Friday, May 18, 2012

Books, Books, and More Books!

Just finished making up next year's booklists for our homeschool, broken down by month in which we will use them. (to avoid the "I can't afford this" panic I get into when I try to buy them all at once. :D)
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

1 comment:

  1. My son has thrived on living books. You have quite a list there...and I thought I spent a lot last year. We have a pitiful library though so I had to buy each and every book myself.

    On a side note, Claire Brandenburg (author of The Monk Who Grew With Prayer on your list) is my close friend and godmother. She has a local mission here in town and we go to church together in Santa Fe:)

    Interestingly enough, I am looking into using a Catholic curriculum this year with Seton home study materials. To my disappointment, the one and only Orthodox curriculum provider I used last year has closed shop and I'm scrambling to put something together myself. Between the choices of Protestant and Catholic I think it's obvious which way I'm going on that one.

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