Ambleside Schedule 2009/2010
Term 1:
Artist:
Jan Van Eyck (1395-1441) Flemish Northern Renaissance (composer Saint-Saens and Berlioz, Early Romantic)
The Crucifixion and The Last Judgement are two of Van Eyck's most important and well-known works; however, they're gruesome, so alternatives have been suggested along with them.
1. The Crucifixion, 1425-30 OR Birth of John the Baptist, 1422
2. The Last Judgement, 1425-30 OR Madonna with Child Reading, 1433
3. Adoration of the Lamb (From the Ghent Altarpiece, 1425-30)
4. The Annunciation
5. Arnolfini Wedding, 1434
6. Man in a Red Turban, 1433
Composer:
Edvard Grieg (1890) & Jean Sibelius (nationalists)
Listening selections for this term:
Grieg Peer Gynt Suite no 1
Grieg Piano Concerto in A
Grieg Norwegian Dance no 2
Sibelius Finlandia
Sibelius Symphony 1 OR 2 (4 weeks)
Plutarch: Aristides/ Coriolanus
Shakespeare: Finish Cymbeline/ Coriolanus
Folk Song: The Old Oaken Bucket
Term 2:
Artist:
John Singer Sargeant (1856-1925) American
Composer:
Liszt, Romantic
Franz Liszt (1855) (Early Romantic)
Listening selections for this term:
Piano Concerto no 1
Hungarian Rhapsodies (esp no 2)
Les Preludes
Liebestraum for piano
Piano Sonata in B min
Mephisto Waltz
Plutarch: Cato the Censor
Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Folk Song: The Jam on Gerry's Rocks
Term 3:
Composer:
Maurice Ravel (1915) (Impressionist)
Listening selections for this term:
Daphne et Chloe - selections
Bolero
Mother Goose Suite
Pavane pour une infante dufunte
Piano Concerto in D for left hand
Rhapsody espagnole
Artist:
Claude Monet (1840-1926) French Impressionist
Plutarch: Romolus
Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus
Folk Song: Farewell to Nova Scotia, Land of the Silver Birch
Friday, September 4, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Morning Time September 2009
Artist:
Rembrandt's Self Portraits
Composer:
Bach's Mass in B Minor
Folk Song:
Working on incorporating these into our morning.
Shakespeare:
Cymbeline (Yes, leftover from last year)
Plutarch:
Aristides
Bible Time:
Proverb of the day
Psalm 100 (relearn)
Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World
Review this week:
I John 4:1-11
Proverbs 4:10-17
Proverbs 20:11
Hymns:
Review:
Great is the Lord our God (Soldiers of Christ Arise tune)
Psalm 98 (Book of Psalms for Singing) This is one we actually sound halfway decent on.
I Love Thy Church, O Lord
O, Thou in Whose Presence
Let us With a Gladsome Mind
Poetry:
Read and discuss one poem a day from 101 Famous Poems
Learn Poem from Cymbeline
Fear no more the heat o' the sun;
Nor the furious winter's rages,
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney sweepers come to dust.
Fear no more the frown of the great,
Thou art past the tyrant's stroke:
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The sceptre, learning, physic, must
All follow this, and come to dust.
Fear no more the lightning-flash,
Nor the all-dread thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan;
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.
No exorciser harm thee!
Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Nothing ill come near thee!
Quiet consummation have;
And renowned be thy grave!
William Shakespeare
Review:
The Gift by Christina Rossetti
Keep a' Goin'
Be Strong Babcock
Trees Kilmer
How Did you Die?
Miscellaneous Memory:
The US Oath of Citizenship
Review:
Ambleside Creed
Presidents Bee
West Point Cadet's Prayer
Apostle's Creed
Contemplate by Sam Adams
Reading Aloud:
Mother Tongue II with all children
Little Boys:
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (Don't let Disney rob you of this one.)
The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Fabulously written book, if a tiny bit blunt. Not for everyone but excellent all the same.
A History for Peter: America is born, America Grows Up, and America Moves Forward (3 volume set)
(Some object to Johnson's editorial viewpoint. I just use his opinions as a way to open discussions with the boys.)
