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Every scholar of six years old and upwards should study with 'delight' his own, living, books on every subject in a pretty wide curriculum. Children between six and eight must for the most part have their books read to them. School Education by Charlotte Mason This year is the 7th and the last year I'll be teaching 4th Grade in our home but it's the first time I've used Ambleside Online for this particular year. Being the year that covers the mid-sixteen to late seventeen-hundreds, Australian History comes alive for us, so I've had to give some thought as to what substitutions we could make - preferably using what books we already have on hand. Last year I read through Volume 3, School Education by Charlotte Mason and then read Leslie Laurio's modern paraphrase of 'An Educational Manifesto,' which I quote with permission below. Children learn best from real, tangible things, and books. Tangible things include: a. Natural structures for physical activity like climbing, swimming, walking, etc. b. Resources for working and building with, such as wood, leather or clay. c. Natural objects in their native habitat, like birds, plants, creeks, and stones. d. Works of art. e. Scientific instruments. It was very helpful to spend some time thinking through this Manifesto - Charlotte Mason's 'philosophy of education in a nutshell' - as I planned out my little girl's year: What real, tangible things have I included? Swimming, highland dancing, cello Nature walks, gardening Needlework, cooking, woodburning Caring for the cat Drawing Picture Study Stamp Collecting Have I left enough time to actually do them? Have I scheduled them so that they will actually get done? Do we have the resources we need? Are they where I can easily find them? Most people acknowledge the need for tangible things in learning, as in hands-on education, but fewer people recognize that intellectual education has to come from books. I wrote a post on substituting books after planning an Australian version of AO Year 9 for one of the boys about two years ago after spending some time reading what Charlotte Mason had to say on the subject. Education is the Science of Relations; that is, that a child has natural relations with a vast number of things and thoughts: so we must train him upon physical exercises, nature, handicrafts, science and art, and upon many living books; for we know that our business is, not to teach him all about anything, but to help him make valid, as many as may be of 'Those first born affinities, 'That fit our new existence to existing things.' A Philosophy of Education, pg xxx With all the above in mind here is our Year 4 Ambleside Online modified for Australia. Books in this colour are scheduled or optional Ambleside Online books for Year 4. At the time of writing we are going into Week 9: History studied in Year 4: 1640-1700's (French and American Revolutions) All the History options, except A Child's History of the World, plus two biographies were picked up years ago in op shops, library sales and Lifeline Book Fares (I use the free online version of Our Empire Story) and cost under $10 all up. I come across these titles from time to time so they are still available. Abel Tasman: Project Gutenberg History & Geography ** ***George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster * ** *** History of Australia Ch 1 to 8 (read aloud) * ** *** Our Sunburnt Country Ch 1 to 5 * *** Our Empire Story - 3 Chapters (Pg 125-142) * ** A Child's History of the World Ch 67-72 1st Edition ** An Island Story Ch 95 & 96 * Term 1 (1640-1720) Our Sunburnt Country Ch 1 'The Land of the Dreamtime' A Child's History of the World Ch 67 'The King Who Lost his Head' (Charles I) History of Australia Ch 1 'The Beginnings' (selected sections) History of Australia Ch 2 'South of the Spice Islands' A Child's History of the World Ch 68 'Red Cap & Red Heels' (Louis XIV) History of Australia Ch 3 'Piecing Together a Continent' (Tasman & Dampier) 1642-1700 Our Empire Story by H.E. Marshall - 'There Is Nothing New under the Sun' - up to 'Dampier feared to stay longer, lest his men should fall ill in that desert land. So he steered away to the East Indies and from thence sailed homeward.' (1699) Our Sunburnt Country Ch 2 'New Visitors to an Old Land' (Pg 21-30) ** Term 2 (1720 - 1773) Our Sunburnt Country Ch 2 'New Visitors to an Old Land' (Pg 30-37) Our Empire Story - 'Nothing New Under the Sun' from 'Many years passed' to end of chapter (1768) History of Australia Ch 4 Captain James Cook & The Endeavour 1770 A Child's History of the World Ch 69 ' A Self-Made Man' (Peter the Great) A Child's History of the World Ch 70 'A Prince who Ran Away' (Frederick the Great) Our Island Story Ch 95 & 96 (George III) A Child's History of the World Ch 71 'America Gets Rid of Her King' (George