Hello friends! It's that time of of year again where we're gearing up for our big homeschool adventure. One of my favorite parts about homeschooling Violet is that we get to read all kinds of books to ignite her imagination as we study certain topics. We follow Classical Conversations' program for our educational journey and I always love researching the topics for each year and compiling a list of books to either buy or check out from our local library.
We're very excited about this year as this will be our first year to repeat a cycle in Classical Conversations. Cycle 2 was when we joined this incredible program and it was an amazing year for our little family. Here is my little princess meeting the ill fated Anne Boleyn at the Texas Renaissance Festival four years ago. That day will forever be one of my favorite days of all time. We had such a wonderful time!
Happy Reading!
Kimberly
* MSB = Magic School Bus
* Please note that each subject is missing a week or more due to the lack of books
found for that particular week.
HISTORY
Wk 1 Gisela’s Holiday Story (Gisela, Daughter of Charlemagne) - Lois Jarman
The Marvelous Blue Mouse - Christopher Manson
The Elephant from Baghdad - Mary Tavener Holmes
Wk 2 William the Conqueror, Get a Life - Philip Ardaqh
William the Conqueror: Last Invader of England - Tom McGowen
Wk 3 Richard the Lionheart:Crusader King of England - Thomas Streissquth
You Wouldn't Want To Be A Crusader!: A War You'd Rather Not Fight [Paperback]
Wk 4 The Magna Carta - James Daugherty
Wk 5 Joan of Arc - Diane Stanley
You Wouldn’t Want to be Joan of Arc -
Wk 6 Leonardo and the Flying Boy
Wk 7 The Adventures of Martin Luther - Carolyn Bergt
Wk 8 Who In the World Was the Forgotten Explorer? The Story of
Amerigo Vespucci - Lorene Lambert
Magellen’s World - Stuart Waldman
Wk 9 Peter the Great - Diane Stanley
The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas
Wk 10 The Fairy Tale about Ivan the Son of Czar and Firebird and about
the Grey Wolf - Elienne Burkatovskii
Wk 11 Marguerite Makes a Book - Bruce Robertson
Wk 12 Time Warp Trio: Meet You at Waterloo - Jon Sciezka
Minstrel in the Tower - Gloria Skurzynski
A Medieval Fiest - Aliki
Wk 13 All About America: The Industrial Revolution - Hilarie N. Staton
The Bobbin Girl - Emily Arnold McCully
Wk 14 Where Poppies Grow: A World War 1 Companion - Linda Grarfield
Wk 15 Ten and Twenty - Claire Bishop
Christmas In the Trenches - John McCatcheon
Wk 16 You Wouldn’t Want to Be a WWII Piolet - Antram
Hannaha’s Cold Winter - Trish Marx
Benno and the Night of Broken Glass (Holocaust) - Meg Wiviott
Wk 17 Teedie: The Story of Young Teddy Roosevelt - Don Brown
TIME For Kids: Theodore Roosevelt: The Adventurous President
- Editors for TIME For Kids
You’re On Your Way, Teddy Roosevelt - Judith St. George
Wk 19 My Freedom Trip: A Child’s Escape from North Korea - Francis & Ginger Poork
Wk 20 The Wall - Eve Bunting
My Grandpa’s War - David Volk
Wk 21 The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Cold War Ends - Nigel Kelly
Wk 22 The Wall: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain - Peter Sis
Wk 23 Ashely’s Yellow Ribbon - Barbara Davoll
Wk 24 Nelson Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom - Chris van Wyk
Mandela: From the Life of the South African Statesman - Floyd Cooper
SCIENCE
Wk 1 Tropical Rainforest - Donald Silver
The Frozen Tundra: A Web of Life - Philip Johansson
What Is a Biome? - Bobbie Kalman
Animals Sleep: A Bedtime Book of Biomes - Thomas A. Heffron
Wk 2 Carnivores - Aaron Reynolds
Bear Wants More - Karma Wilson
Bear Wants More - Karma Wilson
Wk 3 MSB Gets Eaten: A Book About Food Chains - Pat Reif
Pond Circle - Betsy Franco
Gobble It Up - Jim Arnosky
Wk 4 Down Comes the Rain - Franklyn Branley
MSB Wet All Over: A Book About the Water Cycle - Pat Reif
The Water Hole - Grame Base
MSB At The Waterworks
