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How we use these lesson plans:
Our school week is usually completed in 4 days. We use a Loop Schedule where we work for a designated amount of time on each subject before moving on to the next. After their work is completed for the day the kids are allowed to have independent studies were they can study whatever their little hearts desired.
Our 5th day is an optional day that we use to complete unfinished work or for other activities as we choose.
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Click on the links below for the series you would like to view/use. I will update these links as we get them finished.
Tip: If you want to go to a certain week/chapter or topic simply push the ‘ctrl’ and the ‘F’ button down together and a small bar will pop up. Type in the week number or chapter number you want and it will take you to it.
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- Group Activity
- Older Kids:
- Younger Kids:
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- Pick a Topic:
- VIRUSES VS. BACTERIA
- HOW DO OUR EYES WORK?
- Extra:
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- Memory Verse: Romans 8:31-39
- Verse 31: What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
- Character Training
- Manners: Hospitality
- Let’s start reading about hospitality. Choose one of the books below to read from:
- A Life That Says Welcome p. 11-20
- Practicing Hospitality p. 19-46
- Fun Activities:
- Watch how this train turns around
- Watch a scene from the book
- Watch The Polar Express.
- Bonus Skills:
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- Health & Safety:
- WHAT IS SCARLET FEVER?
- WHY DO WE GET VACCINES?
- HANDWASHING
- Go to Kids Health and find a related topic to learn more about. Play a game with permission.
- Games/Outdoor Play:
- Bonus:
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- Group Activity
- Older Kids:
- Younger Kids:
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- State Study: North Dakota
- Railroad History
- Famous People:
- Begin reading a book about Fanny Crosby. Report Due: Week 5.
- Bonus:
- Destruction of the Buffalo Herds
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- Pick a Topic:
- WHAT DOES A LAND SURVEYOR DO?
- HOW DO STEAM LOCOMOTIVES WORK?
- WHAT DOES A PRAIRIE LOOK LIKE?
- BUFFALO
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- Memory Verse: Romans 8:31-39
- Verse 32: He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
- Character Training
- Manners: Hospitality
- A Life That Says Welcome p. 185-198
- Practicing Hospitality p. 159-194
- Fun Activities:
- VIRTUAL TOUR OF A RAILROAD MUSEUM
- WATCH A SURVEYOR AT WORK
- Bonus Skills:
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- Health & Safety:
- WHAT IS OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM?
- HOW CAN WE BOOST OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM?
- Go to Kids Health and find a related topic to learn more about. Play a game with permission.
- Games/Outdoor Play:
- Bonus:
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- Group Activity
- Older Kids:
- Younger Kids:
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- State Study: New Mexico
- Railroad History
- Famous People:
- Bonus:
- Transcontinental Railroad
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- Pick a Topic:
- COMPARE AND CONTRAST RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
- Make a Venn Diagram showing the differences and similarities.
- WHAT IS COAL?
- Learn more about fossil fuels and play a game HERE.
- WHY DO ANIMALS MIGRATE?
- SWANS
- Learn more about swans HERE.
- Learn more about waterfowl HERE or HERE.
- Choose a breed of waterfowl from HERE to write a report on or get some notebooking pages to work on.
- Extra:
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- Memory Verse: Romans 8:31-39
- Verse 33:Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
- Character Training
- Cooperation
- What makes a good leader? Click HERE to learn about some important leadership qualities.
- Why is cooperation so important? Click HERE to learn more about cooperation.
- Work on Let’s cooperate.
- Manners: Hospitality
- A Life That Says Welcome p. 159-194
- Practicing Hospitality p. 199-228
- Fun Activities:
- WATCH A DUMP TRUCK IN ACTION
- Bonus Skills:
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- Health & Safety:
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CONSTRUCTION SITE SAFETY
- GUN SAFETY
- Go to Kids Health and find a related topic to learn more about. Play a game with permission.
- Games/Outdoor Play:
- Bonus:
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- Group Activity
- Older Kids:
- Younger Kids:
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- State Study: Maine
- Railroad History
- Famous People:
- Bonus: Surveyor’s House
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- Pick a Topic:
- WHY DO WE HAVE SEASONS?
- WHAT DOES A WINTER ON THE PRAIRIE LOOK LIKE?
- HOW DO ANIMALS STAY WARM IN THE WINTER?
- JACK RABBITS
- Learn more about Jack Rabbits HERE.
- BUFFALO WOLVES
- Learn more about Wolves HERE.
- Temperature:
- Extra:
- Ways People in the 1800s Stayed Warm
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- Memory Verse: Romans 8:31-39
- Verse 34: Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
- Character Training
- Manners: Hospitality
- A Life That Says Welcome p. 41-62
- Practicing Hospitality p. 73-100
- Fun Activities:
- The importance of a Pantry
- Play Checkers
- Bonus Skills:
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- Health & Safety:
- WHAT IS TUBERCULOSIS?
- HOW DO YOU GET TESTED FOR TB?
- Go to Kids Health and find a related topic to learn more about. Play a game with permission.
