2014-15 Curriculum -

  Preschool Curriculum

 

 Main Curriculum 2x week:

• Memoria Press Jr. K includes:  devotional, memory work, calendar, writing, numbers, crafts, literature, poetry, music & games  Includes Rod and Staff Books

  

Additional/More detailed:

Language Arts:

• Memoria Press Junior K  (2 days a week)  Literature List:  Green Eggs and Ham, House that Jack Built, Ten Little Rubber Ducks, Curious George, Corduroy, My Shadow, Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Little Red Hen, Barndance, Mr. Pine’s Purple House, The Gingerbread Boy, Prayers for Children, Richard Scarry’s Mother Goose, In November, Tikki Tikki Tembo, The Little Drummer Boy, The Friendly Beasts, Snow, The Mitten, Madeline, Guess How Much I Love You, Officer Buckle and Gloria, Charlie Needs a Cloak, Noah’s Ark, Never Tease a Weasel, Chester’s Way, Runaway Bunny, The Golden Egg Book, The Empty Pot, Andy and the Lion, Around the Year, One Fine Day, The Quilt Story, The Story of Little Babaji, The Relatives Came
  
  
• Workbooks:  Rod and Staff Preschool 3-4 finish, mazes, cutting and pasting, tracing, etc.
  
  
• Phonics:  Abeka K4 (phonics only) 5 days a week (held off on this worked through some of it but not consistent)

Math

• Saxon K – 3x week (didn't have time for this)
  
• MathStart books:   Beep Beep Vroom Vroom, Henry the Fourth, It’s About Time,  Missing Mittens, Best Bug Parade, Animals on Board

Science

• Berenstain Bears Book of Science (free reading for seasons)
  
  
• Nature Journal & study (1 day a week)
  
  
• Let’s Find out Series (books)  My Feet, My Hands, My Five Senses, Look at Your Eyes, Sounds All Around, How You Talk, I Can Tell by Touching, Sleep is For Everyone, How Apples Grow?  Corn is Maize, Light is All Around Us, From Milk Can to Carton, Switch on Switch Off, Why Do Leaves Change Color?, From Seed to Pumpkin, What Happens to our Trash, Where Does the Garbage Go, Snow, Animals in Winter, Big Tracks, Little Tracks, What Makes a Magnet, Volcanoes, Plants in Winter, Night Animals, The Planets in our Solar System, How People Fly, Floating in Space, The Moon Seems to Change, What Makes Day and Night, Shooting Stars, A Tree is a Plant, Germs Make Me Sick, A Drop of Blood, Your Skin and Mine, The Skelton Inside You, Down Comes the Rain, Clouds

 Bible

• AWANA- memory verses
  
• Memory Verses before AWANA- Gen. 1:1, Gen. 1:31, & 10 Commandments
  
• Recitations:  Memory work along with Memoria Press
  
• The Children’s Illustrated Bible (go along with the family reading of Bible/History Simply Charlotte Mason Gen.-Deut & Ancient Egypt)
  
• Big Thoughts for Little People (MP)

 Personal & Character Development

• Laying Down the Rails- working on each week using For Instruction in Righteousness for story examples
• Emptying the dishwasher
• Getting dressed and going potty without help (solidify this)
• Sharing
• Setting the table

  

Foreign Language

• Song School Latin-  (music disc only), memorize Latin poems and counting to ten
• Muzzy German (listen to DVDs, songs daily)

Family

• Bible/History SCM Genesis-Deut. Ancient Egypt:  True Story of Noah’s Ark, Pharoah’s Boat
  
• Will only work for 45 min. a day not counting reading time mostly spending time reading and outside playing.
  

 Overall outside activities:  Sunday Church, AWANA (Wed.),  coop  1 day a week (Literature & Art)

******Additional free reading list for all grades to be included at the end of the year*****

6^th Grade Curriculum

 

Language Arts

• Literature:  The Story of the Treasure Seekers,  Swiss Family Robinson, Call of the Wild, Prince and the Pauper, Captain's Courageous, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, (2nd semester online literature class)
• Reading and Reasoning (CAP) added midway
• Shurley English 7-& (changed mid way to Rod and Staff 5 to work more on diagramming)
• Writing:  IEW coop class Bible Based, Weekly Journal Writing & written narration for Science & History reads
• Spelling Workout G & part of H
• Copy work 2 lines 4x week, Dictation 2x week

Math & Logic

• Pre-Algebra Saxon (4x week)
• Family Math (1x week)
• Mathematicians are People Too (volume 2)
• Critical Thinking Book One  (quit midway working on Mind Benders & Red Herring Mysteries)

Science

• Apologia:  Exploring Creation w/Anatomy
• Additional Books:  Exploring the History of Medicine, Mummies Made in Egypt, Blood and Guts, The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat

History

• Worked through Kingfisher Encyclopedia and various books at the library on topics researched during time period studied also read:  Story of the World volume 1, Tirzah, and Story of the Ancient Greeks (see additional reading in Family Group time)

Character Building

• Do Hard Things

Latin I

• Latin Alive 1- working on 1/2 book for the year (3 days a week)

Arabic

• Rosetta Stone - working on it 2 days a week

Handicraft  (3 per year)

• Drawing
• Sorting, washing and folding clothes
• Typing/ working on speed

Family Group Time

Bible (Old Testament Survey) alongside of History & Geography

•Genesis-Deuteronomy & Ancient Egypt (Simply Charlotte Mason)