These 3 books are all so well-written that our reading time is a joy this year. For some reason this combination of books is one of the most successful combinations I have ever employed in Morning Time.
Rembrandt's Self Portraits
Composer:
Bach's Mass in B Minor
Folk Song:
Working on incorporating these into our morning.
Shakespeare:
Cymbeline (Yes, leftover from last year)
Plutarch:
Aristides
Bible Time:
Proverb of the day
Psalm 100 (relearn)
Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World
Review this week:
I John 4:1-11
Proverbs 4:10-17
Proverbs 20:11
Hymns:
Review:
Great is the Lord our God (Soldiers of Christ Arise tune)
Psalm 98 (Book of Psalms for Singing) This is one we actually sound halfway decent on.
I Love Thy Church, O Lord
O, Thou in Whose Presence
Let us With a Gladsome Mind
Poetry:
Read and discuss one poem a day from 101 Famous Poems
Learn Poem from Cymbeline
Fear no more the heat o' the sun;
Nor the furious winter's rages,
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney sweepers come to dust.
Fear no more the frown of the great,
Thou art past the tyrant's stroke:
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The sceptre, learning, physic, must
All follow this, and come to dust.
Fear no more the lightning-flash,
Nor the all-dread thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan;
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.
No exorciser harm thee!
Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Nothing ill come near thee!
Quiet consummation have;
And renowned be thy grave!
William Shakespeare
Review:
The Gift by Christina Rossetti
Keep a' Goin'
Be Strong Babcock
Trees Kilmer
How Did you Die?
Miscellaneous Memory:
The US Oath of Citizenship
Review:
Ambleside Creed
Presidents Bee
West Point Cadet's Prayer
Apostle's Creed
Contemplate by Sam Adams
Reading Aloud:
Mother Tongue II with all children
Little Boys:
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (Don't let Disney rob you of this one.)
The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Fabulously written book, if a tiny bit blunt. Not for everyone but excellent all the same.A History for Peter: America is born, America Grows Up, and America Moves Forward (3 volume set)
(Some object to Johnson's editorial viewpoint. I just use his opinions as a way to open discussions with the boys.)These 3 books are all so well-written that our reading time is a joy this year. For some reason this combination of books is one of the most successful combinations I have ever employed in Morning Time.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Morning Time Plans September 2008
Artist:
Van Gogh
Composer:
Bach
Bach Cello Suites from eClassical
Folk Songs:
Follow the Drinking Gourd
An Emigrant's Daughter
Shakespeare:
Love's Labour's Lost
Here I will admit this least favorite play of many is one of my favorites. The word play is just jolly good fun.
Plutarch:
Camillus
Grammar Moment:
Mother Tongue II
Bible Time:
I am using a book that my friend Linda gave me called Suffer Little Children Book 3 by Gertrude Hoeksema. We go through one lesson a week. We were taking such a long time to get through OT, I thought it was high time we studied the life of Christ. I highly recommend this study.
We are still in Psalm 91 because basically after last March our life fell apart. We had company for over a month last spring with lots of family visits during school spring breaks. Then my mom had a brain aneurysm. The good news is that she is home and though recovering, alive and well.
Review:
Romans 6
Books of the Bible
Psalm 20
Psalm 23
Hymns:
Non Nobis Domine
Review:
Rock of Ages ( I wish people would quit messin' with this one. The original poetry was spot-on)
O, Sacred Head
Saviour Like a Shepherd Lead Us
Softly and Tenderly
Soldiers of Christ Arise
Poetry:
Finishing finally How Sweet the Moonlight and The Man that Hath no Music from The Merchant of Venice.
Review:
I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General Here is a clip of the song...we don't sing it....with Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline.
The 2nd Coming Yeats
Horatius at the Bridge. Good news: you can find this at Librivox which saves some breath.
To Be a Pilgrim. I may add this to our list to re-memorize. It is by John Bunyan and I like it!
