Elementary A - Colonial Era

  • Faith - Pray, sing hymns, and know God better through the psalms, Jonah, the first half of Acts, and short stories about heroes of the faith.
  • History - Meet inspiring people from a different time and place through biographies of Amos Fortune, Isaac Newton, and Nathaniel Bowditch and stories about the Thirteen Colonies in This Country of Ours.
  • Mathematics - Explore numbers 1 through 10,000 and the four number operations by following lessons in The Charlotte Mason Arithmetic series, practing on math sleeves, and building fluency with mental math and games. Build an understanding of fractions and their connection to decimals using manipulatives. Explore geometry by making things out of paper using different tools. Work with money, strengthen understanding of time, and measure with different tools.
  • Language Arts - Soak up literary language by hearing living books read aloud; memorizing and reciting poems, songs, and hymns; neatly copying sentences from their books; improving their reading ability; telling and writing what they know; use a dictionary to look up words; and study the spelling and grammar of sentences from curriculum books. See our FAQ.
  • Science and Nature Study - Read books about many topics and do and record simple experiments: erosion and deposition by water, rocks, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, rocks, minerals, soil, glaciers, plant materials, silk, wool, insects, and venomous and poisonous things. Go on nature walks at Taw Caw Creek Park regularly and keep a nature notebook.
  • Geography - Do focused map studies of the books being read, learn about the world as outlined in Ambleside Online's geography recommendations, and travel through the Americas and Europe through Richard Halliburton's Book of Marvels: Occident.
  • Literature - Enjoy the building blocks of stories such as The Princess and the Goblin, D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths, The Stories of the History of Rome, and The Merchant of Venice, and read childhood favorites by Clyde Robert Bulla, Patricia C. McKissack, and Marguerite Henry in take-home reading.
  • Poetry - Memorize and read poems by feature poets, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  • Art - Study the work of three artists every week by narrating and remembering their best works.
  • Music - Study compositions by three composers and sing folk songs, patriotic tunes, hymns, and praise and worship music.
  • South Carolina - Know their school yard and neighborhood and read about South Carolina's native tribes and colonial history.
  • Spanish - Sing simple songs, recite parts in plays, have simple conversations, and hear and read children's books in Spanish.
  • Handwork - Learn to make things with their hands in a variety of media, doing tasks that require skill.

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