Year 4, Term 3: Abigail's Schedule

I started Abby on Year 4 from Ambleside Online last school year, she would have been in 3rd grade. My rationale was that we had been using a classical education model, which is advanced in it's own right, so this Charlotte Mason stuff would be a breeze to her. Ha, ha, ha, there is no fluff in the Ambleside curriculum, it's all great quality literature that is nourishing for their minds. Rather than put her a year back after working our way through the first term we decided to take 2 school years to complete Year 4, slow and (somewhat) steady has made all the difference in the world. Her comprehension, narrations (written & oral), and reading skills have improved immensely in this time. It was definitely the right decision for her. So with that said, here is her curriculum overview & schedule for the current term:

Daily Lessons
Copywork: Classically Cursive Shorter Catechism Book III
Math: Singapore & Archimedes and the Door of Science
Foreign Language: The Easy French level 1
Latin: Latina Christiana 1

Weekly Lessons
Art Appreciation: Eugene Delacroix
Art: Drawing with Children
Grammar: English for the Thoughtful Child 2
Book of Centuries: timeline corresponding to current history readings
Handicrafts: The American Girls Book of Handicrafts
Music Appreciation: Frederic Chopin (composer); Barbara Allen, Cherry
Ripe, I'm Seventeen Come Sunday (Folksongs); Amazing Grace, O For a
Thousand Tongues, How Firm a Foundation (Hymns)
Nature Study: nothing planned, just as we observe we use the Handbook
of Nature Study or field guides.
One Life from Plutarch: Solon (from The Young Folks Plutarch)
Shakespeare: Hamlet

Bible: Alternate readings from NT & OT, reading through Biblical Holidays,
& studying Matthew

History: This Country of Ours (George III, 1765-1782)
George Washington's World

History Tales and/or Biography: Trial and Triumph;
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution

Geography: Elementary Geography & A Child's Geography of the World

Natural History: Madame How and Lady Why

Science: Physics Lab in the Home; Exploring Creation with Astronomy

Poetry: William Wordsworth

Literature: The Age of Fable by Bullfinch, Kidnapped by Stevenson, The Incredible Journey by Burnford, short works: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Irving, Paul Revere's Ride by Longfellow, Rip Van Winkle by Irving

Free Reading: (since we started term 3 a few weeks ago she has finished a few of her term 3 free reading books but I am going to list them anyway to give an idea of what she reads in a term)
The Railway Children by Nesbit, A Book of Golden Deeds by Yonge, Bambi by Salten (finished), Man of the Family by Moody (family read-aloud), Gentle Ben by Morey (finished), Thimble Summer by Enright, Return to Gone Away Lake by Enright (almost finished), By the Shores of Silver Lake by Wilder, The Complete Peterkin Papers by Hale, Johnny Tremain by Forbes, Amos Fortune, Free Man by Yates (she reads this aloud to me), The Reb & the Redcoats by Savery (just 2 or 3 ch left)

So, for instance, last Monday looked like:
Bible: Genesis 15:1-18, Biblical Holidays-Understanding the Hebrew Calendar,
Matthew study Matt 9:9-17 (Distinctions of Disciples)
Plutarch: One page of Solon
Copywork: Cursive, 2 to 3 lines
Latin: Latina Christiana I: Work on Lesson 5, "First Declension"
French: La Francais Facile, Level I: Lesson 1 listen to story & vocabulary
Geography: A Child's Geography of the World: Rd & narrate ch. 3, "The Inside of the World"
Grammar: English for the Thoughtful Child: Read Independently lesson 28, "Synonyms"
History: This Country of Ours: Rd. & narrate ch. 53, "The First Thrust"
George Washington's World: Rd & narrate, "Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI"
Free Reading: Amos Fortune, Free man: Rd Ch. 4, "Woburn 1740-1779"
The Reb and the Redcoats: Rd. ch. 8
Literature: Kidnapped: Rd and narrate ch. 23, "Cluny's Cage"
Math: Singapore Math: Ex. 15 & 16
Archimedes and the Door of Science: rd & narrate ch 1, "Who was Archimedes?"
Music Appreciation: Frederic Chopin, Son of Poland, Early Years: Rd & narrate ch. 2 & listen to music
Folksong & Hymns: listen
Poetry: William Wordsworth: "How Sweet It Is, When Mother Fancy Rocks"
Science: Exploring Creation with Astronomy: lesson 4, "Venus"

That pretty much sums it up. Her day can take 3 to 4 hours, depending on how much free reading she does but she is very independent and does just about all of her readings herself with one or two written narrations a day, one or two picture narrations, and the rest oral. I usually read one of her readings to her each day, she prefers for me to read Madame How and Lady Why, she said it makes more sense when I read it to her so that is how we do it, not too mention, I enjoy that book. I try to read ahead of her so I know what to look for in narrations in her other books, especially history but it doesn't always work out. For science, the girls do that together and I have them read it aloud to me, while I'm making meals or walking the treadmill. That way I know what is going on when it's time for projects and activities.