The Noah Plan® First Grade Essentials

Using the The Noah Plan® First Grade curriculum in your homeschool? Excellent! You’ll appreciate having this handy list of essentials that you’ll need for it. In this way, you’re not surprised that you’ll need a few more books than the curriculum itself. While the curriculum lists what’s needed, it’s super helpful to know while you’re already making your purchase. While everything is listed, I’m sharing the books in bold that I found were enough for me in my second year.

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The Essential First Grade Book List Bible

• Bible 
• Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
• The Family and the Nation: Biblical Childhood, Rosalie J. Slater, Foundation for American Christian Education
• Bible encyclopedia
• (The Young Reader’s Bible (first grade level), or Kid’s Bible (instructional level), or Early Reader’s Bible (independent level). But it’s up to you because some people prefer to have their children read right out of the Bible.

The Essential Kindergarten Book List Literature

• The Noah Plan® Literature Curriculum Guide
• The Children’s Illustrated Bible
• Encyclopedia Issac Watts
• Divine and Moral Songs in Easy Language, Issac Watts 
• Famous Authors for Young People, Coffman and Goodman
• A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Encyclopedia, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Pinocchio, Collodi
• Cinnabar, The One O’Clock Fox, Henry
• A Family Program for Reading Aloud, Slater
• Encyclopedia, Marguerite Henry
• Tales from Shakespeare, Charles and Mary Lamb
• Abigail Adams: First Lady of Faith and Courage, Witter
• Syllabus: Patriotic Women and the American Revolution, Slater

The Essential First Grade Book List History

• Bible (KJV)
• Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
• Renewing the Mind (formerly The Noah Plan® Self-Directed Study)
• The Noah Plan® History and Geography Curriculum Guide
• Teaching and Learning America’s Christian History
• Christian History of the Constitution Volumes 1 and 2
• Rudiments of America’s History and Government: Student Handbook, Rosalie J. Slater and Verna M. Hall
• The Plimoth Plantation Day Packet, F.A.C.E.
• The Coming of the Pilgrims, Told from Governor Bradford’s Firsthand Account, Smith and Meredith
• Syllabus: Teaching of Providential History (Bradford and the Pilgrims), Rosalie J. Slater
• America’s Providential History, Beliles and McDowell
• Christopher Columbus, His World, His Faith, His Adventure, Stone
• The Voyages of Columbus 1492-1504, Camusso
• Columbus, d’Aulaire
• Library book on Marco Polo
• Those Who Love, Stone (I read this for myself… haven’t read it to my children.)
• Abigail Adams: First Lady of Faith and Courage, Witter
• Syllabus: Patriotic Women and the American Revolution, F.A.C.E.
• Our National Symbols, Carlson, 4
• C&P, “Declaration of Their Rights”

The Essential First Grade Book List Geography

• Bible (KJV)
• Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
• Renewing the Mind (formerly The Noah Plan® Self-Directed Study)
• The Noah Plan® History and Geography Curriculum Guide
• Teaching and Learning America’s Christian History
• Encyclopedia (for colors of the Solar System)
• Christian History of the Constitution Volume 1
• Books and magazines containing pictures of Australia
• Books and magazines containing pictures of Africa
• Books and magazines containing pictures of South America
• Books and magazines containing pictures of Antarctica

The Essential First Grade Book List Science

• Bible (KJV)
• Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
• Men of Science, Men of God, Henry M. Morris
• Spinning Worlds, Carroll
• The Planets, Evan-Moor
• Isaac Newton, John Hudson Tiner
• Sun, Moon, and Stars, Evan-Moor
• The Noah Plan® History and Geography Curriculum Guide
• Encylopedia
• Syllabus: American Men of Science and Invention, Matthew Fontaine Maury, F.A.C.E.
• Matthew Fontaine Maury: Scientist of the Sea, Frances Leigh Williams

The Essential First Grade Book List Other Subjects

• French Primer, Mes Premiers Pas de Français by F.A.C.E. Of note, these are coloring pages with French words and sentence. Plus, it comes with an audio CD for pronunciation.
• Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum. I didn’t bother with this one (probably because of our budget at the time). And the curriculum we use works well for us so I haven’t felt the need to buy it…
• Right Start Mathematics. We started out with this and love it. However, I needed help time-wise teaching a subject with so many various levels among our 6 school-aged children and we are now using CTC Math(affiliate link) and love it! The lessons are short and concise, the kids can re-take lessons and tests as needed individually, it is not in line with common core, it keeps track of individual student’s records which are printable, and it grades lessons and tests automatically. This has been a huge blessing for me and our kids! Plus, I can teach the Bible principles in math to them just the same.
• Starter Kit, Spalding Education International. I have it and struggled so much with the way it is formatted. Thankfully someone introduced me to Spell to Write and Read by Wanda Sanseri. It’s based off of Spalding’s book but so simplified. I absolutely love it.
• Stone Bridge Art Guide