History Timeline or Book of Centuries

My thought:

• 3 ring binder
• Using colored paper make dividers for time periods.
• Make full double page 50yr (for period we are studying Vikings to Civil War) timeline across top 1/3 of page. Put tabs to find these pages more easily? Write time period across top of page.
• Make 2/3 size pages to put between 100 yr pages. Each 2/3 page is for a discreet event and will be in order. Add images to enhance. Put number on 2/3 page and mark it on the line too.
• Use cardstock.

Homeschool in the Woods--If we are good with our timelines, I would like to buy this CD set of the images to enhance them.

Blog about different timelines. I like the index card one

Sonlight's idea of how to break down time periods:

100 years per page 5000 BC to 200 BC
50 years per page 200 BC to 1000 AD
25 years per page 1000 to 1850
10 years per page 1850 to present
8 1/2 x 11" Pb, heavy-gauge paper.

Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos

Spirit of Tio Fernando
Calavera Abecedario

Easter

Lent:
The Man Who Carried the Cross for Jesus (archbook)
The Most Beautiful Thing in the World
We Go to Confession

Easter:
The Easter Garden
Easter is for Me

Pysanky:
Yosef's Gift of Many Colors

Ukranian Easter

This was the Day!

The Birds Gift

Crafts of the World: Ukranian Egg Decoration

Easter Eggs for Anya

December 7th

Things Will Never Be the Same by de Paola
I'm Still Scared by de Paola


Hiroshima No Pika (The Flash of Hiroshima) by Maruki --This is the story of what happens to one family when the atom bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. The subject matter is heavy, and the art includes images of naked bodies and people. We, however, love this book.

Other WWII books:

Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot
Boxes for Katja

Human Body

Spine:
The Body Book by Silver and Wynne for grades 3-6 Several models of the body to copy and cut. The skeletal, digestive, and pulmonary systems can be colored, cut and built into one model about 3 ft long. We also used one model from the muscular system.

Books:
Dem Bones by Bob Barner (skeletal system) Sing it!
Visual Dictionary of Human Anatomy by DK
Now One Foot, Now the Other by De Paola (nervous system)--about learning how to walk as a child and again after a stroke. We discussed how strokes effect the brain.
Tom (ligments) by De Paola
Bump, Thump, How Do We Jump? by Lobb, Utton, and Savage--activities
On Top of Mount Everest by Jack Myers--Human body related Highlights articles collected into a book
Calavera Abecedario: A Day of the Dead Alphabet Book by Winter (skeletons)

Links:
Bone mosaics at Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini
Summaries of our study (done in conjuction with a study of mosaics) including some activities not mentioned here. Everyone was 3rd grade or younger.
Day 1
Day 2
Days 3, 4, & 5
Finale

Songs I forgot to get from Itunes and make a CD of:

• You Gotta Have Skin by John Lithgow
• Dem Bones by Kidzone
• Dem Bones by Hip Science--rap which had Latin names of bones
• Circulation from School House Rock
• Telegraph Line from School House Rock

I'm not sure the School House Rock stuff is available there. The others are for sure.

Black History Month

Picture Books

Freedom Summer
When Marian Sang
The Man Who Carried the Cross for Jesus (arch book)
The Hickory Chair
If A Bus Could Ttalk
Ruby Bridges
Poetry Speaks to Children--Ok, Brown Girl by James Berry, Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

Adult Books
Passing
One Mississippi

My 2008 list of what I've read

January How Life Imitates Chess by Gary Kasparov Water for Elephants The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan Real Food by Nina Plank Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barabara Kingslover Chronicle of a Death Foretold

February Swimming with Scapulars One Mississippi Get the Sugar Out Square Foot Gardening Real Food Writing Road to Reading

March Stones for Ibarra The Golden Compass Square Foot Gardening All New Square Foot Gardening The Long Walk