Simply Classical Curriculum: Levels 5 & 6 One-Year Pace

Curriculum Manual Sample

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All Major Bible Stories up to the Entry Into Canaan

Christian Studies I is part of a three-year reading course that builds faith by teaching Salvation History as real history. Students work through one-third of The Golden Children’s Bible each year, for three years. Your child will learn the fundamentals of Bible stories, history, and geography, with solid detail at a manageable pace.

Help your student become versed in the central facts of the Old Testament. These cards can be used with our Christian Studies courses, independently, or with other Bible courses. What creature was the "most cunning of beasts"? What is Latin for "the image of God"? What is the name for the "feast celebrating Exodus"? There's no better way to know your Bible.

The Golden Children's Bible Sample

The Golden Children’s Bible was chosen because of its slightly simplified, but poetically appealing, King James text, along with its beautiful and age-appropriate illustrations. This is important because we believe students should learn to revere the Bible as a sacred book, distinct from modern adventure stories with cartoon heroes.

The Rod & Staff Grade 3 Math Student Book, Third Edition has 170 lessons. It reviews addition and subtraction skills, teaches multiplication and division facts through table 9, and simple two- and three-step multiplication and division.

Students are taught how to set up their assigned work on notebook paper. Memoria Press offers Graph Paper that helps with assigned work.

The Rod & Staff Grade 3 Math Teacher Manual Part 1, Third Edition covers the first half of the 170 lessons in the Rod & Staff Grade 3 Math Student Book, Third Edition.

The Rod & Staff Grade 3 Math Teacher Manual Part 2, Third Edition covers the second half of the 170 lessons in the Rod & Staff Grade 3 Math Student Book, Third Edition.

The Rod & Staff Grade 3 Math Practice Sheets, Third Edition provide additional drills and practice for the lessons from the Rod & Staff Grade 3 Math Student Book, Third Edition.

Rod & Staff Grade 3 Math Tests, Third Edition

Memoria Math Notebook Sample

Train young students to properly set up a math notebook with this 1/2" graph paper. Students can practice organizing problems, correctly sizing numbers, and writing in orderly rows as they complete their math work. Instilling good habits of neat math work in the younger years cuts down on careless mistakes in higher-level math. Printed in light blue ink that is not distracting and does not blend in with pencil marks.

Flashcard Sample

Division is an essential math skill, and a firm understanding of this concept will prepare your child to master more challenging math. These flashcards offer essential division practice for number combinations from 0 to 12. The set contains 157 6"x4" cards that will make math review simple and fun!

Flashcard Sample

Multiplication is an essential math skill, and a firm understanding of this concept will prepare your child to master more challenging math. These flashcards offer essential multiplication practice for number combinations from 0 to 12. The set contains 170 6"x4" cards that will make math review simple and fun!

Traditional Spelling Book II Student Sample

The Traditional Spelling series is a comprehensive approach to teaching spelling and completes our Reading & Phonics program. Following our award-winning First Start Reading and Classical Phonics, the next step towards mastery of phonics is Traditional Spelling. Designed for students who have mastered reading "Consonant-Vowel-Consonant" words and their short vowel sounds, Traditional Spelling is intended to follow a phonics-based kindergarten program such as the Memoria Press First Start Reading program through Book D. The Traditional Spelling II Student Book contains 34 spelling lessons with a variety of activities that encourage mastery of each word list.

Required Supplements: The Phonics Flashcards and Classical Phonics are required to complete all activities in Traditional Spelling.

Teacher Sample

The Traditional Spelling series is a comprehensive approach to teaching spelling and completes our Reading & Phonics program. Following our award-winning First Start Reading and Classical Phonics, the next step towards mastery of phonics is Traditional Spelling. Designed for students who have mastered reading "Consonant-Vowel-Consonant" words and their short vowel sounds, Traditional Spelling is intended to follow a phonics-based kindergarten program such as the Memoria Press First Start Reading program through Book D. The Traditional Spelling Book II Teacher Manual contains all the answers to the Traditional Spelling Book II Student Book and helps guide teachers through the program. 

Required Supplements: Phonics Flashcards and Classical Phonics.

