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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Piano Wizard Academy

Piano Wizard Academy is a combination of our Award-Winning learn to play piano software, DVD lessons, and printed sheet music. A digital keyboard is required for use with the software. We can provide that or you can use your own.

First and foremost, our piano learning software is a game. When you play the game, you are having fun, unknowingly practicing, and subliminally learning to read music too. The game’s patented sound and color learning cues transform tedious and repetitive practice sessions into an exciting and rewarding video game experience for people of all ages and musical abilities.

Piano Wizard incorporates a music before theory method that is in line with the way we naturally learn. Now anyone can easily learn to play the piano and play real songs in minutes – not weeks, months, or years by using our revolutionary patented Four-Step method.

System Requirements: Mac OSX or Window 98-Windows 8 32 MB video card 200 MB free hard drive space Internet access to register, update games, and download more songs

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.

Here to Help Learning

Here to Help Learning enhances the love of writing one home at a time by providing Christian based, high-quality on-location filmed instruction for grades 1-6. Created by a 20-year homeschool veteran, Here To Help Learning’s lessons are action packed and filled with humorous antics that will keep your child engaged and learning. There are six courses that cover all aspects of paragraph and essay writing. Your valuable time will not be bogged down with a long list of preparations. We supply you with student worksheets and easy to use scripted lessons. We give the best part of home education back to you, the love and joy of learning together. Whether you are a home educator or a co-op teacher, you will be able to lead and teach with confidence and provide your students with outstanding writing instruction. Affordably priced that does not skimp on the extravagant.

Dover and Education.com Captivate and Educate series

Published by Dover, Education.com workbooks offer thematic content to actively engage children and provide them with fun-filled, memorable learning experiences. Each workbook has fun themes, contains a certificate of completion, and has perforated pages for easy removal.

  • Workbooks for grades K-5, ages 3-11
  • History, math, reading, science, and writing
  • Value-priced individually for only $7.99 each, our Elementary Pack has $103 value

Includes the following titles:

Kindergarten: Celebrate the Seasons; Nursery Rhymes & More

1st Grade: Adventures in Writing; Count It

2nd Grade: Fun with Nature; History & Me

3rd Grade: All That Math; Earth & Sky; On the Map USA

4th Grade: Math Mania; Write It Your Way

5th Grade: Your World of Words; All Sorts of Science

Apologia Exploring Creation with Botany

Introduce your young naturalists to plants—their structure, propagation, classification, and more—with this engaging yearlong classical science curriculum. Influenced by Charlotte Mason and the living books philosophy, homeschooling mother Jeannie Fulbright writes as if she were chatting with her own children, defining and explaining at their comprehension level. Designed to be used with both readers and non-readers, each clearly organized lesson features content-rich narration; notebooking; and hands-on activities and projects using easy-to-find household items. Dissect seeds, force bulbs, make leaf skeletons—and take a close-up look at God’s flora kingdom. Grades K to 6. 176 pages, hardcover.