Grade: Kindergarten
Duration: 36 weeks
Children study the masterworks of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, Sandro Botticelli, Mary Cassatt, Vincent van Gogh, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Georges Seurat. Children study one master artist for several weeks with one new work introduced weekly. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 works.
Grade: Kindergarten
Duration: 36 weeks
Kindergarten music captures the magic of the seasons. Children will enjoy shivering to spooky music, dancing to Christmas melodies, huddling from stormy musical concoctions, and skipping to renewing spring compositions. Lesson guides with directions, synopses, enrichment activities, and review questions accompany each of the 36 musical selections. All of the music is included on the website. Just click a button and enjoy!
Grade: Kindergarten
Duration: 36 weeks
Mother Goose poems provide children an enchanting first venture into the world of rhyme and poetry. Well-known favorites such as Rain, Jack, Wee-Willie, Pat-A-Cake, If Wishes Were Horses, and Humpty Dumpty are joined by other lovely poems including Bees, Pippen Hill, and Pussy-cat and Queen. This course provides audio recordings, lesson guides, coloring pages, and copywork for all included 108 poems.
Grade: Kindergarten
Duration: 36 weeks
Kindergarten prose includes charming tales of friendship, loyalty, perseverance, and adventure. The website integrates story text, pictures, and audio readings. Featured books include My Father's Dragon, The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter, Raggedy Ann Stories, Raggedy Andy Stories, The Velveteen Rabbit, and Uncle Wiggily's Adventures. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all stories.
Grade: Kindergarten
Duration: 36 weeks
Studio art provides hands-on opportunities to create novel artwork such as paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Kindergarten studio art adapts 'Text Books of Art Education (Volume I)', the first book in a 7-volume set of textbooks created in the early 19th century via conferences and consultations with art education experts. Leading art teachers and educators in large public school systems and universities such as Harvard helped to create the textbook. Supplies needed to complete the course are minimal and inexpensive. Pencils, crayons, markers, paper in a variety of colors, washable acrylic paints, paintbrushes, polymer clay or oven-hardening clay, and dish soap or bubble solution are all children require.
Grade: Kindergarten
Duration: Child-dependent
Kindergarten writing provides a printable 63-page tracework book and a printable 96-page copywork book to reinforce the provided McGuffey's Eclectic Primer reading lessons. Some children might start with tracework. Others may immediately be ready for copywork. Convenient links to the relevant copywork pages are provided within the reading lesson guides.
Grade: Kindergarten
Duration: Child-dependent
The book at the heart of this course was devised to be used for the first three years of education in conjunction with a series of readers (e.g. McGuffey’s, Treadwell’s). Phonics, associating sounds with letters and blending those sounds into words, provide children with a foundation to decipher novel words. The author of the book evolved this system of teaching phonics in her own schoolroom and used it with great success. This method incorporates four activities: 1) Ear Training, 2) Tongue Training, 3) Eye Training, and 4) Word Building. Keep in mind that the one important thing is to teach each step thoroughly. (Paraphrased from the author.) Letter tiles (A-Z and a-z with multiples of the common letters) are suggested for use in this course, but not required. You may either purchase tiles or make them yourself out of heavy duty paper or cardboard.
Grade: Kindergarten
Duration: Child-dependent
This course integrates texts and audio recordings of McGuffey's Eclectic Primer to provide a time-tested reading curriculum with no additional textbook costs. McGuffey Readers were used in American schools for over a century. This course provides teaching guides with instructions on how to teach each of the 52 lessons.
Grade: Kindergarten
Duration: Child-dependent
The kindergarten mathematics course provides four phases of step-by-step instructions for introducing primary-level arithmetic in preparation to begin Ray's Primary Arithmetic. Phase I teaches children to recognize groups of physical objects up to ten. Phase II drops physical objects and teaches children to combine and separate up to ten imaginary objects in their minds. In phase III, children combine and separate abstract numbers directly. Finally, in phase IV, children learn to write addition and subtraction equations. Teaching guides accompany all 56 lessons.
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
Children study the masterworks of Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Ivan Aivazovsky, Edward Burne-Jones, Robert Scott Duncanson, and Natalia Goncharova. Children study a single master artist for several weeks with one new work introduced weekly. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 works.
