The vast majority of these are available in our library, which really helps.
Because we consider ourselves a Liberal Arts / Charlotte Mason school, we emphasize the core in a way I attempted to reproduce from my experiences with the Classical Liberal Arts Academy without using their actual online courses at the moment (ie our supreme focus in the 0-4th years is on Grammar, Arithmetic and Catechism). We use living books and combined subjects to round out the disciplinary and academic intensity and spread out a "feast of ideas" before them in all other areas-- fine arts, history, geography, science, and the like. That means our book selections have to work in many different areas-- they need to be living, engaging books with excellent (not mediocre) writing, demonstrate excellence in character and religion, cover a large number of subjects at once, and be good for using in narration/copywork/dictations, among other things (I have a weird thing for sturdy hardbacks, for example.) Picky, picky, I know. BUT I'm happy to announce there are some paperbacks on this list, surprised at how much fiction there is, and that I haven't read them all so I will be discovering with the kids. (yay!)
Because we have a number of children, and because we cycle through history/geography four times during the course of their education, we will reuse many/most of these books.
Most of these come from Ambleside Online, Simply Charlotte Mason, Catholic Mosaic, Five in a Row, The Well-Trained Mind, or Connecting With History. We have been doing this for a year now and it's absolutely wonderful to combine all the age levels this way. The only work my children do separately at this age consists of individual reading lessons and arithmetic. We school year-round, with little breaks here and there.
Enjoy! Hope it helps somebody out there-- I'd love to hear what you guys are doing next year, particularly if you are schooling more than two children.
NOTE: FOR SOME REASON, THE PICS AREN'T SHOWING UP AND THERE ARE HUGE SPACES BETWEEN TITLES. I APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE AND AM WORKING TO FIX IT. SINCE IT'S LATE FOR ME, I WILL PROBABLY HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW EVENING TO RE-DO THE PICS. THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE!
APPIAN WAY ACADEMY BOOKLIST 2012
(3 Students, ages 3-6, YEARS 0-1)
TEACHER GUIDES AND PLANS:
Connecting With History Vol I: Ancient History
Five In a Row Volumes 1-3 + Christian Character Supplement
Ray's Arithmetic Parent/Teacher Guide
ARTISTIC pursuits Books 1 and 2 (K-3)
The Harp and the Laurel Wreath
Bible and Catechism
Organizer/Lesson Plan Book
Wildlife Field Guides for NC (Audubon)
STUDENT MATERIALS:
Our Holy Faith, Book One
Catholic Children's Picture Bible
RSVCE Bible
Phonics Pathways
McGuffey's Eclectic Readers (Primer and Book One)
Ray's Arithmetic Series: Primary Arithmetic
(Singapore Math Text + Workbooks levels 1A-2B)
Nature Journals
James Herriot's Treasury for Children by James Herriot
The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Getty Dubay Handwriting Books A and B (possibly C)
Founders of Freedom, Bk 1 Land of Our Lady Series
The Old World's Gifts to the New
Kingfisher Historical Atlas
Kingfisher Encyclopedia of History
Usborne Time Travelers
Kingfisher Encyclopedia of Science
Blackline Maps of Ancient History
Rosetta Stone Latin Program 1, 2, and 3
Cambridge Latin Course Unit 1
Binoculars, Compass, Magnifying Glass
A Large World Map and a Large US Map, Laminated.
Art Supplies and plenty of paper.
