Elementary - Colonial America and the Revolution!

  • Faith - Pray, sing hymns, and know God by reading psalms, the Exodus and beyond, Acts, and biographies of Christians like Amos Fortune.
  • History - See history's tapestry through biographies, riveting historical fiction, period literature, and key chapters of a history spine.
  • Mathematics - Explore numbers 1 through 10,000, the four number operations, fractions, decimals, factors, skip counting forwards and backwards by paying attention to real things and patterns, describing them, manipulating them, knowing place value, math facts and procedures, keeping a math notebook, and building fluency with mental math. Start doing exercises in practical geometry.
  • Language Arts - Soak up literary language by hearing and reading living books; memorizing and reciting poems, songs, and hymns; neatly copying sentences from their books; writing sentences dictated to them; and telling and writing what they know in the three pillars of notebooking (nature notebook, book of centuries, and commonplace book). See our FAQ.
  • Science and Nature Study - Wonder about the world and things in it by gardening, fieldwork and notebooking, reading about Isaac Newton, walking Taw Caw Park every week, and documenting animals, insects, birds, and plants in their nature notebook.
  • Geography - Do focused map studies of the literature and history studied, learn about the world as outlined in Ambleside Online's geography recommendations, and study landmarks of the western hemisphere through The Complete Book of Marvels.
  • Literature - Cherish classics and Newbery winners, historical fiction, animal adventures, short stories by Washington Irving and Nathanial Hawthorhe, Greek mythology, Shakespeare, and stories of people living in their time period including Native Americans.
  • Poetry - Memorize and read poems by three poets, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  • Art - Study the work of three artists.
  • Music - Study compositions by three composers and sing hymns and folk songs.
  • South Carolina - Know their school yard and neighborhood. Read historical fiction set about a Revolutionary War battle in our state. 
  • Citizenship - Learn lessons from people in ancient Roman history.
  • Spanish - Learn simple conversations and related vocabulary and grammar.
  • Handwork - Learn new skills by using hands ot make objects and artwork.

* We are grateful to AmblesideOnline for inspiring our free curriculum!