{"id":3708,"date":"2014-07-30T13:33:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T20:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:57:59","slug":"getting-ready-for-first-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/getting-ready-for-first-grade","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready For First Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"core<\/a>I wanted to get Hannah on a ‘similar’ schedule to traditional schools so when people ask her what grade she is in we can tell them and it will be equivalent to children her age. So we stretched Core A (Kinder) out to start Core B (1st grade) this fall. My sister had some of the books we needed to complete our set, so now we are ready and will probably start in a couple weeks. <\/p>\n

Here’s the plan:
\nSonlight Core B (an older version) and readers, Sonlight Science B, Sonlight LA2, and Horizons Math 2. Core B is world history from creation to the fall of Rome. From my lurking on the forums, it will be really fun. I’ve also been trying to pre-read some of the books and I’m excited for the ones I’ve read so far. Plus we have come to love the Usborne books and there is no shortage of them in this set of books. The ones that have internet links, I have posted here<\/a> so we can reference them easily anytime. Science B is titled Animals, Astronomy, and Physics. Science always sounds fun to me. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

Sonlight Core B and readers – an old version (Images of the books here<\/a>):<\/h2>\n

A Child’s History of the World
\nArchaeologists Dig For Clues
\nCharlotte’s Web
\nCore B Instructors Guide
\nDetectives in Togas
\nFavorite Poems of Childhood
\nFollow My Leader
\nFrom Akebu to Zapotec
\nGeorge Muller
\nGooney Bird Greene
\nGreek Myths for Young Children
\nHenry Huggins
\nHomer Price
\nHouses and Homes
\nIt Could Always Be Worse*
\nLeading Little Ones to God
\nLittle Pear
\nMissionary Stories with the Millers
\nMountain Born
\nMr. Popper’s Penguins
\nMrs. Piggle-Wiggle
\nPeoples of the World
\nRoman Diary*
\nSing the Word: A New Commandment – CD
\nThe Case of the Gasping Garbage*
\nThe Great Wall of China
\nThe Greek News
\nThe Sword in the Tree*
\nThe Usborne Book of World History
\nThe Usborne Time Traveler
\nThe Wheel on the School
\nThe Year of Miss Agnes
\nTimeline Figures B
\nTut’s Mummy Lost & Found
\nUnderstood Betsy<\/p>\n

Sonlight Science B (Images of books here<\/a>):<\/h2>\n

Discover & Do Level 1 DVD
\nFirst Encyclopedia of the Human Body
\nNight Animals
\nPasteur’s Fight Against Microbes
\nScience Activities, Vol. 1
\nScience B Instructor’s Guide
\nScience Supplies Kit B
\nSee How It’s Made
\nSpace
\nThe Magic School Bus at the Waterworks
\nThe Usborne World Of Animals
\nWhat Makes You Ill?
\nWhy Do People Eat?<\/p>\n

Sonlight LA2 (Images of books here<\/a>):<\/h2>\n

Amelia Bedelia
\nBeginners Bible
\nDaniel’s Duck
\nETC 4, 5, 6
\nFrog and Toad All Year
\nFrog and Toad are Friends
\nForg and Toad Together
\nGreg’s Microscope
\nHill of Fire
\nLanguage Arts 2 Instructors Guide
\nMouse Tales
\nNate the Great
\nOwl at Home
\nOwls in the Family*
\nTitanic: Lost and Found
\nPompeii: Buried Alive
\nSurprises
\nThe Big Balloon Race
\nThe Fire Cat
\nWordly Wise A
\nWagon Wheels<\/p>\n

*I purchased all the books that have been added to the core since the version I have. I also have a bunch of other related materials on my shelf. We might add them in as supplemental stuff or just have Hannah read them to herself. I plan on updating to the current core when Ben is ready to go through it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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