Grade: Third
Duration: Child-dependent
This course integrates text and audio recordings of McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader to provide a time-tested reading curriculum with no additional textbook costs. McGuffey Readers were used in American schools for over a century. This course provides lesson guides along with a printable pdf containing vocabulary, copywork, narration, and dictation.
Grade: Third
Duration: Child-dependent
As taught by teachers of bygone eras and recommended by 'The Eclectic Manual of Methods,' this course interweaves related theory and problem sets from 'Ray's New Intellectual Arithmetic,' 'Ray's Practical Arithmetic,' and 'Ray's New Test Exam.' This course expands upon the study of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division and introduces notation, reduction, and compound numbers. This course also provides a workbook of text exercises and an answer key. Using a 10x10 abacus to demonstrate mathematical operations may be helpful, although it is not required.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Children study select movements of art in chronological order from Romanesque to Post-Impressionism. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 works.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
This course updates and expands 'First Lessons in World Geography' by James Monteith. Through interactive mapwork, children study the continents, the oceans, the countries, the landforms, and the cities of our world. This course provides a printable pdf providing written mapwork to accompany the lessons. In addition, children study the geography, people, and culture of central Africa of yesteryear with 'The Boy Travelers.'
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fourth grade American history covers early American settlements, relations and wars with the American Indians, colonial life, the French wars, government in colonial times, the rise of the American Revolution, and the establishment of the new nation. The text pays liberal attention to the domestic and social life of the people of the times, their dress, their food, their modes of thought and feeling, and their ways of making a livelihood. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 lessons.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fourth grade music features works of the opera and ballet that combine storytelling and music. Featured works include 'Hansel and Gretel,' 'The Nutcracker,' 'Swan Lake,' and 'The Magic Flute.' Lesson guides with directions, synopses, and enrichment activities accompany all 36 musical lessons. All of the music is included on the website. Just click a button and enjoy!
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fourth grade prose sends children on a treasure hunt with bloodthirsty pirates, explores a famous tale of greed, ghosts, and redemption, delights with tales of knights, dragons, and magicians, and introduces stories from Greek and Roman mythology. This course provides lesson guides with synopses, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fourth grade poetry overviews nine literary devices: 1) Rhyming, 2) Alliteration, 3) Similes, 4) Metaphors, 5) Personification, 6) Foreshadowing, 7) Allusion, 8) Hyperbole, and 9) Onomatopoeia. This course incorporates poetry, vocabulary, mapwork, discussion, copywork, narration, dictation, and artwork. Featured poets include Christina Rossetti, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, and Emily Dickinson.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Third year drawing builds upon the prior lessons of the previous two years. Students draw geometric shapes, real models of objects, graded and emphasized lines, figures engaged in actions, and landscapes in color. Students also continue to practice two-handed drills, drawing loops, triangles, whorls, blades, and trumpets. Materials required to complete the lessons include pencils, crayons, drawing paper or a notebook, and a ruler.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Plant Nature Study II focuses on the ultimate of plants - the majestic tree. Children study the appearance, needs, and habitats of trees, including how trees grow, where trees grow, and types and characters of trees. Children venture outdoors on nature walks and create a field journal. Please note that the lessons primarily feature trees of the eastern United States, so some adaptation may be required for those living in other areas.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fourth grade continues the introduction to the immortal bard using child-friendly retellings of eight of Shakespeare's works including 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Othello,' 'Macbeth,' and 'King Lear.' Children create character maps, set the scene, construct simple costumes, order major plot events, and recite lines. This course also incorporates Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer's Night Dream' in its original form, accompanied by an audio recording and a line-by-line translation. This course provides lesson guides with synopses, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and/or enrichment activities for all lessons.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
In fourth grade world history, students study global history from the medieval period to the industrial age. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 lessons.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: Child-dependent
This course integrates text and audio recordings of McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader to provide a time-tested reading curriculum with no additional textbook costs. McGuffey Readers were used in American schools for over a century. This course provides lesson guides along with a printable pdf containing vocabulary, copywork, narration, and dictation.
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