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I'd love to see what you have lined up for your 5th graders.

I have a vague idea of what I'm going to do, but really having a hard time getting motivated to think this through. Maybe seeing other plans will get me going :tongue_smilie:

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This is what dd did in 5th:

 

Math: TT Pre_Algebra

Bible: Read Through the Bible plan

History: SOTW Ancients and lots of reading

Grammar: Rod & Staff

Science: Apologia Astronomy and Science Experiments from a book from the Library

Foreign Lang.: Spanish in 10 Minutes a Day

Music: Voice Lessons

Piano Lessons

Spelling: R&S

 

I think that's most of what she did....

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I think I finally have it all planned. Thought I would try to go back to the Ancients with WTM ideas, but we just love our Sonlight too much.

 

Sonlight Core 5: History/Readers/Read Alouds

Rod & Staff 6: Math - throwing in some Singapore as well

R&S 5: English/Spelling

BJUP 5: Science

Latin For Children B

Concordia Press materials for Bible along with Luther's Small Catechism

 

I'm still debating continuing with Classical Writing. We enjoyed Aesop A&B, but Homer looks like a bit much especially since Narrations and R&S assignments cover so much in the writing department.

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This is what I did with my 5th grader:

 

Math: Primary Mathematics 5A&B

Writing: Writing Tales 2 and Growing With Grammar

Reading: Story of the World Vol. 1, Bible and Ambleside Online's level 5 readings for science and natural history

Latin: Latina Christiana II

Logic: Building Thinking Skills Level 2 and Mindbenders B1

Bible: AWANA-Book 3 of TNT

 

I followed Ambleside Online Level 5 for him. I have to admit that I overkilled on grammar this year. He plays violin and piano. I did ultimate frisbee as his PE.

 

Blessings,

Karen

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English:

 

Sonlight Core 5 Readers

Handwriting Without Tears Can Do Cursive

Fix It Grammar

Phonetic Zoo Spelling Level B

IEW Student Writing Intensive Level B

English from the Roots Up Volume 1

 

Math:

 

Teaching Textbooks Math 6

Life of Fred Fractions

 

Science (w/ his older brother):

 

Prentice Hall Biology (high school textbook)

 

History:

 

Sonlight Core 5

Van Loon's The Story of Mankind

 

Electives:

 

Red Herrings Mysteries

Artistic Pursuits 4-6 Book 1

Piano Lessons

Tae Kwon Do (he's a Red belt)

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Here's what we're planning to do:

 

Latin: Continue Latin Prep 1

Math: Primary Math 5A/5B and probably 6A/Family Math/Real LIfe Math/Challenging problems on Friday

Reading: following the WTM suggestions

History: following WTM suggestions (Kingfisher Encyclopedia)

Science: Putting together my own (secular) curriculum for life science

Logic: Will do Logic Blast-off series

Grammar: Finish FLL 4 and Start Hake Grammar 5

Writing: Continue working through Writing Strands 3; Spectrum Writing 5; Zaner-Bloser penmanship

Spelling: Continue with Spelling Connections by Zaner-Bloser (finish 3, 4, hopefully get to 5...we're a slower speller)

Hebrew: Finishing Alef-Bet

Spanish: Still deciding

Art: Art lessons with Dad/historical survey through WTM suggestions

Music: Music history through WTM suggestions practicing recorder...

 

I think that about covers it. We also do lots of life-skills type stuff.

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Sonlight Core 7 Modified (twins are doing with their older bro)

Mammoth Math 5 and Life of Fred Fractions (continued from last year)

Sonlight Sci 5 (secular version)

Wordly Wise 6

My Access (online writing program) (continued)

Rosetta Stone Spanish (continued)

Meet the Masters (continued)

Mark Kistler Draw (continued)

Usborne Introduction to Art History (continued)

My Favorite Poems (continued from Core 6 - this books gonna take a while)

 

Whoa ... that looks like a lot! Well, you can see we are still working on last year's plan. Not to mention that we're still finishing Core 6!

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I think I'm done changing my mind.:)

Here are my plans for my 5th grade ds.