Spelling Practice Sheets: for use with Traditional Spelling Book Two Sample

The Traditional Spelling series is a comprehensive approach to teaching spelling and completes our Reading & Phonics program. Following our award-winning First Start Reading and Classical Phonics, the next step towards mastery of phonics is Traditional Spelling. Designed for students who have mastered reading “Consonant-Vowel-Consonant” words and their short vowel sounds, Traditional Spelling is intended to follow a phonics-based kindergarten program such as the Memoria Press First Start Reading program through Book D. The Traditional Spelling Book II Practice Sheets provide extra practice for each spelling list.

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The Traditional Spelling series is a comprehensive phonetic approach to teaching spelling and completes our Reading & Phonics program. Following our award-winning First Start Reading and Classical Phonics, the next step towards mastery of phonics is Traditional Spelling.

Designed for students who have mastered reading "Consonant-Vowel-Consonant" words and their short vowel sounds, Traditional Spelling is intended to follow a phonics-based kindergarten program such as the Memoria Press First Start Reading program through Book D.

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The Traditional Spelling series is a comprehensive phonetic approach to teaching spelling and completes our Reading & Phonics program. Following our award-winning First Start Reading and Classical Phonics, the next step towards mastery of phonics is Traditional Spelling.

Designed for students who have mastered reading "Consonant-Vowel-Consonant" words and their short vowel sounds, Traditional Spelling is intended to follow a phonics-based kindergarten program such as the Memoria Press First Start Reading program through Book D.

Track Lengths

Our Traditional Spelling series is a comprehensive, phonetic approach to teaching spelling. It is designed to follow our Kindergarten Curriculum or First Start Reading Books A-D, which ensure students have mastered reading “consonant-vowel-consonant” words with short vowels.

These Streaming Instructional Videos offer the help of a master teacher who will lead you through the lessons of Traditional Spelling II for an entire school year.

Creating Art Sample

With several lessons that feature art projects inspired by Charlotte’s Web, The Book of Astronomy, and The Moffats, Creating Art is a perfect introduction to art for students in the grammar stage.

Book Sample Lesson 1
Water Music, Suite in D Major (HWV 349): 2. Alla Hornpipe
Audio Sample Lesson 1: track 1.5

Western classical music is as orderly and logical as mathematics, and yet capable of expressing and connecting with the whole range of human emotions. It consists most often of only twelve notes, a few simple rhythms, and a variety of aural textures that manifest in thousands of complex and distinctive styles and forms. It follows a system of rules set in place long ago, but these rules are flexible enough that new music is always being created, building on what previous generations composed, ever expanding.

This course aims to deepen the student’s appreciation of music by grounding the greatest pieces in the canon of Western classical music in their historical context, and by introducing the foundational musical concepts of notation, rhythm, pitch, form, and melody to give a fuller understanding of the inner workings of the pieces and of music in general. Students will listen to each piece of music and then read each chapter and listen to the corresponding tracks on the Audio Companion CD, which will demonstrate the concepts discussed. The pieces are ordered mostly chronologically in order to illustrate the place each one holds in history and in the evolution of music.

You can find links to all the pieces discussed in Music Appreciation I here.

States & Capitals Student Sample

This study guide thoroughly teaches the states and capitals of the United States. Each page includes a state map and room to write the state's capital, nickname, abbreviation, and fun facts. By the end of this year-long course, students will be able to label all 50 states on a U.S. map (with the capitals). Thorough teaching instructions are included, and the Teacher Manual includes tests. We recommend that this guide be used with Don’t Know Much About the 50 States.

States & Capitals Teacher Sample

States & Capitals thoroughly teaches the states and capitals of the United States. Each page includes a state map and room to write the state's capital, nickname, abbreviation, and fun facts. By the end of this year-long course, students will be able to label all 50 states on a U.S. map (with the capitals).

This Teacher Key includes answers to student guide questions and tests.

Rod & Staff Grade 3 English contains 125 lessons and 10 review lessons and focuses on understanding sentence type, sentence structure, and basic paragraph formation. Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, and their correct usage are exercised.

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Rod & Staff Grade 3 English contains 125 lessons and 10 review lessons and focuses on understanding sentence type, sentence structure, and basic paragraph formation. Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, and their correct usage are exercised.

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Rod & Staff Grade 3 English contains 125 lessons and 10 review lessons and focuses on understanding sentence type, sentence structure, and basic paragraph formation. Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, and their correct usage are exercised.

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Rod & Staff Grade 3 English contains 125 lessons and 10 review lessons and focuses on understanding sentence type, sentence structure, and basic paragraph formation. Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, and their correct usage are exercised.

