Sunday, July 21, 2013

Foreign Language ala Charlotte Mason Help

I'm working on my foreign language plans, and liked the suggestions on Charlotte Mason Help. However, they aren't all in one place for all the grade levels, so I thought I'd put them here.

Year 1:
(Choose a foreign language)
Illustrated children's tales
Audio -listen and read along
Copywork
Learn objects and simple every day phrases

Year 2:
Illustrated children's tales with audio cassettes or CDs
Transcribe sentences from tales.
Children translate small passages into English orally

Year 3: 
Listen to audio children’s tales with picture books
Children orally narrate from tales in English and foreign language
Copywork once a week from same story

Year 4:
Study target language’s grammar
Read from short books in target language and translate.
Copy and narrate favorite passages.

Year 5:
Transcribe favorite passages and narrate from children's literature in written and oral form alternating between English and target language.
Continue copywork

Year 6:
Continue learning the grammar
Begin translating literature passages into English in written form.

Friday, January 25, 2013

Ambleside Year 4 (tweaked)

This year we tried a different structure to our year, so some things are really not AOish, but sort of CM friendly.

History
Maestro: The New Americans: Colonial Times 1620-1689
Maestro: Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars 1689-1763
Maestro: Liberty or Death: The American Revolution 1763-1783
Maestro: A New Nation: The United States 1783-1815
Sanders: America's Black Founders: Revolutionary Heroes & Early Leaders with 21 Activities
Anderson: Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution
Hennessey: The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation
Bauer: Story of the World vol. 3 (only the 1600-1800 sections)

California History
O'Dell: Cruise of the Arctic Star
O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Steck-Vaughn: Never Turn Back: Father Serra's Mission
Abbink: Missions of the Monterey Bay Area
White: Missions of the San Francisco Bay Area
(the two missions books were chosen because I found a report on a Native American website that those books tend to more accurately reflect the Native experience)

Biography
Fleming: Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life
Bober: Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution

Science
Dixon: The Practical Geologist
Earth Science cards from Creek's Edge
Nebel's Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding K-2 & 3-5
Comstock: Handbook of Nature Study (if I can figure out how to fit nature study in)

Geography
Ada: Where the Flame Trees Bloom
Sherlock: West Indian Folk-Tales
Taylor: The Cay

Shakespeare
Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Love's Labors Lost

Plutarch
Pericles, Fabius, & Nicias

Literature
Stevenson: Kidnapped
Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Burnford: The Incredible Journey
Bullfinch: Age of Fable (first 15 chapters)
Irving: "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Longfellow: "Paul Revere's Ride"

Poetry
Tennyson, Dickinson, Wordsworth

French
Alex et Zoe levels 2 & 3

Japanese
beginning class at the Japanese Language School in San Jose

Artist Study
Renoir (ok, we mostly missed him), Hokusai, Seurat
Place: The Old Man Mad About Drawing (about Hokusai)

Art
Artistic Pursuits grades 4-6 vol. 1

Composer Study
Debussy, Bach, Verdi

Practical Life: Computer Science
Bueno: Loren Ipsum
Programming practice in Scratch (we may use learnscratch.org)
(we may also add in Alice at some point)

Math
Mathematics Enhancement Programme Year 4
Kumon books about the 4 operations

English
First Language Lessons vol. 4
Writing with Style vol. 1
Thompson: Sentence Town
Henry: Words