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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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.
English III: Writing Skills
The English III: Writing Skills course from Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum (PAC) continues to build on earlier courses with a strong focus on writing skills. This course was designed to help students who’ve been identified as exhibiting weak composition skills; it’s recommended for use as a grade 11 remedial language arts curriculum.
Five text books feature the readings for the course. Together they cover different genres of writing; writing techniques that equip students to craft strong sentences and paragraphs; literary concepts such as cause and effect, logic, premises, and comparison; and more.5 Chapters; non-reproducible pages, paper covers with magazine-style stapled bindings. Suggested for Grade 11 remedial. Designed to cover one year.
English Grammar Skills
The English: Grammar Skills course from Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum (PAC) develops language arts skills through a focus on the parts of speech, grammar, and strong writing skills. This course was designed to help students who’ve been identified as exhibiting weak composition skills; it’s recommended for use as a grade 8 remedial language arts curriculum.
5 Chapters; 75 lessons; non-reproducible pages, paper covers with magazine-style stapled bindings. Suggested for Grade 8 remedial. Designed to cover one year.
Latin Alive
The Latin Alive! series is a relevant, rigorous, yet engaging introduction to Latin for middle and high school students. This Latin curriculum will truly make the Latin language come alive both for students who have studied Latin (such as students who have completed the Latin for Children curriculum) and for those who have not been introduced to Latin.
Written by experienced and enthusiastic Latin teachers, the Latin Alive! series provides complete Latin training that enables students to read and translate original Latin. The Latin Alive! series features a unique blend of grammatical training and engaging reading of original Latin texts that will help maintain student interest and impart skill, capacity, and mastery. Where other curricula downplay training in grammar, the authors of this series have found a way to teach grammar so that students understand and enjoy it. The authors present Latin grammar in small, digestible sections that are clearly illustrated and explained.
For grades 9 and up.
Four levels available, level 1 to level 4.
Apologia Advanced Physics in Creation
Equal to one year of university physics course, this is advanced placement physics for the high school student who wishes to either major in a science-related field, or is intensely interested in the scientific realm of Physics!
This course provides detailed descriptions of kinematics, dynamics, rotational motion, gravity, oscillations, waves, optics, thermal physics, electrical forces, electrical potential, DC circuits, magnetic forces, atomic physics, and nuclear physics. Lessons are retained through “On your own” activities, charts illustrating concepts, examples, lab exercises, tests and more.
Prerequisites: One year of high school physics and a trigonometry course.
Choosing a Great Homeschool Writing Curriculum
Writing can be intimidating, both teaching it and practicing it (as in, actually doing the writing). Lots of questions probably float through your mind as you try to decide on a homeschool writing curriculum. As a creative writer, I believe one of the most important parts of teaching the subject to my kids involves inspiring…