Blackboard Report (Thursdays) - the CURRENT story!

The Blackboard Line-up!!!
Please refer to the appropriate page for book, etc. lists

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Year 3:Being Torah/Ot L'Baot/BJL:Mitzvot;
DAILY

1. Physical Education 
1. Yoga (1/2/3)
2. Strength (Arms/Legs/Core)
3. Cardio
2. Algebra
3. Language Arts
1. Italics - C
2. Creative Writing - Level 3/4
3. Literature - The Story of the Past
4. Russian
5. Piano practice - Rachmaninoff 2nd Concerto in C

3 x wk (STR/MWF)

1. Botany/Weather\Earth - PreCambrian/Cambrian

2 x wk (SW/MR/TF)

1. Religion (Torah/Hebrew/Holiday); Circle of Jewish Life
2. The Arts/Geography/Life Skills (Learn to Learn; Prep)

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Year 4:(Begins in January) 
DAILY

1. Physical Education
1. Yoga - 1/2/3
2. Strength - Arms/legs/Core
3. Cardio
2. Algebra II
3. Language Arts
1. Italics C
2. Creative Writing 4
3. Literature - Ancient
4. Russian 
5. Piano practice Beethoven - Emperor 

3 x wk (STR/MWF)

1. Astronomy/Chemical Elements\Cambrian and other Early Paleozoic 

2 x wk (SW/MR/TF)

1. Experiencing the Torah/Prayer - Vol. 1/Values - BJL Mitzvot
2. The Arts/Geography/Life Skills

2016 - this year is still a mish-mash of courses.
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Year 1:

1. DAILY
   
   1. Physical Education
   1. Yoga
   2. Strength
   3. Cardio
   2. Advanced mathematics
   3. Language Arts
   1. Italics D
   2. Creative Writing Level 5
   3. Literature - Reading through History with the Novel
   4. Russian
   5. Piano practice
   3 x wk (STR/MWF)
   1. World of Space/Chemical Reactions\
      1. PreCambrian
   2 x wk (SW/MR/TF)
1. Torah Toons I/Prayer II/Values - Mah La'Asot
2. The Arts/Geography/Life Skills

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Year 2:Holidays

DAILY

1. Physical Education
1. Yoga
2. Strength
3. CaTrdio
2. Calculus
3. Language Arts
1. Italics D
2. Creative Writing - Level 6
3. Literature -The Story of Me:Autobiography and Memoir
4. Russian
5. Piano practice

3 x wk (STR/MWF)

1. Discovering Earth's Landforms/Heat and Energy\
   1. PreCambrian

2 x wk (SW/MR/TF)

1. Torah - Make a Midrash Out of Me/Prayer/Content of Their Character
2. The Arts/Geography/Life Skills

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THE WHOLE STORY

2017

Scholastic year begins in January with the Winter Quarter.
Spring Quarter begins in April, while the Summer Quarter begins in July and the Fall Quarter begins in October.  

Religious Holidays are taken off as needed and Vacation month occurs either in September (Summer) or October (Fall) starting with Rosh Hashanah and ending with Simchat Torah.

DAILY

1. Physical Education
1. Yoga - 1/2/3
2. Strength - Arms/legs/Core
3. Cardio
2. Algebra II
3. Language Arts
1. Italics C
2. Creative Writing 4
3. Literature - Reading through History with Drama
4. Russian 
5. Piano practice Beethoven - Emperor 

3 x wk (STR/MWF)

1. Astronomy/World of Tools and Technology, motion/Discovering the Ocean/Chemical Elements\Cambrian and other Early Paleozoic 

2 x wk (SW/MR/TF)

1. Experiencing the Torah/Prayer - Vol. 1/Values - BJL Mitzvot
2. The Arts
1. ARTistic Pursuits - Elementary Education - Book 2 
3. Geography
1. Penguin Atlas
2. DK Geography
4. Life Skills
1. Prep
2. FACE/budget
3. Garden/homestead

Religion

Year 4:

1. Experiencing the Torah/Prayer - Vol. 1/Values - BJL Mitzvot
1. Experiencing the Torah
2. S'Fatai Tiftah (follows Ot la'Ba'ot) Also available from Torah Aura productions and features not only the Teachers Guide, a text but also a Classroom Workbook AND a Home Workbook. Volume 1
3. BJL Mitzvot

