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 … [Read more...] about Critical Thinking Skills for Kindergarteners
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 beginning readers where the whole story is 3 or 4 words … [Read more...] about Beginning Readers from All About Reading
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 elective Lifepac. Our two eldest children went through all the … [Read more...] about Drawing Basics by Thomas Kinkade
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 life of a pioneer … [Read more...] about A Pioneer Story by Barbara Greenwood
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, … [Read more...] about Building Thinking Skills
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 takes 10-15 minutes to complete, which makes it much easier to … [Read more...] about Easy Grammar
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 … [Read more...] about Research in Increments
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 you are like me, you are asked these sorts of questions by your children. And, … [Read more...] about The Answers Book for Kids, Volumes 1-4
Apologia High School Science
Homeschooling parents used to send their teens to school, feeling they couldn’t provide quality high school science instruction at home. That hasn’t been necessary since Dr. Jay L. Wile wrote and revised his Apologia high school texts. These excellent, Creation-based courses are clear enough to be essentially self-teaching, even though they cover difficult material. In fact, as a scientist, I … [Read more...] about Apologia High School Science
Positive Action for Christ
Reviewed Item: Positive Action for Christ---The Life of Christ School Level: Middle School--High School Product by: Positive Action for Christ Product Description: To many people Christ is merely a historical fact, rather than a living, personal reality. We know that Christ lived, and we know much about what He did; however, even we as Christians seldom experience His presence as … [Read more...] about Positive Action for Christ
By the Great Horn Spoon – California Gold Rush
We have loved many books this year as we have done our unit studies. One reason we love reading a literature selection in a unit study is it makes the time period or information come alive. Today I want to tell you about one that my children still can tell you all about even though we read it 8 months ago. The title is By the Great Horn Spoon written in 1963 by Albert S. Fleischman. This book … [Read more...] about By the Great Horn Spoon – California Gold Rush
Piano Course for Christians
I had the pleasure of reviewing the entire Madonna Woods Piano Course for Christians from the Preparatory Level all the way through Level 5. The first question everyone always seems to ask is, “Will I really be able to teach piano to my children using this course?” My quick answer is, “Yes, I believe many people will.” If you have any sort of musical training at all, you should be able to use … [Read more...] about Piano Course for Christians