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We hope you have a terrific year learning science!
Sincerely,
The Guest Family
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Click on each week below to see the online curriculum schedule. You can click directly on the links!
Last schedule update: 3/7/2024. Click here to see the update history.
| Week 1 | Bible: The seasons Language Arts: Quotation marks, writing comics with dialogue, copywork Science: Making a science journal, Reading through The Science of the Seasons |
| Week 2 | Art: Sun paper prints Bible: The Day the Sun Stood Still Greek & Latin roots: equinox, vernal, perihelion, aphelion, solstice, latitude, migrate, hibernate Language arts: spelling “ph” words, writing a report, writing lapbook information Science: The sun, stars, what causes day and night, tilt of the earth |
| Week 3 | Art: Making a Papier-mâché globe Bible: The parable of the sower Geography: continents & oceans Math: angles, using a protractor Science: soil temperature, germination, photosynthesis (basic), hydroponics, tilt of the earth |
| Week 4 | Week 4 Bible: Let Your Light Shine Geography: the Arctic Math: visualizing a million Music (and history): Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Science: the science behind the seasons, solstices and equinoxes, perihelion, aphelion, direct and indirect sunlight, earth’s orbit, capillary action in plants, differing amounts of light in the arctic |
| Week 5 | Bible: Positive and negative attitudes Language arts: reading skills Math: temperature, finding an average, graphs, negative numbers, recording time Science: seasonal temperatures, broadleaf vs. conifers, tree sap, buds |
| Week 6 | Art: northern lights project Bible: The Bible is our compass Geography: Australia, labeling a map Science: northern lights, earth’s poles, making a compass, tree bark, the age of a tree, states of matter |
| Week 7 | Art: making paper Bible: Rain go away (story & lesson) Language arts: copywork Science: condensation (rain in a jar experiment), observing birds, spring |
| Week 8 | Bible: New life in Christ (like the butterfly) Language arts: verbs and adjectives, copywork Science: migrating animals, butterflies and caterpillars |
| Week 9 | Art: make a pop-up card Bible: Satan is our enemy Geography & Culture: Japan and Japanese writing systems, traditions, etc. Science: baby animals, camouflage, animal homes, predators, colors are warnings |
| Week 10 | Bible: Elijah’s prayer for rain Language arts: vocabulary, copywork Science: growth in animal & human babies, spring weather, make a cloud experiment, summer solstice, weather, types of clouds, floods |
| Week 11 | Bible: Jesus calmed the storm Geography: latitude and longitude, GPS Language arts: vocabulary, adjectives Science: stormy weather, fall |
| Week 12 | Art: How illustrations are made, using a grid method to draw, seeing negative space, making a wind chime Bible: “Fall” on your knees and pray Language Arts: vocabulary, copywork, writing a recipe Science: Why leaves change color, wind, fall |
| Week 13 | Art: paper cutting Bible: Whiter Than Snow Language arts: copywork, vocabulary, winter poetry Science: winter, snow |
| Week 14 | Bible: A volcanic creation Language arts: poetry, famous writers, writing holiday memories, writing a recipe Science: volcanoes |
Updates
3/7/2024: Week 4 – The Vivaldi teacher’s packet link has a 2nd option.
12/2/2023: Our big yearly link check was completed for this schedule. The following changes were made:
Week 5: The conifer confusion worksheet link was updated.
Week 11: The first printable for Battleship was updated.
10/26/2023: Week 1: The Bill Nye Seasons video link was updated.
1/4/2023: Big yearly link check (a huge thank you to Calina J. for checking links!):
Week 4: The equinox worksheet link was updated.
Week 6: The make your own compass link was updated.
2/11/2022: Our big yearly link check was completed for this schedule.
The following schedule changes were made:
- Week 1: A note was added for the Make Your Own Comic link. The Prismacolor link was changed.
- Week 2: The Sun, Moon, and Stars lapbook has been changed to the Space lapbook. The NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory link was updated.
- Week 4: The Equinox worksheet link was updated. The Vivaldi Teacher’s Resource Kit link was updated.
- Week 5: A note was added about the Education.com resource.
- Week 7: The book A New Beginning was removed from the schedule, as it’s no longer available.
- Week 12: The Thames and Kosmos Wind kit has been updated to the new kit.
- Week 14: The Volcanoes video was replaced with a National Geographic for Kids volcanoes playlist.
A huge thanks to our volunteer link checker! We appreciate her so much!
1/18/2022
Week 3: Continents and Oceans worksheet replaced a link that wasn’t working on day 5.
9/10/2021
- Week 2: The more ph worksheets link was updated. The Parts of the sun full-color worksheet link has also been updated.
2/5/2021 – Big yearly link check:
- Broken links were fixed
- Information at the beginning of the printable schedule was updated to reflect the changes on our new website
