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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.
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:
Make anatomy, biology, and other challenging topics fun for boys and girls with Dover’s science books for kids. Learn how your body works and all the incredible things it can do. Discover living organisms in soil and water along with simple experiments and projects using stuff around the house. And to make learning memorable we’ve included coloring books on the tough stuff! Dover covers the entire educational spectrum and can serve as core curriculum material or supplemental aids.
As a homeschooling mom, I’ve sometimes struggled to find reading resources that both my boys and I love, especially great math books. Over the years, though, we’ve gathered a list of not just good math books, but great ones! You know, the kind that your kids will read just for fun … and they’re learning important…
Handwriting without Tears aims to make legible and fluent handwriting an automatic, mastered skill. Simple for home educators to use, lessons take only 15 minutes a day. The main objective for students is to achieve goals, not to finish a set number of pages.
You can purchase a student and teacher book or a complete kit.
Volumes for the print version include:
Pre-Kindergarten: Children learn joyfully with the multisensory readiness activities in My First School Book. Children of different abilities develop and practice crucial readiness and pre-writing skills.
Kindergarten: Lessons teach capitals, lowercase letters, and numbers. Activities form good handwriting habits and develop strong writers.
First grade: Lessons emphasize the correct use of lowercase letters in words and sentences. Activity pages combine handwriting instruction with other language arts lessons.
Second grade: Learn & Check helps teachers and students check letter, word, and sentence skills. Activity pages combine handwriting instruction with punctuation, paragraph, poem, and language arts activities for practice.
Note: Third through Fifth grade curriculum are also available, but are only in cursive.
Perfect as its own ethnographic course, or as a supplement to geography, history, or social studies, Eat Your Way Around the World will be a hit for any homeschool family! Arranged by continent and country, simple, traditional recipes are interspersed with etiquette hints, food profiles, notes on the culture, recipe information, room to journal.even a passport is included! Discover foods from Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, Nigeria, South America, China, Japan, India, France, Ireland, England, Canada, Guatemala, Jamaica, the U.S. and more. 111 pages, spiral-bound softcover. Index with websites for more recipes included.
Each of our self-paced history courses has 160 class periods covering 32 historical events. With interactive teaching, clever games, engaging video footage, and a talking historical character, your child will be motivated throughout the entire year. This approach to learning history is unparalleled. It includes:
