Homeschool Curriculum – Grade 5 and Preschool

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5th grade Homeschool Curriculum

• Michael Clay Thompson – Town Level
• Writing with Ease
• Paragraph Writing Made Easy
• All About Spelling 1&2, Spelling Power
• English from the Roots Up, Vol. 1
• Reading Detective A1
• Singapore math and supplementing with Math Mammoth
• Life of fred: Fractions
• Elemental Chemistry + lapbooks
• The Story of the World Volume 3: Early Modern Times
• L’art de lire 3
• Mark Kistler’s drawing lessons

We’ll be using Singapore math, MCT, and EFTRU for the first time this year. We’re coming from Saxon math and an assortment of LA. I hope everything will flow better in LA since it’s from one company. I’m looking forward to getting started and breaking open the new shiny books.

Read Aloud Books

• Alice in Wonderland: C. Lewis
• Alice Through the Looking Glass: C. Lewis
• Indian in the Cupboard: Lynne Reid Banks
• The Return of the Indian: Lynne Reid Banks
• From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: E.L. Konigsburg
• The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: D. Defoe
• The Nutcracker: Hoffman
• The Invention of Hugo Cabaret
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Short Stories

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
• Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

Reading List

• The Cricket in Times Square: G. Selden
• Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang: Ian Fleming
• The Courage of Sarah Noble: A. Dalgliesh
• The Mystery of the Cupboard: Lynne Reid Banks
• The Secret of the Indian: Lynne Reid Banks
• The Key to the Indian: Lynne Reid Banks
• George’s Marvelous Medicine: Roald Dahl
• The Sign of the Beaver: Elizabeth George Speare
• The Incredible Journey: Sheila Burnford
• The Matchlock Gun: W.D. Edmonds
• The Twenty-one balloons: W. Pène Du Bois
• Book of Pirates: Howard Pyle
• Call of the Wild: J. London
• Misty of Chincoteague: M. Henry
• A Lion to Guard Us: C.R. Bulla
• White Fang: J. London

Poetry

• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• ** Emily Dickinson
• *** William Wordsworth

Preschool

• Starfall.com
• booklets from 1+1+1=1
• Letter of the week
• Lots of reading