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I know my plans have changed since the last thread) So here we go!

 

Bible- Who is God (Apologia)

Proverbs People

Manners Matter by Fred Hartley & Andrea Hartley Smith (not bible- but still important!) We will do these one at a time over the whole year.

Math- Horizons 3rd grade and Singapore (she already started horizons- we alternate which one we do after every chapter)

English-- R&S 3

Latin- Song School latin with her brother in K and latin for children with her sister in 7th

Science- Finish Apologia botany (we are doing over the summer!) Apologia Zoology 1 and 2 (she chose those two!)

History- American History BJU Heritage Studies 3&4 (we take 2 weeks per chapter so it will be easy fitting those both in!)

World History- SOTW2 with plenty of read alouds. We do SOTW and read alouds as a bedtime thing! (she requested that!) I don't test her in this at this grade level (that starts in the 2nd history cycle here) just going for good exposure at this point :001_smile:

Spelling- Continue with Spelling Power and Apples daily spelling drills

Reading- Classic Worktexts 3 and Shakespeare Worktexts 3

Geograhy- Trail Guide to US geography (Mon, Wed, and Fri)

Health- Exploring Creation with Physiology and Anatomy (Tues and Thrus)

Typing- Typing Instructor Deluxe (not pushing this at her age- she requested it so when she has time and wants to)

 

We add art in to history, science, geography and health so we dont do a seperate art program! I am debating something for music, we will see what happens!

 

I will admit, this looks like alot- but it really isnt they way we do it and she is generally done in 4-5 hours with "recess" included (unless she is being a space cadet :001_huh:)

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Spelling: Sequential Spelling

Vocabulary: Dynamic Literacy

Grammar: Easy Grammar 3, Daily Grams, Better Sentence Structure Through Diagraming

Literature: Various books I have on hand

Writing: WWE 3, Writing Strands 2

Math: Saxon 5/4, Daily Word Problems 3

History: Sonlight 6 w/Story of the World 1 & 2 Activity Guides

Geography: Sonlight 6, The Complete Book of Maps & Geography

Latin: Continue with Minimus & Getting Started with Latin

Logic: Mind Benders, Building Thinking Skills

 

He'll also be in a 1 day a week enrichment program where he'll get science, art, and other things I forget at the moment. He takes piano & Judo, and dh is teaching him trumpet & Greek. We do Bible as a family at night, along with a fiction read-aloud.

 

We start tomorrow. Oy!

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Math--CLE3 supplementing with Singapore 3

History--Overview of Am History from Mayflower to Civil War to coincide with trip to Charleston, SC

--SOTW2 w/ AG

Geograpy--with history as well as map reading

LA-- Rod and Staff 3

Spelling-- Spelling Workout

Latin-- Song School Latin

Science--per WTM as well as Snap Circuits and other rabbit trails

Health-- Abeka 3rd grade

Art-- with history and science

Music-- piano lessons

 

Spelling is DS's nemesis so we will continue to experiment with copywork, dictation, and narration while trying out different programs until we find what clicks.

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HOD Beyond for history, science, Bible and HOD Bigger for 3Rs

Singapore Math 2a and 2b (may add Math Mammoth as well)

Cheerful Cursive

R&S English 2

We'll be using HOD's Emerging Reader books for the first semester and adding DITHOR next winter.

ETC 4 and 5--I can't decide whether or not to drop these :glare:

Prima Latina

Keepers at Home for handicrafts, health, nature study, etc.

 

I can't wait to start our year! :D

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Bible - Notgrass Acts, Awana Memory, Polite Moments

Math - R&S Arithmetic 3

Spelling - AAS 2 and hopefully 3

Writing - WWE 2

Reading - ala WTM

Grammar - R&S English 3 or Daily Grams 2/3

Handwriting - Cheerful Cursive

History - SOTW vol. 2; ala WTM

Science - Still undecided

Art Appreciation - my own plans studying Renaissance artists and architecture

Shakespeare - Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare; Dover coloring book; memorize a sonnet

Critical Thinking - Building Thinking Skills A

Geography - Maps, Charts, and Graphs C

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Math- Math Mammoth (am looking for some supplements, maybe MEP)

Grammar- FLL3

Writing- WWE2

Cursive- Zaner Bloser

Science- Elemental Chem

History- SOTW 1

Spelling- SWO C

Reading- made my own list

Geography- a simple states study and memorize capitals

Bible- readings from the childrens bible we have and memorize scriptures as I see fit

Music- beginner piano

Art- still undecided. Dont want to pay too much for a program, but DD loves Art. Just requested Drawing with Children from library

 

waiting on my SOTW, FLL and WWE to arrive so i can schedule and we can start!!