III) *** Term 3 (1773 - 1780) Our Sunburnt Country Ch 3 'They Came and Stayed' History of Australia Ch 5 'Bound for Botany Bay' (The First Fleet, 1787) Our Empire Story - The Founding of Sydney (1788) History of Australia Ch 6 'Settlement' History of Australia Ch 7 'Convicts' History of Australia Ch 8 'Completing the Coastline' (Matthew Flinders) Our Sunburnt Country Ch 4 'Rum and Rebellion' Our Empire Story - 'The Adventures of George Bass and Matthew Flinders' (1796) Our Sunburnt Country Ch 5 'Bass and Flinders Map the Coastline' History Tales and/or Biography Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula (with some omissions) **James Ruse: Pioneer Wheat Farmer (1760 - 1808) by Jean Chapman ** ***James Cook: Royal Navy by George Finkel *** Matthew Flinders by George Finkel Geography * ** Long's Home Geography - free online *** The Old Man River of Australia by Leila Pirani (thanks to Jeanne for this suggestion) Map work Natural History/Science All the Ambleside Online selections with the exception of the optional title plus: * How Did We Find Out About Numbers? by Isaac Asimov (short review here) ** How Did We Find Out About Vitamins? by Isaac Asimov ( Ch 1-3) ** Karrawingi the Emu by Leslie Rees *** Monarch of the Western Skies: The Story of a Wedge-tailed Eagle by C.K. Thompson Literature All the Ambleside Online selections plus: *** Trim by Matthew Flinders Latin Getting Started with Latin by William Linney Grammar No set programme but I use this book as a guide for me. French - selections we use are in a blog post I did last year. Group Work Devotions, Shakespeare, Plutarch, Hymns, Folksongs, Composer & Picture Study, Read aloud. Free reads - as scheduled at Ambleside Online. Other Options for Australians & New Zealanders: Young Nick's Head by Karen Hesse (Also published under the title Stowaway) Fictional but based on fact. Written in the form of a diary by a young boy, Nicholas Young, on board The Endeavour who was the first European to sight New Zealand. At this age, I'd suggest reading it aloud. It was a while ago that I read it but do remember doing a little editing as I went. All About Captain Cook by Armstrong Sperry - an easier book than Finkel's but still good. The Cannibal Islands by R.M. Ballantyne - preview first. The author's style is similar to G.A. Henty but his descriptions can be a bit gory! John of the Sirius & John of Sydney Cove by Doris Chadwick were books Ruth (have a look around her website for other Australian options) introduced us to over 13 years ago. We managed to find our own copies about 10 years ago ($2 each) but they're hard to find now. They're a fun read aloud if you have younger children also and fit the time period studied in Year 4. I considered adding A Dutchman Bold: The Story of Abel Tasman by George Finkel (152pg) in Term 1 but between the three main texts of Our Empire Story, History of Australia & Our Sunburnt Country, I thought I'd covered Tasman well. It might be a good addition anyhow if you're looking for a biography choice. This chronological list of books for Australian History at Aussie Homechool was put together years ago by the CM&Friends-ANZ email group. Scheduling I keep this very simple and it's basically the same format I've used for everyone. Before the beginning of a new week I look at the AO schedule for the coming week and put in the next chapters etc for that week. I don't have everything written on the page - eg. in week 8 we did History of Australia whereas the week before we did a chapter from Our Sunburnt Country so I do some cutting & pasting & add or subtract the boxes where necessary. There are certain things I like them to get done first (Maths & music practise for example) but that's not reflected on the page. They just know that certain subjects need to get done earlier. 'Education, to be successful, must not only inform but inspire.' T. Sharper Knowlson

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I recently shared our first grade curriculum plans and now we'll talk about scheduling! We haven't begun year one yet, so I can't tell you how the following schedule is working. These are my plans for the year, including a schedule of what and when we'll read the AO readings and a daily schedule/routine for getting all the work done. First, the schedule of readings. I've only done this for term one so far. At first, I wanted to schedule certain readings for certain days. For example, Our Island Story would be read on Mondays, Paddle to the Sea on Tuesdays, etc. But. I remembered that I am one who, if we miss say, the scheduled reading for Monday, would probably get a little irritated and it would throw my whole week off! Thankfully, I came across the idea of looping. Instead of assigning certain readings to certain days, I put the readings in the order that I would like for us to read them, and