Get Ready, Get Set …
I spent some time last night culling and reorganizing the school cabinet. It is almost ready for the new year. You can check out what we have left to do by clicking here.
What On Earth Are You Going To Do?
DAILY INSTRUCTION
Penmanship or Copywork
Phonics – Phonics Pathways
Spelling – Spelling Workout Level B
Spelling – Spelling Workout Level B
Math – Modern Curriculum Press Mathematics Level B
Foreign language – Spanish
Greek – Hey Andrew, Teach Me Some Greek, Level 1
Greek – Hey Andrew, Teach Me Some Greek, Level 1
WEEKLY INSTRUCTION
Correspond history readings with a timeline or century book and map
Handicrafts
Music Appreciation, including folksongs
Nature Study – The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock
An artist and a composer each term
TERM 1Â Â
King James Version Bible
An Island Story ch 22-32 (1066-1189, Harold II Henry II)
This Country of Ours ch. 1 (How the Vikings…)
A Child’s History of the World by Virgil Hillyer ch 47, ch 49-53 1000 AD Charlemagne, Vikings Peter the Hermit; 800-1100
The Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge
A Child’s History of the World by Virgil Hillyer ch 47, ch 49-53 1000 AD Charlemagne, Vikings Peter the Hermit; 800-1100
The Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge
Marco Polo
The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Burgess
Poetry by Walter De La Mare
The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Burgess
Poetry by Walter De La Mare
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
Pilgrim’s Progress Book 1 (Christian’s Journey) by John Bunyan
Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
TERM 2
An Island Story ch 33-50 (1189-1399, Richard I Richard II)
A Child’s History of the World by Hillyer ch 54-57 (ch 52-54 in 1st ed) Richard I-John I Magna Charta, 1189-1215
The Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge
Marco Polo
The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Burgess
Poetry by James Whitcombe Riley
The Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge
Marco Polo
The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Burgess
Poetry by James Whitcombe Riley
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
Pilgrim’s Progress Book 1 (Christian’s Journey) by John Bunyan
Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
TERM 3
An Island Story ch 51-61 (1399-1553, Henry IV-Henry VII)
This Country of Ours ch 2-5 (Columbus, 1492-1497, Henry VII) OR Columbus by D’Aulaire
A Child’s History of the World by Virgil Hillyer ch 58-61
Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley
Marco Polo
Pagoo by Holling C Holling
Poetry by Christina Rossetti
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley
Marco Polo
Pagoo by Holling C Holling
Poetry by Christina Rossetti
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
Pilgrim’s Progress Book 1 (Christian’s Journey) by John Bunyan
Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty
Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
ADDITIONAL BOOKSÂ Â
Heidi by Joanna Spyri
A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales
Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning
Abraham Lincoln by Ingri D’Aulaire
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney
Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney
Along Came A Dog by Meindert De Jong
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
Year 1 in 18 Weeks… A Final Update
UPDATED 8/16/06
Here’s the final Year 1 update. We used the Year 1 in 18 weeks schedule, but ended up using close to 36 weeks anyway. (Obviously we won’t read all of these, but we’ll pick them up again when D does Year 1.) Here’s what we have left:
George Washington
Buffalo Bill
Tree in the Trail in progress
Seabird in progress
Aesop’s Fables
The Bees, and Wasps and the Hornet
The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle
Just So Stories
How the Alphabet was Made
The Crab that Played with the Sea
The Cat that Walked by Himself
The Butterfly that Stamped
Parables from Nature
Cobwebs
The Blue Fairy Book
The Forty Thieves
The White Cat
Pinocchio
Pocahontas
St. George and the Dragon
The Red Fairy Book
We should be done by mid-August. Hooray!
Sidebar Update … Coming Soon
Slowly but surely, I’m in the process of updatng my sidebar. Stay tuned for more booklists.
Summer Break
I’ve been taking some time off from blogging because, well, sometimes one just has to live life. Today is July 6 and we’re just a few weeks away from the new term. I had planned to start the new term August 1, but have been rethinking that a bit. I can’t decide whether or not to let the boys have “summer vacation”. The local school district starts back August 15. That’s unusual, because they usually start after Labor Day. Anyway, we’re finishing the last two weeks of Ambleside Online Year 1 in 18 weeks. We have finished 90% of the readings. Enough, in my opinion to move on. I’d like T to continue Math and Copywork daily, since he needs to work on those skills. Beyond that, we’ll continue to read aloud from the AO Year 0 and 1 lists. I think a two or three week break would do me good and allow me time to get some household projects completed.