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I am planning on using:

 

SL 4 - History, Science, Bible, Literature, Readers

WWE 3 (or possibly WT)

CLE LA 3

CLE Math 4

A Reason for handwriting

IEW's Poetry Memorization

Reading Detective/Mindbenders Software

La Clase Divertida 1

Atelier Art

 

Extracurricular: Piano, Ballet, Swim Team

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My plans have changed recently too, I was going to change up a lot of things and now have decided not to. I finally had one of the "if it's working why change it" realizations.

 

Here's the current plan.

Math- McRuffy 2 at accelerated pace to finish it and then move into McRuffy 3

English-- McRuffy LA 2 (this includes grammar, phonics, and spelling)

Writing Some WWE 1 if we can fit it in.

Penmanship HWOT cursive

Science- REAL Science Odyssey, animal and plant kingdoms from Life level 1 and the Earth's Composition and Geology units from Earth and Space Level 1

History- Reading selected books about Early American History (we did History Odyssey Early Modern last year and this is a gap year so we're just doing a recap by reading historical fiction.

Geograhy- Complete Book of maps and geography

Typing- Typing Instructor for Kids

 

We'll do art when the mood strikes us.

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Bible: CLE 3

Math: Teaching Textbooks 4

LA: ETC 3,4,5; CLE Reading 1; Cheerful Cursive

History: Biblioplan Year 3

Science: Considering God's Creation supplemented with Home Science Adventures

 

Enjoys but is not required: sitting in on FIAR with younger siblings

 

During Spring 2011 (while we're in the US): lots of field trips

 

Blessings,

 

Laura

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Bible- BSF, and maybe Grandpa's Box as a family read aloud

Math- Either CLE or Singapore or both :D

Grammar- FLL 3

Latin- GSWL

Science- SL Science 1

History- AO Year 2 w/ SOTW mapping and activity guide

Spelling- SWO w/ dictation

Reading- Elson Reader 3, and other assigned reading

Writing - Some Elson Assignments, copywork, dictation, narration

Composer/Artist Studies - selections from AO

Piano Lessons

Competitive Chess

Maybe gym and swim

Maybe some typing (Typing Instructor)

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Math - Singapore Math

Grammar - FLL3, and maybe MCT

Writing - WWE3

History - SOTW1

Spelling - Spelling Workout

Science - Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding

Penmanship - Getty Dubay

Reading - various books

Language - Mandarin Chinese, maybe Spanish also

Extracurricular - tennis, ballet, art, chess, piano

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LA- McRuffy 3rd

Math- Math Mammoth (doing accelerated 2nd over summer to catch up, then going into 3rd - this is our first yr HSing and he's a bit behind).

Science- REAL Science Odyssey - Earth & Space

History- SOTW- Vol.1 w/AG

Geography- Canada, My Country

Music- Piano Lessons

Mavis Beacon Typing

 

We're also doing a read-aloud/reading comp. with The Boxcar Children series. I also have FIAR here to do for fun (as well as BFIAR). We're doing a library program over summer as well as swimming lessons, then probably more swimming lessons and karate in the fall. Also half hour quiet reading time daily with books of his own choosing.

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Bible- Come Be My Follower

 

Math- Math Mammoth with an Abacus and Visual Perceptual Skills for remediation

 

Science- HOD Bigger with some Shoot and Sprout Buzz and Bite when we feel like it.

 

History- HOD Bigger Reading- HOD Bigger Storytime

 

Spelling- Phonics Road 2 English-- Phonics Road 2

 

Latin- Not until next year

 

Typing- That BBC program free online

 

Music- Beatles Rock Band. :tongue_smilie:

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Wy_kid_wrangler04,

 

Can you please share more about the "Classic Worktexts 3 and Shakespeare Worktexts 3" that you are using for Reading? These are new to me and look interesting.

 

Thanks.

 

I would love to :D Classic Worktexts is classic literature written in language (though not dumbed down, KWIM) for elementary kids. Each book has vocabulary, and they have reading comprehension activities and other similar activities. I really enjoy them because later when they are in high school they will have a background knowledge in the classics when they study them.

 

The Shakespeare worktexts are the same.

 

Click on the links I provided in my previous post and you can click on any grade and see samples (I think) You can also see what titles come in each grade level!

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My 3rd grader will be doing the following (I've changed it since the last post as well, but have ordered everything now, so no more changing).

 

Math: CLE Math 300

Grammar/Reading: McRuffy LA 3, Daily Grams 3, books I pick

Writing: Write Source Student Book 3

Handwriting: HWOT Cursive

Spelling: Sequential Spelling 1

Science: Elemental Biology

History: Complete Book of US History and tagging along with older brother

Geography: Star Spangled State Book, Map Skills For Today 3, and Maps, Charts, and Graphs 3

Health: activities from Healthy Me, Sense Abilities, and Watch Me Grow with little sister

Art: Artisitic Pursuits K-3 Book 2 with little sister

Music: still trying to figure this one out; had a book picked out from Amazon, but can't find it now

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Bible-NT Survey for Kids that I wrote

Math-Singapore Math

LA-CW Aesop A, Spelling Workout, Prima Latina

Reading-Readers and Read-Alouds to go with history

History-SOTW3 with AG and 1st half of US state study

Science-Elemental Science Chemistry

Other-Usborne Recorder Book, Art Adv. at Home, Rapid Typing, Artist/Composers of the Late Renaissance

 

We've already started our year and so far, it's all been a real hit!

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At this moment I have this planned for upcoming official school year(September 1st)

We are doing school this summer too:). MEP math and a lot of reading for Summer reading programs in public libraries.

 

Bible/ History- MOH I supplementing with SOTW book I

Math- RS B/C + Singapore 2/3(Intensive Practice, CWP 2/3+ Olympiad problems) + MEP 2/3

Latin- Song School Latin/ Latin for Children A

Science- Apologia Zoology II, Real Science 4 Kids Chemistry/ Physics (pre-level), Zoology I

Spelling- SWR

Reading- Assigned books + different readers

Writing - Finishing Classical Writing "Primers", moving to Aesop A,

Ancient History Writing Lessons from IEW

Memorization: Linguistic Development Through Poetry Memorization, Level 3

Art: Art section from Primers, Leonardo da Vinci lapbook, and many more things

Ice skating(skating school), some ballet with mom and off-ice training

Languages: Russian, French and German

Music: Music for Little Mozart with an younger brother, Alfred's Premier Piano Course 1B

Critical Thinking: Building Thinking Skills (finishing Level 1), etc.

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For dd 8 yo, 3rd grade:

 

HOD Bigger for history, etc

 

Spelling: Sequential Spelling

English: R&S 3

Math: Continue Singapore 2A/B and then move on to Singapore 3A/B

Science: Apologia Elementary - probably Swimming creatures.

Reading: DITHOR 2/3

Music: Violin

Sport: Swimming

Adventurers Club

Languages: Modern Greek and perhaps have a start in Spanish?

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Our third grade year:

 

core: (history, science, language arts, arts and crafts)

Oak Meadow 3

Old Testament stories

shelter/textile units from Our Nature Nest blog

 

Math: A Little Garden Flower Math

Singapore 2b/3a

Rod and Staff 3

 

Grammar: Ruth Heller's books on nouns and verbs

 

Lapbooks: whatever she wants to do them on

 

Extra: 4-H, maybe horseback riding

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The Phonics Road -- all language arts + intro to Latin (writing, grammar, spelling, literature study, vocab., phonics, handwriting)

 

Tapestry of Grace -- lower and upper grammar

 

Momma made physics w/ Thames and Kosmos, encyclopedias and living books. + Apologia Anatomy later in the year + as many Magic School Bus/Magic Tree House books as he can devour.

 

Singapore 3A+3B+CWP2

Computer work:

Spelling City

MUS online drills

Dance Mat typing

Purpose Games for geography practice

Quizlet for vocab. memorization

Mazes and Puzzles (a CD-rom with workbook)

 

Bible/Praise and Worship with me :)

 

Free reading daily

 

Recess!

 

I think that's it. This one's schedule hasn't changed, but his reading has improved so much this summer that he will be reading independently a lot more than I thought! YEAH! He loves science, so he'll be soaking in a lot of Magic School Bus this coming year!

 

I can't believe my baby is entering 3rd grade. It really seems like I'm in a movie and yet, I'm watching it all happen. Surreal.

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I still have to sit down and do some planning.. ugh... need to find time for that!!

