Preparing for your homeschool journey
Are you feeling overwhelmed and don’t know where to begin? The key to a successful homeschool journey is good planning.
Pre-Homeschool Journey Checklist:
Join a support group
1. Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is a nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms.
2. Arizona Families for Home Education (AFHE) is a statewide organization that serves the needs and protects the rights of
3.
Research the State Homeschool Law
1. Make sure you know what your state requires you to do and what the deadlines are.
2. You should keep a copy of all the paperwork.
Research and choose your curriculum
1. Talk to other homeschoolers to see what they have used and what they thought of it. How did it work for them?
2. Go to used curriculum sales.
3. Go to the State convention workshops and exhibits.
4. Get homeschool curriculum catalogs. Rainbow Resource is one of the best catalogs, along with ChristianBook.com.
5. Evaluate what your child’s learning style is.
6. What teaching methods will work best for you family?
Set Goals
1. Determine if your child is ready for school and where he is academically.
2. Set for each child that is measurable and attainable.
3. Other goals you should set are personal and family goals.
Research Homeschooling
1. Homeschool seminars
2. State convention
3. Homeschooling Magazines
4. Homeschool websites
5. Local Homeschool Support Groups
6. Read all you can from every source you can find.
Set your Schedule
1. Determine what your school year will be. Make sure you are aware of your state’s legal requirements.
2. Have set time frames when you plan to have specific academic progress done during the school year.
3. Make sure you include a chore schedule so that your house will not get out of control.
4. Write down your weekly plans and make sure they are realistic.
5. Don’t forget to start you day with the Lord and to teach your children to do it too.
Purchase your Supplies
1. Set up your school room: Bookshelves, storage cabinets (make sure you have a place for everything to help keep organized)
2. Filing cabinets to keep all necessary paperwork in.
3. Tables or Desks and good lighting.
4. Homeschool resource magazines and books.
5. Curriculum
6. Other School Supplies like paper, pencils, pens, pencil sharpener, rulers, notebooks, file folder, dividers, glue, art supplies, etc.
High School requirements for ASU: 1. English Competency Requirement—Four years Composition/Literature based. 2. Mathematics Competency Requirement—Four years: one year of each Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry and Advanced Math class that Algebra II is a prerequisite. 3. Laboratory Science Competency Requirement—Three years: one year of each Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, or Physic. You may substitute an integrated science or an advanced science for one required course. 4. Social Science Competency Requirement—Meet one of the following: One year American History or One year Social Science (European History, Economics, Sociology, Geography, Government, Psychology, or Anthropology) 5. Foreign Language Competency Requirement—Two years of the same foreign language. 6. Fine Arts Competency Requirement—One year of fine arts or a combination of two semesters of fine arts. 1. English Competency Requirement—ACT English 21 or SAT Critical 2. Mathematics Competency Requirement—Act 24 or SAT 540 3. Laboratory Science Competency Requirement—ACT Science 20 or SAT II one of the following: Biology 590, Chemistry 600 or Physics 620 4. Social Science Competency Requirement—SAT II American History/Social Studies 560 or SAT II World History 580
Minimum Test Scores for ACT or SAT:
Books to Read Aloud to Your Children
Reading is a very important part of our children’s education. If our children learn to love reading and to become good readers they will excel in school. Here is a list of books from a Christian worldview to help them accomplish it.
Bible for Preschoolers and Beginning Readers
Bible in Pictures edited by Rev. Ralph Kirby, published by Greystone Press
Child’s Story Bible by Catherine E. Vos
Egermeier’s Bible Story Book by Elsie E. Egermeier
Golden Children's Bible by Joseph A. Grispino and Samuel Terrien
1-3 Anthologies & Poetry
A Apple Pie and Nursery Rhymes and others by Kate Greenaway
Aesop for Children illustrated by Milo Winter (126 fables)
Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Children by Walter de la Mare
Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde
McGuffey’s Primer, Pictorial Primer, & First Reader by William McGuffey
Moral Tales by Maria Edgeworth
My Favorite Story Book by W. G. Vande Hulst
Nonsense Poems and others by Edward Lear
Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne
Once On A Time by A. A. Milne
Parent’s Assistant by Maria Edgeworth
Prince Rabbit by A. A. Milne
Songs of Childhood by Walter de la Mare
When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne
4-6 Anthologies & Poetry
Blue Fairy Book and others by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H. J. Ford
Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson
Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Walter Crane
McGuffey’s Second and Third Reader by William McGuffey
Perrault’s Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne
4-6 Literature
Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Arabian Nights translated by Edward Lane
At the Back of the North Wind and others by George MacDonald
Beauty and the Beast by Charles Lamb
House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
Story of Dr. Doolittle and others by Hugh Lofting
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles & Mary Lamb
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Uncle Remus and others by Joel Chandler Harris
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
4-6 Advanced Literature
Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
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Grades 10-12 Literature
Reading is a very important part of our children’s education. If our children learn to love reading and to become good readers they will excel in school. Here is a list of books from a Christian worldview to help them accomplish it.
10-12 Literature
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
All Creatures Great and Small and others by James Herriot
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
Amazing Adventures of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
American Leonardo by Carleton Mabee
Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
Animal Farm; 1984 by George Orwell
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Autobiography by Benvenuto Cellini
Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt
Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton
Barchester Towers and others by Anthony Trollope
Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
Bible in Spain by George Borrows
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys by John Buchan
Borden of Yale by Mrs. Howard Taylor
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Burning Bush and others by Sigrid Undset
Byzantium by Stephen R. Lawhead
Cabinet of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac
Captain Cook's Explorations by James Cook
Catherine of Siena by Sigrid Undset
Charterhouse of Parma and others by Stendahl
Chivalry and others by James Branch Cabell
Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving
Contender by Robert Lipsyte
Covenant and other historical fiction by James A. Michener
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Cripps, the Carrier by Richard Blackmore
Crisis by Thomas Paine
Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson
Cruise of the "Nona" and others by Hilaire Belloc
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Darwin's Black Box by Michel Behe
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Death of Ivan Ilyitch by Leo Tolstoy
Death of the Gods by Dmitri Merejkowski
Diary & Autobiography of John Adams edited by L. Butterfield
Diary by David Brainerd
Diary of a Country Priest and others by George Bernanos
Dream Thief by Stephen R. Lawhead
Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Emma by Jane Austen
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton
Every Living Thing by James Herriot
Experience the Depths of Jesus Christ by Madame Jeanne Guyon
Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography by Hans Christian Anderson
Fathers and Sons and others by Ivan Turgenev
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Four Voyages to the New World by Christopher Columbus
Foxe's Christian Martyrs by John Foxe, edited by W. Grinton Berry
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Green Mansions and others by William H. Hudson
Heart of Darkness and others by Joseph Conrad
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland H. Bainton
House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga, translated by D. H. Lawrence
House of Seven Gables and others by Nathaniel Hawthorne
How I Found Livingstone by Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Iceland Fisherman and others by Pierre Loti
In This Sign by Joanne Greenburg
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jerusalem and others by Selma Lagerlof
Journal by George Fox
Journal by John Wesley
Lalla Rookh by Tom Moore
Lavengro by George Borrows
Life of Columbus by Washington Irving
Life of George Washington by Washington Irving
Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
Lord Peter and other mysteries by Dorothy Sayers
Lorna Doone by Richard D. Blackmore
Man Called Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
Martin Chuzzelwitt by Charles Dickens
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Moby Dick and others by Herman Melville
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
My Antonia by Willa Cather
My Confession by Leo Tolstoy
Old Creole Days and others by George Washington Cable
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
On Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and others by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Paradise War and others in trilogy by Stephen R. Lawhead
Peace Child by Don Richardson
Pere Goirot by Honore de Balzac
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Pillar of Iron and other historical fiction by Taylor Caldwell
Power & the Glory and other historical fiction by Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Prisoner of Zenda and others by Anthony Hope Hawkins
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Rabble in Arms and others by Kenneth Roberts
Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
Raven: a Biography of Sam Houston and other biographies by Marquis James
Red and The Black by Stendahl
Romany Rye by George Borrows
Roots of the Mountains by William Morris
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthrone
Scott's Last Expedition by Robert Scott
Sense and Sensibility and others by Jane Austen
Servant of Slaves and others by Grace Irwin
Sevastopol Sketches and others by Leo Tolstoy
Shadows on the Park by Willa Cather
Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris
Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
Song of the Scaffold by Gertrud von Le Fort
Tale of the South Downs by Richard Blackmore
Taliesin and others in series by Stephen R. Lawhead
Thirty Nine Steps and others by John Buchan
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tom Jones and others by Henry Fielding
Travels in Arabian Deserts by Charles Doughty
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Virginians and others by William Makepeace Thackery
Voyages to the New World by Hakluyt
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
War of the Worldviews by Gary DeMar
Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
Wisdom of the Desert by Thomas Merton
With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Witness by Whittaker Chambers
Grades 10-12 Anthologies and Poetry
Reading is a very important part of our children’s education. If our children learn to love reading and to become good readers they will excel in school. Here is a list of books from a Christian worldview to help them accomplish it.
