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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. |
It doesn't look like schoolwork, but it is! Featuring rhymes and riddles, editing activities, mind-benders, sequencing, and folk tales, Language Smarts is a core standards-based language arts curriculum with a whole host of child-pleasing activities. Each Language Smarts page is brightly colored with plenty of white space to feel easily doable. Language arts has never looked so fun! |
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With 125 dynamic writing lessons, Daily 6-Trait Writing will provide your child practice and instruction concerning all the essential skills necessary to becoming a competent writer. Research proves that a solid understanding of the six traits of writing improves a child's ability to write successfully and just fifteen minutes or less a day is all it will take. Daily 6-Trait Writing is correlated to state standards for educators, with a dash of fun for our apprentice writers. |
We wish we'd had A Reason for Handwriting while growing up. With each ten- to fifteen-minute daily lesson built around Bible verses, content is not only instructional, but also inspirational. Plus, at the end of each week, your children will be given the opportunity to apply excellence to their work as they copy their verse of the week onto their choice of "Scripture Border Sheets." Done with care, these completed sheets are worthy of sharing with friends and family. |
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In second grade, your child will be ready to begin Sequential Spelling. It is not only the most logical spelling program we've seen, but it is also one of the easiest to use. Using the computer DVD, your child will type in each spelling word on his daily list and correct any mistakes. 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. |
Written in a whimsical and conversational manner, Word Fun is a gentle introduction to the eight most significant parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, interjections, and prepositions. Word Fun's vivid and imaginative, full-page illustrations will help even your younger children visualize each part of speech. The goofy storylines and striking, full-of-movement illustrations in Word Fun make what would otherwise be a dull topic inviting. |
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Math doesn't need to be tedious and Mathematical Reasoning proves that with its bright pages, interesting story problems, and critical-thinking based approach. Concepts spiral gradually, so that children do not forget as they go, and are written to the standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. |
We love Math Reasoning, but some children need just a bit more drill work to master math. JUMP Mathematics offers a systematic, precept upon precept math program with simple, uncluttered pages. JUMP Mathematics is mastery-oriented, clear, and to the point. |
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Building Thinking Skills Book One was a favorite school assignment in our family. This comprehensive, straightforward program develops four basic analytical skills (similarities/differences, sequences, classification, and analogies) through both figural and verbal problems. Sound intimidating? Don't worry, the exercises are clear, with sample completed activities so that the student can see exactly what to do. The activities offer lots of variety, too, from finding the identical matching figure to selecting the most similar adjective from a list or describing the parts of a whole. |
Basic geography is essential, but done in large, infrequent doses it can become tedious or, worse yet, too quickly forgotten. Daily Geography uses a short daily lesson approach that avoids both pitfalls. |
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(also includes everything in Basic Package) |
| Timberdoodle's Complete Curriculum Kits include everything listed above plus science, history, construction, readers, and additional hands-on tools to add sparkle to learning time. |
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. |
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To help solidify your child's grasp of basic math facts, we include Wrap-Ups Multiplication for hands-on drillwork. Your child simply wraps the string from the problem to the answer, then moves on to the next problem. Once he's completed the board, he can flip it over and check his answers. If the string lines up with the ridges on the back of the board, he's gotten them all correct. |
Visual perception training has never been this engaging! Q-bitz uses sixteen colorful cubes to recreate the patterns on the included cards. Start by simply having your student replicate the pattern on one of the cards. Next, time him and have him try to beat his last time. Finally, let him study the card for ten seconds, then flip it over and see how much he can recreate from memory! |
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History is a story -- isn't it time you read it that way? The Story of the World is a captivating read-aloud series which will introduce your children to the marvelous history of the world presented chronologically from the beginning of time. The details of battles, kingdoms, cultures, and customs from every continent and major people group are woven together into a story that children will find mesmerizing. With short chapters, many less than seven pages, The Story of the World presents history in small, easily-digestible chunks. Of particular appeal to children will be the occasional story about a hypothetical child in the culture of that time and fictional stories that were popular during that time. In your Complete Curriculum we include both the reader and the student activity book for Volume 2, covering the Middle Ages (400 AD - 1600 AD). |
