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All Cycles Survival Skills Form 4+

All Cycles Survival Skills Form 4+
  • Animal Fat Rendering
  • Animal Trapping
  • Basket Weaving
  • Berry Identification
  • Braided Rugs
  • Bug Out Bags
  • Butter Making
  • Campfire Cooking
  • Cast Iron Pot Cooking
  • Candle Making
  • Cheese Making
  • Chickens-Raising for Eggs
  • Chickens-Raising for Meat
  • Cleaning Fish
  • Compass Skills
  • Container Gardening
  • Cows-Raising for Meat
  • Cows-Raising for Milk
  • Crocheting
  • Dehydrating Food
  • Ducks-Raising for Eggs
  • Ducks-Raising for Meat
  • Emergency Shelter Making
  • Essential Oils
  • Fence Building/Repairing
  • Fermenting (Vegetables)
  • Filtering Water
  • Fire Building
  • First Aid
  • Fishing
  • Flint & Steel
  • Food Safety
  • Foraging for Food (Safely)
  • Freeze Drying Food
  • Freezing Food
  • Garlic Braiding
  • Goats-Raising for Meat
  • Goats-Raising for Milk
  • Herb Drying
  • Herb Gardening
  • Herbal Medicine/Tinctures
  • Hogs-Raising for Meat
  • Hunting
  • Identifying Spoiled Food
  • Knife Skills
  • Knitting
  • Knot Tying
  • Lavender Crafts
  • Life Guard Skills
  • Map Skills
  • Pasta Making (homemade)
  • Plant Identification
  • Pond Building
  • Potable Water
  • Preparing Wild Game
  • Pressure Canning
  • Rabbits-Raising for Meat
  • Rocket Stove Making
  • Rope Structures
  • Signaling in an Emergency
  • Salve Making
  • Self Defense
  • Sheep-Raising for Meat
  • Soap Making
  • Solar Ovens
  • Sourdough Bread
  • Sewing 
  • Swimming
  • Tree Identification
  • Turkeys-Raising for Meat
  • Water Bath Canning
  • Whittling
  • Wildlife Encounter Safety (Bears, Coyotes, etc.)
  • Wood Carving
  • Wood Chopping
  • Yogurt Making


You can download the pdf here:

STAR Form 4 & 5 Survival TopicsDownload

Let me know if you have any suggestions for topics to add to this list!

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All Cycles: Language Arts and Literature

All Cycles Language Arts and Literature

Language Arts Books

If you are teaching your children using Charlotte Mason’s methods and including narration, dictation and copy work, there is really no reason to use an additional spelling or handwriting program. With this in mind, I have not scheduled a full syllabus of language arts materials. 

Instead, I have listed some phonics/reading programs here, as well as some formal grammar programs. You may add any of these books to your weekly plan.

I recommend waiting to introduce formal grammar until at least Form 3, possibly Form 4. Before then, have your child copy beautiful sentences and paragraphs and read great books in order to soak up grammar. When you finally get to formal grammar lessons, you will simply be adding names to the things your child already knows and has experience with.

Phonics & Reading Programs

Grammar

Handwriting

The only handwriting worksheets I recommend, besides copy work, are the Claritas Publishing handwriting sheets that line up with the memory work. Otherwise, I suggest having your children do copywork.

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All Cycles Math

STAR Homeschool Math All Cycles

You can really use any math curriculum you choose. This schedule is just to give you an example of a few programs to choose from. Feel free to print the schedule and highlight the curriculum you plan to use, or write the assignments in your planner. Make sure to do a little math everyday, in order to get through the math levels at a reasonable pace. 

The curriculum that has been scheduled is:

Math U See

You can download the pdf here:

STAR Math Math U SeeDownload

Life of Fred

You can download the pdf here:

STAR Life of FredDownload

Right Start Math

You can download the pdf here:

STAR Right Start MathDownload

Teaching Textbooks

You can download the pdf here:

STAR Teaching TextbooksDownload

Singapore Math

You can download the pdf here:

STAR Singapore MathDownload

I also recommend the Elementary Arithmetic Series from Simply Charlotte Mason, though I have not scheduled this (use these books at your own pace).

I have not tried Beauty & Truth Math yet, but I have heard that it is also a good Charlotte Mason math program.

You are welcome to use any math curriculum you choose. Just make sure to get a little done each day–a lesson, or a page or two, or whatever ends up getting you through the program in about a year’s time.