At a Glance Product: Christian Liberty Press Preschool Program Age Level: 3-5 Use as: Stand alone curriculum Prep Time: Minimal to moderate prep time before preschool class time. Homeschool Method: Traditional, Christian, Eclectic Price: $87.00 Purchase: HERE. Rating: 5 out of 5 gold apples Review: I have used Christian Liberty Press…
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Boyhood and Beyond & Created for Work
I love to use really good devotionals with my children. But, to take this prestigious place of Bible time, they have to be really good. If they’re too fluffy, I don’t hesitate to send them sailing across the room to the nearest garbage can. I simply don’t have time enough with my children to waste on fluffy times learning about…
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Critical Thinking Skills for Kindergarteners
Grade level reviewed: Kindergarten through 1st grade Use as: thinking skills activities, test prep Instruction time: low Prep time: low Cost: $17.99 Can You Find Me? Building Thinking Skills is a yet another wonderful workbook from The Critical Thinking Company. Critical Thinking Press is well known for high quality educational items which inspire what else but critical thinking! No one…
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Beginning Readers from All About Reading
My beginning readers are children who have been raised on a wide variety of literature, from Dora the Explorer books (which do not really count as literature) to classics like Heidi and everything in between. As they have begun learning to read one thing I have tried to find are beautiful books on their level. I’m sorry, I’ve seen those…
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Drawing Basics by Thomas Kinkade
I count it a benefit of homeschooling when one of the masters can step in and teach my children. Thomas Kinkade has led my children in Drawing Basics several times already. That is with the Alpha Omega DVD Lifepac. An Alpha Omega Lifepac is a full subject of study “built upon the principle of mastery learning.” Drawing Basics is an…
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A Pioneer Story by Barbara Greenwood
Here’s one book no homeschooling family should miss: A Pioneer Story: The Daily Life of a Canadian Family in 1840. It combines heartwarming stories of a busy pioneer family with the background information and hands-on activities of a unit study. Truly, it is a winning combination. Beautifully illustrated, this story of the Robertsons fills our hearts and minds with the…
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Building Thinking Skills
Product: Building Thinking Skills Book 2 Publisher: Critical Thinking Company Age level: 9-11 (4th-6th grade) Use as: thinking skills activities, test prep Instruction time: low Prep time: low Cost: $29.99 Features (from site): Building Thinking Skills Book 2 covers describing shapes, figural similarities and differences, figural sequences, figural classifications, figural analogies, describing things, verbal similarities and differences, verbal sequences, verbal…
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Easy Grammar
Grammar is one of those necessary subjects that isn’t always the most fun to do. Easy Grammar makes it a little easier to complete what can be a daunting task. Easy Grammar is a grade-by-grade program, teaching kids the essentials of grammar. There is about 180 lessons in each book, making for one easy lesson a day. Each lesson only…
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Research in Increments
Research in Increments by Susan Kemmerer is a wonderful tool for your students who are learning to write a research paper. Written directly to the student, the lessons lead your child through a step-by-step process of: choosing a research topic narrowing down the topic’s direction using index cards to keep track of sources and information gathered creating a bibliography interviewing…
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The Answers Book for Kids, Volumes 1-4
Did Adam and Eve have bellybuttons? – Kimberly W., age 7, Georgia When God created the earth, were the trees fully grown, or were they baby trees? If they were full grown, did they have growth rings? – Chris J., age 11, California How did all the dinosaurs fit on the ark? – Abby G., age 6, New Mexico If…
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