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
Children first study the geography of the familiar stomping grounds surrounding their homes before expanding to explore the far-off reaches of the world. Children study and map the places they are most acquainted with: their bedrooms, their homes, their neighborhood streets, and their cities.
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
The first grade American history course focuses on intriguing stories of the noble bravery of leaders, the daring discoveries of explorers, the ingenuity of inventors, and the unimaginable achievements of scholars and scientists. Tracework, coloring pages, and lesson guides with synopses, vocabulary words, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities are provided for all 48 stories.
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
This course continues the study of classical music in a pictorial way, combining music with famous works of art. Compositions inspired by art, poetry, and concrete places and things from Modest Mussorgsky, Gustav Holst, Frédéric Chopin, John Philip Sousa, Claude Debussy, and Edvard Grieg are featured this year. The ultimate aim is for children to enjoy classical music and to become familiar with master composers and their works. Lesson guides with directions, synopses, enrichment activities, and review questions accompany all 36 musical selections. All of the music is included on the website. Just click a button and enjoy!
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
This course features child-friendly poetry of lyrical fables, green hills, blue mountains, burbling streams, chirping birds, starry-night, sea-foam, colorful flowers, fanciful fairies, haunting dreams, and sweet home! Enjoy the captivating, charming, and sometimes spine-tingling works of famous poets such as Jean de La Fontaine, William Allingham, Henry W. Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe. This course provides audio recordings, lesson guides, coloring pages, and copywork for all included 72 poems.
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
Children travel to Africa and cure sick monkeys with Dr. Dolittle in ‘The Story of Dr. Dolittle’, take a wild car ride with Toad in ‘The Wind in the Willows’, and explore subterranean caverns with Princess Irene in ‘The Princess and the Goblin’. This course integrates text with audio and provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all stories.
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
First grade science focuses on building reading, problem solving, and critical thinking skills. The 'Peter and Polly' series features the lives of two young farm children in the early 1900s. The stories incorporate the flora, fauna, and seasonal events in a small farming community. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, scientific concepts, review questions, and science-themed enrichment activities for all 36 stories.
Grade: First
Duration: 36 weeks
This course focuses on intersections between art and math - drawing lines and shapes. To balance structure while still allowing creativity and imagination to flourish, each lesson enables children to first practice drawing lines and shapes before using their new skills to create novel artwork. Famous works of art that incorporate the studied shapes illustrate and inspire. Supplies needed to complete the 36 exercises are minimal and inexpensive. Sculpting clay or Play-Doh, a ruler, drawing paper, and drawing implements such as pencils, pens, and markers are all children require to complete these lessons.
Grade: First
Duration: Child-dependent
This course provides a 191-page printable copywork book to reinforce McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader. Convenient links to relevant copywork pages are provided within reading lesson guides.
Grade: First
Duration: Child-dependent
This course integrates text and audio recordings of McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader to provide a time-tested reading curriculum with no additional textbook costs. McGuffey Readers were used in American schools for over a century. This course provides teaching guides with instructions on how to teach each of the 63 lessons.
