Leann is a homeschooling mama of an over-active 6 year old, proud wife of a cop, and pet lover of their two dogs, frogs, turtles – and cricket. Her blog, The Hands-On Homeschooler, chronicles their homeschooling journey, while throwing in tidbits about life, reviews, and recipes. Prior to being a stay-at-home mom, Leann taught math at a public high school for high achieving students. She and her family currently reside in the middle Tennessee area.
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Hoffman Academy
HoffmanAcademy.com offers over 100 piano lessons that are accessed by people all over the world. Our series of free piano lessons are carefully sequenced to build ability and understanding. No prior experience required. While video lessons are free of charge, our optional materials are available for purchase. We’ve included all of our 6 Units’s materials which include, interactive worksheets, sheet music, mp3 files, and a parent guide.
Song School Spanish
Designed for Grades K-2, Song School Spanish is a fun introduction to the Spanish language. Each lesson features songs, relevant vocabulary, illustrations, hand-writing practice, stories, games, and activities; a musical CD is also provided. Students learn basic vocabulary and how to count by tracing new letters with accents, practicing with the singable songs on the CD, taking dictation, writing the correct Spanish word next to a picture, and other fun exercises.
Lessons move quickly from pronunciation to writing and reading words within short stories to simple translation, helping to provide motivation as students swiftly progress. As lessons move on, earlier lesson concepts are reinforced. Song School Spanish lesson themes include practical elements of the classroom, waking up, eating, and other activities. 173 non-reproducible pages, softcover with Audio CD included.
Help for High School
Written to teens directly!
Help for High School is a self-directed writing program for teens that both teaches rhetorical thinking in writing, as well as the academic essay formats for high school and college. Teens work independently of their parents, however rubrics for feedback are included, as well.
This home-study course comes in a digital format and can be purchased alone, or in combination with The Writer’s Jungle.
The Eternal Argument
Robin Finley has lectured on this subject for more than three decades. Her belief is that Western literature is really one long argument, the Eternal Argument. This book, available in either paperback or audiobook, is a supplement or enhancement to your regular language arts curriculum. It takes about a month to simply read or listen to each chapter and talk through the discussion questions included. There is no outside reading or assignments. With great humor and many excellent examples from literature and history, this book explains this framework which will make reading and teaching literature a more meaningful endeavor. For parents and grades 8+.
Oak Meadow curriculum
Oak Meadow provides flexible, progressive homeschooling curriculum for students in K-12. Our student-centered, nature-based approach allows families to set their own natural rhythm of learning and encourages creativity, critical thinking, and intellectual development through hands-on activities and interdisciplinary projects.
Homeschooling with the Oak Meadow curriculum ensures that you are providing your child with a well-rounded and academically complete education that also promotes the balanced development of your child. When you purchase our curriculum materials, you receive everything you need to homeschool your child for an entire school year. Each course includes 36 weekly lesson plans across all subject areas, including a variety of assignments, activities, readings, a teacher manual, and any supplementary materials required for that course. You may also choose to order only the elements you are interested in. Oak Meadow also offers a distance learning school.
Mastering Essential Math Skills
Produce motivated and confident math students with this innovative, easy-to-use system of teaching basic math! Each daily lesson contains five key components: two speed drills, review exercises, Helpful Hints, new material and a daily word problem. Lessons are not rigid however; teachers have the flexibility to modify lesson plans while structure and a basic framework are still provided. Eight chapters cover whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages, integers, geometry, charts, graphs and problem solving. Help your students really master the essential math skills they’ll need throughout their lives with enthusiasm and consistency. Answer key and final review included. Also includes access to videos. Books include: Math Skills, Pre-Algebra Concepts, Whole Numbers and Integers, Fractions, Decimals nad Percents, Geometry, Problem Solving.
Available in both print and digital formats.
