Circle Time Plans 2013/14 Term 2

I’ve been hard at work planning our Circle Time, among other schoolish things. I used to try and plan for the latter part of the year during the two weeks we took off for Christmas. You know what happened then? I never felt present for the holidays. I was always thinking about whether I’d printed that off or remembered to put that on my list or what have you. So now? Now we take three weeks. This week, being the third week, is the week I am doing my planning.

It works much better this way, and the holidays were wonderful, thankyouverymuch.

So here are my CT plans:

Some of my formatting didn’t come across this time, so if you’re wondering why some areas have lines and some don’t, well…I guess you can ask Scribd! Ha!

Wait. I fixed it! As least, I think I fixed it.

Before I share the resource list, you might have noticed that I’ve added some things. The first is spelling. I have never done CM-style spelling. If you are looking for that sort of thing, please do not use my resource list.

{Shock: I am not a purist in this area!}

I recently decided both of my girls are ready for some spelling instruction, so I’m using what I used with my oldest {because I loved it} during Circle Time. My oldest will likely enjoy the review as he is Strange About Words. My hope is that my five-year-old will magically pick up all sorts of things during this time.

The second addition is grammar. We’ve been doing KISS for years and I like it, but I’m ready for a bit of a change. I bought a little white board that I have on a mini easel on the buffet in the dining room. We’ll basically use that to talk about sentences on grammar days. I’ll try and let you know how that works out. The other children will simply listen in.

For Shakespeare, I’m not following AO’s rotation. I’m also doing the play in the much shorter period of time as we actually began Term 2 during DecemberTerm. I’ll link my schedule, but I doubt it’s usable for most of you.

This resource list contains affiliate links.

Resources

• Hymns:
• The King of Love My Shepherd Is
•  Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
• Folk Songs:
• The Three Ravens {this is a carry-over from last term — not sure how I misplaced it, but it’s here now!}
• Wade in the Water
• Down in the Valley
• Geography:
• We’ll work on Ambleside Online’s geography rotation. Currently, we’re working through Year 1 and Year 5.
• Home Geography for Primary Grades by C.C. Long free on Kindle
• Elementary Geography by Charlotte Mason free PDF file
• Use Push to Kindle
• Artist Study–Edouard Manet:
• Check out my Pinterest Manet resource collection!
• Landscape orientation printables
• Portrait orientation printables
• Lady Jane Grey:
• biography by Simonetta Carr
• Composer Study–Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
• Check out my Pinterest Tchaikovsky resource collection!
• My girls have been devouring this Swan Lake picture book
• Astronomy:
• Signs & Seasons: Understanding the Elements of Classical Astronomy
• Burgess:
• We’re finishing up the Bird Book for Children {which I said last term, but this time I mean it}
• then moving on to the Animal Book for Children
• Pilgrim’s Progress:
• Continuing our normal rotation
• Spelling:
• Sequential Spelling, Level 1
• Grammar:
• The Mother Tongue, Book II
• Shakespeare:
• 8-week reading schedule for As You Like It

This post is linked to the Circle Time roundup over at Fisher Academy.