 

-Saxon 6/5

-Rod & Staff 5

-Spelling Workout E/begin F

-Physical science ala WTM with kits from Thames & Kosmos

-Modern history ala WTM using KF and SOTW as spines

-Modern lit and historical fiction with some narrations

-Writing assignments from R&S, plus narrations and outlining in history and science, and lots of dictation

-Mindbenders A1-A4

-Latin for Children Primer B

-Rosetta Stone German 1 (no written work)

-Artistic Pursuits Bk.1

-Beautiful Feet History of Classical Music

-Classical guitar lessons

-Chess and Junior Achievement with co-op

 

 

This should keep my boy out of trouble!

Caroline

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Math- Singapore and LOF fractions

writing/grammar- copy work, dictation and grammar ace- science and history outlines

history/ Bible/ literature- MFW RTR

science- MFW RTR and a RS4K at a co-op

We are also taking a literature/writing class and Spanish at the co-op.

Dabbling in Artistic pursuits and the Draw squad.

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Here's what I've got planned for my fifth grader:

 

Bible: OT2 with the Greenleaf Guide to OT

History: Famous Men of Greece and Rome with Memoria Press workbooks

Literature: selections from AO and VP

Science: Tiner books and science biographies and Nature Study

Geography/Picture Study/Poetry: AO

Language Arts: Kiss Grammar/Simply Spelling

Writing: Lost Tools of Writing and Written Narrations and CW Poetry B (2nd semester)

Latin: First Form Latin

Math: CLE Math--may throw in LOF Fractions too

Logic: Thinking Toolbox

Private Piano Lessons

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Language Arts:

Spelling Mastery D & E (4x)

Grammar & Punctuation (Evan-Moor) (3x)

IEW - All Things Fun and Fascinating (3x)

HWOT - cursive (2x)

Lit via history with discussion via Reading Strands (4x)

Vocabulary Cartoons (for fun) (3x)

History - SOTW I with AG (2x)

Geography - Ellen McHenry's program (1x)

Science - alternating Science Detective with Christian Liberty Nature Readers (2x)

Logic Countdown (2x)

Bible - We just read together (2x)

Memory Work - I choose selections (3x)

Math - Multiple resources (5x)

 

number in ( ) and x represent the number of times per week this subject is done.

 

We use outside classes for Art, Music and PE. He won't be doing a language this year.

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math: MMM 5

science: BJU 5

history: BF Intermediate Early American and Westward Expansion

literature: DITHOR

writing: Meaningful Composition 5

grammar: Abeka 5 and LL for Secondary Child vol 1

spelling: Spelling Power

logic: Fallacy Detective

art: Artistic Pursuits intermediate

geography: Maps Skills

PE: Dance

Music: violin and BJ History of Classical Music

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Math: Saxon 65 (already started, will finish mid-year then start on Saxon 76)

Science: Christian Kids Explore Biology & other WTM rec.

History/Lit: Ancients per WTM (plus a Catholic text that we like)

Writing: trying something new I found called Jump In: A Workbook for Reluctant and Eager Writers (Rainbow Resource)

Penmanship: My lefty is going to learn cursive this year and I think I finally found what will work for her: New American Cursive. The last couple years have been unsuccessful with other types, so wish us luck!

Grammar: Easy Grammar 5

Spelling: Abeka Spelling 5

Geography: map work to correspond with History and MCP Map Skills E

PE: Tennis and other general stuff like biking, etc.

Music, Latin, Logic: Not sure yet - after coming out of a very stressful 08-09 school year, I'm trying to cut back a little to get things back on track around here.

 

Sheri :)

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For my 2 5th graders next year we are doing

 

Bible Christian studies II and 1/2 of core 100 bible

 

Math Finish MUS Gamma and horizons 3 and do MUS Delta and horizons 4

 

History SL Core 3, 1/2 of core 100, WP AS1 and Canadian History all rolled into one crazy program

 

Science SL Sci 4 followed by apologia elementary zoo 1 in the spring/summer

 

English Finish R&S 3 and start 4, SWO D(for ds) and AAS for dd, Meaningful composition 4+, Finish MCP word study D and start Wordly Wise book 1, Readers and read alouds sl core 3, harp and laurel wreath for poetry memorization, A reason for handwriting E(ds) and HWOT cursive (dd)

 

Foreign Language Mission Monde 1 for french, Hey Andrew lvl 1 for Greek and Latina Christiana 1 for Latin

 

Logic Logic links, perplexors, and games

 

Fine Arts artistic pursuits k-3 book 2 and childsized masterpeices for art; Beautiful feet history of classical music for music appreciation.