10-12 Anthologies & Poetry
Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes
Battle of Maldon & Other Old English Poems by Crossley-Holland & Mitchell
Blindman's World and Other Stories by Edward Bellamy
Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories by Giovanni Verga
Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev
Dream Tales and Prose Poems by Ivan Turgenev
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Henry IV and other histories by William Shakespeare
Holy Sonnets and Other Divine Poems by John Donne
Homeric Hymns
Little Novels of Sicily by Giovanni Verga
Macbeth and other tragedies by William Shakespeare
Minor Poems by Edmund Spenser
Necklace and Other Stories and others by Guy DeMaupassant
Pearl by Charles Osgood
Poems by C. S. Lewis
Poems by G. K. Chesterton
Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poems by John Keats
Poems by John Milton
Poems by Lord Byron
Poems by Matthew Arnold
Poems by Percy Blythe Shelley
Poems by Robert Burns
Poems by Robert Lewis Stevenson
Poems by Sir Walter Scott
Poems by William Wordsworth
Poems of Hesoid
Poetry as a Means Of Grace by Charles Osgood
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by J. R. R. Tolkien
Sir Orfeo by Unknown
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Stories and Plays by Anton Chekhov
Taming of The Shrew and other comedies by William Shakespeare
Ursule Mirouet and Other Stories by Honore de Balzac
Grades 7-9 Anthologies and Poetry
Reading is a very important part of our children’s education. If our children learn to love reading and to become good readers they will excel in school. Here is a list of books from a Christian worldview to help them accomplish it.
7-9 Anthologies and Poetry
Arts by Hendrick Willem Van Loon
Best Novels and Stories by Eugene Rhodes, edited by Dobie
Idylls of the King and other poetry by Alfred Tennyson
Lady or the Tiger and Other Stories by Frank Stockton
McGuffey's Fourth Reader by William McGuffey
Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Poem of the Cid by unknown
Poems by Emily Dickinson
Poems by George Herbert
Poems by Robert Browning
Poems by Robert Frost
Poems by Rudyard Kipling
Poems by Thomas Gray
Poems by Thomas Macaulay
Poems of Horace
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Selections from Souvenirs Entymologiques by HenriFabre
Song of Roland translated by Dorothy L. Sayers
Story of Mankind by Hendrick Willem Van Loon
Swoop and Other Stories by P. G. Wodehouse
Tales by Washington Irving
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe
Van Loon’s Geography by Hendrick Willem Van Loon
Works of Anne Bradstreet edited by Jeannine Hensley
Grades 7-9 Advanced Literature
Reading is a very important part of our children’s education. If our children learn to love reading and to become good readers they will excel in school. Here is a list of books from a Christian worldview to help them accomplish it.
7-9 Advanced Literature
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
Ben Hur and others by Lew Wallace
Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
Blood and Sand by Blasco Ibanez
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
Four Horsemen of Apocalypse by Blasco Ibanez
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Fromont Jeune by Alphonse Daudet
George Trilby by Du Maurier
Gil Blas by Alain Le Sage
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Greek Way to Western Civilization by Edith Hamilton
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley
Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
King Solomon's Mines and others by Henry Rider Haggard
Last Days of Pompeii by Lord Edward Bulwar-Lytton
Legends of the Alhambra by Washington Irving
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Lilith by George MacDonald
Lost Queen of Egypt by Lucile Morrison
Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Bowen
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
Pilgrim's Progress and others by John Bunyan
Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson
Quatre-Vingt-Treize by Victor Hugo
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
Roman Way to Western Civilization by Edith Hamilton
Sanders of the River and others by Edgar Wallace
Silas Marner and others by George Eliot
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Taking of the Bastille by Alexandre Dumas
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
Tartarin by Alphonse Daudet
Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Travels by Marco Polo
Travels in Africa by Mungo Park
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
Whites and The Blues by Alexandre Dumas
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Grades 7-9 Literature
Reading is a very important part of our children’s education. If our children learn to love reading and to become good readers they will excel in school. Here is a list of books from a Christian worldview to help them accomplish it.
