Year Three

Theology:
NT Catechesis w/Dad
Memory work
read Exodus & Matthew
The Story of Icons
Icon coloring book set

Math & Logic:
Developmental Math workbooks
Montessori math lessons: multiplication, division, fractions, decimals
Memorization of multiplication and division facts
(on the link, scroll down to "The First Year Student and Math Facts")
Mind Benders A1
FamilyMath & Let's Play Math activities
Mathematicians are People Too Vol. 1
Mathmagic (Childcraft)
Math for Smarty Pants
On Beyond a Million: An Amazing Math Journey
Fractals, Googols, and Other Mathematical Tales
Anno's Magic Multiplying Jar
The Story of Clocks and Calendars: Marking a Millenium

Language:
copywork: copying own narrations which mom writes out
dictation
Getty Dubay handwriting book C or D
English for the Thoughtful Child
Greek: study of John
Typing with Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor
memory work: selected poems & psalms, the Gettysburg Address, the Preamble to the Constitution, Chief Joseph's speech

History: Early Modern
Spine: Story of the World vol. 3 & activity book
Usborne Book of World History
Squanto's Journey
Pilgrims First Thanksgiving
Buttons for General Washington
Louis Braille, the Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind
America's Paul Revere
Naya Nuki: Shoshone Girl Who Ran
Seaman: The Dog Who Travelled with Lewis and Clark
Tree in the Trail
Great Speeches of Native Americans
Trail of Tears
Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin
Ben and Me
American Adventures: True Stories from America's Past
Phoebe the Spy
The Double Life of Pocahontas
Betsy Maestro American History series
Shh! We're Writing the Constitution!
The Birchbark House
How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark

Geography:
Montessori puzzle maps
Montessori pin maps
State by State

Science: Chemistry & nature study
nature notebooking
4-H projects
Handbook of Nature Study
Burgess Bird Book
Learning the Birds podcast
A Drop of Water
Fizz, Bubble and Flash: Element Explorations & Atom Adventures
The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon

Literature:
Favorite Poems Old and New
Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare, 6 stories
A Treasury of North American Folktales
Kildee House
The Wheel on the School
The Sign of the Beaver
Caddie Woodlawn
The Prince and the Pauper
The Incredible Journey
Little Lord Fauntleroy
The Courage of Sarah Noble
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Art, Music, & Handwork:
Suzuki violin
Recorder using Recorder Fun!
My First Patchwork Book
My First Machine Sewing Book
origami projects from Easy Origami
nature crafts from Nature Smart
Native American crafts: moccasins, beadwork, pine needle baskets
Hymns: 1 per month
continue observation drawing using Drawing for Children
Watercolor for the Artistically Undiscovered
picture study of 6 artists
music appreciation 6 composers

Most of the books are on Amazon in a listmania list here.

Year Four

THEOLOGY
Bender

LITERATURE
Favorite Poems Old and New
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
The Rescuers
My Side of the Mountain
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Prince and the Pauper
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Phantom Tollbooth
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Around the World in Eighty Days
Captains Courageous
Swiss Family Robinson
The Cricket on the Hearth

Shakespeare

HISTORY
Story of the World vol. 4
Usborne Book of World History
Pink and Say
Thomas Edison: The Great American Inventor
Ordinary Genius: Albert Einstein
Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West
Yung Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Twenty and Ten
Escape from Warsaw
The Boy in the Alamo
Amazing Impossible Erie Canal
Freedom Train: Harriet Tubman
Just a Few Words Mr. Lincoln
Seaman: The Dog Who Explored the West with Lewis and Clark
I Was There: The Titanic
Moonwalk

SCIENCE
How Things Work by Childcraft
Reinventing the Wheel
Build a Better Mousetrap
How to Think Like a Scientist: Answering Questions by the Scientific Method
Birds: Nature's Magnificent Flying Machines
George Washington Carver: Man's Slave Becomes God's Scientist

