Years 1-4 Discussion & Discovery Studies plan

The terms Discussion (humanities) and Discovery (science & creative arts) studies are borrowed from Educating the Whole-hearted Child by Clay and Sally Clarkson.


World History
~ 1 chapter per week
Story of the World+ activity book
Library books on weekly topics

American History
~ 1 per quarter
d-Aulaire Titles- aproximately 1 per quarter
Benjamin Franklin
Pocahontas
Leif the Lucky
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Buffalo Bill
Columbus
The Star- Spangled Banner

Childhood of Famous American series as readers

Poetry
1 per day + 1-2 per quarter for memory work
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Now We Are Six/When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne
Random House Book of Poetry for Children

Geography
1-2 Chapters per week
Holling C. Holling books
Paddle-to-the-Sea
Seabird
Minn of the Mississippi
Pagoo
Tree in the Trail
Geography from A to Z by Jack Knowlton
+ Map study with SOTW activity books.

Natural History/Science
1-2 Chapters per week
Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock
James Herriot's Treasury for Children by James Herriot
The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess
The Burgess Seashore Book for Children By Thornton Burgess
Among the ….. People by Clara Dillingham
The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Burgess
The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children by Jane Andrews
Parables from Nature by Margaret S. Gatty
Weekly Nature Study
Various books from Usborne/ DK
Various science kits

Literature
1-2 chapters per week
The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter
The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
d'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
d'Aulaires Book of Norse Myths
Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemay Sutcliff
The Orhard Book of Roman Myths by Geraldine McCaughrean
In Search of the Homeland by Penelope Lively and Ian Andrew
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

pacing and selection to be determined by child's interest
The Boxcar Children Gertrude Chandler Warner
Little House on the Prairie series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
The Random House Book of Fairy Tales by Amy Ehrlich
The Velveteen Rabbit by Marjery Williams
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
Paul Bunyan by Steven Kellogg
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims by Clyde Robert Bulla
Story of Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting
Stuart Little by E.B.
WhiteTrumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
King Arthur by Roger Lancelyn Green
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow by Allen French
The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois
Redwall by Brian Jacques
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame