Spine Books

We LOVE books! We use A LOT of books in our everyday. Many are one time reads or ones we like but still rotate out. Spine books are books we love and are using everyday for a long period of time with school. It changes often but this is our current stack of regularly used books:

For Science:
Botanicum
 A Natural World
The Nature Connection
Super Earth Encyclopedia ( this was just added!)

Art:
The Art Book for Children ( there is a second yellow book that follows)

LA and Reading:
 All About Reading Readers
Complete Among the People Series  ( I don't know what it is about this book but kids love it!)

Social Studies/ History/ Geography:
World Mythology for Children
The Story of the World Volume 1
Usborne Internet linked Encyclopedia of World History

We loosely follow the  Blossom and Root Curriculum- I love the nature ideas and how it is incorporated in just about everything. I really like this company !
Blossom and Root

We also use Build Your Own Library- The Ancient World  Curriculum for Social Studies, history and poetry.
Build Your Library

Both of these curriculum are secular , literature based and almost all- inclusive ( no math), although Blossom and Root includes an Art in Math subject that we like. They are year long and are both open to a wide range of ages. BYL is a little stricter on ages ( i.e ages 6-8) while Blossom and Root states that Level One ranges from 1st - 4th grade, We do not do everything in both of these curriculum, there is no possible way we could. But both of these are heavy on the books. Most of what you learn is book based and that is a style we resonate with. But they both have elements that can gently guide us or prompt us when we're stuck. Blossom and Root especially, seems to encourage a work towards developing a lifelong learner instead of a caught up student working at their grade level and accomplishing everything.

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