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Form 1b Feast: Resources for Program 1
Items in bold are required as “Main Courses.” All other items are “Extra Helpings,” and they are optional, to be used if your child shows high interest in the subject. “Extra Helpings” can also serve as alternatives if your child has already read the recommended “Main Course.” Only use digital media if you are reading aloud to a child this age. Hard copies are always recommended, but digital sources are included to help defray costs.
The approximate total cost of buying all of the required books new is $500. Prices for new books were accurate at the time of this publication, but they may be subject to change. Used books and free online versions will help defray those costs. (See On Books in the Quick-Start Guide for suggested guidelines on digital media.) We suggest looking for Extra Helpings, Family Book Shelf, Historical Fiction, and Biography books at your local library.
*If a book is used in more than one form, only one copy is required per family.
**Many of the books are carried over for multiple years, and some are used all the way through school. These books will be investments that will increase your immediate costs, but you will not have to purchase them again, so the cost of books will be lower in the future.
Subject Title/Author For Purchase Free Online
Bible Lessons A good reference Buy from Amazon Bible/Commentary (used (This version costs $34.27 new, throughout school years) but any version will do.)
The Bible for School and Home Buy from Amazon HathiTrust volume 1 by J. Paterson Smyth $14.40 new (optional but highly recommended)
Student Bible Atlas by Tim Dowley Buy from Amazon
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(opt.) (used throughout school $10.58 new or $8.57 Kindle years)
A Child’s First Book of Prayers by Buy from Amazon Lois Rock (opt.) $9.85 new
Sunday Reading (opt.) God’s Names by Sally Michael Buy from Amazon $12.91 new or $9.99 Kindle
The Lord’s Prayer by Rick Warren Buy from Amazon $7.18 new
In God’s Garden: Stories of the Buy from Amazon Main Lesson Saints for Little Children by Amy $6.99 new or $0.00 Kindle Steedman
Our Island Saints by Amy Buy from Amazon Main Lesson Steedman $9.95 new or $1.99 Kindle
Penmanship A New Handwriting by Monica Buy from Amazon Google Books Bridges, (will be used through $15.75 new grade 9) OR Buy from Penny Gardner Italics: Beautiful Handwriting $10.00 new for Children by Penny Gardner (used through grade 9)
Literature Aesop’s Fables for Children by Buy from Amazon Main Lesson Milo Winter $9.89 new or $0.99 Kindle
Tales from Grimm by Wanda Buy from Amazon Gag $15.98 new
The Book of Nature Myths by Buy from Amazon Main Lesson Florence Holbrook $5.59 new or $0.00 Kindle
Extra Helpings (opt.) The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Buy on Amazon Main Lesson Form 1b Feast: Resources for Program 1 3
Lang $9.28 new or $0.00 Kindle
Faerie Gold: Treasures from the Buy from Amazon Land of Enchantment by $14.48 new or $5.49 Kindle Katherine Lindskoog
Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Search on Amazon [Spain, Russia, Poland, Prices vary by title Denmark...] by Virginia Haviland
With a Wig with a Wag and other Buy on Amazon American Folk Tales ed. by Jean $24.95 new Cothran (Tales from regions of the US. Uses the word "Negro" in a title.)
Poetry The Real Mother Goose by Buy on Amazon Blanche Fisher Wright $9.71 new or $0.99 Kindle
Hiawatha by Longfellow, Buy on Amazon Illustrated by Susan Jeffers $7.99 new Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Extra Helpings: Buy on Amazon Eugene Field, illus. Barbara Cooney #13.59 new or $0.99 Kindle
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Buy on Amazon Evening by Robert Frost, illus. by $12.72 new Susan Jeffers A Child's Garden of Verses by Buy on Amazon Gutenburg Robert Louis Stevenson $9.45 new or $0.99 Kindle A Child's Own Book of Verse by Buy on Amazon Main Lesson Ada Skinner $8.95 new or $1.99 Kindle Ring O' Roses by Leslie Brooke Buy on Amazon Archive $6.00 new or $0.00 Kindle
American History American Tall Tales by Mary Buy on Amazon Form 1b Feast: Resources for Program 1 4
Pope Osborne $14.66 new or $10.99 Kindle
Leif the Lucky by the D’Aulaires Buy on Amazon $13.01 new
Extra Helpings: America Begins by Alice Dalgliesh Search on Amazon Out of print
And There Was America by Roger Search on Amazon Duvoisin Out of print
Geography Mapmaking With Children by Buy from Amazon David Sobel (used through $23.20 new elementary school)
Me On the Map by Joan Buy from Amazon Sweeney $6.00 new or $7.99 Kindle
Little Folks of Many Lands by Buy from Amazon Archive Lulu Maude Chance $16.76 new
Extra Helpings: Where Do I Live? by Neil Buy from Amazon Chesanow $6.93 new or $6.58 Kindle
The World at Home by Mary and Buy on Amazon Archive Elizabeth Kirby $19.99 new
Natural History Among the Night People by Buy on Amazon Main Lesson Clara Dillingham Pierson $8.95 new or $0.00 Kindle
James Herriot’s Treasury for Buy from Amazon Children by James Herriot Used only Teacher Resources: Handbook of Nature Study by Buy from Amazon Archive Anna Botsford Comstock (used $18.63 new or $2.99 Kindle throughout school years)
“How to Make a Flower Press” WikiHow Form 1b Feast: Resources for Program 1 5
Art Appreciation 6 prints by Giotto Buy from Simply Charlotte Giotto Di Bondone Mason (prints, biography, and notes ) $16.95
Buy from Riverbend Press (prints only) $6.00
Mathematics Right Start Mathematics Buy from Right Start (Second ed. Preferred; Used Book Bundles: $88.50 through elementary and middle Manipulatives kit: $205.50 school; Manipulatives are a one-time investment.)
Modern Language 1: Choose Spanish or French
Spanish The Usborne First Thousand Buy from Usborne Words in Spanish With Internet £6.99 new Linked Pronunciation Guide by Heather Amery Buy from Amazon Used only
Pio Peep! Nursery Rhymes in Buy from Amazon Spanish (Book and CD) by Alma $13.06 new Flor
George Washington: Primeras Buy from Amazon Biografias by Cassie Mayor $6.29 new De Colores and Other Latin Buy from Amazon American Folk Songs for $7.99 new Children (Book)
De Colores and Other Latin Buy from Amazon American Folk Songs for $8.99 new Children (CD)
French The Usborne First Thousand Buy from Usborne Form 1b Feast: Resources for Program 1 6
Words in French With Internet £6.99 new Linked Pronunciation Guide by Heather Amery Buy from Amazon Used only
Un, Deux, Trois: First French Buy from Amazon Rhymes (Book and CD) by Opal $9.99 new Dunn
Les Plantes by Israel Buy from Amazon Felzsenszwalb $9.99 new
The Usborne French Songbook Buy from Amazon MIDI Files for Beginners (no CD; MIDI files Used only online)
Drawing and Brush-Drawing How To Draw Forest Animals by Buy from Amazon Barbara Levy (to be used $4.16 new through Form 1)
Draw 50 Birds by Lee Ames Buy from Amazon (used through Form 1) $9.99 new or $7.99 Kindle
How To Draw Plants by Amit Buy from Amazon Offir (used through Form 1) $9.99 new or $0.99 Kindle Prang watercolors (used Buy from Amazon through Form 1) $10.58 new
Optional but recommended: Chalk and chalkboard Buy from Amazon $2.62 new
Reading Letter Tiles Buy from Amazon $9.30
Reading Literature: The Primer Buy from Amazon Main Lesson by Harriett Treadwell (print out $8.95 new if using free online resource) Form 1b Feast: Resources for Program 1 7
Reading Lessons by Jennifer Coming Soon Spencer
Extra Helpings: Reading Literature: First Reader by Buy from Amazon Main Lesson Harriett Treadwell (print out if $8.95 new using free online resource)
Optional but recommended: ABC Go Fish game Buy from Amazon $1.34 new
ABC Memory game Buy from Amazon $9.49 new
Music Appreciation Siegfried (Act III from Der Ring Buy CD from Amazon YouTube Nebelungen) by Wagner $11.39 new or free streaming for Prime members Buy DVD performance from Amazon $39.99 new
Stories of Siegfried Told To the Buy from Amazon Main Lesson Children by Mary MacGregor $5.95 new or $0.00 Kindle Teacher Resource: “Wagner” by K. E. Limbert in the PDF Parent’s Review, January, 1928 Optional Teacher Resource: A Touch of the Infinite: Studies in Buy from Amazon Music Appreciation by Megan $17.99 new Hoyt
Applied Music 150 American Folk Songs to Sing, Buy from Amazon Read, and Play by Peter Erdei $11.77 new God Bless America: The Ultimate Buy from Amazon Patriotic Album $15.29 CD or $11.49 mp3
Hosanna, Loud Hosannas! Buy from Amazon Student Hymnal by Barbara $42.00 new (piano Form 1b Feast: Resources for Program 1 8
and David Leeman (used accompaniment available soon) throughout school years)
Physical Education and Dance 303 Kid-Approved Exercises and Buy from Amazon Active Games by Kimberly $14.82 new or $6.99 Kindle Weschler (used through elementary school)
Folk Dances Around the World Buy from Amazon Oh, Johnny! (Book and CD) (used through $18.73 new middle school) Patty Cake Polka
Work and Handicrafts Paper and Cardboard Buy from Amazon Hathi Trust Construction by George Buxton $14.95 new (used through Form 1)
Sewing School: 21 Sewing Buy from Amazon Projects Kids Will Love by Amie $10.69 new Plumley (used through Form 1) Extra Helpings: Modeling Clay Animals by Buy from Amazon Bernadette Cuxart $7.46 new
Roots, Shoots, Buckets, and Boots: Buy from Amazon Gardening Together With Children $10.01 new or $9.34 Kindle by Sharon Lovejoy
The American Boy’s Handy Book: Buy from Amazon Archive What to Do and How to Do It by $10.73 new or $8.79 Kindle Daniel C. Beard
Teacher Resource: Age-appropriate chores Motherlode