HISTORY
The Story of the World Volume 2 - The Middle Ages
(chapters 21 - 36)
I am so incredibly thankful for this series. We really build our entire home school curriculum around it. We focus on 1 chapter a week. Scout and my "reading time" centers around the recommended books that go with each chapter. I read the Story of the World book to her like a novel Sunday night before bed and/or Monday morning. Throughout the week she reads the books we check out from the library to me and sometimes we take turns reading to each other depending on the reading level of the books. She reads the non fiction books related to that time period/region during "rest time" in the afternoon and then colors the coloring sheets while listening to the Story of the World audiobook. Usually on Tuesday of each week we do the map work and narration together and then post the colored map for the remainder of the week for reference. It has just been such a great fit for our family and for our weekly schedule and I'm so glad we "fell into" this curriculum so early on in our homeschooling adventures : ) I would like to do more of the projects for each chapter, but I think that will happen when River joins us in the next couple of years. Our plan is to finish up The Middle Ages over the summer and then dive right into Volume 3, Early Modern Times by August.
Some of our favorite books from this unit:
Favorite Medieval Tales, Saint George and the Dragon, Lives of Extraordinary Women, Tales of Robin Hood, Liang and the Magic Paintbrush, Fa Mulan, The Paper Dragon, Clay Boy, The Littlest Matriyosha, Baba Yaga, The Legend of the Persian Carpet,The Duchess Bakes a Cake, The Adventures of Tom Thumb, Musicians of the Sun, Moon Rope, So Say the Little Monkeys,
READING
Scout's Independent Chapter Books: Moonlight on the Magic Flute, Gooney Bird Greene series by Lois Lowry, The Never Girls series, Because of Winn Dixie, Little House on the Prairie, Geronimo Stilton, The Caroline Books, The Three Swords for Granada, The Sword in the Tree, The Kanani books, The Samantha books, Boxcar Children book 2, Anne of Green Gables, The Isabelle books,
Family Read Alouds: The Boxcar Children, Mary Poppins Opens the Door, The Story of the World - 2 The Story of the Orchestra, Lyle the Crocodile books, Mary Poppins from A to Z , Mary Poppins in the Park
River: Teach your Child to read in 100 Easy Lessons (lessons 65-80)
Independent Readers: BOBs books, Levels 1 - 5 from Carrie Lane's "book boost" list
PHONICS/ WRITING/ READING
River: Explode The Code level 1.5
River was VERY excited about starting these books after doing all 3 primer levels. He LOVES it and it meets several needs and really simplifies things for me. Scout had a tendency to rush through these and get into some bad habits without me realizing it, but River likes to go nice and slow and really makes sure everything is done well, so this series is working really well for him so far.
Scout:
LANGUAGE
Scout:
MATH
Scout -
River Saxon K and MUS Alpha (lessons 1 -18)
FINE ARTS:
Artists: Rembrandt, Linnaeus, Gainsborough, Degas. Monet, Morisot, Da Vinci, Michelangelo
Music: The Orchestra /Composers (Baroque to Modern)
MEMORY WORK:
Scout and River: Ephesians 6:13-24
CC Cycle 2 weeks 13-24
Scout:
The Goops, The Year, The Little Bird
CBS - Mark memory verses and Job memory verses
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