Mt. Hope Academy ~ 2012-2013 Lesson Plans, Resources, and Links

I posted our list of plans, curricula, books, and resources for the upcoming school year way back in May (because I?m crazy like that), but I?ve been working on more detailed planning for the school year starting in just a few weeks (ack!!). I?m reposting an updated list as a kick-off (or would that be a kick-in-the-rear-end?) for more planning posts. Next up: the ?getting it all done? routine. (Bwa-ha-ha!!)

2012-2013:

LEVI ~ 5th grade
LUKE ~ 3nd grade
LEIF ~ 1st grade
LOLA ~ preschool (reality: toddlerhood and general entertainment/distraction/chaos)

Classical Conversations (Cycle 1) Foundations: One morning each week for 24 weeks; includes social time and public speaking. Essentials: (Levi) One afternoon each week for 24 weeks; includes grammar, vocabulary, writing, public speaking, and challenging math games.

This will be our 3rd year with our Classical Conversations community. It has been a tremendous blessing in our lives. I am amazed that we will have learned all 3 cycles of memory work at the end of this next year! (I shared about the value we?ve found in the memory work in this post.) Levi will be participating in the afternoon Essentials class for the first time this year while the other boys go to a play class.

Faith:
CC Memorize Exodus 20 (10 Commandments)
God Our Provider (CD) (Bible memory songs)
The Children?s Illustrated Bible (read through together, again)?
Victor Journey Through the Bible (supplemental context information)
Telling God's Story- Year 2 (Life of Jesus, one lesson weekly)
Long Story Short: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to God (daily family devotions)
The Gospel Story Bible: Discovering Jesus in the Old and New Testaments (corresponds with Long Story Short)
The Drama of Scripture: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story (for me!)
Buck Denver Asks?What?s In the Bible? (DVD series, fun time)
Hymns For a Kid's Heart (Vol. 1, 2) (once weekly)
(Luke and Levi: weekly hymns on piano)
(Christmas: The Handel's Messiah Family Advent Reader and The Jesse Tree by Geraldine McCaughrean)?

Math:
Teaching Textbooks (Leif: finish 3, Luke: finish 4, Levi: 5/6)
The Critical Thinking Co. math workbooks (for supplemental fun)
Life of Fred (All boys: Elementary series, Levi: Fractions and Decimals & Percents. For fun free reading.)
Beast Academy (Luke: level 3. We?re going to try out this new program from Art of Problem Solving.)
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (free online)
Dragonbox (fabulously fun algebra game app for the ipad)
Khan Academy (free online tutorial videos)
Exploring the World of Mathematics by John Hudson Tiner
Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians by Luetta and Wilbert Reimer
Why Pi? by Johnny Ball
[and other history-integrated math studies, including The Story of Science by Joy Hakim]
Various computer/online games
(I shared a little more about our math approach at this link.)
CC weekly memory work (skip counting/measurements/formulas/laws)
Challenging math games in Classical Conversations Essentials (Levi)

Logic:
Red Herrings and other logic/critical thinking books from The Critical Thinking Co.

Science:
(Christian Kids Explore Physics, Exploring the World of Physics by John Hudson Tiner, Eureka Physics (online videos))
Bill Nye and Eyewitness DVDs
Khan Academy (free online tutorial videos)
CC weekly science memory work (biology and earth science)
CC weekly science projects and experiments
Christian Kids Explore Biology
Real Science 4 Kids Biology
Biology Connects to Language (RS4K) (connects vocabulary from science text to Latin and Greek roots!)
Exploring the World of Biology by John Hudson Tiner
Keeping a Nature Journal by Clare Walker Lesie & Charles E. Roth
The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
What?s Science All About? (Usborne) (covers Chemistry, Physics, and Biology)
The Story of Science series by Joy Hakim (history-integrated science studies)
Science in Ancient Egypt, Greece, Islamic Cultures, China, and Mesopotamia (series) (history-integrated studies)
Supplemental books and DVDs
Three days of biology science camp in August to jump-start our studies
(Our science studies will be connected with our CC memory work in biology for the first half of the year. I?m still not sure exactly what we will be doing beginning in January. Possibly earth science.)

