The Noah Plan® Kindergarten Essentials

Considering using the The Noah Plan® Kindergarten curriculum in your homeschool? How wonderful! You’ll appreciate knowing in advance what The Noah Plan® Kindergarten essentials you need. In this way, you’re not surprised that you’ll need a few more books than the curriculum itself. To be sure, in the back of The Noah Plan® curriculum (p. 295), a list of books and publishers is given. But, 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 first year. I’ll write comments about the others on this list by the Foundation for American Christian Education.

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And so, here’s the list to help you budget and plan for the upcoming school year. You may even be able to find many of these books at your local public library. Or you may be able to find poems and some stories in the public domain on-line.

The Essential Kindergarten Book List Bible

Bible
Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
The Family and the Nation: Biblical Childhood, Rosalie J. Slater, Foundation for American Christian Education
Map of the Holy Land
Early Reader’s Bible, Gold ‘n’ Honey Books. 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

Abraham Lincoln (d’Aulaire), Doubleday
Aesop’s Fables, Henry Holt & Co.
*American Dictionary of the English Language, Facsimile 1828 Edition, Foundation for American Christian Education (while there is an on-line edition, I have discovered that it is missing some words. So, I believe it’s essential to have a hard copy in your home.)
Bambi, by Felix Salten (this is not the Disney version)
A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson
Christian History of the American Revolution: Consider and Ponder. Of note, this is mostly for the parent’s re-education vs. the lessons for your Kindergarten.
Christian History of the Constitution of the United States of America, Vol 1: Christian Self-Government. Also, this is mostly for the parent’s re-education vs. the lessons for your Kindergarten.
Fairy Tale Books
Little House in the Big Woods
Pilgrim-Pioneer Character Moving Westward, by Slater through the Foundation for American Christian Education
Lullaby books. If you can’t swing these or find them at your library, you can always look some songs up on YouTube. In all transparency, this is what I did our first year.
Mother Goose and other nursery rhyme books. As with the lullaby books, if you can’t swing these or find them at your library.
Tale of Peter Rabbit
Tales from Shakespeare (Lamb’s)
Uncle Remus Stories, Random House-We couldn’t find this so we enjoyed Disney’s film called, Song of the South.
Winnie-the-Pooh, Penguin Putnam, Inc. An absolute must.
Poetry books containing Longfellow’s poetry. But these can be found at the library. Or you can find his poetry on-line.
Divine and Moral Songs for Children, Isaac Watts
Peter Rabbit and Friends stories by Beatrix Potter

The Essential Kindergarten Book List History

Plimoth Plantation Day Packet, Foundation for American Christian Education
Teacher Guide: Columbus, Foundation for American Christian Education
Columbus by d’Aulaire
America’s Providential History, by Mark Beliles and Stephen McDowell
A Children’s Color Book of Jamestown in Virginia, The Dietz Press
George Washington, d’Aulaire
Age appropriate books about Christian patriots
Books on the American Flag and Liberty Bell
Our National Symbols, Linda Carlson Johnson
Books about the American Bald Eagle, the Statue of Liberty, the Seal of the President

The Essential Kindergarten Book List Geography

Evan-Moor (EMBG) Volume 1, Beginning Geography How to Use a Map
Evan-Moor (EMBG) Volume 2, Beginning Geography Land Forms and Bodies of Water
Evan-Moor (EMBG) Volume 3, Beginning Geography Continents and Oceans
Student Atlas

The Essential Kindergarten Book List Science

Snowflake Bentley, Jacqueline Briggs. Or a book with magnified snowflakes.
Dog books
Weather books
Sea animals, plants landforms of the ocean
Botany books
Books about leaves
Astronomy books
Spinning Worlds, by Michael Carroll
Zoology books
Learning about My Body, The Evan-Moor Corp
My First Body Book, Chris and Melanie Rice
What’s Inside My Body?, Angela Royston
Me and My Body, David Evans and Claudette Williams
The Skeleton Inside You, Philip Balestrino

The Essential Kindergarten 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

Useful Guides for Upper-Level Grades

I find the following Noah Plan® guides useful for upper-level grades:

English Language Curriculum Guide
History and Geography Guide
Lessons for Kindergarten
Literature Curriculum Guide
Mathematics Guide
Reading Curriculum Guide
Self-Directed Seminar and Principle Approach® Methodology
Teaching and Learning America’s Providential History: The Principle Approach®. This can wait until later if you need to, but do get it when you are able to.
Teacher Guide: “Pilgrim-Pioneer Character Moving Westward” by F.A.C.E. We do not own this.