Grade 1:  weeks 19-24

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Ancient History:

Text:  The Story of the World vol.1

Week 19:  Chp. 21:  Medes, Persians, Cyrus

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

Week 20:  Chp 22: Sparta & Athens

                *Supplemental: Children's Homer
                     Part I:XVII-XXI

Week 21:  Chp 23:  Greek gods

               *Supplemental: Children's Homer
                     Part I:XXII-XXIII

               *Supplemental: 12 Labors of Hercules

Week 22:  Chp 24: Greek Wars

               *Supplemental: Children's Homer
                     Part II:I-V

Week 23:  Chp 25: Alexander the Great

               *Supplemental: Children's Homer
                     Part II:VI-X

Week 24:  Chp 26: Early Americas

               *Supplemental: Children's Homer
                     Part II:XI-XV

Week 19:  The Cricket...  Chps 14-15
                 Follow My Leader  Chps 1-5

Week 20:  Follow My Leader  Chps 6-9
 

Week 21:  Follow My Leader  Chps 10-13
 

Week 22:  Follow My Leader  Chps 14-17
               

Week 23:  Dr. Dolittle  Chps 1-3

Week 24:  Dr. Dolittle  Chps 4-6
                  

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. 1p a day (if not already finished)

Language Practice 1: do p lesson/day until finished (or more if
                 needed in order to finish before standardized test)

Spelling:  One lesson per week  (at end of this 6 weeks, you should be
                                                                  finishing lesson 24)

First Language Lessons:  Three lessons per week
                     (at end of this 6 wks you should be finishing lesson 72)

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