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:
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
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
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
Medieval Games and Review
June
Review of the year's work from May to September! Recollections, insights, conclusions.