what to cut for a year 3?

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  • caedmyn
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    Last year we mostly followed the Year 2 schedule from Charlotte Mason Help.  This year it just looks like too much, even with DD reading some on her own, but I’m not sure what to cut.  I’m particular stuck on choosing literature/tales. This  is the link to the full Year 3 schedule if anyone wants to look at it.  http://www.charlottemasonhelp.com/2009/07/year-3-program-and-books.html

    (Please excuse the cut and paste and mismatched fonts.)

    Read Aloud Tales
    Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Nesbit (2nd half)
    Heroes by Charles Kingsley
    Pilgrim’s Progress Part 2 by John Bunyan
    Chronicles of Narnia by Lewis
    *Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
    **The Princess and the Goblin
    ***The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling

    I think we will skip Beautiful Tales from Shakespeare.  We read the first half of a simplified version of Pilgrim’s Progress (Pilgrim’s Progress in Words of One Syllable) last year and I would like to finish that.  I’d like to choose 2 more to read aloud, but can’t decide which, and can’t decide whether to have DD read the others herself or just drop them.  I’m not a big fan of Kipling, or at least his Just So Stories…is he a must-do?

    Additional Reading
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
    A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (girl choice)
    Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett (boy choice)
    Treasures of the Snow by St. John
    At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
    On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
    Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
    Swallows and Amazons by Ransome
    Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
    Misty of Chincoteague by Henry
    Sea Star by Henry
    Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Henry
    The Family under the Bridge by Carlson
    Strawberry Girl by Lowry
    Ginger Pye by Estes
    Trumpet of the Swan by White
    Burgess Animal Stories series- choose any
    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Fleming, then watch the movie
    Wheel on the School by Dejong
    Cricket in Times Square by Selden
    The Bears of Blue River by Major
    Sugar Creek Gang Series by Hutchins (boys especially like this)
    Parables from Nature by Gatty (difficult, but good Sunday book for discussion)
    Bambi by Felix Salten

     

    I was wanting to chose 3 of these for read alouds and let her read the rest herself or listen to whatever’s available on Librivox as audiobooks.  She’s a strong reader and has already read some of them (specifically all the horse books and a few of the others).  Any suggestions on which to choose for RAs?

    butterflylake
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    Wheel On the School is one I would pick for RA. 

    Karen
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    Ohhh- we LOVED Wheel on the School, too.

    And A Little Priness – but then I have all girls.

     

    Shannon
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    I can’t imagine a child this age reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and not missing all the wonderful plays on the English language.  I’d hold off on that one.

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