4th Grade Curiculum — Old-Fashioned Education

For Ages 8 to 11
Medieval History from 500 AD to 1500
40 Week Schedule, PDF

King James Bible

• The King James Version of the Bible

Bible Study

• Hurlburt’s Story of the Bible

Devotions

• Keys for Kids or Kids 4 Truth Devotionals or other devotions of your choice

Arithmetic

Choose 1.

• CIMT, MEP, Primary Year 5
• Ray’s Arithmetic, purchased separately
• Math program of your choice, purchased separately

Science

• The Story Book of Science
• The History of a Mouthful of Bread

Library Skills

• Learn to use Unabridged Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
• Continue Keyboarding

Language Arts

• McGuffey’s Fourth Eclectic Reader
• Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing

Penmanship & Copywork

• Choose according to the child’s ability, interests, and your own family’s values

Spelling

• McGuffey’s Eclectic Spelling Book, Lessons 63-99

Latin & Foreign Languages

• Begin or continue Latin
• Latin for Beginners, or another Latin text of your choice

Literature

Check ManyBooks.net for many of these titles already formatted in PDF.

• Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare
• The Arabian Nights Entertainments
• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• The Story of King Arthur (In the upper left-hand corner of the screen click Camelot. Then click Online Resources, under Camelot, then scroll down. Howard Pyle’s King Arthur is 5 up from the Bottom, phew!)
• OR The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights
• The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
• Book of Pirates

History

• The Discovery of New Worlds
• When Knights Were Bold
• European Hero Stories
• Stories from the Crusades

Biographies

• True Story of Christopher Columbus, Admiral; Told for youngest readers
• In the Days of Alfred the Great
• In the Days of William the Conqueror

Historical Fiction

• A Knight of the White Cross: a tale of the siege of Rhodes

Geography

• Human Geography, The World
• Unit Studies on specific countries of your choice including the Cousins’ stories below plus Encyclopedias Library Books, Foreign Cook Books, Maps, Library Video’s & DVD’s
  The Little Cousin Series
• Our Little Korean Cousin
• Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin
• Our Little Mexican Cousin
• Hamid, Our Little Arabian Cousin
• Gerard, Our Little Belgian Cousin
• Our Little Dutch Cousin
• Our Little Egyptian Cousin
• Our Little English Cousin
• Our Little French Cousin
• Our Little Scotch Cousin
• Our Little African Cousin
• Our Little Russian Cousin
• Our Little Indian Cousin
• Our Little Servian Cousin

Civics

• Elements of Civil Government