2011-2012 Curriculum

YEA! It’s getting time for back to school planning- which my obsessive compulsive-ness as far as planning EVERYTHING goes, I’m so excited to have my curriculum lists finished! (Almost!) There are still a few things up in the air… really it’s just the mathematics program that I’m still debating on… going back and forth between MEPS, Saxon, and Singapore. We’ve done Singapore before and Harmony enjoyed it… kind of…. I’m still debating!!

Preschool

(Elijah & Gabriel- Age 4, Jude- Age 3)

Letters, Math, Science, Geography- Letter of the Week Preschool/Kindergarten

Phonics- Progressive Phonics

Miscellaneous– Tot Packs and Tot Books

1st Grade

(Forrest & Regan- Age 5)

Phonics- Progressive Phonics

Mathematics- Mathematics Enhancement Program (Year 1) 

Penmanship- Progressive Phonics Handwriting

Handicrafts- The American Boy’s Handy Book by D.C Beard, The American Girl’s Handy Book by Lina Beard

Manners- Goops and How to Be Them

Art-

Art Appreciation-Jean Honore Fragonard, Norman Rockwell

Music Appreciation- Folk songs, Hymn Study, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Bartok and Hindermith

Music- Piano (Alfred’s)

Bible- NASB, Miss Jenny’s Bible Stories for Children

World History- Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula, Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall, Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin, Viking Tales by Jennie Hall

American History- Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Buffalo Bill

Geography- Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling

Natural History/ Science- The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna B Comstock, Treasury for Children by James Herriot, Burgress Bird Book by Burgress

Poetry- A Children’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, Now we are six/When we were very young by A.A. Milne, The Oxford Book of Children’s Verses by Gyo Fujikawa

Literature- The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter, Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb, The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty

Required Reading- Charlotte’s Web by E.B White, King of the Golden River by John Ruskin, Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, Pinnochio by Carlo Collodi, The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, St. George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pocahontas by Ingri D’Aulaire

2nd Grade

(Harmony- Age 7)

Phonics- Progressive Phonics

Mathematics- Mathematics Enhancement Program (Year 2) 

Penmanship- Progressive Phonics Handwriting

Handicrafts- The American Girl’s Handy Book by Lina Beard

Manners- Goops and How to Be Them

Art-

Art Appreciation-Jean Honore Fragonard, Norman Rockwell

Music Appreciation- Folk songs, Hymn Study, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Bartok and Hindermith

Music- Piano (Alfred’s), Guitar

Spelling- Spell By Color

Bible- NASB, Miss Jenny’s Bible Stories for Children

History- An Island Story by H.E. Marshall, The Discovery of New Worlds by MB Synge, This Country of Ours, Lief the Lucky by D’Aulaire, Columbus by D’Aulaire

Biography- Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula, The Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge, Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley

Geography- Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling, Seabird by Holling C. Holling

Natural History/ Science- The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna B. Comstock, Burgress Book of Animals by Burgress, Pagoo by Holling C. Holling

Poetry-  Walter De La Mare, Eugene Field and James Whitcombe Riley, Christina Rossetti

Literature- Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb, Pilgrim’s Progress Book 1 by John Bunyan, Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty, Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Required Reading- Heidi by Joanna Spyri, A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney, Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales, Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning, Abraham Lincoln by Ingri D’Aulaire, Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit, Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting, Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers, Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry, Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater, Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle, Chanticleer and the Fox – Barbara Cooney, Along Came A Dog by Meindert De Jong, The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli

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