P.E.:
Swim Team (3x week, plus swim meets and family swim nights)
(mini trampoline, bike riding, and outdoor play)

Fine Arts:
CC drawing, tin whistle/music theory, fine art/art projects, composers/instruments of the orchestra
The Story of Classical Music (CD)
Beethoven?s Wig (CD series)
Classical Kids (CD series)
13 Art Inventions Children Should Know (and others in the series by Prestel, one book each month)
Cave Paintings to Picasso (history-integrated art studies)
IEW Poetry Memorization
Piano practice

Language Arts:
Classical Conversations Essentials of the English Language (grammar, IEW writing (theme-based: Ancients))
IEW Poetry Memorization
MCT Poetry, Grammar, Writing, Vocabulary (review Town level)
Writing With Ease (Leif: level 1, Luke: level 3, Levi: level 4 and Writing With Skill level 1)??
CC grammar memory work (lists of prepositions, helping verbs, and linking verbs)
All About Spelling (Levi and Luke: level 4, Leif: level 1 and 2)?
Handwriting Without Tears workbooks
Copy work using custom handwriting worksheets
(I shared more details about our Language Arts line-up at this link.)
Typing (Levi)

Latin:
Latina Christiana I (continue)
CC Latin memory work (declensions)

Spanish:
We have La Clase Divertida, El Espanol Facil Jr., and Rosetta Stone to choose from, but realistically I have no idea how to fit it in. Sigh.

Geography:
The Complete Book of Maps and Geography (workbook)
CC geography (extensive world geography and map drawing)
Geography games (free online)??
Geography games, puzzles, and books?
Stack the Countries (iPad app)
(review CC cycles 2 and 3 geography)
(history related maps)

History/Literature:
(The Story of the World: The Modern Age (finish))
The Story of the World: Ancient Times (with Activity Guide)
Begin creating our own history timeline (Add-a-Century Timeline) integrating all subjects
SOTW Vol 1 Resources @ Tending Our Lord?s Garden (using the notebooking pages!)
SOTW Vol 1 Literature Guides @ Classical House of Learning (picking and choosing)
CC weekly history memory work (Ancients and world civilizations)?
The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History (Luke)
The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia (Levi)
CC Veritas History Timeline Cards and new CC Timeline Cards (memorize)?
Many supplemental books and DVDs
Literature Study (Ancients, using lists from The Well-Trained Mind) including:
Tales From Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green
Casting the Gods Adrift: A Tale of Ancient Egypt by Geraldine McCaughrean
Lugalbanda, The Boy Who Got Caught Up In a War: An Epic Tale From Ancient Iraq told by Kathy Henderson
Gilgamesh The King, The Revenge of Ishtar, and The Last Quest of Gilgamesh retold by Ludmila Zeman
Gilgamesh the Hero by Geraldine McCaughrean
In Search of a Homeland: The Story of the Aeneid (Virgil) by Penelope Lively
Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of The Iliad (Homer) by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Wanderings of Odysseus: The Story of The Odyssey (Homer) by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Children?s Homer by Padraic Colum
Tales From the Odyssey by Mary Pope Osborne
The Aesop for Children illustrated by Milo Winter
D?Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
Historical Fiction:
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
(and more)

Literature:
Great children?s classics
Book Detectives (Parent-child monthly book club focusing on literature analysis via Socratic dialogue a la Deconstructing Penguins and Teaching the Classics)
Lots of free reading and library visits

Review CC memory work from cycles 2 and 3

Source: http://mthopeacademy.blogspot.com/2012/08/mt-hope-academy-2012-2013-lesson-plans.html

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