The Reading Lesson

At a Glance Product: The Reading Lesson: Teach Your Child to Read in 20 Easy Lessons By: Michael Levin, M. D. and Charan Langton, M. S. Age Recommendation: 4 years old to 8 years old Use: To teach decoding and phonics skills in order to build a foundation for reading. Homeschool Method: Any Rating: Three out of four golden apples. Recommended for a child just beginning to learn the basics of reading. What is The Reading Lesson? The Reading Lesson: Teach Your Child to Read in 20 Easy Lessons, is a program to use with beginning readers to build a … Continue reading →

My Favorite Curriculum Subject by Subject

Self Confessed Curriculum Junkie I love curriculum. I enjoy seeing the latest items to old classics. I have a true eclectic heart and enjoy all types of curriculum and educational materials from workbooks to living books. I gleam the best each method has to offer and tailor it to the individual needs of my kids. I think I get abnormally excited about educational things. Only homeschool moms rush to a back to school or book sale with pure excitement feeling the victory of saving a dollar. English Curriculum Favorites A Beka Book :: Homeschool: I love Abeka’s phonics and … Continue reading →

3D Sound Literacy: An App Tool to Aid in Reading Curriculum

Product: SoundLiteracy By: 3D Literacy, LLC Format: iPad App Category: Education Cost: $24.99 Focus: A tool to use with your current Orton-Gillingham influenced reading program. Description: Sound Literacy is intended to facilitate interaction between a teacher and student(s). An instructor is needed to demonstrate concepts and skills as well as guide practice sessions with student(s). Sound Literacy can be used in conjunction with any curriculum that emphasizes phonemic awareness, phonological processing, systematic phonetic instruction, or word building with ‘meaningful word parts’. Features: • Blank tiles for counting, ordering, and manipulating the phonemes within words • Tiles organized in pantries and ready … Continue reading →

Favorite App of the Week: Toca Tailor Fairy Tales

Toca Tailor Fairy Tales Cost: FREE Format: iPad, iPhone Description: Design and style your own clothes. Mix and match colors, patterns, and your own patterns you can upload from the built in camera. Chose from two characters and easily adjust sleeve length, pant length, skirt and more with a swipe of your finger. A variety of colors, patterns, and accessories to chose from to keep your child busy for hours. What I Thought… Back in December Toca Tailor Fairy Tales was app of the week. I glossed over it at that time thinking it was just another dress up game. … Continue reading →

Heritage History: Young Readers

Young Readers Published by: Heritage History Homeschool Method: Classical, Charlotte Mason, Eclectic Age Recommendation: 7 and up Synopsis: The Young Readers collection is the introductory unit of the Heritage Classical Curriculum. It is intended for grammar school students who are reading fluently and would benefit from a broad introduction to leading events and characters of Western Civilization. The Young Readers library includes easy-to-read, engaging selections from many of the other libraries in the Heritage History curriculum series. Most of the books in the Young Readers collection are anecdotal rather than comprehensive histories—that is, they provide short stories selected to appeal … Continue reading →

Explore Night Science

Book: Explore Night Science! By: Cindy Blobaum Published by: Nomad Press Homeschool Method: Unit Study, Any Age Recommendation: 6 to 9 Synopsis: Whether living in the country or in the city, kids will be amazed to learn about what happens in the natural world just outside their door after the sun goes down with this guide to the nighttime changes in the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, and the sky, as well as changes that happen in their own bodies at night. By working through step-by-step instructions, the age-appropriate, hands-on activities engage children as young scientists in the investigative process. … Continue reading →

Favorite Find: Master Kitz

Master Kitz is a creative way to teach fine art to children. A new way to spark a love for art with a hands on method that will bring out the artist in your child and perhaps provide you a new painting to hang on the wall. Master Kitz is a unique art kit that contains all the supplies to recreate a masterpiece. In addition, the kit contains a historical overview of the artist who painted the masterpiece along with background on the artistic method. We did an art study on Van Gogh and The Starry Night Master Kitz was … Continue reading →

CurrClick Finds

My Bedtime Learning Book Description: My Bedtime Learning Book is a tool to reinforce basic lessons effortlessly through a child making her own book. The child will draw a picture of herself, her home, and learn to dial her home phone number. Other lessons include shapes, colors, numbers, letters, vowel sounds, time, money, days of the week, months of the year and more. Princess Training: for the King’s Glory Description: Princess Training: for the King’s Glory, is a unit study designed to encourage young girls {7-13}to glorify God through their lives and understand their role as a daughter of the … Continue reading →

Our America: The King Philip’s War Adventure

Book: Our America…. The King Philip’s War Adventure Author. Susan Kilbride Ages: 10 and up (however, it works as a great as a read aloud for younger children) Uses: History reading list or read aloud Homeschool Method: Any Book Description: Finn & Ginny’s parents are lost back in time, and the two young twins have decided to take a second trip back to early America to find them. In The Pilgrim Adventure they had found themselves living on the Mayflower, but this time they get caught up in the horrors of King Philip’s War. The King Philip’s War Adventure is … Continue reading →

Do Homeschoolers Take Physical Eduation?

In a traditional school there is physical education. Some schools have it every day and some a few days a week for about an hour at each session. At some point, phys ed ends in some school and others will incorporate it throughout high school. So what about hoemschoolers? Do we partake in physical education? In some states, one must submit hours and that includes hours for physical education. So what counts? Many homeschool moms joke about counting in hours for running in the backyard trying to catch the dog or painting a room. Let’s just be clear that many … Continue reading →