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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Nature Form 3+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

Family Read Aloud Books or Independent Reading: Nature, Form 3+

The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre whole year

This book is scheduled at a pace of one or two chapters per week for all twenty-eight weeks.

You can download the pdf here:

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Christian Liberty Nature Reader Book 4 second edition

 This is scheduled at a pace of two to four lessons per week for twenty-eight weeks.

You can download the pdf here:

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Christian Liberty Nature Reader Book 5, 2nd Edition

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two lessons per week for twenty-eight weeks.

You can download the pdf here:

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Animals Form 3+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

Form 3+ (or, whole family read aloud)

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 make use of the “Mammals” section in Cycle 4. This is a wonderful resource to own and it’s useful to use as a reference when you come across almost any kind of wildlife. The “Mammals” section is scheduled at a pace of five chapters per term in Cycle 4.

You can download the pdf here:

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Forests and Trees Form 3+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

Form 3+ or Whole-Family Read Aloud Books

Forest Neighbors by Edith M. Patch and Carroll Lane Fenton 

This book is scheduled at a pace of four or five chapters per term.

You can download the pdf here:

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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 Week 22.

You can download the pdf here:

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Weather Form 3+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature


Family Read Aloud Books or Independent Reading

Sabbath Mood F2 Weather

This book is scheduled at a pace of three lessons per week for the first eleven weeks. There is second book assigned in this book: Rain, Hail, Sleet & Snow by Nancy Larrick.

You can download the pdf here:

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Through Four Seasons by Edith M. Patch

This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week for all twenty-eight weeks.

You can download the pdf here:

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Physical Science Form 3+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

Claritas publishing memory work covers physics in Cycle 4, so I’ve scheduled several options for families to cover this subject.

Form 3+ (or whole family read aloud)

God’s Design for the Physical World by Debbie and Richard Lawrence

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two lessons per week for all twenty-eight weeks.

You can download the pdf here:

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Sabbath Mood F2 Physics: Energy

This book is scheduled at a pace of three 20-30 minute lessons per week for the first eleven weeks. An additional book is needed for this curriculum:  First Book of Electricity by Sam and Beryl Epstein.

You can download the pdf here:

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Sabbath Mood F2 Physics: Magnets

This book is scheduled at a pace of three 20-30 minute lessons per week from Week 12 through Week 22. An additional book is needed for this curriculum: Magnets by Rocco V Feravolo.

You can download the pdf here:

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Sabbath Mood F2 Physics: Waves

This book is scheduled at a pace of three 20-30 minute lessons per week from Week 18 through Week 28. An additional book is needed for this curriculum: The First Book of Sound by by David Knight.

You can download the pdf here:

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Sabbath Mood F2 Engineering & Technology

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two lessons per week for all twenty-eight weeks. An additional book is needed for this curriculum: The First Book of Machines by Walter Buehr.

You can download the pdf here:

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Creation Form 3+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

Family Read Aloud Books or Independent Reading: Creation Science, Form 3+

The New Answers Book 4 by Ken Ham

This book is number four in a series of four books, and all of these books are scheduled over the four GLC cycles. This book is scheduled at a pace of one or two chapters per week for all twenty eight weeks. 

You can download the pdf here:

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Cycle 4 Geography Form 3+

STAR Homeschool Geography Cycle 4

The geography assignments listed here are lined up with the memory work. You may also want to use these resources to look up any locations that were mentioned in your history or literature reading. 

Geography may be studied once per week, or every day, as you explore other subjects.

Teaching Geography

Choose one or more books from this page to read aloud to your children throughout the school year. Please do not attempt to read every book listed on this page. Remember that there are four cycles, and that, eventually, you will come back around to this cycle, and at that time you can choose other books (or, you may choose to re-read some favorites!).

If you have a child who is able to read independently, choose a book from this page and print the reading schedule for your child’s binder of independent work.

Form III

Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel

This is a fun, colorful book that shows the material possessions of people from all over the world. Note that there is some nudity in this book.

This resource is scheduled for all four cycles.

There are readings scheduled in this book for eleven of the twenty-eight weeks.

You can download the pdf here:

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National Geographic People of the World

This is a fascinating book with full color photos and long descriptions to read.

There are readings scheduled in this book for twenty of the twenty-eight weeks.

You can download the pdf here:

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Pray for the World by Patrick Johnstone

This is a fabulous resource and is used by Form 4 and 5 students for geography. Each section contains a detailed description about how to pray for a country, as well as the country’s statistics and basic information. This book is used the most in cycles 1, 2 and 4.

There are readings scheduled in this book for twenty-two of the twenty-eight weeks.

