I just realized that I haven’t yet shared our curriculum for this school year! I assembled it myself again this year, since last year seemed to go pretty well. Hopefully I haven’t forgotten anything here, but no promises!
Religion
- Treasury of Daily Prayer
- A Child’s Garden Bible Stories (and Old and New Testament workbooks)
- Luther, Servant of God
- Inside the Reformation
- Lutheran Service Book
- Walk with Y’Shua Through the Jewish Year
Math
- Horizons Math 5 for Turkey and Bunny
- Horizons Math 1 for Ladybug
Language Arts
For Turkey and Bunny:
- Intermediate Language Lessons (second half of book)
- Writing Strands 4
- Spelling Workout F
- Diagramming Sentences
For Ladybug:
History/Geography
- Story of the World Volume 1, Activity Book, and Test Book
- The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
- Augustus Caesar’s World
- History through the Ages Record of Time
- Timeline Packet: Creation to Christ
- Placement Guide
- Usborne Time Traveler
- The Usborne Book of World History
- Daily Life in the Time of Jesus
Science
- Apologia Exploring Creation with Astronomy and Notebooking Journals
- The Magic School Bus Sees Stars
- First Space Encyclopedia
Electives
- First Form Latin
- Our Island Story (we started this one in summer school, and needed to finish it)
- Scotland’s Story
- Various classical music CDs and art books
Read-Alouds (Anything we don’t get to will go in the book basket)
- D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths (Turkey and Bunny will also be doing workbooks and having tests for this book, as well as for The Bronze Bow)
- The Bronze Bow
- Tut’s Mummy: Lost and Found
- Pompeii…Buried Alive
- The Trojan Horse
- Archeologists Dig for Clues
- Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
- My Father’s Dragon
- Charlotte’s Web
- Ramona the Brave
Book Basket (This is just a selection of some our book basket options, and some of them might turn into read-alouds)
- D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths
- Usborne Greek Myths for Young Children
- Black Ships Before Troy
- The Wanderings of Odysseus
- The Golden Fleece
- The Egypt Game
- Cleopatra
- The Golden Goblet
- Hittite Warrior
- Archimedes and the Door of Science
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
- You Wouldn’t Want to be a Pyramid Builder
- The Greek News
- The Egyptian News
- Detectives in Togas
- Mystery of the Roman Ransom
- The Great Wall of China
- The Story about Ping
- The Eagle
- The Silver Branch
- The Lantern Bearer
- Gilgamesh the Hero
- Gilgamesh the King
- The Revenge of Ishtar
- The Last Quest of Gilgamesh
It’s fascinating to see the connection to our own school work. Thanks to our involvement with our co-op, I recognize many of those. We’re doing Story of the World Vol. 4 this year with co-op. It sounds like you’re all headed for a great year!
I’m loving SOTW! This is the first year we’ve used it…we were using a different curriculum our first time through the history cycle. I’m having to add to it a bit, to make it challenging enough for the two fifth graders, but they still love the stories in the book. And the mapwork has been very helpful to me in visualizing the history!
I love the encouragement to use timelines too. We’re planning to put ours up as soon as we get settled. It’s been interesting. If only my fifth grader would be a little more excited about it and a little less blah about anything like school.