Simply Classical Curriculum: Level 3

Lesson Plan Sample

For use with Simply Classical Curriculum: Level 3. In this level, the student grows in literary analysis, reading, grammar, and composition skills while learning about American history and embarking on the study of Latin. He receives instruction in Christian studies, science, art, and music. He practices memory work, penmanship, and oral reading fluency.

Simply Classical Copybook Cursive 3 Sample

Copybook is a time-honored activity in which students copy Scripture, maxims, poetry, and other literature selections. Through the Simply Classical Copybook series, students strengthen penmanship, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, and memory. Students learn habits of accuracy, neatness, and patience. Even more, they receive truth and comfort from Holy Scripture. Shorter selections help accommodate for writing difficulties while providing the full benefits of copybook exercises for all beginning writers. This Copybook uses the New American Cursive font.

On the Trail is a colorfully illustrated primary reading book that is full of short stories containing interesting character training themes, science, history, nature, and more.  This book allows beginning readers to practice reading vowel-digraph words.

Simply Classical Spelling Book Two sample

This series gives your struggling writer an incremental, multi-sensory approach with an oral/aural emphasis. Each week includes targeted Word Study exercises to promote linguistic awareness, cognitive flexibility, and improved spelling skills.

From the publisher: Spelling program features word lists built around similar sounds and patterns with varied and relevant exercises.

First Start Reading Book E Sample

In First Start Reading Book E, we complete the program by covering long vowel teams, soft c and g, and the three sounds of y. Once the student has mastered the basic phonics in the FSR series, he is ready to continue his reading progress with real literature.

First Start Reading Book E Teacher Guide Sample

The First Start Reading Book E Teacher Guide provides valuable assistance as it leads you through the program and provides helpful assessments and teaching tips.

More StoryTime Treasures Student Sample

Blossoming readers need more than practice; they need to discover the riches of a good story. With simplified exercises in word study, composition, and oration, these delightful guides provide a joyful introduction to children’s literature. Teach essential language arts skills, as your students encounter stories of tenderness, bravery, and kindness. Created especially for struggling learners or students with special needs, these adaptations of the Memoria Press originals are each subtitled “A Guide to Reading Deeply and Writing Skillfully through a Collection of Four Stories.” Simply Classical More StoryTime Treasures is coordinated with Billy & Blaze, The Story About Ping, Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, and Stone Soup.

More StoryTime Teacher Sample

Blossoming readers need more than practice; they need to discover the riches of a good story. With simplified exercises in word study, composition, and oration, these delightful guides provide a joyful introduction to children’s literature. Teach essential language arts skills, as your students encounter stories of tenderness, bravery, and kindness. Created especially for struggling learners or students with special needs, these adaptations of the Memoria Press originals are each subtitled “A Guide to Reading Deeply and Writing Skillfully through a Collection of Four Stories.” Simply Classical More StoryTime Treasures is coordinated with Billy & Blaze, The Story About Ping, Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, and Stone Soup. This Teacher Guide provides sample answers modeled in complete, well-formed sentences.

Billy and Blaze by C.W. Anderson is the first book in the classic series. It tells the story of Billy who loves horses. Billy is overjoyed when he receives a horse, Blaze, as a birthday gift. Billy and his pony understand each other at once and quickly develop a special bond. Billy loves riding Blaze through the green woods. He learns to jump with Blaze, and together they even rescue a dog named Rex who becomes a friend to them both. Billy enters into a horse show with Blaze, and together Billy and his best friend compete for first prize!

Ping the duck lives on a boat on the Yangtze River with his father, mother, two sisters, three brothers, eleven aunts, seven uncles, and forty-two cousins. Every day, Ping and his family march across the a little bridge to the shore, and every night, they come back home. The very last duck across the bridge gets a little spank on the back. One night, Ping gets to the boat late, and to avoid a spank for being the last duck, Ping decides to stay out. Ping explores the river and gets into trouble as he tries to find his way home to the boat and his very big family.

