Grade: Kindergarten
Duration: Child-dependent
Kindergarten writing provides a printable 63-page tracework book and a printable 96-page copywork book to reinforce the provided McGuffey's Eclectic Primer reading lessons. Some children might start with tracework. Others may immediately be ready for copywork. Convenient links to the relevant copywork pages are provided within the reading lesson guides.
Grade: Kindergarten
Duration: Child-dependent
The book at the heart of this course was devised to be used for the first three years of education in conjunction with a series of readers (e.g. McGuffey’s, Treadwell’s). Phonics, associating sounds with letters and blending those sounds into words, provide children with a foundation to decipher novel words. The author of the book evolved this system of teaching phonics in her own schoolroom and used it with great success. This method incorporates four activities: 1) Ear Training, 2) Tongue Training, 3) Eye Training, and 4) Word Building. Keep in mind that the one important thing is to teach each step thoroughly. (Paraphrased from the author.) Letter tiles (A-Z and a-z with multiples of the common letters) are suggested for use in this course, but not required. You may either purchase tiles or make them yourself out of heavy duty paper or cardboard.
Grade: Kindergarten
Duration: Child-dependent
This course integrates texts and audio recordings of McGuffey's Eclectic Primer to provide a time-tested reading curriculum with no additional textbook costs. McGuffey Readers were used in American schools for over a century. This course provides teaching guides with instructions on how to teach each of the 52 lessons.
Grade: Kindergarten
Duration: Child-dependent
The kindergarten mathematics course provides four phases of step-by-step instructions for introducing primary-level arithmetic in preparation to begin Ray's Primary Arithmetic. Phase I teaches children to recognize groups of physical objects up to ten. Phase II drops physical objects and teaches children to combine and separate up to ten imaginary objects in their minds. In phase III, children combine and separate abstract numbers directly. Finally, in phase IV, children learn to write addition and subtraction equations. Teaching guides accompany all 56 lessons.
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
Children study the masterworks of Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Ivan Aivazovsky, Edward Burne-Jones, Robert Scott Duncanson, and Natalia Goncharova. Children study a single master artist for several weeks with one new work introduced weekly. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 works.
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
Children first study the geography of the familiar stomping grounds surrounding their homes before expanding to explore the far-off reaches of the world. Children study and map the places they are most acquainted with: their bedrooms, their homes, their neighborhood streets, and their cities.
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
The first grade American history course focuses on intriguing stories of the noble bravery of leaders, the daring discoveries of explorers, the ingenuity of inventors, and the unimaginable achievements of scholars and scientists. Tracework, coloring pages, and lesson guides with synopses, vocabulary words, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities are provided for all 48 stories.
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
This course continues the study of classical music in a pictorial way, combining music with famous works of art. Compositions inspired by art, poetry, and concrete places and things from Modest Mussorgsky, Gustav Holst, Frédéric Chopin, John Philip Sousa, Claude Debussy, and Edvard Grieg are featured this year. The ultimate aim is for children to enjoy classical music and to become familiar with master composers and their works. Lesson guides with directions, synopses, enrichment activities, and review questions accompany all 36 musical selections. All of the music is included on the website. Just click a button and enjoy!
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
This course features child-friendly poetry of lyrical fables, green hills, blue mountains, burbling streams, chirping birds, starry-night, sea-foam, colorful flowers, fanciful fairies, haunting dreams, and sweet home! Enjoy the captivating, charming, and sometimes spine-tingling works of famous poets such as Jean de La Fontaine, William Allingham, Henry W. Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe. This course provides audio recordings, lesson guides, coloring pages, and copywork for all included 72 poems.
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
Children travel to Africa and cure sick monkeys with Dr. Dolittle in ‘The Story of Dr. Dolittle’, take a wild car ride with Toad in ‘The Wind in the Willows’, and explore subterranean caverns with Princess Irene in ‘The Princess and the Goblin’. This course integrates text with audio and provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all stories.
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
First grade science focuses on building reading, problem solving, and critical thinking skills. The 'Peter and Polly' series features the lives of two young farm children in the early 1900s. The stories incorporate the flora, fauna, and seasonal events in a small farming community. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, scientific concepts, review questions, and science-themed enrichment activities for all 36 stories.
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
This course focuses on intersections between art and math - drawing lines and shapes. To balance structure while still allowing creativity and imagination to flourish, each lesson enables children to first practice drawing lines and shapes before using their new skills to create novel artwork. Famous works of art that incorporate the studied shapes illustrate and inspire. Supplies needed to complete the 36 exercises are minimal and inexpensive. Sculpting clay or Play-Doh, a ruler, drawing paper, and drawing implements such as pencils, pens, and markers are all children require to complete these lessons.
Grade: First
Duration: Child-dependent
This course provides a 191-page printable copywork book to reinforce McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader. Convenient links to relevant copywork pages are provided within reading lesson guides.
Grade: First
Duration: Child-dependent
This course integrates text and audio recordings of McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader to provide a time-tested reading curriculum with no additional textbook costs. McGuffey Readers were used in American schools for over a century. This course provides teaching guides with instructions on how to teach each of the 63 lessons.
Grade: First
Duration: Child-dependent
The Ray's New Primary Arithmetic textbook covers addition, counting, skip counting, subtraction, multiplication, division, money, and time. Teaching guides accompany all 132 lessons. Using a 10x10 abacus to demonstrate multiplication and division operations may be helpful, although it is not required. Look for one with two colors of beads (5 and 5) on each row. Inexpensive ones can be found online for around $10.00. This course changes the order of certain lessons, expands certain lessons (money and time), and removes antiquated lessons toward the end of the book.
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