Grade: First
Duration: Child-dependent
The Ray's New Primary Arithmetic textbook covers addition, counting, skip counting, subtraction, multiplication, division, money, and time. Teaching guides accompany all 132 lessons. Using a 10x10 abacus to demonstrate multiplication and division operations may be helpful, although it is not required. Look for one with two colors of beads (5 and 5) on each row. Inexpensive ones can be found online for around $10.00. This course changes the order of certain lessons, expands certain lessons (money and time), and removes antiquated lessons toward the end of the book.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
Children expand outward from their homes and communities to continue their study of Geography. Children study the four cardinal directions, the animals, the plants, the people, and the major landforms and divisions of the Earth. Children also draw maps of the world and plot courses across the great oceans. Notebook work accompanies all 54 lessons.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
In American history, second grade students learn about American Indian life, frontier peril and escape, colonial pirate adventures, daring Revolutionary feats, dangerous whaling voyages, scientific exploration, and encounters with wild beasts. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 lessons.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
In world history, second grade students study the earliest development of civilization along the banks of the Nile and the Mediterranean and in the fertile valley of Mesopotamia. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 17 lessons.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
Delight in the child-friendly poetry of Lewis Carroll, James Whitcomb Riley, Mary Austin, Eugene Field, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Abbie Farwell Brown, and Sara Teasdale. Eat oysters with the walrus and the carpenter, learn about goblins from Little Orphant Annie, visit old Peter Prairie-Dog in Prairie-Dog Town, and maroon yourself with pirates on Dead Man's Chest Island. Children study each poet and their poetry over a five-week period. This course provides audio recordings, lesson guides, coloring pages, print copywork, and script tracework for all 40 poems.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
Children study artists from around the world. Countries include Japan, India, Persia, China, Egypt, Venezuela, Mexico, Australia, and South Africa. Children study one master artist or country for four weeks with one new work introduced weekly. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 works.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
Second grade music features twenty string, keyboard, and percussion instruments. Selected musical compositions, sound clips, and artwork highlight the featured instruments. Instruments include the violin, the cello, the viola, the piano, the harp, the snare drum, and the xylophone. Lesson guides with directions, synopses, enrichment activities, and review questions accompany all 36 musical selections. All of the music is included on the website. Just click a button and enjoy!
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
First year drawing focuses on object drawing, position, direction, and color. Students learn how to capture the relative positions of objects, how to draw objects in perspective, how to capture actions such as running and walking, how to draw in a two-handed rhythm, and how to produce even color washes. Materials required include pencils, crayons, drawing paper or a notebook, and a ruler.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
Animal nature study integrates classic fiction and non-fiction works by Anna Botsford Comstock, Clara Dillingham Pierson, and Thornton W. Burgess. Children listen to charming animal stories, study the appearance, behavior, and habitats of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, annelids, arachnids, crustaceans, and mollusks, venture outdoors on nature walks, and create a field journal.
Grade: Second
Duration: 36 weeks
Second grade prose features absorbing children's books chosen for their positive life lessons, their vocabulary-building diversity of language, and their inclusion of fast-paced, exotic adventures. The selected books have persisted over decades as true classics. Second grade prose whisks children away to the Yellow Brick Road and Emerald City in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, to the Mad Hatter’s tea party in Alice in Wonderland, and to the inside of a Dog-Fish in Pinocchio. The website integrates story text, pictures, and audio readings. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all stories.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Children study and recreate a variety of painting genres including landscape, cityscape, seascape, still life, history, portrait, space art, genre, and wildlife. Children study one genre for four weeks with one new work introduced weekly. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 works.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Geography may be divided into the geography of the home and the geography of the world at large. A knowledge of the home must be obtained by direct observation; of the rest of the world, through the imagination assisted by information. Ideas acquired by direct observation form a basis for imagining those things which are distant and unknown. Students delve into topics such as the water cycle, landforms, and the earth's place in the solar system. In addition, children study the geography, people, and culture of the Far East as they visit historical Japan and China of yesteryear with 'The Boy Travelers.'
Grade: Third
Duration: 32 weeks
Third grade American history provides a study of major figures in American History from Christopher Columbus through the Civil War. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 32 lessons.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
In third grade world history, students study global history from the start of humankind through the Crusades. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 lessons.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Third grade music features eight woodwind and brass instruments. Selected musical compositions, sound clips, and artwork highlight the featured instruments. Instruments include the flute, the clarinet, the oboe, the bassoon, the trumpet, the trombone, the French horn, and the tuba. Lesson guides with directions, synopses, enrichment activities, and review questions accompany all 36 musical selections. All of the music is included on the website. Just click a button and enjoy!
