October Wrap Up

This is my last monthly wrap up! It’s been 10 months of sharing our Home Education life behind the scenes, and I feel that it’s time to go back to the good old Paper Journal… something the children can have as a Keepsake. I’ve enjoyed sharing and the conversations resulting from it and give thanks for those who shared their appreciation for it.

I will park this blog here, to possibly share any new resources on the resource page in future, but otherwise, please enjoy this last months wrap up! We have a fully booked remainder of the year, so I feel it’s a great time to stay focused on the family. Here is what we got up to this month.

Thank you for reading. With blessings, Leah 🙂

Read: 

• Who Is Jimmy Carter – 1st Centenarian (Past) American President (Birthday) 
• Miss 10 read ~ Who Was Rosa Parks
• Miss 6 completed reading Ladybird Reader Peter and Jane 10a
• Miss 10 read ~ Who Was Jane Austen
• Peter & Jane Reader 11a
• The Hundred Dresses (audio)
• Joan of Ark by Mark Twain
• Secret Seven books (current series)

Watched: 

• Rosa Parks Story –  https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8vmf98
• Martin Luther King Jr (I Have a Dream Speech) 
• Robin Hood movie: Princess of Theives
• Theodore Roosevelt’s Man in The Arena Speech on YouTube 
• Anatomy and Physiology of the Pancreas

Literacy:

Miss 10: Writing a story: The Life of Fairies

TGTB Curriculum 

Music:

Keyboard & Guitar Practice

Sheet music resource: Piano Song Download website & new EcoTank Printer

Curriculum:

• Hallowtide Unit study (Into the Deep Curriculum)
• The Good and The Beautiful (Science, Language Arts, Math, Handwriting)
• Ladybird Readers: Peter & Jane for Miss 6
• Story of the World: History 

Mama Reads: 

• Then she remembered
• New Testament (entirely again)
• Teaching from Rest
• Read aloud revival 
• The Read Aloud Family
• But Then She Remembered by Katie Westenberg (Spotify)
• Saint Hildegard’s Illuminations
• Navy SEAL Admiral McRaven Speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBuIGBCF9jc

Home Economics:

• Miss 10: Ironing hem of & making dolls skirt 
• Puppy training (recall, find it, sit & stay)

Outings:

• Junior Rangers; Flora Explorer & Minibeasts Excursions at Badger Weir 
• Wysteria Flowering at Allowyn Gardens
• Op shop drop
• Shopping – buying a few odds and ends with Mama waiting outside with Puppy
• Local monthly Market
• Kids First Aid Certificates 
• Home Ed Meet
• Wetlands Homeschool Guided Tour
• Music Concert
• Sunday Masses 
• Saint Therese of Lisieux Exhibition at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral 
• Saint Mary McKillop Heritage Centre 

Health

• Walking dog
• Play at park
• Climbing trees
• Trampoline
• Riding bikes
• Chores 
• Dental Check

Notes from reading:

Interruptions are not equal or the same as distractions and  excel our attention and retention of a task… increasing our focus and short term memory. Studies have shown.

Motherhood is by design a constantly interrupted role for a reason! Like Jesus, we need to embrace interruptions! Not idolise “time”! 

Children thrive on sameness (what we deem as “monotonous” as adults). Built on rhythm. There is Glory in repetition! Recite Bible verses. Learn them by rote!  

We exult in monotony! Like oral traditions of ages gone by throughout ancient to modern civilisations. Seer the truth into the soul! 

Identity in truth means sameness. Not difference. 

Instagram is founded upon idolising the moment! (Account deactivated)

Passage to memorise: 2 Peter ch 1 v 3-8 (Beautiful)

Retrieval (tell n retell) increases learning (Musical Multiplication & Song recitation)

Read a devotional 

Key Lessons:

• The word of God is timeless and timely. 
• Live quietly. Your value is not in being seen. 
• Memorisation increases the plasticity of our brain. 

Proverbs listening notes: 

Wisdom is a woman. Learning through the experience. The pain of the birth of new wisdom brings fruit of life. 

Want to read – new titles discovered: 

• the cabin faced west
• All of a kind family
• Give your child the world 
• Where the red fern grows
• The Wingfeather Saga
• Red Scarf Girl
• Raising Kids who read
• The read aloud handbook
• The delight of reading in an age of distraction 
• Books Children Love

New Resources Discovery: https://www.viaclassica.com/via-classica-cChristian-education-and-western-civilisation?fbclid=IwY2xjawGGQepleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHa2lMLgionMQVYu04jiB5MVrJUk9DXlsXGDAYSqHJzWwCWgzDCTFibAE5w_aem_8txiCwL8xC_nQ-0KkTG_OA

Favourite Bible Passage: 1 Peter 3.3

1 Corinthians 

“There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28)