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 Lesson 31, 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.

What a wonderful way to enjoy art together! Through gentle lessons in color, composition and technique, introduce your children to paintings of children from the 16th through the 20th centuries as well as to landscape paintings. Each book contains 12 full-page color paintings, questions to guide your discussion, and a brief history of the artist. For Grade 1-adult.

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.

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."

Includes 26 animal puzzles and 20 challenging problem-solving activity sheets.