Trish is the owner of Hip Homeschool Moms. She also owns Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers, Homeschool Travel Adventures, Only Passionate Curiosity and Love These Recipes! She has been married to her best friend, David, for 25 years and they have three sons (ages 23, 22 and 18). Trish is from the coast of North Carolina, but they now live in rural West Tennessee on a 40+ acre farm. She has been homeschooling since 2009 and her homeschool style leans towards a Montessori approach with a heavy emphasis on hands-on learning. Trish’s family is Messianic and they love studying the Scriptures, learning Hebrew and growing in their faith and walk daily. In her spare time, Trish loves to travel, write, work in their garden and can regularly be found trying to learn something new, modeling that learning is indeed a life-long endeavor!
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Wondermaps
Maps are an integral part of many homeschooling projects, from lapbooks to notebooks to posters. Created by homeschooling publisher Bright Ideas Press, Wondermaps is destined to become a go-to resource! A customizable, printable collection of over 350 maps, Wondermaps are designed with easy-to-use layers that allow you to customize features such as:
- Creating outline, reference, political, and topographical maps
- Choosing black-and-white or color
- and including borders, rivers, cities, and physical features.
This CD-ROM includes:
- 60+ Maps of the World
- 60+ USA Maps
- 125 Historical Maps, including 25 biblical maps
- The complete map sets to accompany The Mystery of History Vol. I-III and All American History Vol. I & II.Adobe Reader 9 or higher required. Windows 7 & Mac Compatible.
Rhythm of Handwriting
The innovative Rhythm of Handwriting curriculum from Logic of English is designed to accompany the Essentialscurriculum, or serve as stand-alone writing course (it’s already built-in to the LoE Foundations series). Offering a multi-sensory approach that helps students develop fluid, natural, legible handwriting, this curriculum focuses on the kinesthetic movement of each stroke and the use of rhythmic verbal cues that guide students through the formation of each letter.
This program uses a custom font that was designed to be developmentally appropriate for young students and students struggling with handwriting. It is suitable for students of all ages who desire to master or improve their handwriting.
The Student Book is all that is needed to teach the course; the supplemental tactile cards and charts (all available in either cursive or manuscript) are not required. Both the cards and charts feature such detailed information that handwriting could be taught using only one or the other of those resources.
America from the Beginning
This new “hands-on” American history curriculum is perfect for elementary and junior high. Unlike most other U.S. history curricula for this age group, America from the Beginning starts at creation. From the start, kids learn a non-evolutionary perspective on how the very first inhabitants of America got here, and see the amazing similarities to other cultures. God’s grace toward the United States is obvious and unfolds in an exciting way as students discover the events, inventions, and people from Columbus to the modern day. Co-author Debbie Lawrence is also co-author of God’s Design for Science. Fun activities in each unit make learning easy and even more memorable!
Homeschool Tracker
Homeschool Tracker is a flexible, all-in-one online tool for planning, organizing, and managing your Homeschool. Trusted by thousands of Homeschoolers for over 13 years, Homeschool Tracker saves you time and keeps you organized.
Choose how much information you want to record for each student. Quickly create single or repeating assignments, appointments, chores, and more.
Use the lesson plan tool for creating reusable plans and stay on track throughout the year.
Generate report cards and transcripts with the press of a button. Print daily task lists, attendance reports, supply lists, and more.
New American Cursive
New American Cursive is an easy-to-follow resource for teaching beginning cursive. It presents simplified letter forms, using multi-sensory methods to aid in the learning of motor skills necessary to write well. Developed by Iris Hatfield, with over 35 years of experience in the handwriting field, the book improves the process of teaching handwriting and allows students to start at a younger age.
The character Mr. Meerkat is the book’s guide, making learning tasks fun; step-by-step, he shows the way to draw each letter and encourages creativity. There are clear arrow directions for letter creation, and plenty of shaded letters to trace for practice. The book is bound at the top for equal access for left- and right-handers.
NAC’s simplified strokes and letter forms allow first grade students to truly master beautiful cursive. We have used NAC in our Highlands Latin School, with dramatic results. Every child can master cursive in the first grade, and many of our first graders write better than typical third graders. Learning cursive early ensures that students are not slowed down or frustrated in the upper grades when they are focusing on other subjects, such as grammar and composition.
Expansion of Civilization
Expansion of Civilization covers both Western and Eastern Civilization. It is an in-depth study of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. Students will learn how a great empire rises, and how it falls. Studying the art, music, architecture, and literature will greatly contribute to their study and help them to realize exactly what took place.
