Notes on what we need for year 4 of Ambleside Online!

Notes for Ambleside online grade 4

History Tales and/or Biography

Term 1 Poor Richard by James Daugherty - Benjamin Franklin

Term 2 and 3 Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober

Geography
Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling (LIBRARY)
Ten minutes of map drills each week [geo]
Locate places from the day's reading on a map
In addition, these geography concepts should be explained and taught this year: [Geo]
   Term 1: Earth's surface is mostly water; highlands (cooler), lowlands (warmer), mountains (foot, slope, summit) and valleys
   Term 2: The water cycle: clouds, rain, rivers, ocean, evaporation (vapor); dew, snow
   Term 3: Rivers and waterways; rivers start at a mountain spring and flow to the sea; a river's source, mouth, bed, two banks, tributary (branch), rapids, cataract, waterfall. Oceans and their parts, why rivers wind, work of rivers (fertile after flooding, pebbles, gravel, sand)

Foreign Language

Latin
(LIBRARY) and many online resorces

Poetry


The books all seem to .99 on kindle, though I'd like to have them in print

Literature

The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch (LIBRARY)
* ** The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (HAVE IT)
** *** Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson  (LIBRARY)
*** The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford (LIBRARY)
*** The following short works (K):
      The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (LIBRARY)
      Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (LIBRARY)
      Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving (LIBRARY)

Comments

  1. Por que estudia Latin?

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  2. This is grandpa Dave, anonymous Dave!

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  3. I wanted to teach some basic Latin but have no clue where to start, we will no doubt be back to in eventually because it's a good base for so many things. However for the time being we've moved on to spanish.

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