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Five in a Row
Canadian Home Education Resources
When Moms ask what I would have used to teach my 4 to 8 year old, I have to say my favorite unit study is still Five in a Row. A literature based unit study Five in a Row is now being enjoyed by over 50,000 children around the world!
When a group of home school moms get together and the talk turns to Five in a Row, you will hear comments such as “I love Five in a Row!!” and “My kids love Five in a Row!”
If you are new to Five in a Row, let me tell you a little bit about the program. It was developed by Jane Claire Lambert, a home school veteran of 12 years. Each week you read to your child one of the fifty five stories that have won various awards such as Newberry Awards for excellence in literature and Caldecott Awards for excellence in illustrations.
Good literature is a wonderful way to introduce our children to the world around us. Jane Lambert has taken these classic children’s stories and successfully developed unit studies which include art, history, vocabulary, geography, science, character qualities, math, language arts, literature studies, health, and writing. All of these favorite classics used are available through our catalogue service or the library.
Also included are a suggested schedule, weekly planner, maps, and appendix full of helps for each week. The three volumes could be completed in a year if you include the summer weeks, or you could go for a year and a half if you take summer, Christmas and other breaks. You will need to add math and phonics instruction to complete your program.
Five in a Row Website
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A Reason For Science
A Reason For Science® was designed for children, the handwork of an infinite God - young minds created with an unlimited capacity to think, to learn, and to discover!
Because of this emphasis on children and how they learn
A Reason For Science® is based on a different paradigm from the traditional textbook approach. Why? In an effort to address standards and accountability, many of today's science textbooks seem to get learning backwards. They focus primarily on building a knowledge base, assuming students will later attach meaning to memorized facts. The problem is that few elementary students master information presented this way because they simply never become engaged with the material.
A New Paradigm!
By contrast, A Reason For Science® is based on the premise that learning science is an active process. It's something children do, not something done to them.
According to the National Science Education Standards, "... active science learning means shifting emphasis away from teachers presenting information and covering science topics. The perceived need to include all the topics and information... is in direct conflict with the central goal of having students learn scientific knowledge with understanding."
To paraphrase William Butler Yeats, "Teaching is not filling a pail. It's lighting a fire!"
Reason for Science Scope & Seqence
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A Reason for Spelling
Every weekly lesson begins with a story — a contemporary theme story that develops key principles found in that week’s Scripture verse. Daily lessons continue to build on this theme and help make learning to spell FUN! In addition, A Reason For® Spelling encourages regular personal writing activities in a values-based setting. This gives children a meaningful context for focusing on correct spelling.
Incorporates a variety of successful teaching techniques: daily practice, self-correction, visual imaging, detailed student feedback, learning games, the test/study/test sequence, and much more. It also includes special activities in every lesson to help motivate visual, auditory, tactile, and multi-faceted learners.
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Alpha Omega
Christian Publisher, Alpha Omega, developed the award-winning LifePac Gold System for grades K to 12. It is a complete curriculum designed to teach five core subjects - Bible, Language Arts, Math, History & Geography, and Science - plus an array of secondary electives. Each Alpha Omega grade / subject package consists of a year’s work with 10 LifePacs (consumable textbooks / workbook combinations) plus answer keys and test keys. This program encourages mastery learning, develops critical thinking skills & requires parental involvement. Prices indicated are for the complete boxed set.
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Artists' Specials Videos
Closed captioning, All DVD's feature: 3 language versions (French, English, and Spanish), full music soundtracks, histroical notes, production notes, scene access, cast and crew credits, digitaly mastered, and Dolby Digital Stereo. All Artist's Specials DVD's and 3 Inventor's DVD's feature Described Audio Soundtrack for the Blind. Each film is of the highest quality.
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Barry Stebbing
This wonderful art series is designed with a Christian Worldview in which homeschool parents can feel confident as an art instructor. I found them to be a great combination of the fundamentals presented in many art programs that we have used. each well laid out lesson is simple, precise, and can be a daily or weekly exercise. A check list of objectives and a scripture verse or quotation is included in each lesson.
I Can Do All Things, Feed My Sheep and the Book of Many Colors are all three year programs which include paint cards. Permission is given to photocopy, however the extra heavy stock paint cards that are recommended for each child do not photocopy well. Barry says that these three programs are his most popular.
