1st Grade Secular Homeschool Curriculum Recommendations

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Saxon Math 1, Home Study Kit

The Math One Home Study Kit teaches children to skip count by one's, two's, five's and ten's, identify ordinal position to tenth, master all basic addition and subtraction facts, measure using inches, feet, and centimeters. Also teaches how to add quarters, draw polygons, and observe information from real graphs, pictographs, and bar graphs.

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Saxon Mathematics Homeschool Manipulatives Kit

Saxon Mathematics Homeschool Manipulatives Kit

The key to math success for your irrepressible hands-on learners! Designed to complement Saxon Math programs for grades K to 3, this home study kit includes a set of 55 dominoes, 100 "color tiles," 2 geoboards with rubber bands, 2 plastic clocks, assorted tangrams and colorful plastic shapes, 2 standard rulers, a student balance, teddy bear counters, and more. From ETA Cuisenaire.

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Saxon Phonics 1, Home Study Kit

Saxon Phonics 1, Home Study Kit

Phonics 1 provides students with consistent review and incremental steps needed to become fluent independent readers. Each concept is introduced slowly, using incremental steps for maximum exposure and success. This kit includes a completely scripted, spiral bound, 890 page Home Study Teacher's Manual that covers each element of every lesson; this accompanies the two tablet style student workbooks. A book of literature extensions is included to help with reading comprehension, as is a Home Study Rule Book, filled with representations of the common grammatical and phonetic rules. An alphabet, mini coloring storybooks, irregular spelling book and Teaching Tool Set is also included; the Teaching Tools Set contains review decks, kid cards, rule book, phonics audiotape and video instructional guide. All books are softcover.

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Learning Language Arts Through Literature Kit           Grade 1

Learning Language Arts Through Literature Kit Grade 1

Now, an integrated reading program for first graders that's truly unique! Instead of canned sentences, they use passages from famous literary works - along with a bookful of learning materials - to help you teach phonics, reading, spelling, handwriting, grammar, and thinking skills for an entire 180-day school year.

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MCP Spelling Workout Level A (Gr. 1) Student Workbook

MCP Spelling Workout Level A (Gr. 1) Student Workbook

Spelling Workout uses a sports theme that gives you and your students the tools you need to be an unbeatable team! Capitalizing on the close tie between spelling and phonics, the program leads students from simple sound-letter relationships to more complex spelling patterns. Softcover, 192 pages.

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MCP Spelling Workout Level A (Gr. 1) Teacher's Edition

MCP Spelling Workout Level A (Gr. 1) Teacher's Edition

Spelling Workout uses a sports theme that gives you and your students the tools you need to be an unbeatable team! Capitalizing on the close tie between spelling and phonics, the program leads students from simple sound-letter relationships to more complex spelling patterns.

Features: Provides detailed lesson plans for either a 3-day or 5-day plan; offers strategy activities for reinforcing and analyzing spelling patterns; includes dictation sentences for a pre-test and final replay test; suggests tips for meeting the needs of ESL students; and features Take-It-Home masters to help foster home involvement. Softcover, 156 pages. Grade 1.


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Italic Handwriting: Book B

Italic is a modern handwriting system based on enduring letterforms that are highly suited to rapid and legible writing. Italic conforms to natural, rhythmic hand movements. Italic builds on previously learned concepts and the letter shapes remain the same from basic to cursive, eliminating the abrupt leap from "ball and stick" to looped cursive. Self-assessment is an integral part of the program.

Note: This workbook would replace the book below, Handwriting Skills Simplified.

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Handwriting Skills Simplified Level A: Learning Manuscript Writing

Handwriting Skills Simplified Level A: Learning Manuscript Writing

Handwriting skills are needed in every facet of life, not just in the classroom! Children will be taught legible handwriting through practice and more practice! Handwriting Skills Simplified provides a direct, easyto do, "trace and write" method. Each page provides tracing and writing practice for each letter of the alphabet, along with individual words and sentences. Basic strokes, hand position, tracing, and the alphabet are also addressed. . Soon your students will have achieved legible cursive handwriting! 64 pages, reproducible for classroom use. Grade 1, manuscript. This book features the new simplified Zaner-Bloser alphabet models.

Note: This workbook would replace the book above, Italic Handwriting.

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The Usborne Internet-linked First Encyclopedia of Science

The Usborne Internet-linked First Encyclopedia of Science

Encourage early elementary students to learn about science from the colorful pictures, diagrams, drawings and facts packed into each chapter of this introduction to basic science. Designed to use with the Internet, it provides links for further learning opportunities, but is an excellent source of information on its own. 28 chapters cover a variety of topics from biology, to energy, to weather and beyond.

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Little Encyclopedia of Science

Little Encyclopedia of Science

Why do things float? What happens to the food you eat? Why is it warm in summer? Find out in this fascinating little book. Simple text, superb photographs, helpful diagrams and exciting recommended websites introduce young readers to the wonders of science.

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Social Studies Made Simple, Grade 1

This easy-to-use series is packed with interesting activities and projects that are designed to reinforce the knowledge, skills, and values children need to become informed and involved citizens. Teacher pages guide you through activities that cover culture, national identity, map and globe skills, citizenship, communication systems, transportation, charts, graphs, critical thinking, and much more. Student pages will spark their interest and imagination as they explore the worlds of civics, the creative arts, economics, geography, history, and language arts. Reproducible. 80 pages, softcover.

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Maps Workbook, Grade 1

Topics include: Globes Cardinal Directions Map Keys and Symbols Map Grids Landforms and Bodies of Water City Maps U.S. Maps World Maps Road Maps and lots more!

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