Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Our Year 1 booklist

Language Arts
Handwriting without Tears -Printing practice
Copywork Book 1 by Memoria Press
Our CM reading program + 100 Easy Lessons
All About Spelling Book 1

How I'm putting this all together....

-Oral narration from various subjects.
-Daily reading instruction
-Daily copywork from HWT/ Copywork Book 1/ or other subjects only 1 per day.
-Memory work from Copywork Book 1 + poetry

Mathmatics -Math-U-See Alpha

Foreign Language -Phrase-A-Day Spanish

Bible- Every Day with God

Poetry
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Now We Are Six/When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne

History
Story of the World-Vol. 2....reading to correspond with a local history co-op
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin
Viking Tales
by Jennie Hall



American History Biography
Benjamin Franklin by Ingri D'Aulaire
George Washington by Ingri D'Aulaire
Buffalo Bill by Ingri D'Aulaire
Pocahontas by Ingri D'Aulaire

Geography
Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling

Natural History/Science
Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock
James Herriot's Treasury for Children by James Herriot
The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess
The Burgess Seashore Book for Children By Thornton Burgess

Literature
The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter
Tales for Shakespeare by Charles Lamb
The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Among the .....People by by Clara Dillingham Pierson

Bedtime Reading
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
St. George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Fairy Books by Andrew Lang





Also Weekly

Art Appreciation - one artist per quarter

Music appreciation-one composer per quarter

Handicrafts - to be determined by interest

Nature Study- follow Outdoor Hour challenges.

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