Where the Boats Go. RLS
Misc Memory:
Presidents Biographies. From the back of The Buck Stops Here
. One a day. We just did Abe Lincoln.
Review:
Presidents Bee
Bill of Rights #s 7,8,9,10
Gettysburg Address
Reading Aloud:
While we did finish about 20 books last year, you will be happy to see we really are going very slow through some of these.
English Literature for Boys and Girls. I hope to finish this one up soon. We are on Burns.
The Little History of the World. Also coming to a close.
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom. Probably shouldn't have started this last year but I didn't know how the year would end up. This book is on my top ten list.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
Pilgrim Stories by Margaret Pumphrey
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Rod and Staff Manners 2nd Grade. I have this very, very old workbook from R&S and I just love it for teaching manners and hygiene. We discuss one page a week.
Van Gogh
Composer:
Bach
Bach Cello Suites from eClassical
Folk Songs:
Follow the Drinking Gourd
An Emigrant's Daughter
Shakespeare:
Love's Labour's Lost
Here I will admit this least favorite play of many is one of my favorites. The word play is just jolly good fun.
Plutarch:
Camillus
Grammar Moment:
Mother Tongue II
Bible Time:
I am using a book that my friend Linda gave me called Suffer Little Children Book 3 by Gertrude Hoeksema. We go through one lesson a week. We were taking such a long time to get through OT, I thought it was high time we studied the life of Christ. I highly recommend this study.
We are still in Psalm 91 because basically after last March our life fell apart. We had company for over a month last spring with lots of family visits during school spring breaks. Then my mom had a brain aneurysm. The good news is that she is home and though recovering, alive and well.
Review:
Romans 6
Books of the Bible
Psalm 20
Psalm 23
Hymns:
Non Nobis Domine
Review:
Rock of Ages ( I wish people would quit messin' with this one. The original poetry was spot-on)
O, Sacred Head
Saviour Like a Shepherd Lead Us
Softly and Tenderly
Soldiers of Christ Arise
Poetry:
Finishing finally How Sweet the Moonlight and The Man that Hath no Music from The Merchant of Venice.
Review:
I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General Here is a clip of the song...we don't sing it....with Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline.
The 2nd Coming Yeats
Horatius at the Bridge. Good news: you can find this at Librivox which saves some breath.
To Be a Pilgrim. I may add this to our list to re-memorize. It is by John Bunyan and I like it!
Where the Boats Go. RLS
Misc Memory:
Presidents Biographies. From the back of The Buck Stops Here
. One a day. We just did Abe Lincoln. Review:
Presidents Bee
Bill of Rights #s 7,8,9,10
Gettysburg Address
Reading Aloud:
While we did finish about 20 books last year, you will be happy to see we really are going very slow through some of these.
English Literature for Boys and Girls. I hope to finish this one up soon. We are on Burns.
The Little History of the World. Also coming to a close.
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom. Probably shouldn't have started this last year but I didn't know how the year would end up. This book is on my top ten list.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
Pilgrim Stories by Margaret Pumphrey
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Rod and Staff Manners 2nd Grade. I have this very, very old workbook from R&S and I just love it for teaching manners and hygiene. We discuss one page a week.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Morning Time Plans: January 2008
MORNING TIME PLANS FOR
January 7, 2008
Artist:
Rembrandt
Composer:
Handel
The Water Music
Folk Song:
Arkansas Traveler
Shakespeare:
The Merchant of Venice
Plutarch:
Philopoemen
Prayer Request
Bible Time
The Book of Life
Daily Proverbs
To Learn:
Psalm 91
To Review:
Books of the OT
Lord’s Prayer
12 Tribes of Israel:
12 Apostles
John 1:1-14
Gen 1:1-5
Books of NT
Hymn Singing
To Learn:
In Christ Alone
To Review:
O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
Glorious is Thy Name
God Leads us Along
O God our Help
Great is Thy Faithfulness
Poetry
To Learn:
Lake Isle of Innisfree
Cuddle Down
To Review:
Isn't that an awesome poem?
