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Cycle 4 Sample Booklist

FORM 1 BOOKLIST

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

Form I Language Arts and Reading Books

* Make sure to read the Language Arts How To before deciding what level your child is ready for.

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 4 Form I Language Arts packet in print or cursive
  3. History Readers: *Please note these are not scheduled, use as your child is ready to read them.

Clara and the Bookwagon by Nancy Levinson, The One Bad Thing About Father by Monjo, The Long Way to a New Land by Joan Sandin, Eat My Dust! Henry Ford’s First Race by Monica Kulling, Titanic, Lost and Found by Judy Donnelly, The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto by Natalie Standiford, Dust for Dinner by Ann Turner, Greg’s Microscope by Selsam, Birth of an Island by Millicent Selsam, The Most Wonderful Doll in the World by Phyllis McGinley, McBroom’s Wonderful One Acre Farm by Sid Fleischman

Advanced Readers:

  1. Cycle 4 Form I Language Arts packet in print or cursive
  2. The following readers:

Meet Theodore Roosevelt by Ormonde De Kay (1) 

The First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and The Wright Brothers by George Shea (1) 

Lily and Miss Liberty by Carla Stevens (1) 

 Form I Nature Books

Natural History:

Among the Pond People by Clara Dillingham Pierson (1) 💸 💸 🎧

 

Optional: (these are only used one week and YouTube links are included)

Pond by Jim LaMarche

Over and Under the Pond 

 

Optional:

The Handbook of Nature Study (all) 💸 

Nature Anatomy by Rotham

Form I American History

*There are a lot of picture books used this year. I recommend getting from the library as needed.  Feel free to substitute what you have available from your library. You don’t need to purchase all of these.

  1. If you Lived 100 Years Ago by Ann Mcgovern (1) 
  2. When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest (1) 
  3. If Your Name was Changed at Ellis Island by Ellen Levine (1) 
  4. Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon (1) 
  5. Polar: The Titanic Bear by Daisy Spedden (1) 
  6. Eleanor by Barbara Cooney (1)  

Form I Geography Books

Grades 1 and 2:

  1. Elementary Geography by Charlotte Mason 💸 🎧 (all)

Grade 3: 

  1. A USA Atlas (like this one) (all)

Read Alouds Forms I and II

  1. All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor (1) 🎧
  2. Mary Poppins by P L Travers (1) 📺

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

  1. The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit (1) 💸 🎧
  2. The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson (1) 
     

Form III Booklist

Form II Nature

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

Form II Geography

  1. The Book of Marvels: The Occident by Halliburton *Look on Thrift Books or Abe Books for this one. (all) 📚

Form II History/ Citizenship

Ancient History:

Grades 5/6: Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John Haaren (all) 💸 🎧

American History:

  1. America’s Story Volume 3 by Angela O’Dell (all)
  2. Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor by Russell Freedman (1) 
  3. Winnie’s Great War by Lindsay Mattick (1) 

Form II Language Arts

  1. Cycle 4 Form II Language Arts Packet in Print or Cursive Font
  2. OPTIONAL: 6th grade grammar supplement Grammar-Land by Nesbit

Form II Literature

  1.  Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 💸 🎧 OR Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis and Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger (1) 
  2. Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry (1) 💸 🎧

Read Alouds Forms I and II

  1. All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor (1) 🎧
  2. Mary Poppins by P L Travers (1) 📺

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

  1. The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit (1) 💸 🎧
  2. The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson (1) 

 

Form III Booklist

Form III Nature

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot (all) 🎧 *NOTE: This book is amazing, but does have some crass language. Please preview.

Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Comstock (all) 💸

Form III Geography

  1. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba (1) ***Young Reader’s Edition. DO NOT buy the adult version! 

Form III History/ Citizenship

World History: 

      1. Story of the World IV (all) 🎧 (on CD)
      2. A History of US: War, Peace, and All That Jazz by Joy Hakim (listed as “H of US” in schedule) (1,2) 
      3. A History of US: All the People by Joy Hakim (listed as “A History:” in schedule) (2,3) *Note: This is the 3rd edition. If you find an older edition, you can still use it. You will just finish a week earlier. The 4th edition has more chapters at the end, but I didn’t prefer them. If you have that edition, end at Ch.52.
      4. The Yanks Are Coming by Albert Marrin (1) 

Ancient History: 

The Book of the Middle Ages by Dorothy Mills (all) 

Citizenship: 

My New Playlist by Jon Acuff

Form III Language Arts

  1. Cycle 4 Form III Language Arts Packet in Print or Cursive Font
  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 

Form III Literature

  1. The Hobbit by Tolkien (1) 
  2. Just David by Eleanor H. Porter (1) 💸 🎧

Shakespeare

Shakespeare: Macbeth

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