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Composition & Sketchbook III Sample

Our Composition & Sketchbooks allow each student to write and illustrate compositions. These books are a great resource for all subjects and become a journal of your child's work for each year.

Composition & Sketchbook III - This book is laid out in 2-page spreads with an entire page for a picture on the left-hand side and a page of college-ruled lines on the right-hand side. Grammar school students will be very comfortable with this more mature format.

Student Sample

This poetry book is intended for use in the grammar school years as a supplemental study of the poetry students memorize in our literature study guides. Poetry study includes questions to help students analyze meanings of the poems, including vocabulary work.

Teacher Sample

This poetry book is intended for use in the grammar school years as a supplemental study of the poetry students memorize in our literature study guides. Poetry study includes questions to help students analyze meanings of the poems, including vocabulary work. Poems increase in difficulty as students move through the book over a four-year period.

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While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Almanzo wishes for just one thing—his very own horse—but he must prove that he is ready for such a big responsibility.

Check out our Farmer Boy Set, featuring the novel, Second Edition Student Guide, and Second Edition Teacher Guide.

Farmer Boy Teacher Guide, Second Edition Sample

While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Almanzo wishes for just one thing—his very own horse—but he must prove that he is ready for such a big responsibility.

This Teacher Guide offers teaching guidelines, answers to all exercises in the Student Guide, and quizzes & tests.

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White is an all-time Newbery Honor-winning classic of children's literature. Our Student Guide and Teacher Guide increase both the understanding of the text and develop reading comprehension skills.

Charlotte's Web Teacher Sample

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White is an all-time Newbery Honor-winning classic of children's literature. Our Study Guide and Teacher Guide increase both the understanding of the text and develop Reading Comprehension skills.

A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond has been read and cherished by students for over 50 years. In this first Paddington story, the Brown family finds the little bear at Paddington Station having traveled from Peru. The Browns take Paddington to their home near Notting Hill, and the bear has many adventures around London.

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Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater is a classic work of imagination that always delights young readers.  Our Study Guide and Teacher Guide increase both the understanding of the text and develop Reading Comprehension skills.

Mr. Popper's Penguins Teacher Sample

Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater is a classic work of imagination that always delights young readers.  Our Study Guide and Teacher Guide increase both the understanding of the text and develop Reading Comprehension skills.

In The Little Fir Tree by Margaret Wise Brown, a little fir tree grows in a field by himself away from the other trees. One day, a man comes and carefully digs him up. The man carries the tree back to his home where he becomes a Christmas tree in the room of the man's bedridden son. Each spring the man replants the tree, and each winter he brings the tree back to his home to help his son celebrate Christmas. One year, winter comes and the snow falls, but still the man does not come. The little tree is sad and lonely until he sees a light coming through the woods, and the joy of Christmas returns as the tree sees his boy walking towards him. Illustrations by award-winning artist Jim Lamarche elegantly capture the wonder and purity of this classic Christmas story.

New American Cursive 3 Sample

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 3:

• Seven-page Teaching Guide included
• 100 instruction exercises for excellent penmanship development
• Practice pages include Bible verses and character-building quotes
• Simplified alphabet, unnecessary strokes eliminated
• Bound at the top for ease of use by left-handed students
• Includes exercises to develop creative writing skills
• Blank reproducible practice pages included
• Flexible method allows for the individuality of the child

My Thankfulness Journal: Intermediate 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 intermediate writers (chronological age 9-12, or comparable skill level)

• Provides a more advanced, smaller-size font.
• Fades dotted-line prompting as exercises progress.
• Supplies the child with a correct form for letter writing (greeting, indentation for body, closing) in every lesson.
• Provides the opportunity to write in paragraph form.
• Begins each entry, "Dear Heavenly Father," and closes, "Your child," with space for the signature.

Student Book Sample

The Latina Christiana Student Workbook is both the text and workbook for the Latina Christiana program.

Teacher Manual Sample

The Latina Christiana Teacher Manual contains all the answers to the Student Book, as well as the quizzes and tests, and their key.

The Latina Christiana Pronunciation Audio gives the correct pronunciation for each lesson and for the prayers and songs in LC.

Pronunciation Sample (Lesson 1):

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Latina Christiana Review Worksheets Sample

These supplemental Latina Christiana Review Worksheets will help your students master the grammar and vocabulary they are learning in Latina Christiana.

Review Worksheets Key Sample

The supplemental Review Worksheets will help your students master the grammar and vocabulary they are learning in Latina Christiana.

