Andrea - Year 1 with Ambleside Online

Phew! Finally, I managed to finish the lesson plan for Year 1. So, this is how I plan to use the Ambleside Online Curriculum combine with our local subjects:

Course of Study

Bible:
• New King James Bible, CEV (really want to get the NLT version, though)
• Mother Stories from the Old Testament
• Mother Stories from the New Testament

Recitation:
• Scripture, Poetry

Reading/Phonics/Spelling
• Word Mastery (Florence Akin)
• McGuffey’s First Reader (William Holmes McGuffey)

Penmanship:
• Copy work

Languages:
• Bahasa Kita Bahasa Indonesia 1 (Departemen Pendidikan Nasional)
• Chinese (online course at Livemocha.com)

Math:
• CIMT-MEP Primary Year 2

World History:
• Trial and Triumph (Richard Hannula)
• Our Island Story Ch 1-21 (H.E. Marshall)
• Fifty Famous Stories Retold (James Baldwin)
• Viking Tales Part 1, Ch 1-11(Jennie Hall)

Indonesian Social Studies:
• Ilmu Pengetahuan Sosial Untuk SD Kelas 1 (Dep. Pendidikan Nasional)

Citizenship:
• Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Untuk SD Kelas 1 (Dep. Pendidikan Nasional)

Geography:
• Geography Book – Book 1 (Charlotte Mason)
• The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air (Jane Andrews)
• First Lessons In Geography (James Monteith)

Natural History/Science:
• Handbook of Nature Study (Anna Botsford Comstock)
• The Burgess Bird Book for Children Ch 1-36 (Thornton Burgess)

Poetry:
• A Child's Garden of Verses (Robert Louis Stevenson)
• Poems Every Child Should Know (Various Poets)

Literature:
• The Aesop for Children (Milo Winter)
• Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare (Edith Nesbit)
• Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling)
• Parables from Nature (Margaret Gatty)

Fine Art:
Composers:
Ludwig von Beethoven (1810)
• Piano Sonata 8 (Pathetique) Opus 13
• Piano Sonata 14 (Moonlight) Op 27
• Symphony No. 3 (Erocia-meaning 'heroic') Opus 55
• String Quartets opus 59, no.1-3 (Razumovsky Quartets)
• Piano Concerto 5 (Emporer) Op 73
• Symphony No. 9 (the one with Ode to Joy at the end) Opus 125

Antonio Vivaldi (1730)
• Gloria (choral work)
• The Four Seasons
• Trio Sonata in C major, RV.82
• Plus 3 concerti - Maybe one for violin, one for guitar and one for a woodwind instrument such as oboe or bassoon.

Frederic Chopin (1840)
• Op 09 no 2 Nocturne in E flat maj
• Op 10 no 3 Etude in E-maj
• Op 10 no 12 Revolutionary Etude in C minor
• Op 21 Piano Concerto number 2 in f minor
• Op 28 Preludes no's 15, 20 and either 16 or 17
• Op 53 Polonaise in A flat, Heroic

Artists:
Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) Italian Renaissance
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1498, woodcut
• Self-Portrait in a Fur Coat, 1500, lime panel, Pinakothek, Munich
• A Young Hare, 1502. Watercolour and gouache on paper. Vienna, Austria
• Altarpiece of the Rose Garlands, 1506, oil on panel, Národní Galerie, Prague
• Praying Hands, 1508, brush and ink, Vienna
• The Knight, Death, and The Devil, 1513-14, engraving

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Italian Baroque
• Rest During the Flight into Egypt, c.1595, Rome
• The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1598-1599. Oil on canvas. Princeton, NJ
• The Calling of St. Matthew, 1599-1600 San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome
• The Conversion on the Way to Damascus, 1600-1601 Rome
• Supper in Emmaus, 1606. Oil on canvas, Milan
• The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1608-1609. Oil on canvas. Messina, Italy

Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) Romantic
• The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople, 1840, oil on canvas, Paris
• Portrait of Frederic Chopin, 1838, oil on canvas, Paris
• Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard, 1839. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris
• The Sultan of Morocco and his Entourage, 1845, oil on canvas, Toulouse
• Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable, 1860, oil on canvas, Paris
• The Lion Hunt, 1861. Oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago

Nature Study:
Term 1: Wildflowers
Term 2: Birds
Term 3: Mammals

Additional Books For Free Reading:
• The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)
• Minnie’s Playroom (Francis Forrester, Esq.)
• Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
• King of the Golden River (John Ruskin)
• Elsie Dinsmore’s series
• Beatrix Potter’s series
• Little Prudy (Sophie May)
• Nelly’s First Schooldays (Josephine Franklin)
• Little Susy's Six Birthdays (Mrs. Elizabeth Prentiss)

Now, all I have to do is to break it down into weekly schedules. It's quite overwhelming the first time I downloaded the schedule from the AO site. I was afraid that I won't be able to carry out the excellent education Charlotte Mason was talking about, but now I'm confident that I can do it. I'm so excited I can't hardly wait to start school. LOL!