Set in 1856, Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie tells the story of Abbie Burgess who lives with her father, mother, and sisters on Matinicus Island in Maine where they tend a lighthouse. When Abbie's father must sail to the mainland to get food for the family, oil for the lighthouse lamps, and medicine for his wife, a terrible storm blows up. With her father away, Abbie must keep the lighthouse lamps burning and take care of her family all by herself. It is very hard to keep the lamps lit during the storm, and Abbie must be very brave. After two weeks the storm subsides, and Abbie's father is able to get back to the island. The children are thrilled that their father is home, and he is so proud of Abbie for keeping the lights burning all on her own.

Three hungry soldiers on their way home from war convince a crowd of stingy villagers that soup can be made from stones. The villagers fetch a giant pot, and the soldiers throw in three stones. The villagers are so excited to taste this miraculous soup made from stones that they continue to add more and more ingredients as the soldiers suggest them. At last, the soldiers and the villagers feast on stone soup and celebrate late into the night. The soldiers sleep in comfortable beds that night and continue on their way the next morning, leaving behind the villagers who are grateful to have learned the wonderful recipe for stone soup.

Prairie School by renowned children’s author Avi tells the story of Noah Bidson growing up on the prairies of Colorado. One day, his Aunt Dora arrives and begins teaching Noah reading, writing, and arithmetic. Noah is hesitant at first, trying to find ways to avoid studying. However, once Aunt Dora begins teaching him outside on the prairie, Noah discovers the joy of learning, and his life changes forever.

Prairie School Student Sample

Prairie School Lessons 1-3

Prairie School by renowned children’s author Avi tells the story of Noah Bidson growing up on the prairies of Colorado. One day, his Aunt Dora arrives and begins teaching Noah reading, writing, and arithmetic. Noah is hesitant at first, trying to find ways to avoid studying. However, once Aunt Dora begins teaching him outside on the prairie, Noah discovers the joy of learning, and his life changes forever. Our Prairie School Student Guide trains students to become active readers by providing in-depth word studies that help students build vocabulary as well as comprehension questions to teach students to identify important concepts and compose clear, concise answers to questions.

Writing Book Two Student Sample (Read-Aloud)

“What should I write? I don’t know what to say.” The so-called progressive approach leaves beginning writers ill-prepared for the art of writing. The Simply Classical Writing: Step-by-Step series combines copybook, grammar rules, and composition into one carefully-sequenced series of explicit instruction. Students receive necessary tools to practice early writing skills with confidence. Color-coding within each lesson provides multi-sensory encounters with capitalizing, punctuating, and editing. Sentences link to beautiful stories and engaging non-fiction. This Teacher Key includes sample answers for questions in the Student, modeled in complete, well-formed sentences.

Also available in the Bible Story Edition, with lessons based on stories from Scripture.

Writing Book Two Teacher Sample (Read-Aloud Edition)

“What should I write? I don’t know what to say.” The so-called progressive approach leaves beginning writers ill-prepared for the art of writing. The Simply Classical Writing: Step-by-Step series combines copybook, grammar rules, and composition into one carefully-sequenced series of explicit instruction. Students receive necessary tools to practice early writing skills with confidence. Color-coding within each lesson provides multi-sensory encounters with capitalizing, punctuating, and editing. Sentences link to beautiful stories and engaging non-fiction.

Also available in the Bible Story Edition, with lessons based on stories from Scripture.

My Thankfulness Journal: Beginner Sample

My Thankfulness Journals offer practice with writing skills and gratitude.

As the student recalls the pleasant details of the day, he receives clear guidance for sharing his thoughts in prayer to the Giver of every good and perfect gift.

For beginning writers (chronological ages 6-9 or comparable skill level)

• Provides a large font with ample spacing for beginning writers.
• Gives dotted lines for tracing on every page.
• Supplies the child with a correct form for letter writing (greeting, indentation for body, closing) in every lesson.
• Includes a numbered list, #1-5, for the body of every letter, rather than paragraph writing
• Begins each entry, "Dear God," and closes, "Yours," with a space for the child to write his name.