Bedtime Reading and Audiobooks throughout the year: (we don't include these in the lesson plans, but we read them or listen to them in the evenings-- no TV. :))
A Child's treasury of Poems
Aesop's Fables
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales
Fables de La Fontaine
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, Edith Nesbit
The Just So Stories, Kipling
Charlottes' Web
Pippi Longstocking
The Wizard of Oz
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Parables from Nature, Margaret Gatty,
Peter Pan, JM Barrie
King of the Golden River
Pinocchio
Little House in the Big Woods
The Blue Fairy Book
The Red Fairy Book
Pocahontas
The World Treasury of Children's Literature
Pecos Bill
TERM ONE:
AUGUST
The Story about Ping, Marjorie Flack
Lentil, Robert McCloskey
Madeline, Ludwig Bemelmans
A Pair of Red Clogs, Masako Matsuno
I Believe: the Nicene Creed, Pauline Baynes
A Child's book of prayer in art, Sister Wendy Beckett
Juanita and Our Lady of the Angels, Elizabeth Locke
Clare and Francis, Guido Visconti
Sister Anne's Hands, Marybeth Lorbiecki
Brother Bartholemew and the Apple Grove, Jan Cheripko
Stories told by Mother Teresa, Teresa/Edward Joly
Noah's Ark, Peter Spier
Archeologists Dig for Clues
Archeology for Kids
The Magician's Nephew, CS Lewis
String, Straight Edge and Shadow
SEPTEMBER
The Rag Coat, Lauren Mills
Who Owns the Sun?, Stacy Chbosky
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Viginia Lee Burton
The Glorious Flight, Alice and Martin Provensen
The Monk Who Grew Prayer, Claire Brandenburg
Mother Teresa, Demi
Peter Claver: Patron Saint of Slaves, Julia Durango
The Tale of Three Trees, Angela Elwell Hunt
St Jerome and the Lion, Margaret Hodges
Gilgamesh the King, Ludmilla Zeman
Revenge of Ishtar, Ludmilla Zeman
Last Quest of Gilgamesh, Ludmilla Zeman
Gilgamesh, Man's First Story, Bernarda Bryson
Old Testament Days OR Ancient Egyptians and their Neighbors
OCTOBER
How to make an apple pie and see the world, Marjorie Priceman
Grandfather's Journey, Allen Say
Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wendy and Harry Devlin
Another celebrated Dancing Bear, Gladys Scheffrin Folk
Angel in the Waters, Regina Doman
Horton hears a Who, Dr Seuss
My Guardian Dear, Miriam Lademan
Francis: the poor man of asssisi, Tommie DepAola
A Saint and his Son: Tale of Tekla, Elaine Murray Stone
Father Philip tells a Ghost Story: a Story of Divine Mercy, Susan Andrews
Moonlight Miracle, Tony Magliano
The Great Pyramid, Elizabeth Mann
Cat of Bubastes, GA Henty
Pyramid, David Weitzman
The Golden Goblet, Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Shadow Hawk, Andre Norton
NOVEMBER
Papa Piccolo, Carol Talley
Very Last First Time, Jan Andrews
The Clown of God, Tommy DePaola
Storm in the Night, Mary Stoltz
I sing a song of the saints of God, Lesbia Scott
Saints: Lives and Illuminations, Ruth Sanderson
The Spirit of Tio Fernando: a Day of the Dead Story, Janice Levy
The Pied Piper of Peru, Ann Tompert
Brother Joseph, the Painter of Icons, Augustine Denoble
Pharoah's Boat, David Weitzman
The Egyptian Cinderella, Shirley Climo
Boy of the Pyramids, Ruth Bosnik Jones
Tirzah, Lucille Travis
Letters from Egypt, Mary Whately
TERM TWO:
DECEMBER
Katy and the Big Snow, Virginia Lee Burton
Night of the Moonjellies, Mark Shasha
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Rober Frost and Susan Jeffers
The Christmas Miracle of Johnathan Toomey, Susan Wojcieschowski
The Gift of the Magi, O Henry
Saint Francis and the Christmas Donkey, Robert Byrd
The Clown of God, Tommy Depaola
The miracle of St Nicholas, Gloria whelan
St Nicholas, Ann Trompert
The lady of Guadalupe, Tommy Depaola
The legend of the poinsettia, Tommy Depaola
the Night of Las Posadas, Tommy Depaola
The Very First Christmas, Paul Maier
A Small Miracle, Peter Collington
The Donkey's Dream, Barbarar Helen Berger
The Crippled lamb, Max Lucado
Ancient Egyptians and their Neighbors
Hittite Warrior
Old Testament Days
JANUARY
The Giraffe that walked to Paris, Nancy Milton
Three Names, Patricia MacLachlan
Wee Gillis, Munro Leaf
