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

Ambleside Year 3 (tweaked)

Here is what we're up to this year:

History

Bauer: Story of the World vol. 2 & 3

California Songs with Historical Narration

Cohn: From Sea to Shining Sea

Biography

Hahn: Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci for Kids

Shakespeare for Kids

Geography

Komroff: Marco Polo

Marco Polo for Kids

Literature

Kingsley: Heroes (this is what we started with but bluntly it's dull, so we've switched to Evslin)

Evslin: Heroes and Monsters of Greek Myths

Evslin: Jason and the Argonauts

Stoutenberg: American Tall Tales (this is entirely about men, so we added San Souci)

San Souci: Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale

Lamb: Tales From Shakespere

Nesbit: Princess and the Goblin

Marrat: Children of the New Forest

Science

Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything (A Really Short History of Nearly Everything might work better for most kids)

Sweeney: Connected Wisdom

Kelly: Evolution of Calpernia Tate (living fiction)

George: Summer Moon, Autumn Moon, Winter Moon, & Summer Moon

Long: Secrets of the Woods

Ambleside Years 1&2 merged

This is our booklist for this year. We're generally using Ambleside Online for our curriculum, but like so many families we've tweaked it to fit our needs. The first need was to combine Years 1 and 2. Sweetie was ready for the heavier Year 2 material, but there were some books that I didn't want us to miss.

There is a chance that I'll tweak this again later in the year, especially around the history material.

History
Story of the World volume 2
An Island Story
The History of US

Biography
The Little Duke by Charlotte Younge
Viking Tales
Leif the Lucky

Geography
Paddle to the Sea
Seabird

World Religions
Ramayana: Divine Loophole by Sanjay Patel (Hinduism)
selections from the Ramayana - William Buck version (Hinduism)
Ayat Jamilah (Islam)
Popol Vuh (Mayan)

Nature Study
Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Comstock
Burgess Bird Book
Burgess Seashore Book
Pagoo

Literature
Understood Betsy
Just So Stories
Wind in the Willows
Aesop's Fables
Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight
Robin Hood
Tales from Shakespere

Poetry
Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
World of Christopher Robin by A.A. Milne
Walter de la Mere

Our Faith Tradition
readings from the Lectionary
Winter Saints by Melissa Musick Nussbaum