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Primary Complete Program
for Kindergarten through 2nd Grade
Where Can You Get 3 Years of Homeschool Curriculum for less than
$32/year?
The Primary Complete Program is
organized aroun d nine chronological history units. It is designed to be used from
Kindergarten through 2nd grade, following the suggested schedule and moving
through the units Creation to Modern annually.
We have
found that following this pace, especially for younger students, keeps them engaged as well as gives them the
opportunity to revisit a topic in a short enough time to actually recall more of what they've previously
learned.
Progressing
through the units yearly allows the opportunity to "layer" information, covering different aspects of the same
time period annually so that a deeper understanding is achieved and connections between historic events are
more apparent.

As in all of our complete programs, this program
integrates history, science, geography, language arts, fine arts and projects--all in one
homeschool curriculum---using whole, living books. Although books are not included with the
curriculum, many are readily available at your local public or church library or
online.
Each unit booklet provides
an Historical book list [including the author, ISBN, library call number (if available),
approximate listening and reading level of each selection]; a Poetry/Fine Arts book list and
a Science book list. Additionally, there are MANY hands-on projects and activities provided
for both history and science, some doing double-duty offering fine arts study as well. For the homeschool
teacher's benefit, for each unit of the curriculum there are multi-page summaries of the time period
following the book lists, to aid you in reviewing the most important events during that
unit.
See sample of
Colonial Unit here.
The 100+ page
homeschool Manual that comes with
the Complete Programs covers how to teach and evaluate history, science, language arts (phonics,
spelling, reading, poetry, etc.) and fine arts, all using books that are available in your local
libraries or on-line. (Note: books are not included in the program.)
Benefits include the
following:
NOTE:
All Complete Programs include the nine unit booklets and one
across-the-units Resource booklet, historical overviews of each time period, 100+ page spiral bound
teaching manual, Tools CD, and historical bookmarks. Printed in black and white on heavy duty
cardstock, each component is shipped pre-punched and packaged in a 1" white three-ringed
binder.
Price for Primary Complete Program: $95
*Note that you need Adobe Reader in order to view the samples. You can download a free copy of
Adobe Acrobat Reader at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
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"The most common and the monstrous defect in the
education of the day ist hat children fail to acquire the habit
of reading."
Charlotte Mason (Vol. I,Part VIII--Reading for Older
Children, p. 227)
"Let a child have the meat he requires in his
history readings, and in the literature which naturally gathers
round this history, and imagination will bestir itself without
any help of ours; the child will live out in detail a thousand
scenes of which he only gets the merest hint."
Charlotte Mason (Vol. I, Part XVIII --History, p.
295)
"But give the child work that Nature intended for him,
and the quantity he can get through with ease is practically
unlimited. Whoever saw a child tired of seeing, of examining in
his own way, unfamiliar things? this is the sort of mental
nourishment for which he has an unbounded appetite, because it
is that food of the mind on which, for the present, he is meant
to grow."
Charlotte Mason (Vol. I, Part II --Out-of-Door Life For
the Children, p. 67)
"Children should be made
early intimate with the trees, too; should pick out half a
dozen trees, oak, elm, ash, beech, in their winter nakedness,
and take these to be their year-long friends."
Charlotte Mason
(Vol I, II, Out-Of-Door Life For
The Children, p.52)
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