we'll just go down the list during our reading times each day. So, my books are in the following order: Our Island Story Aesop for Children Paddle to the Sea The Blue Fairy Book 50 Famous Stories Retold Just So Stories Burgess Bird Book Parables of Nature Herriot's Treasury for Children D'Aulaire books (I'll discuss the Shakespeare readings below.) I wanted to mix up the readings a bit so that 1) the history readings are spread out (this will probably be more helpful when there's more of a mix of World and American history in the coming years), and 2) we're not reading books from the same category all at once, like all of the literature readings at the end of the week, for example. I am planning to have at least two times set aside throughout our days in which to do our readings. At the beginning of the week, during our first AO reading time, we'll read from the first book, Our Island Story. Then, barring no scheduling havocs, we'll read from Aesop for Children in the next time slot. If we happen to miss Aesop, we'll pick it up the next time we read, even if it's the next day, and we'll just keep going from there. This way everything stays in order. We have to make it through the whole list before starting at the top again. Here's my document for checking off the readings (here is a link to the pdf file): Each week we'll just work our way down the list, marking off as we go. I'll keep this handy throughout the term, maybe on a clipboard or something. This grid came from the AO year one 36-week schedule page. I downloaded the word document, then copied and pasted the rows for term one into a new document. I rearranged the rows so that the books are in the order that I want to read them. A few notes: ~ I moved around a couple of the readings: "Prince Darling" and "Toads and Diamonds" from The Blue Fairy Book, and "Only One Woof" from Herriot's Treasury. You can see at the bottom of my table where they were originally. I moved them in order to keep a maximum of 8 readings per week (the two Aesop readings per week count as one since they're short). ~ For Paddle to the Sea I'm going to use Charlotte Mason Help's (CMH) schedule of this book which means reading Paddle in term one, then reading two chapters of Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography per week in terms two and three. That's why Paddle is different from the original AO schedule. ~ AO only has half of the Burgess Bird Book scheduled for the whole year; one chapter every other week. I've heard so many people talk about how the book is so wonderful and just flows if you read it from beginning to end that I've decided we'll read one chapter each week with a plan to finish the whole thing (which will take longer than 36 weeks - we may begin it a few weeks early and finish it a few weeks late). ~ See the Shakespeare row at the bottom with the asterisks? I plan to begin a "morning" time routine (I hope to keep you updated with our morning time plans throughout the year) consisting of Bible and poetry readings, memory work, possibly Spanish, and a read-aloud or two. On the weeks that Shakespeare is scheduled, I'm planning to read that as the read-aloud during morning time. Addy (4) won't be required to sit in during this, but I would love for her to. It seems that most families read Shakespeare together, so I think this would be a nice way to do that. ~ I mentioned in my first grade plans post that I'm not planning to read Trial and Triumph this year, so that's why it's missing. Still with me? I hope! Now on to the daily schedule! At first I made a schedule with the actual times that I wanted to do everything throughout the day. So for example, morning time would be from 8:30 to 9:00, math from 9:00 to 9:15, writing from 9:15 to 9:30, then a break for 20 minutes, etc, etc. But. Like I said earlier, if I did this kind of schedule and we got behind, then I may or may not get a little irritated and it would throw the whole day off! Instead, I'm going with a routine rather than a schedule. Things are in order, but it's not so particular that we have a certain time of the day for each subject. Here is the weekly schedule checklist I made for term one: I'll print this off each week so that I can check off each item and make any notes that are needed. I may keep this on a clipboard with the readings schedule from above. A few notes: ~ Notice how I did not assign the actual days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, etc. I put day 1, day 2, and so forth, so that if we miss Monday because of sickness or something, then Tuesday turns into day 1. ~ The first block for each day is morning time, which will probably be during or right after breakfast. Bible is first because I definitely want Addy involved for that, but after that she is free to go if she wants. ~ I put the subjects in the order in which I would