2019-2020 Kinder – Daniel 3rd Grade – Faith 5th Grade – Noah
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Fun Theme: Easter
Seasonal Theme: Spring
Character/Habit: Patience
Bible: Revelation
History/Geography: Modern America/Asia
Science/Nature Study: Jack’s Insects/Nature Journals
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Parent Study:
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Art, Music, and Poetry Study:
- Artist: Norman Rockwell

Composer: Haydn

Poet: Maya Angelou
- Work on writing poetry once a week (often as narration of something we are reading)
- Poetry for Young People Series
Art Instruction:
- Let’s Make Art by Sarah Cray (free watercolor instruction)
- Creating a Masterpiece
- The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling
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Character/Habit Development:
- Noah and Faith complete 1 workbook page a month in Character Companion based on the chosen character theme for the month, and together, we read the suggested Miller stories that exemplify the chosen trait
- Individual Studies: Noah -Beyond Boyhood by Bob Shultz, Faith -A Girl of Beauty by Carol Fiddler, Daniel – Leading Little Ones to God by Marian Schoolland
- Start painting Daniel’s birdhouse Stewardship Street (7 categories of savings). Noah and Faith continue earning by serving their family through household jobs.
- Child Training Bible and Virtue Training Bible as needed
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Circle Time/Family Time:
One of the best ways to teach Godly character is to study one character quality at a time in order to understand its nature, its importance, and its benefits.
Blessing and Promise Time:
Choral Confession: Romans 8:25 “But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.”
Prayer Time
- Pray these “scripture guided prayers for patience”.
- Use our Prayer Wall to help us pray for other needs. Current/urgent needs (on the chalkboard), as well as our family (slips of paper with all the promises we have stood on over the years), the world (slips of paper with the names of the countries we have studied in geography so far), and our loved ones (slips of paper with the names of friends and extended family).
Discussion Time:
Read these stories, poems, & quotes/do the activities, and then start a discussion on patience.
Patience:
- In what situations do we find that we are in need of patience? (delayed hopes, afflictions, quarrels, finishing a long task, etc.) Sometimes impatience is selfish and proud, but sometimes its simply a natural response and not sinful. A lack of discrimination between these two kinds of impatience, often causes souls great distress. “Do You Need Patience?”
- Fruit Ripening
- Give Patience a Fighting Chance
- Growing Patience Candy
- Mealtime Manners
- Patience Fruit
- There is a famous exercise for diffusing anger that requires a person to count to 10. Most of us forget to do it. Alternatively, when you see your children being tempted to be impatient, encourage them to speak a helpful scripture verse. Proverbs 29:11
“A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.”
- Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He does. If you cannot hear His whisper, wait till you do. Take care of running before you are sent. Keep your wills in equipoise till God’s hand gives the impulse and direction. Alexander Maclaren.
- How to Demonstrate Patience
- Mortimer’s First Garden
- The Garden (Frog and Toad)
- The Promises Inherited Through Faith and Patience
- The Blessing of Patience by J.R. Miller
- November
- Waiting to Grow p.126 in Laying Down the Rails
Bible/Devotions:
- Early Morning: Personal time: read in a variety of Bibles and Bible Storybooks, use prayer journals and practice listening for God’s voice, study in the Child Training Bible and Virtue Training Bible, do personal prayer and worship. Together time: worship acapella or with worship videos, pray with (or without) the prayer wall, narrate Bible readings (per curriculum).
- Night: Family Bible study where we all make contributions and lead out
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Scripture Memory:
Review:
- 1 Corinthians 13, Matthew 5:1-16, Isaiah 61:1-4, Psalm 23, Psalm 91
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Hymns and Patriotic Songs:
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Poetry Recitation:
A Prayer in Spring
Robert Frost – 1874-1963
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.
For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfill.
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Handwriting:
- Daniel: writing books, letters, cards, shopping lists, nature journal entries, prayer journal entries, His Story book, spelling words, poem or memory verse copy work, copying verses from the Child Training Bible and Virtue Training Bible.
- Faith: Print to Cursive. Noah: Book of Mottoes.
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Spelling/Language/Story Crafting:
Daniel studies, word builds, hand writes, and then recites the spelling of all new reading words from one Pathway Reader story a week. Noah and Faith do prepared dictation using classic literature selections in the curriculum Spelling Wisdom, and language lessons in Using Language Well.
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Once a week the kids write stories in their blank books. Noah – Knights and Castle story, Faith – Calico Critters story, Daniel – My Story.
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Reading:
Once a week, Noah and Faith read from their Pathway Readers to practice prosody. Daniel reads in his Pathway several times a week to practice and learn how to read. The readers provide spelling words for Daniel as well.
Vocabulary:
Most words are learned naturally in conversation and during read alouds as words in question arise. Noah and Faith look up one word, any word of choice, once a week, usually in the Noah Websters 1828 Dictionary, and write out the definition in their vocabulary notebooks.
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Literature Read Aloud:
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History:

His Story book for doing drawn narrations of history stories
5 lessons a week from SCM’s ‘Modern America and Epistles, Revelation’ history curriculum. Noah and Faith daily narrate readings orally, and also narrate in their ‘His Story’ sketchbooks with drawings once a week or so. For geography, we do 1 lesson a week from SCM’s Visits to North America geography curriculum.
History Curriculum Manual and Spines:
Christian California History!
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Living Book List:
- free online classics
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Geography
Geography Curriculum Manual, Spines, and Prayer Manual:
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Living Book List:
- free online classics
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Math:
Right Start Math Games and John Van De Walle math when possible.
Daniels Lessons:
Once a week each:
- Arithmetic for Young Children (mental math)
- Daniel’s Math Book (a blank book where he draws math pictures to record and memorize addition and subtraction math facts to 10)
- Lessons from Developing Number Concepts by Kathy Richardson
Faith’s Lessons:
- Life of Fred: Book 7 and 8 (2x a week)
- Kahn Academy Grade 3 Math Lessons (2x a week)
- Pet Store Math by SCM (1x a week)
Noah’s Lessons
- Life of Fred: Fractions (2x a week)
- Kahn Academy Grade 5 Math Lessons (3x a week)
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Living Math Books
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Science/Nature Study:
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- 2 lessons per week from SCM’s Jack’s Insects
- Nature Journaling once a week or so
- Praying mantises : hungry insect heroes / Sandra Markle
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- Locusts : insects on the move / Sandra Markle
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Spanish:
Bilingual children’s picture books.
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Piano:
Online lessons at simplymusic.com (most weekdays for 10 minutes)
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Keyboarding:
Mavis Beacon (twice a week 10 minutes)
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Shakespeare:
We will attempt to work through one play this year, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Videos:
On Fun Fridays, at family movie night we watch Moody Science videos, Winnie the Pooh, Land Before Time, BBC’s Planet earth and The Blue Planet, Little House on the Prairie (the mild episodes), the Sound of Music, and other (mild) family movies. We usually preview movies and decide if they are wholesome and mild enough for our sensitive kiddos. And we do use the fast forward button. 🙂
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Traditions and Fun Friday Projects:
Make a Starry Starry Night Painting and a Bedroom at Arles sketch
Truck Art with Daniel
Prepare an Easter Garden Basket
Spring Clean
Plan and Plant a Garden
Find Ways to Help Others
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Fieldtrips:
Nature Excursions