New American Cursive 2 Sample (Famous Americans)

New American Cursive is an easy-to-follow resource for teaching beginning cursive. It presents simplified letter forms, using multi-sensory methods to aid in the learning of motor skills necessary to write well. Developed by Iris Hatfield, with over 35 years of experience in the handwriting field, the book improves the process of teaching handwriting and allows students to start at a younger age.

New American Cursive 2:

• Eight-page Teaching Guide included
• 125 instruction exercises for excellent penmanship development
• Practice pages include quotes from famous Americans
• Simplified alphabet, unnecessary strokes eliminated
• Bound at the top for ease of use by left-handed students
• Clear starting dots and arrow directions
• Includes exercises to develop creative writing skills
• Blank reproducible practice pages included
• Flexible method allows for the individuality of the child

Student Text Table of Contents and Lesson Samples

The Prima Latina Student Book contains both the Instruction and the Exercises for the student to complete.

Teacher Manual Sample

The Prima Latina Teacher Manual has the answers to the Student Book as well the Tests (and Key) for the Prima Latina program.

Pronunciation CD Sample (Prayer: Sanctus):

The Prima Latina Pronunciation CD features pronunciations for all Prima Latina Lessons, as well as select songs from Lingua Angelica and four prayers.

Regarding the Rod & Staff Grade 2 Math Student Book Unit 1, the publisher says, "Unit 1 reviews addition and subtraction facts through 10 and other skills taught in Grade 1...."

Regarding the Rod & Staff Grade 2 Math Student Book Unit 2, the publisher says: "Unit 2 teaches all the addition and subtraction facts for 11...." In this workbook, the student will work through addition and subtraction facts for 11.

In the Rod & Staff Grade 2 Math Student Book Unit 3, students will learn and practice their addition and subtraction along with carrying and borrowing facts for 12 and 13.

The Rod & Staff Grade 2 Math Teacher Manual, Unit 1-2 covers the first and second student books. From the publisher: "The manual is essential for class time instructions and for workbook directions. Pupil's pages are shown in miniature with answers filled in."

The Rod & Staff Grade 2 Math Teacher Manual, Unit 3-5 covers the third-fifth student books. From the publisher: "The manual is essential for class time instructions and for workbook directions. Pupil's pages are shown in miniature with answers filled in."

Rod & Staff Grade 2 Math Blacklines provides further course work and practice for what they learn throughout the course. These Practice Sheets come on 3-ring punched paper that is meant to be put into a folder so that the sheets may be easily accessed by the student.

Level 3 Enrichment Guide Sample

The Simply Classical Enrichment Guide: Level 3  is organized by week, and coordinates with the Level 3 Curriculum Manual. It explores in-depth the American History Read-Aloud books, art, music, and poetry selections that are scheduled in the Level 3 Curriculum Manual. Included are artist biographies, background information on artistic and musical periods, suggested discussion questions, and activities to expand your child's cultural, scientific, and general knowledge.

From the publisher:

Learn to identify and locate all 50 of the United States with this entertaining and educational activity book. Simply apply 44 stickers of the states (in a few instances, smaller adjoining states appear on one sticker) to appropriately marked areas on the laminated outline map located on the inside covers.
To help you apply the stickers in the correct places, the shape and color of each sticker corresponds to the shape and outline color on the background map.

This set includes 50 cards with the name of each state and a map of the state's location within the United States on one side of the card, and the capital and detailed shape of the state on the other. Also included are 34 country cards that introduce key world countries and their capitals. Helpful teaching hints and suggested activities are also included.

Sample

Prairie School by renowned children’s author Avi tells the story of Noah Bidson growing up on the prairies of Colorado. One day, his Aunt Dora arrives and begins teaching Noah reading, writing, and arithmetic. Noah is hesitant at first, trying to find ways to avoid studying. However, once Aunt Dora begins teaching him outside on the prairie, Noah discovers the joy of learning, and his life changes forever. Our Prairie School Teacher Guide contains the answers to the Student Study Guide and will enable educators to aid the student in developing vocabulary and reading comprehension skills.