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2022-2023 Main Lesson Block Plan

At Muya we study a single subject each month, living in that world together. While we cannot cover all the humanities blocks traditionally offered in Waldorf schools each year, we do cover a different range of grades' blocks annually so that everyone will access formative mythologies and histories of the world over the course of 3-4 years.
Here are the lands we are visiting this year:

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Stories of the Saints

September

Grades 1-2: Phonics, spelling patterns

Grades 3-5: Parts of speech, punctuation, summarization

Grades 6-7: Expository writing, paragraph form, sentence structure

América: Aztec, Inca, and Quechua Mythologies

October

Grades 1-2: The 4 operations

Grades 3-5: The 4 operations with fractions (common denominators)

Grades 6-7: Mixed fractions, unit conversions, negative square roots

Norse Mythology

Nov-Dec

Grades 1-2: Vowel families, consonant blends, cursive letters from running forms

Grades 3-5: Verb tense, story re-telling, differentiating between one's own and another's opinion

Grades 6-7: Transitive, intransitive, and infinitive verb forms; modal verbs; reading archaic language in verse

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Rome

January

Grades 1-2: Roman numerals, place value, number line

Grades 3-5: Place value to one million, number line, telling time, history of the calendar

Grades 6-7: Decimals, percentage, comparative calendars (Chinese, Hindu, Julian), time lines

Geology

February

Grades 1-2: Local geological formations and their minerals, math gnomes revisited

Grades 3-5: Local formations, rock cycles, California mining history, mapping

Grades 6-7: Local formations, mineral composition, crystal formation, geometry

Botany and Anatomy

March

Grades 1-2: Local plant identification, herbalism, experiencing leaf adaptations

Grades 3-5: Nature journaling, modes of plant reproduction, herbalism, man and animal

Grades 6-7: Nature journaling, modes of plant and animal reproduction, herbalism, mammalian body systems, theories of disease

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Medieval History
(Class Play)

April

Grades 1-2: Spelling patterns, verse recitation, summarization

Grades 3-5: Recitation, synonyms, antonyms, comparatives, sentence structure

Grades 6-7: Recitation, the writing process, comparative essay-writing

California History

May

Grades 1-2: Local geography, place value, 4 operations to 2-digit numbers

Grades 3-5: Mapping, measurement, Fraction equivalency (factoring, simplifying, mixed numbers), working with mixed denominators

Grades 6-7: Colonialism in mapping, presenting data in tables and charts, sea navigation and nautical terms, conversions between metric and imperial systems

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Medieval Games and Review

June

Review of the year's work from May to September! Recollections, insights, conclusions.

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