37 Favorite Books from our First Grade Homeschool

Wow, did we cover a lot this past year! I finally went and sorted through the books my son and I worked our way through for his first grade year.

It made me smile to see all the different subjects we covered – art, music, biographies, history, science, culture… I realized what a rich homeschool year we had, despite the setbacks and shortcomings that inevitably happened.

I’m sharing some of our favorites below, in case you’re looking for something new to add to your shelf (fiction, non-fiction and reference books).

** For reference, we primarily followed Cycle 2 of Classical Conversations, which covered medieval to new-world history, physics, and astronomy, along with Beautiful Feet Book’s Around the World Europe study (with a few others mixed in)**

If you have pre-K or Elementary aged children – I promise these books will not disappoint!

The Arts

The Magical Garden of Claude Monet

Van Gogh and the Sunflowers

The Story of the Orchestra – Four Seasons in One Day

A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories

Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?

Leonardo and the Flying Boy

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Nature + Science

A Butterfly is Patient

A Rock is Lively

The Beetle Book

Bees – A Honeyed History

Trees – A Rooted History

There Once Was a Tree

Ants – Just Like Us

The Night Sky

Who Was Neil Armstrong?

Who Was Isaac Newton?

Hot Air – The (Mostly True) Story of the First Hot Air Balloon Ride

History + Culture

Time Traveler

I Lost My Tooth in Africa

Anno’s Journey

Anatole

Manfish

Ferdinand

Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland

Martin’s Big Words

When Rosa Parks Went Fishing

Reference Books

MAPS

Nature Anatomy

Read-Aloud Chapter Books

The Long Winter

My Father’s Dragon

The Trumpet of the Swan

Chronicles of Narnia – The Complete 7 Volume CD Box Set

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Around the World in 80 Days

The Little Prince

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

The Adventures of Robin Hood

 

 

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