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First Grade Curriculum Overview
 My Father's World First Grade is a complete first
grade curriculum with a phonics-based reading
program that focuses on the Bible. The integrated lessons also include language arts, social studies, science, math, art, and Bible. Easy-to-teach lesson plans guide you through a complete school year.
 Using a thematic approach, Bible history from Genesis to Revelation is the focus of this learning adventure. Phonics lessons develop the needed skills
to read Bible stories from our Bible Reader. Students retell (narrate) the Bible
story and create a lovely keepsake Bible Notebook in which they summarize and
illustrate Bible stories. Weekly memory verses selected from Proverbs help strengthen
handwriting skills as well as biblical character.
Hands-on projects help the student understand
and experience the world of the Bible. Creating a timeline
helps to visualize Bible stories as actual events that fit
into history. Making a Bible times costume and celebrating
a Sabbath meal help students understand the culture of the
Bible.
Reading is taught with step-by-step instruction in phonics. My Father's World First Grade begins with a quick review of letter names and sounds, followed by in-depth teaching of all necessary phonics to produce an
independent reader. The Teacher's Manual provides easy-to-follow daily lesson plans that teach new skills and allow for continuous review. Student worksheets reinforce phonics, spelling, and handwriting skills. By Day 38, students are able to read Bible stories in a special beginning level Bible Reader, which is included with the curriculum.
 For science, the focus is nature, using three excellent Usborne science books included with the curriculum. The Teacher's Manual also lists goals for first grade math, and suggestions for an informal hands-on approach. The Deluxe Package adds more hands-on manipulatives and a colorful math workbook to reinforce skills.
The first grade program is an ideal follow-up to My Father's World Kindergarten but may be used by any student who is ready for first grade reading. If your child is not yet reading simple short vowel words, he may be more successful if he begins with our kindergarten program. Please contact us if you have any questions about placement.
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| Complete First Grade Curriculum: Basic Package |
- Teacher's Manual with easy-to-teach daily lessons.
- Student Materials include:
- Student Workbook for phonics.
- Supplementary Sheets with hands-on phonics activities and handwriting; Timeline Figures and Math and Reading Charts
- Bible Reader with simplified Bible stories that the student reads for himself.
- Bible Notebook that the student writes and illustrates after reading the stories
- Things Outdoors (included free; $4.95 value)
- Science with Water, Science with Plants (included free; $5.95 value each).
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| 1st Grade Student Materials for an additional child |
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| First Grade Deluxe Package |
Includes My Father's World First Grade plus the following:
- Honey for a Child's Heart
- Drawing with Children
- Come Look with Me: Enjoying Art with Children
- Come Look with Me: Enjoying Landscape Art with Children
- Introduction to the Orchestra
- Wooden Pattern Blocks
- The Complete Book of Math
- Pattern Animals: Puzzles for Pattern Blocks
 WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small Parts. Not for children under 3 years.
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| Individual First Grade Items |
The individual items below are not pictured relative to each other in size. Some items have been enlarged for detail and others reduced to fit. See the group pictures above for item size comparison. |
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1st Grade Student Materials for an additional child
Bible Reader, Bible Notebook, Student Workbook and Student Sheets. One set included with the basic package.
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Science With Plants
Full of science activities which encourage children to explore the fascinating nature of plants. Included with the basic package.
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Science with Water
Packed with exciting scientific activities designed to help young children explore the intriguing properties of water. Included with the basic package.
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Things Outdoors
Straightforward explainations about familiar, everyday things. The detailed illustrations combine to make the books both informative and fun. Included with the basic package.
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Drawing with Children
Mona Brookes' method, emphasizing step-by-step guidance, yields astonishing results. The drawing skills taught in this book will be helpful when illustrating the Bible Notebook. Lesson plans for using Drawing with Children are included in MFW First Grade. For K-adult. Included with the deluxe package.
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Honey for a Child's Heart
MFW First Grade recommends reading aloud to your child daily, and this book will provide suggested reading lists from a Christian viewpoint, as well as the "why?" and "how?" of reading aloud. Included with the deluxe package.
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Come Look with Me: Enjoying Art with Children
A celebration of the pleasure of shared experience, this book introduces your children to paintings of children from the 16th through the 20th centuries. What's more, it teaches them a way of appreciation which offers a lifetime of delight in the world of art. Contains 12 full-page color paintings, questions to guide your discussion, and a brief history of the artist. For Grade 1-adult. Included with the deluxe package.
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Come Look with Me: Exploring Landscape Art with Children
Through gentle lessons in color, composition, and technique, this book introduces your children to outstanding landscape paintings. This book encourages children "to look beyond the obvious." Contains 12 full-page color paintings, questions to guide your discussion, and a brief history of the artist. For Grade 1-adult. Included with the deluxe package.
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Introduction to the Orchestra
Introduce your children to the names and sounds of instruments in the orchestra. Includes a CD with Peter and the Wolf, Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten and Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saens, plus the informative Musical Instruments coloring book to teach the appearance of each instrument. For Grade 1-adult. Included with the deluxe package.
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The Complete Book of Math
Over 300 kid-friendly, full-color workbook pages reinforce patterns, classifying, comparing, addition/subtraction, place value, geometry, measurement, graphs, time, money, and fractions. Includes creative ideas for hands-on activities. Included with the deluxe package.
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Wooden Pattern Blocks
Kids love to create unique designs and build structures with these 250 colorful hardwood hexagons, squares, triangles, trapezoids, parallelograms, and rhombuses. A hands-on way to develop problem solving, geometry, visual-spatial, and other key math-related skills. May be used with Pattern Animals. Included with the deluxe package.
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small Parts. Not for children under 3 years.
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