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2016
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Daily
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Physical Education 
Yoga (1/2/3)
Strength (Arms/Legs/Core)
Cardio

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Algebra I

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Language Arts -  Italics - C

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Creative Writing - Level 3/4

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Literature - Stage 3: The Story of the Past: The Tales of Historians (and Politicians) 

1. Herodotus (The Histories - 441 BC); Thucydides (The PeloponnesianWar"c 400 BCE);
2.  Plato (The Republic - c 375 BCE); 
3. Plutarch (Lives - CE 100-125); 
4. Augustine - (the City of God - completed 426); 
5. Bedde: (The Eccesiastical History of the English People 731); 
6. Niccolo Machiavelli (The Prince 0 1513); 
7. Sir Thomas More (Utopia 1516); 
8. John Locke (the True End of Civil Government 1690); 
9. David Hume (The History of England, Volume V 1754); 
10. Jean Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract 1762); 
11. Thomas Paine (Common Sense 1776); 
12. Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788); 
13. Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792); 
14. Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America 1835-40); 
15. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (The Communist Manifesto 1848); 
16. Jacob Burckhardt (The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 1860); 
17. W.E.B.Du Bois (The Souls of Black Folk 1903); 
18. Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 1904);
19.  Lytton Strachey (Queen Victoria 1921);
20.  George Orwell (The Road to Wigan Pier 1937); 
21. Perry Miller (the New England Mind 1939); 
22. John Kenneth Galbraith (The Great Crash 1929); 
23. Cornelius Ryan (The Longest Day 1959); 
24. Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique 1963);
25. Eugene D. Genovese (Roll, Jordan, Roll The World the Slaves Made 1974); 
26. Barbara Tuchman (A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century 1978); 
27. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (All the President's Men 1987); 
28. James M. McPherson (Battle Cry of Freedom:The Civil War Era 1988); 
29. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (A Midwife's Tale:the Life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary 1785-1812 - 1990); 
30. Francis Fukuyama (The End of History and the Last Man 1992)

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Russian 

Power Glide

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MUSIC -

Rachmaninoff 2nd Concerto in C

Scarlatti
Beethoven Sonatas

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3 x wk (STR/MWF)
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BOTANY - PLANT EVOLUTION, PLANT ANATOMY, ETC. (Next up will be Weather)

Botany Coloring Book (P. Young), 
Great Science Adventures: The World of Plants (Dinah Zike) 
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification (Thomas J. Elpel)

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WEATHER

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EARTH
1 learning folder for each period/epoch, etc. Badge completion for each Era with stickers for each period, etc. studied.  Each period etc. has specific requirements for completion.


COMPLETED = 1 sticker PRE-CAMBRIAN EPOCH: ARCHAEAN ERA (2 weeks - 9 include lapbook of epoch - actually a heck of a lot more weeks - I keep finding books....  but this is ALL - so far!)  It would REALLY help a LOT if I would limit my looking for and at books that are interesting to those areas I haven't already covered!!!!

• Books (sections from books as applied to each epoch)
• Life on Earth by David Attenborough.  The Infinite Variety.
• Usborne World History - Prehistoric World.  The Earth: The Birth of the Earth. The Changing World.
• Thread of Life: The Smithsonian Looks at Evolution by Roger Lewin.  Diversity, Continuity, and Change: Time and the Rocks. Darwin and the Origin. The Force and Shape of Evolution. Shifting Continents.
• Picture Atlas of Prehistoric Life. by Rand McNally.  The Young Earth. Evolution.
• Early Humans, TCM - Earth - the Early years (Continental drift, layers of the Earths crust, Mountains
• The Cartoon History of the Universe Volumes 1-7 From the Big BANG to Alexander the Great by Larry Gonick (Doubleday, 1990).  The Big Bang. Soup or Sandwich. A Digression on Evolution.  The Origin of Sex.
• The Human Evolution Coloring Book by Adrienne L. Zihlman.
• Books (the whole enchilada!)
• The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas. 1974.
• Trilobites: Eyewitness to Evolution.  by Richard Fortey. Random House, NY.  2000
• Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth.  by Richard Fortey.  Alfred Knopf, NY.  1997.
• The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet. by Robert M. Hazen.  Penguin. 2012.
• The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe by Steven Weinberg. 
• Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution by Fortey, Richard;
• Oxygen: the Molecule that made the World by Nick Lane
• Origins: The Evolution of Continents, Oceans and Life by Ron Redfern
• The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth by Stephen Jay Gould

