5th Grade-2011

William-5th Grade based on suggestions from Mater Amabilis level 2 and The Well Trained Mind. A work in progress.

Math-short daily lessons about 30-45 minutes.  Additional drill work of 5-10 minutes

Teaching Textbooks 5, 

Horizons Math 4 workbook 2

Flashmaster for Daily Drill

Logic-ad lib

Mind Benders A-1

English-

Spelling-short testing sessions lasting 5 minutes once or twice per week, with short independent study sessions daily as needed.

Spelling Power

Grammar- Three sessions weekly during term 2 covering basic parts of speech and diagramming sentences.  Allow 1 hour for each session as diagramming is a new concept, but do not require this much time at the work if it is frustrating.

Junior Analytical Grammar

Handwriting-short 10 minute sessions 3 times weekly.

Zaner Bloser 4

Writing-Short sessions lasting 15-30 minutes 4 times per week.

Writing With Ease 4

Poetry-Weekly casual readings and discussion over breakfast with siblings.

Selections from The Harp and the Laurel Wreath:

Enjoy Charlie's assigned poetry selections from Edward Lear.

Literature-

Beowulf-Rumford or Nye 

Celtic Fairy Tales

Sir Gawain and the Green knight-Michael Morpugo

The Canterbury tales-McCaughrean or Chanticleer-Mary Pope Osborne

Saint George and the Dragon-Margaret Hodges

d'Aulaire's Norse Gods -Ingri and Edgar d'Aulaire

Don Quixote and the Windmills

Robin Hood-Pyle (audio)

Apple and the Arrow

Additional Reading-

Across a Dark and Wild Sea

Patrick

What Do We Know About The Celts?-Hazel Mary Martell

Beorn the Proud-Madeleine Polland

The Viking News
Door in the Wall

Cathedral-David Macaulay

Giotto-Mike Venezia (?)

Design Your Own Coat of Arms-Chorzempa

Castle-David Macaulay

Adam of the Road-Elizabeth Gray

Brendan the Navigator-Fritz

Bestiary

Starry Messenger-Peter Sis

Galileo and the Stargazers -Jim Weiss (audio)

Read alouds for History-

Viking Tales-Jennie Hall

Prologue to the Canterbury Tales-Nevill Coghill, Penguin 2003
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston 

Marco Polo-Freedman