Historical focus: Ancient Roman Civilization, The Vikings, The Earliest Americans, Early Exploration of North America, The Thirteen Colonies (life before the Revolution) (CK & Program Guide)

• Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder) – summer reading
• Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) 
• The Wind in the Willow (Kenneth Grahame) school may choose to read the following selections: “The River Bank” and “The Open Road”
• from The Arabian Nights: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
• The Magician’s Nephew (C.S. Lewis)
• Black Beauty (Sewell)
• The Hunting of the Great Bear (an Iroquois legend about the origin of the Big Dipper)
• The Husband Who Was to Mind the House (a Norse/English folktale, also known as “Gone is Gone”)
• The Little Match Girl (Hans Christian Andersen) 
• The People Could Fly (an African American folktale) 
• Three Words of Wisdom (a folktale from Mexico)
• William Tell
• Norse Mythology