Year 1
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Probable changes may include moving "This Country of Ours" to a later
year and using "Our Island Story" by H. E. Marshall and/or "Fifty
Famous Stories Retold"
by James Baldwin in Year 1 (both of these will be online by the time
the revised booklist is finalized). Nature book(s) by Thornton Burgess
or Tommy Smith are also being discussed. They will also be available as
free online etexts. Changes, including a revised 36-week schedule, will
be finalized and posted before the new school-year begins.
Asterisks
refer to which term the book is used.
* the
book is used in term 1
** the
book is used in term 2
***
the book is used in term 3
In
order to complete the curriculm, daily or weekly instruction should be
provided in the following areas.
This
site has many versions; it is preferable for a child to become
accustomed to the language and flow of the KJV, as a familiarity with
King James English will make other literature more accessible.
Little
House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
For
those on a strict budget trying to buy as few items as possible by
making use of online resources and library books, recommended purchases
are:
Hillyer's
Child's History of the World (to be used for 3 years)
Handbook
of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock (to be used for 6 years)
a Math
program
Books
by Holling C Holling that your library does not have
D'Aulaire
books if your library does not have them (Columbus, Lief the Lucky,
Pocahontas)
childrens
picture books by James Herriot if your library doesn't have them
Aesop's
Fables illustrated by Milo Winter, paperback, is nice to have
a
phonics program
a well-illustrated (not
by Thomas Kinkade) version of A Child's Garden of Verses is good to own
Laura
Ingalls Wilder books if your library does not have them
Other
books can be read online or borrowed from the library.
AO Year 0 - AmblesideOnline.org
What about A Child's Garden of Verses illustrated by Thomas Kinkade?
There are some wonderfully illustrated versions of children's poems out there to choose from. Children enjoy seeing pictures of children like themselves. While Thomas Kinkade's paintings enjoy popularity with many people, they aren't really geared for children; they're charming, idyllic scenes that appeal more to adults who may be drawn to peaceful scenes of country tranquility. Since there are so many alternatives that would be better suited to children, the concern was that Kinkade's current fame might cause a parent to choose the version with his pictures based on the fame of a name alone rather than with a child's eye.
My favorite versions of A Child's Garden of Verses are illustrated by Eulalie and Jessie Wilcox Smith. Children dressed as real children were in Robert Louis Stevenson's day helps to set the poems in their correct time context and may help a child form a perspective that children who lived a long ago were a lot like they are today, which I believe gives a better idea of our place in the world; ie, people who lived before were just as real as people who live today. It would be a shame for children to miss seeing pictures of children alongside these poems about children.
One that I especially recommend:
"A Child's Garden of Verses - a classic illustrated edition conceived and collected by Cooper Edens"
ISBN 0877016089 Chronicle Books San Francisco
http://www.chroniclebooks.com/Chronicle/servlet/at/load-kids and search for Stevenson
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