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E's List 5th Grade

History:
This Country of Ours by HE Marshall 1783-1914
Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster
The Story of the World Vol. 4 by Susan Wise Bauer

History Tales/Biography:
Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula
Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis and Clark by James Daugherty -- Finished
Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lilias Trotter by Miriam Huffman Rockness
Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Teddy Roosevelt by George Grant

Geography:
The Book of Marvels: The Occident and The Orient by Richard Halliburton

Natural History:
Handbook of Nature Study by Anne Botsford Comstock
Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton

Science:
Christian Liberty Nature Reader, Book 5 by Worthington Hooker
The Fairy-land of Science by Arabella Buckley
Physics Lab in a Housewares Store by Robert Friedhoffer
Apologia Elementary Science Botany by Jeanne Fulbright

Science Biography:
Isaac Newton Alexander Graham Bell -- Always Inventing by Tom L. Matthews
George Washington Carver

Poetry:
Rudyard Kipling
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier and Paul Lawrence Dunbar

Literature:
Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch Chapters 15-28
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle -- Finished
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Shakespeare
Love's Labors Lost -- Finished
Macbeth
The Taming of the Shrew

Plutarch
Poplicola -- Finished
Brutus
Dion

Free Reading
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune -- Currently Reading
The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit -- Finished
The Wouldbegoods by Edith Nesbit -- Currently Reading
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Finished
Little Town on the Prarie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge
Michael Faraday, Father of Electronics by Charles Ludwig
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
Riffles for Watie by Harold Keith
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Falcons of France by Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall
Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

Math
Math U See Delta/Episilon

Handwriting
Italics

Grammar
Growing with Grammar

A's List 4th Grade

History
This Country of Ours by HE Marshall Charles I - George III
George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster

History Tales/Biography
Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula

Geography

Natural History
The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock
Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley

Science
It Couldn't Just Happen by Lawrence Richards
Apologia Elementary Science Botany by Jeanne Fulbright

Poetry
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Emily Dickinson
William Wordsworth

Literature
The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Paul Reveres' Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

Shakespeare
Love's Labors Lost -- Finished
Macbeth
The Taming of the Shrew

Plutarch
Poplicola -- Finished
Brutus
Dion

Free Reading
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte Yonge
Bambi by Felix Salten -- Finished
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Little Britches by Ralph Moody
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight
Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
Return to Gone Away by Elizabeth Enright
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia Hale
Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare
The Sign of the Beaver
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
The Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery
Caddie Woodlawn
Justin Morgan had a Horse by Marguerite Henry

Math
Math U See Beta/Gamma

Handwriting
Handwriting Without Tears Cursive

Spelling
Sequential Spelling

R's List 2nd Grade

History
An Island Story by HE Marshall chapters 22-60 1-66-1553
This Country of Ours by HE Marshall Chapters 1-5
A Child's History of the World by Virgil Hillyer Chapter 47-61

History Tales/Biography
Trial and Triumph by Richard Hanula
The Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge
Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley

Geography
Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling
Seabird by Holling C. Holling

Natural History/Science
The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock
The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Burgess
Pagoo by Holling C. Holling
Apologia Elementary Science Botany by Jeanne Fulbright

Poetry
Walter De La Mare
Eugene Field and James Whitcombe Riley
Christina Rossetti

Literature
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Nesbitt
Pilgrim's Progress Book 1 by John Bunyan
Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Free Reading
A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney -- Currently reading
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
Abraham Lincoln by Ingri D'Aulaire
Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
Mr. Popper's Penquin by Richard Atwater
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney
Along Came a Dog by Meindert De Jong
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli

Math
Math U See Alpha/Beta

Handwriting
Handwriting Without Tears

Spelling
Sequential Spelling

S's. List Kindergarten

FIAR Studies
The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack -- Finished
Lentil by Robert McCloskey -- Finished
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans -- Rowing this week
A Pair of Red Clogs by Masako Matsuno
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills
Who Owns the Sun? by Stacy Chbosky
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
The Glorious Flight by Alice and Martin Provensen
How To Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman
Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
Another Celebrated Dancing Bear by Glady's Scheffrin-Falk

Phonics
Reading Made Easy By Valerie Bendt

Math
Math U See primer

Handwriting
Handwriting Without Tears

My Reading List

The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning
Too Wise to Be Mistaken,Too Good to be Unkind by Cathy Steere
HomeSchooling at the Speed of Life by Marilyn Rockett
Kids in the Syndrome Mix by Martin L. Kutscher MD
The Gift of Dyslexia by Ronald D. Davis
Love and Logic Solutions for Kids with Special Needs by David Funk
The Out of Sync Child Has Fun by Carol Stock Kranowitz
Do You Think I'm Beautiful?
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary God by Mary E. DeMuth

Other Books We're Reading


Mother Daughter Bookclub September The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene DuBois
October Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
November In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Lord
January Little Women
February Betsy & Tacy Go Downtown by Maud Hart Lovelace and Lois Lenski
March Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
April Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
May All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
June The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
July Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson

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