 

Other Home ec for homeschoolers book 2, beautiful girlhood(dd) and created for work/boyhood and beyond(ds), horizons health 5, typing, handiwork Many many extracurriculars

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DAILY

Bible: Walking with Jesus (NOAH Plan)

Math: Rightstart E, Strayor-Upton (supplement)Latin: First Form Latin; Cambridge Unit 1 (this covers grammar)

Composition: CW Aesop B/Poetry (inc. grammar and Spelling Wisdom) History: Medieval and Middle Ages (MOH, Guerber)

Literature: assigned reading history fiction/non-fiction (med/middle ages)

Memorization: Living Memory (Andrew Campbell); daily

 

WEEKLY (alternating days or just Friday)

Geography: Europe

Science: Apologia Botany class at Christian school

Music/Art Appreciation: alternate Fridays with picture/artist study and music/composer study CM-style

Logic:Building Thinking Skills Level 2

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Here DD1's 5th grade list:

 

MATH: Singapore 5A and 5B

GRAMMAR: R&S 5

SPELLING: finish SWO G and start H

WRITING: CW Homer and Poetry for Beginners

READING: assigned daily reading to discuss with me

HISTORY: Ancient history using my own program

SCIENCE: Apologia Botany and Human Body (assuming it comes out in time)

LATIN: Latin for Children

LOGIC: Building Thinking Skill 2, MindBenders B series, and Think-a-Grams A series

ART: Draw and Write Through History Creation to Jonah & Greece and Rome, 1-2-3 Draw Mythical Animals

MUSIC: Studying the orchestra (still have to plan this part), piano lessons

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Math: Singapore 5A/B plus supplemental workbooks.

 

Science: Prentice Hall Life Science and study guide, with occasional reports or drawings plus sitting in on Ds14's labs and doing simple writeups or drawings.

 

History/Reading ala WTM; spine will be one from an English publisher called The Children's Illustrated History of the World. Will also use Van Loon's History of Mankind, a historical atlas and the Penguin Atlas of Civilizations as well as SOTW audio only for bedtime. She has already gone through SOTW 1-4. Readings are from the WTM reading list. Papers will be about 1 per week, following IEW's progression (3rd time through this).

 

Language Arts (see above): Grammar using Rod and Staff 5.

 

Logic: Mind Benders a few minutes each day.

 

P.E. various activities, 30 minutes per day, logged per President's Challenge.

 

Art: using a text called Art in Action with enough activities to do about 2 per week. Will probably do art from other resources, too. She is an artiste.

 

Spanish: Rosetta Stone- for fun, as she likes- must do 30 minutes per day but she can do whatever she wants on it.

 

Latin: Primer III with DVD's. She hates Latin. My challenge will be to spend the time necessary to make it more palatable to her.

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English- R&S spelling and grammar 5, dictation, reading, and copy work (in Bible)

Science- How Nature Works, How the Body Works, and The Creepy Crawly and the Scientific Method for Biology

Math- Math U See Delta I think?

History- SOTW 1 with the activity guide, KFHE outlining, and reading books about ancient history

Logic- Mind Benders

Latin- Latina Christiana 1

Home Ec- 1st semester on cooking (creating her own cookbook that will go in her hope chest), 2nd on sewing (creating items to go in her hope chest)

Bible- Character building with The Virtuous Woman and Polished Cornerstones

Art- Artistic Pursuits and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Music-The Story of the Orchestra with a year long lapbook project on the instruments in an orchestra, piano and guitar

PE- Dance and swimming

 

I think that's it...

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Here is what we did for the most recent 5th grader:

 

Math - Right Start E/Singapore 5A

 

Latin - Units 1-2 of Henle, then switched to Latin Prep

 

Writing - CW Homer, but we got nowhere near finishing Homer A. Also wrote summaries for history.

 

History - TOG Y2 Units 3-4, and Y3 Units 1-2 Upper Grammar

 

Lit - my own list. He read Just So Stories, The Witch of Blackbird Pond ... and right now I forget what else :)

 

Science - nothing formal

 

Scouts, PE, soccer, piano, lots of independent reading, and independent work on learning computer programming and html.

