As promised here is what I’ve come up with for my soon to be 4th grader. I’ll also post the other kids stuff after I’ve made it a little more coherent for others.
Math
Ray’s Intellectual Arithmetic (I’m in the process of reformatting this book and making an answer key for it. I’ll post them when completed.)
Grammar/Writing
Cursive Handwriting
http://www.homeeducationresources.com/FREEhandwriting.htm
Donna Young
http://donnayoung.org/penmanship/cursive-handwriting.htm
Words of the Gospel copybook (on computer)
Scott Foresman
http://www.sfreading.com/resources/ghbgrd4.html
Reading/literature
James and the Giant Peach literature study (on computer) (4.8)
Rabbit Hill literature study (on computer) (6.4)
Where the Red Fern Grows (on computer) (4.9)
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/where_the_red_fern_grows.pdf
Junior Classics (on bookshelf) volume 1
Best in children’s books (3 books with these stories: the wonderful tar-baby and other brer rabbit stories, pioneer cities of America, big red bus, ted and nina have a happy rainy day, injun summer, the connemara donkey, calico pie, obedient jack, how to send secret messages, crossing the rubicon, let’s go to Arabia, america’s glorious past, the star spangled banner, pet of the met the tinder box, noah’s ark, Pocahontas, the fisherman and his wife, mrs. Piggle-wiggle’s won’t pick up toys cure, the fairies
Charlotte’s Web (4.4)
http://www.shakespearefest.org/Charlotte's%20Web%20Study%20Guide.htm
http://school.familyeducation.com/literature/childrens-book/34670.html
http://www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/units/charlottes_web.htm
Old Yeller (5.0)
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/yeller/old_yeller.htm
The Sign of the Beaver (4.9)
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/sign_of_the_beaver.php
Pippi Longstocking (5.2)
http://teachers.net/gazette/APR03/images/PippiLongstocking.pdf
http://www.easyfunschool.com/article2064.html
The Cricket in Times Square (4.9)
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading24/cricket_in_times_square.htm
Moby Dick (5.3)
The Swiss Family Robinson (5.5)
The Jungle Book (4.9)
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen (4.9)
The Trumpet of the Swan (4.9)
George Washington’s Breakfast by Jean Fritz (4.1)
http://gardenofpraise.com/lesson15.htm
Sarah Plain and Tall (3.4)
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading3/sarah.htm
Spelling
McGuffey’s Eclectic Spelling book
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15456
Online activities that go with book
http://www.aaaspell.com/grade4.htm
Vocabulary
http://syndicate.com/ and http://aaaspell.com/vocabulary4.htm
Social Studies/Holidays
An Elementary History of the United States
http://books.google.com/books?id=lXUAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=...#PPA91,M1
I’m making a workbook to go with this textbook that will include some notebooking pages, geography activities, and hands-on things.
Science
Elementary Life Science (I’m making a few adjustments to this to make it a little more meaty for him but it is a really good spine)
We’ll also be reading aloud from these with the other kids: Stories of birds
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20547
Child’s book of water birds
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17365/17365-h/17365-h.htm
The History of Insects
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10834
The Insect Folk
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18790/18790-h/18790-h.htm
I also printed some pages from these “coloring books” to go with our stories: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/schoolyard/T_Resouces/ColoringBook.pdf
http://www.west-ext.com/fun-stuff/colorbook.pdf
and a few things from Enchanted Learning on insects.
Bible/Character Studies
Pondering Proverbs, Studies in Daniel, Daily Nuggets from The Gospel of John, and Them Parables of the Lord from this site.
http://www.bibletalk.net/books/classbooks.html
We’ll do these together.
Art
P.E.
P.E. co-op classes/soccer/swimming
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Blessings,
Dawn