Its here! Our Quarter 2 book list!

Please remember that this is not a list of everything I will be reading to my children. This is a curated list of potential (mostly in print living) books to read. Depending on our schedule, time, health, current interests, etc. I look through this list a few weeks ahead of time and decide which books we’ll be reading. I do not read all of these books aloud! I repeat, I DO NOT read ALL of these books aloud. I have to say this because every time I post a book list I always get a handful of comments and several emails from weary, upset Mamas. I am of the opinion that the feast should be a feast and not an all you can eat buffet for us to gorge ourselves on or force feed our children from. Please don’t try to read your five year old every book on this list this quarter. 🙂

Morning Time:

You can see a list of our current morning time schedule here. We are keeping the same framework in the fall but have now added a few books and switched a few things around. We are still using our Morning Time Menus and loving them.  I keep our creed, poetry selections, memory work, Art Study, etc in there and I love having everything tidy and free of juice and jam stains.

Our Daily Collective~
Prayer
Creed
Meditation (Currently its a few verses in Philippians)
Hymn
Indescribable
Catechism
Thinking Tool Box
Laying Down the Rails

New Additions to our Day to Day Selections~
Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Julius Caesar (Plutarch’s Lives)
Hinds Feet in High Places

Everything else remains the same in terms of history spine, Math, nature study, Latin, Picture Book study, kindergarten work, and geography study. You can find all that information in the Cycle 1 Quarter 1 post.

Towards the end of the summer I was wrestling between science curriculums and I ended up choosing neither. I ultimately went with The First Book of Plants and its beautiful simplicity has been a breath of fresh air. We read one small section every day which the boys turn into a small written narration and then we illustrate it.

Here are some additional books, on top of those mentioned in that C1Q1 post, that we will consider including in our study:

Week 7

History
Augustus Caesar’s World by Genevieve Foster
-p.258-264 Hinduism
-p.267-272 Buddha
Buddha by Demi
Amy Charmichael by Janet Benge
Turning the Pot, Tilling the Land by Kancha Ilaiah (A children’s book about the brutal realities of the caste system)

Timeline
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Spear
Beric the Briton by GA Henty
Trial and Triumph by Richard Hanula
—Polycarp
—Balinda
—Constantine
Step Back into Ancient India by Daud Ali
For the Temple by GA Henty

Science
From Egg to Chick by Millicent Selsam (eggs)
Where do Chicks Come From? by Amy Sklanskey (eggs)
Chickens Aren’t The Only Ones by Ruth Heller ((eggs)
Animals Born Alive and Well by Ruth Heller (live birth)
Starfish by Edith Hurd (fragmentation + budding)
Coral Reefs by Gail Gibbons (Fragmentation + Budding)

Geography:
The Library of Alexandria by Kelly Trumble
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Lynn Curlee
Asterix the Gaul (Just for fun!)
The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff
Augustus Caesar’s World by Genevieve Foster
p.137 The Druids (Gaul + Germania)
The Young Carthaginian by GA Henty

Week 8

History
Gandhi: The Young Protestor Who Founded a Nation
Grandfather Gandhi by Arun Gandhi (I have yet to read this one. It is written by his grandson)
Gandhi by Amy Pastan
The Story of Salt by Mark Kurlansky

Timeline
A Castle with Many Rooms by Lorene Lambert
Chp 1– The Long Fall (Visigoths sack Rome)
Trial and Triumph
Chp 6 Monica and Augustine
Peril and Peace by Mindy Withrow
Chp 10 Early Creeds and Councils
Chp 17 Jerome

Science:
The Reason for a Flower by Ruth Heller
A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Aston
From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
Plants that Never Ever Bloom by Ruth Heller
Up in the Garden Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner
How a Seed Grows by Helene Jordan
One Bean by Anne Rockwell (wonderful correlation with Week 1 Science Experiment!)
The Dandelion Seed by Joseph P Anthony
The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
Seeds and More Seeds by Millicent Selsam

Geography:
Joseph Hooker: Botanical Trailblazer (Correlates travels to Himalayas with this week’s Science!)
The Pearl Diver by Julia Johnson

