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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Wildlife Adventures Unit Studies
- Teach the whole family – together
- Each unit highlights a different animal and includes bible, handwriting, science, spelling, vocabulary, language arts, history, geography and more (just add math)!
- Additional links for more research, and reading suggestions included
- Hands on Learning projects and activities for art and creative homeschooling
- Save time & money and learn to use the study of God’s creation to inspire your students and help them develop a life-long love of learning!
Choose from different unit studies including Sea Turtle, Dolphin, Seashells, Jellyfish, Sand dollar, Manatee, Bald Eagle, Magnificent Frigatebird, Butterfies, and more.
The Writer’s Jungle
The Writer’s Jungle is designed to teach the homeschooling parent how to teach writing, and is the centerpiece of the Brave Writer program.
The results? An activated writing voice, and a nurturing tear-free relationship with you, the parent-editor-coach-and-ally. The Writer’s Jungle works for all students, any age. This liberating, powerful home-study course comes in a binder format, or as a digital download.
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.
Character Concepts Kids of Character Curriculum
Your children will study 45 crucial character qualities, gleaning insights from Scripture as well as practical projects for implementing them in everyday life, and inspiration from real people from history who have left us inspiring examples to follow! One of the most powerful ways to inspire people to greatness is through the stories of great people from the past. In Portraits of Integrity you and your children will be challenged to strive for excellence through the examples of 45 people who did just that. An added feature contained in this study is “Ifs”, a game we often played to help children learn to make wise decisions before they are even placed in a position of temptation.
Writing and Rhetoric
Writing needs to be taught just like any other subject, and letting students be “free” to write without a model is often letting them jump in the deep end without learning to swim first!
Writing & Rhetoric assumes students learn best by reading excellent literature and improving their own writing skills by imitating those writers. For students who complete the entire program, they will read and learn to write narrative, expository, descriptive, and persuasive essays while developing a unique style. Each exercise is designed to teach a skill that can be employed across all subjects. Skills are arranged from simple to complex, and the cumulative nature of each chapter reviews skills from earlier in the book, helping students to build a solid foundation of writing skills.
There are currently 4 books in the series, with plans for the complete curriculum having 12 books.
Volume 1: Fables
Volume 2: Narrative I
Volume 3: Narrative II
Volume 4: Chreia & Proverb