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I love my mini. It is SO much more than I expected it to be. And it came just before my life got more complicated. I carry it around with me everywhere. I honestly don't know what I'd be doing right now if I hadn't gotten it before things got wonky.

 

And you know how people say they cannot cuddle with a screen. I cuddle with this more than I ever did any book other than a leather bound BIble, back when I was a Christian. I adore the white borders for ebook reading, and I adore the white chiclet keyboard. It reminds me of that gum I ate as a kid.

 

What I'm doing right now is displaying the pdfs that list the books on one device, and then searching through the books on another device to see what I have. I'd love a list, but now that I know there isn't one, I'll just keep doing what I'm doing.

 

In the past I had this idea in my head that I needed to pick just one perfect device and have just one. I'm realizing the benefit of two devices. I sometimes have the answer key, table of contents, glossary or TM open on one device, and the student pages on another.

 

I've also learned other ways to teach better from a screen. Things I learned while using the older What Your Grader Needs to KNow series coupled with Waldorf methods.

 

Both my phone and my iPad are getting a real workout. And I'm really liking the iPad Scanner Mini app!

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Look at Amblesideonline.com. We use their Literature schedule and biography/tales schedule. Their History and Science is a little too antiquated for me, but we are loving the rest.

 

~Bets

Yes, I'm really poking around the AO website and forum. The geography is interesting.

 

Ambleside Online/House of Education Geography

http://www.amblesideonline.org/geographysch.shtml

 

Even with just a couple of topics in a term, over the course of six years, many topics can be taught. In "Home Education," (volume 1 of her Series, pg 72-78) Charlotte Mason talks about teaching these kinds of things during outdoor time. If you would like a book to help explain these concepts, topics are lined up with corresponding chapters from both Home Geography for Primary Grades by Long, and/or Elementary Geography by Charlotte Mason, both of which are online and be accessed for free.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qsqdwav9mbe725l/ElementaryGeographyCM.pdf

 

http://books.google.com/books?id=EUkAAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

 

Year 1

Term 1: The world is round. Left, right, front (before), back (behind) are positions; know which is which and realize they are dependent on perspective.

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: Our World Part I

Long's Home Geography 1. Position

Term 2: Fixed direction (north, south, east, west). The sun shows direction: East is where the sun rises, west is where it sets. Stars (North or Pole Star, constellations) show direction and help mariners find their way. The length and direction of shadows can help us tell time as well as direction.

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Long's Home Geography 2. How the Sun Shows Direction

Long's Home Geography 3. How the Stars Show Direction

Term 3: The round world can be divided into two spheres. The line dividing it across the middle is the equator; its parallel lines are latitude. The line where the earth meets the sky is called the horizon.

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: Our World Part II

 

Year 2

Term 1: A compass can show direction when sun and stars are not visible. Magnetic needle always points north. Points on the compass (N, S, E, W and also halfway in between: NE), how sailors use a compass.

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Long's Home Geography 4. How the Compass Shows Direction

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: The Points of the Compass

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: The Mariner's Compass

Term 2: Planets rotate around the sun. Earth rotates around the sun in 365 days, making a year. The earth's turning makes day and night.

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: Our World and Other Worlds Part I

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: Our World and Other Worlds Part II

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: Day and Night

Term 3: The poles; earth's spinning on its tilted axis makes the four seasons

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: Poles and Axis

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: The Four Seasons Part I

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: The Four Seasons Part II

2 minute explanation on YouTube; also look for Bill Nye The Science Guy episode: "Seasons" (23 minutes)

 

Year 3

Term 1: Measuring distance: inch, foot yard; mile. A country's proximity to the equator or poles determines its climate. Parallel lines from pole to pole are longitude.

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: Hot Countries and Cold Countries Part I

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: Hot Countries and Cold Countries Part II

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: Parallel Lines

Term 2: The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: Sunrise and Sunset

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: Why the Sun Rises and Sets

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: Mid-day Lines

Term 3: A map (plan) is a picture of a room, town, country or earth and should show where N is; how maps are made; maps of towns, regions, countries, the world.