7-9 Literature
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: Life of Christopher Columbus & others by Samuel E. Morison
Adventures of Richard Hannay and others by John Buchan
All Men Are Brothers and others by Pearl S. Buck
Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon
Anne of Green Gables and others by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant
Boy Alone and others in the trilogy by Reginald Ottley
Boy on the Rooftop by Tomas Szabo
Boy's War by David J. Michell
Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Bruchko by Bruce Olson
Bulfinch's Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch
Bulfinch's Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
Bulfinch's Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch
Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare
Call of the Canyon and others by Zane Gray
Chase Me, Catch Nobody by Erik Christian Haugaard
Chosen by Chaim Potok
Christy by Catherine Marshall
Chronicles of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters
Cider Days by Mary Stolz
Circuit Rider and others by Edward Eggleston
Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
Day of Pleasure by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Devil in Print by Mary Drewery
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Flames of Rome by Paul Maier
For Love of Jody by Robbie Branscum
Giants in the Earth and others by O. E. Rolvaag
Good Morning, Miss Dove by Frances Gray Patton
Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacClean
Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by Scott O'Dell
Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Hoosier School-Boy by Edward Eggleston
Hoosier Schoolmaster by Edward Eggleston
Hound of the Baskervilles & others by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
If You Love Me Nothing Else Matters by Patricia St. John
In His Steps by Charles Sheldon
In the Hall of the Dragon King & others in the trilogy by Stephen R. Lawhead
Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Julius Caesar and other biographies by John Buchan
King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell
Leader by Destiny by Jeanette Eaton
Life of David Crockett by Davey Crockett
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
Likely Lad by Gillian Avery
Lion's Paw by D. R. Sherman
Little White Horse and others by Elizabeth Goudge
Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkein
Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Max's Dream by William Mayne
Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Moonstone and others by Wilkie Collins
Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
Mrs. Mike by Benedict & Nancy Freedman
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nikolenka's Childhood by Leo Tolstoy
O! Pioneers by Willa Cather
Odyssey of Homer by Barbara Leonie Picard
Of Courage Undaunted by James Daugherty
One of Ours by Willa Cather
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
Pictures of Travel in Sweden by Hans Christian Anderson
Pond by Robert Murphy
Portable Chaucer by Theodore Morrison
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt
Prospering by Elizabeth George Speare
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggen
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
Sarah Bishop by Scott O'Dell
Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
Second Mrs. Giaconda by E. L. Konigsburg
Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
Silver Chalice and other historical fiction by Thomas B. Costain
Slake's Limbo by Felice Holman
Small Woman by Alan Burgess
Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
Stories of Charlemagne by Jennifer Westwood
Story of a Bad Boy and others by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O'Dell
String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
Ten Fingers for God by Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Tevye the Dairyman by Sholom Aleichem
Time Enough for Drums by Anne Rinaldi
Time Machine and others by H. G. Wells
To the Tune of a Hickory Stick by Robbie Branscum
Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
Valley of the Shadow by Janet Hickman
Virginian and others by Owen Wister
Voyage Round the World by William Dampier
War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Well at the World's End and others by William Morris
Whale Song by Robert Siegel
White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
White Fang by Jack London
Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings
Young Brontes by Mary Louise Jarden
Grades 4-6 Advanced Literature
Reading is a very important part of our children’s education. If our children learn to love reading and to become good readers they will excel in school. Here is a list of books from a Christian worldview to help them accomplish it.
* Great read aloud books
4-6 Advanced Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Boy's King Arthur by Sidney Lanier
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Complete Peterkin Papers by Lucretia Hale
Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
Freckles by Gene Statton Porter
Girl of the Limberlost and others by Gene Statton Porter
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
Heidi by Joanna Spyri
Heroes by Charles Kingsley
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates and others by Howard Pyle
Indispensible Information for Infants by Owen Wister
Jim Davis by John Masefield
*Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
Kidnapped and others by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Wyeth
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Last of the Mohicans and others by James Fenimore Cooper
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women and others by Louisa May Alcott
Main-Travelled Roads and others by Hamlin Garland
Masterman Ready by Frederick Marryat
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
Penrod and others by Booth Tarkington
Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Wyeth
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and others by Jules Verne
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
*Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley
Willis the Pilot by Johann Wyss
Grades 4-6 Literature
Reading is a very important part of our children’s education. If our children learn to love reading and to become good readers they will excel in school. Here is a list of books from a Christian worldview to help them accomplish it.
* Great read aloud books
4-6 Literature
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray
Adventures of Mabel by Harry Thurston Peck
Adventures of Tintin by Herge
Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb
Aeneid for Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church
Aldo Applesauce by Johanna Hurwitz
Alexander the Great by John Gunther
*Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
All Sail Set and others by Armstrong Sperry
All-of-a-Kind Family and others by Sydney Taylor
America's Paul Revere by Esther Forbes
*Arabian Nights translated by Edward Lane
Archimedes & the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick
Aristotle, Dean of Early Science by Glanville Downey & other Immortals of Science biographies
*At the Back of the North Wind and others by George MacDonald
Augustus Caesar's World by Genevieve Foster
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit
*Beauty and the Beast by Charles Lamb
Behind Rebel Lines by Seymour V. Reit
Ben and Me by Robert Lawson
Bevis by Richard Jefferies
Big Day For Scepters by Stephen Krensky
Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard
Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck
Birth of Rome by Laura Orvieto
Black Beauty: the Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell
Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
Black Stallion and others by Walter Farley
Blue Willow by Doris Gates
Book of Cowboys by Will James
Book of Three and others by Lloyd Alexander
Borrowers and others by Mary Norton
Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter by Padriac Colum
Boy's Life of Edison by William Meadowcroft
Brady by Jean Fritz
Bright April by Marguerite de Angeli
Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
Buffalo Knife by William O. Steele
By Pike and Dike: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic by G. A. Henty
Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink
Calico Bush by Rachel Field
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Canterbury Tales retold by G. McCaughrean
Canyon Winter by Walt Morey
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
Cattle Brands by Andy Adams
Charlemagne and the Twelve Peers of France by Alfred J. Church
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth
Children of Odin by Padraic Colum
Children's Homer by Padraic Colum
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming
Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Daniel Boone and other biographies by James Daugherty
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Destination Moon by James Irwin
Dobry by Monica Shannon
Doctor's Boy by Karin Anckarsvard
Dog on Barkham Street by Mary Stoltz
Doll's House by Rumer Godden
Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
Dragon Slayer by Rosemary Sutcliff
Dvora's Journey by Marge Blaine
Eagle of the Ninth and other historical fiction by Rosemary Sutcliff
Early Thunder and others by Jean Fritz
Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
Far Frontier by William O. Steele
Five Children & It by Edith Nesbit
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew and others by Margaret Sidney
Follow My Leader by James B. Garfield
For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem & others by G. A. Henty
Four-Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright
Freedom to Dream by Cynthia Blair
From Anna by Jean Little
Further Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlof
Gathering of Days by Joan Blos
Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
George Washington's World and other histories by Genevieve Foster
