Week One
Britannia: Gogmagog and the Exiles of Troy. (Or first in OIS)
Stories…World: Strong Magic (Australia)
Read Me 1 (see below)
Just So: The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo Man
Bible: How the World Began (this will be chronological)
Greek Myths: The Gift of Fire
Tales… Ireland: The Children of Lir (sensitive child alert)
This is what i am thinking…
Britannia/OIS, Bible, Greek Myths will be read just by going through the book.
Poetry - this particular book has a poem per day and i am going to look at them in batches of 7 and just pick our favourite/favourites. No reason not to use another book if you prefer.
Tales of Old Ireland can be subbed with a different book initially or permanently. I just had it and liked the look of it. I’d say that some sort of book of British Folk Tales would be good though.
Stories from Around the World and Just So (link to free version but i’ll be using the nice illustrated version because it affects what my kids think of the story!) can dot about to suit the general theme of the week.
Every fourth week we’ll have a break to allow people to catch up on missed readings and/or holiday, expand on what they’ve read etc. I have a vague plan to put together “gap week bundles” of a few themed stories or ideas for people who don’t need a space to do as a change from routine, but we’ll see what people think when we get there. Tell me what you think though, i’d really like to make this viable.
I have this feeling that this ought to be like we used to say at Slimming World classes; if you fall off the wagon, don’t panic, just forget it and carry on. In other words, there is very little of this that can’t cope with one chapter or reading being missed out, or being one out of sync, or being done with two books in one sitting.
Looking forward to it though 
We are going to start pre K sonlight in January but I would like to try this too Merry. This is because I am working up to getting together our own curriculum in the next couple of years. I think it will possibly cross-over with Pre-K anyway looking at your list. I bought a book a couple of months ago on how to write your own curriculum - American - and mainly a huge book-load of lists on every subject for every age-group. Many are generally available or could easily be substituted with British books of similar quality so just ideas generally. I liked what you were doing when we met at Melrose and was quite excited by the Charlotte Mason/Merry Curriculum then LOL
Comment by karen b — December 31, 2005 @ 11:46 pm
Happy New Year Merry. I’ll be following this with interest. I’ve been looking at Ambleside, and although I like the idea of learning through literature, it seemed like the books were going to be hard to get!
I like the look of the history book - I’ll have to get that, didn’t like the world book myself - had to change the ending of one story for my sensitive child! I haven’t come across an alternative yet though. Best wishes, Sam
Comment by Sam — January 1, 2006 @ 9:37 am
This is great Merry! I have been thinking of implementing more routine into our lives so will give this a bash!
Thanks for all your hard work and Happy New Year!!
Comment by Louise — January 1, 2006 @ 12:05 pm
Do any of the poems tie up with the themes from this week Merry, or are they a fairly mixed selection in your book and you’re just going with the ones allocated to week 1?
Comment by Kath — January 2, 2006 @ 9:29 pm
NO - poetry is something i am short on knowledge of. I quite like this book so am happy to use it as a starting point. But i guess i might supplement it - certainly if anyone thinks of poems that suit weeks, especially ones avaialble online, let me know.
Comment by Administrator — January 3, 2006 @ 8:32 am