Year 5, Kieron, 2007

Plans for Kieron are mostly Mater Amabilis with a bit of Ambleside.


Religion

• One saint’s biography to be assigned as independent reading each term.
• Bible History

Liturgical Year (twice weekly)

• Lent My Path to Heaven by Geoffrey Bliss
• Easter Our Lady’s Book by Lauren Ford
• Probably some of the Catholic Mosaic books we already have.
  

Ancient History -- 3 times weekly

• The Story of the Romans by Helene Guerber.
• Usborne Encyclopedia of the Ancient World
• Usborne Time Traveller: Rome and Romans

Further reading according to interest

• Augustus Caesar's World by Genevieve Foster
• Lives of Famous Romans by Olivia Coolidge
• Caesar's Gallic Wars by Olivia Coolidge
• City by David Macaulay
• Science in Ancient Rome by Jacqueline L.Harris
• The Orchard Book of Roman Myths
• Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfeld
• Mystery of the Roman Ransom by Henry Winterfeld
• The Pirates of Pompeii by Caroline Lawrence - mystery set in 79AD (also other books in the same series including The Secrets of Vesuvius, The Assassins of Rome and The Thieves of Ostia,
• A Triumph for Flavius by Caroline Dale Snedeker
• The Time Travelling Cat and the Roman Eagle by Julia Jarman

Nature Study (Weekly)

• Take at least one nature walk each week.
• Keep a nature notebook

(He does this with his sister)

Books

• Discovering Nature Indoors
  
• Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
• Ways of the Wood Folk

Geography (twice weekly)

• Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
• Seabird by Holling C.Holling
• The Cay by Theodore Taylor (Caribbean) - fiction \

Some book of Ireland yet to be decided

Science

• Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick
• some book about health and human body

Literature

• The Aeneid for Boys and Girls by Alfred J.Church
• Shakespeare (Weekly) -- with family -- probably MacBeth and Midsummer Night's Dream
• Plutarch: Themistocles
  

Classic Children’s Literature (Ad.Lib.) -- probably won't finish all this list -- I just chose the ones from MA and Ambleside that I thought would be most likely to fit into our theme and to be interesting to him, that he hadn't already read. I'd like him to read one of the "girl" books but won't be too surprised if he gets to only one since he IS eleven after all : ).

• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
• Swallows and Amazons and other books by Arthur Ransome
• The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Railway Children by Edith NesbitA Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte Yonge
• Bambi by Felix Salten
• Little Britches series by Ralph Moody
• The Borrowers by Mary Norton
• Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight
• Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
• The Complete Peterkin Papers by Lucretia Hale
• Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
• Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
• Lad: A Dog (or another book in the Lad series; many are online) by Albert Payson Terhune
• The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit
• The Wouldbegoods by Edith Nesbit
• Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge
• The Story of My Life by Helen Keller