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
God Made Them Great by John Tallach
Golden Fleece by Padriac Colum
Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Golden Key by George MacDonald
Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
Good Master by Kate Seredy
Grandfather's Chair by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Great Brain and others by John Fitzgerald
Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
Guns for General Washington by Seymour Reit
Hakon of Rogen's Saga and others by Erik Christian Haugaard
Hannah by Gloria Whelan
Henry Huggins and other Henry books by Beverly Cleary
Henry Reed, Inc. by Keith Robertson
Heroes of Asgard by A. & E. Keary
Home of the Sailor by Rumer Godden
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
*House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert de Jong
Huguenot Garden: A Children's Story of Faith by Douglas Jones
Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth de Trevino
Iliad for Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church
In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce by G. A. Henty
In Grandma's Attic & others by Arleta Richardson
Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
Ink on His Fingers & other hero tales of the Reformation by Louise Vernon
John Treegate's Musket and others in the series by Leonard Wibberley
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Journey from Peppermint Street by Meindert de Jong
Journey to America by Sonia Levitin
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Jungle Doctor and others by Paul White
Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
Kateri Tekakwitha: Mohawk Maid by Evelyn Brown
Kildee House by Rutherford George Montgomery
King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
King of the Wind and others by Marguerite Henry
King Without a Shadow by R. C. Sproul
Lad: a Dog and others by Albert Payson Terhune
Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty
Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight
Legend of the Cid by Robert Convoy Goldston
Little Britches: Father & I Were Ranchers and others by Ralph Moody
Little Fishes by Erik Christian Haugaard
Little House in the Big Woods and others by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock
Little Lord Flauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Log of a Cowboy by Andy Adams
Lone Cowboy by Will James
Lone Journey by Jeanette Eaton
Lost Princess by George MacDonald
Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsey
Magic Summer by Noel Streatfeild
Magical Melons by Carol Brink
Many Moons by James Thurber
Mary Poppins and others by Pamela L. Travers
Master Cornhill by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Master Skylark by John Bennett
Medal of Honor Heroes by Colonel Red Reeder
Mine for Keeps by Jean Little
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden
Moffats by Eleanor Estes
Moth Manor by Martha Bacon
Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Mr. Revere and I by Robert Lawson
Mr. Small and others by Lois Lenski
Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brien
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle and others by Betty MacDonald
My Daniel by Pam Conrad
My Indian Boyhood by Luther Standing Bear
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Myths of the World by Padraic Colum
National Velvet by Enid Begnold
Niko, Sculptor's Apprentice by Isabelle Lawrence
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Odysseus the Wanderer by Aubrey De Selincourt
Odyssey for Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church
Old Bones The Wonder Horse by Mildred Mastin Pace
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Outlet by Andy Adams
Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
Paul Bunyan and His Blue Ox by Wallace Wadsworth
Paul Bunyan by James Stevens
Peppermints in the Parlor by Barbara Wallace
Perilous Road by William O. Steele
Peter Pan by James Barrie
Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Phoenix and the Carpet by Edith Nesbit
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (children's version)
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Pippi Longstocking and others by Astrid Lindgren
Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter
Prairie Boy's Summer by William Kurelek
Prairie Boy's Winter by William Kurelek
Prairie School by Lois Lenski
Princess and Curdie by George McDonald
Princess and the Goblin by George McDonald
Problem With Pulcifer by Florence Parry Heide
Proud Taste for Scarlet & Miniver by E. L. Konigsburg
Pushcart War by Jean Merrill
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
Rainbow Garden by Patricia St. John
Rascal by Sterling North
Rescuers series by Margery Sharp
Return to Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
Ride the West Wind by Barbara Chamberlain
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
Secret at Pheasant Cottage by Patricia St. John
Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Seven Years From Home by Rose Blue
Seventeenth Swap by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Shadrack by Meindert de Jong
Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Silver Chief: Dog of the North and others by Jack O'Brien
Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan
Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James
Sounder by William Armstrong
Spiderweb for Two by Elizabeth Enright
Star of Light by Patricia St. John
*Story of Dr. Doolittle and others by Hugh Lofting
Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden
Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow by Allen French
Strawberry Girl and others by Lois Lenski
Striped Ships by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Swallows & Amazons and others by Arthur Ransome
Sword and the Sundial by Phyllis Prokop
Swords of the Vikings by Julia Davis Adams
*Tales from Shakespeare by Charles & Mary Lamb
Tales from the Arabian Nights by H. J. Dawood
Tales of the Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang
Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang
Tales of Uncle Remus retold by Julius Lester
Tanglewood Secrets by Patricia St. John
Thee, Hannah by Marguerite de Angeli
Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright
They Shall Be Mine by John Tallach
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
This Dear Bought Land by Jean Lee Latham
Three Children and Shakespeare by Anne Terry White
Three Go Searching by Patricia St. John
*Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Time at the Top by Edward Ormondroyd
To Catch a Golden Ring by Marilyn Donahue
Tough Winter by Robert Lawson
Treasures of the Snow by Patricia St. John
Trial by Poison and other Trailblazer books by Dave and Neta Jackson
Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Turn Homeward, Hannalee by Patricia Beatty
Twenty One Balloons by William Pene DuBois
Twice Freed by Patricia St. John
*Uncle Remus and others by Joel Chandler Harris
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Viking Tales by Jeannie Hall
Vinegar Boy by Alberta Hawse
Voyage to Freedom by David Gay
Way Things Work by David Macaulay
Wharton & the Castaways by Russell Erickson
What Katy Did and others by Susan Coolidge
Wheel on the School by Meindert de Jong
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Where the River Begins by Patricia St. John
White Stag by Kate Seredy
Why the Chisholm Trail Forks by Andy Adams
*Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Winged Watchman and others by Hilda Van Stockum
*Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlof
Wonderful Wizard of Oz and others by Frank Baum
Yankee Doodle's Cousins by Anne Malcomson
Year of the Black Pony and others by Walt Morey
Young Carthaginian, A Story of the Times of Hannibal by G. A. Henty
Grades 4-6 Anthologies and Poetry
Reading is a very important part of our children’s education. If our children learn to love reading and to become good readers they will excel in school. Here is a list of books from a Christian worldview to help them accomplish it.
* Great read aloud books for early ages
4-6 Anthologies and Poetry
American Tall Tales by Adrien Stoutenburg
Beowulf, the Warrior by Ian Serraillier
Best-Loved Poems of the American People selected by Hazel Felleman
*Blue Fairy Book and others by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H. J. Ford
Book of Americans by Rosemary & Stephen V. Benet
Book of Virtues by William Bennett
Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc
Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens
Child’s Geography of the World by V. M. Hillyer
Child’s History of Art by V. M. Hillyer
Child’s History of the World by V. M. Hillyer
*Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson
Favorite Poems Old and New by Helen Ferris
Hero Tales by Dave and Neta Jackson
*Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Walter Crane
John Gilpin’s Ride by William Cowper
Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon
LuLu’s Library and other short story anthologies by Louisa May Alcott
*McGuffey’s Second and Third Reader by William McGuffey
Moral Compass by William Bennett
Myths of the World by Padraic Colum
*Perrault’s Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning, illustrated by Kate Greenaway
Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich and others by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Sketch Book by Washington Irving
Song of Hiawatha and other poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stories of Great Americans by Edward Eggleston
Story of the Greeks and others by H. A. Guerber
*Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Treasury of Children’s Literature by Armand Eisen
*Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wonder Clock by Howard Pyle
Holiday Books for Grades 1-9
Reading is a very important part of our children’s education. If our children learn to love reading and to become good readers they will excel in school. Here is a list of books from a Christian worldview to help them accomplish it.