 

Latin - Latin for Children A

Spelling - AAS

Grammar - GWG 3

Writing - CW Aesop

Poetry Memorization - need to pick some poems still

Lit - books that tie into history and from various lit lists

History - SOTW 3

Science - cobbling together a year of physics study

Handwriting - I *think* Conquering Cursive for Left-hand, and Queen's Cursive A

Math - Abeka 4, Math Mammoth & CWP to supplement

Music - Classics for Kids website once a week, and listen to the composer all month

Art - Mark Kistler's online drawing classes when we feel like it lol

 

And we do nature study, recorder practice, and handwork as part of the everyday routine.

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We just started our second week of school (with a 12th, 5th, and 3rd grader).

 

My 3rd grader:

 

 

  • Bible: Old Testament Bible reading M-TH, New Testament Bible reading on F. Monthly memory (3-5 verse passage in English, 1 verse in Spanish). Daily Psalm. Oral narration. possibly some written narration later in the year.
  • Math: Singapore Primary Math 3. Singapore Topical Problem Sums 3 (original edition of Challenging Word Problems, left over from older brothers who weren't allowed to write in the book). Daily math facts drill.
  • English: MCT Island (Grammar, Practice, Sentence, Poetry, and Vocabulary). Alternate copywork and dictation daily. 1-2 periods of 30 minutes reading with oral narration daily. Daily dictionary drill. Sequential Spelling.
  • Spanish: Daily read aloud to me from preschool level Bible story book. Oral narration in Spanish (often in English first, then Spanish). Daily dictation. Weekly listen to read aloud.
  • History: 2-3x week. library books on US history, War of 1812 through around 1900, with a focus on Native Americans because we haven't studied that much yet. biography of Amy Carmichael. chapters from Child's History of the World from the same time period as the US history readings.
  • Geography: 2-3x week, alternating with history. 4 weeks spent coloring maps and learning the names and locations of the continents and oceans, which I just discovered he doesn't know well. Then, one continent per month. (We will pick 2 countries from each continent to read and lapbook about, along with mapwork.)
  • Science: BJU Science 3, 4 days a week. We are using the workbook, but not the tests at this level. He narrates his daily readings orally in addition to answering the questions. He also does the experiments. On Fridays we do nature study instead.
  • Fine Arts: This is covered lightly, together with his 5th grade sister. Basically, they look at the same painting every day for two weeks, trying to find something new each day. Sometimes we talk about it. Sometimes they sketch it from memory after two weeks. We also choose a hymn, folk song, and composer each month, and listen every day. Sometimes we sing along. Beyond that, art supplies are available all the time to use in free time. We also have a keyboard (electronic piano type) they can play on. Their father/oldest brother have 3 guitars and an electric bass between them, but they are mostly not allowed to use those yet.)

 

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My schedule has changed as well, and most likely will again before we start our new year. :tongue_smilie:

Here is DS's 3rd grade curriculum:

Math: MM3 and Activities for the AL abacus (RS)

Bible: His Mighty Warrior

LA: MCT Island Level, Writing Tales, Spellwell, Reading the 'Chronicles of Narnia' series

Latin: Minimus and PL

History: My own Native American and Early American History jumping off from Who really Discovered America?

Science: I think REAL science?

Music & Art: Meet the Composers? and Picture Studies

Extras: Piano and Fencing lesons

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Our plans are:

 

Phonics Road - finish level 1 and 2

Writing With Ease Level 1 - I think he'll benefit from the narration practice!

Finish Biblioplan Ancients and move into Middle Ages

MUS Gamma and MM 3 (as needed)

Home Educator's Tutor for fine arts/memory work/composer study etc.

 

Should be a great year!!

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Language arts--MCT Town, Mosdos, Story Grammar, Daily Grams, and Megawords

Math--Singapore math and CWP

History--SOTW 3 and 4 (we will do American separately in 4th grade)

Science--Science Explorer Astronomy, Inside Earth, and Earth's Changing Surface

Latin--Lively Latin and Minimus Secondus

Hebrew--Shalom Uvrachah

German?--either Rosetta Stone or K12

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Grammer - FLL3

Spelling - Spelling Power

Writing - WWE2

Math - Abeka / Singapore

History - WP All American 1

Science - Apologia Flying Creatures

Latin - Sing Song Latin

Art - I Can Do All Things

Music - A Young Scholars's Guide to Composers

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Heart of Dakota's Beyond Little Hearts for His Glory

Sitting in on some of Sonlight Core 3+4 with big brother

Sonlight Science 2

First Language Lessons 2

Writing With Ease 2

Rod & Staff Spelling 3

Italics Cursive

Hey Andrew! Teach Me Some Greek 1

lapbooks of his choice

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For my youngest, little dd:

BIBLE

Golden Children's Bible

MATH

Teaching Textbooks 3 (workbook with Mom)

READING/SPELLING

Scaredy Cat Reading System and ETC

GRAMMAR

Rod & Staff

WRITING

Might do a little IEW with older brother

HANDWRITING

HWT Cursive

SCIENCE

Plants - R.E.A.L. Science Life; Structures - K'Nex; Solar System - R.E.A.L. Science Earth & Space

HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY

Courage & Conquest (Canadian History to 1815) and SOTW 3; Beginner Geography & Map Activities

ART

Storybook Art (Kohl)

P.E.