Wk 5 MSB Goes Upstream: A Book About Salmon Migration
Going Home: The Mystery of Animal Migration - Merianne Berkes
Home At Last: A Song of Migration - April Pulley Sayre
Wk 6 The Wump World - Bill Peet
The Lorax - Dr. Seuss
The Berenstain Bears Don’t Pollute (Anymore) - Stan & Jan Berenstain
Wk 7 Stars - Mary Lyn Ray
How the Stars Fell into the Sky - Jerrie Dughton
Wk 8 Brother Sun, Sister Moon - Katherine Paterson
(based on the writings of St. Francis Assisi)
Wk 9 The Planets In Our Solar System - Franklyn M. Branley
National Geographic Readers: Planets - Elizabeth Carney
Clarice Bean, What Planet Are You From? - Lauren Child
Wk 10 What the Moon is Like - Franklyn M. Branley
The Moon Book - Gail Gibbons
Wk 11 What’s Out There? A Book About Space - Lynn Wilson
What Do You See? Our Solar System - Carme Sevenster
There’s No Place Like Space: All About Our Solar System - Tish Rabe
Wk 12 My Grandpa Was An Astronaut
Man on the Moon - Anastassia Suen
Moonwalk: The First Trip to the Moon - Judy Donnelly
Wk 13 The Solid Truth About States of Matter with Max Axiom,
Super Scientist - Agnieszka Biskup
Solids: States of Matter - Jim Mezzanotti
What Is The World Made of? All About Solids, Liquids and Gases
- Weidner Zoehfield
Wk 15 Energy Makes Things Happen - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Wk 16 A Crash Course in Forces and Motion with Max Axiom,
Super Scientist - Emily Soho
Wk 17 Forces Make Things Move - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Wk 20 All About Heat - Lisa Trumbauer
Wk 24 Charged Up: The Story of Electricity - Bailey
MSB And the Electric Field Trip - Joanna Cole
The Shocking Story of Electricity - Anna Clayborrne
ENGLISH GRAMMAR
Wk 2 I And You And Don’t Forget Who: What Is a Pronoun?
(Words are Categorical) - Brian P. Cleary
Wk 13 Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What Is An Adverb? - Brian P. Cleary
Wk 23 Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is An Adjective? - Brian P. Cleary
GEOGRAPHY
(The following books are not necessarily about the geography for the week listed. They are for your use to encourage children to look up the locations mentioned.)
Wk 1 Little Dog Lost:The True Story of a Brave Dog Named Baltic -Monica Carnesi
Wk 2 The Three Golden Oranges - Alma Flor Ada
The Beautiful Butterfly: A Folktale from Spain - Judy Sierra
Wk 4 A Walk in London - Salvatore Rubbino
This I London - Miroslav Sasek
Wk 5 One Step At A Time (Hugo The Happy Starfish) - Suzy Liebermann
Heidi - Johanna Spyri
Wk 9 Kite Flying - Grace Lin
Wk 10 Child of The Sun - Sandra Arnold
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale - Carmen Agra
MATH
Wk 14 Benjamin Franklin and the Magic Squares - Frank Murphy
Wk 16 Sir Comfrence and the First Round Table - Cindy Neuschwander
Wk 17 Sir Cumfrence and the Dragon of Pi - Cindy Neuschwander
TIMELINE
Wk 4 You Wouldn’t Want to Be an Assyrian Soldier!: An Ancient Army You’d Rather Not
Join [Paperback] - Rupert Matthews
Wk 5 You Wouldn’t Want to Be in Alexander the Great’s Army!: Miles You’d
Rather Not March [Paperback] Jacqueline Morley
Wk 9 You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Viking Explorer!: Voyages You’d Rather Not Make
(You Wouldn’t Want To) [Paperback] - Andrew Langley
Wk 14 The World Made New: Why the Age of Exploration Happened and How It
Changed the World (Timelines of American History) [Hardcover]
- Marc Aronson
Wk 16 You Wouldn’t Want to Be an Aristocrat in the French Revolution!: A Horrible Time
in Paris You’d Rather Avoid [Paperback] - Jim Pipe
Wk 18 Trail of Tears (Step-Into-Reading) - Joseph Bruchac
Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and The Trail of Tears - Alex W. Bealer
Wk 21 You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Secret Agent During World War II!: A Perilous
Mission Behind Enemy Lines [Paperback] - John Malam
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