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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First Form Latin
Designed for instructors and learners with no Latin background, Lowe’s unique curriculum focuses on teaching grammar systematically to encourage retention and understanding—rather than topically to facilitate translation. Extensive workbook exercises ensure skills mastery and rapid recognition of inflected forms. Includes an everything-you-need teacher’s manual, accessible student text and workbook, quizzes and tests, pronunciation CD, flash cards, and DVDs. Grades 4 and up. 4 volumes.
Blue Manor Preschool
Our Christian preschool curriculum will not only prepare your children for kindergarten, but will also lay a strong physical, intellectual, and spiritual foundation that will benefit them for the rest of their lives. The best part is that our lessons require zero preparation and zero teaching experience. Give your children an elite foundation and be amazed by the ripple effects.
This is the complete set: 23 individual books and an additional “how to” teaching manual. Blue Manor Academy takes Christian preschool education to the next level! Level One is uniquely designed for parents like you who want to give your preschoolers a tremendous head start.
New American Cursive
New American Cursive is an easy-to-follow resource for teaching beginning cursive. It presents simplified letter forms, using multi-sensory methods to aid in the learning of motor skills necessary to write well. Developed by Iris Hatfield, with over 35 years of experience in the handwriting field, the book improves the process of teaching handwriting and allows students to start at a younger age.
The character Mr. Meerkat is the book’s guide, making learning tasks fun; step-by-step, he shows the way to draw each letter and encourages creativity. There are clear arrow directions for letter creation, and plenty of shaded letters to trace for practice. The book is bound at the top for equal access for left- and right-handers.
NAC’s simplified strokes and letter forms allow first grade students to truly master beautiful cursive. We have used NAC in our Highlands Latin School, with dramatic results. Every child can master cursive in the first grade, and many of our first graders write better than typical third graders. Learning cursive early ensures that students are not slowed down or frustrated in the upper grades when they are focusing on other subjects, such as grammar and composition.
Mr. Science Teacher’s Chemistry Video Classroom
A Full Year stand alone course of high school chemistry – Mr. Science Teacher’s ® Chemistry Video Classroom provides 160 days of chemistry lessons demonstrating step-by-step problem solving techniques; online grading of homework, quizzes, and tests and a personal gradebook to document your success is included! Additionally – Get Your Questions Answered! – You may use our Support Tickets to ask Mr. Science Teacher ® any 3 chemistry questions FREE!
Bible Study Guide for All Ages
Bible Study Guide for All Ages is an in-depth bible study in 416 lessons. The Student Pages guide you through each lesson and come in four levels covering ages 3 through 6th grade. The Beginner level (for ages 3 – Kindergarten) and Primary level (for 1st – 2nd grade) require a parent’s guidance throughout the lesson. The Intermediate level (3rd – 4th grade) and Advanced level (5th-6th grade) may either be guided by the parent or completed by the student on their own. You can have all of your children study through the same Bible text at the same time. Recommendations on how to do it may be found here.
Optional materials that are referenced in the Student Pages teach chronology, the contents of the Bible Books, maps and more.
Rise of Nations
Rise of Nations is designed for high school. It is an integrated, research based, non-textbook curriculum. Its scope includes 18 units and 16 regions. The focus of the course is Humanities. Students study the art, music, architecture, and literature of the rising nations. This is a multi-cultural approach to literature and composition using the actual writing from the cultures. The eastern and western worlds are studied chronologically and geographically, revealing to the student the rise of nations.