norse myths I (5 week lang arts block), with 1 week 'off' for michaelmas resources: main lessons:D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri D'Aulaire independent reading: Thorkill of Iceland: Viking Hero Tales by Isabel Wyatt form drawing: Form Drawing for Grades 1-4, Ernst Schuberth & Laura Embry-Stine copy work: verse from "Poetic Edda" http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/pre/pre04.htm read aloud: (finish) Peter Pan: The Original Story by J. M. Barrie, (begin) The story Bible, by Pearl S. Buck monday, august 24th: (read on own, thorkill, 45 min) main lesson: (tell first gods & goddesses story, D'Aulaire's, p. 12-20) *copy work: "Out of the Ice-waves issued venom-drops, Waxing until a giant was; Thence are our kindred come all together, --So it is they are savage forever." *math practice* nature study challenge #1 Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock & http://handbookofnaturestudy.blogspot.com/2008/02/green-hour-challenge-1-lets-get-started.html lesson b: form drawing, p. 20, fig 32 a. (trillium knot)http://www.millennialchild.com/Slideshows/Resources/Grade04FormDrawing.html tuesday, august 25th: (read on own, thorkill, 45 min) main lesson: *math practice* tell “creation story”, D'Aulaire's, p. 21-25 chalkboard drawing (cb): D'Aulaire's, p. 22 *project; make a ‘creation’ mosaic (p. 22) (orin really wanted to paint, so, we painted!) lesson b: handwork, begin work on runes cut to size & sand, if time begin to copy runic alphabet in pencil http://thalion.exotica.org.uk/games/amberstar/scans/runes.jpg aydin and i spent our handwork time needle felting some sheep & making them a little grazing area by covering a piece of scrap wood with a large price of felted sweater & then added a few bushes & some grass. orin really wanted to join in, so i helped him make some needle felted some horses... but as we were to begin our runes, i cheated a bit to keep us on track...;) we had some partially dried cherry limbs in the basement, so i cut those with the circular saw & we baked them to finish the drying process... (spread them in a single layer on a baking sheet & bake at 200 degrees for 20 min or so, depending on thickness, kind of wood, etc) wednesday, august 26th: (read on own, thorkill, 45 min) main lesson: *math practice (recall creation) *write together 2-3 paragraph summary; copy into main lesson book lesson b: baking, "finnish blueberry pie"http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Finnish-Blueberry-Pie/Detail.aspx thursday, august 27th (read on own, thorkill, 45 min) main lesson: *math practice (cb): D’Aulaire’s, inner cover *read aloud summary; copy into main lesson book **painting of 9 norse worlds; add titles of worlds when dry (as we had already painted this week, we opted to break in some recently purchased chalk pastels. they worked beautifully for this project) lesson b: handwork, continue work on runes, draw runes on in pencil & begin wood burning (orin finished drawing the runes on in pencil rather quickly as he had been writing 'secret' messages & things in runes ever since he saw me print them our back in july :)