Five In A Row series by Jane Claire Lambert
The base titles of the series, Volumes 1, 2 & 3 provide 55 lesson plans covering Social Studies, Language, Art, Applied Math, and Science in a way that causes children to fall in love with learning.

Intended to be easily usable, even for new homeschool mothers, each days activities are carefully laid out. Expect to be ready to teach with as little as five minutes of preparation time. You'll find everything you need to be an effective teacher at your fingertips-pronunciation guides to foreign words or phrases, background information on history, geography, art and science lessons, facts, figures, and activity suggestions for a wonderful variety of hands-on learning experiences.

Visual, auditory and kinesthetic learners will all benefit from Five in a Row's variety of lessons and activities. Just bring home one of the 55 books used in Five in a Row from the library and then locate the corresponding lesson plan in your teacher's guide. Read the story aloud each day during the week and use Jane's suggestions and lesson plans to lead your children on a wonderful learning adventure. You'll teach a different subject each day beginning with social studies on Monday. You'll find history lessons, geography lessons, discussions on foreign culture taken directly from the story you've just read. On Tuesday you'll examine the author's use of language, learning about punctuation, vocabulary, literary devices, creative writing and more. Wednesday you'll discover a comprehensive art curriculum as you explore the illustrator's techniques, style and use of materials with lots of hands-on art lessons for early learners. Thursday your children will explore applied mathematics as they learn about counting, grouping, measurements, simple geometric shapes, etc. Finally, on Friday you'll explore science together with activities to learn more about weather, astronomy, biology, physics, chemistry and more.

Easy to use and fun to do, Five in a Row is designed to teach children the joy of learning while exposing them to the vast world of information that's so important in building a solid educational foundation. Jane's lesson plans ensure that every week your children will have dozens of opportunities to discover exciting new facts about the world around them as you invite them to engage their natural curiosity and explore specific areas which interest them in greater detail. Experience tell us that the most important educational lesson we can teach early learners is to fall in love with learning itself. When children discover that learning is a pleasurable experience, both their job and yours becomes immeasurably easier! So gather your young learners around you and begin teaching the way you always hoped it could be; fun, spontaneous and enjoyable for both you and the student. Ages 4 - 8

Beyond Five In A Row
Aimed at ages 8-12. Each of the books in this series will take one semester to complete. It is similar to Five in a Row, only Beyond FIAR uses "chapter books" rather than "picture books."
There are creative writing or essay projects with every lesson, social studies including history, geography, human relationships, science, vocabulary, career path studies, internet connections and much, much more. All you'll need to add is daily arithmetic and the trio subjects grammar/spelling/penmanship. Everything else is included.

Volume 1 - This book utilizes The Boxcar Children and Homer Price as its two fiction selections, and Thomas Edison and Betsy Ross from the Childhood of Famous Americans Series for its two non-fiction selections.
Volume 2 - This book utilizes Sarah Plain and Tall and Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan as its two fiction selections, and The Story of George Washington Carver and Helen Keller from Scholastic Biographies for its two non-fiction selections.
Volume 3 - This book utilizes The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden and The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright as its two fiction selections. The Neil Armstrong-Young Flyer from the Childhood of Famous Americans Series and Marie Curie-And the Discovery of Radium from the Solutions-Profiles in Science for Young People series are the two non-fiction selections in this volume.