Hockey (Sept-Mar), Gymnastics (Apr-May)

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Lang. Arts: MCT

Extra Writing: WWE

Handwriting: Evan Moor Daily Handwriting Practice: Contemporary Cursive

Lit.: Combo of MBtP lit. units, Lit. Pockets, and How to Report on Books

Spelling: modified AAH and/or possibly Phonetic Zoo - I think we'll start with AAH and see how it goes

Foreign Language: Song School Latin (though I may not be able to purchase this right away)

Math: McRuffy Color Math

History: History Odyssey

Science: Noeo Chemistry modified/expanded and hopefully some nature journaling

Art: community art classes

Music: Music Ace Deluxe/keyboard

Geography: 50 states notebooking and cooking

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This is what I know for sure (I think :glare:)...

 

Math: Singapore 3a & 3b.

History: SOTW 2

LA/Writing: Looking into WWE 2 or 3..?

 

We will just read books for science and she reads voraciously anyway, so that should cover the rest.

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Our plan:

 

Math -- Saxon 3 (will likely finish Oct/Nov) and move onto Saxon 5/4

Reading -- practice with chapter books of his choosing

History -- SOTW 3 + Activity Guide

Science -- R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey Earth & Space

Grammar -- FLL

Writing -- journal entries, narration pages for history

Spelling -- AAS

Literature -- various read-alouds

Geography -- finish up Visualize World Geography and move onto the states

Art -- Drawing with Children

Music -- piano lessons

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I'm still musing and praying about next year, but here's where I am for now for dd8YO:

 

History: Sea to Shining Sea for US History with some tie in from world history and D'Aulairies books, "If you lived during the .... times", and other literature, with lots of activities ... hoping for trip to New England to tie into our learning!

 

Science: NOEO Physics and other interests: rocketry and eyes (including dissecting a cow eye - she's really excited about that!)

 

Geography: Beautiful Feet Geography through Literature (Holling C Hollings books)

 

Singapore Math 3A/B

 

Spelling Power

 

English from the Roots Up

 

Prima Latina

 

Cursive Handwriting w/o Tears

 

Poetry from Harp and Laurel Wreath (esp. Rosemery and Stephen Benet poems about early Americans)

 

Grammar: Language of God (level C?)

 

IEW theme book: Fables, Fairy Tales and Myths

 

One additional language TBD (she has a list of 12 she wants to learn!)

 

Artistic Pursuits

 

Continuing to learn Latvian, our family's historical language

 

Piano, Ballet, Irish dancing, soccer and other sports as they come up

 

co-op for enrichment-type classes

 

Cheers!

Dzinmarc

HSing 8YO dd, 6YO dd, 4 YO dd,

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Here's our 3rd grade schedule this year (we've started already)

Math- Math Mammoth 3

Grammar- R&S3

Writing- WWE3

Cursive- copywork

Science- Elemental Earth Science and Astronomy (doing astronomy now)

History- SOTW 2 (finish this then go onto 3) working in Amer. History probably using the Complete Book as a spine.. not sure yet

Spelling- AAS Level 3/4

Reading- history related literature

Bible-most likely using a 4 year program I found online

Music- violin

Art- ARTistic Pursuits

Latin- Prima Latina

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Here's what I have for dd8 who will combine several subjects with dd10:

 

Math - CLE 400

Grammar - R&S 3

Writing - IEW Ancients based history writing

Spelling - SWO D

Reading - CLE 400 & Biblioplan recommendations

Bible - VP Genesis to Joshua

History/Geography - MOH Ancients w/ Biblioplan

Science - The Elements and REAL Science Odyssey Chemistry

French - MP First Start French

Latin - LfC A

Poetry - IEW poetry memorization

Typing - continue Dance Mat

Music - choir & piano

Art - ???

Phys. Ed. - soccer, tennis, swimming, skiing

 

That's all I can think of!

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