Circle Time Week 1

We're going to be starting a new thing this year. I always have little 2 or 5 minute things that just seem to not fit in our regular school schedule. And it seems that I never get around to them. You know the fun videos, the memory work that just doesn't get it's due. So this year I've developed a Circle Time for the kids.

Sugar is very excited about this. She's been asking when we'll be doing Circle Time for weeks now. I want to make sure it's a manageable bit of time in the morning before we get to the more serious meat of our day. But I also don't want to overstay in the fun zone and not have time for the important stuff so we're giving our Circle Time a two week head start, to get the kinks out and just really narrow down how long it will take us to do each day.

Here's what we are doing in Circle Time this Week

Together: (everyday)

• Math Skip Counting Song 2 &3
  
• Science Photosynthesis song new and complete version (YouTube)
• Calendar & Weather (every day)
• Art Study Child-Sized Masterpieces Lev. 1 & 2 (littles), Lev. 5 & 6 (olders)
  
• Music Study Classics for Kids (M/W/F) & Themes to Remember Spring/Toccata & Fugue in D minor Fugue in D Minor (T/Th)
  
• Current Event Social Studies for Kids

The Little ones : (one per day)
(I have some independent work for the olders to do while I'm working with the little ones)

• Oral Reading- CLP Nature Reader Book K & 1 (Mon.)
  
• Song "Days of Creation" - Children's Music Video (Tue.)
  
• The Month Song by Susan Salidor (Wed.)
• Nature - A Burgess Bird Book Companion Ch. 1 (Th.)
• Poet Study Child's Garden of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson (Fri.)
  

The Older ones: (one per day, two on Mon.)
(I have some independent work for the little ones to do while I'm working with the olders)

• Weather Study Weather WizKids Hurricanes (Mon.)
• Artist Study Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) Italian Renaissance The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1498, woodcut
• Composer Study Ludwig von Beethoven (1810) (Classical/Romantic) Piano Sonata 8 (Pathetique) Opus 13 (Tue.)
• Plutarch- Caesar Part 1 (Wed.)
• Shakespeare- Julius Caesar Act 1 (Th.)
• Poet Study William Blake & Robert Frost (Fri.)