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Cycle 3 Sample Booklist

FORM I BOOKLIST

KEY: 🎧 Audiobook, 💸 Free version, ✝️ Christian resource, 📚Cheaper edition, 📺 Video

Form I Language Arts and Reading Books

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 , Johnny Appleseed: My Story by Harrison, The Drinking Gourd by Monjo, The Josefina Story Quilt by Coerr, Abe Lincoln’s Hat by Brenner, The Long Way Westward by Sandin, Wagon Wheels by Barbara Brenner, Snowshoe Thompson by Levinson, Daniel’s Duck by Bulla, Chang’s Paper Pony by Coerr, The Big Balloon Race by Coerr, Helen Keller: Courage in the Dark by Hurwitz, Along Came a Dog  by DeJong
  2. Cycle 3 Form I Language Arts packet in print or cursive

Advanced Readers:

  1. Cycle 3 Form I Language Arts packet in print or cursive
  2. The following readers:

Riding the Pony Express by Clyde Robert Bulla (1)

Sarah, Plain, and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (1) 💸 🎧

The Secret Valley by Clyde Robert Bulla (1) 💸

Form I Nature Books

Natural History:

Among the Forest People by Clara Dillingham Pierson (1)  💸 💸

Form I American History

Buffalo Bill by D’Aulaire 

Form I Geography Books

Grades 1/2

Home Geography by C.C. Long (all) 💸

Grade 3

A USA Atlas (like this one)

Read Alouds *Choose One

At The Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald

The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald 

 

     

Form II Booklist

Form II Language Arts

  1. Cycle 3 Form II Language Arts Packet in Print or Cursive Font
  2. OPTIONAL: 6th grade grammar supplement Grammar-Land by Nesbit

Form II Literature

  1.  Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter (1) 💸 💸 🎧
  2. Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates (1) 

Form II Nature

  1. 4th- See Form I
  2. 5th 6th Grade: Storybook of Science  💸 🎧 (

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. The Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling (1,2)
  2. OPTIONAL: I recommend getting the maps from Beautiful Feet. They come in packs of 4, but you will use the other maps next year. You can also buy individual map titles as well. These big maps are beautiful.

Form II History/ Citizenship

British History:

  1. The Story of Nelson
  2.  Florence Nightingale by Laura E. Richards (1,2) 💸 🎧

Ancient History: 

Grades 5/6: Famous Men of Rome  by John Haaren (all) 💸 🎧 (*I prefer the Memoria Press Version)

American History: 

The Story of the Great Republic by Christine Miller (all)

Citizenship: 

  1. How the US Government Works by Syl Sobel (1,2) 
  2. Presidential Elections and Other Cool Facts by Syl Sobel (1,2)
  3. Bill of Rights by Syl Sobel (1,2)

Read Alouds *Choose One

At The Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald

The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald 

 

 

 

Form III Booklist

Form III Geography

  1.  Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl (1,2) 

Form III History/ Citizenship

World History:

Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster (1) *The plans use the older version of this book. If you buy it new, the content is the same, but the page numbers will need to be adjusted.

Ancient History:

The Book of the Ancient Romans by Dorothy Mills (all) 💸

Citizenship:

This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years by Jaquelle Crowe ✝  

Form III Literature

  1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (2) 💸 🎧 OR Little Men by Louisa May Alcott and Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott (2) 

Form III Language Arts

  1. Cycle 3 Form III Language Arts Packet 
  2. 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 OR Grammar Flip 
  3. OPTIONAL 9TH GRADE COMPOSITION: The Little Red Writing Book by Brandon Royal 

     

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