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Long's Home Geography 7. How to Tell Distance

Long's Home Geography 8. Pictures and Plans

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: The Plan of a Room

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: The Plan of a Town

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: Map of a County

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: How Maps are Made

 

Year 4

Term 1: Earth's surface is mostly water; highlands (cooler), lowlands (warmer), mountains (foot, slope, summit) and valleys

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: The Surface of the Earth Part I

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: The Surface of the Earth Part II

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: Highlands and Lowlands

Long's Home Geography 11. Plains

Long's Home Geography 12. Hills, Mountains, Valleys

Term 2: The water cycle: clouds, rain, rivers, ocean, evaporation (vapor); dew, snow

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Long's Home Geography 13. Rain, Wind, and Snow

Long's Home Geography 14. How Water is Changed to vapor

Long's Home Geography 15. How Vapor is Changed to Water

Long's Home Geography 16. Dew, Clouds and rain

Long's Home Geography 18. How Rivers are Made

Long's Home Geography 19. More About Rivers

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: Rivers

Term 3: Rivers and waterways; rivers start at a mountain spring and flow to the sea; a river's source, mouth, bed, two banks, tributary (branch), rapids, cataract, waterfall. Oceans and their parts, why rivers wind, work of rivers (fertile after flooding, pebbles, gravel, sand)

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Long's Home Geography 21. Work of Flowing Rivers

Long's Home Geography 22. Waterdrop's Story

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: Countries

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: The Waters of the Earth Part I

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: The Waters of the Earth Part II

Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography: The Oceans and Their Parts

 

Year 5

Term 1: Land forms such as continent, island (archipelago), mountain, hill, isthmus (neck), mainland, peninsula, cape, plain, prairie, shore, forest, field, plain, tundra, desert, oasis. Bodies of water such as brook, creek (stream), river, pond, lake (inlet, outlet), sea, ocean, cove, bay, gulf, strait

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Long's Home Geography 24. A Map

Long's Home Geography 25. Forms of Land and Water

Long's Home Geography 26. More About Forms of Land and Water

Long's Home Geography 27. A Trip to the Highlands

Term 2: Food crops (vegetables, grains fruit) and other useful plants

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Long's Home Geography 29. Useful Vegetables

Long's Home Geography 30. Useful Grains

Long's Home Geography 31. Fruits

Long's Home Geography 32. Useful Plants

Term 3: Trees, flowers; what plants need to grow.

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Long's Home Geography 33. Forest Trees

Long's Home Geography 34. Flowers

Long's Home Geography 35. What is Necessary to Make Plants Grow

 

Year 6

Term 1: Animal features (feet, teeth, covering) and their purposes; how we use animals (meat, milk, fur, silk, horns, hooves, labor, pets)

 

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Long's Home Geography 37. The Parts of Animals

Long's Home Geography 38. The Covering of Animals

Long's Home Geography 39. Uses of Animals

Term 2: Things mined from the earth: minerals and metals such as coal, iron, gold, silver, lead, tin, copper, mercury, salt. Quarried stones: granite, sandstone; limestone (chalk), marble, slate and their uses. Where brick and glass come from; mortar.

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Long's Home Geography 41. Things Found in the Earth

Long's Home Geography 42. More About Things Found in the Earth

Term 3: People around the world live in different dwellings, eat, work, learn and play. Terms: agriculture (farming), stock-raising, mining, lumbering, fishing. Town people: manufacturing, trade/commerce, transportation and other occupations.

These topics are covered in these chapters:

Long's Home Geography 43. How People Live, and What They Are Doing

Long's Home Geography 44. More About What People Are Doing

Long's Home Geography 45. A Review Lesson

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I put together a list by grade level for my school library using the YC set. The books marked * come from the Gateway to the Classics set but are all available for free at Project Gutenberg if you don't care about the pretty matching covers :) As you can see, there are a few thin areas if you are looking for a 'full' curriculum, but you could actually put together a pretty decent program with this set, even if all you used it for was free reading selections :)

 

Kindergarten


Literature

  • Reading-Literature: The Primer by Harriette Tradwell

  • Mother Goose by Frederick Richardson

Read-Aloud

  • Kindergarten Gems by Agnes Ketchum

  • Mother Stories by Maud Lindsay

  • More Mother Stories by Maud Lindsay

Nature: Spine (Choose 1)