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I have a 5th grader this year, and we just started today. This is what she does:

 

Family Studies:

Bible

Memory Work

History

Science

Literature

 

Individual Studies:

Hey Andrew Greek 2

Easy Grammar 4

Spelling Workout D

Reason for Handwriting D

Copywork, Oral Narration, beginning Written narrations

Math with Mom (we are doing our own thing)

Building Thinking Skills 2

Private Piano Lessons

Literature

She also is a crafty kid and is always doing lapbooks, and home made booklets, etc...

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I was able to look and see what others are doing or have done with their 5th graders. Here's my plan:

 

Math -- Saxon 6/5, LoF

Language Arts -- Rod & Staff; IEW (this will be her 2nd year doing IEW - she did it in 4th grade in school); Classical Roots of Latin; Literature Reading List - I have the titles in another room; Phonetic Zoo (not sure what level - likely C -- I haven't tested her yet -- she is an excellent speller)

History -- History Odyssey - Middle Ages (Lots of literature to go with this);

Geography -- Trail Guide to World Geography and World Geography through Literature (lots of Literature to go with this);

Latin -- this will be her third year of Latin

Spanish -- dh will do this with all three kiddies (twin 3rd graders)

Science -- Science Odyssey (Chemistry)

Logic - Haven't decided but one of the two series mentioned in WTM.

Art -- Haven't decided yet - maybe Visual Manna

PE - Golf and ice skating

 

I don't have my 'master' in front of me, but I think that is everything. If something incredibly obvious is missing, it's on the list, just not in my head.

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This is what I have planned for this coming year.

 

Bible: Precept Studies

Math: MUS

LA: Classical Writing Homer A/ Poetry for Beginners, Mother Tongue Bk. 2, Bartons Reading and Spelling (we use this for spelling.)

History: concentrating on people from the four cycles of history, making up my own curriculum

Science: making my own curiculum, nature study

Literature, Poetry, Picture Study, Composer Study: AO

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So maybe if I post what we're doing here, it will be cemented for me and I can move on with my summer...

 

Math

Saxon 6/5 and Singapore 4A

 

English

R&S 5

SWO F

VFCR 5

IEW Middle Ages

CLE Reading 5

Reading List

Poetry Memorization

 

Science

RSO Chemistry and BF History of Science

 

History

TOG Y2U1 ( Just trying this out, if it doesn't work I'll go to using SOTW 2 by itself)

 

Latin

Latina Christiana II or LFC A at a class (not sure yet)

 

Spanish

Still thinking about this, if DS takes the Latin class I'll use that Discovery Streaming Spanish or the Learnables more as an introduction than for mastery. DD will be taking 2 years of Spanish at High School next year, so I figure she can work with him to help herself. If he doesn't do the latin class then we won't do Spanish.

 

Logic-

Logic Countdown

Games

 

Electives

Art-Harmony Fine Art Middle Ages

Some kind of Handcrafts-still not sure yet

Music-Guitar and Music Lapbooks

Lego Engineering

P.E.-Swimming, Basketball, Skating, Physical Health class, and lots of playing.

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We have been fairly relaxed up to now, I think I'm going to tighten up on math and writing this coming year.

 

Religion - Catholic Life Curriculum (CLC): Faith and Life text + project oriented program called Exploring the Mass; daily reading in Scriptures

Math - Saxon 5/4 (we've been very loose about learning math up to now)

Writing - Writing with Ease 2; Cursive practice with the CLC program

Spelling - CLC Spelling

Reading - Faith and Freedom readers for 5th grade

Grammar- CLC Grammar (Language of God)

Latin - we'll continue to work our way through Latin for Children

Greek - we've been doing fun stuff in the Greek Decoder workbook put out by Classical Academic Press

History - Lots of read alouds in Ancient History + history notebooking; Lots of read alouds in American History plus movies and fieldtrips

Science - We'll be exploring Earth science loosely via read alouds, fieldtrips and whatever comes along that floats our boats!

