Isles
✔️The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
✔️Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
Jacqueline of the Carrier Pigeons by Augusta Huiell Seaman
Picture Books by Byrd Baylor
Science/Nature
✔️Forcing bulbs
✔️Chemistry nomenclature
Parables of Nature
✔️Identify desert fauna, flora from Saguaro
Spanish
✔️Habit 1: Practice target phrase at mealtimes, getting into the car, and at bedtime.
Habit 2: Use phrase in context. When I revert to English, repeat in Spanish.
✔️Habit 3: Write phrase on chalkboard.
Writing
✔️Persuasive Projects ( letters, essays, speeches)
✔️Journal Habit
Other
Lemon Bars
✔️Basketball season
✔️Recitals
✔️Cottage Meetings
✔️Tissue Paper Snowflakes
✔️Tucson zoo, rock climbing, miniatures museum, temple, flight, Saguaro
Week 1
Week 2
✔️Studio School Cooperative
Stem projects (physics: roller coasters, friction lab, milk lab)
Book or Ted Talk discussion
Persuasive writing (letters, opinion essays, advertisements, figures of speech)
Global studies activities focusing on Europe (Roman theater, Irish looms)
Play (tag, four corners, shark minnows, jump roping, sledding)
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