"Good Books" Literature Schedule.

It seems like I have 16 "Good Books" to go through for both kindergarten and first grade. How do I accomplish this without overkill? I DON'T KNOW!! But what I'm planning is to split up the reading time throughout the day. I'll do 1 hour total for both grades with 30 minutes in the morning for first grade and 30 minutes in the afternoon for kindergarten. I actually don't think that 16 books is too much to do in the course of one year. This is especially true since some of the books on our list are only compilations of stories.

For these compilations, such as the fairy books by Andrew Lang, I'll just be picking a few stories from each book. We are pretty familiar with so many fairy tales and nursery rhymes that I don't think the kids will be missing out on anything.

I created the following table as a simple way to keep track of what books we are reading when. It will serve as a very basic schedule. Since I don't know how long it will take us to get through any particular book, I decided against setting deadlines. I want to make sure that we take our time, especially since we'll be doing book reports on each book (simple narrations on what the book is about) as part of the Angelicum lesson plans.

Kindergarten	First Grade
Perrault's Complete Fairy Tales	Crimson Fairy book
Favorite Uncle Remus	Just So Stories
Orange Fairy Book	Water Babies
Wind in the Willows	Grey Fairy Book
Household Stories	Jungle Book
Brown Fairy Book	Aesop
Green Fairy Book	Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
Pinocchio	Free Reading
Treasury of Mother Goose	Free Reading