Where the Boats Go? RLS
The Second Coming Yeats
The Lamb Blake
Little Things "Little drops of water...."
The Charge of the Light Brigade Tennyson
Misc. Memory:
Read Amendments: 1-27 One a day
Preamble
Bill of Rights 1
Bill of Rights 2
Bill of Rights 3
Bill of Rights 4
Reading Aloud :
English Literature for Boys and Girls We are on this chapter and we don't read a whole chapter in a sitting.
Famous Men of the Middle Ages I have a vintage copy of this.
Dave Barry Slept Here OK, this is completely random but as I said before the children were picking this one up and reading it so I thought it would be safer to read out loud. It is very funny if you already have a working knowledge of American History. The language is pretty bad though, hence the reading aloud.
The Little History of the World
Fiction:
The Tale of Desperaux Recommend by dear friend Linda. Lots of fun. We have a little mouse in our family with big ears and big eyes, the runt of the litter: Alex.
Sentinel, City of Destiny by Landel Bilbrey. I am reading a review copy of the book and I must say that my 2 little boys, 9 & 6 are enthralled. It is somewhat along the lines of Pilgrim's Progress. We read the chapter slowly discussing as we go. Andrew and Alex are great little boys to discuss books with. They make random jumps of logic into subjects yet to be discovered by philosophers. This has made reading this book a lot of fun.
Ambleside Time:
Little Pilgrims Progress
Anderson’s Fairy Tales
Asking Father
Pilgrim Stories
January 7, 2008
Artist:
Rembrandt
Composer:
Handel
The Water Music
Folk Song:
Arkansas Traveler
Shakespeare:
The Merchant of Venice
Plutarch:
Philopoemen
Prayer Request
Bible Time
The Book of Life
Daily Proverbs
To Learn:
Psalm 91
To Review:
Books of the OT
Lord’s Prayer
12 Tribes of Israel:
12 Apostles
John 1:1-14
Gen 1:1-5
Books of NT
Hymn Singing
To Learn:
In Christ Alone
To Review:
O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
Glorious is Thy Name
God Leads us Along
O God our Help
Great is Thy Faithfulness
Poetry
To Learn:
Lake Isle of Innisfree
Cuddle Down
To Review:
Weathers
(I)
This is the weather the cuckoo likes,
And so do I;
When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,
And nestlings fly;
And the little brown nightingale bills his best,
And they sit outside at 'The Traveller's Rest,'
And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest,
And citizens dream of the south and west,
And so do I.
(II)
This is the weather the shepherd shuns,
And so do I;
When beeches drip in browns and duns,
And thresh and ply;
And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe,
And meadow rivulets overflow,
And drops on gate bars hang in a row,
And rooks in families homeward go,
And so do I.
-- Thomas Hardy
Isn't that an awesome poem?
Where the Boats Go? RLS
The Second Coming Yeats
The Lamb Blake
Little Things "Little drops of water...."
The Charge of the Light Brigade Tennyson
Misc. Memory:
Read Amendments: 1-27 One a day
Preamble
Bill of Rights 1
Bill of Rights 2
Bill of Rights 3
Bill of Rights 4
Reading Aloud :
English Literature for Boys and Girls We are on this chapter and we don't read a whole chapter in a sitting.
Famous Men of the Middle Ages I have a vintage copy of this.
Dave Barry Slept Here
OK, this is completely random but as I said before the children were picking this one up and reading it so I thought it would be safer to read out loud. It is very funny if you already have a working knowledge of American History. The language is pretty bad though, hence the reading aloud.The Little History of the World
Fiction:
The Tale of Desperaux
Recommend by dear friend Linda. Lots of fun. We have a little mouse in our family with big ears and big eyes, the runt of the litter: Alex.Sentinel, City of Destiny
by Landel Bilbrey. I am reading a review copy of the book and I must say that my 2 little boys, 9 & 6 are enthralled. It is somewhat along the lines of Pilgrim's Progress. We read the chapter slowly discussing as we go. Andrew and Alex are great little boys to discuss books with. They make random jumps of logic into subjects yet to be discovered by philosophers. This has made reading this book a lot of fun.Ambleside Time:
Little Pilgrims Progress
Anderson’s Fairy Tales
Asking Father
Pilgrim Stories
Morning Time Plans: November 2007
Artist:
Da Vinci
Composer:
Tchaikovsky
(Taking a break from Rimsky-Korsakov but continuing with a Russian and longing for a little
melody.)
