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HBL F 2019

2019 HBL F Packages:

  • Grade 5 All-Subjects Package for Boys 5-Day (5MSPB)
  • Grade 5 All-Subjects Package for Boys 4-Day (5MSPB4)
  • Grade 5 All-Subjects Package for Girls 5-Day (5MSPG)
  • Grade 5 All-Subjects Package for Girls 4-Day (5MSPG4)
    • Note: ASP IG (FC01) includes: FCG, FLG, FSG, and B050
  • HBL F package 5-Day - FC5
  • HBL F package 4-Day - FC4
  • Tabs and 3" Binder or Binder with tabs

LA NOTE: - HBL F package comes with Readers but *not* Language Arts

Gr 5 All-Subjects Package Contents
History/Bible/Literature F (customizable)
Level F Readers
Language Arts F (customizable)
Spelling You See Ancient Achievements (customizable)
Science F (customizable)
Math-U-See Epsilon (customizable)

*IG copyright: FCG/FCG4 (2019), FLG/FLG4 (2019), FSG/FSG4 (2018)

2019 HBL F Changes:

  • None

2019 HBL F Errors:

  • Eastern Hemisphere 4-Day (FCG4) Week 12
  • Updated Content

Please note that Week 12 of the HBL F 4-Day IG includes incorrect reading assignments for the Readers books. Please click on the link below to download and print a corrected schedule page. (6.2019) Updated Reader Assignment for PDF Download

  • Eastern Hemisphere 5-Day (FCG) Week 27
  • Updated Content

Please note that Week 27 of the HBL F 5-Day IG includes incorrect reading assignments for the Read-Aloud and Readers books. Please click on the link below to download and print a corrected schedule page. (5.2019) Updated Read Aloud and Reader Assignment for PDF Download


2018 HBL F Changes:

  • CHANGE Eastern Hemisphere Notebook pages - removed from HBL F IG and published as a separate item (FCG1)
  • ADD Sing the Word: All Nations Shall Worship - digital download (FB2E)
  • DISCONTINUED Teaching Textbooks

2018 HBL F IG Errors:

  • HLB F (4-Day)—Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?
  • New Book Edition

We have recently begun to sell the Seventh Edition of Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? in HBL F 4-Day. This new edition has new page numbers. While most of the book is scheduled by chapters, the appendix and extra information is scheduled by page numbers in Week 14. [12/2018]

HBL F, 4-Day, Week 14

Day 53 chaps. 14-15
Day 54 pp. 115-131
Day 55 pp. 132-138
Day 56 pp. 139-144

2017 HBL F Changes:

  • 5-Day title God's Adventurer: Hudson Taylor (FR07)
  • 5-Day title Mary Slessor: Forward into Calabar (FH18)
  • 5-Day title William Carey: Obliged to Go (FH16)
  • 5-Day title Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (FA01)
  • 5-Day title Cornelia and the Audacious Adventures (FA06)
  • 5-Day title Daughter of the Mountains (FA66)
  • 5-Day title A Beautiful Lie (FR31)
  • 5-Day title A Girl Named Disaster (FR10)
  • 5-Day title Just So Stories (FR09)
  • 5-Day title Listening for Lions (FR27)
  • 5-Day title Mission to Cathay (FR20)
  • Add HBL F 4-day IG (FCG4) to 4-Day packages

2017 HBL F IG Errors:


Book defects, backorders, edition changes, etc.

  • The Hobbit (FA59) removed
  • A Moment Comes (FA11) removed
  • A Beautiful Lie (FR31) added

China Kit Instructions Email (10.9.13)

A number of customers received Core F China Kits without the instruction sheet. The China Kit manual is available for download on the Curriculum Updates page for Core F. We have emailed all customers who purchased Core F and/or the China Kit since 4/1/13 to alert them to where they may find the manual pdf if it wasn't included in their kit.
Here are your China Kit instructions

2013 EHE Notebook Pages (05.02.13)

The whole EHE was reworked this year so that it doesn't need an answer key of any type. About 98% of the questions are open-ended. For the other 2%, the specific answers are in the teaching notes. Thus, it will work with different editions of World Book.

2012 China Kit (5.16.12)

We have updated the China kit for the 2012 Core F package. It is now a 5-day only product. It includes:

NOTE: We have removed the book Ancient China book and the pages of circles for the game Piaji. We have added the content from the booklet of activities which we made last year, to the Core F Instructor's Guide.

Rice Paper (4.13.15)

Because someone actually asked, I went back in the warehouse to find out how many sheets of rice paper are in the China Kit. The answer is 8, in case anyone else ever asks. -KC


Is EHE still part of Core F? (updated 5.14.12)

While there is no longer an EHE product as part of our 2012 Core F program, many of the best components of that product have been integrated into our Core F Instructor’s Guide. Your students will find compelling research assignments which utilize both the World Book Encyclopedia as well as the Internet. There are also relevant hands-on activities related to various countries and cultures being studied. There will be consumable, lapbook type activity sheets included in the Core F IG.


EHE Student Activity Sheets

We will offer consumable activity sheets from the past two years (2010 and 2011). Customers can still order the EHE activity sheets online. Just include a note in the comment section stating which edition is needed. (2012)


What is the 10/40 window?


Eastern Hemisphere Explorer first in Core 5 in 2004.


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