MATH & LOGIC
Mathematicians Are People Too vol. 2
The Book of Think: How to Solve a Problem Twice Your Size
Fractals, Googols, and Other Mathematical Tales
Mind Benders A2
Developmental Math workbooks

LANGUAGE
WISE Guide to Spelling
Getty-Dubay Handwriting Book E
Hudson Teach Yourself NT Greek

ART, HANDCRAFTS & MUSIC
Art Fraud Detective
Art For Kids: Drawing: The Only Drawing Book you'll Ever Need to Be the Artist You've Always Wanted to Be
OR
Mark Kistler's Draw Squad
Great Artists
The Quilting Bee
My First Machine Sewing Book
My First Patchwork Book
My First Quilt Book

Year Five

THEOLOGY

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY
Augustus Caesar's World
In Search of a Homeland: the Aeneid by Penelope Lively
The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff
Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Kingfisher History Encyclopeadia
My Backyard History Book by Linda Allison
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

LITERATURE
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
The Toothpaste Millionaire
My Friend Flicka
Anne of Green Gables
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel deFoe
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Shakespeare plays:


LANGUAGE
Getty-Dubay Handwriting book G
Wordsmith Apprentice

MATH/LOGIC
Developmental Math workbooks
Fractals, Googols, and Other Mathematical Tales by Theoni Pappas
Secrets of Mental Math by by Arthur Benjamin and Michael Shermer
A Case of Red Herrings A2
Tibaldo and the Hole in the Calendar by Abner Shimony
The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Mathematicians are People Too by Luetta and Wilbert Reimer
Math for Every Kid by Janice Van Cleave

SCIENCE
Start Exploring: Gray's Anatomy Coloring Book
School of the Woods by William J. Long
Archimedes and the Door to Science by Jeanne Benedick
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Benedick
The History of Medicine by John Hudson Tiner

HANDICRAFTS/MUSIC/ART
Kid's Embroidery: Projects For Kids of All Ages
First Steps: Painting Watercolors by Cathy Johnson

Year Six

THEOLOGY
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis



HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY
The Magna Carta
William of Malmesbury's Account of the Battle of Hastings
William of Tyre's History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea (the Crusades)
Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin
How the Heather Looks by Joan Bodger
Augustine Came to Kent
God's Troubadour: The Story of St. Francis of Assisi
Son of Charlemagne
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland Bainton
Hands on History: Middle Ages by Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce by G.A. Henty

LITERATURE
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis & study guide
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Adam of the Road
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
The Trumpeter of Krakow
Watership Down
Canterbury Tales
Oxford Anthology of English Verse
poems of Alfred Lord Tenneyson, esp. Idylls of the King
poems of Keats, esp. The Eve of St. Agnes
Beowulf tr. by Burton Raffel
Shakespeare: four plays
Plutarch's Lives

LANGUAGE
??Our Mother Tongue

MATH/LOGIC
Right Start Geometry
A Case of Red Herrings B1
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? by Richard Maybury
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler

SCIENCE
Amazing Leonardo Da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself
The Lay of the Land by Dallas Lore Sharp
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
Exploring Planet Earth by John Hudson Tiner
Girls Who Looked Under Rocks: The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists by Jeannine Atkins


ART/MUSIC

Year Seven

THEOLOGY

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY
The Story of My Life and Work by Booker T. Washington
The Story of Benjamin Franklin by Margaret
The Story of Thomas Alva Edison by Margaret Cousins
Bird Woman: Sacajawea's Own Story by James Willard Schultz
George vs. George: The Revolutionary War as Seen From Both Sides
Utopia by Sir Francis More




LITERATURE
Everyman: A Morality Play
The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Johnny Tremain
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Emma by Jane Austen
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Reb and the Redcoats
I, Juan de Pareja
Shakespeare: 4 plays
poems of John Donne
poems of George Herbert
sonnets of Shakespeare
poems of John Milton