Music - he take piano lessons; children's choir at church

Art - drawing class at community center

P.E. - gymnastics and tennis lessons

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My 5th grader's line up:

Math - MUS Delta & Saxon 54 (lesson 50 to end of book)

Reading - Pathway Readers Grade 4

Writing & Grammar - English 3 (lesson 80 to end of book), then Eng. 4

Music - Piano lessons

Spelling - SCM Spelling Wisdom Book 1 and Dr. Aardsma's spelling game

Foreign Lang. - The Easy Spanish and Prima Latina

History - Biblioplan The Ancients

Science - Apologia Botany

Typing - Typing Instructor for Kids

Bible - Community Bible Study + SCM verse pack 1

PE - Co-Op PE and working up to 30 minutes on the elliptical trainer

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Here's what I have lined up for my 5th grade ds.

 

Character study- Character Building for Families (vol.1)

Grammar- Easy Grammar Plus

Writing- Just Write (Book 1)

Math- ABEKA Arithmetic 5

History- SOTW 1 with Kingfisher Encyclopedia plus library resources

Geography- Rand McNally workbook plus others

Science- R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey (Life) I have a 2nd grade dd as well so I am using this with both kids. I'm just beefing it up for my 5th grader.

Spanish- Espanol para chicos grandes (Level 1)

Bible- Studying God's Word - books C (old testament) & D (Life of Christ)

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Mon-Fri

0700-0900 Social Studies

0900-1000 Handwriting,Grammar, Spelling

1000-1100 Math

 

Mon, Tues & Thurs

1200-1300 Literature & Vocabulary

1300-1400 Science

 

Social Studies = BF Early American History + BF Geography + Our Living Constitution

 

We use Handwriting Without Tears, Grammar With a Giggle, and spelling words selected from the errors in his written work. I look forward to integrating his handwriting with spelling and grammar as soon as he finishes his last workbook.

 

For math we use MUS and Use It! Don't Lose It!

 

For literature we use Mosdos, and for vocabulary we use words selected from the exercises in his Mosdos Pearl workbook, the Beautiful Feet Guides and his Science Units.

 

For science we are using Stech-Vaugn 5th grade workbooks (Science by the Grade & Science; Earth & Space, Life and Physical) to support a series of unit studies, plus a unit study of the Periodic Table using The Periodic Table; Elements With Style, It's Elemental & The Mystery of the Periodic Table. He'll be writing 3-4 research papers using How to Write a Great Research Paper.

 

PS: I absolutely swear by Donna Young's planning forms and general advice on planning. To give this seemingly casual plan the structure and rigor needed for success, careful planning is absolutely necessary.

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Math

Saxon 8/7

 

Grammar

Rod & Staff English 7

 

 

Foreign Language

Henle Latin 1

First Start French

 

History

Famous Men of Medieval Times

The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia

Jackdaw Portfolios: The Black Death

 

Literature

Tales From the Mabinogian; Gwyn Thomas and Kevin Crossley-Holland

Druids, Gods & Heroes from Celtic Mythology; Anne Ross

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table; Howard Pyle

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood; Howard Pyle

A Midsummer Night's Dream; William Shakespeare

Beowulf (I haven't yet chosen a translation)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (I haven't yet chosen a translation)

 

Science

Nature study using a modified version of the Mother of Divine Grace Natural History syllabus

 

Christian Studies

King James Version Bible

Lingua Angelica

 

Fine Arts

 

Piano

Dance (ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, youth theatre productions)

Art History (Sister Wendy videos)

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Ambleside Year 4 (all parts except the physics books, which our library didn't have)

-Singapore Math

-Latin for Children

-Elementary Spanish

-IEW SWI-A intead of written narrations (in order to learn how to write narrations lol)

-Grammarland

-Ben Franklin Experiments, Snap Circuits, and Gizmos and Gadgets for the science (we have more science than Ambleside schedules)

-One Year Bible for Kids for Bible (plus family devotions)

 

Also

Fix-It Grammar (for editing practice)

Drawn Into Heart of Reading (as I have two kids doing Year 4 and we do much as read alouds so want them to have extra practice)

Logic Lift off for Logic

Various Scout badges for Health

I Can Do All Things for drawing and painting lessons

History of Horses (Her weekend personal project work)

 

Plus

Horseback Riding Lessons

Gymnastics/Cheer

Drama/Voice/Dance

Odyssey of the Mind

Co-Op

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