like them to be accomplished during the day. So once we're done with morning time, we'll probably break for morning chores, then come back and Izzy will start with math. Writing practice is next, followed by one of our AO readings from above, then reading instruction, then the second AO reading. If we have to take breaks, we have to take breaks. Of course, I would love to get this all done together, maybe with a short break or two, and be done before lunch. But, if we only get math, writing, and one reading in before lunch, so be it. Sometime after lunch we'll continue with reading instruction, then the second reading. And then she'll get to recorder practice at some point during the day! ~ You'll also notice that next to each subject is a number in parenthesis, for example Math (15). That's the estimated amount of time that will be spent on that particular subject. CM was an advocate for short lessons, and I agree with that, so we will be staying close to those numbers. ~ Bible: AO has certain Bible selections to be read each week, but I am doing something different. I'm going to be using the selections at Penny Gardner's website, with two days of Old Testament readings and two days of New Testament readings, then a chapter from Wisdom and the Millers on Fridays (I mean, day 5!). We'll probably just go down the list on her website, but only keep the readings to around 10 minutes per day. ~ I plan to "do school" four days per week with the fifth day being a day of enrichment. We'll still have a morning time, but instead of all the academic-y stuff, this is when we'll do our art and music studies, drawing lessons, handicrafts, and nature studies...aka the fun stuff :) I'm not planning for us to do everything listed every Friday. I mentioned in my previous post about how I plan to rotate these subjects. We'll see how it goes. And I hope to keep you updated! Whoo! That's my plan and I'm *hopefully* sticking to it! Have you made your schedule for the upcoming year? If so, I'd love to hear about it! Maybe I'll glean some good ideas :)

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One of my projects this summer was to plan out how I wanted to teach sight words and phonics skills next year. My curriculum does not dictate what phonics skills we have to teach and which sight word lists to practice, so I came up with a yearly scope and sequence that I am pretty happy with! At the end of this post you'll find a link to a bunch of freebies. This chart is in there (and it's editable). I have set aside about 20 minutes a day for sight words, poetry, and phonics. It usually works out to be about 5 minutes sight words, 5 minutes poetry, and 10 minutes phonics. My plan is to teach five sight words a week. My word lists come from Dolch, Fry's, and a few randoms thrown in! The phonics skills are based on what I feel my students need to work on Grade 1. We spend the first few weeks reviewing the alphabet sounds (I like Beverly Tyner's sequence.) Then we move onto short vowels, silent E, digraphs, long vowels, blends, bossy R, and some diphthongs. Even though I teach this stuff whole group, I do spend time in my guided reading groups doing more focused work on sight words or phonics skills too, depending on the group's needs. Each week I display the five sight words of the week on this little board. I bought a little white board from the dollar store, added the title and some clipart, and stuck on five little Stikki Clips. (Have you heard of these things? They are pretty neat. I bought them from Really Good Stuff. Apparently they stick super well to cinder block walls!) Each week I just stick the words in the clips. Easy peasy! At the end of the week we retire the words to the word wall and on Monday we put up five new words. Here's a peek at what we do all week long with these words: On Monday we introduce the sight words and practice them using some free chants from Cara Carroll at The First Grade Parade. Then we make a little mini book. Students cut apart the squares, staple it in the corner, and then practice tracing each sight word and colouring it (or rainbow writing it). They keep these mini books in their book boxes for a couple weeks to practice the sight words. They can read them during "read to self" time. On Tuesday we make and break the words. I scramble up the letters in each word and we practice putting them back together. I do this on the Mimio, but you can just use magnetic letters. On Wednesday we play Guess the Word. It's like hangman. I put dashes up for each letter in the word and the students take turns guessing letters. I cross off the letters they guess and cross off a section of the picture each time they make an incorrect guess. There are ten different monthly themed pictures. I don't just use the words of the week--I take any word from the word wall! On Thursday we read