Posted on September 3, 2009 - by Kay

Year 1: Week 1

(August 31 – September 4, 2009)

Our school week will see the heavier loads on Tuesdays and Thursdays, as those are the days that ds is at Mother’s Day Out so that dd and I have less interruptions. Each activity is designed to take only 10-15 minutes at the most as this is one of the defining characteristics of a Charlotte Mason approach to education.

*Please feel free to leave your comments or questions below. I always love learning from other people!*

• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday

Planning Day

School Day

• To Start: Pledge/Calendar/Weather
• Bible: “A New Beginning” (Noah’s Ark), The Jesus Storybook Bible, pgs 38-47
• Memory Work: “Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.” Phillipians 4:8 (NLT)
• Phonics: Review Long and Short Vowels, Phonics Grade 1 Workbook, pgs 17-19
• History:
  • “The Sword of Damocles”, Fifty Famous Stories Retold
  • Introduce Book of Centuries and add this story to the timeline.
• Copywork: Start writing all ABCs, upper and lower case, in journal to get a baseline of handwriting for this school year.
• Poetry: “Bed in Summer”, A Child’s Garden of Verses



• Math: Addition using a number line, Disney Addition and Subtraction Workbook, pg 9
• Literature: “The Wolf and the Kid”, Aesop’s Fables (Dover Edition), pg 22-23 (also here online)
• Poetry: “A Thought”, “At the Seaside”, A Child’s Garden of Verses (read during Tea Time after picking up ds from Mother’s Day Out. Click here to read the post where I got this fun idea.)
• Literature – Free Reading: Today is the Birthday of the World, by Linda Heller and Alison Jay
• Geography: Chapter 1, Paddle to the Sea (listen to audio during nap time, then draw a picture narration)

Library Day

School Day

• To Start: Pledge/Calendar/Weather
• Natural History: Record our observations of the Monarch caterpillars we’re rearing. We released our second Monarch butterfly today! So exciting!
• Memory Work: “Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.”Phillipians 4:8 (NLT)
• Copywork: Finish writing all ABCs, upper and lower case, and numbers in journal to get a baseline of handwriting for this school year.



• Literature: “A Lesson of Faith”, Parables from Nature, by Mrs. Alfred Gatty
• Math: Single Digit Addition – drawing marks (x’s) to count, Disney Addition and Subtraction Workbook, pg 10
• Literature: “The Tortoise and the Ducks”, Aesop’s Fables (Milo Winter Edition), pg 8 (also here online)
• Phonics: Matching game – match beginning, middle, and ending sounds on matching cards with drawings of words, from Phonemic Awareness Activities for Early Reading Success, by Wiley Blevins
• World History:
  • “The Stories of Albion and Brutus”, Chapter 1 of Our Island Story
  • Find “Albion” (Britain) on the globe.
• Artist Study: Term 1 for this year we will be studying Raphael Sanzio (1483 – 1520) of the Italian Renaissance period.
  • Add Raphael Sanzio to our Book of Centuries.
  • Read portions of his biography online here.
• Poetry: “Young Night-Thought”, A Child’s Garden of Verses (during Tea Time)

Field Trips/Nature Study