Every online homeschool forum that I belong to eventually gets around to the question of teaching grammar. Parents are concerned about what to teach, how to teach it, and, the biggie, at what age to begin formal grammar studies. For our family, the answer to these concerns differs with each child, but one resource that has become a staple for this subject in…
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The Nature Game
Kendra from the blog, Aussie Pumpkin Patch, has developed a fun game that nature lovers everywhere will get excited about! She originally asked me to review this for Shining Dawn Books since our main line is the NaturExplorers series, but I thought it deserved the attention of The Curriculum Choice instead. The Nature Game comes to you as two PDF…
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Nature in Your Pocket
Waterford Press has a tagline that says, “Putting the World in Your Pocket.” With Waterford Press it is amazing just how much of the world you can fit into your pocket. You can store information about animal tracks, the cosmos, plants, wildlife and more right in your back pocket. These naturalist pocket guides are durable, easy to read, colorful, and…
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Sequential Spelling
Our family has used several things through the years to help our kids in the area of spelling. Some have worked well. Others have not. My oldest son (14) was really struggling this past year with his spelling and programs that we had previously tried just didn’t seem to be doing the trick with him. He was a late reader….
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Life Lessons: Sponsor a Child
Our family sponsors two children with Compassion International. It isn’t exactly a curriculum, but my family is receiving an education through it. The educational benefits are numerous: 1. Geography becomes a real, living subject rather than a flat, oddly shaped spot on a globe. Someone lives there! Someone who writes you letters! You send letters back! Geography lives. 2. The…
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Max Axiom Graphic Science Books
I’m in love – or, better yet, my son is in love! We’ve had the opportunity to review graphic science books on all sorts of topics that are fun and easy to read. Comic book style science sounds really fluffy doesn’t it? Believe it or not, the Max Axiom series is full of “real” science that goes deep enough to…
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Train up a Child Publishing
Train up a Child Publishing is literature based Charlotte Mason approach to homeschooling using the Bible and great children’s literature to teach Bible, History/Reading, Science, Language Arts, and Fine Arts together in one educational plan. A review from The Curriculum Choice.
Wordsmith
Wordsmith by Janie Cheaney is a creative writing course for 7-9th grades. Written to the child in a casual, humorous tone, it gives encouragement that writing isn’t something to hate and shouldn’t be considered too hard. Broken into three parts, lessons in parts 1 and 2 are incremental and break writing into doable steps which focus on various writing techniques. …
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Answers for Preschoolers
Stop, drop and roll; numbers, matching, science, music, math, cutting and pasting, coloring, calendar and pattern practice, weather and seasons, holidays, physical education, Bible verse memory work and Biblical world view. Definitely a “Complete multi-subject curriculum for preschoolers” ~ Answers in Genesis And, look! Right at the top of each page – plenty of practice in name writing. Here’s an…
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Considering God’s Creation
At a Glance Product: Considering God’s Creation published by Eagle’s Wings Educational Products Age Level: 2nd thru 7th (adaptable curriculum) Use: Stand alone science curriculum (36 lessons) or a nice supplement for the notebooking side of science. Teacher Prep: Minimum to Moderate/Cut and Paste Format: Workbook, Teacher’s Manual and CD (Workbook is filled with cut and paste notebook pages.) Teaching…
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