Friday, August 03, 2007

School Plans For Cherub 2

Bible:
Scripture Memory
St. Joseph's New Catechism
Bible History (By: Ignatius Schuster, D.D.)
Trial & Triumph (By: Richard Hannula)
Butler's Lives of Saints (By: Bernard Bangley)

(service projects and CCD offered through our church)

History & Biographies:
Abraham Lincoln's World (By: Genevieve Foster)
This Country of Ours (By: H.E. Marshall)
Child's History of the World (Hillyer)
What Everyone Should Know About The 20th Century (By: Alan Axelrod)
Of Courage Undaunted (By: James Daugherty)
Nothing Is Impossible: Beatrix Potter (By: Dorothy Aldis)
Carry A Big Stick - Teddy Roosevelt (By: George Grant)
* Book of Centuries to be completed as needed (daily / weekly)


Nature Study:
Wild Animals I Have Known (By: Ernest Thompson)
Nature Walks & Nature Journal
Christian Liberty Nature Reader #5

Penmanship:
Handwriting Without Tears Cursive

Geography:
US Geography (Dover)
Book of Marvels (By: Richard Halliburton)

Science & Biographies:
FairyLand of Science (By: Arabella Buckley)
Pioneers of Science: Isaac Newton (By: Douglas McTavish)
Alexander Graham Bell - Man of Sound (By: Elizabeth Montgomery)
George Washington Carver (By: David Collins)

Apologia Botany (term 1)
Apologia Zoology 1 (term 2)

Math:
Saxon
**possible switch to Teaching Textbooks later this fall
Math drills (facts)
Math Games (Math It, Muggins, etc)
**4 Living Math books yet to be selected.

Foreign Language:
Rummy Roots (greek and latin roots - game)
Spanish - Rosetta Stone ?

Poetry:
Works of Rudyard Kipling
Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Works of Paul Lawrence Dunbar

Literature:
Age of Fable (By: Bulfinch)
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (By: Howard Pyle)
Oliver Twist (By: Charles Dickens)
Kim (By: Rudyard Kipling)

Shakespeare:
Lamb's Shakespeare
Original Works of Shakespeare
** movie (of play read) ??

Music Study:
Spiritual Lives of the Composers
Color The Classics

Artist Study:
Art Masterpieces (Masters)

The Story of Painting From Cave Painting To Modern Times

Art:
colored pencil technique
sketch technique
watercolor technique
oil pastel technique

Business Skills:
Typing
Idiot's Guide To Letter Writing

Spelling:
Spelling Wisdom 3

Current Events:
Newspaper

Grammar:
Intermediate Language Lessons (Emma Serl)

Composition:
Writing Skills Workbooks 3 & 4 (Spectrum)
Help ! I Have To Write A Book Report
Writer's Inc.
Story Starters: Helping Children Write ... (Karen Andreola)

Health:
The Body Book

P.E.:
Swim Team

Additional Reading:
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (By: Jean Lee Latham)
Rifles for Watie (By: Harold Keith)
Across Five Aprils (By: Irene Hunt)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (By: James Hilton)
Anne of Green Gables Series (7 books total) (By: L.M. Montgomery)
A Christmas Carol (By: Charles Dickens)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (By: Mark Twain)
Captain's Courageous (By: Rudyard Kipling)
Hans Brinkler (By: Mary Mapes Dodge)
Little Women (By: Louisa May Alcott)
Little House On The Prairie Series (5 books total) (By: L.I. Wilder)
Puck of Pook's Hill (By: Rudyard Kipling)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (By: Kate Douglas Wiggin)
Helen Keller
The Story of the Treasureseekers (By: Edith Nesbit)
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era
The Wouldbegood's (By: Edith Nesbit)
Tanglewood Tales (By: Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Prince and the Pauper (By: Mark Twain)
Lad: A Dog (By: Terhune)

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