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Visit mermaids by the sea with Emily Dickinson, pick apples on a crisp autumn day with Robert Frost, fight to follow your dreams with Paul Laurence Dunbar, puzzle over the mystery of the Queen of Hearts with Christina Rossetti, and venture into the wild American West with Walt Whitman. This course interweaves poetry, vocabulary, mapwork, discussion, copywork, narration, dictation, and artwork. Lessons also introduce literary devices including metaphors, similes, and personification.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Second year drawing expands upon the prior year's drawing lessons. Students continue to master capturing the relative positions of objects, sketching objects in perspective, portraying actions such as running and walking, drawing in a two-handed rhythm, and producing even color washes. Materials required to complete the lessons include pencils, crayons, drawing paper or a notebook, and a ruler.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Plant Nature Study I integrates classic fiction and non-fiction works by Anna Botsford Comstock and Thornton W. Burgess. Children study the appearance, needs, and habitats of plants, including how plants grow, where plants grow, and types of plants with a special emphasis on flowers. Children venture outdoors on nature walks and create a field journal.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Third grade prose whisks children away to the jungles of India, the lagoons of Neverland, the roads of Spain, a Hoosier schoolhouse from yesteryear, and the magical realms of fairy tales. This course provides lesson guides with synopses, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Third grade introduces the immortal bard using child-friendly retellings of twelve of Shakespeare's works including A Midsummer's Night Dream, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, and All's Well That Ends Well. Children create character maps, set the scene, construct simple costumes, order major plot events, and recite lines. This course begins preparation for the study of Shakespeare's plays in their original form. The website integrates story text, pictures, and audio readings. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all stories.
Grade: Third
Duration: Child-dependent
This course integrates text and audio recordings of McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader to provide a time-tested reading curriculum with no additional textbook costs. McGuffey Readers were used in American schools for over a century. This course provides lesson guides along with a printable pdf containing vocabulary, copywork, narration, and dictation.
Grade: Third
Duration: Child-dependent
As taught by teachers of bygone eras and recommended by 'The Eclectic Manual of Methods,' this course interweaves related theory and problem sets from 'Ray's New Intellectual Arithmetic,' 'Ray's Practical Arithmetic,' and 'Ray's New Test Exam.' This course expands upon the study of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division and introduces notation, reduction, and compound numbers. This course also provides a workbook of text exercises and an answer key. Using a 10x10 abacus to demonstrate mathematical operations may be helpful, although it is not required.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Children study select movements of art in chronological order from Romanesque to Post-Impressionism. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 works.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
This course updates and expands 'First Lessons in World Geography' by James Monteith. Through interactive mapwork, children study the continents, the oceans, the countries, the landforms, and the cities of our world. This course provides a printable pdf providing written mapwork to accompany the lessons. In addition, children study the geography, people, and culture of central Africa of yesteryear with 'The Boy Travelers.'
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fourth grade American history covers early American settlements, relations and wars with the American Indians, colonial life, the French wars, government in colonial times, the rise of the American Revolution, and the establishment of the new nation. The text pays liberal attention to the domestic and social life of the people of the times, their dress, their food, their modes of thought and feeling, and their ways of making a livelihood. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 lessons.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fourth grade music features works of the opera and ballet that combine storytelling and music. Featured works include 'Hansel and Gretel,' 'The Nutcracker,' 'Swan Lake,' and 'The Magic Flute.' Lesson guides with directions, synopses, and enrichment activities accompany all 36 musical lessons. All of the music is included on the website. Just click a button and enjoy!
