{"id":178,"date":"2008-07-06T21:24:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?page_id=178"},"modified":"2008-09-26T09:01:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T08:01:56","slug":"records-for-2008-2009","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?page_id=178","title":{"rendered":"Records from July 2008 – June 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Books read by Antonia<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Enchanted Wood, Enid Blyton
\nLettres de l’ecureuil a la fourmi, Toon Tellegen (trans. into French)
\nA collection of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories
\nOu sont passes les os des squelettes (Magic School Bus 4 in French)
\nUne belle histoire d’amitie (Mon Petit Poney), French
\nL’Etrange Palais de Glace, by Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House 27 in French)
\nThe Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner
\nDon’t Cook Cinderella by Francesca Simon
\nThe Magic Finger by Roald Dahl<\/p>\n

Books read aloud<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Tail of Emily Windsnap, Liz Kessler
\nThe Saga of Eric the Viking, Terry Jones
\nVoyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis
\nL’ecole des chats: le secret de la grotte de cristal, Kim Jin-Kyeong, translated into French from Korean, Vol1, Vol2
\nLa Belle et la Bete, Mme Leprince de Beaumont, French
\nLa reine des fourmis a disparu, Fred Bernard and Francois Roca, French
\nThe Promised One by David Alric<\/a>
\nLa civilite puerile et honnete, L’Oncle Eugene, French
\nThe Hobbit by JRR Tolkien<\/p>\n

Plays and films<\/strong><\/p>\n

St Trinians movies
\nThe Fellowship of the Ring (film)
\nThe Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare, seen live in the park
\nAnastasia, Walt Disney version<\/p>\n

Stories, legends, history<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ancient World; The Story of the World Vol 1 by Susan Wise Bauer
\nLiving History; Dr John Haywood
\nA digital Book of Centuries<\/p>\n

Belshazzar’s feast; with painting by Rembrandt
\nHow Parvati won the heart of Siva
\nSt George and the Dragon; painting by Vittore Carpaccio, story from the Golden Legend
\nOld Man Coyote, Native American stories from various sources
\nThe Fall of Icarus; retelling in association with Breughel’s painting
\nTown Mouse and Country Mouse; Fables de la Fontaine, Beatrix Potter
\nNoah’s Ark; Disney and The Animals Came in Two by Two
\nThe French Revolution; The Story of the World, part 4
\nThe Tower of Babel; Children’s Bible and Breughel’s Tower of Babel<\/p>\n

Science<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
\nHome-made curriculum: The nature of science and its branches, how we learn about the world: the senses, movement, the brain<\/p>\n

Music<\/strong><\/p>\n

Suzuki Piano Volume 1
\nIntroduction to note reading from the Children’s Encyclopaedia, Arthur Mee (c. 1920)
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

Sports <\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction to fencing
\nSwimming
\nSkating
\nIntroduction to rowing<\/p>\n

Travel\/trips<\/strong><\/p>\n

Languedoc: Roman waterways at Nimes, hike in the Garrigue, Bambouseraie at Anduze
\nCharmant Som
\nCirque de St Meme
\nBeach day at Lake Paladru
\nThe desert of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
\nSummer day camp – 3 days
\nCamping trip to the Auvergne volcanoes and Vulcania theme park
\nHike to Lac Achard, Belledonne, Alps
\nDay trip to Geneva, beautiful bell-tower of a Reformist church and panorama over the city
\nHike and visit of the Caves of Sassenage
\nFireworks on Bastille day
\nThe UK, especially Sherwood Forest and seaside around Scarborough<\/p>\n

Lifeskills and crafts
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Knitting
\nClock from hampa beads
\nMaking a quill from a feather, ink drawings and writing
\nOrigami
\nShortbreads with icing and candy decorations
\nBaking and decorating fairy cakes
\nNail and string patterns
\nSmall sewing projects<\/p>\n

Games<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pirates
\nMonopoly
\nThe Game of Life
\nCluedo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Books read by Antonia The Enchanted Wood, Enid Blyton Lettres de l’ecureuil a la fourmi, Toon Tellegen (trans. into French) A collection of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories Ou sont passes les os des squelettes (Magic School Bus 4 in French) Une belle histoire d’amitie (Mon Petit Poney), French L’Etrange Palais de Glace, by Mary … Continue reading Records from July 2008 – June 2009<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}