2011-2012 Curriculum
General Ideas
Weekly nature walk with Kip- collect specimens for Nature walk, occasionally choose items to draw. Possibly use Comstock’s book to choose a weekly theme or to read more about interesting finds and observations.
Weekly tea time- possibly Friday afternoons- a good time to practice the Emily Post manners book and discuss what we have learned this week.
Weekly narrations- either in History or Science- use the laptop to write down their narrations.
Bible
Lunch Time Devotions- Finish Step Into the Bible (Graham) & then complete Our 24 Family Ways (Clarkson)
Evening Devotions- Read & discuss the books of James, Proverbs, Romans and 1 John.
Leading Little Ones to God (possibly alternate with the books of the Bible above)
Hero Tales by Dave & Neta Jackson (as time allows)
Language Arts
Phonics: Explode the Code and Nora Gaydos Readers
Grammar: First Language Lessons (Mary= 1 lesson a day, Nathan= 2 or 3 lessons a week)
Spelling: Evan-Moor’s Building Spelling Skills (Mary= 1.6 lessons a day, Nathan= 1 lesson a day)
Writing: Evan-Moor’s Daily Six Trait Writing (Mary= 1 lesson a day with about 20 left over, Nathan= 2 or 3 lessons a week)
Math
Complete Right Start B and Right Start C (Mary & Nathan= 1.4 lessons a day)
History & Literature
Tapestry of Grace
Geography
Evan-Moor’s Daily Geography (Mary= 2 weeks of lessons per week, Nathan=1 week of lessons per week)
Tapestry of Grace’s mapping exercises
Handwriting
A Reason for Handwriting (Book T- Mary, Book B- Nathan)
Science
Nancy Larson Science 1 (Mary & Nathan= 2 lessons per week)
Art
Draw, Write, Now Books
Arts & crafts at weekly co-op classes
Continue with picture study and classical music appreciation
Weekly piano lessons
Memory Work- Bible & Poetry
Children’s Catachism- through question 50
James 3
Galatians 5:22-23 (The Fruits of the Spirit)
Romans 8:10
Proverbs 6:16-19
Continue with poetry favorites from last year
-Favorite Poems Old and New (FPON): Grizzly Bear (pg. 170), The Panther (pg. 331), November Night (pg. 83), The Mist and All (pg. 82), Fog (pg. 82), Autumn (pg. 81), Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (pg. 67), Let’s Be Merry (pg. 30), What Do They Do? (pg. 81)
-Shel Silverstein’s Falling Up: Snowball (pg. 11), Diving Board (pg. 24), Would-Coulda-Shoulda (pg. 65), The Toy Eater (pg. 77), The Folks Inside (pg. 144)
Go to the Ant (Bible)- FPON, pg. 125
The Little Turtle (Lindsay)- FPON, pg. 145
The Monkeys and the Crocodile (Richards)- FPON, pg. 175
The Squirrel- FPON, pg. 167
The Rum Tum Tugger- only the first 2 stanzas (Eliot)- FPON, pg. 157
Classical Music
Vivaldi’s Autumn, Winter & Spring
Pachabel’s Canon in D
PE
Tae Kwon Do (Mary) (we may decide to pull Mary out of TKD in 8/2011. If we do that, we will probably enroll her in swimming with Nathan or in dance classes with Savannah.)
Swimming at STAR Aquatics (Nathan)
Picture Study
The Oxbow, 1836 by Thomas Cole (Picturing America)
American Flamingo by John James Audubon (Picturing America)
Caitlin Painting the Portrait of Mah-to-toh-pa–Mandan, 1861.1869 by George Catlin (Picturing America)
“Sans Arc Lakota” Ledger Book, 1880-1881 (Picturing America)
Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California, 1865 by Albert Bierstadt (Picturing America)
Abraham Lincoln, 1865 by Alexander Gardner (Picturing America)
