Here are the plans for Katie. They are a combination of Mater Amabilis and some Classical Education influences. This does not include our plans for Advent or Lent and there are a few resources that I did not include in this list yet because I’m not sure how I’m fitting it all in. How’s that for comprehensive planning? However, this is what I sent in to the district and it provides the basic framework for the year. If you see anything glaringly, obviously dopey please drop me a line.
Mathematics (Daily)
Saxon
Math 65 3rd edition (Saxon Publishers)
Saxon Math 65 D.I.V.E. CD-Rom
English
Grammar and Composition
Ancient
History-Based Writing Lessons (Institute for Excellence in Writing) One lesson
weekly
English 6
for Young Catholics (Seton Press) One lesson daily
Language
Arts Basic Skills Book 2 (Frank Schaffer Publications) Diagramming Sentences,
one lesson weekly.
Vocabulary
Wordly Wise Book 3 one lesson per week
Spelling
My Catholic Speller Level E
Copywork (10 minutes daily)
Copy
daily from favourite poems, prayers, Bible passages or the Shakespeare play
being studied.
Resources
The Harp and Laurel Wreath by Laura Berquist
www.shakespeare-online.com/quotes
Studied
Dictation (Twice
weekly)
Paragraphs
or passages to be dictated from a section (two or three paragraphs) of a
history, literature, geography or religion book that has been studied in
advance.
Literature
Classic
Literature
Q1 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott,
Q2 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Q3 Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Q4 Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
Shakespeare
Resources:
Re-tellings
of Shakespeare plays. Choose from:
Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield
Enchanted Island: Stories from Shakespeare by Ian Serraillier
Background
reading:
Starting Shakespeare by Eric Boagey
See
our Shakespeare
pages for
notes on selected plays
Poetry
The Harp and Laurel Wreath by Laura Berquist: Logic
Stage
plus
an individual poet to be studied each term (TBA)
History
Ancient
History
The
Story of the World, History for the Classical Child, Edited by Susan Wise Bauer
(Peace Hill Press)
1st Q: Ancient Egypt
Chapters
1 – 13 Each chapter includes Review Questions, Encyclopedia Work, Map work and
additional reading. Reading List Attached.
2ndQ: Ancient Egypt and Greece
Chapters
13-22 Each chapter includes Review Questions, Encyclopedia Work, Map work and
additional reading. Reading List Attached.
3rd
Q: Ancient Greece and Rome
Chapters
22-32 Each chapter includes Review Questions, Encyclopedia Work, Map work and
additional reading. Reading List Attached
4th
Q: Ancient Rome
Chapters
33-42 Each chapter includes Review Questions, Encyclopedia Work, Map work and
additional reading. Reading List Attached
Geography (twice
weekly)
Map
Work
Maps
Charts and Graphs Level D (Modern Curriculum Press)
Map
work is included in our history lessons and maps of the ancient world will be
studied.
Spend
a short time each week locating places mentioned in reading for other subjects.
Earth Studies
Nature
Study
Take at least one nature walk each week.
Keep a nature
notebook
Resources
Keeping a Nature Journal by Claire Walker Leslie and
Charles E.Roth
Wild Days: Creating Discovery Journals by Karen Rackliffe
Introduction
to Nature Study by MacBeth Derham (website)
Optional
Nature Reading
Insect Adventures by J.Henri Fabre
Science
(twice weekly)
This is a
continuation of last year’s study of nature and the creatures and plants that
inhabit our earth.
God’s
Marvelous Works Book 2 (Rod and Staff Publisher’s Inc.)
Q1: Algae and Fungi (lessons 1 – 6); Mammals (lessons 7 – 8)
Q2: Mammals (lessons 9 – 15)
Q3: Mammals (lessons 15 – 23)
Q4: Sponges, Mollusks, Sea Worms and Sea Jellies (lessons 24 -26); Amphibians
(lessons 27 – 30)
Reference
Book
Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
Extra
Resources
Lyrical
Life Science Vol.1
Lyrical
Life Science Vol.2
Catherine is enrolled in a homeschool science class at the Long Island
Children’s Science Museum in Plandome from October to December.
Health
Health 6 (Seton Press)
Foreign Language (two or
three times weekly)
Latin (twice weekly)
Latina Christiana II by Cheryl
Lowe (Memoria Press)
The
Book of Roots by Paul O’Brien (Memoria
Press)
Extra Resources
Little
Latin Readers A&B by Julie Collorafi (Guadalupe Press)
Picture
Study (weekly)
1st
Year: Realism
Q 1: John-Francois Millet
Q 3: John Singer Sargent
Q 4: Mary Cassatt
To accompany picture study we will use Discovering
Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters
by Mary Ann
Kohl.
Music
Appreciation (weekly)
Music Masters Set 3 (Handel, Beethoven, Wagner, Dvorak, Haydn,
Vivaldi/Corelli).
Recommended
Resource
Masters of Classical Music, Vols.1-10 (Box Set) – economical set of 10 CDs,
each featuring works by a different composer. Ideal as follow up listening to
the Music Masters CDs (includes Beethoven, Wagner and Vivaldi).
Catherine will be singing in a
Schola (choir) once weekly.
Phys Ed.
Irish Step Dance twice weekly
CYO Basketball November to March
Catherine will be attending weekly citizenship club
meetings.
Home Economics
Cook one dinner weekly
Bread baking
Basic sewing skills
Religion
New
Testament
(Weekly)
Read
the entire Gospel of Matthew
Old Testament (Twice Weekly)
Bible History by Ignatius Schuster (First Part)
1st Year: Ch.1 to Ch.44
Catechism (Weekly)
Read, narrate and discuss one lesson each
week.
Faith and Life 6: Following Christ
Q1: Chapters 1 to 8
Q2: Chapters 9 to 16
Q3: Chapters 17 to 25
Q4: Chapters 26-31
Faith
and Life Activity Book 6
Baltimore
Catechism No. 3 – read and narrate one lesson weekly.
Apologetics (Weekly)
Ist
Year
Prove It! God by Amy Welborn
Saints (Free time
reading)
One
saint’s biography each quarter from the Vision Books series.
I have a 6th grade boy and am interested in your IEW writing book listed above. We are doing the Middle Ages and there is one available for that time period. Would you ever have time to post a mini review of what it includes or how it works?
God bless. . .looks like a good year! I’ll pop back in for ideas.
Sarah (from the 4R Forum)