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Cycle 1 Sample Booklist

FORM 1 BOOKLIST

Form I Language Arts and Reading Books

*Please see the Language Arts Module if you need help knowing what reading level to place your child.

Beginning Readers:

  1. 100 Gentle Lessons in Manuscript Handwriting (or another handwriting program to use during the LA block)
  2.  100 Gentle Lessons in Sight and Sound (level 1 or 2) *To use during the Reading block

Independent Readers: 

  1. Treadwell Reader Second Reader OR Natural Method Reader Second Reader
  2. Cycle 1 Form I Language Arts packet in print or cursive
  3. History Readers: Step into Reading: Christopher Columbus by Krensky, Step into Reading: Pocahontas by Penner, Step into Reading- First Thanksgiving by Hayward

Advanced Readers:

  1. Cycle 1 Form I Language Arts packet in print or cursive
  2. The following readers:

Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective 🎧 by Donald Sobol

My Father’s Dragon 🎧by Ruth Gannett

The Storm (The Lighthouse Family) 🎧 by Cynthia Rylant

Form I Nature Books

 The Burgess Animal Book (all) 💸 🎧

Form I American History

  1. Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus by Sis and Encounter by Jane Yolen (Each used only one week. Get from library or substitute another Columbus book such as the one by D’Aulaire) 
  2. Leif the Lucky and Pocahontas by D’Aulaire OR Pocahontas: Princess of the New World by Krull 
  3. If you Lived With the Iroquois by Ellen Levine  

Form I Geography Books

Grades 1-2

  1. Home Geography by C.C. Long 💸

Grade 3 

A USA Atlas (like this one)

Read Alouds Forms I and II

  1. Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White (1) 💸 🎧
  2. Half Magic by Edward Eager (1) 💸 🎧 

Read Aloud Alternatives Forms I and II *If you have read the ones above.

  1. Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil (1)
  2. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1) 💸 🎧 

Form I Poetry

*If you don't want to use some of the formal poets included in the Cycle 1 Morning Time or just to have on hand.

  1. Sing A Song of Popcorn
  2. A Child’s Garden of Verses

Form II Booklist

Form II Nature

  1. 4th: See Form I
  2. 5th6th Grade: Storybook of Science  💸 🎧 
  3. Exploring Nature With Children (if not done in Form I)

Form II Geography

**** If your child hasn’t done US Geography yet, you may wish to follow the plans for Form I 3rd grade which covers US states and capitals

  1. Wow, Canada by Vivien Bowers *https://a.co/d/bSWJdiI Make sure to buy this edition, not the 10th Anniversary one!
  • A blank notebook or blank index cards to make a travel journal
  • If you would like a book that is more living and tied to the time period, you can substitute Cartier Sails the St. Lawrence by Esther Averill. I didn’t include it bc of the negative way the First Nations are portrayed, but many CM families love this book.

2. Walk the World’s Rim by Betty Baker

Canada, Central/South America maps. Or you can find blank map pads at miller pads and paper HERE

Form II History/ Citizenship

British History: *There is no American History this term

Our Island Story by H E Marshall (all) 💸 🎧

Ancient History:

Grade 6: The Story of the Ancient World by Miller ✝️ 

Citizenship:

50 Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin 💸 🎧

Form II Language Arts

  1. Cycle 1 Form II Language Arts Packet in Print or Cursive Font *a digital PDF is included in your membership
  2. OPTIONAL: 6th grade grammar supplement Grammar-Land by Nesbit 

Form II Literature

  1. The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (1) 🎧
  2. Solimar: Sword of the Monarchs by Pam Munoz Ryan
  3. Pedro's Journal by Pam Conrad

 

Family Science (Grades 4-8)

1. Amazing Inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci You Can Build Yourself by Maxine Anderson

Form III Booklist

History/ Citizenship

World History: 

  1.  The Book of Renaissance and Reformation Times by Dorothy Mills

Ancient History: 

  1.  The Book of the Ancient World by Mills 

Citizenship:

  1.  Ourselves by Charlotte Mason 💸  

Geography

Mapping the World With Art by Ellen McHenry

Form III Literature

  1. Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray 🎧
  2. Rolf and Viking Bow by Allen French

 Form III Language Arts

  1. Grammar Advanced Learners: Demme Learning has redone Analytical Grammar. If you have never done AG before, I recommend starting in Book 3 and doing one book a year. Strong grammar students can start in book 4. 
  2. Grammar Option 2: Grammar Flip
  3. OPTIONAL 9TH GRADE COMPOSITION: The Little Red Writing Book by Brandon Royal

Family Science (Grades 7-8)

1. Amazing Inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci You Can Build Yourself by Maxine Anderson

1. Exploring the World of Physics by Tiner