Curriculum Choices: First Grade (2020-21)
✭ spine material
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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