I found something wonderful!

This is a book I got at a used book store today. It is similar to Ray's Arithmetic or First Lessons in Arithmetic but uses modern language. It was published in 1934 and is titled How We Use Numbers: The Triangle Arithmetics A Second Grade Number Book. It was published by The John C. Winston Company Philadelphia. I am pretty sure this is a k-1st grade book. The first page has a picture of 3 children and a pig in a pen.

It reads

Ned, Betty and Dorothy

Ned is nine years old.

Betty is seven years old.

Little Dorothy is only four.

The children love their home on the farm.

They make pets of all the farm animals.

(This was very easy for my son to read. We talked about the picture then went to the next page.)
On page 2 there is a picture of a a girl tossing a ball in the air in front of a lovely house.
It reads:

Tossing a Ball

Betty can toss and catch her ball ten times

without missing.

She counts:

one two three four five six

  1      2       3       4      5    6

seven eight nine ten

    7       8        9    10

How many times can you toss and catch

your ball without missing?

Try to bounce your ball ten times without

missing.

How far can you count?

This is the cover

You can see what it is like. Very simple, straight forward and allows him to act very independently. It covers counting to 1000, writing numbers, making sets, addition and subtraction, greater than/less than skip counting, time, money,2 digit addition and subtraction, place value, measurement and more. There is a lot of built in review and many many hands on activities.

A randomly selected page

Another page

A review page

The back

His scratch is from a cat.