Level: Form I (K–3rd grades)
Subject(s): Art/Art Appreciation, History, Languages—World & Classical, Latin
Description:
NEW in 2024–25: Now offering sections for Form 1a, Form 1b, and Form 1c!
In this multi-sensory and interdisciplinary block class, students will learn Latin through song and play, hear and narrate living history stories, study art and artists related to the history they are studying, and make their own original works of art in response.
History: Bluebonnet Scholars offers history on a rotating three-year cycle with studies synchronized across Forms 1 through 4 (grades K through 12th) so that all students are studying the same time period together.
For Form 1a (grade 1), students will follow a gentle, living books approach to history in 2024-2025, incorporating various living picture books that help medieval history come to life in the imaginations of young students.
For Form 1b (grades 2 to 3), the history spines are as follows:
- Cycle Year 1: Ancient History (2023-2024) (creation to c. 476 AD)—The Story of the World, 1
- Cycle Year 2: Medieval History (2024-2025) (c. 476 AD to 1368)—The Story of the World, 2
- Cycle Year 3: Early Modern History (2025-2026) (c. 1368 to 1850)—The Story of the World, 3
Art: In addition to the narrative history books, the Form 1 students will also study art/artists chronologically through the Artistic Pursuits Early Elementary series and make creative works of their own in response.
Latin: Form 1a students will enjoy a gentle introduction to Latin studies, learning songs, hymns, prayers, nursery rhymes, and poems in Latin using Mater Anserina and Lingua Angelica.
Students in Form 1b and 1c will use Song School Latin from Classical Academic Press. In 2024-2025, Form 1b LHA, will use Song School Latin Book 1, and Form 1c will use Song School Latin Book 2.
Materials:
Materials:
For Form 1a (1st grade), families purchase the following required supplies:
- Mater Anserina: Poems in Latin for Children
- Lingua Angelica Song Book
- Lingua Angelica Prayers & Hymns Audio: CD available here OR CD & streaming available to purchase here
- A blank sketch notebook, such as this one
- The instructor will provide a living book list in the syllabus for parents to select from for home supplementation, whether from the library or to purchase for home use.
Optionally, families in all levels of LHA may choose to purchase supplies and home copies of the following if they desire to supplement the art studies at home:
For Form 1b and 1c, families purchase the following required supplies:
- Form 1b: Song School Latin Student Book 1 and CD
- Form 1c: Song School Latin Student Book 2 and CD
Both Forms 1b and 1c:
- Early Modern History –The Story of the World Vol. 2
- A half-blank drawing and lined notebook, such as this one
Families also supply lined paper in a 3-prong folder with pockets, pencils, colored pencils, and erasers in a pencil pouch.
