The Lower School (K4-3rd grade):
The Lower School focuses on History, Art, Music, Nature Study, and Science. We are drawing from the following materials:
The Story of the World, Volume 2 (Middle Ages) by Susan Wise Bauer
Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock
Artistic Pursuits: Art of the Middle Ages by Brenda Ellis
First Steps in Music and Conversational Solfege, John Feierabend
The Upper School (4th-7th grade):
The Upper School has 4 academic classes per day (Writing, Science, History, and Latin), followed by an hour of Enrichment (this year we will focus on Theatrical Arts). Here is a sampling of our texts:
The Story of the World, Volume 2 (Middle Ages) by Susan Wise Bauer
Exploring Creation With Astronomy, 2nd Ed. , Apologia
Along Came Galileo by Jeanne Bendick
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick
Human Body! Smithsonian Knowledge Encyclopedia
Earth Science, Novare
Physical Science, Novare
Writing and Rhetoric, various levels, Classical Academic Press
Latin for Children, Primer A and B Programs, Classical Academic Press
Latin Alive!, Classical Academic Press
The Book of the Middle Ages by Dorothy Mills
Beowulf the Warrior by Ian Serraillier
Canterbury Tales by Geraldine McCaughrean
The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights by Geraldine McCaughrean
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray
Literature Selections (1st grade and up):
The 100 Dresses by Eleanor Estes
Gone Fishing by Tamera Will Wissinger
Little House on the Prairie
Boxcar Children #1 by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Charlie and Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
