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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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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. This year your child will learn cursive. |
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Your child will continue with Sequential Spelling 2. 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. |
The first in this series, Beginning Word Roots 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. |
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This year your child will begin our favorite math program ever. Teaching Textbooks Math 3 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! |
From brainteasers and logic puzzles to mazes, Venn diagrams, and secret codes, Critical and Creative Thinking Activities has a wealth of mind-boggling activities that your child will enjoy. Exercises include thinking fluency, originality, generalizing, patterning, and problem-solving. Every lesson is based on grade-appropriate themes and is correlated to state standards. Just as important, the presentation is appealing, and many students will find that thinking skills are the highlight of their schoolwork. |
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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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| Timberdoodle's Complete Curriculum Kits include everything listed above plus science, history, construction, readers, 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. |
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A colorful, conversational approach to science, Exploring Creation with Zoology 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 Zoology 1 hardbound textbook and a 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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A thinking skills game that your young reptologist will love, the object of Anaconda is to make more than 100 complete snakes from head to tail. Gorgeous, double-sided tile puzzle pieces are either printed with portions of an anaconda's body or left blank. All the puzzle tiles that you don't need for the snake are placed on the game board with the blank side facing up. For Anaconda's first seventy-seven challenges, your child will have hints about the correct place for a few of the puzzle pieces. For the last twenty-three challenges, you're only given the position of the square that needs to remain visible. Includes solutions for all but the twenty-three most extreme--you're on your own for those! |
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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 3, covering Early Modern Times (1600 AD -1850 AD). |
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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 Zoob Challenge as part of your Complete Curriculum Kit. Not only will your child get countless hours of use out of the creative pieces, but you'll also love the twenty-five challenge cards for your child to solve by building. |
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If you are looking for the right balance of education, entertainment, and motivation in a typing program, then consider the award-winning Typing Instructor for Kids Platinum 5.0 for Windows (NOTE: MAC version is also available and can be substituted upon request). Typing Instructor for Kids offers thirteen action-packed, multi-level games; graduated drills and lesson plans; and hundreds of activities, exercises, and tests. Using proven typing techniques, children will master the keyboard while journeying with Toby and Lafitte to five imaginative lands where they learn proper typing techniques and build keyboarding skills.
Just choose a typing plan, set a words-per-minute goal, and as your child explores Typer Island he will learn typing along the way. The ten customizable plans, with or without games, allow all skill levels to be successful. The engaging lessons and exercises teach children important typing skills, including speed and accuracy. |
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| Our Elite Curriculum Kits include all of the materials listed above along with even more bells and whistles such as drafting, a globe puzzle, an atlas, graphic novels, and even The Story of the World on CD! |
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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. We are including three sample Graphic Novels for you, on assorted topics relating to this year's studies. This colorful, engaging approach has been a big hit with eager and reluctant readers 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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While you read historical accounts aloud, your avid artist can color in the detailed figures of ten people who shaped USA history, like Benjamin Franklin, Betsy Ross, Thomas Jefferson, and Paul Revere. A hole-punch and common fasteners allow their arms and legs to move. For the meticulous child who wants to color it exactly right, matching pre-colored action figures are also included. |
This puzzle uses special rugged, curved pieces that assemble into a globe! The 180-Piece Puzzleball is an ideal tool for introducing world geography. This puzzle is bright, colorful, and adorned with animals, so your student will get a kick out of assembling and reassembling it. |
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A one-of-a-kind atlas that acknowledges God as the maker of geographic features, while also examining fascinating information about Christian explorers and history-makers, this is what Christian homeschoolers have longed for. The full-color, visually engaging Children's Atlas of God's World covers culture and traditions, holidays, legal systems, and economic industries, and will be a valued reference tool in your home. |
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Learn basic drafting skills the easy way using these incomplete drawings that need to be finished. Each page shows a small, completed picture in the corner of the page. The balance of the page shows the same image with parts of the lines missing, but with critical intersections and line ends to define the image to be drawn. Designed by a teaching dad for his home-taught son, these "technical art" lessons offer an interesting challenge for children to draw what they see. With no formal teaching, your child will be motivated to take on his first drawings, and he will be rewarded with almost instant success. Contains seventy-eight lessons. |
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 CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3yrs.
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