1st Grade Curriculum

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Includes the following resources for teaching all Science B subjects: full Schedule; Teaching Helps; student Activity Sheets; separate parent full Answers and Definitions; and much more. Ready for your binder.

A classic devotional book for children focuses on biblical doctrines such as who God is, what He does, Christ's work, the Holy Spirit, prayer, and the church.

The entire set of Scripture verses in your 1st Grade or Sonlight B Bible Memory program set to a diverse variety of music played by an incredibly wide range of musical instruments.

A sheet of four 10.5 x 2" adhesive strips. Stick strips to desk to give students visual clues for print letter formation.

Required Resource for History / Bible / Literature C. (Included in B and B+C. If you purchase History / Bible / Literature C and have not used B or B+C, you will need to purchase this book separately.)

Visit Ancient Egypt, Rome, medieval Europe and Viking days. Colorful, detail-packed illustrations teach about family life and cultural achievements. Humorous, lively, imaginative.

The incredible story of discovering an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb — in the same condition it had been left 2000 years before.

With scarcely enough money for his own family, George Muller sponsored a "Breakfast Club" for orphans that eventually filled five large houses and cared for 10,000 children. Muller's faith and generosity have set a standard for Christians of all generations. A gripping true story.

Join an archaeological dig and learn about the tools and techniques archaeologists use!

Twenty-two hundred years ago in China, King Chen's greatest responsibility was to protect his people from their fierce enemies. To do so he built a Great Wall 3,750 miles long. An awe-inspiring look at why and how the Great Wall of China was built.

Over 40 Timeline Figures for Sonlight B on self-adhesive heavy card stock. Just cut them out, color and stick them in your Timeline Book.

Take an exciting journey Kate and her pet parrot, Mack, as they travel around the world to learn more about different languages and cultures. They are making lots of new friends along the way. As you will travel with them, you will:

• Learn about our most recent adventures twice a month through "Keeping Up with Kate" emails.
• Learn about fun facts, activities, stories and even ways to pray as a family for people around the world.
• Learn how more and more people understand that Jesus speaks their language, no matter what country they're from!

The amazing, "out-of-the-box" story of Joy Ridderhof. An illness kept her from missionary service, but that merely opened a greater opportunity!

Required Resource for History / Bible / Literature C. (Included in B and B+C. If you purchase History / Bible / Literature C and have not used B or B+C, you will need to purchase this book separately.)

The history of the world to 1914.

Required Resource for History / Bible / Literature C. (Included in B, and W. If you purchase History / Bible / Literature C and have not used B, or W, you will need to purchase this book separately.)

Educational BINGO-style games to help children learn their phonic sound clusters and sight words.

A Sonlight exclusive Go Fish!-style card game used to teach basic letter blends.

Required Resource for Language Arts Grades K-1. Set of 50 plastic markers for use with both Alphabet Sounds BINGO and Letter & Word BINGO.

The Alpha Instruction Pack contains the Instruction Manual with lesson-by-lesson instructions and full solutions, and the DVD with lesson-by-lesson video instruction.

Author E.B. White's heartwarming classic about the friendship between a little girl, a selfless spider and "the world's greatest pig."

First in a classic series about a kind-hearted boy and his lovable friends in late '50s middle America.

Gooney Bird dazzles (and inspires) her classmates with "absolutely true" stories, while they learn what makes a story good or bad.

A teacher from England connects with the hearts and minds of students in a one-room Athabascan school in Alaska in 1948.

Award-winning author illustrator recounts the hilarious adventures of a small town boy in middle America during the early '50s.

Colorful introduction to the more significant gods, goddesses, and legendary figures of ancient Greece: Pandora, Heracles (Hercules), Midas, Icarus, and many others.

A classic, absolutely impossible tall tale. It will win your child's heart — and maybe yours, too!

A young farm boy and his sheep grow up together. Touching, beautifully crafted, thought-provoking.

Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher is the insightful story of how an over-protected girl becomes a self-confident young woman.

Seven ancient Roman boys become entangled in a fast-paced and humorous, though apparently deadly-serious mystery.

The only boy in a Chinese family, Little Pear has greater latitude for mischief than others.

Welcome to the hilarious adventures of Wol and Weeps, two of the most lovable pets you'll ever meet. The great horned owls shake up a whole Saskatchewan neighborhood, outsmart Mutt the dog, and turn a house topsy-turvy.

