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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Although he’s just two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen, Munford is all adventure. He can be rain, snow, sleet, or steam. He has traveled the world in search of excitement. Throughout history, he has been present at some of the most important and world-changing events. Fun and educational, Munford will inspire your children to learn more about many of history’s greatest moments. These readers make a great addition to your learning experience in areas such as history, geography, and science. This book series is written on an elementary reading level, but provides plenty of read-aloud entertainment for the entire family!
BraveWriter Language Arts Program
We use living literature to teach the mechanics of writing!
Copywork, dictation, and a few other strategies thrown in for good measure—we teach the mechanics of writing through living literature. Brave Writer adds an element to the teaching of mechanics: appreciating an author’s craft in writing (literary elements).
These open-and-go programs are digital downloads, featuring one novel (not included) per month, with weekly passages for copywork and dictation.
Programs are based around grade levels
- The Wand (Grades K-1)
- A Quiver of Arrows (grades 1-2)
- The Arrow (grades 3-6)
- A Pouch of Boomerangs (grades 7-8)
- The Boomerang (grades 9-12)
How to Tame Your Thought Monster
Create happiness and success with your kids. Teach your kids tools that will help them take responsibility, improve grades, overcome worry & stress, increase happiness and understand bullying so you can stop it before it starts. The fun activities in this full color book will create hours of enjoyment for you and your kids. Teachers, teach the tools to your students and create a common language for a successful thriving classroom. Charlie the Robot, Meet Your Thought Monster, Find Your Feelings, Action Annie and Be the Magician are just a few of the fun and colorful activities you can do with your kids. Exercises for adult and child are side by side in the book so you can work together if you’d like. Bonus exercise are available to download with a link provided in the book. Adults and kids will feel better and improve their confidence when they use the exercises contained in the book. Everyone wins!
Draw to Learn Bible Study series
Practice drawing by using the Bible…and internalize the Bible by drawing! Each page features a scripture verse, approximately 6.5″ x 7″ box for drawing, and an instructional paragraph that includes drawing directions. For each lesson, children will first read the Bible passage and think about its meaning, secondly read the instructions and think about the drawing, and finally draw their picture. All ages, plastic protector-cover; spiral-bound; 150 pages & 150 lessons. Books include Draw to learn Acts, Draw to lern Proverbs, Draw to learn the Letters of Paul, Draw to Learn the Life of Jesus, Draw to Learn Psalms,
ArtAchieve
ArtAchieve believes that anyone can learn to draw, and that learning to draw is an essential skill.
Drawing is not a skill reserved for special people who have “talent.” Drawing is a skill, just like reading or math is a skill. Each lesson level builds on the skills developed in the previous level.
Our goal is to provide you and your students with an approach to drawing that insures success (e.g, the cat you draw will LOOK like a cat), while leaving plenty of room for creative interpretation (the cat you draw will be YOUR OWN unique cat).
The images for the lessons come from around the world and therefore are a visual tie to geography, history, literature, and other topics. We hope you explore those connections. Five levels are available, for grades K-12. Lessons can be purchased invidually or as a set per level.
God’s Design for Science
Bible-based and Creator-centered, God’s Design for Science Curriculum will sow a love for science in your students grades 1–8. The evidence supports the Genesis account of creation!
Curriculum can be purchased as individual units or as a complete package.
Volumes include:
- God’s Design for Chemistry and Ecology
- God’s Design for Heaven and Earth
- God’s Design for Life
- God’s Design for the Physical World