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fourth grade prose sends children on a treasure hunt with bloodthirsty pirates, explores a famous tale of greed, ghosts, and redemption, delights with tales of knights, dragons, and magicians, and introduces stories from Greek and Roman mythology. This course provides lesson guides with synopses, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fourth grade poetry overviews nine literary devices: 1) Rhyming, 2) Alliteration, 3) Similes, 4) Metaphors, 5) Personification, 6) Foreshadowing, 7) Allusion, 8) Hyperbole, and 9) Onomatopoeia. This course incorporates poetry, vocabulary, mapwork, discussion, copywork, narration, dictation, and artwork. Featured poets include Christina Rossetti, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, and Emily Dickinson.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Third year drawing builds upon the prior lessons of the previous two years. Students draw geometric shapes, real models of objects, graded and emphasized lines, figures engaged in actions, and landscapes in color. Students also continue to practice two-handed drills, drawing loops, triangles, whorls, blades, and trumpets. Materials required to complete the lessons include pencils, crayons, drawing paper or a notebook, and a ruler.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Plant Nature Study II focuses on the ultimate of plants - the majestic tree. Children study the appearance, needs, and habitats of trees, including how trees grow, where trees grow, and types and characters of trees. Children venture outdoors on nature walks and create a field journal. Please note that the lessons primarily feature trees of the eastern United States, so some adaptation may be required for those living in other areas.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fourth grade continues the introduction to the immortal bard using child-friendly retellings of eight of Shakespeare's works including 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Othello,' 'Macbeth,' and 'King Lear.' Children create character maps, set the scene, construct simple costumes, order major plot events, and recite lines. This course also incorporates Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer's Night Dream' in its original form, accompanied by an audio recording and a line-by-line translation. This course provides lesson guides with synopses, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and/or enrichment activities for all lessons.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: 36 weeks
In fourth grade world history, students study global history from the medieval period to the industrial age. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 lessons.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: Child-dependent
This course integrates text and audio recordings of McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader to provide a time-tested reading curriculum with no additional textbook costs. McGuffey Readers were used in American schools for over a century. This course provides lesson guides along with a printable pdf containing vocabulary, copywork, narration, and dictation.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
Children study select movements of art in chronological order from pointillism to pop art. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 works.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
In fifth grade prose, children escape a cave with Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher, venture to Riverboro with Rebecca of Sunnybrook, and ponder deeper meanings of thought-provoking short stories. This course provides lesson guides with synopses, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
This course updates and expands 'Comprehensive World Geography' by James Monteith. Through interactive mapwork, children study the continents, the oceans, the countries, the landforms, and the cities of our world. This course provides a printable pdf providing written mapwork to accompany the lessons.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fifth grade American history covers the War of 1812, the 1800s exploration and expansion of the country, the American Civil War, early American presidents, and early American inventions, literature, and art. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fifth grade music showcases the twelve of the famous composers featured in the 'Child's Own Book of Famous Musicians' series by Thomas Tapper. Learn about the lives and music of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, and other titans of composition. Lesson guides with directions, synopses, and enrichment activities accompany all 36 musical lessons. All of the music is included on the website. Just click a button and enjoy!
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fifth grade poetry overviews nine poetic forms: 1) Sijo, 2) Haiku, 3) Limerick, 4) Sonnet, 5) Epitaph, 6) Acrostic, 7) Visual, 8) Ode, and 9) Blank Verse. This course incorporates poetry, mapwork, discussion, analysis, copywork, narration, and artwork. Featured poets include Lord Alfred Tennyson, Phillis Wheatley, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, and Lewis Carroll.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fourth year drawing expands upon the prior year's drawing lessons and introduces painting with watercolors. Students draw the basic forms in three dimensions and learn to create washes, tones, and scales using watercolors. Materials required to complete the lessons include pencils, drawing paper or a notebook, watercolors (6 standard colors plus gray, brown, and black), 5x7 watercolor paper or pad, and assorted sizes of paintbrushes.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fifth grade science introduces concepts and examples related to rocks and minerals including the atom, matter, the periodic table, physical and chemical properties, and the rock cycle. Children venture outdoors on nature walks and create a field journal. A rock hardness test kit with labeled sample minerals, a streak plate, a nail, etc. enriches field study for this course, but is not required. At the time of this writing, kits may be purchased online for $10.00 and up.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
Have you ever been to Grammar-land? Fifth grade grammar overviews the nine parts-of-speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, articles/determiners, and interjections. This gentle introduction to the nine parts-of-speech leverages M.L. Nesbitt's Grammar-Land and Alice E. Ball's The Child's Own English Book.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: Child-dependent
As taught by teachers of bygone eras and recommended by 'The Eclectic Manual of Methods,' this course interweaves related theory and problem sets from 'Ray's New Intellectual Arithmetic,' 'Ray's Practical Arithmetic,' and 'Ray's New Test Exam.' This course continues the third-fourth grade course with factoring, fractions, decimal fractions, the metric system, and percentages. This course also provides a workbook of text exercises and an answer key.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: Child-dependent
This course integrates text and audio recordings of McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader to provide a time-tested reading curriculum with no additional textbook costs. McGuffey Readers were used in American schools for over a century.
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