Grade 1:  weeks 13-18

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Ancient History:

Text:  The Story of the World vol.1

Week 13:  Chp. 14:  Moses

               *Supplemental:  Aesop pp. 5-8

Week 14:  Chp 15: Phoenicians, Carthage
                Chp 16: (through p. 31) Assyria,
                             Arshurbanipal

                *Supplemental:  Aesop pp. 9-19

Week 15:  Chp 16:  (p. 132-134) Ninevah
                Chp 17:  Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar,
                             Hanging Gardens              

               *Supplemental:  Aesop pp. 20-29

Week 16:  Chp 18: Minos, Minotaur, Crete

               *Supplemental:  The Trojan Horse

Week 17:  Chp 19:  the early Greeks

               *Supplemental: Children's Homer
                     Part I:I-XII  *If you find this book
                     to be too hard for your first grader
                     to listen to, you may want to save
                     it for the next time you study the
                     ancients.

Week 18:  Chp 20: (through p. 165) Greece,
                    alphabet, Homer

               *Supplemental: Children's Homer
                     Part I:XIII-end of part 1

Week 13:  Heidi  Chps 6-10

Week 14:  Heidi  Chps 11-15

Week 15:  Heidi  Chps 16-20

Week 16:  Heidi  Chps 21-23
                The Cricket in Times Square Chps 1-3

Week 17:  The Cricket...  Chps 4-8

Week 18:  The Cricket...  Chps 9-13
                  

Poetry:  Read one or two poems aloud from
             Favorite Poems Old & New daily.

Reading:  Really Reading:  if finished, review concepts
                Reader:  choose any easy reader and have child
                read aloud for approx 5-10 min a day *remember-
                that too easy is better than too hard!

Phonics workbook:  approx. 2pp a day

(Language Practice 1:  I suggest starting it in January-- good practice for standardized tests)

Spelling:  One lesson per week  (at end of this 6 weeks, you should be
                                                                  finishing lesson 18)

First Language Lessons:  Three lessons per week
                     (at end of this 6 wks you should be finishing lesson 54)

The Burgess Bird Book:  Read one chapter per week
    (Coming next year:  Jack's Insects by Edmond Selous!)

Nature Walk/outing:  Try to do two outings per week. 
     On at least one of the outings, have your student  focus on one particular group of living things (i.e. mammals, insects, birds, flowers, etc)  Briefly read to yourself one or two lessons about that group in the Handbook of Nature Study and share some interesting fact concerning it with your student at some point during the outing. 

    Have your student record observations in the nature notebook, perhaps including one of the appropriate verses found in the Handbook.

Wks 19-18:  Topics

coming soon