The Rainbow Curriculum: An Experiment in Simplicity The 3R’s Textbook Plan Level
McGuffey’s 1879 Readers
Red
Primer
Orange
Yellow
First
Second
McGuffey’s 1879 Speller
Copywork and Dictation from Readers Correction of daily work
Harvey’s Elementary Grammar
Copywork Lessons 1-5 Sentence Making Quotation Marks
Indigo
pp. 104-208
pp. 25-125
Lessons 1-29
30-58
Lessons 6-19. Nouns, Verbs, Composition
20-35 Adjectives, Pronoun, Composition
Fourth Violet
Bronze
Ray’s Arithmetic
EMoM Grade
Priority Arithmetic Topics Review and Supplement as Needed
Priority Lessons
Ray’s Primary is the main text.
1
Recognition and Bonds (1-10) See EMoM
Lessons 1, 7-9 See EMoM
Addition and Subtraction (0-19) Facts and Word Problems
Lessons 2, 10-37
Multiplication and Division (0-100) Facts and Word Problems
Lessons 2-6, 38-78
Notation, Addition, Subtraction, (and/or S-U Book 1: Chap. 2-3)
Lessons 1-26
Multiplication, Division (and/or S-U Book 1: Chap. 4-5)
Lessons 27-49
More work with Long Division Factoring, Fractions (and/or S-U Book 2: Chap. 1-2)
Lessons 42-49, 83-129
Decimals, Metric System (and/or S-U Book 2: Chap. 2-3)
Lessons 131-161
Percentages, Ratio, Proportion, Average (S-U Book 2: Chap. 4, Book 3: Chap. 3)
Lessons 162-169, 213-224, 232
Involution, Evolution, Roots, Mensuration, Progressions. Review. (and/or S-U Book 3: Chap 1-5, 12-14)
Lessons 233-270
Measurement, Equations, Ratios, Proportions, Triangles
Chapters 20, 24-27
The Eclectic Manual of Methods provides important information for teaching Level Red, as well as useful information about the entire Ray’s Arithmetic series.
2
pp. 13-103 Third
Blue
pp. 126-255
pp. 28-135
59-115
36-48 Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections, Composition
116-155
49-76 Nouns, Pronouns, Composition
156-194
77-100 Adjectives, Verbs, Composition
195-235
101-134 Finish Book
Ray’s Practical is the main text.
3
Ray’s Intellectual provides supplementary mental and oral work. Ray’s Test Examples provides supplementary written work
4
Optional Supplements Strayer-Upton Practical Arithmetic Books 1, 2, 3 Math Mammoth Blue
Fifth Silver
Gold
pp. 135-251
pp. 252-352
12
Public Domain Textbooks Republished by Mott Media, John Wiley & Sons Inc., and www.dollarhomeschool.com
Oral Compositions
Green
ROUGH DRAFT
5/6
Strayer-Upton Practical Arithmetic Book 3
1 hour 3R’s Textbooks. 1 hour journaling/drawing/coloring. 1 hour Core Reading List. 1 hour DEAR. 2 hours moving: playing, walking, working, chores, volunteering Sing. Practice spirituality and charity. 4 glasses of water a day. Eat at a table with others. All electronics off by 8 PM. 8 hours of sleep. Get up before 8 AM.