1-3 Holiday Books
Amish Christmas by Richard Ammon
Christmas in the Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojchiechowski
Crippled Lamb by Max Lucado
First Christmas by Robbie Trent
First Christmas by Tomie de Paola
Grumpy Shepherd by Paddie Devon
Mary, Did You Know? by Mark Lowry
Modestita’s Gift, El Regalo de Modestita by Inez Torres Davis
Peter Spier’s Christmas by Peter Spier
Rembrandt: The Christmas Story published by Thomas Nelson
Silent Night by Susan Jeffers
Story of Christmas: Words from the Gospels of Matthew & Luke by Jane Ray
Who Is Coming to Our House by Joseph Slate
4-6 Holiday Books
Bells of Christmas by Virginia Hamilton
Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Christmas Stories of George MacDonald by George MacDonald
Good King Wenceslas by John Mason Neale, illus. by Christopher Manson
Good King Wenceslas illustrated by John Wallner
Littlejim's Gift, An Appalachian Christmas Story by Gloria Houston
On That Night by Elizabeth Yates
One Wintry Night by Ruth Graham
Oxford Illustrated Dickens’ Christmas Books by Charles Dickens
Patricia St. John Christmas Book by Patricia St. John
Rembrandt: The Christmas Story published by Thomas Nelson
7-9 Holiday Books
Gift, The by R. Kent Hughes, illustrated by Ron DiCianni
Martin Luther’s Christmas Book edited by Roland H. Bainton
Rembrandt: The Christmas Story published by Thomas Nelson
Grades 1-3 for Advanced Readers
Reading is a very important part of our children’s education. If our children learn to love reading and to become good readers they will excel in school. Here is a list of books from a Christian worldview to help them accomplish it.
1-3 Advanced Readers
Abraham Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse by Ursula Moray Williams
Adventures of Tom Bombadil by J. R. R. Tolkein
Alligator Case and others by William Pene du Bois
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? by Jean Fritz
Angry Giant by Oscar Wilde
Apple & the Arrow by Mary Marsh Buff
Bard of Avon: the Story of William Shakespeare by Diane Stanley
Bear Called Paddington and others by Michael Bond
Bears on Hemlock Mountain and others by Alice Dalgliesh
Benjamin Franklin by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Benjamin West and his Cat Grimlakin by Marguerite Henry
Betsy & Billy and others by Carolyn Haywood
Betsy & Tacy Go Over the Big Hill and others by Maude Lovelace
Billy & Blaze and others by C. W. Anderson
Book of Cowboys by Holling C. Holling
Book of Indians by Holling C. Holling
Box-Car Children and others by Gertrude Warner (the first 19 in the series)
Bright April by Marguerite de Angeli
Burt Dow, Deep Water Man by Robert McCloskey
Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? by Jean Fritz
Capyboppy by Bill Peet
Castle by David Macauley
Cathedral by David Macaulay
Chalk Box Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla
Charles Dickens: the Man Who Had Great Expectations by Diane Stanley
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
City by David Macaulay
Cleopatra by Diane Stanley
Coll and His White Pig by Lloyd Alexander
Columbus by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
d'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
d'Aulaire's Norse Gods & Giants by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Eric the Red & Leif the Lucky by Barbara Schiller
Fairy Doll by Rumer Godden
Finn Family Moomintroll and others by Tove Jansson
George Washington by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
George Washington's Breakfast by Jean Fritz
Good Queen Bess by Diane Stanley
Grain of Rice by Helena Clare Pittman
Happy Hollisters and others by Jerry West
Happy Orpheline and others by Natalie Savage Carlson
Henner's Lydia by Marguerite de Angeli
Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
I, Columbus and others by Peter & Connie Roop
In Search of Troy by Piero Ventura
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln by Jean Fritz
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling RA
Kindle of Kittens by Rumer Godden
Least of All by Carol Purdy
Leave Horatio Alone by Eleanor Clymer
Leif the Lucky by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Leonardo da Vinci by Diane Stanley
Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla
Little Pear by Eleanor Frances Lattimore
Marco Moonlight by Clyde Robert Bulla
Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
Michelangelo's World by Piero Ventura
Mill by David Macaulay
Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling
Mouse House by Rumer Godden
Mouse on the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannet
Nothing is Impossible, The Story of Beatrix Potter by Dorothy Aldis
Old Mother West Wind and others by Thornton W. Burgess
Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle by Rumer Godden
Ordinary Princess by Mary Margaret Kaye
Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling
Pagoo by Holling C. Holling
Peter the Great by Diane Stanley
Pilgrims of Plimoth by Marcia Sewall
Puppy Summer by Meindert de Jong
Pyramid by David Macaulay
Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame
Rocking Horse Secret by Rumer Godden
Sarah Morton's Day and others by Kate Waters
Seabird by Holling C. Holling
Shhhh … We're Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz
Ship by David Macaulay
Shoeshine Girl by Clyde Robert Bulla
Skippack School by Marguerite de Angeli
Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi
Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims by Clyde Robert Bulla
St. Philip of the Joyous Heart by Francis X. Connolly
Tale of Jolly Robin and others by Arthur Scott Baily
Tale of Three Trees by Angela Hunt
They Were Strong & Good by Robert Lawson
Three Dollar Mule by Clyde Robert Bulla
Three Young Pilgrims by Cheryl Harness
Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle
Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling
Truthful Harp by Lloyd Alexander
Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop
Twenty Elephant Restaurant by Russell Hoban
What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? by Jean Fritz
Where do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? by Jean Fritz
Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? by Jean Fritz
Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock? by Jean Fritz
Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? by Jean Fritz
Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? by Jean Fritz
Yellow and Pink by William Steig
Yonie Wondernose by Marguerite de Angeli
Preschool and Grades 1-3: Bible, Anthologies, Poetry, and Picture Books
Reading is a very important part of our children’s education. If our children learn to love reading and to become good readers they will excel in school. Here is a list of books from a Christian worldview to help them accomplish it.
* Great read aloud books for early ages
** Great presentations of the gospel for Children
Bible for Preschoolers and Beginning Readers
Beginner’s Bible by Karyn Henley [Great for children that can read independently.]