  • Books by Arabella Buckley

  • Books by Thornton Burgess

  • Books by Clara Dillingham Pierson

Nature: Supplement

  • The Book of Nature Myths by Florence Holbrook

  • Parables from Nature by Mrs. Alfred Gatty

  • Stories Mother Nature Told to Her Children by Jane Andrews

Grade 1


Literature

  • Reading-Literature: The First Reader by Harriette Treadwell

  • Stories from Plato and Other Classic Writers by Mary E. Burt

  • *Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

  • *The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

  • The Twins Series by Lucy Fitch Perkins

Read-Aloud

  • A Child’s Own Book of Verse Vol 1 by Ada M. Skinner

  • For the Children’s Hour by Carolyn S. Bailey

  • In Story-Land by Elizabeth Harrison

Folk & Fairy Tales: Spine (Choose 1)

  • A Child’s Book of Stories by Penrhyn W. Coussens

  • The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

  • The Fairy Ring by Kate Douglas Wiggin

  • The Book of Fables & Folk Stories by Horace E. Scudder

Folk & Fairy Tales: Supplement

  • West-African Folk Tales by W.H. Barker

  • The Red Indian Fairy Book by Frances J. Olcott

Grade 2


Literature

  • Reading-Literature: The Second Reader by Harriette Treadwell

  • *Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  • Rollo at Work by Jacob Abbott

  • Rollo at Play by Jacob Abbot

  • Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

  • *The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

  • Granny’s Wonderful Chair by Frances Brown

Read-Aloud

  • A Child’s Own Book of Verse Vol 2 by Ada M. Skinner

  • Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

  • The Tortoise  & the Geese and Other Fables by Maude Barrows

Junior History: Spine

  • Fifty Famous Stories by James Baldwin

  • Thirty More Famous Stories by James Baldwin

Junior History: Supplement

  • Fifty Famous People by James Baldwin

Grade 3


Literature

  • *Peter Pan & Wendy by J.M. Barrie

  • *Heidi by Johanna Spyri

  • Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin

  • Stories of Don Quixote Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin

  • Stories of Robin Hood Told to the Children by H.E. Marshall

  • Stories of Roland Told to the Children by H.E. Marshall

  • Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children by H.E. Marshall

  • The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin

Read-Aloud

  • A Child’s Own Book of Verse Vol 3 by Ada M. Skinner

  • In the Days of Giants by Abbie Farwell Brown

Americana: Spine (Choose 1)

  • Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston

  • Boys & Girls of Colonial Days by Carolyn Sherwin

Americana: Supplement

  • American History Stories Vol 1 by Mara L. Pratt

  • American History Stories Vol 2 by Mara L. Pratt

  • American History Stories Vol 3 by Mara L. Pratt

  • American History Stories Vol 4 by Mara L. Pratt

Grade 4


Literature

  • Reading-Literature: The Third Reader by Harriette Treadwell

  • *The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning

  • The Wonder Clock by Howard Pyle

  • The King of Ireland’s Son by Padraic Colum

  • Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb

  • *The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

  • The Iliad for Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church

  • The Odyssey for Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church

  • Stories of Siegfried Told to the Children by Mary MacGregor

Read-Aloud

  • A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ancient Greece: Spine (Choose 1)

  • Story of Greece by Mary MacGregor

  • Story of the Greeks by H.A. Guerber

  • Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Greece by James Baikie

  • Streams of History: Ancient Greece by Ellwood Kemp

Ancient Greece: Supplement

  • The Children’s Plutarch: Tales of the Greeks by F.J. Gould

  • Famous Men of Greece by John Haaran

  • Our Little Athenian Cousin of Long Ago by Julia Darrow Cowles

  • Favourite Greek Myths by Lillian S. Hyde

  • Three Greek Children by Alfred J. Church

Grade 5


Literature

  • *The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

  • *Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

  • *Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • *The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • The Aeneid for Boys & Girls by Alfred J. Church

