Friday, April 1, 2011

Core 1 Books Read and Listened to : March - Dec 25 2009

Core 1: World History Part 1

Travel the globe as you take your child on a thrilling adventure through world history!

This year you and your children will visit ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece, Europe, Africa, India, and China. At every stop you will discover how people lived thousands of years ago through vivid, captivating stories and compelling illustrations that fuel the imagination.


Leading Little Ones To God  by Marian M. Schoolland
Usborne Book of Peoples of the World
Missionary Stories with the Millers  by Mildred A. Martin
From Akebu to Zapotec  by June Hathersmith
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Favorite Poems of Childhood by Robert Louis Stevenson, Christina Rossetti
The Real Mother Goose   by  Blanche Fisher Wright

Butterflies & Caterpillar by Barrie Watts

Insect Study-various books
Queen Ester (and many other Tomie DePaola books)
Mission Addition by Loreen Leedy (Leedy and Stuart J. Murphy math books various)
Subtraction Action by Loreen Leedy
A Dandelion's Life  by John Himmelman
A Parable of the Bridesmaids by Helen Caswell

Where Are The Night Animals  by Mary Ann Fraser

Crinkleroot's Guide to Knowing the Trees,  Crinkleroot's Guide to Animal Tracking,  Crinkleroot's Nature Almanac,  Crinkleroot's Guide to Knowing Butterflies and Moth's,  etc.  byJim Arnosky--this is one of our favorite authors-we own many of his books
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (read repeatedly over the years)
Usborne Book of Houses and Homes
A Child's Book of Character Training by Ron & Rebekah Coriell
Learning About God-positive action
Star Wars books-various with Eric
Greatest Stories of the Bible
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
Nim's Island,  Nim at Sea    by Wendy Orr
Archaeologists Dig for Clues  by Kate Duke
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ,Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator , Matilda, Fantastic Mr. Fox,  The BFG, The Twits, George's Marvelous Medicine,  The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl
Mr. Poppers Penguins  by Richard Atwater
A Child's History of the World by Virgil Hillyer
Lightning by Seymour Simon
Kind and Brave (Abeka reader)
Why Do People Eat  by Kate Needham
What Makes You Ill  by  Mike Unwin
Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs by Tomie dePaola
Arnold Fables: Fables
I Can Read About Weather  by Robyn Supraner

"B" is for Betsy by Carolyn Haywood
Tut's Mummy: Lost and Found  by  Judy Donnelly
Mountain Born  by Elizabeth Yates
Usborne Book of World History
Vote by Eileen Christelow
Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary

Jim Weiss:audio: Abraham Lincoln and the Heart of America, Treasure Island
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (great!)
Aesop's Fables illustrated by Jerry Pinkley, Milo Winter, Brad Sneed, and Ann Mcgovern
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash-Kellog
Whingdingdilly: Bill Peet
Usborne Book of World History
St. George and the Dragon  by Margaret Hodges

Gooney Bird Green,   Gooney Bird Green is So Absurd,   Gooney the Fabulous,   Gooney Bird and the Room Mother -by Lois Lowry
Brer Rabbit Get's Brer Fox's Dinner

Hans Christian Anderson stories with various illustrators: Hansel & Gretel, The Frog Prince, The Pied Piper of Hamelin,The Princess and the Pea , Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault,  Sleeping Beauty by Mahlon Craft & K.Y. Craft,  Rapunzel  by Paul O. Zelinsky-etc.etc.Allison's Story (8 yo homeschool girl story)
Usborne Greek Myths for Young Children by Heather Amery Rapunzel's Revenge by Dean Hale,  Shannon Hale
The Greek News by Anton Powell
Otis Spofford by Beverly Cleary
Pablo Picasso-various books
The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill
Follow My Leader  by James B. Garfield
Poppy, Ragweed,  Poppy and Rye,   Ereth's Birthday by AVI
Robin Hood  by Roger Lancelyn Green
The Boy and His Horse by C.S. Lewis

Shoeshine Girl by Bulla
BabyMouse Dragonslayer
Igraine The Brave by Cornelia Funke
Magic School Bus: huge series by Joanne Cole and Bruce Degen
Daisy Come Home (Jan Brett-another of our favorite authors, many read)
Ancient China (DK book)
Little Pear by Eleanor Francis Lattimore

Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
The Tortoise and the Hare by Aesop
The Great Wall in China  by Leonard Everett Fisher
Who Owns The Sun by Stacy Chbosky
True Book: China
China : DK
Dumpling Soup  by Jama Kim Rattigan
The Junior Thunder Lord   by Laurence Yep
The Girl Who Loved Caterpillars  by Jean Merrill
The Funny Little Woman  by Arlene Mosel
George Muller: George and Janet Benge
The Wheel on the School by Meindert Dejong
The Lion and the Mouse  by Aesop
Mr. Putter and Tabby+ Henry and Mudge + Poppleton-three series by Cynthia Rylant
Dust for Dinner by Ann Turner
Detectives in Toga's by Henry Winterfeld
Bridge to Terabethia by Katherine Paterson
When Mr. Jefferson Came To Philadelphia
Louisa May & Mr. Thoreau's Flute by Azarian
Rudy Rides The Rails-A Depression Era Story
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
The Flying Flea, Callie, and Me    by Carol & Bill Wallace 
The Mouse of Amherst   by Elizabeth Spires

Audio/Visual:
DVD:Ancient Civilizations: Inca's & Mesopotamia & Ancient Egypt & Ancient Rome, & Greece (viewed repeatedly over the years)
DVD: Grammar Rock, School House Rock
DVD: Prince Caspian
DVD: Storm Chasers

DVD: Weather for Children
DVD:All About Cowboy's for Kids
DVD: Explorer's of the World: The American Frontier
DVD: Magic School Bus: Inside Ralphie, Takes Flight, Ants in the Pants, Bats, Getting Energized, The Busasaurus, etc.etc
DVD:In Winter Still- A Claude Monet Story 

DVD: Anne of Avonlea
DVD:Bill Nye: Magnetism, Digestion, Desserts, Electrons, Dinosaur,Powerful Forces, Forces, Reptiles and Insects

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