Wattle Gum Curriculum Year 4

 

 

Welcome to Wattle Gum Curriculum.

We offer a Charlotte Mason inspired, Literature Based Education.

Nurturing your family with a Literature Based Education is possible whilst still following the Australian Curriculum (and State Curriculums)

Whilst using our curriculum remember:

  • Whilst the suggested books are quality, there are many other worthy ones. You will not ‘get it wrong’ by making substitutions. You may choose to substitute a book due to availability or for other personal reasons. Choose what is best to serve your family.
  • If you do not read all these books suggested for this year, that is okay! If your child wishes to dig deeper, follow their lead. It’s the quality of learning not the volume of books that contributes to a good education.
  • Wattle Gum Curriculum is secular. Though easily adaptable to adding  resources to reflect your worldview. If you would like help in this area I’m more than happy to assist.
  • Make the curriculum fit you, not you to fit the curriculum. It’s a framework to assist the learning process.
  • If you have multiple children, you may choose to combine them to follow the various subject areas.
  • We don’t have to follow an exact formula of what or when. The beauty of home education is that you will cover the material at some stage.
  • Adjust your expectations regards the quality of work to your child’s individual needs and abilities.
  • We have designed this curriculum so that you heavily use your local library and inter-library loans.
  • I’m happy to consult with you to select ones to suit your local library.
  1. The visual grid of books at the bottom of the page is sorted alphabetically. It continues over two pages.
  2. Right click on buttons to open new tabs.

Please do not hesitate to reach out and ask any questions you may have.

Enjoy your year, dig in and have fun!

Curriculum

Routine Suggestion

Suggested times for subjects and possible days for each subject. This is not a timetable but a suggested weekly routine.

ImageNameWritersIllustratorsTagsSeriesTarget AgePrint StatusCurriculums
A Ceiling Made of Eggshells
A Long Walk to Water
A Slip of a Girl
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys,
Agent H2O Rides the Water Cycle
Alexander the Great,
All About Spelling
Archimedes and the Door of Science
Barney and the Secret of the French Spies,
Barney and the Secret of the Whales, , ,
Birrung the Secret Friend, , ,
Blueback
Bridget: A New Australian, ,
Brother’s Keeper
Camp Canberra
Charlotte’s Web
Computer Technology for Curious Kids, ,
D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths,
Dingo: the Dog who Conquered a Continent,
Energy Island
Famous Men of Greece
Fatal Forces
First Voyage
Herodotus and the Doorway to History
Hold On!: Saving the Spotted Handfish,
Intermediate Language Lessons
Investigating Materials
John of Nanbaree, ,
John of Sydney Cove, , , , ,
John of the Sirius, , , , , ,
Learn to Program,
Life On Us,
Listen, Slowly
Lizard’s Tale
Lysis Goes to the Play
Maker Studio,
Maths Australia
MathsOnline
Mr Popper’s Penguins,
My Fate According to the Butterfly
My Name is Lizzie Flynn : A Story of the Rajah Quilt, , , , ,
Nanberry: Black Brother White, , ,
Notebooking Pages
One Plastic Bag
One Small Island
Orange for the Sunsets
Our Australian Girl: Meet Letty
Our Australian Girl: Meet Nellie,
Our Little Athenian Cousin of Long Ago
Our Little Spartan Cousin of Long Ago,
Our Sunburnt Country, , , , ,
Pirate Boy of Sydney Town,
Prince of the Double Axe
Race to the End of the World
Rickshaw Girl
Running on the Roof of the World
Savanna Showdown
So You Want to be Prime Minister?,
Spelling Wisdom: Book 1
Startwrite: The Handwriting Worksheet Wizard
Suffragette: The Battle for Equality
Tech Lab
The ABC Book of Australian Poetry: A Treasury of Poems for Young People
The Blackbird Girls
The Children’s Homer, ,
The Children’s Plutarch: Tales of the Greeks,
The Genius Under the Table
The Golden Fleece,
The Good, the Bad and the Silly
The Great Barrier Reef
The Kaya Girl
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth,
The Lion in the Gateway
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Mystery of the Lion’s Tail
The Pear Affair
The River Charm,
The Secret of The Black Bushranger, , ,
The Spartan Twins,
The Story That Cannot Be Told
The Tale of Troy,
The Trojan Horse : How the Greeks Won the War,
The Unlikely Story of Bennelong and Phillip, , ,
The Usborne Encyclopedia of the Ancient World
The Wonderland of Nature, , , ,
The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth
The World That We Want
Theras and his Town
Tom Appleby Convict Boy, , ,
Trojan War,
Unseen Worlds
Vote for Me
Water is Water
What’s Your Story?, ,
When Stars Are Scattered