the Mystery Sentences. I write five sentences that each have one of the words of the week in it. We read the sentences together and try to figure out the missing word. On Friday we play Swat the Sight Word. On the projector I display a page with the five words all over it. I choose two students, give them each a fly swatter, and call out one of the words. The students try to swat the word. I love this because there's not one winner; they can both find and swat a sight word! :) They love this game! **I don't have any of the Mimio files for you to download, but I have put a blank PDF version of the four activities (Tues-Fri) into the freebie file. You can import the PDF into Mimio or Smart Notebook and add your own text to create the activities yourself. I have also included my sight word books and an editable version so you can put in your own five sight words.** I keep all of my sight word stuff for the week in page protectors in my Phonics & Sight Words binders (blogged about this here). The sight word lists are three weeks of sight words. I use them during Word Work. I'll blog about this more later! I number the back of all my word wall cards so that at the end of the year I can easily organize them back into the proper week. After our sight word activity, we look at the poem of the week. I have poems from a variety of different sources, but mostly I use Deedee Wills' Poetry Station Packs. They are amazing! I place the poem onto sentence strips and display them on a large pocket chart. On Monday we read the poem together, on Tuesday we look for certain letters or phonics skills, on Wednesday we ready in different voices for fluency practice, on Thursday we highlight our word wall words in the poem, and on Friday we put the poem in our poetry folders. Sometimes we will highlight the word wall words in our folder or draw a picture to go with the poem. Then we have phonics time. On Mondays I usually introduce the phonics skill with a story, such as the Scholastic Phonics Tales. Then we brainstorm a list of words that contain that phonics skill on chart paper. On Tuesdays we usually do some sort of phonics activity. My students love Babbling Abby's Highlight a Word from her Word Work packs. On Wednesday we usually do a read and match activity together. These cards are from Reagan Tunstall's Big Phonics Bundle. I love this bundle! It has so many activities for so many phonics skills!! It is well worth the price. On Thursday we do another phonics activity... this might be a cut and paste activity or a read the room activity. I have so many things in my files from The Mailbox Magazine or other TpTers. I might also have a Phonics Read the Room pack in the works... but we'll see about that! ;) On Friday we usually play Roll & Cover or Roll & Write. I photocopy the black & white versions of these games onto coloured paper so we can play as a whole group. Then I place a few laminated, coloured versions of the game in our word work centres so students can play them again during guided reading time. I keep all of my phonics stuff for the week in page protectors in my Phonics & Sight Words binders (read about this here). The first five weeks of school are a little bit different for phonics because we are reviewing our alphabet sounds. We still do sight words each work (although the very first week of school we just focus on our names) and we do a poem of the week, but each week we focus on five (or six) letter sounds. I like to use Beverly Tyner's sequence. (If you haven't read any of her books, check out Small-Group Reading Instruction. It's really great!) I'm planning on using activities from my new Alphabet Practice pack. Each week the activities are the same, but it focuses on a different set of letters. The first week is BSMAC, then TDLRI, JGHON, PUQWY, and lastly ZXEVKF. On Monday we will practice the sounds that each letter make by chanting "b says /b/, m says /m/, etc." We sometimes add an action to go with it, like biting an apple for /a/ or bouncing a ball for /b/. Then we do a card sort in the pocket chart. We will sort the picture cards based on their initial sound (or final sound with X). On Tuesday students will do a colour code activity. They have to write the initial letter of each word, then colour the picture using the colour code. Great practice for those colour words as well! Then when they are done, they can play Spin to the Top. They spin an uppercase letter and practice tracing the letters. When one letter reaches the top, they win! On Wednesday we do a read the room activity. I place 12 cards around the room. Students find the card and write down the letter the word starts with beside the correct number. When done, they do a letter search on the back. They circle and count each type of letter and write number beside it. 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