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First Grade Curriculum (Ages 6-7)

Reading Eggs & Mathseeds First Grade Workbooks

Reading Eggs & Mathseeds First Grade Workbooks. If you’ve already looked at my list of favorite curriculum for Kindergarten, you will notice that my kids actually start these first grade level books while still in Kindergarten. I like to introduce the first grade level workbooks a little early, both to give the kids a head start on learning, while also giving them much less pressure; they can work at their pace, and if it takes them a year and a half to two years to finish the book, that’s totally fine, because they started early enough to not need to feel any pressure to finish at a set time.

Reading Eggs “Starting Out” Mini Book Box Sets (for First Grade)

Reading Eggs “Starting Out” Mini Books Box Sets. These “Starting Out” books are meant to be used along side the Reading Eggs First Grade workbook. In fact, at the end of each lesson in the workbook, there is an “assigned reading” activity, where the student is supposed to read one of these mini books.

There are four of these “Starting Out” box sets that go along with the First Grade Reading Eggs workbook, and you’ll notice that they start out with “Pack 5”, this is because sets 1-4 are meant to accompany the Kindergarten level workbook, and sets 5-8 accompany the First Grade level workbook.

>> Starting Out Reading Mini Books - Pack 5

>> Starting Out Reading Mini Books - Pack 6

>> Starting Out Reading Mini Books - Pack 7

>> Starting Out Reading Mini Books - Pack 8

Reading Eggs & Mathseeds Online Program

Reading Eggs & Mathseeds Online Program. I absolutely love this online learning program! As a homeschool mom with four kids, being able to log my kids on to this independent learning program has felt (to me) a lot like adding a second teacher to our classroom; an assistant teacher, of sorts.

First grade students are at the right level to be able to do three of these learning programs: Reading Eggs, Fast Phonics, and Mathseeds, so I usually let them pick which order they want to do them in, but I usually keep an eye on them to make sure they are doing a little of each, and not just picking their favorite program and neglecting their least favorite :)

Pencil Control Workbook (Hippidoo)

Pencil Control Workbook. This is my favorite pre-handwriting book. It just gives different types of lines, patterns, shapes, and pictures for kids to trace in order to learn pencil control. As far as school workbooks go, this is a rather small book (only about 100 pages), but it usually takes my kids anywhere from 1 to 2 years to complete this books, since I let them work at their own pace. So, even though they would have started using this book back in Kindergarten, they tend to still be using it in first grade as well.

At whatever point they complete all the pages in this book, I give them the next book from the same series: Hippidoo Handwriting Practice Book.