1st Grade-2011

Charlie-1st grade -Based on suggestions from Mater Amabilis.  

Math-Short daily lessons lasting 20 minutes

Horizons Math 1-book 2, Math 2- book 1

Evan-Moor Daily Word Problems Grade 1, second half

Logic-ad lib

Mind Benders Beginning Book 2

English- 

Phonics/Spelling-Short weekly lessons lasting 20 minutes. Gentle introduction to spelling.

All About Spelling level 2 lessons 1-25, moving on to level 3 if desired

Grammar-ad lib

Read from Ruth Heller books as desired, covering nouns, verbs and adjectives. Gentle introduction to grammar.

Mad Libs during free time

 Handwriting-Short lessons 3 times weekly lasting 10 minutes. Gentle introduction to handwriting rules.

Zaner Bloser book 1.

Journal Narration-Monthly narration lasting 10 minutes or less

Doing the Days

Literature-

Tales-Read aloud one tale weekly from any of the following books, and narrate:

Random House book of Nursery Stories

Andersons fairy Tales

The King's Chessboard

The Hungry Coat

The Empty Pot

Town Mouse Country Mouse (Jan Brett)

Goldilocks (Jan Brett)

The 3 Snow Bears (Jan Brett)

Goldilocks and the 3 Bears (Jan Brett)

Gingerbread Man (Jim Aylesworth)

Zen Shorts

Fables-Read aloud 1 tale weekly, narrate and illustrate

The Children's Aesop (12 weeks)

Fables by Arnold Lobel (12 weeks)

Classic Children's Literature-ad lib.  Read for enjoyment.  No narration.  Choose 1 book to read each term.  Ideas:

James Herriot's Treasury for Children

Winnie the Pooh

Pippi longstocking

Mr. Popper's Penguins

A Bear Called Paddington

Boxcar Children
Half Magic
Magic by the Lake
Charlotte's Web

Poetry-Weekly tea Time to read and enjoy poems together with older brothers.

Poetry For Young People-Edward Lear.  Favorite Poems Old and New. Weeks 1-12.
The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury. Weeks 13-24

History-

The Story of the World vol. 2-Middle Ages
Learning Through History Magazine

Create a History Portfolio of narrations and illustrations.

Additional reading

Beowulf-Rumford
Celtic Fairy Tales
Across a Dark and Wild Sea
Patrick
What do We Know About the Celts?-Hazel Mary Martel

Merlin and the Making of the King-Margaret Hodges
The Kitchen Knight-barefoot Book of Knights
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight-Favorite Medieval Tales-Mary Pope Osborne
Arthur-Jim Weiss audio
Leif the Lucky-d'Aulaire
Viking Adventure
Who Were the Vikings
Francis-Brian Wildsmith
Circle of Days-Reeve Lindbergh
Marguerite Makes a Book
Book of Kells
Cathedral
Giotto-Mike Venezia
Chanticleer--Favorite Medieval Tales-Mary Pope Osborne
St. George and the Dragon-Margaret Hodges
Robin Hood-audio
Galileo and the Stargazers-Jim Weiss audio

Science-

My own schedule and lesson plans:

On-going season by season Oak tree study
-Oak Tree, Gordon Morrison
-Usborne Complete First Book of Nature
-Why Do Leaves Change Color, Betsy maestro

Topics of proper handwashing and tooth brushing
-Healthy Me
-Germs Make Me Sick, Melvin Berger

The 5 senses
-Usborne How Do Your Senses Work

Bones and Muscles
-The Skeleton Inside You, Philip Ballestrino

Nutrition and Digestion
-Usborne What Happens to Your Food?

Electricity

Thomas Edison
-A Picture Book of Thomas Edison, David A. Adler

Caves
-One Small Square Caves

Bats
-Zipping Zapping Zooming Bats, Ann Earle

Nature Study-1 hour each session, plus notebooking.

 Nature Storytime/Nature Study at State Park. Create a notebook page for each visit. Twice monthly January through March and once weekly June through August.

Themes attended:

Wild Edibles
Wild and Tame Animals
Animals in Winter
Winter Habitats
River Otters
The Lorax/Conservation theme
Springtime Birds/nesting/feeders

Nature Reading-weekly

Among the Forest people-1st term (pp. 1-80) 12 lessons

Pagoo-2nd term (pp. 8-46) 10 lessons

Pagoo-3rd term  (pp. 48-87) 10 lessons

Music Appreciation-Weekly listening time during breakfast or lunch

Carnival of the Animals

Peter and the Wolf

The Magic Flute
The Composer is Dead

Picture Study-Look at one picture weekly, 5 to 10 minutes

Come look With Me Series:

Enjoying Art with Children

World of Play

Animals in Art

Art-

Artsy Smartsy-Monthly art class taught by local artist

-Creating art with recyclables
-Clay sculpture
-Watercolor painting
-Wire sculpture
-Creating art with texture
-Making Paper
-Bottle Cap art/magnets

Other ideas-TBD Weekly???

Artistic Pursuits K-3 book 1

Drawing with Children

How to teach art to Children

Deep Space Sparkle