Lesson Planning

Well, I’m chugging along. I’ve managed to complete Erin’s plan for the year, it still remains for me to write it out in her lesson book.

You didn’t think I’d finish five of them in one weekend did you? 

The rest should go quicker because I finally got smart and started listening to those who know what they’re doing and have decided to tandem teach history, science, music, art and Shakespeare making adjustments for the different age levels.  It sounds like it should work and it should definitely lighten my load. I’ll let you know in a few months how it goes.

Here’s what I have so far for Erin. For the benefit of the state I still have to add in health and a NY State study.  If the format looks familiar that’s because I shamelessly lifted it from the Mater Amabilis wesite substituting my resources when necessary. It’s a direct lift for Nature Study, Religion, Literature and Art. Hopefully Michele  will forgive me.  Sorry dear but it saved oodles of time.

I am still putting together booklists for history and I will likely revamp the literature list depending on her interest. When I get all of that straightened out I’ll post them here on the sidebars.

Here we go…

Erin
Grade 3

Religion

(1) New
Testament (Weekly)

The First Christians by Marigold Hunt. Read and
narrate one section each lesson.

Q1:
Introduction; Ch.1 to 3

Q2:
Ch.4 to 6

Q3: Ch.7 to 9
Q4: Ch. 10 to 12

(2) Saints
(Twice weekly, Ordinary Time only)

57 Stories of Saints by Anne Heffernan   

Q1:
13 lessons, read and narrate

Q2: 13
lessons, read and narrate
Q3: 15 lessons, read and narrate

Q4:
15 lessons, read and narrate

 

Reading 

One
saint’s biography to be assigned as independent reading each term.

(3) Catechism  (Weekly)
Faith and Life Series (pub. Ignatius Press).
Read, narrate and discuss one lesson each week.
        Faith and Life 4
      

Extras

Faith and Life Activity Book 4.

 
Mathematics (Daily)

Modern
Curriculum Press Mathematics D

 Five minutes of daily drill in math(s) facts,
particularly multiplication tables.

Extra

Mathematical
reading and activities from How Math Works by Carol Vorderman

English

(1) Reading

The
books set for history, religion, geography, literature and science will be read
by the child, either aloud to me or independently.

(2) Writing and Composition

(a) Copywork
(10 minutes daily)

Copy
two lines daily from favourite poems, prayers, Bible passages or the
Shakespeare play being studied.
 

Resources

The Harp and Laurel Wreath by Laura Berquist

Shakespeare
quotations
suitable for copywork.
 

(b) Composition
(Daily) Regular written narrations from books set for history, religion,
geography, literature and science.
 

(3) Grammar
/ English Language (three times weekly)

English
4 for Young Catholics 2007 Edition (Seton Home Press)

Q 1: Drills 1-36

Q 2: Drills 36 -72

Q 3: Drills 73-108

Q 4: Drills 109-136

 

(4) Spelling

 My Catholic Speller Level C (For
Little Folks Press)

 Q1: Weeks 1-9

 Q2: Weeks 10-18

 Q3: Weeks 19 – 27

 Q4 Weeks 28-36

(5) Studied Dictation
(Twice weekly)

Short
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.

 

(2) Reading List   

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls 

Swallows and Amazons and other books by Arthur
Ransome

The Midnight Folk by John Masefield

The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Anne of Green Gables by L.L.Montgomery

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

(3) Shakespeare
(Weekly)

The
Tempest; Macbeth; As You Like It
 Resources

Re-tellings
of Shakespeare plays. Choose from:

Tales From Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E.Nesbit (available
online at the Baldwin Project )
The Random House Book of Shakespeare Stories by Andrew Matthews

Books
about Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare: His Work and His World by Michael Rosen
Bard of Avon: the Story of William Shakespeare by Diane Stanley

 

Books
about plays and teaching notes:

 Shakespeare and MacBeth: the Story Behind the Play by Stewart Ross
        Shakespeare Made Easy:
                The Tempest; Macbeth

 Henry V; Julius Caesar; Twelfth Night

(4) Poetry

The Harp and Laurel Wreath by Laura Berquist:
Grammatical Stage

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.

2^ndQ: Ancient Egypt and  Greece

Chapters
13-22 Each chapter includes Review Questions, Encyclopedia Work, Map work and
additional reading. Reading List Attached.

 

3^rd
Q: Ancient Greece and Rome

Chapters
22-32 Each chapter includes Review Questions, Encyclopedia Work, Map work and
additional reading. Reading List Attached

 

4^th
Q: Ancient Rome

Chapters
33-42 Each chapter includes Review Questions, Encyclopedia Work, Map work and
additional reading. Reading List Attached

 

 

 

 Geography,
Earth Studies and Science

 

 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.

 

 Nature
Study (Weekly)

(1)
Take at least one nature walk each week.

(2)
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 and Backyard Nature by MacBeth Derham (websites)

Wild Monthly online nature study newsletter, also by
MacBeth Derham

Science (twice weekly)

1st
Year: Science in Ancient Greece

Science in Ancient Greece (Kathlyn Gay)

Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick

The Librarian Who Measured the Earth (Kathryn Lasky)

Home
Science Adventures: Light

Home
Science Adventures: Magnetism

Available
from Emmanuel Books (US) and Ichthus
Resources (UK).
Kits include all equipment needed for experiments.

Simple Machines: Starting With Science (Adrienne Mason and Deborah
Hodge)

 

Foreign
Language

Latin 

Latina Christiana, Vol.1  (Memoria Press)

Q1:
Lessons 1 – 5

Q2:
Lessons 6 – 10

Q3:
Lessons 11- 15

Q4: Lessons
16 – 20

Art  (Twice weekly)

Resources

Discovering Great Artists by Mary Ann Kohl and Kim
Solga – lots of art projects in the style of great artists. All projects are
given a rating for both difficulty and the amount of preparation required.

The Usborne Book of Art Skills by Fiona Watt – lots of
simple but effective projects, using a variety of media.

 

Picture
Study

Gothic
and Renaissance Art

Q1: Giotto
and Saint Fra Angelico

Q2: Leonardo
da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli

Q3: Michelangelo
Buenarotti

Q4: Raphael

Music
Appreciation
(weekly)

Classical
Kids Series Vol. 1 & 2; Beethoven, Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart, Tchiakovsky,
Bach

Weekly
flute lessons