05 Magnus School at Home Odyssey: July 2012

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Just Kill Me NOW!

I thought we were done for the summer.

oy! sad day. so many boxes.

fastest stinking summer break on record.

the Amazon Frustration Free Packing.. favorite item in the box?
THE BUBBLE WRAP!

what do you mean, this IS my HAPPY face.

significant work reduction from that pile that showed up.
okay, so Magnus is not a cheerful person by nature. it takes a lot to make him smile. He would rather go to TXVA than public school any day of the week and twice on Monday.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

6th Grade Reading List

Required:

The Secret Garden
Tom Sawyer
Shakespeare: The Twelfth Night

Free Choice (pick 4):

Title and Author	Lexile Level
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg	740
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle	740
The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury	740
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton	750
The Bronze Bow, by Elizabeth George Speare	760
Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech	770
War Comes to Willie Freeman, by Christopher and Lincoln Collier	770
The Sign of the Beaver, by Elizabeth George Speare	770
The Book of Three, by Lloyd Alexander
Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt	770
My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George	810
Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes	840
The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkein	860
The Cay, by Theodore Taylor	860
Dragonwings, by Laurence Yep	870
Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson	880
Old Yeller, by Fred Gipson	910
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor	920
The Dark Is Rising, by Susan Cooper	920
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis	940
Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis	950
White Fang, by Jack London	970
Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery	990
The Door in the Wall, by Marguerite de Angeli	990
Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'Dell	1000
Ben and Me, by Robert Lawson	1010
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne	1030
Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle	1090
Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt	1100
Catherine, Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman	1170
War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells	1170
Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann Wyss	1260
The Incredible Journey, by Sheila Burnford	1320

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Flying Solo

Sir Ken Robinson TED talk

I school at home, I follow the National Common Core Essentials:

http://www.corestandards.org/

here is my suggestion for free resources:

MATH:
Math Core Standards