Anna learned how to be a good friend last year. This year, she wants to learn how to be a good sister to a baby girl her family adopted from China. When the doctor warns that the baby isn't thriving, Anna and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project to help save the little one. Will Anna's devotion to her new sister be enough to save her?

When Babe is taken in by Farmer Hogget's sheepdog, Fly, it's only natural he would want to follow in his foster mum's paw-steps. Even with considerable handicaps as a sheepdog (namely, he's a pig) he manages to overcome all with his earnestly polite and soft-spoken ways, proving once again that might doesn't always make right. After saving the sheep from rustlers and wild dogs, Babe convinces Hogget that his idea of becoming a sheep-pig might not be so silly after all. No one could have predicted what follows.

A warm story about an asocial recluse who finally wins friends when he builds and moves into a cottage in the forest.

Put Me in the Zoo by Robert Lopshire is an "I Can Read It Myself" book about an animal full of amazing tricks who wants to join the zoo.

Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik is a modern classic about a loving bear cub.

What can we say about this book? One of the master's best!

A boy watches a fly flee from a frog, but the frog isn't chasing the fly; rather, the frog flees from the cat... and so it goes.

The book that made Seuss famous.

"Try it . . . you might like it" is the theme of this delightful Dr. Seuss classic.

Imagine all the amazing things you could do if only you had a huge ball of string!

A Sonlight exclusive, beginning chapter book developed by a homeschooling mom.

"The Bravest Dog Ever" is the true story of Balto and the dog sled team that delivered diphtheria medication to Nome, Alaska, through a blizzard in 1925.

I Can Read It Book 1 of the series.

The I Can Read It! stories engage your child with real plot, action, and humor. Each story moves your child through a natural progression of phonetic and spelling patterns.

Book 2 of the I Can Read It series.

The I Can Read It! stories engage your child with real plot, action, and humor. Each story moves your child through a natural progression of phonetic and spelling patterns.

Book 3 of the I Can Read It series.

The I Can Read It! stories engage your child with real plot, action, and humor. Each story moves your child through a natural progression of phonetic and spelling patterns.

Book 4 of the I Can Read It series.

This fourth volume in the series contains word lists and shows spelling patterns. Part of the I Can Read It series.

Organize all your homeschool papers in one sturdy and convenient binder. With tabs that match your Sonlight^® History, Language Arts, and Science Instructor's Guides, you'll always know where to find each week's schedule, notes and study guides.

High School All-Subjects Packages include two binders.

Accompany Louis Pasteur as he discovers the secrets of microscopic living creatures — microbes: where they come from and what they do.

Did you know a year on Earth is not a year on all planets? Planets with the longest journey around the sun have the longest years. Find out more in this introduction to the solar system with rich and colorful pictures and graphics.

Observe and learn how to do every science experiment (almost 100!) in the Science B curriculum.

Where does your food go? Why do we have eyelashes? This fact-packed and beautifully illustrated introduction to the human body and how it works helps you find answers. Amazing photos, simple text, and suggested internet links for further exploration.

This exciting visual tour follows the manufacture of a variety of everyday items from start to finish. Did you know glass never wears out and can be recycled forever? Did you ever wonder how toothpaste gets inside the tube? Find out as you "enter the factory" for an up close look.

From germs to viruses to allergies to the body's immune system, this book presents basic information about health and sickness and what we can do about them.

72 pleasurable, illustrated experiments and science activities for children explained in Usborne's unique fashion.

By taking us on a "you are there" field trip, this book explains the water cycle and modern methods of water purification and distribution.

Fascinating introduction to nutrition, foods and dietary habits around the world.

From the Himalayan Mountains to the Namib desert, you and your children take a grand tour of the animal kingdom. You'll learn about the habitats and habits of creatures from all over the world.

Science experiments can easily get passed over in homeschooling homes. A Sonlight Science Supplies Kit helps you fit the experiments into your life. You won't ever need to skip an experiment because you're missing a cork, a marble, a magnet, a thumbtack, a tiny lightbulb. No need to make a run to the hardware store to buy a galvanized nail (and then realize that you actually have to buy a box of 100, when you really need just one).

The Sonlight Science Supplies Kit has the items you need, in the quantities required.

Items in this kit are consumable but may be shared between multiple students.