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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.

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)

This three part curriculum, consisting of a 75 lesson text and a volume of historic documents, is packed with information on our government’s beginnings and development. You’ll gain an adequate understanding of the purpose and functions of democracy by paying attention to the Constitution and biblical basis for government. You’ll learn what the government does, why it is the way it is and why it does what it does. This is a one semester course if one unit is studied per week. Units contain an overview, lesson list, suggested activities, applicable document reading and more. 526 pages, indexed. Softcover. Quizzes and tests available

Discover the foundational elements of the universe and the building blocks of creation withExploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics! Study how the universe functions through this exploration of matter and energy; lessons cover atoms and molecules, pH levels, types of mixtures, mechanics, laws of motion, dynamics of motion, energy, waves, light, machines, magnets, and more. Filled with bright photographs, fun “Try This!” experiments, and integrated narration questions, this Charlotte-Mason inspired guide to physics and chemistry will keep kids interested and engaged. Experiments, notebooking activities, “what do you remember?” narration questions, projects, and experiments help to reinforce concepts. 279 pages, hardcover. Index and answers to the narrative questions are included, as well as a supply list.  Scriptures taken from the NIV, NASB, and ESV. Elementary Grades; Grades 1-6. May be completed in one semester or one year depending on the desired schedule.