Cambridgeshire Academy™️: September 2021

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Z's 3rd Grade Fun Book List

These are books that Z reads for fun in the evening that are below his reading level. I will be adding to this list throughout the year. We are using the 1000 Good Books List and others we come across and like.

The Courage of Sarah Noble
Little Pilgrim's Progress
Mr. Popper's Penguins
A Lion to Guard Us
The Apple and the Arrow
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
The Selfish Giant
The Rumble Seat Pony
Lonesome Little Colt
Pony for Three
Crooked Colt
A Pony Called Lightning
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Runaway Ralph
Ralph S. Mouse

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Z's 3rd Grade Assigned Reading List

These are the books that Z is reading during his morning reading time, he'll be reading Classic Starts, Stepping Stones or Step Into Classics versions of some of the following:

Robinson Crusoe
Gulliver's Travels
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Little Pilgrim's Progress
Les Misérables
The Three Musketeers
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Treasure Island
A Christmas Carol
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
Alice in Wonderland
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in 80 Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Last of the Mohicans
Moby Dick
Swiss Family Robinson
Frankenstein
Jane Eyre
Black Beauty
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
The Prince and the Pauper

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Z's 3rd Grade Chemistry

We're utilizing Christian Kid's Explore Chemistry as our spine and fleshing it out with various books, videos and resources. I also have Adventures with Atoms and Molecules books for experiments and many library experiment books we will be trying out (not pictured).

Chemistry Outline of Categories

Chemistry Basics (Tools, Matter, Elements, Mixtures/Compounds)
Atoms
Periodic Table
Chemical Bonds, Formulas, Compounds and Reactions
Acids/Bases
States of Matter
Organic Chemistry

Here are some of the books we added in from the library:

Quotes

"If you take your children to Caesar for their education, you need to stop being surprised when they come home as Romans" - Voddie Bauchman

"Too many parents who would never send their children to a church on Sunday that taught doctrines they believed to be wrong, have had no problem placing them in state schools five days a week where they are taught conflicting doctrines and ideas." - Cal Thomas

“I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a room full of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mother’s care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children.” ~Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Schools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.” ~Winston Churchill

"Let it be remembered, that I do not speak to the wild, giddy, thoughtless world, but to those that fear God. I ask, then, for what end do you send you children to school? “Why, that they may be fit to live in the world.” In which world do you mean, — this or the next? Perhaps you thought of this world only; and had forgot that there is a world to come; yea, and one that will last for ever! Pray take this into your account, and send them to such masters as will keep it always before their eyes. Otherwise, to send them to school (permit me to speak plainly) is little better than sending them to the devil. At all events, then, send your boys, if you have any concern for their souls, not to any of the large public schools, (for they are nurseries of all manner of wickedness,) but private school, kept by some pious man, who endeavors to instruct a small number of children in religion and learning together." - John Wesley

"I am commanded to bring my children up in the nurture and instruction of the Lord (Eph. 6:4), and to do so by teaching them God’s statutes when I sit in my house, when I lie down, when I rise up, and when I walk along the way (Deut. 6:7). I am also admonished not to place myself, or by extension my children, under false teaching (Col. 2:8), or to expose them to teaching that undermines God’s Law (Matt. 5:17-20)." - Voddie Bauchman

"God has designed your family—not the youth group, not the children’s ministry, not the Christian school, but your family—as the principle discipling agent in your children’s lives." - Voddie Bauchman

“I am sure as I am of the fact of Christ’s reign that a comprehensive and centralized system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling engine for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief, and anti-social nihilistic ethics, individual, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen”. – Dr. Archibald Alexander Hodge (1823-1886), Chair of Systematic Theology, Old Princeton Seminary

“Education ought everywhere to be religious education… parents arte bound to employ no instructors who will not instruct their children religiously. To commit our children to the care of irreligious people is to commit lambs to the superintendent of wolves”. ~Timothy Dwight; President of Yale University from 1795-1817

SECULARISM is a philosophy that claims that there is no God-or that if there is a God, He is irrelevant. HUMANISM essentially says that in the absence of God, humans can and should act as gods by judging, choosing, and defining what is right for themselves. The philosophy pervading the public education system combines these two philosophies into one.-Ken Ham

Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being. -Kittie Franz