Footprints On Our Land – South Africa’s Heritage

The Curriculum Guide

At the beginning of each lesson in this literature based curriculum there is:

• a summary of the story
• suggestions of possible field trips,
• relevant internet websites, and
• titles of additional reading material

Since forward planning is needed for some hands-on activities, a lesson plan at a glance, is provided to facilitate this.

Footprints On Our Land – sample lesson – You will need Adobe Reader (the latest version is recommended) installed on your computer in order to open and read this sample lesson. You can get Adobe Reader here (a new window will open so you can download without leaving this page).

A timeline book is provided for your child to keep a chronological record of significant events in the history of South Africa. One page has space for drawings and notes, the other side is to add dates along the timeline and the picture discs or other pictures you wish to add.

If you use Footprints with more than one child, be sure to order an additional timeline book/s. One is included in your Footprints package.

The Footprints package includes a large laminated map of the outline of South Africa for you to customise as you learn together. You can write on the map with white-board markers and plot the places you learn about. Mark off boundaries, rivers, mountain ranges or historical battle sites. Add paper cut-outs of the provinces, notes, photos, the Footprints picture discs or anything else you choose.

Order Footprints literature based curriculum

Charlotte Mason-style language activities, based on the natural way of acquiring language skills, are included. Narration is the main tool for developing language arts skills but copy work, recitation, dictation, spelling and creative writing are used as well.

The language arts assignments are suggested for you in the Curriculum Guide. Charlotte Mason’s way of using gentle and age-appropriate methods to help your children become great thinkers and users of the English language are encouraged.

In addition to the above, the Footprints Heritage Language Arts offers an optional extra full grammar and word study programme to go along with the readers and read alouds, thus being relevant to what your child is reading about in each book. These lessons are offered on two levels, beginner and advanced. This is an optional add-on which you can purchase in digital format.
Buy one for your family and print it for as many children as you need.

Use our delightful printable notebooking pages to record and reinforce the topics that your children have learned about.
There are notebooking pages – for each story book or section of the Footprints On Our Land programme.

Buy one set for your family and print them for as many children as necessary.

You can order the set of notebooking pages in digital format, for you to print yourself, when you order your Footprints package or you may purchase this product separately at a later stage. Read more about notebooking.

Optional South African History Lapbook Projects

We offer a series of nine South African History file folder projects and lapbooks to reinforce your children’s learning on these topics. They are digital products which you print and then cut and fold to make each lapbook together. They can be purchased as a set or one by one as you go. Pay online and download each one instantly.