DEAR(Drop Everything And Read) whatever is in YOUR world: The family holy book, a newspaper, magazines, encyclopedias, classics, biographies, poetry, song books, math books, art books, cookbooks, instruction manuals, cereal boxes, gardening catalogs
The Rainbow Curriculum: An Experiment in Simplicity
ROUGH DRAFT
12
Core Reading List from Yesterdays’ Classics, Dover Publications, and Wordsworth Classics Level
Nature Study, Shakespeare Citizenship/Plutarch
History and Geography Italic books at gutenberg.com
Traditional Literature and Stories
Novels
Science from Yesterday’s Classics & Dover
Red
Mammals Nesbit Shakespeare 1/2 Parables of Nature First
50 Famous Stories Dutch Twins Eskimo Twins
Aesop’s Fables Mother Goose English Fairy Tales
Beatrix Potter, The Story of Dr Dolittle, Pinocchio, Wizard of Oz Heidi, Boxcar Children
Burgess Animal Book Seed Babies, Among Farmyard People
Orange
Birds Nesbit Shakespeare 2/2 Parables of Nature Second
50 Famous People Japanese Twins Mexican Twins
Anderson’s Fairy Tales Just So Stories Child’s Garden of Verses
Nesbit Book of Dragons, Peter Pan, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Little Princess Pollyanna, Black Beauty
Burgess Bird Book Among the Meadow People Dooryard Stories
Yellow
Wildflowers, Weeds Lamb’s Shakespeare 1/2 Parables of Nature Third
30 More Famous Stories Irish Twins Cave Twins
Perrault’s Fairy Tales Lear’s Nonsense Pied Piper
Alice in Wonderland, Prince and Pauper Hans Brinker, Tom Sawyer, Secret Garden, Swiss Family Robinson
Little Wanderers The Bee People, Wild Life Woods and Field
Green
Brooks, Amphib, Reptiles Lamb’s Shakespeare 2/2 Parables of Nature Fourth
Peeps at Ancient Egypt Our Arabian Cousin Our Egyptian Cousin
Arabian Nights Jungle Book Jakata Tales
Wind in the Willows, Water Babies Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm, Kim Journey to Center of Earth, Little Women
Stories Mother Nature Told Among the Pond People, By Pond and River,
Blue
Cultivated Plants Midsummer Night’s Dream Children’s Plutarch Greeks
Famous Men of Greece Spartan Twins Puritan Twins
A Wonder Book, Tanglewood Tales Wilde’s The Happy Prince
Christmas Carol, Men of Iron Treasure Island, Anne of Green Gables, Huckleberry Finn, Red Badge of Courage
The Fairy Land of Science Plant Life Field and Garden, Birds of the Air,
Indigo
Insects The Tempest Children’s Plutarch Romans
Famous Men of Rome Italian Twins The Story of Rolf
Norse Myths, African Folk Tales East of Sun West of Moon
Jane Eyre, Kidnapped Tarzan of the Apes, King Solomon’s Mines Frankenstein, Great Expectations
The Story Book of Science Jack’s Insects, Insect Life,
Violet
Trees Hamlet Young Folk’s Plutarch 1/2
Famous Men Middle Ages Otto of the Silver Hand Black Arrow
King Arthur Robin Hood Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Gulliver’s Travels Call of Wild, White Fang, Dracula, Picture of Dorian Gray, Girl of Limberlost
Great Inventors Inventions A Little Brother to the Bear, Trees and Shrubs,
Bronze
Earth and Sky Macbeth Young Folk’s Plutarch 2/2
Famous Men Modern Times Indian Boyhood Helen Keller
Washington Irving, Wigwam Evenings Hiawatha/Longfellow
Around World in 80 Days, Silas Marner War of the Worlds, Princess of Mars Scarlet Pimpernel, Last of the Mohicans
Madam How Lady Why Secrets of the Woods, Wild Animal Ways,
Silver
Flowerless Plants Julius Caesar Dover Plutarch: Greeks
Story of Mankind 1-38 (or updated edition 1-42) Cat of Bubastes, Ben-Hur
Bulfinch’s Age of Fable. Odyssey Beowulf
Connecticut Yankee, Time Machine The Lost World, Walden Sense and Sensibility, 3 Musketeers
Secret of Everyday Things School of the Woods, The Holy Earth
Gold
Fish, Invertebrates Romeo and Juliet Dover Plutarch: Romans
Story of Mankind 39-64 (or 43-90) Up from Slavery Autobiography Ben Franklin
Sherlock Holmes Pilgrim’s Progress, Edgar Allan Poe
Moby Dick, 20 Thousand Leagues Under, Pride and Prejudice, Les Miserables Robinson Crusoe, Scarlet Letter
Wonder Book of Chemistry Wild Animals I Have Known, Voyage of the Beagle
1 hour 3R’s Textbooks. 1 hour journaling/drawing/coloring. 1 hour Core Reading List. 1 hour DEAR. 2 hours moving: playing, walking, working, chores, volunteering Sing. Practice spirituality and charity. 4 glasses of water a day. Eat at a table with others. All electronics off by 8 PM. 8 hours of sleep. Get up before 8 AM.
DEAR(Drop Everything And Read) whatever is in YOUR world: The family holy book, a newspaper, magazines, encyclopedias, classics, biographies, poetry, song books, math books, art books, cookbooks, instruction manuals, cereal boxes, gardening catalogs