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A colorful, conversational approach to science, Exploring Creation with Botany is also very easy to teach. This program uses a notebook-based approach, meaning that as you go through the course your child will be asked to write, draw, or dictate the results of his experiments into a notebook. Not only will this help him retain what he learns, but at the end of the year you will have a lovely record of his work! The hands-on experiments sprinkled throughout the book are sure to be a highlight for both of you. Your Complete Curriculum includes the Exploring Creation with Botany hardbound textbook and a Junior Notebooking Journal. One note: Don't feel you need to fill in every spot in the notebook; pick and choose what your time and your child's interest allows! |
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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. |
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! |
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Did you know that simply by building things your child simultaneously improves his visual perception, fine-motor skills, patience, problem-solving, spatial perception, creativity, ability to follow directions, grasp of physics concepts, and engineering ability? We believe that construction is one of the most valuable educational processes available and that both learning to build and learning by what has been built should be a part of every family's curriculum. Because of that we've included the Goobi Magnet MASTERPACK in your Complete Core Curriculum. Superior to its imitators, Goobi's elongated magnetic rods exceed the ASTM choking length and their balls are non-magnetic, making this a very safe set. Your child will spend incalculable hours constructing buildings, bridges, spinning tops, even mathematical shapes and chemistry models, while seeing first hand some basics of geometry, physics, architecture, and engineering. |
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(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 such as art, games, more thinking skills, a plant-cell puzzle model, and even The Story of the World on CD! |
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To complete your Wrap-Ups collection, we include Wrap-Ups Division in your Elite Core Curriculum. |
Endless possibilities, endless opportunities, endless fun; IcoSoKu is a brilliant mathematical brainteaser with unlimited challenges. Place IcoSoKu number buttons randomly around the surface, then match the dotted tiles to the numbers. The dots on the IcoSoKu tiles surrounding each number button must add up exactly to the number on the button. You've succeeded when you've placed all the dotted tiles correctly so the numbers match the surrounding dots, with no dotted tiles left over. |
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A favorite during our photo shoot, this Smart Game has your child guiding the Viking boats safely through the storm to their own home ports by spinning the "wave" pieces. Easy to learn, yet Vikings Brainstorm's forty-eight challenges will test sailors and landlubbers alike. |
Featuring the same content as The Story of the World book, this convenient audio book allows you to listen in the car, while fixing dinner, or at any other time when your ears are freer than your hands! |
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All the complexities of plant cells can be hard to digest with just book learning. The Plant Cell Model provides a unique way for learning the essential components to these building blocks of life. Each six-inch Plant Cell Model contains twenty-six super-detailed, detachable pieces and features cutaway sections of the various cell parts. Assemble and disassemble as many times as you like, as these science puzzles are made to last. |
While you read historical accounts aloud, your avid artist can color in the detailed figures of ten people who shaped history, like Richard I (The Lionheart), Charlemagne, Leif Eriksson, Joan of Arc, Marco Polo, and Francis of Assisi. A hole-punch and common fasteners allow their arms and legs to move and their swords and shields to flash. For the meticulous child who wants to color it exactly right, matching pre-colored action figures are also included. |
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Featuring vivid, charming jungle animal images, Claire's Oil Pastel Workshop is designed by illustrator Claire Rebillard to show how to create colorful art with oil pastels, and yields four works of art that will look magnificent on any wall. The artist guides your child on how to use the oil pastels to create artistic outcomes, and she gives lots of tips to ensure that your child will achieve great results every time. The child-friendly oil pastels come in easy-to-use protective sleeves, minimizing messy fingers. Comes with four large, pre-printed templates on very thick cardstock; eight punch-out sheets; ten smooth, soft, and blendable artist-quality oil pastels; a glue stick; and a detailed, wordless instruction booklet in a beautiful box. |
 CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3yrs.
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