Intermediate (3rd-5th)

for 3rd through 5th Grades

The Intermediate Complete Program is organized around nine chronological history units. It is designed to be used from Third through Fifth grades, following the suggested schedule and moving through the units Creation to Modern annually. We have found that following this pace, especially for younger homeschool students, keeps them engaged as well as gives them the opportunity to revisit a topic in a short enough time to actually recall more of what they've previously learned.

Progressing through the units yearly allows the opportunity to "layer" information, covering different aspects of the same time period annually so that a deeper understanding is achieved and connections between historic events are more apparent.

[The Complete Programs] have worked for the long term for our family. [They are] very flexible and do not require a lot of prep work on my behalf. Older ones move easily towards independent studies.
--Jennifer

As in all of our complete programs, this program integrates history, science, geography, language arts, fine arts and projects--all in one homeschool curriculum---using whole, living books. Although books are not included with the curriculum, many are readily available at your local public or church library.

The 100+ page homeschooling Manual that comes with the Complete Programs covers how to teach and evaluate history, science, language arts (phonics, spelling, reading, poetry, composition, etc.) and fine arts, all using books that are available in your local libraries or on-line. (Note: books are not included in the program.)

Epi Kardia literature-based unit study curriculum students studying Ancient Egypt

Benefits include the following:

	Your homeschooling student will read about history in greater detail as he becomes older. Recommended books are geared toward older, more prolific readers than the Primary (K-2nd) Program
	Your student will receive stronger, more specific content in science books listed in this curriculum component
	You and your student will delight in the many recommended beautifully illustrated chapter books as well as the inclusion of high interest chapter books that he is ready for at this level
	Your homeschool student will gently move toward more structured writing assignments as students progress from 3rd to 5th grades
	You will be able to choose books that fit YOUR child's learning style as earning style notation is included in each's unit's lists of recommended books
	You will know in advance which recommended books include maps, timelines, outstanding illustrations and more as presentation style symbols are included, enabling a more varied selection of materials
	Your student will have a larger variety of more challenging hands on projects
	Sample Unit Booklet*

NOTE: All Complete Programs include the nine unit booklets and one across-the-units Resources booklet, historical overviews of each time period, 100 page spiral bound teaching manual, Tools CD, and historical bookmarks. Printed in black and white on heavy duty cardstock, each component is shipped pre-punched and packaged in a 1" white three-ringed binder.

Price for Intermediate Complete Program: $95

*Note that you need Adobe Reader in order to view the samples. You can download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

"The children should have the joy of living in far lands, in other persons, in other times--a delightful double existence; and this joy they will find, for the most part, in their story books."

Charlotte Mason (Vol. I, Part IV--Some Habits of Mind - Some Moral Habits, p. 153)

"This habit should be begun early; so soon as the child can read at all, he should read for himself, and to himself, history, legends, fairy tales, and other suitable matter. He should be trained from the first to think that one reading of any lesson is enough to enable him to narrate what he has read, and will thus get the habit of slow, careful reading, intelligent even when it is silent, because he reads with an eye to the full meaning of every clause."

Charlotte Mason (Vol. I, Part VIII --Reading for Older Children, p. 227)

"Narrating is an art, like poetry-making or painting, because it is there, in every child's mind, waiting to be discovered, and is not the result of any process of disciplinary education. A creative fiat calls it forth. 'Let him narrate'; and the child narrates, fluently, copiously, in ordered sequence, with fit and graphic details, with a just choice of words, without verbosity or tautology, so soon as he can speak with ease."

Charlotte Mason (Vol. I, Part IX --The Art of Narrating, p. 231)

"As soon as he is able to keep it himself, a nature-diary is a source of delight to a child."

Charlotte Mason (Vol I, II, Out-Of-Door Life For The Children, p.54 )