*Bible in Pictures edited by Rev. Ralph Kirby, published by Greystone Press
*Child’s Story Bible by Catherine E. Vos
*Egermeier’s Bible Story Book by Elsie E. Egermeier
*Golden Children's Bible by Joseph A. Grispino and Samuel Terrien
Book of Life by Newton Hall & Irving Wood, in 8 volumes
** A is for Adam by Ken and Mally Ham
** D is for Dinosaur by Ken and Mally Ham
** Gospel for Children by John B. Leuzarder
1-3 Anthologies and Poetry
* A Apple Pie and Nursery Rhymes and others by Kate Greenaway
*Aesop for Children illustrated by Milo Winter (126 fables)
Alan Garner’s Fairy Tales of Gold by Alan Garner
Best-Loved Fairy Tales by Walter Crane
*Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
Children’s Treasury of Virtues by William Bennett, illustrated by Michael Hague, and others in the series
Child’s Treasury of Poems by Mark Daniel
* Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Children by Walter de la Mare
Fables by Arnold Lobel
Favorite Poems of Childhood by Philip Smith
* Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde
James Herriot’s Treasury for Children by James Herriot
* McGuffey’s Primer, Pictorial Primer, & First Reader by William McGuffey
* Moral Tales by Maria Edgeworth
*My Favorite Story Book by W. G. Vande Hulst
* Nonsense Poems and others by Edward Lear
* Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne
*Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes by Marguerite de Angeli
Once On A Time by A. A. Milne
* Parent’s Assistant by Maria Edgeworth
Pleasant Field Mouse Storybook by Jan Wahl
Poems & Prayers for the Very Young by Martha G. Alexander
Poems to Read to the Very Young by Josette Frank
*Prince Rabbit by A. A. Milne
Real Mother Goose illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright
Ruth Ainsworth Book by Ruth Ainsworth
*Songs of Childhood by Walter de la Mare
Stories Around the Year by Thornton W. Burgess
Tom Thumb & Other Stories by L. Leslie Brooke
*When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne
1-3 Picture Books
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by J. Viorst
Always Room For One More by Sorche Nic Leodhas
Amos and Boris and others by William Steig
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street! by Dr. Seuss
Andy and the Lion by James Daugherty
Angus and the Ducks by Marjorie Flack
Animals of Farmer Jones & other Little Golden Books illus. by Richard Scarry
Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing by Judi Barrett
Apple Pie by Kate Greenaway
Apricot ABC by Miska Miles
Baby Farm Animals & other Little Golden Books illus. by Garth Williams
Bambi’s Children by Felix Salten
Beetle Bush by Beverly Keller
Big Book of Brambly Hedge and others by Jill Barklem
Big Snow by Berta Hader
Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
Biggest House in the World and others by Leo Lionni
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
Christine's Picture Book by Hans Christian Anderson
Church Mouse and others by Graham Oakley
Clown of God and others by Tomie de Paola
Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen by Felicite LeFevre
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Crane Maiden by Miyoko Matsutani
Cross Country Cat by Mary Calhoun
Curious George & others by Hans A. Rey
Dandelion Hill by Clyde Robert Bulla
Day at the Fair by Arleta Richardson
Deer at the Brook and others by Jim Arnosky
Doctor Dan the Bandadge Man by Helen Gaspard, ill. by Corinne Malverne
Dogger by Shirley Hughes
Edward Lear Alphabet by Edward Lear, illustrated by Carol Newsom
Emily by Michael Bedard
Emperor’s New Clothes and others by Hans Christian Anderson
Empty Pot by Demi
Fairy Caravan by Beatrix Potter
Faster Sooner Hound by Ama Bontemps
Fiona's Flea by Beverly Keller
Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss
Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
Flip by Wesley Dennis
Frog Band and the Onion Seller by Jim Smith
Frog, Frog, Frog by Robert Welber
Gift for Grandpa by Angela Hunt
Gift for Tia Rosa by Karen Taha
Goodnight Moon and others by Margaret Wise Brown
Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
Hilda the Hen Who Wouldn't Give Up by Jill Tomlinson
Hole is to Dig by Ruth Krauss
Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
House that Jack Built by Antonio Frasconi
I Saw the Sea Come In by Alvin Tresselt
If You Give A Moose A Muffin by Laura Joffe Numeroff
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
In the Forest and others by Marie Hall Ets
James & the Rain by Karla Kuskin
Johnny Crow’s Garden by L. Leslie Brooke
King at the Door by Cole Brock
Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky
Lillie at Ballet by Rachel Isadora
Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Little House and others by Virginia Burton
Little Old Mrs. Pepperpot and others by Alf Proysen
Little Red Hen and others by Paul Galdone
Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky
Luckiest One of All by Bill Peet
Madeline and others by Ludwig Bemelmans
Make Way For Ducklings and others by Robert McCloskey
Marshmallow by Clare T. Newberry
May I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice S. De Regniers
Midnight Adventures of Kelly, Dot, and Esmerelda by John S. Goodall
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
Mr. Brown and Mr. Gray by William Wondriska
My Island Grandma by Kathryn Lasky
My Little Golden Book About God & others illustrated by Eloise Wilkin
My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Becky Reyher
N. C. Wyeth's Pilgrims by N. C. Wyeth and Robert San Souci
Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
Noah's Ark: Words from the Book of Genesis by Jane Ray
Old Rosie, the Horse Nobody Understood by Lilian Moore & Leone Adelson
On Mother’s Lap by Ann Herbert Scott
Owl Moon by Jane Yolan
Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
Paper Crane by Molly Bang
Pelle’s New Suit by Elsa Beskow
Penny Wise - Fun Foolish by Judy Delton
Peter Spier's Rain and others by Peter Spier
Petunia by Roger Duvoisin and other Petunia stories
Picture Books by Randolph Caldecott published by Frederick Warne
Pimm’s Place by Beverly Keller
Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowry, illus. by Gustaf Tenggren
Rain, Rain Rivers by Uri Shulevitz
Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You Book by Richard Scarry
Rome Antics by David Macaulay
Saint Valentine by Robert Sabuda
Shy Little Kitten by Cathleen Schurr, illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren
Sir Francis Drake: His Daring Deeds by Roy Gerrard
Smartest Bear and His Brother Oliver by Alice Bach
Snowy Day and others by Ezra Jack Keats
Snuggle Bunny by Nancy Jewell
St. Francis and the Friendly Beasts by Margaret Hodges
St. George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges
Stone Soup and others by Marcia Brown
Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack
Story of Babar and others by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff
Story of the Creation: Words from Genesis by Jane Ray
Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Tale of Peter Rabbit & others by Beatrix Potter
Three Little Horses by Piet Worm
Three Little Kittens by Paul Galdone
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
Toad for Tuesday by Russell Erickson
Two Roman Mice by Horace, retold by Marilynne K. Roach
Uncle Wiggly Book by Howard R. Garis
Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Veronica by Roger Duvoisin
Very Hungry Caterpillar and others by Eric Carle
Where Does the Butterfly Go When It Rains? by May Garelick
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Grades 1-3: Beginning Readers and Easy Readers
Reading is a very important part of our children’s education. If our children learn to love reading and to become good readers they will excel in school. Here is a list of books from a Christian worldview to help them accomplish it.
If your child is just learning to read you should use 1-3 beginning readers or 1-3 easy readers.
1-3 Beginning Readers
Are You My Mother? by P. D. Eastman
Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Crash! Bang! Boom! by Peter Spier
Do You Know What I Know? by Helen Borten
Dr. Seuss’s ABC by Dr. Seuss
Fire Cat by Esther Holden Averill
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and others in the series by Maj Lindman
Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
Owl at Home by Arnold Lobel
Put Me In the Zoo by Robert Lopshire
Snipp, Snapp, and Snurr by Maj Lindman
Stop That Ball! by Mike McClintock
1-3 Easy Readers
Amelia Bedelia and others by Peggy Parish
Animals Do the Strangest Things and others by Leonora Hornblow
Bedtime for Frances and other Frances books by Russell Hoban
Bravest Dog Ever by Natalie Standiford
Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
Daniel's Duck by Clyde Robert Bulla
Frog and Toad are Friends and others by Arnold Lobel
George and Martha by James Marshall
George the Drummer Boy by Nathaniel Benchley & other History I Can Read books
George Washington’s Mother by Jean Fritz
Granny and the Desperadoes by Peggy Parish
Greg's Microscope and other Science I Can Read books by Millicent Selsam
Horse in Harry's Room and others by Syd Hoff
Josefina Story Quilt by Eleanor Coerr
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by Peter Roop
Little Bear and others by Elise Minarik
Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel
Mouse Tales by Arnold Lobel
Nate the Great and others by Marjorie Sharmat
New Coat for Anna by Harriet Ziefert
Night Noises and Other Mole & Troll Stories by Tony Johnston
One Bad Thing About Father by F. N. Monjo
Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley
Sammy the Seal and others by Syd Hoff
Trojan Horse, or How the Greeks Won the War by Emily Little
Homeschool Socialization
Most of our homeschooled children are involved in a wide variety of extra activities and community service. They interact with a large gamut of people that vary in age and culture.
