Year 4 - Term 2 / January 2 - March 24

Sage: Year 4 - Term 2 / January 2 - March 24
Goal: Year 4 completion by June 16 / Start Year 5 July 10

Nature Study -
Weekly hikes with homeschool group at local parks.
Weekly nature journaling.


Art -
Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories Ch 4 - 15
Continue reading a chapter each week. Discuss and search out examples to study.

1 story per month from Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield


History - American History: 1400's - ?
Book list: http://www.hclibrary.us/pdfs/youth/booklists/hisficgrade4.pdf

Spines:
A Young People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
A Different Mirror for Young People by Ronald Takaki

DVD to start off history: National Geographic: America Before Columbus

Review Columbus - 2 1/2 weeks
-Morning Girl
-Encounter
-Children of the Longhouse (Jaden)
-Walk the World's Rim (Sage)

1600's - 2-3 weeks
-Sees Behind Trees by Michael Dorris (Sage)
-The Primrose Way by Jackie Koller (Jaden)
Book list: http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/booklists/?id=teachingamericanhistory
-Look to the Hills: The Idary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl (Jaden)
-The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Jaden)

1700's - 
-I am Regina (Jaden)
-The Light in the Forest (Sage)
-Many Thousand Gone: African-Americans from Slavery to Freedom
-No More! Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance

1800's - 
The Bobbin Girl 1800-1849
The Slave Dancer (Jaden) 1840
Freedom's Wings, Flying Free, Message in the Sky 1857
The Porcupine Year (Parallels Little House on the Prairie series) mid-1800's

Civil War Era - (April 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865)
Dzání Yázhí Naazbaa': Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home
Dayshun's Gift
Nettie's Trip South
Pink and Say

1900's booklists (For Future Reference)
https://zinnedproject.org/teaching-materials/?media_types=books_fiction&levels=3-5
https://zinnedproject.org/teaching-materials/?media_types=books_non_fiction&levels=3-5

World War II
The War that Saved my Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (takes place in Europe but putting here for future reference)

Depression Era
Stella by Starlight by Sharon Draper

Geography -
Finish up Minn of the Mississippi (ch 12 - 20)


Literature -
America's Mark Twain


Poetry -
JAN Shel Silverstein
FEB Emily Dickinson
MAR Walt Whitman


Math -
Continue with Math-U-See Gamma (finish by end of Term 2)
Family Math book for supplement


PE - 
Twice weekly gymnastics
Once weekly hiking
Daily/often trampoline, scooter and bicycle

Year 6 - Term 2 / January 2 - March 24

Jaden: Year 6 - Term 2 / January 2 - March 24
Goal: Year 6 completion by June 16 / Start Year 7 July 10

Nature Study -
Weekly hikes with homeschool group at local parks.
Weekly nature journaling.


Art -
Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories Ch 4 - 15
Continue reading a chapter each week. Discuss and search out examples to study.

1 story per month from Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield


History - American History: 1400's - ?
Book list: http://www.hclibrary.us/pdfs/youth/booklists/hisficgrade4.pdf
Spines:
A Young People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
A Different Mirror for Young People by Ronald Takaki

DVD to start off history: National Geographic: America Before Columbus

Review Columbus - 2 1/2 weeks
-Morning Girl
-Encounter
-Children of the Longhouse (Jaden)
-Walk the World's Rim (Sage)

1600's - 2-3 weeks
-Sees Behind Trees by Michael Dorris (Sage)
-The Primrose Way by Jackie Koller (Jaden)
Book list: http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/booklists/?id=teachingamericanhistory
-Look to the Hills: The Idary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl (Jaden)
-The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Jaden)

1700's - 
-I am Regina (Jaden)
-The Light in the Forest (Sage)
-Many Thousand Gone: African-Americans from Slavery to Freedom
-No More! Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance

1800's - 
The Bobbin Girl 1800-1849
The Slave Dancer (Jaden) 1840
Freedom's Wings, Flying Free, Message in the Sky 1857
The Porcupine Year (Parallels Little House on the Prairie series) mid-1800's

Civil War Era - (April 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865)
Dzání Yázhí Naazbaa': Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home
Dayshun's Gift
Nettie's Trip South
Pink and Say

1900's booklists (For Future Reference)
https://zinnedproject.org/teaching-materials/?media_types=books_fiction&levels=3-5
https://zinnedproject.org/teaching-materials/?media_types=books_non_fiction&levels=3-5

World War II
The War that Saved my Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (takes place in Europe but putting here for future reference)

Depression Era
Stella by Starlight by Sharon Draper


Geography -
Finish up Minn of the Mississippi (ch 12 - 20)


Literature -
America's Mark Twain


Poetry -
JAN Shel Silverstein
FEB Emily Dickinson
MAR Walt Whitman


Math -
Continue with Math-U-See Epsilon (finish by end of Term 2)
Family Math book for supplement


PE - 
Twice weekly ballet
Once weekly gymnastics
Once weekly hiking
Daily/often trampoline

Rethinking Columbus Study

For history, books and ideas for studying about Columbus:

Morning Girl by Michael Dorris
Encounter (Voyager Books) by Jane Yolen

Stand alone unit study (99 pages):
https://laii.unm.edu/outreach/common/lesson-plans/rethinking-columbus/complete-guide.pdf
(would be good for doing around Columbus Day)

Howard Zinn's A Young People's History of the United States pgs. 1-22