2023 First-Grade Curriculum Kit

We wanted our Curriculum Handbook to be extremely simple, easy to use, and promote independent study as early as possible. Our guides are designed to get you up and running today without being overwhelming, boring, or confusing.

All About Reading Level 2 picks up from where your student left off in Level 1, adding new skills systematically. Level 2 teaches 12 new phonograms, or sounds, including EE, OY, OW, and others.

Not sure if this is the right level for your student? Download the placement test.

Develop students' writing skills in each of the six traits with engaging, 10- to 15-minute lessons. With 125 dynamic lessons, Daily 6-Trait Writing will provide instruction and practice essential to becoming a competent writer.

Spelling You See will help your child become a confident, successful speller, naturally and at his own speed. Because Spelling You See encourages visual memory rather than rote memory, there are no weekly spelling lists or tests and very little instructor preparation is required.

Unsure if this is the right level for your child? Click here to download an easy pdf guide

 

Math-U-See is a multi-sensory, manipulative-based curriculum that ensures your children will be able to fully understand each mathematical concept before moving on to another one. Unsure if this grade is right for your student? Try the placement test here.

Build a strong computer science foundation screen free with Beginning Coding, 1st Grade. Colorful and fun hands-on activities help children make real-world connections to coding. Beginning Coding connects coding concepts to life with games and puzzles that introduce basic coding rules.

From drawing different pillows under napping cats, to finding the unusual flamingos in the flock, even completing the parts of the dogs that are missing, What's New? What’s Missing? What’s Different? inspires your young learners to discern both broad and subtle differences and respond creatively.

The Story of the World Volume 1, Ancient Times (5000 BC to 400 AD). The Story of the World includes the details of battles, kingdoms, cultures, and customs from every continent and major people group woven together into a story that children will find mesmerizing. With short chapters, The Story of the World presents history in small, easily digestible chunks. Easily adapted for use with multiple grades/students.

This comprehensive activity book and curriculum guide for The Story of the World contains review questions, activity or coloring pages, maps, suggested literature and history readings, and projects for grades 1-6 from each chapter.

The Story of the World Volume 1 Audio Book, Unabridged for listening to on long car trips, while working around the house, or just for added convenience on any school day!

While you read historical accounts aloud, your avid artist can color in the detailed figures of twenty people who shaped history. Each meticulous Famous Figures illustration is based on authentic paintings and sculptures. Easy-to-assemble precolored and colorable characters are printed on heavy cardstock. Simply punch holes, attach fasteners, and your historical figures are ready to take center stage as your child reenacts momentous events in history.

Skill Sharpeners Geography lets your child explore his world while learning key map skills and geography concepts with little fuss on your part. It takes your child beyond just the basics of geography and includes a smattering of histories and cultures within our world.

Fairly bursting with experiments, Berean Science offers students an opportunity to study science through the lens of history. Using a narrative dialogue and a Christian worldview, Berean Science teaches science chronologically, so there are vast and varied science topics. Each lesson concludes with questions or additional activities for "younger," "older," and "oldest" students, so Berean Science lends itself well to multigrade homes that prefer to use just one science curriculum for the entire family.

The lab kit for Science in the Beginning contains over 20 less common household items. This handy kit has virtually all of the more unusual household stocked items in just the quantities you’ll need to complete your experiments.

Please note: Lab kits are non-returnable.

Plus-Plus encourages children to think creatively about color, design, and structure and is a painless way to develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Included with Excursion are over 1,050 Plus-Plus pieces, wheels, chassis, a square baseplate, and two instruction manuals. In our FirstGrade Handbook, you will find quick tips for introducing Plus-Plus to your children, as well as ideas for convergent and divergent models.

Build your student's creative thinking in the one-of-a-kind doodle book, Create Your Own Planet! Brilliant, hilarious, therapeutic, and just a bit unruly, Create Your Own Planet! will spark any child's imagination.

The Test Prep series offers students the essential groundwork needed to prepare for standardized tests. Based on subject areas covered by most state standardized tests, these colorful, inviting workbooks provide a good sampling of all the skills required of each grade level.