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Our Basic Curriculum Kits cover math, language arts, thinking skills, and geography. You'll want to add science and history.
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This guide helps you know which books to use when and how to schedule your school year. A weekly schedule is included to give you enough structure to make sure your child doesn't miss anything, without the stress of an overly specific plan that leaves no room for the give and take of real life.
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Most children dread grammar study because it is too complex. But Easy Grammar is just that--easy. Easy Grammar Ultimate is designed specifically to introduce and teach essential grammar concepts to older students, regardless of their previous grammar background. In just ten to fifteen minutes a day, your child will be functioning at his grade level and be competent to undertake any state or college prep tests. As a bonus, as your child practices his grammar skills, he will also be learning age-appropriate history, science, literature, geography, and so much more. Best of all? The lessons are very manageable, often taking as little as ten minutes to complete. |
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The Word Roots series teaches children the meanings of prefixes, roots, and suffixes commonly used in English. Learning word elements dramatically improves spelling and the ability to decode unfamiliar words. Plus, it is now considered a mandatory topic in many states, so you'll want to be sure you cover it. |
Your child will finish Sequential Spelling this year, completing level 7. Sequential Spelling is not only the most logical spelling program we've seen, but it is also one of the easiest to use. Simply read your child one list of words a day to write down, correcting any mistakes as you go. That's it! The sequences are based on building from easy words to advanced words, such as from all, to tall, stall, install, installment, and installation; this is an intuitive approach with no memorization required. If your student has not yet completed Sequential Spelling books 1-6, you will want to do them first. |
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This year your child will continue with our favorite math program ever. Teaching Textbooks PreAlgebra is a full-year curriculum designed to be completed on the computer. The friendly lessons and automatic grading mean that this program will be a blessing to both you and your child! (Not sure if this is the correct level to start your child in? Have him take this free placement test and make sure.) |
Editor-in-Chief provides your child with a fake newspaper article and picture in each lesson, then asks him to find and correct the errors. What a fantastic way to take the drudgery out of applying his budding language and spelling skills, while also enhancing his critical thinking and observation skills! |
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Written by Nathaniel and Hans Bluedorn, the same young men who wrote the widely popular The Fallacy Detective, The Thinking Toolbox is destined to be one of those rare must-have books for all homes where thinking skills are prized. Lessons cover: (1) When it is dumb to argue, (2) Using the scientific method, (3) Five rules of brainstorming, (4) Who has a reason to lie? (5) How to analyze opposing viewpoints, (6) How to analyze evidence and sources, (7) How to list reasons why you believe something, and much more. The Thinking Toolbox is abundantly easy to use and engaging to boot! |
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From firefighters writing reports to law-makers authoring legal documents, an ability to write clearly will serve your child for the rest of his life. This is why we take writing very seriously. We look for programs that are increasingly comprehensive as a student grows, but not overwhelming or intimidating to a student who has not yet mastered the art of writing. Writing with Skill is the perfect fit. It provides your child with detailed instructions on how to write basic narratives, outlines, metaphors, research writing, poems, and more. It is rigorous, without being too technical or tedious, and even uses selections from famous authors to teach the concepts! Writing with Skill is a comprehensive writing course conveniently segmented into thirty-six weeks of lessons. The included Writing with Skill Instructor Text provides step-by-step directions, answers, and even scripts to use for explaining any trouble areas to your child. |
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(also includes everything in Basic Package) |
| Timberdoodle's Complete Curriculum Kits include everything listed above plus science, history, a brain game, a reader, and additional hands-on tools to add sparkle to your learning time. |
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Designed to be used in Amish classrooms, these basal readers are solidly wholesome, with none of the fantasy that is commonplace in both Christian and secular readers. Because the Amish don't use electricity, you won't find stories dealing with the latest in films, computers, or TVs. Instead, the stories are centered on farm life, with horse auctions, harvests, and LARGE families. With simple typesetting and a few black-and-white sketches, these hardback books are not splashy, but are lovely in their simplicity.
