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 experiments involving flight, electricity, magnetism, and physics, reading biographies of scientists like Michael Faraday and Galileo and inventors like the Wright Brothers, walking Santee National Wildlife Refuge 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, study landmarks of the western hemisphere through The Complete Book of Marvels, Thor Heyerdahl's journey in the South Pacific, and real-life adventures on the North and South Poles.
  • Literature - Cherish classics such as Treasure Island, The Incredible Journey, Robinson Crusoe, historical fiction, short stories by Washington Irving, 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 Rudyard Kipling.
  • Art - Study the work of three artists, beginning with Leonardo da Vinci.
  • Music - Study compositions by three composers, beginning with George Gershwin, and sing folk songs.
  • South Carolina - Know their school yard and neighborhood. Read historical fiction set in their time period that weave in famous South Carolinians like Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Francis Marion, and Thomas Sumter. 
  • Ancients Thread - Learn about peoples from the ancient world (Hebrews, Hittites, Persians, and Phoenicians)
  • Citizenship - Study Plutarch's Alexander the Great and important historical documents and speeches and do service projects in the community.
  • Spanish - Read and write (students with two years of oral Spanish), have simple conversations, and learn vocabulary and grammar.
  • Handwork - Craft with their hands and make paper objects with simple tools like rulers, glue, scissors, and tape.

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