Plans for Grades 3&4

Booklist:

1. Living Books

History:  Rome
Roman Myths (Geraldine McCaughrean)
A Triumph for Flavius 
Galen and the Gateway of Medicine
The Bronze Bow
The Ides of April
The First Christians
City of the Golden House 
Eagle of the Ninth
The Silver Branch
The Lantern Bearers
Augustine Came to Kent

History:  U.S.
Nacar the White Deer*finished
Madeleine Takes Commandfinished
A Lion to Guard Us* 
Moccasin Trail*
The Witch of Blackbird Pond*
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
The Courage of Sarah Noble
Amos Fortune, Free Man
Ben and Me
John Treegate's Musket
Peter Treegate's War
Seaman
Sacajawea 
Tree in the Trail
A Dawn in the Trees
Abraham Lincoln's World
Robert E. Lee, Gallant Christian Soldier
With Lee in Virginia
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Alfred Leland Crabb titles
Minn of the Mississippi

Literature:
Tales From Shakespeare
Talking to the Sun (poetry)
The Harp and the Laurel Wreath
Kindergarten Gems
For the Children's Hour
Little Women
Anne of Green Gables 

Grammar:  Grammar-land 

Religion:
Baltimore Catechism
The First Christians
Book of Angels
Hurlbut's Story of the Bible
Signs, Words, & Gestures

Science/Nature (Baldwin Project):
The Mystery of the Periodic Table + The Periodic Kingdom + Magic Schoolbus chemistry kit
Clara Pierson Dillingham Among series
William J. Long stories
Ernest Thompson Seton, Wild Animals I Have Known
Handbook of Nature Study

Math:
String, Straight-Edge, and Shadow
Greg Tang books

Geography:
Lucy Fitch Perkins Twins series

Fine Arts??
Great Artists series (Baldwin Project)

2. Spine Texts

Ancient history: 
The Children's Plutarch
Augustus Caesar's World

U.S. History:
George Washington's World
Abraham Lincoln's World

3. Workbooks
Math:  MCP/MEP (math lab Fridays)

Handwriting:  CHC handwriting

Grammar:  CHC Language of God for grades 3&4

Language:   Our Roman Roots

Science:  ELP Science Made Simple workbooks (leftovers from grades 2/3 -- I'm not going to buy more of these. We use them only sporadically, and what I really want to do is to buy a couple of Magic Schoolbus science kits, one for each semester, to put in the Morning Basket. That way science gets done, and makes a nice hands-on break from reading, before we move to table work) Also living books

Geography:  Map skills workbooks from CHC

Spelling:  CHC, keeping both children in the same speller (because we've never done formal spelling before and so that we can have spelling bees)

Wish List:
Madeleine Takes Command (just bought)
Ben and Me
Bantry Bay series (bought)
King of the Golden City 
Book of Angels
Augustus Caesar's World
George Washington's World
Mystery of the Roman Ransom
A Triumph for Flavius
The Lantern Bearers
another good, more advanced book of saints:  Young People's Book of Saints (Williamson)?

What the Morning Basket Should Hold: 
prayer books + hymnal
books for
*religion (catechism, The First Christians, Bible, saints)
*history (ancient & U.S.)
*science/nature (sketchbooks for drawing what we read about?)
*living math
*fine art books to look at (Usborne books also have activities)
plus
one Magic Schoolbus science kit per semester
some other kind of art resource . . . 
list of Baldwin resources to choose from

What if it also held:
 Our Roman Roots  
notebooks for ORR


This is starting to need to be a bigger basket. 

Also a lunch basket for literature:  myths, chapter books, other living books for lunchtime enjoyment



Refresh by Season:  add in Advent/Lenten reading, books appropriate to season of the year, new science or art materials