Homeschooling Bible

(Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 9)

Hymns and Choruses (Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 6)
O Canada and/or God Save the Queen
Holy, Holy, Holy and/or Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow

The Book of Praise
ABeka Preschool Bible Songs
ABeka Sing Unto the Lord!
ABeka Bible Song Visuals
Wee Sing Bible Songs
Wee Sing More Bible Songs

Bible Memory Verses (Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 6)
Grade K4 ~ ABeka Preschool Bible Memory Picture Cards
Grade K5 ~ ABeka ABC Bible Memory Cards
Grades 1-3 ~ Suffer the Little Children ~ Gertrude Hoeksema (I disagree with occasional references to punishing children)
Grades 4-6 ~ Show Me Thy Ways ~ Gertrude Hoeksema
AWANA verses
Selected verses from online Bible

Catechism (Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 9)
Grades K4-3 ~ Primary Catechism ~ Presbyterian Publications (Memorize answer)
Grades 4-6 ~ Westminster Shorter Catechism (Memorize answer)
Grades 7-9 ~ Westminster Confession of Faith (Read Question & Answer and think about answers)
The Heidelberg Catechism: A Study Guide
Systematic Theology

Prayer/Creed (Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 9)
Prayer (thanks and requests, family list)
The Lord’s Prayer
The Apostle’s Creed

Bible Story (Parent reads aloud to pre-readers and early readers)
ABeka Preschool Bible Stories
ABeka Flash-A-Cards
The Young Reader’s Bible
Suffer the Little Children Book One, Two, Three ~ Gertrude Hoeksema
The Child’s Story Bible - Catherine F. Vos
Betty Lukens Small Deluxe Bible Set English Felt Figures

Bible Activity (Early learners coloring books)
ABeka Bible Activity Book K4
ABeka Bible Activity Book K5
ABeka Bible Friends Activity Book Grade 1

Bible Literature (Independent reading - once child is able to read well through Grade 6)
ABeka Primary Bible Reader
The Bible for Young People ~ Robinson
The Child’s Story Bible ~ Vos
The Children’s Illustrated Bible ~ Selina Hastings / Eric Thomas
Show Me Thy Ways Book 4 ~ Gertrude Hoeksema
Show Me Thy Ways Book 5 ~ Gertrude Hoeksema
Show Me Thy Ways Book 6 ~ Gertrude Hoeksema
The Victor Journey Through the Bible ~ V. Gilbert Beers
The Church in History ~ B.K. Kuiper
Survey of the Bible ~ William Hendriksen
The Reformation Study Bible NKJV
Christian History ~ The 100 Most Important Events in Church History
Augustine, The Farmer’s Boy of Tagaste ~ P. de Zeeuw
Luther the Leader ~ Virgil Robinson
The Life of John Calvin ~ Theodore Beza
Monks and Mystics: Vol. 2 Chronicles of the Medieval Church ~ Mindy and Brandon Withrow
The New Foxe’s Book of Martyrs ~ John Foxe
The Greenleaf Guide to Old Testament History ~ Rob & Cyndy Shearer
The Student Bible Atlas ~ Tim Dowley
Kregel Pictorial Guide to the Story of the Bible ~ Tim Dowley
Abingdon’s Reproducible Old and New Testament Maps
Veritas Press Bible Cards
Exodus ~ Wildsmith

Audio Bible (once independent)
NIV Bible Cassette ~ 5 chapters per week
(Listen to audio cassette, and follow along in NIV Bible)

Grade Seven

Veritas Press Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations
Semester 1 ~ Primary
Genesis (Week 1)
Exodus (Week 2)
Gilgamesh (Week 3)
Code Hammarabi (Week 4)
I and II Samuel (Week 5)
I and II Kings (Week 6)
The Odyssey (Week 7)
The Odyssey Reader’s Guide Covenant Home Curriculum
The Odyssey 7-12 (Weeks 8, 9)
The Odyssey 13-18 (Week 10)
Histories, Herodotus (Weeks 11-15)
Aeschylus: Oresteia (Week 16)
Plutarch’s Lives (Weeks 17, 18)

Veritas Press Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations
Semester 1 ~ Secondary
Chosen By God (Weeks 1, 2)
Till We Have Faces (Weeks 3-5)
Magician’s Nephew (Weeks 6, 7)
Horse and His Boy (Weeks 8, 9)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Weeks 10, 11)
Prince Caspian (Weeks 12, 13)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Weeks 14, 15)
Isaiah (Week 16)
Jeremiah (Week 17)
Minor Prophets (Week 18)

Veritas Press Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations
Semester 2 ~ Primary
Sophocles (Week 1)
Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology and Crito (Week 2)
Last Days of Socrates: Phaedo (Week 3)
Early History of Rome (Weeks 4-7)
Luke and Acts (Week 8 )
Aeneid 1-4 (Week 9)
Aeneid 5-8 (Week 10)
Aeneid 9-12 (Week 11)
Twelve Caesars 1-2 (Week 12)
Twelve Caesars 3-5 (Week 13)
Twelve Caesars 6-12 (Week 14)
Julius Caesar (Week 15, 16)
Julius Caesar Reader’s Guide Covenant Home Curriculum
Revelation (Week 17)

