We are celebrating by attending a local parade, eating traditional summertime foods, and swimming on this very hot Independence Day 2010!
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- Oscar Wilde (biography)
Some of Our Current Curriculum Resources
- Biology w/Lab
- World History
- Literature
- The Complete Writer: Writing With Skill Level 3
- English Composition and Grammar (Warriners)
- Saxon Algebra 2
- German 2 - Komm Mit!
- The Well-Trained Mind
Completed Reading
- Books listed below read 2015-2016
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Murder on the Orient Express
- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Books listed below read 2014-2015
- Father Brown Stories (G.K Chesterton)
- The Invisible Man (H.G. Wells)
- The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
- Finding Your Roots
- Emma
- Sense and Sensibility
- The Man Without a Country
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Pride and Prejudice
- Three Cups of Tea
- Grimm's Fairy Tales
- Goblin Market, Sister Maude, No Thank You, John (Christina Rosetti)
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin
- Rip Van WInkle
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- The Pilgrims Progress
- Treasure Island
- ***
- Books listed below read 2013-2014:
- The Story of Science: Newton at the Center
- Mainpulating Light: Reflection, Refraction, and Absorption
- Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Amazing World of Optical Illusions
- Eyewitness: Light
- Eyewitness: Energy
- Eyewitness: Electricity
- Robinson Crusoe
- Gulliver's Travels - Lilliput and Brobdingnag
- Selected Poems - William Wordsworth
- Don Quixote, Part 1
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
- Inferno (Dante) - Cantos I-V
- Augustine Came to Kent
- Beowulf: A New Telling
- Saint George and the Dragon
- King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
- The Canterbury Tales
- A Christmas Carol
- The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
- Call of the Wild
- Emperess of China: Wu Ze Tian
- Timeline of the Middle Ages
- The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire
- Life in a Medieval Monastery
- Monks and Monasteries in the Middle Ages
- My Muslim Faith
- Art and Culture of the Medieval World
- Cartoon History of the Universe III
- Enchantress from the Stars
- China's Tang Dynasty
- Daily Life of Jews in the Middle Ages
- Byzantine Empire
- Good King Wenceslas
- Stephen's Feast
- The Life and Times of William the Conqueror
- William the Conqueror and the Normans
- Charlemagne and the Early Middle Ages
- Eyewitness Science: Life
- Decoding Life: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Genome
- Double Helix: The Quest to Uncover the Structure of DNA
- Amazing DNA
- What Life Was Like When Rome Ruled the World: The Roman Empire 100 BC-200 AD
- The Roman News
- Colosseum
- The End of Pompeii - Ancient Civilizations
- I Wonder Why Romans Wore Togas and Other Questions About Rome
- Hail! Ancient Romans
- Food and Cooking in Ancient Greece
- The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome
- Eyewitness Books: Ancient Greece
- Ancient Greece
- The Greek News
- ***
- Books listed below read 2012-2013:
- Ein Haus voll Musik
- Being a Plant
- The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
- The Elements
- Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs
- The Philosophy Book
- Call It Courage
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Dear Enemy
- Daddy-Long-Legs
- The Light in the Forest
- The Making of a Writer
- Caught in the Act
- A Family Apart
- An Acceptable Time
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet
- A Wind in the Door
- A Wrinkle in Time
- My Side of the Mountain
- Midnight Magic
- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- Pictures of Hollis Woods
- What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything?
- Holes
- The Fellowship of the Ring
- Out of the Dust
- Flush
- Hoot
- Chomp
- Scat
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- Brendan Buckley's Sixth Grade Experiment
- Flipped
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
- Fever, 1793
- Eyewitness Science: Matter
- The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone
- Mara, Daughter of the Nile
- The Golden Goblet
- Tales of Ancient Egypt
- Nefertiti of Egypt
- Eyewitness Books: Ancient Egypt
- Eyewitness Books: Pyramid
- Eyewitness Books: Mummy
- How Would You Survive as an Ancient Egyptian?
- Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharoahs
- Pharoahs and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt
- ***
- Books listed below read 2011-2012:
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Angel and the Donkey
- Angels Sweep the Desert Floor
- The Peaceful Warrior: The Diary of Deborah's Armor Bearer
- Ancient Israelites and their Neighbors
- The Israelites
- Moses in Egypt
- The Ten Commandments
- Eyewitness Books: Bible Lands
- Miriam in the Desert
- Science in Ancient Mesopotamia
- Mesopotamia (Excavating the Past)
- The Technology of Mesopotamia (The Technology of the Ancient World)
- Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (Peoples of the Ancient World)
- Eyewitness Books; Mesopotamia
- He Who Saw Everything: The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Art and Literature in Ancient Mesopotamia
- How'd They Do That? Ancient Mesopotamia
- Atoms and Chemical Reactions
- The Nature of the Atom
- The Structure of Atoms
- Who Came First? New Clues to Prehistoric Americans
- Dreamtime: Aboriginal Stories
- Painters of the Caves
- The Last Neanderthal (excerpts)
- Dragon Bone Hill (excerpts)
- The Stick and Stone Age
- Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story
- The Wisdom of the Bones
- Archaeology (DK Eyewitness)
- Prehistoric Life (DK Eyewitness)
- From Lucy to Language
- Evolve or Die (Horrible Science)
- In the Shadow of Man
- When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm
- Dinosaurs Walked Here and Other Stories Fossils Tell
- From Living Cells to Dinosaurs
- Fossils (The Restless Earth)
- Fossil (DK Eyewitness)
- Fossils: Clues to Ancient Life
- The Tree of Life
- From Lava to Life: The Universe Tells Our Earth's Story
- Bugs Before Time: Prehistoric Insects and Their Relatives
- Born with a Bang: The Universe Tells our Cosmic Story
- The Last Battle
- The Silver Chair
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Prince Caspian
- The Horse and His Boy
- The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
- The Magician's Nephew
- When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
- The Story of the Treasure Seekers
- The Monsterologist: A Memoir in Rhyme
- Dragonwings
- A Girl Called Al
- The Swiss Family Robinson
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- The Conch Bearer
- The Water-Babies
- The Great Gilly Hopkins
- The Girl With the Green Ear
- Johnny Tremain
- Favorite Christmas Stories: A Collection of Christmas Stories, Poems, and Legends
- The True Story of Christmas
- Miracle on 34th Street
- The Nutcracker
- Pippi Longstocking
- The City of Gold and Lead
- Bridge to Terabithia
- Flying South
- Morning Girl
- Nowhere to Call Home
- The Book of Three
- The House with a Clock in its Walls
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
- Matilda Bone
- Love, Stargirl
- Stargirl
- The Girl Who Could Fly
- Anna of Byzantium
- The Lemonade Crime
- Family, Familia
- Redwall: The Graphic Novel
- Inkheart
- Crispin: The Cross of Lead
- I Was a Sixth Grade Alien
- Bud, Not Buddy
- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- ***
- Books listed below read 2010-2011:
- Come Hither: A Family Treasury of Best-Loved Rhymes and Poems for Children
- Mark Twain: Young Writer
- Elizabeth Blackwell: First Woman Doctor
- Amelia Earhart
- Langston Hughes
- Albert Einstein: Young Thinker
- A Picture Book of Dwight David Eisenhower
- Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems
- You Read to Me, I'll Read to You
- Beatrix Potter Stories
- Just So Stories
- The Jungle Book
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
- Minn of the Mississippi
- Tree in the Trail
- Paddle-to-the-Sea
- Farmer Boy
- Little House on the Prairie
- Little House in the Big Woods
- Peter Pan
- The Wind in the Willows
- Remember (Toni Morrison)
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: Young Man with a Dream
- Anne Frank: Life in Hiding
- The Cats in Krasinski Square
- Young Teddy Roosevelt
- Under the Hawthorne Tree
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Feed the Children First
- Across America on an Emigrant Train
- Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield
- When Will This Cruel War Be Over? The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson
- Mary Todd Lincoln: Girl of the Bluegrass
- Lincoln: A Photobiography
- The Gettysburg Address
- Civil War Days
- If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- The Boys' War
- Our Elections
- Our Presidency
- The Story of the White House
- Our Congress
- The Bill of Rights
- Uncle Sam and Old Glory: Symbols of America
- Queen Victoria and the British Empire
- The Secret Garden
- Jo's Boys
- Little Men
- Little Women
- Invincible Louisa
- Flower Fables
- War of the Worlds
- Kidnapped
- Pinocchio
- The Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
- Treasure Island
- Heidi
- ***
- Books listed below read 2009-2010:
- My Dog May Be a Genius
- Where the Sidewalk Ends
- The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge
- The Last of the Mohicans
- Moby Dick