Studies show that they are well socialized and make great contributions in their communities. It also shows that homeschooled children tend to make lasting friendships.
I found research result done by Ray, 1997 showing how involved homeschoolers are in activities and the community. As you look over these results please keep in mind that there are many more activities available for our children these days.
Here are the results I found: The mean number is 5.2 activities per student in the research.
In this research they were looking at homeschool students’ activities in grades K-12. Below you will find a list of the activity and the percent of students involved in them.
Scouts 8%
Ballet/Dance Classes 10%
4-H 14%
Volunteer 33%
Ministry 34%
Bible Clubs 35%
Outside Class 42%
Music Classes 47%
Group Sports 48%
Sunday School 77%
Field Trips 84%
Play with people outside the family 87%
Other 25%
Involved in 2 or more activities 98% *
*Participation in 2 or more activities does not include “other activities”.
I want to encourage you if you are not part of a good homeschool support group to find one. I am part of a group the is very active in educational fairs, field trips {2 or more per month to choose from}, and parties celebrate most all holidays.
If you are looking for a group check out American Families for Home Education .
Can I really teach my child if I don’t have a teaching degree?
According to reached from Rudner, 1999 you do not need special training to produce a well educated child. You can get outstanding educational results by dedication and hard work in a homeschool setting.
Here are the results when they looked at 4th grade and 8th grade homeschoolers.
4th Grade Homeschoolers:
At least one certified parent *82 composite percentile score
No certified parent *82 composite percentile score
8th Grade Homeschoolers:
At least one certified parent *83 composite percentile score
No certified parent *84 composite percentile score
*Footnote: (Rudner, 1999)” Composite Percentile Score refers to the percentile corresponding to the mean composite scaled score.
This is one reason I don't eat or drink anything diet, man-made or processed. The closer to how God made it the better!
If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label, DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!
I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on 'ASPARTAME,' marketed as 'NutraSweet,' 'Equal,' and ‘Spoonful.'
In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant. I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.
I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus.
Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is!
Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.
The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a life-threatening condition. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.
In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss re turned and hearing loss improved markedly.
This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia. During a lecture, I said, 'If you are using ASPARTAME (Nutra Sweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs,
Cramps,
Vertigo,
Dizziness,
Headaches,
Tinnitus,
Joint pain,
Unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!' People were jumping up during the lecture saying, 'I have some of these symptoms. Is it reversible?'
Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with it! This is a serious problem. Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice; a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence!
Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates..
It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!
These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin and is used primarily to preserve 'tissue specimens.'
Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body!
Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the 'diet products' and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.
Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance.
Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, Seizures, Depression, Manic depression, Panic attacks, Uncontrollable anger and rage.
Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as well. Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet.
So called 'behavior modification prescription drugs' (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first place!
Most of these children were being 'poisoned' on a daily basis with the very foods that were 'better for them than sugar..'
It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.
Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, I.e. mental retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners.
There are many different case histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances talking about a plague of neurological diseases directly caused by the use of this deadly poison.'
Herein lies the problem: There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included in 100 different products and strong objection was made concerning its use. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, and still nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets.
Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED! There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a' piece of the Aspartame pie.'
I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.
And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the American College of Physicians?
This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These [organizations] cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required to endorse their products.
Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants.
The bill would also institute independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioral symptoms.
The bill was killed.
It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're informed now!
Please print this out and/or e-mail to your family and friends.
What classes are required for my child to take in High School? Part 1
Please double check with your state for the standard requirements. I have been researching Arizona. It is also a very good idea to check into any of the colleges your child may be interested in to see if there are any additional requirements.
English:
Four years are required. You may choose from American Literature, British Literature, Women’s Literature, World Literature, Mythology, or Poetry. They need to have lots of composition so you could do creative writing, journalism, or nonfiction writing.
Math:
Four years are required. You may choose from Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry, Trigonometry, Advanced math/pre-calc, or Calculus. It would depend on how advanced your child is. It is highly recommended to take math in 12th grade to keep their skills fresh and up to date.
Science:
Three years with labs is required. You may choose from Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Advanced Biology, Astronomy (Earth/Space Science), or Geology. The typical science taken in High School would be the first three I listed above. It is essential that you to keep strong documentation of all the labs.
History/Social Studies and Geography:
Most states require two to three years of History/Social Studies and Geography. You may choose from American History, World History, State History, World Geography, Civics, American Government, or Economics.
Fine Arts:
You should have one year of Drama, Art, Music, Dance, or Photography. If your child is very good and highly interested in any listed please have them to more than one year. You may use them as elective or extra curricular activities which are very important for your transcript.
Foreign Language:
It is important to take at least two years of the same language. You may count Sign Language or Latin.
Driver’s Education:
I would recommend taking driver’s Education for all students. This may count as ½ credit.
Physical Education:
You are required to show one to two years of PE. You will find that most colleges will also be looking for this. You may count Ice skating classes as their PE so keep track of the time your child is in class and practicing. You will need 120 hours to make up a credit or take the classes for the entire year.
Computers:
Many colleges are requiring one year of the following: typing (keyboarding), word processing, excel (spreadsheets), PowerPoint, web design just to name a few. Computers are an important part of life and your child must understand and be able to use a computer.
Free admission to all National Parks during National Parks week, April 17 - 25.
To help you experience America’s great outdoors, they are waiving the entrance fees to all 392 National Parks during this week in April.
Check it out for more information: National Park Services
This is a great opportunity for some affordable family time and you have tons of ways to make it and educational time too.
For all the moms that have younger children I pulled up several Magic School Bus books that would help turn this time into an educational opportunity that your children never forget. You could read a book or two before you go, but don’t forget to dress up as Ms Fizzle. If you wanted to you could find a quiet there and read it before you go explore God’s great outdoors.
Sandra’s list:
The magic school bus gets all dried up: a book about deserts by Suzanne Wyen
The magic school bus explores the world of bugs by Nancy, White
The magic school bus gets ants in the pants: a book about ants by Linda Beech
The magic school bus plants seeds: a book about how living things grow by Patricia Relf
If you have any other books you know would work well please leave them in the comment section.
I am a part of a small co-op group that meets only one day each week in which we cover all the teaching for the following week. In that co-op I teach science to PreK-1st graders. This school year we are teaching them about the human body, their five senses, and nutrition. With teaching so many different ages or grades in one class, I needed something to grab their attention and keep them interested. Their attention spans are quite different. Here is what I did and it is working like a charm.
Have you ever watched The Magic School Bus with Miss Frizzle? I decided to become Miss Frizzle for my science class. If you have watched the Magic School Bus before you would know that Miss Frizzle always has pictures of what the children will be learning that day printed on her clothes.
