1st Grade Curriculum — Old-Fashioned Education

For Ages 5 to 8
General American History
40 Week Schedule, PDF

King James Bible

• The King James Version of the Bible

Bible Study

• Mother Stories from the Old Testament
• Mother Stories from the New Testament

Devotions

• Keys for Kids or Kids 4 Truth Devotionals or other devotions of your choice

Arithmetic

Choose 1.

• CIMT, MEP, Primary Year 2
• First lessons in numbers: oral and written
• First Lessons in Arithmetic (easier to print)
• Ray’s Arithmetic, purchased separately
• Math program of your choice, purchased separately

Science

• Among the Forest People
• Among the Night People
• Among the Pond People
• Among the Farm-Yard People
• Among the Meadow People
• The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children

Library Skills

• Go to the library once a week, learn how it all works.

Language Arts

• Word Mastery: A Course in Phonics for the First Three Grades, pp26-64
• McGuffey’s First Eclectic Reader
• When appropriate begin writting 1 short story a week (4 or more sentences, as you deem fit)
• A Primary Reader

Spelling

• McGuffey’s Eclectic Spelling Book, up to lesson 6

Literature

Choose as many or as few of these books as you see fit. You don’t need to read all of them. Just the ones you like the best.

• The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter
• A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
  Arthur Scott Bailey
• Sleepy-Time Tales: the Tale of Fatty Coon
• Tale of Brownie Beaver
• The Tale of Buster Bumblebee
• The Tale of Cuffy Bear
• The Tale of Freddie Firefly
• The Tale of Frisky Squirrel
• The Tale of Henrietta Hen
• The Tale of Major Monkey
• The Tale of Old Mr. Crow
• The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels
• The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk
• The Tale of Tommy Fox
• The Tale of Solomon Owl
• The Tale of Timothy Turtle

History

• Stories of American Life and Adventure (read aloud)

Biography

• Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans (read aloud)

Geography

• The Seven Little Sisters who Live on the Round Ball that Floats in the Air by Jane Andrews
• First Lessons in Geography by James Monteith

NOTE: A few of the details in this book are out of date. I recommend that you get a map of the World and an ink pen and go through it, briefly updating the text. It shouldn’t take too long and would be a good project for an older child.