Mater Amabilis Level II, Year I (Grade 4 U.S.) ~ Term 1 (weeks 1-6) Subject Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Opt. History Reading +ANCIENT HISTORY Ancient Greece (N)*Famous Men of Greece (2x weekly) Chapter 1: The Gods of Greece Chapter 2: Deucalion and the Flood Ch. 3: Cadmus & the Dragon's Teeth Ch. 4: Perseus Ch. 5: Hercules and His Labors Ch. 6: Jason and the Golden Fleece Optional Ancient History Reading +GEOGRAPHY/ EARTH STUDIES (2x/wk) American Geography (N)*Paddle to the Sea 1. How came to Be 2. Long River to Sea 3. Paddle Starts on His Journey 4. Brook and Beaver Pond 5. Breakup of the River 6. Paddle Meets Saw- mill 7. Paddle Meets Friend 8. The Largest Lake in the World (Map) 9. Paddle Crosses two Borders (Map) People and Places [Americas] (1 book per term) Where the Flame Trees Bloom alt: Maya Quest Introduction alt: Northern Lowlands 1- The Teacher alt: Northern Lowlands 2- Choices alt: Northern Lowlands 3- The Surveyor alt: Northern Lowlands Lightning alt: Southern Lowlands 5- Samone alt: Southern Lowlands Mapwork +SCIENCE (2x weekly) Ancient Greece (N)Science in Ancient Greece Chapter 1: The Story of Ancient Greece Chapter 2: Greek Ideas About Earth pp.12-16 Chapter 3: Greek Ideas About Earth pp.16-21 Chapter 3: Bringing Ideas Together Solar System by Seymour Simon (32 pages) Spread over term Spread over term Activities Home Science Adventures: Light Through the Looking Glass /Carnival Mirrors Two Mirror Magic Mirror Maze Mysterious Light-Bending box/Now You See It . . . Water Drops and Other Lenses Moving Pictures NATURE STUDY 1) Walk 2) Nature Journal FOREIGN LANGUAGE MUSIC APPRECIATION Handel Handel Handel Handel Handel Handel PICTURE STUDY Gothic and Renaissance Giotto di Bondone Giotto di Bondone Giotto di Bondone Giotto di Bondone Giotto di Bondone Giotto di Bondone ART (twice weekly) MUSIC Instrumental (daily) Singing 2 new songs & hymns a term PRACTICAL WORK 11 23 33
Subject Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 +ANCIENT HISTORY Ancient Greece (N)*Famous Men of Greece(twice weekly) 7. Theseus 8. Agamemnon 9. Achilles 10. The Adventures of Ulysses (2 weeks) 10. The Adventures of Ulysses (2 weeks) 11.Lycurgus (825 B.C.) Optional Ancient History +GEOGRAPHY AND EARTH STUDIES American Geography (N)*Paddle to the 10.Life in a N. Marsh 11.Paddle Finds one end of Lk Superior 12. A Fish Story, mapping 13. Adrift Again 14. The Shipwreck 15. Dry Dock, mapping 16. By Dog Sled to the Soo, 17.Non-stop Down Lake Michigan 18. Paddle Returns to the North, mapping People and Places [Americas] (1 book per term) Where the Flame Trees Bloom alt: Maya Quest 6-The Legend alt: Southern Lowlands 7- Canelo alt: Southern Lowlands 8-The Rag Dolls 9-Mathematics alt: Highlands pp.102-109 10-The Man alt: Highlands pp.110-117 11- The Feast of San Juan alt: Highlands pp.118-125 Epilogue alt: Highlands pp.126-131 Mapwork +SCIENCE (2x weekly) Solar System by Seymour Simon (32 pages) selection weekly Activities Home Science Adventures: Light Fire from the Sun Catch a Rainbow Rainbow Glasses/ Bubble Colors Invisible Colors Polarized Light / Polarization Experiment Eerie Glow of NATURE STUDY 1) Walk 2) Nature Journal FOREIGN LANGUAGE MUSIC APPRECIATION Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven PICTURE STUDY Gothic and Renaissance St. Fra Angelico St. Fra Angelico St. Fra Angelico St. Fra Angelico St. Fra Angelico St. Fra Angelico ART (twice weekly) MUSIC Instrumental (daily) Singing 2 new songs & hymns a term PRACTICAL WORK Mater Amabilis Level 2, Year 1 (Grade 4 U.S.) ~ Term 1 (weeks 7-12) Supplemental Reading
