Planning Year 6 (Form II)

And now we are getting to Louisa and all the wonderful books in store for her. When I look at the curriculum lists for my girls, I am kind of in awe of all the learning they get to do! What a privilege to learn with real, living books and ENJOY learning all the while!

So, here are the plans for Year 6 - this is all thanks to Ambleside Online, with a few tweaks here and there specific to Louisa.

Bible

We will continue our New Testament and Old Testament readings 4 days a week, and then Big Truths for Young Hearts by Bruce Ware (Theology) on Fridays.

Devotional

Girl's Guide to Making Great Choices by Elizabeth George
Beautiful Girlhood by Karen Andreola

History (finishing up Modern History and then starting Ancient History)

Story of the World, vol. 4 by Susan Wise Bauer
The Story of Mankind (selected chapters) by Henrik van Loon
Augustus Caesar's World by Genevieve Foster
The Story of the Greeks by H. A. Guerber
The Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber

Biographies

Never Give In (Winston Churchill) by Stephen Mansfield
Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula

Geography

The Story of David Livingstone by Vautier Golding
A Child's Geography of the World by V.M. Hillyer

Nature Lore

Song of the Cardinal by Gene Stratton Porter
Fabre's Book of Insects by Jean Henri Fabre

Science

The Mystery of the Periodic Table by B. Wiker and Jeanne Bendick
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
It Couldn't Just Happen by Lawrence Richards
The Elements: A Visual Exploration... by Thomas Gray

Science Biographies

Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity by Robert Cwiklik
Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick
Galileo and the Magic Numbers by Sidney Rosen

Literature

The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Iliad (unabridged) by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles
The Odyssey (unabridged) by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles
{Louisa is reading the Rosemary Sutcliffe versions of the Iliad & Odyssey over the summer and really wanted to challenge herself with the original Iliad & Odyssey, like Kailyn did.}

Math

Teaching Textbooks 7

Health

The Care and Keeping of You, 2 (American Girl book)
Relationships: 11 Lessons to Greater Understanding of Biblical Sexuality by Luke Gilkerson

Grammar

Winston Grammar

Citizenship

We will be reading the lives of Alexander and Demetrius.

Foreign Languages

Louisa will continue learning Spanish with myself and Kailyn, using La Clase Divertida.

Louisa will continue to work through and finish Getting Started with Latin and then will move on to Visual Latin 1.

Poetry

We will be reading George Herbert, Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson each day (one poet per term).

Music

We will be studying Rachmaninoff, Franz Haydn, and Robert Schumann over the year.

We will be learning and singing through one hymn each month of the year and working through our American Folk songs book.

We also need to add in some Spanish songs to compliment our Spanish language study.

Louisa will continue taking piano lessons.

Art

We will be studying Michelangelo, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and John William Waterhouse for our artists this year.

We will also continue working through Drawing Textbook by Bruce McIntyre.

Handicrafts

We plan to meet up once a month with our friends for a new handicraft each half of the year. The first half we will be learning embroidery! I'm excited about this one.



I think that's it, friends... it's a lot but it's going to be a GREAT year! I really enjoyed Year 6 when Kailyn went through it and now I am not quite so scared of it :)

Many, many thanks to all the wonderful ladies from amblesideonline.org for our curriculum list for Year 6!! I am so thankful for their hard work and for their generosity in compiling such a great curriculum for free.

If you want to see all the options for Year 6, this is the link.