I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but we like to read. A lot. Because we like to read, we have a lot of books, and not just random books, but books specific to themes, holidays and events. I’ve tried to keep running lists of what we read topically, and at different seasons of the year…you’ll notice that a lot of them have to do with Christmas! I’ll keep updating this list as we add more topics!

• Christmas (General)
• Christmas in America
• Christmas in England
• Thanksgiving
• Time of Easter
• Baseball
• The Olympics
• St. Patrick’s Day
• Fourth of July
• British Children’s Literature
• Royal Reading
• Black History Month
• All About Illinois
• All About Brazil
• Westward Expansion and Pioneers
• Asia
• Reformation 500
• All About South Korea
• The Medieval Period
• Rick Steves’ Europe
• Cooking
• All Things Disney

I’d also be remiss if I didn’t add my one “What We’re Watching” list of documentaries and educational videos.

And because I haven’t put the complete list together anywhere else yet, here’s the curriculum we’ve used over the years that I have been assembling it myself:

• 2012-13 (4th grade and Kindergarten)
• 2013-14 (5th grade and 1st grade)
• 2014-15  (6th grade and 2nd grade)
• 2015-16 (7th grade and 3rd grade)
• 2016-17 (8th grade and 4th grade)
• 2017-18 (9th grade, 5th grade, and Kindergarten)
• 2018-19 (10th grade, 6th grade, and 1st grade)
• 2019-20 (11th grade, 7th grade, and 2nd grade)
• 2020-21 (12th grade, 8th grade, and 3rd grade)
• 2021-22 (9th grade and 4th grade)
• 2022-23 (10th grade and 5th grade)