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Meet George Washington.
Martha Washington: America’s First First Lady.
Modern, 1850–Present
Abraham Lincoln
David Livingstone
Theodore Roosevelt
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Minn of the Mississippi.
Paddle-to-the-Sea.
The Gettysburg Address,
Meyer, Carolyn. Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914.
The Presidents Song. Animaniacs,
States and Capitals Songs.
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women.Boston:
Stevenson, Augusta. Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross.
Earhart, Amelia
David Adler
Edmonds, Emma
Nurse, Soldier, Spy (picture book)
Keller, Helen
have vintage book
Davidson, Margaret. Helen Keller,
Kennedy, John F.
JFK (picture book)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
MLK (picture book)
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Ballot Box Battle (picture book)
After reading, ask him to narrate back to you what he’s just heard; use the prompting questions
This narration should be written down and put in the science notebook. By second grade, some children may be ready to write down at least the first sentence of their own narrations.
Aim to make a narration page for at least one additional source.
The goal of classical education is to teach the student to enjoy investigation and learning. If you can successfully introduce him to astronomy, you’ll find him checking out books about the planets and stars—and reading them on his own time.
Macaulay, David, and Neil Ardley. The New Way Things Work, rev. ed. Boston: HMH, 1998.
The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia, 3rd ed.
The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body.
The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth,
Simon’s elementary science books,
The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System.
The Stars: A New Way to See Them, 2nd ed.
Simon’s elementary science books,
Solar System Floor Puzzle.
Classical education has to do with setting up solid foundations, with learning how to learn, with mental discipline and intellectual curiosity and a willingness to grapple with the lessons of the past.
Prima Latina: An Introduction to Christian Latin, 2nd ed.
Prima Latina Complete Set (Text Set plus instructional DVDs and flash cards).
Latina Christiana: An Introduction to Christian Latin.
Latina Christiana I Complete Set (also includes instructional DVDs and flash cards).
Song School Latin.
Seriously?! It is preschool level in my opinion!
Song School Latin Book 1 Program. Includes student book, teacher’s manual, DVD teaching set, and a flash card game.
Song School Latin Book 2 Program. Includes student book, teacher’s manual, DVD teaching set, and another flash card game.
Latin for Children Primer A Program.
Don’t enroll your grammar-stage child in online classes; teach her yourself.
During schooltime, we read books, do experiments, and write about what we’re learning.
Venezia, Mike. Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists.
Grades K–3 Book One: An Introduction to the Visual
Arts.
