In our second week of school, we’ll be using the following resources:

Music:
Johann Sebastian Bach—Brandenburg Concertos

Mission Study:
1. Window on the World: Pygmies
2. WotW; Vagla
3. WotW: Wodaabe
4. WotW: Republlic of Guinea

Poems: Marvelous Math—Lee Bennett Hopkins

Science:
History of Mathematics

Nonfiction Read Aloud:
The Book of Where, or How to Be Naturally Geographic–Bell. The urchins are really enjoying the projects and information in this book, a part of the Brown Paper School series. I recommend the entire series, brown paper-covered books on a variety of subjects including music and sounds, backyard animals, and money-making ideas for kids, just to name a few.

Fiction Read Alouds:
Mr. Popper’s Penguins—Atwater. I’m reading this story to Betsy-Bee and Z-Baby. We think it might be a bad idea to keep a penguin in your icebox.
The Boy Who Sailed Around the World–Graham This book is an abridged “youth edition” of the original book by Robin Graham that tells about his solo sailing trip around the world. He began the trip from California at the age of sixteen and and finished five years and more than 30,000 miles later in the same place he started.

Elementary Readers:
Adrift—Baillie
Explorers: From Columbus to Armstrong—Everett
Explorers Who Got Lost—Dreher
They Put Out to Sea–Duvoisin

Other Books:
Sebastian Bach, the Boy from Thuringia–Wheeler This book is out of print, not available in the Houston Library system, and the used copies I’ve found on the internet are a bit pricey. So we may not get to read it this week, but I’d certainly like to own a copy of this biography and the others in the series by Opal Wheeler and Sybil Deucher.

Movies:
Shackleton This A & E program stars Kenneth Branagh as Ernest Shackleton, the famous Antarctic explorer.