I decided to take pictures of the things we will be learning about that day and laminate them. I pin them to my clothes, shoes, put in my hair and make earrings out of them. The whole key to doing this is to have it all on when I arrive at the co-op and to leave it on until co-op is over. Oh I forgot to mention that in my science class I am Miss Frizzle and that is what they call me. It did take a while for them to get use to calling me by that name but now they even call me that outside of the co-op too. All the children just love this game we play.
If you decide to do this you will find that your students will rush up to you each morning to find out what they are going to learn today. Our science class is the last class of the day after lunch and some days they just do not want to wait for it. I have found that the older students find it very interesting too. My daughter even asked me why I didn’t do this when she was in Preschool.
To make it a little easier I plan on sewing a solid colored apron for me to wear on co-op days with everything pinned on it for the day. I do have to share with you that I have found when I put the items on my shoes and earrings it makes a great difference for the children. They actually ask me why I didn’t wear them on the few days I skipped wearing them.
I would like to encourage each of you moms even if you are not in a co-op to try this with your children at home. You will find it worth all the trouble. It would be awesome if you include the other subjects that you will be teaching that day. Since I only teach one class that is something I am unable to do.
If you try this please leave me a comment and let me know how it worked for you. You may have new ideas that we all could use to make this work even better.
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I was just introduced to Sturat Murphy. He is a writer of children books who was highly recommended by several Homeschool moms. What I was listening to peaked my curiosity so much that I just had to check his work out. I searched my library and found a total of 59 books. They are awesome!
Sturat Murphy writes a number of other books. He has a gift for making learning fun for your children. I would highly recommend his books to introduce Math concepts to your younger children. It would be a great learning experience if you have older children that would be able to read these to the younger ones.
Here is a small sample of the ones that pertain to teaching Math. I have included the name of the books and summary of them.
1. Circus shapes Circus animals and performers getting ready for a show form basic geometric shapes.
2. Leaping lizards The show's about to begin--but where are all the lizards? Slowly they start to arrive in groups of 5 and 10. Will all 50 make it in time? An introduction to counting by 5s and 10s.
3. Missing mittens As a farmer tries to find the correct number of mittens for his various farmyard animals, the reader is introduced to odd and even numbers.
4. Jack the builder Learn the math skill of counting as you help a little boy and his imagination create different scenes with toy blocks.
5. 100 days of cool Four students arrive on the first day of school looking cool and their teacher challenges them to keep it up as they count down one hundred days to a cool celebration.
6. Monster musical chairs As six monsters play a wild game of musical chairs, readers learn to subtract--one chair at a time.
7. Henry the fourth A simple story about four dogs at a dog show introduces the ordinal numbers: first, second, third, and fourth.
8. The Grizzly gazette At
9. Get up and go! Explains through the use of rhyme the concepts of timelines and addition as a girl gets ready for school with the help of her smart dog.
10. Coyotes all around A pack of coyotes tries to determine how many roadrunners and other creatures are in their vicinity, and while some count different groups and add their totals together, Clever Coyote rounds off and estimates.
11. Too many kangaroo things to do! A surprise birthday party planned for a kangaroo by his friends provides many opportunities for the reader to add and multiply various things.
12. Mall mania A look at addition strategies as the Wilson Elementary chess club count the people for Mall Mania Day where the 100th person to enter the mall gets lots of gifts.
13. Less than zero While trying to save enough money to buy a new ice scooter, Perry the Penguin learns about managing his money and about negative numbers.
14. The best vacation ever A young girl uses data-collecting and problem-solving skills to determine where her family should go for a vacation.
15. Shark swimathon As members of a swim team do laps to qualify for swim camp, readers can practice subtracting two-digit numbers to see how many laps are left to go.
16. Divide and ride Teaches division as a group of friends goes on different carnival rides.
17. Elevator magic Explains the concept of subtraction through a rhyming text about a descending elevator.
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Homeschool Blue Plate Special
As we continue to beat up GEN – O [GENERATION OBESITY], and put it in the rear view mirror, we have a GREAT start. Not only are we building strong minds, and strong character, we MUST build strong, healthy bodies. As we spoke about this in a previous blog, we have a tremendous foundation with our sit-ups, push-ups and jumping rope. Stay focused and committed to doing this EVERY day. Keep each other in the family accountable. Keep increasing your workout program until you reach your goals. Now… we can’t be doing our workout routine, and then fill our plates with Twinkies, cookies and chips, with our diet cola….can we?
LET’S MAKE A MEAL!
One half of your plate should be filled with fruits and vegetables. Load your plate with an assortment of non-starchy vegetables or salad. Dark green and bright colored veggies are best. Fresh, baked, stewed, and dried fruits are a good as a portion. Fruits can be mixed into or cooked as part of another portion, or used as a garnish.
One forth of your plate should be whole grains. Use whole grain bread for sandwiches. Prepare oatmeal, grits, and whole grain cereals. Select whole wheat, cornmeal, and bran for muffins, biscuits, and pancakes for breakfast.
One forth should be lean meat or protein. Poultry, fish, beef, pork, lamb, and goat can be grilled, steamed, or baked. Eggs should be boiled, poached, or cooked into other portions. Fresh peanut butter is also an excellent source of protein.
So, are we going to home educate our kids to have a sound mind, a good character and a STRONG & HEALTHY body? YES WE ARE!!! Here are roughly the portions we should be eating in the various food groups. GRAINS…eat 6 oz. every day. VEGETABLES…eat 2 cups every day. FRUITS…eat 2 cups every day. MILK, YOGURT OR OTHER MILK PRODUCTS… get 3 cups every day. MEAT AND BEANS…eat 5.5 oz. every day. These are just some tips, and maybe a different way of thinking of raising a healthier GENERATION of kids. So let’s stand strong and encourage one another to be …FIT FOR LIFE.
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Growing up I went to a church that sang only hymns. We don’t hear much of them any more but they are filled with words that really lift you up and minister to you.
On days that I am struggling and questioning what and how we are doing I like to listen to the song titled One Day at a Time, Sweet Jesus. It really helps me get myself grounded and ready to be the best wife, mom, and teacher that I can be.
I would like to share the words from that song with you now. Pull this up and read it when ever you start to doubt yourself. I hope they will help you too.
ONE DAY AT A TIME, SWEET JESUS
One day at a time, Sweet Jesus
I'm only human, I'm just a woman
help me believe in what I could be
and all that I am, show me the stairway
I have to climb, Lord for my sake
teach me to take one day at a time.
One day at a time, sweet Jesus.
That's all I'm asking from you
just give me the strength to do everyday
what I have to do.
Yesterday's gone sweet Jesus,
and tomorrow may never be mine.
Lord help me today, show me the way
One day at a time.
Do you remember when you walked among men?
well, Jesus you know if you're looking below
it is worse now than then
cheating and stealing, violence and crime,
so for my sake, teach me to take
one day at a time.
One day at a time, sweet Jesus
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that's all I'm asking from you
just give me the strength to do
everyday what I have to do.
Yesterday's gone sweet Jesus
and tomorrow may never be mine
Lord help me today show me the way
one day at a time.
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