Enrichment consists of the following subjects: The Cycle 4 Composers are: The Cycle 4 Artists are: The Cycle 4 Poets are: The Cycle 4 Handicrafts are: You can download the pdf files at the STAR Store Composers Term 1 Composer: Frederic Chopin Links are to Spotify. Week 1: Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, … Read more
Family Read Aloud Books or Independent Reading: Nature & Animals, Form 3+ The Handbook of Nature Study: Mammals by Anna Botsford Comstock You may choose to purchase the full Handbook of Nature Study book. If you purchase the full book, you will use it over the four cycles for Forms 3, 4 and 5, but you will only … Read more
Choose one or two books from the list below for whole-family or independent reading, if you’d like to cover this subject. Tommy Smith’s Animals by Edmund Selous This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter every-other-week from Week 1 through Week 23. Tommy Smith at the Zoo by Edmund Selous This book is scheduled at … Read more
Picture Books, Form 1+ (or, whole family read aloud) The following books are not included on any of the PDF schedules here. You may want to look for these books at a public or church library or purchase used or new copies. If you like to keep careful schedules, you could schedule one picture book per week or … Read more
We sing hymns at STAR Homeschool Community every week. You can also sing hymns at home! In our home, we sing two hymns per day. If we sing all of these hymns over the four cycles of the STAR curriculum, our family will learn more than one hundred hymns. Little by little, it adds up! Hymns to … Read more
Picture Books, Form 1+ The following books are not included on any of the PDF schedules here. You may want to look for these books at a public or church library or purchase used or new copies. If you like to keep careful schedules, you could schedule one picture book per week or read a page or two … Read more
Choose one or two books from the list below for whole-family or independent reading, if you’d like to cover this subject. Family Read Aloud Books or Independent Reading: Animals, Form 1+ The Berenstain Bears’ Big Book of Science and Nature by Stan & Jan Berenstain This book is scheduled at a pace of five to eight … Read more
Choose one or two books from the list below for whole-family or independent reading, if you’d like to cover this subject. The Good and the Beautiful Drawing 100 Fun & Easy Trees This book is scheduled at a pace of three to four trees per week. Alternatively, draw one tree per week and use this over multiple … Read more
How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves by Tristan Gooley This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week for weeks 1 through 14. Note, links on this page are affiliate links, in which I will make a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you … Read more
Form 3+ or Whole-Family Read Aloud Books Choose one or two books from the list below for whole-family or independent reading, if you’d like to cover this subject. The Handbook of Nature Study: Trees by Anna B. Comstock This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two chapters per week from Week 1 through … Read more