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Remember Not to Forget
- Always Remember Me
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Oliver Twist
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- The Three Musketeers
- A Pilgrim's Progress
- The Brothers Grimm - Popular Folk Tales
- Songs of Innocence - William Blake
- A Christmas Carol
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Gulliver's Travels
- A Cod's Tale
- The Tale of Paradise Lost: Based on the Poem by John Milton
- Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
- Children's Poems - Christina Rosetti
- Nonsense Poems - Edward Lear
- Robinson Crusoe
- Perrault's Classic French Fairy Tales
- War of the Worlds
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
- ***
- Books listed below read 2008-2009:
- Anne of Ingleside
- Rilla of Ingleside
- Rainbow Valley
- Anne's House of Dreams
- Anne of the Island
- Anne of Avonlea
- Anne of Green Gables
- Oliver Twist
- The Borrowers
- All-of-a-Kind Family
- The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
- See How They Run
- The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle
- Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems
- You Read to Me, I'll Read to You
- Beatrix Potter Stories
Completed Curriculum
- The Neuroscience of Everyday Life (The Great Courses)
- Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding Vol. 3
- Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding Vol. 2
- Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding
- Science Grade 5
- Scott Foresman Science 4
- Science Grade 4
- Physics of Forces Online
- RS4K Biology I
- RS4K Chemistry I
- Astronomy Unit Study
- Earth Science Unit Study
- Critical Thinking Book 2
- Critical Thinking Book 1
- Mind Benders A1-A4
- Building Thinking Skills Grades 4-6
- Critical Thinking Activities Level 2
- Calculus Without Tears Vol. I Constant Velocity Motion
- Jacobs Geometry
- Saxon Algebra 1
- Saxon Algebra 1/2
- Saxon Math 76
- Saxon Math 65
- Saxon Math 54
- Saxon Math 3
- Personal Finance
- Consumer Math
- Family Math
- Singapore Math CWP 2
- The Complete Writer: Writing With Skill Level 2
- The Complete Writer: Writing With Skill Level 1
- English Composition and Grammar - Second Course (Warriners)
- English Composition and Grammar - First Course (Warriners)
- English Composition and Grammar - Introductory Course (Warriners)
- Paragraph Town
- MCP Plaid Phonics Word Study Level F
- MCP Plaid Phonics Word Study Level E
- MCP Plaid Phonics Word Study Level D
- Spelling Workout Level H
- Spelling Workout Level G
- Spelling Workout Level F
- Spelling Workout Level E
- Spelling Workout Level D
- Spelling Workout Level C
- First Language Lessons 4
- First Language Lessons 3
- Poetry and Humanity
- A World of Poetry
- Building Poems
- Music of the Hemispheres
- Focus on Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences Level F
- Focus on Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences Level E
- AP Human Geography
- Early American History: Native Americans Through The Forty-Niners (The Great Courses)
- World History: The Fertile Crescent to The American Revolution (The Great Courses)
- The Ancient Roman World
- The Ancient Greek World
- The Ancient Chinese World
- The Ancient South Asian World
- The Ancient Egyptian World
- The Ancient Near Eastern World
- The Early Human World
- Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity (The Great Courses)
- American History Unit Studies
- State Studies
- Colonial House - PBS
- Citizenship / Government Unit Study
- Economics Unit Study
- Lenape Indians Unit Study
- Election Day Unit Study
- Holidays Unit Study
- Thanksgiving Unit Study
- Native American Unit Study
- American History Unit Study
- Story of the World Volume 4
- Story of the World Volume 3
- Story of the World Volume 2
- Vocabulary Vine Latin and Greek Roots Grades 4-6
- Minimus Latin
- German 1 - Komm Mit!
- Rosetta Stone German Level 5
- Rosetta Stone German Level 4
- Rosetta Stone German Level 3
- Rosetta Stone German Level 2
- Rosetta Stone German Level 1
- Educación Española
- Elementary Spanish Grades 5-6
- Elementary Spanish Grades 3-4
- Elementary Spanish Grades 1-2
- What Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know
- What Your Third Grader Needs to Know
- What Your Second Grader Needs to Know
Educational Links
- Discovery Streaming Video
- BBC Dance Mat Typing
- IXL Math
- Sketch Up
- Facts on File (through MC Lib)
- EBSCO Host (through MC Lib)
- Easy Bib
- Noodle Tools
- Fact Monster
- Brain Pop
- PBS
- iCivics
- NASA
- NASA for Students
- Middle School Science
- Windows to the Universe
- The National Science Digital Library
- Basic Science Laboratory Techniques
- National Geographic Kids
- National Geographic Bee
- National Atlas
- Digital History
- Library of Congress
- National Archives
- Project Gutenberg
- Biography
- The History Channel
- Tessellations
- Wordle
- The Great Courses (Teaching Company)
- Presidential Physical Fitness
- Khan Academy
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