Have you ever been amazed at how well educated Laura was from Little House On The Prairie??? Or maybe how your grandma or grandpa or maybe even great G's were able to do math ..IN THEIR HEADS?!?!?! Or how Charles Dickens was an everyday read that MOST educated people could read? As in he was a #1 best selling author of his time? Isn't it interesting that most people now don't read above the 5th grade level?? Well here's how you can remedy that problem and give your kids a GREAT education for FREE!!!

Here are some posts on my use of vintage education

The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children on Audio and others

Here are links to the curriculum

The Eclectic Manual Of Methods This is the manual on how to teach ALL the other books - It is a MUST!

Reading - Writing (aka Language Arts)

***Please keep in mind that the numbers on the Mcguffey's DO NOT represent their grade level. They did not have grades when they were written. If they are the revised edition (6 books multi colored spine and boards) they cover approximately 2 years so the primer is K-2 and the 6th is 11-12th grade. You use them for reading, copywork etc. If they are the original (brown spine and boards by Mott Media) they cover approximately 3 years per book so the 1st would be 1-3 and the 4th would be 10-12.

The major difference between the original 1836 (brown) and the revised is the original used sight words and was quite religious in tone and was written by William Holmes McGuffey where as the revised (colorful) Mcguffey's removed a bit of the religious tone and used phonics. The revised was not done by William Holmes McGuffey but his brother.

Here is a great series of post by Sherry over at Large Family Mothering that explains how to use the McGuffeys as a complete Language Arts Program...there are 6 posts in the series and are WONDERFUL!

Here is Sherry's post on using old math texts like Ray's Arithmetic

Here is where the originals (brown) McGuffey's are sold with a more expansive explanation.

Original (brown) 1838

The Eclectic Second Reader or Here by William Holmes McGuffey *roughly 4th- 6th

The Eclectic Fourth Reader by William Holmes McGuffey *roughly 10th-12th

Revised (colorful) 1901 & 1909 editions

McGuffey Revised Eclectic Primer This is a pdf as the epub at this time has no pics and they ARE NECESSARY

McGuffey Revised First Eclectic Reader This is a pdf as the epub at this time has no pics and they ARE NECESSARY

McGuffey Revised Second Eclectic Reader This is a pdf as the epub at this time has no pics and they ARE NECESSARY

McGuffey Revised Third Eclectic Reader This is a pdf as the epub at this time has no pics and they ARE NECESSARY

McGuffey Revised Fourth Eclectic Reader This is a pdf as the epub at this time has no pics and they ARE NECESSARY

McGuffey Revised Fifth Eclectic Reader

Cursive

Barnes National Vertical Penmanship - not part of the eclectic series but GREAT!

Spelling & Copywork

The Morse Speller

Arithmetic

Ray's Primary Arithmetic

White's Primary Arthimetic by E. E. White - **This is the one we use

White's Intermediate Arithmetic by E. E. White (old book)

New Elementary Arithmetic by E. E. White (new book)

Key to New Elementary Arithmetic by E. E. White

A School Algebra by E. E. White

Elements of Geometry by E. E. White

Key to Elements of Geometry by E. E. White

History/Social Studies

1st-3rd -

The Kindergarten Home and School Culture by Lida Brooks Miller

Stories of Great American for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston 2nd grade reader

3rd-4th

50 Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin

50 Famous People by James Baldwin

Stories of American Life and Adventure by Edward Eggleston 3rd year reader

Story Book of Knowledge by Lawrence B. Franklin

5th-6th

Barnes' Elementary History of the United States by James Baldwin

7th-8th

Wonder Book Of Knowledge by Henry Chase Hill
9th-12th

Eclectic History of the United States by Mary Elsie Thalheimer

A History of England For Use Of Schools by Mary Elsie Thalheimer

A Manual of Ancient History by Mary Elsie Thalheimer

An Outline Of General History by Mary Elsie Thalheimer

A Manual of Midiaeval and Modern History by Mary Elsie Thalheimer

Language Arts/Grammar

2nd - 3rd

New Language Exercises for Primary Grades (1st & 2nd) by C. C. Long

4th-5th

New Language Exercises for Primary Grades Part Two (3rd & 4th) by C. C. Long

Willy's Grammar by Jane Marcet - a living book a la' Charlotte Mason

Mary's Grammer by Jane Marcet - a living book a la' Charlotte Mason

6th

Grammar Land by M. L. Nesbitt

Health

3rd-4th

The House I Live In Eli F. Brown

7th-8th

Good Morals and Gentle Manners Alexander Murdoch Gow

Science

5th-6th

Nature Study by Frank Overton

7th-8th

Elements of general science

By Otis William Caldwell, William Lewis Eikenberry
Elements of general science: laboratory problems
By Otis William Caldwell, William Lewis Eikenberry, Earl R. Glenn

9th-12th