  • The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

Read-Aloud

  • Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt

  • More Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt

  • Indian Fables by P.V. Raju

Ancient Rome: Spine

  • Story of Rome by Mary MacGregor

  • The Story of the Romans by H.A. Guerber

  • Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Rome by James Baikie

  • Streams of History: Ancient Rome by Ellwood Kemp

Ancient Rome: Supplement

  • The Children’s Plutarch: Tales of the Romans by F.J. Gould

  • Famous Men of Rome by John Haaran

  • Our Little Roman Cousin of Long Ago by Julia Darrow Cowles

  • Stories from the History of Rome by Emily Beesly

Grade 6


Literature

  • In My Youth by James Baldwin

  • *Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge

  • *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

  • Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle

  • The Story of Siegfried by James Baldwin

  • *The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit

  • The Story of Rolf and the Viking’s Bow by Allen French

Read-Aloud

  • Viking Tales by Jennie Hall

Junior Science: Spine

  • The Fairy-Land of Science by Arabella Bucklet

  • The Story-Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre

  • The Secret of Everyday Things by Jean Henri Fabre

  • The Wonder Book of Chemistry by Jean Henry Fabre

Junior Science: Supplement

  • Great Inventors and their Inventions by Frank P. Bachman

Grade 7


Literature

  • English Literature for Boys & Girls by H.E. Marshall

  • *Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • The Sampo by James Baldwin

  • The Burning of Rome by Alfred J. Church

  • *Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Read-Aloud

  • Stories from Livy by Alfred J. Church

World History: Spine (Pick 1)

  • Story of the World Series by M.B. Synge

  • Streams of History Series by Ellwood Kemp

  • The Country Stories by H.E. Marshall

Theme: Supplement

  • Makers of History Series by Jacob Abbott

  • Days of Kings and Queens Series by Eva March Tappan

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FYI, I also put together a comparison of the Heritage History Young Readers Collection with the YC collection because I was considering getting the program guide for HH---if I had to choose, I think the best value is YC plus the HH guide because you can follow the HH program almost exactly with the YC set and get a whack of extra books too. Here are the books the HH site lists as part of the young readers collection; as you can see, most of them are in the YC set as well; a handful are not int he YC set but there is a comparable substitute which is, and a very tiny few are not in the YC set and have no obvious substitute.

 

 