D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths Sample

While Rome illuminates the formation of governments and societies, Greece illuminates the human condition. Introduce your students to the kinds of characters they will surely meet in life through the entertaining and exaggerated stories of the Greek gods. You will want to read it to your family first and then let your children read the stories again and again. The beautiful artwork is a wonderful teaching tool that allows you to ask questions about each detail. Greek myths are timeless and universal stories that serve as archetypes for the human character and the search for the divine.

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths Teacher Manual, Second Edition Sample

While Rome illuminates the formation of governments and societies, Greece illuminates the human condition. Introduce your students to the kinds of characters they will surely meet in life through the entertaining and exaggerated stories of the Greek gods. You will want to read it to your family first and then let your children read the stories again and again. The beautiful artwork is a wonderful teaching tool that allows you to ask questions about each detail. Greek myths are timeless and universal stories that serve as archetypes for the human character and the search for the divine.

The D'Aulaires' Greek Myths Teacher Manual, Second Edition contains the answers to the Student Guide and the quizzes and tests.

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths Flashcards Sample

While Rome illuminates the formation of governments and societies, Greece illuminates the human condition. Introduce your students to the kinds of characters they will surely meet in life through the entertaining and exaggerated stories of the Greek gods. You will want to read it to your family first and then let your children read the stories again and again. The beautiful artwork is a wonderful teaching tool that allows you to ask questions about each detail. Greek myths are timeless and universal stories that serve as archetypes for the human character and the search for the divine.

The D'Aulaires' Greek Myths Flashcards contain short descriptions on one side and the corresponding person, place, or thing on the other.

Timeline Handbook Sample

Students will master a total of 60 events over the course of four years (3rd-6th grades). History is a very unsystematic subject, and time is very abstract. Students need a timeline that they memorize, build on, and recite every year.

Composition & Sketchbook Sample

Students will master a total of 60 events over the course of four years (3rd-6th grades). History is a very unsystematic subject, and time is very abstract. Students need a timeline that they memorize, build on, and recite every year.

This book will be completed over the four-year period in which this timeline is completed. Each event has a 2-page spread with a picture frame for illustrating the event on one side, and a page of blank lines for writing a summary of the event on the other.

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Timeline Wall Cards Example

Students will master a total of 60 events over the course of four years (3rd-6th grades). History is a very unsystematic subject, and time is very abstract. Students need a timeline that they memorize, build on, and recite every year.

Cards for the wall timeline have the date and event on the same side. Cards are added throughout the year as students study history in Classical/Christian Studies and American Studies. The wall timeline should be in a prominent place in the classroom throughout the year, beginning in grade 3.

Timeline Student Flashcards Sample

Students will master a total of 60 events over the course of four years (3rd-6th grades). History is a very unsystematic subject, and time is very abstract. Students need a timeline that they memorize, build on, and recite every year.

Each student should have his/her own set of flashcards for drill and practice. One side has the date and the reverse side has the event. These cards are color-coded identically to the Timeline Card on the wall.

In this collection, Jim Weiss narrates tales from the Golden Age of Greece. These true stories explore the first democracy, the original Olympics, the great storyteller Homer, the wise and winsome Socrates, and more! Courage and a Clear Mind is sure to inspire a sense of adventure in those who listen.

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The World of Mammals investigates and describes the anatomy, behavior, and habitats of hundreds of animals. Students will study rodents, elephants, primates, marsupials, and much more! This book will provide children with an insight into the incredible range of life in God’s wonderful world.

The World of Mammals book consists of the "Mammals" section from the former text, The World of Animals.

Mammals Student Sample

The Mammals Student Workbook contains questions based upon What is a Mammal?, What is the Animal Kingdom?,  and The World of Mammals. The answers are to be found in the Mammals Teacher Guide. All of these books are sold together in the Mammals Set.

Mammals Teacher Sample

The Teacher Guide contains the answers to Student Guide, the Quizzes and Tests, and the answers to them.

What is a Mammal? Sample

The child's science learner What is a Mammal? teaches about the main groups of mammals, their diets, habitats, and anatomy in this colorfully illustrated book.

What is the Animal Kingdom Sample

What is the Animal Kingdom? explains the scientific classification of animals. It classifies and describes various creatures, including insects, mammals, and fish. It also explains the basics of kingdoms and species that form an important foundation for the study of biology, and tells how readers can help prevent their destruction.