Week 9

History
Augustus Caesar’s World by Genevieve Foster
-p. 246-257 Lao-Tzu & Confucius
The Silk Route: 7,000 years of History
The Emperor’s Silent Army: Terracotta Warrior 
The Year of the Tiger by Allison Lloyd

Timeline
A Castle With Many Rooms by Lorene Lambert
Chp 2 Justinian the Great
Chp 4 The Monastery
Chp 6 Making a Nation (Franks)
Chp 7 The Scroll and the Stone (Muhammed founds Islam)
Chp 8 Charles the Hammer (Battle of Tours)
Chp 10 The Rushing North Wind (Vikings Raid)

Monks and Mystics by Mindy Withrow
Chp 6 Islam
Peril and Peace by Mindy Withrow
Chp 19 Benedict
The Vikings by Elizabeth Janeway
Viking Tales by Jennie Hall
Viking Adventure by Clyde Robert Bulla

Science:
A Tree is a Plant by Clyde Robert Bulla
Plants Stems and Roots by David Schwartz
Roots by Kathleen Kudlinski

Geography:
The Story of Ping by Marjorie Flack
Anno’s China
Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel

Week 10

History & Geography
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shoguns
The Big Wave by Pearl S Buck
Shipwrecked by Rhoda Blumberg
Crow Boy by Taro Yashima

Timeline
A Castle With Many Rooms by Lorene Lambert
Chp 3 The Earliest Explorers (Erik the Red)
Chp 9 Charlemagne
Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula
Chp 11 Alfred the Great
Lief the Lucky by Ingrid D’Aulaire
Monks and Mystics by Mindy Withrow
Chp 5 Charlamagne Crowned by God
Chp 8 Vladimir
Chp 9 A Divided Church (East West Schism)

Science:
Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert
Botanicum by Katie Scott
Why do Leaves Change Color by Betsy Maestro

 

Week 11

History & Geography
A Castle With Many Rooms by Lorene Lambert
Chp 2 Justinian the Great
Stories of the Nations Vol 1 Lorene Lambert
Ch 2 The Ottomans

Timeline
A Castle with Many Rooms by Lorene Lambert
Chp 13 The Battle of Hastings (Norman Conquest)
Chp 14 Feudalism
Chp 16 The Cross Upon the Shield
Chp 17 Lionheart and Robin Hood
Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula
Chp 15 Francis of Assisi
Monks and Mystics by Mindy Withrow
Chp 11 Crusades
Chp 13 Francis of Assisi
Chp 15 Aquinas
Augustus Caesar’s World by Genevieve Foster p. 239-242 (Incas)
Machu Picchu by Elizabeth Mann (Incas)
The Sad Night by Sally Matthew (Aztecs)
Sundiata: Lion King of Mali  by David Wisnieski
Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali by PJ Oliver
Ashanti to Zulu by Margaret Musgrove
Sundiata: Lion King of Mali by David Wisnieski 
Ancient Japan by Fiona MacDonald (Shoguns)

Science:
Flower Garden by Eve Bunting
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
Flowers by Gail Gibbons
The Flower Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta

Week 12

History & Geography
A Castle With Many Rooms by Lorene Lambert
-Chp 7 The Scroll and the Stone (Muhammed founds Islam)
Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta
Mosque by David MacCaulay
Saladin by Flora Geyer (Muslim POV of the Crusades)
The Arabs in the Golden Age by Mokhtar Moktefi
Monks and Mystics by Mindy Withrow
-Chp 6 Islam

Timeline
A Castle With Many Rooms by Lorene Lambert
Chp 19 The Great Charter (Magna Carta)
Chp 20 The Mongols
Chp 21 The Travels of Marco Polo
Chp 25 The Black Prince, The Black Death and the White Knight of Orleans (100 years war + Black Death)
Chp 29 Rebirth (Renaissance)
Chp 28 Conquest of Constantinople
Stories of the Nations Vol 1 Lorene Lambert
Ch 2 The Ottomans
Chp 9 Kangxi, Emporer of China (Ming and Qing Dynasties)
The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
Khubla Khan by Kathleen Krull
Masters of the Renaissance by Jim Weiss
The Magna Carta by James Daugherty
Genghis Khan by Demi