Curriculum Choices: First Grade (2020-21)

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English

Language Arts

• First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind (Level 1) by Jessie Wise
• Language Lessons for Children: Primer One by Cottage Press
• Explode the Code 3, 3 1/2, 4 & 4 1/2

Literature

• Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
• Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Shakespeare

• Beautiful Stories for Children by E. Nesbit
• A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories by Angela McAllister ✭
• How to Teach Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig

Filipino

• Matutong Magbasa by Anvil Publishing ✭
• Wikahon by Adarna ✭
• Ang Kabayo ng Troya
• Si Odysseus at ang Cyclops
• Si Melampus at ang mga Ahas
• Si Mariang Alimango
• Ang Mahiyaing Manok
• Si Mariang Alimango
• Ang Elepante at ang Anim na Bulag
• Ang Alamat ng Dugong
• The Love of Lam-Ang

Araling Panlipunan

World History, Tales and Biographies

• Story of the World, Volume 1 by Susan Wise Bauer ✭
• The Story of the Ancient World by H. A. Guerber
• Fifty Famous Stories by James Baldwin ✭
• Boy of the Pyramids by Ruth Fodisck Jones
• Tales and Customs of Ancient Hebrews by Eva Herbst

Church History

• Ignatius of Antioch by Sinclair Ferguson
• Polycarp of Smyrna by Sinclair Ferguson
• Irenaeus of Lyons by Sinclair Ferguson
• God’s Timeline: The Big Book of Church History by Linda Finlayson ✭

• Augustine of Hippo by Simonetta Carr
• Athanasius by Simonetta Carr
• Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula ✭

Geography

• Geography by Claritas Publishing ✭
• Home Geography by CC Long

Philippine History & Biographies

• Fil and Filippa by John Stuart Thomson ✭
• Si Diwayen, Noong Bago Dumating ang mga Espanyol
• Si Segunda, Noong Panahon ng mga Espanyol
• Mother Ignacia (Great Lives Series)
• Gabriela Silang (Great Lives Series)

Math

Arithmetic

• Math U See Alpha ✭
• Beginning Arithmetic 1 by Rod & Staff
• Elementary Arithmetic by SCM
• Addition Facts That Stick by Kate Snow
• Subtraction Facts That Stick by Kate Snow

MAPEH

Art History and Appreciation

• Vincent’s Starry Night and Other Stories by Michael Bird
• Picture Studies by Cottage Press

Science

• Christian Liberty Nature Reader, Book One by Florence Bass
• Christian Liberty Nature Reader, Book Two by Julia McNair Wright
• Insects by Arabella Buckley
• Seed Babies by Margaret Warner Morley

Music Appreciation

• Music Enrichment by Memoria Press

Character Education

Bible

• The Tent of God by Marianne Radius
• ESV Bible
• God’s Bible Timeline by Linda Finlayson

Catechism

• Westminster Shorter Catechism 1-15
• Learning the Christian Faith: The Shorter Catechism for Today by Rowland S. Ward

Psalmody

• Select Psalms from The Book of Psalms for Worship

Classical Studies

Classical Myths & History

• D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths
• Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

Classical Language

• I Speak Latin by Andrew Campbell ✭
• Mater Anserina: Poems in Latin for Children by Milena Minkova

Scholé Reads

Basket Time

• Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales
• Beowulf retold by Michael Morpurgo
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Chronicles of Narnia (Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader)
• Little Pilgrim’s Progress by Helen L. Taylor

Poetic Knowledge

• I Am the Seed That Grew The Tree selected by Fionna Waters
• The Harp and Laurel Wreath by Laurel Berquist

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