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Term Two! The kids have been working so hard and we’re all looking forward to the upcoming breaks. For this section of our school year, my goals are to have lots of family memories (especially with Advent School) and to get a little poetry back into our Poetry Teatime.
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TERM TWO: November 13-February 17
MORNING BASKET
- Aesop’s Fables
- The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter
- Once Upon a Time Saints
- Leading the Little Ones to Mary
- Poems to Memorize:
- “Twas the Night before Christmas”
- TBD
- TBD
- Read Alouds
ADVENT SCHOOL
Spine: We’re switching things up for the entire month of December! We’ll be using parts of Elizabeth Foss’s Advent with Tomie DePaola curriculum.
- Take Up & Read’s “Rooted in Hope” Journal and the free Kids Edition
- Daily Picture Books (most from our Literary Advent Calendar)
- Copywork and Art
- Christmas Around the World
- Traditions in Italy
- Traditions in Mexico
- Read-alouds
- Activities/Crafts/Baking/Movies
FIFTH GRADE HISTORY
I’m stretching this guide out a bit and estimating that it will last us over a year, maybe two.
Books, Field Trips and Projects:
- Theodore Roosevelt
- What Caused WWI? lesson
- Sergeant York
- watch the 1940’s movie of Sergeant York
- The Singing Tree
- Rascal
- watch the 1960’s movie of Rascal
- WWI historical character dress-up
- Project Week/”Exams”
K-THIRD GRADE HISTORY
I was hoping to stretch this guide out too, but they keep asking for more! We’ll most likely finish this year.
Books and Projects:
MATH
- 5th grade: Teaching Textbooks 6 (he moved up a level halfway through Term One)
- 3rd grade: Teaching Textbooks 3
- 1st grade: Abeka 1 workbook
- Kindergarten: MEP Reception
- Manipulatives and games for the little two
BIG KIDS LANGUAGE ARTS & WRITING
- Brave Writer Arrow Guides
- Brave Writer Partnership Writing Projects
- Project: Homonym Minibook
- Project: Five Ws: Who, what, where, when, and why
LITTLE KIDS READING & PHONICS
- J: All About Reading Level 1
- S: All About Reading Pre-Reading
- tons and tons of picture books from home and the library
FIFTH GRADE SCIENCE
Books:
- The Picture History of Great Inventors
- The Way Science Works
- Along Came Galileo
- Isaac Newton, The Scientist who Changed Everything
- Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia
K-THIRD GRADE SCIENCE
RELIGION
The three big boys will also be attending religious education at our parish.
- M: 57 Stories of Saints
- M: Fulton Sheen notebooking curriculum
- D: A Catholic Child’s Illustrated Lives of the Saints
- J&S: New Catholic Picture Bible, Picture Book of Saints and Once Upon a Time Saints
GEOGRAPHY
We are focusing on the continent of Africa this year, learning about one country a week.
Spine: The Africa Book and the Discover Africa Notebooking Packet
Term Two Countries: Ethiopia, Zambia, Somalia, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Madagascar, Mozambique
Books and Projects:
- A Story, A Story
- The Colour of Home
- Mama Panya’s Pancakes
- Galimoto
- Beatrice’s Goat
- A Little Lemur Named Mew
- cooking African cuisine with recipes from Global Table Adventure
ART APPRECIATION
- finishing up Simply Charlotte Mason’s Winslow Homer portfolio
- Free Art for the big kids with How to Draw Cool Stuff: A Drawing Guide for Teachers and Students
- Art Fraud Detective
POETRY TEATIME
Trying this again! Hopefully we can find the balance between delicious treats and reading poetry.
YEAR OF PLAYING SKILLFULLY
This preschool-ish (it’s for ages 3-7) curriculum is primarily for S and TJ, but J has been interested in some of the activities too.
So inspiring! Check out for Mexico – Las posadas, piñatas, and three kings days!! Xxoxo