I love sharing great authors with you – authors that you can almost always assume will provide a wonderful living literature experience for you and your children. Patricia St. John is one of these authors. Ms. St. John (1919-1993) was first an English missionary in Morocco where she worked in a medical mission trying to win the hearts of Muslim…
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Slow and Steady Get Me Ready
Today, after three-year-old finished her page from Color, Count and Cut, we pulled from our Slow and Steady, Get Me Ready book. The activity below is called Finish It. I read the beginning of each sentence and almost four-year-old finished it. I went to the ice cream shop. I am going on a vacation to see horses. Yesterday I played…
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Exploring Creation with General Science
Warning: LONG review, but worth it (I think!) Exploring Creation with General Science, 2nd Edition is a 7th or 8th grade science curriculum that I have been very impressed with! Written from a Biblical perspective, 32 lessons cover a broad range of introductory science themes that will give your child a solid knowledge base when entering into higher level science…
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Illustrated Family Bible
Our family uses the Bible itself as our main Bible curriculum. Every few years, however, we pull out the Illustrated Family Bible. With its stunning, historically accurate illustrations and informative side panels, it always gives us a fresh view of all those familiar stories. Currently we are going through this Bible for the third or fourth time as a family. …
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Story Starters
Story Starters by Karen Andreola is a life saver – for you and your children! Mom will never again have to rack her brain for writing assignments. And students won’t have to sit hopelessly in front of a blank sheet of paper wondering where in the world to start any longer. Seriously! You (or your 4th -8th grade child) can…
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Merry Christmas!
All of the authors here at The Curriculum Choice would like to wish you a wonderful Christmas as you celebrate the birth of our Savior with your families! We’ll be back with great new reviews January 3rd!
Wordplay Cafe
Wordplay Café by Michael Kline is a set of grammar and vocabulary lessons disguised as a book of games. Truth be told, there are a few lessons that cover logic and Greek and Latin in there, too. The set up of the book itself mimics a menu at a café. There are recipes for games, brain candy (interesting word and language…
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Science on a Tracking Expedition from the Young Scientists Club
One of the issues I’ve struggled with over my years of homeschooling is the desire to do hands-on science projects with my children and the time/effort/inconvenience needed to gather all of the materials to do so. While I adore doing hands-on projects with my children, I do not enjoy gathering up all of the needed materials, running out at the…
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A Reason for Handwriting
We started out this year with the intent to use a different curriculum for handwriting but, of course, life happens! We ended up moving across country, leaving behind the majority of our home to be shipped at a later date. That means we left most of our curriculum as well! Basically starting from scratch, I stumbled across “A Reason for…
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French is Fun
In grade 7, after years of low-key, informal French, our children start French is Fun 1. This inexpensive textbook from AMSCO works well for us, helping the children consolidate all their earlier knowledge and extending it dramatically. French is Fun, Book 1: Lively Lessons for Beginners, Third Edition by Gail Stein and Heywood Wald brings beginners to a reasonable level…
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