1) Walk 2) Nature Journal FOREIGN LANGUAGE MUSIC APPRECIATION Wagner Wagner Wagner Wagner Wagner Wagner PICTURE STUDY Gothic and Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci ART (twice weekly) MUSIC Instrumental (daily) Singing 2 new songs & hymns a term PRACTICAL WORK Mater Amabilis Level 2, Year 1 (Grade 4 U.S.) ~ Term 2 (weeks 19-24) Subject Week 19 Week 20 Week 21 Week 22 Week Week 24 +RELIGIOUS ED. Bible (N)*First Christians 7. The Council of Jerusalem to p.91 “Moses” 7. 91 “Not all” to 93 “sin” p. 93 “The things..” to end of ch. 7 8. The Second Great Journey Begins to 101 “begun to write.” “Philipi was” to 104 “chains came undone” Catechism (N)*Faith and Life 4, Jesus Our Guide 16. An Invitation to Heaven 17. Road Signs along the Way 18. Loving Others 19. Growing in Love 20. Jesus, Our Guide 21. “For This I Have Come into ..World” Saints (N)*57 Stories of Saints St. Patrick St. Brigid St. Benedict St. Columban St. Kevin St. Margaret of Scotland Saint Biography Liturgical Year +MATH (daily) +ENGLISH Grammar/English *Intermediate Language Lessons (ILL) (3 x weekly) L. 77-78, 80 {possessive, animal convers., composit.} L. 81-84 {can and may, composition, picture, tense} L.85-89 {sing/ plural, composition, poetry, dictation) L. 90-93 {Exclam- ations, autobiography story, comp.} L. 94-97 {conversation, comparing words, comp.} L. 98-100 {Picture study, poetry, review} Reading (daily) Copywork (daily) Composition / Written
Optional Ancient History Reading +GEOGRAPHY AND EARTH STUDIES American Geography (N)*Seabird (2x/wk) Chapters 19, 20 21, mapping 22, 23 24, mapping 25, 26 27, review and finish mapping People and Places [Americas] (1 book per term) Chucaro 9. The Red Kerchief and 10. Something is Brewing Again 11. The Vaquero Never Had a Chance 12. An Urgent Message 13. The Patron 14. Bolas and 15. The Match 16. Itchy Hooves and To Iguazu +SCIENCE (2x weekly) Ancient Greece Reading (N)*Archimedes and the Door of Science Ch. 9 Archimedes and Numbers Ch. 10 Archimedes and the Centres of Gravity Ch. 11 The Sphere and the Cylinder Ch. 12 The War Machines of Archimedes Ch. 13 The End of Archimedes Ch. 14 No End to Archimedes Activities Simple Machines: Starting With Science Egg drop (inclined plane) p.18 Penny lift (inclined plane) p.20 Screwy water (screw) p.22 Twirling toy (screw) p.24 Funny face (wedge) p.26 Mystery machine (complex mach. – wedge and wheel & axle) p.28 NATURE STUDY 1) Walk 2) Nature Journal FOREIGN LANGUAGE MUSIC APPRECIATION Vivaldi/ Corelli Vivaldi/ Corelli Vivaldi/ Corelli Vivaldi/ Corelli Vivaldi/ Corelli Vivaldi/ Corelli PICTURE STUDY Gothic and Renaissance ART (twice weekly) Raphael Raphael Raphael Raphael Raphael Raphael MUSIC Instrumental (daily) Singing 2 new songs & hymns a term PRACTICAL WORK Mater Amabilis Level 2, Year 1 (Grade 4 U.S.) ~ Term 3 (weeks 31-36) Supplemental Reading Classic Children’s Literature (Free Reads): Choose at least one per term The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls Swallows and Amazons and other books by Arthur Ransome The Midnight Folk by John Masefield The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien ack Beauty by Anna Sewell Heidi by Johanna Spyri The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson