Text: Health, Safety, and Manners 1

This course is designed to teach students the importance of good health habits and gives God the glory for the way He designed us. Nutrition, exercise, proper rest, good posture, safety habits, and good manners at home, church, and school are emphasized.

Text: My America and My World

In this course, students will learn how our country was founded and what our basic freedoms are. Students become acquainted with several famous American patriots and several famous historical sites in America.

Text: SRA Real Math

In Arithmetic class, students will learn math concepts in an orderly manner, building on prior learning and including consistent year-long review. The concepts include counting, writing and reading numbers, place value, addition and subtraction, money, graphs, measurement, time, temperature, and fractions. Applications to real world situations and daily Thinking Caps stretch students’ thinking ability.

Text: Language 1

The course is designed to teach students in traditional grammar to build confidence and capability in written and spoken language. The course provides a balanced approached in skill development. Course work is designed to increase student’s thinking skills, reading comprehension skills, and creative writing ability. By the end of the year, students are writing in complete sentences; capitalizing the first word of a sentence and of the days and months; placing a period at the end of a sentence; knowing and using suffixes and prefixes; and alphabetizing words.

Phonics

Text: A Handbook for Reading/Letters & Sounds 1

This course is designed to teach reading using the phonics approach. Students learn vowel and consonant sounds, blends, one- and two-vowel words, unusual letter combination sounds, and sentence comprehension as well as the six easy steps to reading. The early introduction of vowels provides for faster access to whole words.