Folk Song:
Go Get an Ax
Star of the County Down
Shakespeare:
Measure for Measure
Plutarch:
Philopoemen with Anne White's notes
Bible Time:
The Book of Life: David and Absalom
Proverbs: one daily
Bite-Sized Theology
Finish learning John 1:1-14
Review:
Micah 6:8
Lord's Prayer
Habakkuk 3:17-19
12 Tribes of Israel
List of Judges
Hymns:
Continue learning: In Christ Alone
Review:
We Gather Together
Tender Mercies
Arise, Arise
Come Ye Thankful People Come
Bringing in the Sheaves
Now Thank We All Our God
Poetry:
Begin learning: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
and Where the Boats go for the little guys
Review:
How Did you Die? Cooke
Opportunity by Sill
Casey at the Bat
Sail On by Miller
Misc Memory:
Finish learning the Preamble
Read through the 27 amendments to the Constitution one a day
Review:
Planets
State Capitals
We Shall Fight by Winston Churchill
The Apostles Creed
Continents and Oceans
Read Aloud:
English Literature for Boys and Girls. We are on Dryden this week.
Famous Men of the Middle Ages. We are on Robert the Bruce.
A Little History of the World. This book is growing on me after a bad start.
Just David. This is growing on me also. I hope we can finish it in the next couple of weeks.
The Magician's Nephew. Finish this week.
Dave Barry Slept Here (edited by me) They were all picking it up and reading it so I thought it would be safer if I read it out loud. It is a little confusing for Alex.
Ambleside Time:
Russian Fairy Tales
Little Pilgrim's Progress
Asking Father. I keep avoiding this one.
Pilgrim Stories by Pumphrey and old favorite revisited.
A Thanksgiving Story in Vermont by Jeff Barth
Da Vinci
Composer:
Tchaikovsky
(Taking a break from Rimsky-Korsakov but continuing with a Russian and longing for a little
melody.)
Folk Song:
Go Get an Ax
Star of the County Down
Shakespeare:
Measure for Measure
Plutarch:
Philopoemen with Anne White's notes
Bible Time:
The Book of Life: David and Absalom
Proverbs: one daily
Bite-Sized Theology
Finish learning John 1:1-14
Review:
Micah 6:8
Lord's Prayer
Habakkuk 3:17-19
12 Tribes of Israel
List of Judges
Hymns:
Continue learning: In Christ Alone
Review:
We Gather Together
Tender Mercies
Arise, Arise
Come Ye Thankful People Come
Bringing in the Sheaves
Now Thank We All Our God
Poetry:
Begin learning: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
and Where the Boats go for the little guys
Review:
How Did you Die? Cooke
Opportunity by Sill
Casey at the Bat
Sail On by Miller
Misc Memory:
Finish learning the Preamble
Read through the 27 amendments to the Constitution one a day
Review:
Planets
State Capitals
We Shall Fight by Winston Churchill
The Apostles Creed
Continents and Oceans
Read Aloud:
English Literature for Boys and Girls. We are on Dryden this week.
Famous Men of the Middle Ages. We are on Robert the Bruce.
A Little History of the World. This book is growing on me after a bad start.
Just David. This is growing on me also. I hope we can finish it in the next couple of weeks.
The Magician's Nephew. Finish this week.
Dave Barry Slept Here (edited by me) They were all picking it up and reading it so I thought it would be safer if I read it out loud. It is a little confusing for Alex.
Ambleside Time:
Russian Fairy Tales
Little Pilgrim's Progress
Asking Father. I keep avoiding this one.
Pilgrim Stories by Pumphrey and old favorite revisited.
A Thanksgiving Story in Vermont by Jeff Barth
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