LANGUAGE
Wordsmith: A Creative Writing Course for Young People

MATH/LOGIC
Real World Algebra by Edward Zaccaro


SCIENCE
The Ocean of Truth: the Story of Sir Isaac Newton by Joyce McPherson
Exploring Planet Earth by John Hudson Tiner
Girls Who Looked Under Rocks: The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists by Jeannine Atkins
A Piece of the Mountain: The Story of Blaise Pascal by Joyce McPherson
The Benjamin Franklin Book of Easy and Incredible Experiments


HANDICRAFTS/ART/MUSIC
Painting on Rocks for Kids

Year Eight

THEOLOGY

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY
Never Give In
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom & study guide
Sadako & the Thousand Paper Cranes
Journey to Topaz
The Endless Steppe

LITERATURE
Sense & Sensibility
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Giver by Lois Lowry

LANGUAGE

MATH & LOGIC
The Fallacy Detective by Nathaniel Bluedorn
Algebra by I.M. Gelfand
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos


SCIENCE
How Everything Works by Louis A. Bloomfield
Relativity Visualized: The Gold Nugget of Relativity Books by Lewis Carroll Epstein
Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality by Lewis Carroll Epstein
Exploring the World of Physics by John Hudson Tiner
The Thomas Edison Book of Easy and Incredible Experiments James G. Cook
Ten Things All Future Mathematicians and Scientists Must Know by Edward Zaccaro

HANDICRAFTS/ART/MUSIC

Year Two

THEOLOGY
365 Bible Stories
Small Catechism
OT Catechesis

LITERATURE
ongoing: Favorite Poems Old and New
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Follow My Leader
Pollyanna
Lassie
Li Lun Lad of Courage
The Big Wave
Olga da Polga
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
The Door in the Wall
The Jungle Books
A Christmas Carol

HISTORY
Story of the World vol II
Usborne Book of World History
Across a Dark and Wild Sea
Favorite Medieval Tales
Canterbury Tales
How Sir James Earned his Armor
Robin Hood
King Arthur
The Man Who Changed the World
Fine Print: A Story about Johann Gutenburg
St. George and the Dragon
Joan of Arc
Shakespeare and the Globe
The Silk Route
Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer

SCIENCE
ongoing: Burgess Bird Book
How Do Birds Find Their Way?
Weather Words and What They Mean
Rocks in His Head
How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World
The Earth
Along Came Galileo
Constellations
Geography from A to Z

MATH
Montessori math lessons (dynamic & static addition subtraction)
The Story of Money
Tales of Penrose the Mathematical Cat
Can You Count to a Googol?
Mathmagic

LANGUAGE
First Language Lessons
WISE Guide to Spelling
Getty-Dubay Handwriting book C
Hey Andrew! Teach Me Some Greek! Book 2

ART, HANDCRAFTS, & MUSIC
Recorder Fun!
My First Doll Book
Drawing with Children
Recycled Art Box
Story of the Orchestra

Preschool 3-6

THEOLOGY
LITERATURE
PRACTICAL LIFE
GEOGRAPHY/CULTURE
LANGUAGE
SENSORIAL/MATH
SCIENCE/NATURE STUDY
ART/MUSIC/HANDICRAFTS

Friday, March 30, 2007

Individual assignments:
Erin:
catechism : review one section
chapter book: By The Shores of Silver Lake
read & narrate one chapter
Greek workbook: 1 page
Bible: read & narrate Genesis chapter 5

Aidan:
catechism: review one section
chapter book: Little House in the Big Woods
read & narrate one chapter
Greek workbook: one page
365 Bible Stories: read & narrate one story

Lessons with mom:
math: subtraction with regrouping using the stamp game
First Language Lessons: lesson
Spelling: section I-2
Fine Art Friday: Manet -- view and narrate

Independent activities:
Erin: reading Ranger Rick magazine, work on 4-H Vet science project, imaginative play
Aidan: looking up cost & number in set of youth arrows in archery catalog, imaginative play, reading Isla Fantastica (Spanish), Outnumbered (computer math game)