Need a good, easy, and most of all FREE bible study curriculum for your elementary aged student?  We have it.  Plus we have an animal study that ties into the bible learning–so you get two classes in one!

For our bible study for the elementary aged children, we are using the Illustrated Family Bible from DK as our main source.  It is easy to read and I felt it covered the main stories we wanted to learn.  We read a new story 4 times per week.  After each story, we have bible trivia on the stories we have already learned.  Each week, we memorize a bible verse that the child practices writing each day.

We also are using Character Sketches books from Institute in Basic Life Principles.  These well made books have a vast wealth of information.  The books take an animal and give you an in depth account of how it functions in nature.  It then goes on to relate it to a character trait of a person in the bible.  Very neat.  We enjoy these books for teaching animals study as well as biblical study.    I chose 2 animals from the books each week.  Usually it pertains to what we are learning in the bible that week.

I then did a search for my own printable images of each of the animals—I included a list at the end for you to do a search yourself for and printed them off for each child.  As I am reading about the animal, the child will copy down some interesting facts about the animal as well as color the image in.  We will then put them together in a book to have an animal study.

I have also included  printable bible trivia questions from all of the lessons taught.

These are another great FREE resource for bible and animal curriculum choices this year.

You do have to purchase the following books to make it happen, but still an inexpensive route to homeschooling:

I bought the Illustrated Family Bible DK  and Character Sketches Vol 1,2,3 from Institute in Basic Life Principles.

I found these books relatively cheap online.  The character sketches are a little more, but they are big and heavy and nicely made books.  Don’t worry about getting a newer version, we use the old version and the bible and animal information is still the same—it doesn’t change.  They are a good in depth animal study as well as biblical person study, we don’t absolutely love that many books but these have stayed on my shelves for many years.

Click here for FREE printable elementary bible curriculum

Click here for FREE printable bible trivia to go with the curriculum

This elementary Grammar course was written to include ALL of the information needed to satisfy curriculum requirements through the 5th grade.

I have a child who will be doing the 5th grade this year and I wanted to make sure that he did EVERYTHING that was required of him before he starts middle school, so I covered it all.  We start out with the basics and move up through a 5th grade level. Some of the material will be a review of what he has already learned, but in case he forgot some requirements, he will be redoing them to reinforce his lessons.

But wait………I also have a 2nd and 3rd grader who will be doing this same curriculum.  They will learn, probably not at the same speed as the 5th grader, but will work at their own independent levels.  Maybe they will take a couple days for some of the new concepts, while the 5th grader will fly through it faster.

If you are looking to review all of the concepts taught in the elementary levels, then this book is for you.  Maybe you skipped over some years from teaching Grammar–I know we did–then this book will be an excellent source for you.  Maybe you want a little more challenging source for your 2nd or 3rd grader, then this course will be good for that.  Whatever your reason, you can’t go wrong because it is FREE.  Download and try it, it’s risk free.  No more wasted curriculum books that you bought only to go through them half way and decide they were NOT going to work for you.  We have been there and done that.  That is why I write my own, I like to give my children the information that they will need and not waste our time doing things that don’t matter.

Since I will be using this course with 3 children this year, I printed off the course and then put it in plastic sleeves in a 3 ring binder.  This way my pages stay nice and whatever page they are working on, they can just turn to it.

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