- Games/Outdoor Play:
- Bonus:
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- Group Activity
- Older Kids:
- Younger Kids:
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- State Study: Oklahoma.
- Railroad History
- Famous People:
- Fanny Crosby: REPORT DUE!
- Bonus: John Henry
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- Pick a Topic:
- WHAT IS FROST?
- HOW DOES SOURDOUGH WORK?
- Temperature
- Extra:
- WHAT IS THE SCIENCE BEHIND BAKING?
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- Memory Verse: Romans 8:31-39
- Verse 35: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
- Character Training
- Manners: Hospitality
- A Life That Says Welcome p. 128-152
- Practicing Hospitality p. 131-158
- Fun Activities:
- Bonus Skills:
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- Health & Safety:
- WINTER WEATHER SAFETY
- FALL PREVENTION
- Go to Kids Health and find a related topic to learn more about. Play a game with permission.
- Games/Outdoor Play:
- Bonus:
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- Group Activity
- Older Kids:
- Younger Kids:
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- Pick a Topic:
- WHAT ARE SEEDS?
- HOW DO SEEDS GROW?
- SPRING
- Temperature
- Extra:
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- Memory Verse: Romans 8:31-39
- Verse 36: As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
- Character Training
- Manners: Hospitality
- A Life That Says Welcome p. 128-153
- Practicing Hospitality p. 47-72
- Fun Activities:
- Bonus Skills:
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- Health & Safety:
- STRANGER DANGER
- INTERNET SAFETY
- Go to Kids Health and find a related topic to learn more about. Play a game with permission.
- Games/Outdoor Play:
- Bonus:
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- Group Activity
- Older Kids:
- Younger Kids:
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- State Study: Montana
- Development of the Plains
- Famous People:
- Bonus:
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- Pick a Topic:
- WHAT DOES AN ARCHITECT DO?
- COMPARE AND CONTRAST CITY SOUNDS VS COUNTRY SOUNDS:
- Make a Venn Diagram showing the differences and similarities.
- Temperature:
- HOTTEST DAYS IN U.S. HISTORY
- COLDEST DAYS IN U.S. HISTORY
- Extra:
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- Memory Verse: Romans 8:31-39
- Verse 37: Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
- Character Training
- Manners: Hospitality
- A Life That Says Welcome p. 223-242
- Practicing Hospitality p. 229-235
- Fun Activities:
- Bonus Skills:
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- Health & Safety:
- COPING WITH A MOVE
- MOVING HEAVY OBJECTS
- Go to Kids Health and find a related topic to learn more about. Play a game with permission.
- Games/Outdoor Play:
- Bonus:
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- Group Activity
- Older Kids:
- Younger Kids:
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- State Study: Ohio
- Development of the Plains
- TIMBER CULTURE ACT OF 1873
- Famous People:
- Bonus:
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- Pick a Topic:
- COMPARE AND CONTRAST WELL-DIGGING METHODS
- Make a Venn Diagram showing the differences and similarities.
- WHY ARE TREES SO IMPORTANT?
- WHAT IS A WINDBREAK?
- COTTONWOOD TREES
- WHAT ARE SHADOWS?
- Extra:
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- Memory Verse: Romans 8:31-39
- Verse 38: For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
- Character Training
- Manners: Hospitality
- A Life That Says Welcome p. 63-126
- Practicing Hospitality p. 101-130
- Fun Activities:
- WATCH A WELL-DIGGER IN ACTION
- Bonus Skills:
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- Health & Safety:
- SAFE DRINKING WATER
- WHAT TO DO IF YOU GET LOST.
- Go to Kids Health and find a related topic to learn more about. Play a game with permission.
- Games/Outdoor Play:
- Bonus:
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- Group Activity
- Older Kids:
- Younger Kids:
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- State Study:
- Review the states we learned about and choose a state to research more.
- Write a report about your favorite state or add some new facts to your previous report.
- Development of the Plains
- Famous People:
- Report Due: Louis Braille!
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- Go back and review previous topics you may have skipped or want to learn more about.
- What is the most dangerous animal?
- Weather Watcher
- Tests
- Choose one of these:
- And Choose one of these:
- Extra:
- Learn how to make shadow puppets
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- Memory Verse: Romans 8:31-39
- Verse 39: Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Work on saying everything you have memorized.
- Character Training
- Manners: Hospitality
- Finish up any reading you have left to do.
- Fun Activities:
- Learn how to host a party
- Bonus Skills:
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- Health & Safety:
- CLEANING PRODUCT SAFETY
- GET RID OF THE CHEMICALS WITH NORWEX!
- Go to Kids Health and find a related topic to learn more about. Play a game with permission.
- Games/Outdoor Play:
- Alley Cat
- Play your favorite game for at least 30 minutes.
- Go outside and play for 30 minutes.
- Bonus:
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After the decorating was done it was time to kick the kids out of the house until Christmas as I needed a gift wrapping station. We had all helped to bring in a lot of the boxes I had in the shed… there may still be a gift or two hidden in there somewhere!
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