• DVDs  (aka Thank you Netflix!!!! as well as what I bought!!!)
• Origins: Earth is Born; 
• Origins: How Life Began (Both are from NOVA, hosted by author Neil deGrasse Tyson(2004); 
• Cracking the Code of Life (NOVA)(2001); 
• Earth: the Biography (2008); 
• The Mysterious Sea/ Coral World (1995); 
• Deep Sea:IMAX (2006); 
• Prehistoric America (2003); 
• Aliens of the Deep (2005); 
• How the Earth Was Made (2007) - Season 1, Season 2

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2 x a week (SW/MR/TF)

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RELIGION 

Torah (Sunday and Wednesday)
Being Torah
a 1-2 year course involving Torah study and commentary.  This is about the 4th year level.
To mark progress, provide incentive, there will be a graph showing lessons completed (every 5th) - which should provide some sort of an idea whether or not we are on target.  Again, stickers will provide markers to indicate progress, while an overall badge will show completion of the course. 2-3 days a week. Mondays, Thursdays, possibly Friday as well.
Hebrew (Monday and Thursday)
Ot la'Ba'ot
A primer course for learning Hebrew and a pre-requisite for S'fatai Tiftach.  Again, stickers will provide markers to indicate progress with an overall badge for course completion. 2-3 days a week - Sunday, Wednesday

Holidays (a review) (Tuesday and Friday)
Goal is to complete a review book for each one showing history, customs, mention of songs, dvds, etc. about holiday, holiday foods as indicated by a "badge" on a poster board for that holiday.  Once all the holidays have been studied, concievably a badge would be sewn on a sash for the Holiday course. This year - review - 1 day a week.  Tuesdays, (Fridays?)

The "Badges" for each holiday (I'm behind on posting badges)

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Circle of Jewish Life (4-7)  Life Cycle - moments of Jewish tradition and the meanings, the way it connects the Eternal to real life experience 
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LIFE SKILLS - FlyLady zones and routines

FlyLady zones and routines

BASIC SEWING/MENDING SKILLS (yup - the MENDING PILE MONSTER!!!!)
Buttons/rips and tears

BASIC SEWING - 
slacks (2), 
skirt (2), 
Dress (1), 
Blouse (3)
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Prep 101
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LEARNING
The Learning Book by David L. Farmer

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ART 

Book 1 - Introduction to Visual Arts 
ARTistic Pursuits
Ebony pencil, white vinyl eraser, sketch pad, soft pastels, cray pas oil pastels - 25, Lyra Aquacolor crayons, golden Taklon Brush, Watercolor Pad, Assorted Construction Paper, Black Construction Paper, Tissue Paper, Marblex self-Hardening Clay
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Pre 1916
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SOCIAL STUDIES 
1 learning folder for each period/epoch, etc. Badge completion for each Era with stickers for each period, etc. studied.  Each period etc. has specific requirements for completion.

COMPLETED = 1 badge Archaeology (30 d) - The who/what/where/when/why of archaeology -completing lapbook to show what has been studied.

EARTH - BEGINNINGS OR PREHISTORY (6 months) - involving discussing various creation stories - ie, some of the Native American stories, etc.

COMPLETED = 1 sticker COURSE INTRODUCTION (one week - 8)

• Life on Earth by David Attenborough.  Introduction.
• Usborne World History - Prehistoric World.  Prehistoric Time. What are Fossils? Clues from fossils. The Story of Life.
• Thread of Life: The Smithsonian Looks at Evolution by Roger Lewin.  Introduction.
• Picture Atlas of Prehistoric Life. by Rand McNally.  Introduction: the Planet of Life. "Deep Time". A World in Change.
• The Human Evolution Coloring Book by Adrienne L. Zihlman.  Introduction to Evolution.

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MATHEMATICS  -
COMPLETED Algebra 1/2  Unit  (Next up is Algebra I 

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ITALICS - Italics Now book - Applying printing techniques learned
COMPLETED Basic - A 

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