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You can download the pdf here:

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What I Eat by Peter Menzel

This is a really fun book, with photos of people from all over the world and the food they would eat in a week’s time. My children have stared at this book for hours on end.

This resource is scheduled for all four cycles.

There are readings scheduled in this book for twelve of the twenty-eight weeks. 

You can download the pdf here:

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Cycle 4 History Form 3

Cycle 4 History

Form III includes students who are ages 12 to 14. The following books can be read aloud to the whole family or read independently by a student who is able.

Abraham Lincoln’s World  by Genevieve Foster

This book is scheduled at a pace of eleve to fourteen pages per week for all twenty-eight weeks. This book covers world history from 1809 to 1865.

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Freedom Walkers by Russell Freedman

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two chapters per week during Term 4.

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Cycle 4 Apologetics Forms 1, 2 & 3

Besides Bible, Apologetics is the most important subject we study.

Form 1+ (or whole family read aloud)

Wonder full Ancient Psalms Ever New by Marty Machowski

This is the first book that we read aloud during Cycle 3 to Form 1, 2 and 3 students at STAR Homeschool Community throughout the school year. This book is read beginning in Week 1 and ending in Week 22.

Note that the “At Home” readings do not include the entire book, because some of the lessons are read in community.

If you would like to read through the whole book, read one extra lesson per week.

God’s Names by Sally Michael

This is the second book read aloud at STAR Homeschool Community in Cycle 4. It is read from Week 23 through Week 28. The portions included on the schedule are “At Home” readings. If you are not attending a community, add one extra lesson per week to your “At Home” reading.

You can download the pdf of the readings done in community in Wonder Full and God’s Names here:

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You can download the pdf of the readings done at home in Wonder Full and God’s Names here:

God’s Promises by Sally Michael 

This book is scheduled at a pace of one lesson per week for twenty-six weeks.

You can download the pdf here:

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Big Truths for Little Kids by Susan Hung & Richie Hunt 

This book is scheduled at a pace of one or two lessons per week.

You can download the pdf here:

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Form 2+ (or whole family read aloud)

Training Hearts, Teaching Minds: Family Devotions Based on the Shorter Catechism by Starr Meade (year 4 of 4)

This book is scheduled over all four cycles and finishes up in Cycle 4, in Week 23. You can really jump in to this book at any time. Each week is focused on of of the Shorter Catechism questions. There are readings each day of the week that go along with the questions.

This is a great read aloud for Form 2 and up.

I am a big fan of using music for memory work (see the Bible Memory project on this site!), and I recommend using some music to memorize these catechism questions. Try Holly Dutton’s work, Brian Sauve’s albums, or Colin Buchanan’s album Catechism Kids.

You can download the pdf here:

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Missionary Stories and the Millers by Mildred A. Martin

This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week from Week 1 through Week 27 and then two chapters in Week 28. This is a great read aloud for the whole family, but possibly most interesting for Form 2 and up.

You can download the pdf here:

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Form 3+ (or whole family read aloud) 

 Who is God and Can I Really Know Him? by John Hay and David Webb (year 2 of 2)

This book is scheduled over two years: Cycle 3 and Cycle 4. 

This can be used as a whole-family read aloud for Forms 2 and up, or it can be used for independent reading assignments for Forms 3, 4 or 5.

You can download the pdf here:

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Cycle 3 Science & Nature: Nature Projects

STAR Homeschool Science and Nature Cycle 3


Nature Projects Form 1+

Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots by Sharon Lovejoy

This book is scheduled for Terms 3 and 4 and is spread over all four cycles. I chose Terms 3 and 4 because, if you begin school in late Summer or early Fall (with Term 1), the gardening activities in this book will make most sense in Terms 3 and 4.

You can download the pdf here:

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Nature Projects Form 2+

1000 Hours Outside by Ginny Yurich

This book is scheduled over all four cycles and by season. I have made an assumption that families will begin with Term 1 in late summer and end Term 4 in Spring/Early Summer. If you are beginning school at another time of the year, you will want to use this book differently, to line up with the season you are in.

You can download the pdf here:

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Nature Projects Form 3+

The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling by John Muir Laws

This book is scheduled over all four cycles, so that students will learn little bits of nature drawing and journaling techniques at a time, over four years. There are pages to read, which are in the beginning of the book, and those are scheduled from Term 1 through Week 16 in Term 3. Then, there are drawing or painting or coloring exercises, and those are scheduled each week throughout the school year. This book is first scheduled in Cycle 1 and goes through Cycle 4, but you can jump in anytime.

You can download the pdf here:

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