I.  Adam

    A.  History

          1.  Adam and His Kin by Ruth Beechick (already own)

          2.  Story of the World--Vol. 1, by Susan Wise Bauer, just part of this and only maybe (borrow CD's from library)

          3.  Dinosaurs by Design by Duane Gish (own)

          4.  Archaeologists Dig for Clues by Kate Duke (own)

         5.  Egermeier's Story Book Bible (own) and the Bible Genesis 1-5  (I want them to KNOW that the Bible is not a book of stories but a history--a true account--of God's people.)

   B.  Bible

        1.  Genesis 1-5

        2.  Calvary Chapel printouts  (There are 5 sets of lesson sheets for the story of Creation, Adam, and the Fall.  Each free print out includes a coloring page for younger children, word finds and crossword puzzles for middle children, and more difficult word finds and crossword puzzles and questions for older children.   You can choose which worksheet is most appropriate for your child and print those.  Again, free resource!)

        3.Memory Verse--John 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

    C.  Music--find a creation hymn and learn together  (I haven't looked yet, but I'm sure there is something good.)

    D.  Nature Study--Rocks

         Collect and label a variety of rocks.  We have a Magic School Bus book which has an excellent (but simple) chart to help categorize types of rocks.  I think it's called Magic School Bus:  Inside the Earth, but I have to find it.  It's not with the other Magic School Bus books.

    E.  Art

        Create a mosaic with rocks, pebbles, stones, or shells.

    F.  Copy Work--John 1:1, poem, other literature we are reading.  Also, rec'd this tidbit in email, so we will be using it for copy work:  "I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting system through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in." ~ George Washington Carver.  And the verse from Romans 1:20.

    G.  Poetry--Find creation poem, hopefully by Robert Frost or Robert Louis Stevenson, poets I wanted to concentrate on.

    H.  Literature--The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis.  We have this on CD, so we will listen to it together and they will narrate back to me.

Then we will do math and science as discussed in the previous post.

Obviously, this is a bare bones outline and I still have some work to do for this first unit.  But it's getting there.  We actually started on this unit yesterday.  I don't plan ahead on which book we will read which day, or how much of that book we will read.  I just kind of go with the flow.  We listened to 6 chapters in the Narnia book yesterday, then stopped, not because they asked to, but because we hit a point where we were having to pause too often for someone to get a drink or run to the bathroom.  (We had already been working about 2 1/2 hours by then, including other readings, so it was time to stop.)

I also want to look for appropriate videos, but haven't gotten that far yet.

We will have 3 periods of work:  10-12 noon, 1-3 p.m., and 8-9 p.m.  (Again, this is approximate.)  The evening time we already use for family prayers and worship and will just add some related reading, a hymn, practice the memory verse.  If we find that we are going later than 9 p.m., we will just begin a little earlier.  We may need to add an hour in the morning for the 3 R's, but we'll see how this works next week.  I don't know, looks like this may take us months to complete and I was hoping to finish in a few weeks.

We are all really excited to get started.

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