History Planning is not scary!

Now don't get all scared at my plans for history. I know it was a lot but I am still working on it. Look what I have so far. I've added movies and magazine articles. This doesn't mean we are doing it all just that it is there if I decide to do one thing or another. I am still not finished though.

This gives you an idea as to how my crazy brain works in trying to get our next school year planned. I still need to look into some books to read and add in some field trips. It would not be any fun unless there were field trips, right? Then there are some more people in history that I would like to go over.

Like I said this is a work in progress...so whatcha think so far?



Late Renaissance-Early Modern (1600-1850)
History Pockets of Colonial America by Evan Moor
The Mayflower(g96 11/22 24-27) Netflix:The Untold Story of the Mayflower
Native American cultures(g96 9/8 7-12)(g2/06 10-13) Netflix:American Indian Homelands
early American settlements
George Washington (1732-1799) Netflix:George Washington:American Revolutionary
Thomas Jefferson Netflix:Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
Pocahontas Netflix:Pocahontas Reveled..Nova
Squanto Netflix:Squanto:A Warrior's Tale
William Penn (1644-1718)
John Smith, Jamestown Netflix:National Geographic:Jamestown


Russia under Peter the Great and his successors
British-French conflict in Canada
the American Revolution
The Napoleonic Wars
Napoleon

the siege of the Alamo Netflix:The Alamo (1960)
Daniel Boone
Davy Crockett

the California gold rush (1848) Netflix:American Experience:The Gold Rush
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/fever01.html

the Lewis and Clark expedition
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838)
Sacagawea (c.1788-1812)


the Constitution (g87 10/22 24-27) the Bill of Rights (g91 12/8 20-23)
Salem Village and the Witch Hysteria (g98 4/8 31)
Slavery in the US Netflix:Prince Among Slaves, Underground Railroad, Race to Freedom:The Underground Railroad
the War of 1812 Netflix: History Channel:The War of 1812

What's for Science?

If you don't know by now, I guess I have to tell you. We just love to go over the Apologia books for science. We are finishing up the Flying Creatures one right now and will be doing the Swimming Creatures starting next year. I have plans for this book too. We are doing some lapbooking for the birds but I think that with the Swimming Creatures book we will just do it as the book suggests.

So what are our plans. Sort of the same thing as in history. The book has 14 lessons and we will do each lesson in 2 weeks. That gives us a total of 28 weeks to finish this book. What will we have at the end of this book? We will have a notebook of drawings and illustrations. My favorite is the ocean box that takes all 28 weeks to do. You do a little at a time and end up with a box of all the animals you learned about in the box made out of clay or paper. I think we will do ours out of clay. Of course, there are the experiments that they love to do. I really can't wait to get started with that because I can just see our field trips....the beach, the aquarium and more of the beach. Oh, what fun!

So here you have my lesson plans for the first 4 weeks in science. I have it all done it takes too much room to put it here. If you want to see more or know more just ask.

Each lesson will be 2 weeks long and it will be 3 days a week.
Lesson 1 Aquatic Animals
Day 1 Read pgs 1-4
Day 2 Read pgs 5-10 do Try This!
Day 3 Read pgs 10-15 do Try This!
Day 4 Read pgs 16-17 do Your Notebook
Day 5 page 17 Ocean Box
Day 6 page 18 Experiment

Lesson 2 Whales
Day 1 Read pgs 19-23
Day 2 Read pgs 23-28 do Try This!
Day 3 Read pgs 29-34 do Try This!
Day 4 Read pgs 35-39 do Your Notebook
Day 5 Read pgs 39 Ocean Box
Day 6 pages 39-40 Experiment

Lesson 3 Seals and Sea Cows
Day 1 Read pgs. 41-45
Day 2 Read pgs. 45-50
Day 3 Read pgs. 50-53
Day 4 Read pgs. 53 do Notebook
Day 5 Read pg. 53 Ocean Box
Day 6 Read pg 54 Experiment

Lesson 4 Aquatic Herps
Day 1 Read pgs. 55-58 do Try This!
Day 2 Read pgs. 58-64 do Try This!
Day 3 Read pgs. 64-68 do Try This!
Day 4 Read pgs. 68-71 Notebook
Day 5 Read pgs. 71 Ocean Box
Day 6 Read pg. 72 Experiment

History Plans

Jackie over at http://www.cenla.net/jwtrue/ commented on my last post and thought I would share how my planning is going with in history. I have always liked The Well Trained Mind because it gives you an idea on how to get your "stuff" together for each subject. I love the lists they have for history. I have a list going on what we will study this coming year. The only part I have finished is the beginning. I am using the History Pockets of Colonial America that you can get at any bookstore. It reminds me of lapbooking and notebooking together. The best of both worlds in my opinion. Anyway, this is my list. Keep in mind that it is not finished. Only the first part is done and we will probably spend 3 or 4 weeks on that. I will include Netflix movies and maybe a book or two. There are also some magazine articles I need to work on getting in there.

The rest of my list is in the making. I have to put events together with people in history and probably delete some things.

Do you have any ideas for me? Suggestions are welcome. *wink*


Late Renaissance-Early Modern (1600-1850)

History Pockets of Colonial America by Evan Moor
The Mayflower
Native American cultures
early American settlements
George Washington (1732-1799)
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
Pocahontas
Squanto
William Penn (1644-1718)
John Smith, Jamestown


Russia under Peter the Great and his successors
the Enlightenment
the agricultural revolution
the British in India
the French Revolution
British-French conflict in Canada
the American Revolution
The Napoleonic Wars
the industrial revolution
Simon Bolivar's fight for independence in South America
the siege of the Alamo
Daniel Boone
Davy Crockett
the California gold rush
the Lewis and Clark expedition
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838)
Sacagawea (c.1788-1812)
the US acquisition of North America territories
Australia's beginnings as a penal colony
the Constitution
Salem Village and the Witch Hysteria
Slavery in the US
the War of 1812
Napoleon

Books

Don Quixote (abridged)

List of people
Charles I (1600-1649) Rembrandt (1606-1669)
John Milton (1608-1674)
Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
Louis XIV (1638-1715)
Isaac Newton (1642-1715)
Peter I (Peter the Great) (1672-1725)
Yoshimune (1684-1751) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fredrick William I (Fredrick the Great) (1688-1740)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Qianlong (1711-1795)
Maria Theresa (1717-1780)
Catherine the Great (1729-1796) Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Betsy Ross (1752-1836)
Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Louis XVI (1754-1793)
Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
George III of England (1760-1820)
Eli Whitney (1765-1825)
Captain James Cook (1768-1771)???
Tecumseh (1768-1813)
Napoleon (1769-1821) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)
Shaka Zulu (1787-1828)
Nat Turner (1800-1831)
Buffalo Bill
Andrew Jackson
Paul Revere
Sitting Bull

A two day field trip

Guess where we went? Do you give up?

We drove past this stinky beach over at Galveston. Take my word for it, it was stinky.
This picture I took for Missi cause it's her beach. Now, I would not call this Memorial weekend a vacation if we were on the beach with all those people looking like sardines in a can so we will wait till school starts up again to go to the beach.
What we did was go to a train museum. This was the most uncrowded place to go to and it was wonderful. Although it was hot at least there was a breeze. That train was a painting on a wall but they had life size trains to go into and see how people traveled back in the days.
The indoor train station had these "white people" all over. hehehe They we actually paper mache. It was neat to see how they made clothes that looked similar to what they would be wearing but it was all paper.
Of course, everyone had to have their pictures taken there. hehehehe
This is one of the big trains outside and as always there were faces.
One train was the kitchen. Amazing how they could work in such a narrow place.
Now I can travel and eat in a place like this. This was nice.
Can you imagine sleeping in a place like this. I cannot even think about trying to climb in the top bunk.
They also had a mail car. The interesting thing about this was that the men who worked here were considered to have prestigious jobs. They were also required to carry guns because of robberies.

All in all it was a nice trip. This was a neat place. Anyone wanna come?

Lapbooking...what is that?

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Most of you will know what this is. Lapbooking is a fun way to do school. If you have ever scrapbooked then it's close to what lapbooking is. We have been working on our Viking lapbook for history and our Bird one for science. Yes, we started two at the same time. It has been fun getting these done and then we have something to keep after we are done with those lessons.

These few pictures give you an idea of all we have done these past weeks. They are still not done yet but I would say it's about 99% done. They did a great job!

Mom, I want a dog like this one

My baby finally broke down hubby. He finally said he can get a dog. hehehe

Edited: This is not his dog. It's my brothers but my baby loved it. He told hubby that he wanted one just like this one.

A Fun Find

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As we were doing our math today and the one blind was open I happened to look out and look what we saw. These birds are not usually in Texas. I've looked in all the books I have and it shows them as during the spring and summer in the northern states and more to the east of the states and up to Canada. Maybe my Canadian sister has seen this one but us Texans hardly ever see these outside. I think it was on its way up North and stopped for a bite to eat.

It seems to spend its winter down south like in Cuba and in South America so I guess to go North it must pass us. We were so excited to see this and even though it was gobbling up the food and it stayed for a short time we got some pictures and we took out our ID books. We even took out those bird/sounds books that Patty helped us get and we were able to listen to the bird. Isaac was excited and helped out with finding the bird.

Now I will make sure to keep those feeders full and see if we get another bird we don't usually get.

Edited: It's a Rose-breasted Grosbeak, forgot to say.

Nature Picture Quiz

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I'm going to do this one with you all. I haven't looked it up yet but want to. I saw this on our nature hike at the Huntsville State Park. I wonder if I will find it? It is interesting. Who will help me look for this? hhhmmmmmm.... Come on girls, don't be party poopers. Leave me a comment with your guess.

Update: This is a female ebony jewelwing. Here is a site I found. How do I know it's a female? Well, they have that white spot while males don't. Well that was easy. Hope you find this interesting.