Take your Pick -- Lifelong Learning Adventures for Curious Hearts

Take your Pick -- Lifelong Learning Adventures for Curious Hearts
" It is almost impossible to go through a whole day without learning something .. " so go ahead, take your pick and start your journey .. Lifelong Learning Adventures inspired by Charlotte Mason Homeschooling with a Living Books Curriculum

Sunday, August 26, 2012

CM Audiobooks YEAR 6 - Charlotte Mason Homeschooling with Living Books Curriculum

CM Audiobooks YEAR 6 - Charlotte Mason Homeschooling with Living Books Curriculum

Our Family loves Living Books and Particularly Audiobooks as they allow us to follow chapters as we travel in the car, in the bathtub and listening in the garden... es and even in the dark under the duvet :-)
Here are our choices for our combo year 6

 20.000 Leagues under the Sea 
by  Jules Verne
Captain Nemo, The Nautilus, and the mysterious depths of the ocean. Unforgettable. Come join an adventure that will roam among coral and pearls, sharks and giant squid, with wonders of biology and engineering that will thrust us from the Antarctic to Atlantis. Whether voyaging a yarn of the glorious unknown, a tale of the darkness that grips the heart of men, or a reinterpretation of Homer’s Odyssey, we’ll all enjoy the fantastic trip. Seasickness optional. (Summary by Marlo Dianne)

Librivox 20.000 Leagues under the Sea Audiobook
  http://librivox.org/twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-sea-by-jules-verne/


The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain


The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River, and its sober and often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.
The book has been popular with young readers since its publication, and taken as a sequel to the comparatively innocuous The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It has also been the continued object of study by serious literary critics. Although the Southern society it satirized was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book immediately became controversial, and has remained so to this day. (Summary from Wikipedia)Librivox The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Audiobook

http://librivox.org/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-version-3/


The Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann David Wyss

The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the right stuff” and builds a charming colony that later, they do not want to leave. Cut off from the comforts and companionship of other humans, they use a familiarity with natural history and biology to find the resources and build the tools to construct a canoe, weave cloth, irrigate a garden, and turn an immense hollow tree into a lofty house with a spiral staircase. They domesticate buffaloes, wild asses, and monkeys. They establish farms and plantations. And finally, they have a terrifying encounter with natives from a nearby island


http://librivox.org/the-swiss-family-robinson-by-johann-david-wyss/

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Thomas Hardy Biography - Poetry Study for Charlotte Mason Homeschooling

Thomas Hardy Biography - Poetry Study for Charlotte Mason Homeschooling


Thomas Hardy 

~ Birthplace and Education Video




Thomas Hardy's Birthplace and Education



Thomas Hardy 

~ First Writing Career Video





Thomas Hardy's First Writing Career



Thomas Hardy 

~ Marital DepressionVideo




Thomas Hardy's Marital Depression




Thomas Hardy 

~ Thomas Hardy The Finals Years Video


Thomas Hardy - Poetry Study with Charlotte Mason Homeschooling

Thomas Hardy Poems- Poetry Study with Charlotte Mason Homeschooling 


Thomas Hardy Poems
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  • " Wagtail and Baby"
~ our printable Poem Notebooking Page
~ notes to the poem
~ Free Download of our Notebooking Page Worksheet
WAGTAIL AND BABY - Thomas Hardy Poem


Thomas Hardy Poem



  • " The Shadow on the Stone" 
~ our printable Poem Notebooking Page
~ notes to the poem
~ Free Download of our Notebooking Page Worksheet
THE SHADOW AND THE STONE - Thomas Hardy Poem



Thomas Hardy Bio
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Thomas Hardy Poem The Shadow on the Stone - Printable Poems for Kids - Poet Study

Thomas Hardy Poem The Shadow on the Stone - Printable Poems for Kids - Poet Study


" The Shadow on the Stone"
by Thomas Hardy


I went by the Druid stone
That broods in the garden white and lone,   
And I stopped and looked at the shifting shadows   
That at some moments fall thereon
From the tree hard by with a rhythmic swing,   
And they shaped in my imagining
To the shade that a well-known head and shoulders   
Threw there when she was gardening.

I thought her behind my back,
Yea, her I long had learned to lack,
And I said: ‘I am sure you are standing behind me,   
Though how do you get into this old track?’   
And there was no sound but the fall of a leaf   
As a sad response; and to keep down grief
I would not turn my head to discover
That there was nothing in my belief.

Yet I wanted to look and see
That nobody stood at the back of me;
But I thought once more: ‘Nay, I’ll not unvision   
A shape which, somehow, there may be.’   
So I went on softly from the glade,
And left her behind me throwing her shade,   
As she were indeed an apparition—
My head unturned lest my dream should fade.


Printable Poems for Kids
Thomas Hardy - The Shadow and the Stone
Free Notebooking Pages - click on image to enlarge and free download to print



AUDIO READING of " The Shadow on the Stone " Poem
~ the Poetry Foundaton has and Audio Recording of a reading of the Poem
" The Shadow on the Stone by Thomas Hardy"
~ Hear the Audio Recording
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audioitem/2730


~ see the rest of our Thomas Hardy Poem Collection for Homeschooling Poetry Study


Thomas Hardy Poem The Shadow on the Stone - Printable Poems for Kids - Poet Study

Thomas Hardy Poem Wagtail and Baby - Printable Poems for Kids - Poet Study

Thomas Hardy Poem - Wagtail and Baby 
Printable Poems for Kids - Poet Study



Wagtail And Baby
by Thomas Hardy 
A baby watched a ford, whereto
A wagtail came for drinking;
A blaring bull went wading through,
The wagtail showed no shrinking.
A stallion splashed his way across,
The birdie nearly sinking;
He gave his plumes a twitch and toss,
And held his own unblinking.
Next saw the baby round the spot
A mongrel slowly slinking;
The wagtail gazed, but faltered not
In dip and sip and prinking.

A perfect gentleman then neared;
The wagtail, in a winking,
With terror rose and disappeared;
The baby fell a-thinking.


Printable Poems for Kids
Thomas Hardy - Wagtail and Baby
Free Notebooking Pages - click on image to enlarge and free download to print

Thomas Hardy Poem - Wagtail and Baby

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see the rest of our Thomas Hardy Poem Collection for Homeschooling Poetry Study
Thomas Hardy Poem Wagtail and Baby - Printable Poems for Kids - Poet Study

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Tides Lessonplan Ideas - Pagoo Charlotte Mason Homeschooling




Websites to Research


QUESTIONS TO ANSWER
  1. What is inertia?
  2. How does the moon create a bulge?
  3. What causes a bulge to be created on the opposite side of the Earth or the “far side” from the moon?

QUESTIONS TO ANSWER
  1. Describe how changes in the relative positions of the moon and sun change in relation to the Earth?
  2. At what point is the sun at its minimum declination and its maximum declination?
  1. Compare and contrast a solar and lunar day. How long is a lunar day?
  2. Why do most coastal areas experience two high tides and two low tides?
  3. How long does it take for high tide to occur? How long is the time between low and high tide?