No.93: Our 2017-2018 Homeschool Plan: Term Three

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We’re two weeks into our third term and it really feels like we’re on the home stretch!  We have had a wildly successful school year and I’m hoping we can keep the momentum until the very end.  The general plan for our last term is to just “keep on’ keepin’ on”, finishing up most subjects and finding a natural stopping point for the rest.  We’ll have a week of Spring Break after Easter as well as a week of standardized testing.  Summer break, we’re coming for you!      

MORNING BASKET

• Poetry for Young People: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Read Alouds:
• The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell
• The Borrowers
• The One and Only Ivan

Spine: Beautiful Feet’s Modern American and World History program

I’m stretching this guide out to last a year and a half.

Books:

• Rascal
• watch the 1960’s movie of Rascal
• Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
• The House of Sixty Fathers
• War Boy: A Wartime Childhood
• Air Raid–Pearl Harbor!

I’m stretching this guide out to last a year and a half too.

Books and Field Trips:

• Benjamin Franklin
• The Courage of Sarah Noble
• The Matchlock Gun
• A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution 
• Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin
• George Washington
• field trip to Jamestown

• 5th grade: Teaching Textbooks 6
• 3rd grade: Teaching Textbooks 3
• 1st grade: Abeka 1 workbook
• Pre-K: Math Lessons for a Living Education: Level 1, Grade 1 (trying something new, again!)

• Brave Writer Arrow Guides
• The Borrowers (Topics)
• The One and Only Ivan (Parallelism)
• Brave Writer Partnership Writing Projects
• Project: Five Ws: Who, what, where, why and when (to be used as a biography report)
• Project: Imaginary continent

LITTLE KIDS READING & PHONICS

• J: All About Reading Level 2
• S: All About Reading Pre-Reading
• S: ABC See, Hear, Do
• tons and tons of picture books

FIFTH GRADE SCIENCE

Spine: Beautiful Feet’s History of Science program

Books and Projects:

• The Picture History of Great Inventors
• The Way Science Works
• Pasteur’s Fight Against Microbes
• grow bacteria with a agar plate kit
• The Story of Thomas Alva Edison 
• George Washington Carver
• The Wright Brothers for Kids
• Marie Curie’s Search for Radium
• Ordinary Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein

K-THIRD GRADE SCIENCE

Spine: Sassafras Science Vol.2 – Anatomy

Books and Projects:

• Blood and Guts
• Human Anatomy Floor Puzzle
• Some Body board game
• videos from the TED Education YouTube channel

RELIGION

The three big boys will also be attending religious education at our parish.

• M: 57 Stories of Saints
• D: A Catholic Child’s Illustrated Lives of the Saints
• J: The Action Bible

GEOGRAPHY

We are focusing on the continent of Africa this year, learning about one country a week.  

Spine: The Africa Book and Discover Africa Notebooking Packet

Term Three Countries: Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Botswana, Cameroon, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia

Books and Projects:

• A Little Lemur Named Mew
• The Village of Round and Square Houses
• The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe’s Very First Case
• The Gift of the Sun: A Tale from South Africa
• The 3 Little Dassies
• We All Went on Safari
• Beautiful Blackbird
• Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters
• cooking African cuisine with recipes from Global Table Adventure

YEAR OF PLAYING SKILLFULLY

This preschool-ish (for ages 3-7) curriculum is primarily for S and TJ and I really dropped the ball in Term Two.  Hoping to get back into the activities this spring.