•Book list:  Exodus:  A Commentary for Children, Numbers, Oxford First Ancient History, Pyramid, Riddle of Rosetta Stone, Letters from Egypt, Adam and His Kin, The Golden Goblet, The Cat of Bubastes, Jashub’s Journal, Motel of the Mysteries, Do Hard Things, Genesis Finding Our Roots

 

• Joshua-Malachi (Simply Charlotte Mason) 1 term

Continued on an additional term studying Joshua and starting studying Ancient Greece books read: Black Ships Before Troy, The Parthenon, Wanderings of Odysseus, also read some of The Story of the Greeks

Case for a Creator, Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Missionary Stories with the Millers

Personal Devt. Together:  Laying Down the Rails: A Charlotte Mason Habits Handbook (keep journal of things each child need to work on and doing well in), For Instruction in Righteousness

Composer Study

3 Composers per year:  Claude Debussy, Bella Bartok, Maurice Ravel

Picture Study

3 per year:  Norman Rockwell, Frans Lanting, Thomas Kinkade

Nature Study (once a week 30 min. walk & 30 min in notebooks)

• Using Handbook of Nature (spontaneous or as follows)
• Heavens, birds, trees, rocks/minerals, in-vertebrates: 

Hymn Study:

• Jesus Calls Us
• The Church’s One Foundation
• Blest Be the Tie
• Doxology
• This is My Father’s World
• It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Shakespeare – Hamlet & The Taming of the Shrew

Poetry- read poet and study: Christina Rosetti, Rudyard Kipling, & Walt Whitman

Memory Work

10 commandments, (Exodus 20:  1-17) Genesis 1:1, Genesis 1:27, Genesis 1:31, Genesis 2:7, Psalm 35:9, Psalm 119:30, Proverbs 4:7, Proverbs 4:20, 21, Proverbs 22:29, Mark 12:30, 31, Matthew 5:1-12

Electives taken at coop (1x week)

• Drama
• Self Defense

 

Overall outside activities:  Sunday & Wed. Church along with many additional activities through out the year including mission trips and camps, coop one day a week (IEW, Drama, Apologia Anatomy & Self Defense)

9^th Grade Curriculum

 

Language Arts

• World Literature:  Omnibus I:  Genesis, Exodus, Epic of Gilgamesh, Code of Hammurabi, The Screwtape Letters, & others:  The Holy War (Bunyan), Illiad, Odyssey, Plato:  Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, The Republic, Aristotle:  The Metaphysics, I & II, The Ethics I & II, The Poetics  (changes mid year) 
• Abeka 12 Grammar only, & read The Elements of Style
• Rhetoric – Classical Academic Press online class – Mon & Wed, Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student, read A Rulebook for Arguments, finish up How to Read a Book 

Math

• Algebra II – Derek Owens- online
• Geometry Read-  String Straight Edge & Shadow

Science

• Apologia Chemistry self-study Labs taken at Landry Academy
• Additional Books:  Creation Facts of Life by Parker, Elements of the Faith by Duncan & The Disappearing Spoon

World History

• Biblical Archaeology  (Master Books) Unwrapping the Pharaohs, Unveiling the Kings of Israel, & The Archaeology Book

Economics & Government

• What Happened to Penny Candy, Are You Liberal, Conservative, or Confused?

Latin III

• Potters School online class W 1130-100

German I

• Online self-paced course Rolling Acres Farm (German Made Simple) 2nd semester used Rosetta Stone

Personal Development

Radical (Platt), A Young Man after God’s own Heart, Do Hard Things

Handicraft  (3 per year)

• Car maintenance & class through Landry Academy
• Sorting, washing and folding clothes
• Typing continue to work on speed

Guitar – playing in church band

Family Group Time

Bible (Old Testament Survey) along side of History & Geography

•              Genesis-Deuteronomy & Ancient Egypt, Joshua-Malachi & Ancient Greece (Simply Charlotte Mason)

•              Book list:  Exodus:  A Commentary for Children, Numbers, Leviticus, Oxford First Ancient History, Pyramid, Riddle of Rosetta Stone, Letters from Egypt, Adam and His Kin, The Golden Goblet, Jashub’s Journal, The Cat of Bubastes, Motel of the Mysteries, Genesis Finding Our Roots

Continued on an additional term studying Joshua and starting studying Ancient Greece

• Also reading:  Case for a Creator, Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Missionary Stories with the Millers

Personal Devt. Together:  Laying Down the Rails: A Charlotte Mason Habits Handbook (keep journal of things each child need to work on and doing well in)

Composer Study

3 Composers per year:  Claude Debussy, Bella Bartok, Maurice Ravel

Picture Study

3 per year:  Norman Rockwell, Frans Lanting, Thomas Kinkade

Nature Study (once a week)

• Using Handbook of Nature (spontaneous or as follows)
• Heavens, birds, trees, rocks/minerals, in-vertebrates

Hymn Study:

• Jesus Calls Us
• The Church’s One Foundation
• Blest Be the Tie
• Doxology
• This is My Father’s World
• It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Shakespeare – Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew

Poetry- read poet study:  Walt Whitman, Christina Rosetti, Rudyard Kipling

Memory Work

10 commandments, (Exodus 20:  1-17) Genesis 1:1, Genesis 1:27, Genesis 1:31, Genesis 2:7, Psalm 35:9, Psalm 119:30, Proverbs 4:7, Proverbs 4:20, 21, Proverbs 22:29, Mark 12:30, 31,  Matthew 5:1-12

 Overall outside activities:  Sunday & Wed. Church, church band as well as many mission trips and camp activities through out the year, & online classes for Rhetoric & Latin III