One note: While we believe that reading is the single most important skill to foster in your eighth-grader, you'll notice that we did not include many traditional readers. Don't let this puzzle you. Our experience is that the best way to help your child become an eager reader is to constantly supply him with reading materials that interest him. Future doctors may want to read up on anatomy, young explorers are drawn to the escapades of adventurers young and old, and the baby-lover in your family will be captivated by adoption stories. Assign reading if you must, but encourage it at all costs; a child who enjoys reading will find it easier to excel in every area. |
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Spectrum Test Prep offers a comprehensive and sequential way to practice the content areas offered on the following standardized tests: the California Achievement TestsŪ (CAT/5), the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS/4), the Iowa Tests of Basic SkillsŪ (ITBS, Form K), the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT/7), and the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT/9). The up-to-date content reflects national standards and includes practice tests in the following subject areas: reading, language arts, and math. |
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Open new pathways in your brain with Turnstile. Select a challenge and set up the pieces as shown, then move your people through the maze to their matching corners. To do this, you must pass through turnstiles, but not all turnstiles rotate in the direction you need. Back up, regroup, and try again. There is a solution, but if you don't discover it you will find your people trapped. In each of its forty challenges, Turnstile provides lots of tactile appeal and is a true mental workout in both spatial and sequential logic. |
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Most students in eighth grade have spent at least seven years studying individual components of science (astronomy or anatomy or physics, for instance), but relatively little time putting all that information together. This year your student will take a step back and see the big picture of science, with a particular emphasis on earth science and biology. Thankfully, Master Books has made the reading of this science as painless as possible. The illustrations may be black and white, but accounts are quite colorful, resulting in surprisingly appealing texts. Includes chapter tests. This is a great series from a fine Christian publisher. |
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Science this year is focused on reviewing all essential and general scientific concepts before proceeding to high school science. The more-than-100 kid-friendly experiments in National Geographic Elements of Science explore the full spectrum of biology, chemistry, and physics and will show your children hands-on how these three core disciplines relate. The engaging, full-color, 112-page book, with its helpful, clear illustrations and well-written text, is organized into fifteen chapters that include investigations into Bernoulli's Principle, centrifugal force, rockets, electric motors, simple circuits, chemical reactions, camera obscura, prisms, the human body, and much more!
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Written by homeschool mom Linda Hobar, this is one spectacular masterpiece. Not just a textbook, it is brimming with multi-age activities, book and video lists, memory helps, and timeline suggestions. Written in a conversational style, what appeals to us most about this program is its worldwide approach to history. The Mystery of History Volume II provides a historically-accurate, Bible-centered approach to learning about the Early Church and the Middle Ages from Pentecost to the printing press! The completely chronological lessons span the continents to shed new light on who walked the earth when God revealed Himself to mankind during this pivotal period of history. The user-friendly format presents three lessons per week, with hands-on activities, quizzes, tests, weekly timeline, mapping assignments, and a supplemental reading and resource list. Volume I is not required, but we do recommend that you complete it first. Call us if you'd like to switch volumes in this bundle. |
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Smencils (Scented Pencils) are made from 100% recycled newspapers; you can even see the layers of recycled newspaper when you sharpen them! Individually packed in their own freshness tubes (made of corn-based biodegradable plastic), the "scent-sational" fragrances are guaranteed to keep their delicious aromas for two years. (One Smencil included with each Complete Curriculum). |
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When one of our children was a preschooler, we received the best advice a parent of a kinesthetic child could receive: Let her wiggle. And wiggle she did. I don't think she sat for schoolwork for many years. Thinking Putty offers your child a way to move without becoming a distraction. An impressive, adult-sized handful of high-quality, moldable putty, the non-toxic, non-gooey Thinking Putty will bounce, stretch, tear, drip, snap, even shatter. Finally, your little wiggler will be able to sit and listen! |
(also includes everything in Basic and Complete Packages) |
| Our Elite Curriculum Kits include all of the materials listed above along with even more bells and whistles: art, The Mystery of History II CDs, and best of all, a deluxe robotics course! |
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Because your child will likely retain more of what he learns when illustrating each time period, Draw and Write Through History is not mere busywork. Not only will your child be taught how to draw true historical figures and places with easy-to-follow, step-by-step, illustrated instructions, but at the end of each section a page of cursive copywork is given, summarizing the history lesson. Intriguing, bite-sized historical facts interspersed on the pages may even jump-start the most reluctant of readers into wanting to learn more. Draw and Write Through History 3: The Vikings, the Middle Ages, & the Renaissance covers the time period from the Vikings to the Middle Ages and lightly touches on the Renaissance. Learn to draw a Viking ship and longhouse, a castle, a catapult, a princess, a knight, a dragon, Robin Hood, a greyhound dog, a samurai, a pagoda, a musketeer, and more! |
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Developed with robotics education in mind, the OLLO Explorer Educational Robot curriculum is complete with a reconfigurable robot (and eleven other models) to build and program. The modular building system, with innovative two-part rivets, allows you to build and take apart custom robots very quickly, and the rugged pieces will not break with repeated use. And unlike "brick" robotics sets, OLLO Explorer Educational Robot Kit's robust models stay together. Learning robotics has never been easier, more affordable, or more fun. |
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Featuring the same content as The Mystery of History book, this convenient audio book allows your child to listen in the car, while knitting, or any other time when his ears are freer than his hands! |
 CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3yrs.
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