1st Grade + K-3 Essentials Package

What's Included

The following resources are included with the 1st Grade + K-3 Essentials Package:

• 1st Grade Coursebook
• 1st Grade Resource Book
• Beginning Recorder
• Word Families
• Charlie the Ranch Dog: Charlie's Snow Day
• Charlie the Ranch Dog: Stuck in the Mud
• Charlie the Ranch Dog: Charlie's New Friend
• Frog & Toad Are Friends
• Frog & Toad Together
• Mouse Soup
• Mouse Tales
• Heart of Learning: provides important support and guidance for the homeschooling parent through a series of essays on the educational philosophy and learning principles behind the early grades of Oak Meadow. It includes information on child development as well as suggestions on how to develop your skills as a home teacher.
• Guide to Teaching the Early Grades: includes practical information on how to present the lesson material as well as an extensive collection of songs poems and action verses that you'll be using through the early grades.
• Crafts for the Early Grades: includes all the instructions for crafts and projects.
• Circle Time Songs CD: provides musical inspiration for your circle time and includes all the songs listed in the OM Guide to Teaching the Early Grades
• Healthy Living from the Start: is our K-3 health curriculum. It offers a wide range of activities around health-related topics. Each lesson includes a set of activities to choose from for each grade level making it easy to use with children of different ages.

Please note that The Heart of Learning OM Guide to Teaching the Early Grades OM Crafts for the Early Grades OM Circle Time CD and Healthy Living From the Start are used through grades K-3. These items only need to be purchased once.

Additional Materials Recommended

The following items are recommended to complete the 1st grade coursework:

• 1st Grade Craft Kit With Recorders: optional kit containing craft items used in the 1st grade curriculum.
• Essentials Craft Kit: optional kit designed to be used alongside our K-3 Essentials Package and includes many of the common craft items you'll need in your homeschool.

1st Grade Overview

View a sample of our 1st Grade curriculum here.

Oak Meadow’s lively and engaging 1st grade curriculum will help you guide your child toward solid reading and math skills while encouraging an active inquisitive mind.

In language arts literacy skills are developed through a language-rich curriculum that focuses on stories poems and songs. Students progress through learning how to print upper- and lower-case letters to a study of word families and consonant blends. The imagination is sparked through fairy tales nature stories and traditional verses as your child develops the necessary skills and confidence to read independently.

In social studies students begin to develop a sense of time and place as they encounter classic tales make their own calendars learn to use a compass and draw maps of their neighborhoods. Multicultural awareness is explored through community connections and a developing sense of good citizenship.

In the math curriculum stories are integrated into the study of numbers and objects from nature collected on a walk become part of learning the four mathematical processes. Students also explore sequences patterns counting money and geometric shapes.

Science arts & crafts music and health round out the first grade experience. Each week students engage in observations of the natural world express themselves through painting and crafts develop their recorder playing skills and conduct inquiries into topics related to their healthy development.

Projects crafts and activities through the year include:

• Make a book of stories with summaries and illustrations
• Create your own store and marketplace
• Make a weather vane
• Identify animal tracks
• Learn to knit
• Build a birdhouse