the Heart Approaches What It Yearns

We’ve finally finished with blocking out this stuff on the calendar. Here is our term this fall, like you care:

Daily

• Penmanship
• Phonics
• Spelling
• Math
• History & Literature*

Weekly

• Art
• History readings co-related with a timeline or century book and map
• Handicrafts
• Music Appreciation, including folksongs
• Nature Study
• An artist and a composer each term

A Child’s History of the World

Virgil Hillyer ch 47, ch 49-53 (1000 CE) Charlemagne, Vikings, Peter the Hermit; 800-1100 CE

A Wonder Book

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Abraham Lincoln

Ingri D’Aulaire

Along Came A Dog

Meindert De Jong

An Island Story

ch 22-32 (1066-1189, Harold II Henry II)

Brighty of the Grand Canyon

Marguerite Henry

The Burgess Animal Book for Children

Thornton Burgess

Chanticleer and the Fox

Barbara Cooney

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

Hugh Lofting

The Door in the Wall

Marguerite De Angeli

Farmer Boy

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Five Children and It

Edith Nesbit

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

Margaret Sidney

Hans Christian Andersen

fairy tales

Heidi

Joanna Spyri

Bible

King James Version

The Little Duke

Charlotte Yonge

Little House on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Travels

Marco Polo

Mary Poppins

P.L. Travers

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Richard Atwater

Otto of the Silver Hand

Howard Pyle

Parables from Nature

Margaret Gatty

Pied Piper of Hamlin

Robert Browning

Pilgrim’s Progress Book 1 (Christian’s Journey)

John Bunyan

Poetry

Walter De La Mare

Tales from Shakespeare

Charles and Mary Lamb

This Country of Ours

ch. 1 (Vikings)

Understood Betsy

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Thanks to J-with-2-N’s and Monsieur, I think it’s a wrap. These kids are going to get an education that will stay with them. So will I. And, not a standardized fill-in-the-bubble-with-a-#2-pencil test in sight until they are 15 years old.