Veritas Press Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations
Semester 2 ~ Secondary
The Silver Chair (Weeks 1, 2)
The Last Battle (Weeks 3, 4)
Best Things in Life (Weeks 5, 6)
Unaborted Socrates (Weeks 7, 8 )
Galations (Week 9)
Romans (Week 10)
James (Weeks 11)
Eagle of the Ninth (Weeks 12, 13)
Screwtape Letters (Weeks 14, 15)
The Holiness of God (Weeks 16, 17)

Grade 8

Veritas Press Omnibus II: Church Fathers through the Reformation
Semester 1 ~ Primary
The Church History ~ Eusebius (Weeks 1-4)
Confessions ~ St. Augustine (Weeks 5-7)
On the Incarnation of Our Lord ~ St. Athanasius (Weeks 8,9)
The Creeds (Week 10)
The Ecclesiastical History ~ Bede (Weeks 11-13)
Rule of Saint Benedict (Week 14)
Beowulf (Weeks 15-17)
Song of Roland (Week 18)

Veritas Press Omnibus II: Church Fathers through the Reformation
Semester 1 ~ Secondary
The Hobbit (Weeks 1, 2)
The Fellowship of the Ring (Weeks 3-6)
The Nine Tailors (Weeks 7-9)
The Dragon and the Raven (Weeks 10, 11)
The Gospel of John (Weeks 12, 13)
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Weeks 14-16)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Weeks 17,18)

Veritas Press Omnibus II: Church Fathers through the Reformation
Semester 2 ~ Primary
The Song of Roland (Week 1)
The History of the Kings of Britain ~ Geoffrey of Monmouth (Weeks 2-5)
Macbeth ~ Shakespeare (Weeks 6,7)
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (Weeks 8, 9)
The Divine Comedy: Inferno ~ Dante (Weeks 10-12)
The Canterbury Tales (Selected Tales) ~ Chauncer (Weeks 13-14)
The Bondage of the Will (Weeks 15-17)

Veritas Press Omnibus II: Church Fathers through the Reformation
Semester 2 ~ Secondary
Winning His Spurs (Weeks 1-3)
The Two Towers (Weeks 4-7)
Henry V (Weeks 8, 9)
Richard III (Weeks 10, 11)
Ephesians (Weeks 12, 13)
The Return of the King (Weeks 14-17)

Extra Bible ~ Grade Eight
Signs and Symbols in Christian Art ~ George Wells Ferguson

Grade Nine

Veritas Press Omnibus III: Reformation to the Present
Semester 1 ~ Primary
The Westminster Confession of Faith (Weeks 1,2)
The Pilgrim’s Progress ~ John Bunyan (Weeks 3-5)
Of Plymouth Plantation ~ William Bradford (Weeks 6-8 )
The Social Contract ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Weeks 9,10)
Foundational American Documents (Weeks 11-13)
Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers (Weeks 14,15)
A Tale of Two Cities ~ Charles Dickens (Weeks 16-18)

Veritas Press Omnibus III: Reformation to the Present
Semester 1 ~ Secondary
The New Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (Weeks 1,2)
Frankenstein ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Weeks 3,4)
Pride and Prejudice ~ Jane Austen (Weeks 5-7)
Gulliver’s Travels ~ Jonathan Swift (Weeks 8-10)
Autobiography of B Franklin (Weeks 11-14)
The Pit and the Pendulum (Week 15)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ~ Mark Twain (Weeks 16-18)

Veritas Press Omnibus III: Reformation to the Present
Semester 2 ~ Primary
Reflections on the Revolution in France ~ Edmund Burke (Weeks 1,2)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe (Weeks 3,4)
L’s Speeches (Week 5)
Slave Narratives (Week 6)
The Communist Manifesto ~ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Week 7)
The Treaty of Versailles (Week 8 )

The Great Gatsby ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (Weeks 9,10)
Mein Kampf ~ Adolf Hitler (Week 11)
Philemon (Week 12)
The Epistles of John (Week 13)
The Epistles of Peter and Jude (Week 14)
Nineteen Eighty-Four ~ George Orwell (Weeks 15,16)

Veritas Press Omnibus III: Reformation to the Present
Semester 2 ~ Secondary
Little Women ~ Louisa May Alcott (Weeks 1,2)
The Killer Angels ~ Michael Shaara (Weeks 3-5)
Christianity and Liberalism ~ J. Gresham Machen (Weeks 6-8 )
The Old Man and the Sea ~ Ernest Hemingway (Weeks 9)
Animal Farm ~ George Orwell (Weeks 10,11)
Death of a Salesman ~ Arthur Miller (Week 12)
Postmodern Times ~ Gene Edward Veith (Weeks 13-15)
How Should We Then Live? ~ Francis Schaeffer (Weeks 15,16)

Extra Bible ~ Grade Nine
Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography ~ Iain Murray
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God ~ Jonathan Edwards
The Sovereignty of God ~ Arthur W. Pink