Book Title/Author/In YC?/Substitution If Needed 

  • Jataka Tales Ellen C. Babbitt X  
  • More Jataka Tales Ellen C. Babbitt X  
  • Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children James Baldwin X  
  • Fifty Famous Stories Retold James Baldwin X  
  • Fifty Famous People James Baldwin X  
  • Stories of Don Quixote James Baldwin X  
  • Thirty More Famous Stories Retold James Baldwin X  
  • Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts Abbie F. Brown NO Our Island Saints
  • Stories from the Old Testament Told to the Children Louey Chisholm NO Hurlburt's Stories
  • Our Little Athenian Cousin of Long Ago Julia D. Cowles X  
  • Our Little Roman Cousin of Long Ago Julia D. Cowles X  
  • Our Little Saxon Cousin of Long Ago Julia D. Cowles NO ??? 
  • Our Little Spartan Cousin of Long Ago Julia D. Cowles X  
  • Stories from French History Lena Dalkeith NO Rolf & The Viking
  • Stories from Roman History Lena Dalkeith NO Stories from Livy
  • Stories of American Life and Adventure Edward Eggleston NO American History Stories
  • Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans Edward Eggleston X  
  • Story of Sir Francis Drake Mrs. O. Elton X ???
  • America First Lawton Evans X  
  • Heroes of Israel Lawton Evans NO Story of the Chosen People
  • Old Time Tales Lawton Evans NO ???
  • Viking Tales Jennie Hall X  
  • Story of Abraham Lincoln M. A. Hamilton NO Four Great Americans
  • Men Who Found America F. W. Hutchinson NO Four Great Americans
  • Story of Columbus G. M. Imlach X  
  • God's Troubadour: The Story of St. Francis of Assisi Sophie Jewett X  
  • Our Little Viking Cousin of Long Ago C. H. Johnston NO Viking Tales
  • Story of Sir Walter Raleigh M. D. Kelly X  
  • Stories from the Life of Christ Told to the Children Janet Kelman NO Hurlburt's Stories
  • Story of Joan of Arc Andrew Lang NO ???
  • Story of Robert Bruce Jeanie Lang NO Scotland's Story
  • Stories from the Iliad Told to the Children Jeanie Lang NO Iliad for Boys & Girls
  • Stories from the Odyssey Told to the Children Jeanie Lang NO Odyssey for Boys & Girls
  • Story of Lord Clive John Lang NO ???
  • Story of Captain Cook John Lang NO ???
  • Robinson Crusoe Told to the Children John Lang NO Robinson Crusoe Written Anew
  • Stories of Gulliver's Travels Told to the Children John Lang NO ???
  • Page—Esquire—Knight Marion Lansing X  
  • Stories from Greek History Ethelwyn Lemon NO Old Greek Stories
  • Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children Mary Macgregor NO King Arthur & His Knights
  • Saint Christopher and Saint Cuthbert Mary Macgregor NO In God's Garden
  • Stories from Pilgrim's Progress Told to the Children Mary Macgregor NO The Pilgrim's Progress
  • Stories of Siegfried Told to the Children Mary Macgregor X  
  • Stories of the Vikings Mary Macgregor NO Viking Tales
  • Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children H. E. Marshall X  
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Told to the Children H. E. Marshall NO ???
  • Stories of Guy of Warwick Told to the Children H. E. Marshall NO ???
  • Story of Napoleon H. E. Marshall X  
  • Stories of Robin Hood Told to the Children H. E. Marshall X  
  • Stories of Roland Told to the Children H. E. Marshall X  
  • Stories of William Tell Told to the Children H. E. Marshall NO Heroes Every Child Should Know
  • Peter of New Amsterdam James Otis X  
  • Ruth of Boston James Otis NO ???
  • Seth of Colorado James Otis NO ???
  • Richard of Jamestown James Otis X  
  • Hannah of Kentucky James Otis NO ???
  • Stephen of Philadelphia James Otis NO ???
  • Belgian Twins Lucy F. Perkins NO (but it's on Project Gutenberg)
  • Dutch Twins Lucy F. Perkins X  
  • Eskimo Twins Lucy F. Perkins X  
  • French Twins Lucy F. Perkins NO  (but it's on Project Gutenberg)
  • Japanese Twins Lucy F. Perkins X  
  • Mexican Twins Lucy F. Perkins NO (but it's on Project Gutenberg)
  • Puritan Twins Lucy F. Perkins NO (but it's on Project Gutenberg)
  • Scotch Twins Lucy F. Perkins NO (but it's on Project Gutenberg)
  • Spartan Twins Lucy F. Perkins NO (but it's on Project Gutenberg)
  • Swiss Twins Lucy F. Perkins NO (but it's on Project Gutenberg)
  • American History Stories—Volume I Mara L. Pratt X  
  • American History Stories—Volume II Mara L. Pratt X  
  • American History Stories—Volume III. Mara L. Pratt X  
  • American History Stories—Volume IV Mara L. Pratt X  
  • Stories of the Pilgrims M. B. Pumphrey X  
  • Book of Legends Horace Scudder X  
  • Story of Nelson Edmund F. Sellar NO ???
  • Stories from English History Hilda Skae NO Our Island Story
  • Stories from the Arabian Nights Amy Steedman NO A Child's Book of Stories
  • In God's Garden Amy Steedman X  
  • Nursery Book of Bible Stories Amy Steedman X  
  • Our Little Celtic Cousin of Long Ago Evaleen Stein X  
  • Our Little Crusader Cousin of Long Ago Evaleen Stein X  
  • Our Little Norman Cousin of Long Ago Evaleen Stein X  
  • Our Little Carthaginian Cousin of Long Ago C. V. Winlow X  
  • Aesop for Children Milo Winter NO A Child's Book of Stories

I have not seen the HH program guide yet but I heard that it recommends users of the Young Readers collection not worry about chronology etc. and just focus their reading on picking from amongst five groups:

  • American History
  • European History
  • Ancient History
  • Bible Stories
  • Legends & Folklore

Hope this helps!

 

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