Planning Year 2
We are just over half way done with math for this year but with summer fever and testing happening all round us, I cannot help looking at the Fall Curriculum.
Here is what we will be doing this Fall for our Secular Studies. I won't plan our Limudi Chodesh until after the conference this Sunday.
For Math - We will continue as we have since the very beginning with Singapore Math. There are tons of great programs out there but this one works for Froggy so we stick with it.
For History - We will continue reading An Island Story. We started it this year and will just continue straight through. We will also add A Child's History of the World. We will also start This Country of Ours but this is really more a year 3 book that we just peek into at the end of year 2. Our Biography this year is supposed to be The Little Duke but I have not yet decided if we will actually do it. If I can find a biography of comparable quality of a Jewish person, we may do that instead.
For Science, we are doing the Burgess Animal Book and Pagoo. Froggy is so excited. She has been asking to start it since it arrived in the house. We are also going to do sections of the Burgess SeasShore book this summer at the beach as it is relevant.
For Geography - We will do Tree in The Trail. We are also supposed to do Seabird but again I am hesitant. Unlike both Tree in the Trail and Paddle to The Sea, Seabird is a journey through time rather than space.
The biggest changes next year will come in Literature. We will do two Shakespeare plays per term rather than just one like we did this year. The first will be All's Well That Ends Well and we will see a live professional performance of it. Also Froggy is taking over reading one of her books, Understood Betsy, to me rather than me to her.
It looks like a fun year and I am looking forward to it. I will play with the books and the schedule over the summer, maybe read pieces of them to Froggy to get her opinion as finalize things but it is mostly set and looks pretty good. There is more than double the amount of material expected to be covered in a given week than this year and that is going to be a challenge if we keep all the books but since we school year round we can easily extend our terms and spread things out some.
Here is the spreadsheet I created for the first trimester based off all the wonderful work by the Ambleside Advisory Committee.
Having this set before the Jewish Homeschool Conference is great because now I can go in ready to focus on Limudi Chodesh.
Here is what we will be doing this Fall for our Secular Studies. I won't plan our Limudi Chodesh until after the conference this Sunday.
For Math - We will continue as we have since the very beginning with Singapore Math. There are tons of great programs out there but this one works for Froggy so we stick with it.
For History - We will continue reading An Island Story. We started it this year and will just continue straight through. We will also add A Child's History of the World. We will also start This Country of Ours but this is really more a year 3 book that we just peek into at the end of year 2. Our Biography this year is supposed to be The Little Duke but I have not yet decided if we will actually do it. If I can find a biography of comparable quality of a Jewish person, we may do that instead.
For Science, we are doing the Burgess Animal Book and Pagoo. Froggy is so excited. She has been asking to start it since it arrived in the house. We are also going to do sections of the Burgess SeasShore book this summer at the beach as it is relevant.
For Geography - We will do Tree in The Trail. We are also supposed to do Seabird but again I am hesitant. Unlike both Tree in the Trail and Paddle to The Sea, Seabird is a journey through time rather than space.
The biggest changes next year will come in Literature. We will do two Shakespeare plays per term rather than just one like we did this year. The first will be All's Well That Ends Well and we will see a live professional performance of it. Also Froggy is taking over reading one of her books, Understood Betsy, to me rather than me to her.
It looks like a fun year and I am looking forward to it. I will play with the books and the schedule over the summer, maybe read pieces of them to Froggy to get her opinion as finalize things but it is mostly set and looks pretty good. There is more than double the amount of material expected to be covered in a given week than this year and that is going to be a challenge if we keep all the books but since we school year round we can easily extend our terms and spread things out some.
Here is the spreadsheet I created for the first trimester based off all the wonderful work by the Ambleside Advisory Committee.
World
History
An_Our
Island Story
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Ch. 22:
Harold
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Ch. 23:
The Battle of Stamford Bridge
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Ch. 24:
The Battle of Hastings
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Ch. 25:
William the Conqueror– The Story of Hereward the Wake
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Ch. 26:
William the Conqueror-Death of the King
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Ch. 27:
The Story of William the Red
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Ch. 28:
Henry I-The Story of the “White Ship”
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Ch. 29:
The Story of King Stephen
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Ch. 30:
Henry Plantagenet The Story of Gilbert and Rohesia
- or -
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Ch. 31:
Henry Plantagenet
The Story of Thomas á Becket
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Ch. 32:
Henry Plantagenet
The Story of the Conquest of Ireland
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World
History
A Child’s History of the World
-OR-
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Ch. 47:
Two Empires, Two Empires
(Ch. 45 in 1st edition)
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Ch. 49:
The End of the World
(Ch. 47 in 1st edition)
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Ch. 50:
Real Castles
(Ch. 48 in 1st edition)
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Ch. 51:
Knights and Days of Chivalry
(Ch. 49 in 1st edition)
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Ch. 52:
A Pirate’s Grandson
(Ch. 50 in 1st edition)
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Ch. 53:
A Great Adventure
(Ch. 51 in 1st edition)
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World
History
The Little Duke
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Ch. 1:
A Welcome Visit
1st half
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Ch. 1:
A Welcome Visit
2nd half
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Ch. 2:
An Untimely Death
1st half
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Ch. 2:
An Untimely Death
2nd half
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Ch. 3:
Richard Assumes
the Ducal Mantle
1st half
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Ch. 3:
Richard Assumes
the Ducal Mantle
2nd half
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Ch. 4:
A Comrade
1st half
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Ch. 4:
A Comrade
2nd half
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Ch. 5:
Danger in the Castle
1st half
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Ch. 5:
Danger in the Castle
2nd half
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Ch. 6:
At the French Court
1st half
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Ch. 6:
At the French Court
2nd half
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American
History
This Country
of Ours
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Ch. 1:
How the Vikings of Old Sought and Found New LandsLucky
by d’Aulaire
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Geography
Tree in the Trail
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Ch. 1:
The Lone Sapling
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Ch. 2:
The People Who Walked
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Ch. 3:
Arrows and Spears
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Ch. 4:
The Feasting on the Hill
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Ch. 5:
A New Animal on the Plains
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Ch. 6;
The Bearer of Messages
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Ch. 7:
The Talking Tree
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Ch. 8:
The Thunderbird Speaks
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Ch. 9:
Trappers Cross the Plains
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Ch. 10:
Wheels Turn on the Santa Fe Trail
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Ch. 11:
Jed and Buck
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Ch. 12:
The Race for Life
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Ch. 13:
Post Office Tree
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Ch. 14:
Cottonwoods Don’t Live Forever
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Ch. 15:
The Old Tree Dies
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Ch. 16:
A Kansas
Twister
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Ch. 17:
The Past Comes to Light
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Ch. 18:
The Ox Yoke
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Literature
Understood Betsy
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Ch. 1:
Aunt Harriet Has a Cough
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Ch. 2:
Betsy Holds the Reins
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Ch. 3:
A Short Morning
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Ch. 4:
Betsy Goes to School
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Ch. 5:
What Grade is Betsy
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Ch. 6:
If You Don’t Like Conversation in a Book, Skip This Chapter!
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Ch. 7:
Elizabeth Ann Fails in an Examination
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Ch. 8:
Betsy Starts a Sewing Society
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Ch. 9:
The New Clothes Fail
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Ch. 10:
Betsy Has a Birthday
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Ch. 11:
“Understood Aunt Frances”
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Literature
Tales from Shakespeare
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All’s We;; That Ends Well
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Romeo and Juliet
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