3rd Grade Plans

Alright, we've covered Miss Green's 5th grade plans, so now we'll move on to Mr. Blue. I've noticed he's lacking in the language arts department, so we're trying to beef that up a little bit, starting this week.

Language: First Language Lessons, grade 3 and Writing With Ease workbook 2

Spelling: Spectrum Spelling 3 (I prefer Spelling Workout, but he requested this one)

Math: Singapore 3A and B - He's done Math U See Alpha, Beta, and Gamma, but we went back a little in Singapore. He spent last year doing 2A and B and hasn't had any trouble at all yet with progressing. I don't think there's been a concept he's had a hard time with, so I don't know if we're moving to slow or what. I need to re-evaluate this. I considering ALEKS, but I haven't made any decisions yet.

Handwriting: He's on Portland Italics C, but we may ease off a little, since WWE has copywork and dictation.

History: Story of the World 3 with the others, along with the age appropriate recommendations from the Activity Guide. I found out there's a really big Revolutionary reenactment near us in May, so I'm hoping to get that far in history around that time. I need to sit down and make out a schedule that gets us there when it will do us the most good.

Science: Apologia Astronomy and the lapbook from Knowledge Box to go with it. Although, Jeannie Fulbright and Apologia are coming out with a notebook soon that is looking rather intriguing. She says in her blog they'll be available this spring, but I don't see them yet.

Music is Themes to Remember and library books. I'm hoping to have a chance to go through and correlate composers to time periods in history. Then we can have a better understanding of the world the composers lived in.

Art: This is the same as Miss Green. We go to lessons once a week. I'm also going to try to match up artists to time periods and study them as we go through history. Rembrandt and 17th Century Holland was recommended this past week by the Story of the World activity book, and Mr. Blue really enjoyed having a "peg" to hang Rembrandt on in his mind.

Latin will be finishing up Latina Christiana.

Classical Studies: D'Aulaire's Greek Myths and Study Guide by Memoria Press.
He's actually really enjoying this, well maybe not the study guide so much. We found the book on cd and he loves listening in the car. Up until now, we've just done the study guide orally, but I think I'll have him write the answers on the review questions himself. We found a book series that's helping to solidify the characters in his mind, its Myth-O-Mania. A friend of mine recommended the Percy Jackson series today. We got the first book on cd today from the library and are excited to listen to it!

So, that's where we're going in blue this year. I'm really excited with the way things are going so far and am looking forward to the rest of the year.