Owl Moon, Jane Yolen
Take it to the Queen, Josephine Nobisso
Mary, Mother of Jesus, Mary Joslin
The Little Match Girl
The Last Straw, Frerick Thury
Story of the Three Wise Kings, Tommie Depaola
A gift of Gracias, Julia Alvarez
King David and His Songs
St Joseph Series King David
FEBRUARY
A New Coat for Anna, Harriet Ziefert
Mrs. Katz and Tush, Patricia Polacco
Mirette on the High Wire, Emily Arnold McCully
They were Strong and Good, Alice and Robert Lawson
The Most beautiful thing in the world, Susan Brindle
Brigid's Cloak, an Ancient Irish Story, Bryce Milligan
the Holy Twins: Benedict and Scholastica, Kathleen Norris
Saint Valentine, Robert Sabuda
Love is, Wendy Anderson
Aesop's Fables
D'Aulaire's Greek Myths
Lives from Plutarch (Lycurgus/Pericles/Alcibiades/Cimon)
The Boys and Girls' Herodotus
The Golden Fleece , Padraic Colum
MARCH
Babar, to Duet or Not to Duet, DeBrunhoff
the Story of Ferdinand, Munro Leaf
Down, Down the Mountain, Ellis Credle
Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McCloskey
St Ciaran, Tale of a Saint of Ireland, Gary Schmidt
Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland, Tomie DePaola
St Patrick, Ann Tompert
The Song of the Swallows, Leo Politi
The Story of the Cross, the Stations of the Cross for Childre, Mary Joslin
The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein
Usborne's Ancient World
Old Testament Days OR Classical Kids
The Librarian who measured the earth
What's your angle, Pythagoras?
String, Straight Edge and Shadow
The Children's Homer
Lysis Goes to the Play
God King: a story in the days of King Hezekiah
Theras and His Town
TERM THREE:
APRIL
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
Mr. Grumpy's Motor Car, John Byrningham
All those Secrets of the World, Jane Yolen
Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney
Hosanna to You, Jesus, Marisa Mignolli
Little Rose of Sharon, Nan Gurley
Through the Eyes of John, Chad Daybell
Petook: an Easter Story, Caryll Houselander
The Very First Easter, Paul Maier
Helens' Special Picture, Davide Previtali
Saint George and the Dragon, Margaret Hodges
Detectives in Togas
Mystery of Roman Ransom
The Story of Queen Esther
Science in Ancient Rome
Herodotus and the Road to History
Alexander the Great, Gunther
Archimedes and the Door to Science
The Odyssey
The Children's Homer
MAY
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Grey Bridge, Hildegarde Swift
Follow the Drinking Gourd, Jeanette Winter
Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson
When I was Young in the Mountains, Cunthia Rylant
Gramma's Walk, Anna Grossnickle Hines
The Little Caterpillar that Finds Jesus: a Parable of the Eucharist, Susan Andrews
The Weight of a Mass, Josephine Nobisso
The Caterpillar that Came to Church, Irene Hooker
Lovely Lady Dressed in Blue, Joan Bell
Pascual and the Kitchen Angels, Tomie DePaola
Karol from Poland, M Leonora Wilson
Joan of Arc, the lily maid, Margaret Hodges
A Triumph for Flavius
The Aenid
Lives from Plutarch (Coriolanus/Cicero/Marcus Cato/The Gracchi/Caesar/Antony)
Shakespeare's Julius Caeser
JUNE
The Bee Tree, Patricia Polacco
Andy and the Circus, Ellis Credle
The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar, Natalie Kinsey Warnock
Paul Revere's Ride, Henry wadsworth Longfellow
Remembering the Prophets of Sacred Scripture, Marianna Mayer
the Fish in the Fountain, A Story of Baptism, Susan Bringle
The Princess and the Kiss, Jennie Bishop
Little Turtledove finds His Mate, Miriam Lademan
the Very First Christians, Paul Maier
The Twelve Apostles, Marianna Mayer
the Blackbird's Nest: St Kevin of Ireland, Jenny Schroedel
Across a Dark and Wild Sea, Don Brown
JULY
Henry the Castaway, Mark Taylor
The Finest Horse in Town, Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Truman's Aunt Farm, Jama Kim Rattigan
The Duchess bakes a Cake, Virginia Kahl
A Child's Rule of Life, Robert Hugh Benson
The Squire and the Scroll, A tale of the Rewards of a Pure heart, Jennie Bishop
The Legend of St Christopher, Margaret Hodges
A Peek into my Church, Wendy Goody
