Emily Co.

Our guide to Phase Two of the Emily Co. Curriculum.

Subscribe for more neurodiverse, faith-friendly homeschool ideas.

The Focus of Phase Two

Here is our overview of the second phase of the curriculum, Artistry, designed for ages 5, 6 and 7.

During this stage of child development we’re focused on agility, intuition, and passion.

We introduce the topics students will be applying to their own research into their favorite hobbies. Most of our time is spent learning about foundational study tools, playing with the ideas that will further our goals, and creating the child’s unique learning style aesthetics.

With the format accommodating developmental and psychological variance, the below courses for the beginning of elementary school bring this vision into being.

Phase Two Coursework

Gallery Tours

a course which is a survey of art and music spanning human history. This course is all about surrounding oneself with beautiful creative work and learning to love it and discuss it. The beginnings of color theory and musical notation are introduced. We also explore planes, measurement, and some other basic geometry skills while observing the artwork.

Required Lesson Plans

• Fiction Analysis
• The Colors
• Art Analysis
• The Shapes
• Music Analysis

Optional Lesson Plans

• The Genres of Music
• Famous Classical Music
• Music Notation Basics
• Complimentary Colors
• Planes, Angles, and Perspective
• Symbolism in Artwork
• Selecting Artwork for the Home
• Auras and Vibes
• Ancient Artwork
• Creating Fanart

Languages for Creators

this course teaches the basics of mathematics, linguistics, coding, music notation, and other forms of communication. We work on exposure to vocabulary from a variety of languages, understanding context and content, how to customize these languages to suit your purposes, and pattern recognition with these tools.

Required Lesson Plans

• Daily Spelling Challenge
• Context and Content
• Word Choice
• Congruent Statements and Syntax
• Learn to Code
• Music Notation for Beginners
• Addition and Subtraction
• The Logical Fallacies
• Understanding Varying Languages and Dialects

Optional Lesson Plans

• Additional Linguistic Skills
• Spanish Vocabulary Challenge
• Chinese Vocabulary Challenge
• Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs
• The Language of the Aztecs

Learning Detectives

This course teaches how to research any topic well, summarize what you’ve learned about it, and remember that information. The goal is to be able to learn anything without anxiety, at peak productivity. We’ll be identifying reliable sources and evaluating that work for scope and bias in order to avoid misinformation.

Required Lesson Plans

• Planning Your Research
• Identifying Quality Sources vs Misinformation
• Evaluating Sources for Scope and Bias
• Daily Memorization Challenge
• Improving Your Productivity and Attention Span
• Observational Skills

Global Political Processes

this course covers resource management, social engineering, the roles of governments, how we can engage with democratic societies, key recent political and social movements, and the importance of ally-ship in building communities. The core activities are keeping a current events journal and creating a historical timeline chronicling important events of the past.

• Town, City, State, Country, Continent
• Government Functions and Structures
• Defining Democracy
• Current Events Journal Challenge
• Key Political and Social Movements
• Ally-ship and Diplomacy
• Resource Wars

Wildlife, Wildflowers, and Wilderness

this course will teach children about the indigenous wildlife in their physical surroundings, the outdoor cycles that nurture these life forms, how to navigate and care for the environment wisely, we’ll begin gardening basics, and they’ll learn the symbolism of nature from various mythologies around the world. The core of this course is taking family nature walks each week and making observations on the trips, which will go in their learning journal, and growing their own plants. They will also add drawings of their observations to the learning journal.

Required Lesson Plans

• Taking Mindful Nature Walks
• The Daily Weather Challenge
• The Water Cycle
• A Guide to Ecosystems
• Fascinating Wild Animals
• Observing the Lunar Cycle
• Interacting Safely with Animals
• The Symbolism of Nature
• Grow Your Own Flower

Optional Lesson Plans

• Poisonous Plants
• Herbalism Basics
• The Elements
• Fairies and Folklore in the Wilderness
• Starting a Vegetable Garden

Idea Brainstorming

this course teaches children to create new work they’re passionate about each day. It includes more exposure to the brainstorming process, how to evaluate an audience or customer base to check for idea viability (which creates a base to learn marketing skills later in the curriculum), ways to make and execute task lists that are efficient including the creation of SMART goals, and how to create more mind maps and vision boards.

• How to Boost Your Creativity
• The Word Association Method
• Identifying Your Audience or Customer
• The Marketing Study
• The Venn Diagram
• Cost Benefit Analysis
• Creating SMART goals
• Creating the Outline
• Realistic To-Do Lists
• Effectively Pitching an Idea or Project

Recommended Extracurricular Activities

soccer and/or basketball, TeeBall, girl scouts or boy scouts, swim lessons, reading circle at the library, dance classes, tumbling and/or gymnastics, singing lessons or childrens’ choir at church, walks in nature, visits to the aquarium and zoo, and a nightly prayer and/or meditation practice.

The Vocabulary List

These vocabulary words will be incorporated into their lessons. They will learn to spell some of these words and become familiar with all of them. By the end of the phase, they should know what all of these words mean and be able to define them aloud for you:

The Reading List

Here are the 20 required books for this phase:

•  Coming Soon

Click here for a list of other recommended books that your child can choose with you.

The Viewing List

Each video, TV show, and film on our required viewing list comes with a show-specific guide for facilitating a family discussion about what you’ve seen.

•  Coming Soon

Our Parenting Tips for Ages 5-7

Coming Soon