Colloquium 2019-2020


New to our homeschool this year, Colloquium meetings were designed for Nature Angel and Little Princess to combine some of their studies under my direction after the co-op we'd signed up for dissolved for reasons beyond our control.

Our plans were grand:
     1.  American History:  Our Star-Spangled Story--the text and all of the trappings that go with it     
          (Mister Man was going to join us for these lessons)
     2.  Human Anatomy:  Apologia Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology
     3.  Greek Mythology:  D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths and the Memoria Press study guide

And we had a good start with extra literature, science experiments, activities, and everything!

Jello cells

Then Life happened--mostly in the form of Brother's incredibly intense psychiatric needs.

Writing with fewer joints . . . it's pretty hard!

So we moved to Plan B.

First we dumped everything but Greek Mythology.  We read the stories, memorized the gods and goddesses, filled out the study guide, took the tests, and had a grand time together.

Nothing picture-worthy--just lots of reading, talking, and laughing.

Then we focused entirely on American History.  We released Mister Man from joining us; we dumped the activity books and notetaking; we just read, talked, researched, and discovered cool stuff together.

And we never picked up Human Anatomy.  I showed them some videos of white blood cells that seemed to really interest them.  Another day I showed them a video of the human digestive tract--from biting to elimination.

They were horrified and said they never wanted to see such things again.

Oops.

We did begin an Astronomy course together. 

Looking at the surface of the moon

But when night after night was cloudy or too moonlit or too wet or too whatever AND we had our Camp Busy Bees, we lost momentum.

The days are getting shorter.

I think we'll start again soon.

Star-gazing one late spring night
But if we don't, we'll certainly do it for Colloquium 2020-2021.

Comments

  1. WendyJuly 12, 2020 at 3:03 PM

    I love the Greek myths and Astronomy. I love history. I think I would love your Colloquium. I hope you can continue to star gaze. Is your telescope strong enough to see the nebulae? Check out Orion. He’s got some great things to see.

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  2. JudyJuly 13, 2020 at 7:22 AM

    Such cuties!

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