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Basic Math Skills
Content strands are: Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Data Analysis, and Probability.
Each skill is covered in a set of six reproducible pages that includes the following:
* “Fun” Activities-Students practice the skill with dot-to-dots, riddles, mazes, codes, and other game-oriented activities.
* Drill and Practice-These pages contain straightforward practice of the skill.
* Application/Word Problem Activities-Students use the skill to problem solve and explore real-life situations.
Math Test--A test in standardized format is provided for each skill.
A resource section at the end of each book contains the following:
* Timed math tests
* Class record sheet
* Test answer form
* Awards
* Reproducible practice cards for number facts
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Bethlehem Press
Bethlehem Books is a small, home grown publishing company dedicated to restoring to children and families a treasury of wholesome, character-building literature.
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Blokus
The classic board game throughout the world. Thge basic Blokus game is comprised of a square board containing 400 squares, and 84 pieces made up of small squares. Play it with your family or among friends: with Blokus Classic you are guaranteed to have fun moments that challenge you and make you think. When it is played by four people, the game is very animated and the outcome is never certain! Played by two people (where each player has two colours), the game provides the opportunity for more strategic and careful thinking.
The game is very simple to understand and to master and is the best product for beginners and for young players.
An ideal Christmas present.
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Building Thinking Skills
Each level in this series has a wide variety of highly effective figural and verbal activities.
Beginning Level, grades k-2 ability; Level 1, grades 2-4 ability; Level 2, grades 4-7 ability; level 3, grade 7-adult ability.
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Canadian Handwriting
The Canadian Handwriting Series provides daily formal lessons in handwriting. Each letter in the alphabet is taught on a separate page, and ample practice is provided for each letter. Letters with similar strokes are grouped together in sections for ease of mastery. Progress pages appear frequently, and an evaluation is at the end of each book.
Your students learn about Canada as they practice handwriting
Provides thorough drill and practice in handwriting skills
Uses simple stroke sequence for each letter
Teaches self-evaluation techniques for improving handwriting
Increases handwriting speed and reduces mistakes
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Childhood of Famous Americans
One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionaized biographies - easily read by children of eight and up - today's youngster is swept right into history.
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Christian Studies
Teach your child the fundamentals of Bible stories, history, and geography, with solid detail at a manageable pace. Students do not merely skim the surface. They embark on a three-year Bible reading course that builds faith by teaching Salvation History as real history.
Bible Course for Students in 3rd-7th Grades
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Composer's Videos
Emmy Award -Winning series
Each of these one hour inventive films in this collection tells the story of a child's relationship with on eof the world's great composers. Historically inspired yet dealing with contmporary social values, this unique visual music series makes classical music appealing to a visually oriented family audience.
Recommended for ages 7 to 13
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Cranium Crackers
Develops diverse math and math related thinking skills for high achievement in math and all subjects. Includes problem-solving and logic with basic and higher-order operations, number/word patterns and puzzles, inferences, following directions, and more.
Book 1 grades 3-4, Book 2 grades 5-6, Book 3 grades 7-8, Book 4 grades 9-12+.
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D.I.V.E. CDs
DIVE Into Math and Science
Digital Interactive Video Education
"With the Right Tools, Even the Tough Roads Become Fun and Easy!"
Dive Into Math teaches every lesson in each Saxon Math textbook. Although not published by or affiliated with Saxon Math, DIVE CDs offer lectures on CD presented on a computer whiteboard that looks and sounds as though you are attending a lecture in a real classroom.
DIVE lessons are short - 10 to 20 minutes long. Students can easily pause, rewind and fast forward the lesson with a click of the mouse. The student stays actively involved during the entire lesson, as they are either reading along with the instructor, taking notes, solving problems, or rewinding / fast forwarding as necessary.
DIVE Into Math chose Saxon Mathcurriculum because "we believe it is the best curriculum to prepare a student for college entrance exams and college level math. Saxon problem sets and tests contain a variety of problems, which is good preparation for taking tests like the PSAT, SAT, and ACT. We believe the review system implemented by Saxon is very benificial and greatly increases student retention of the material, which will help any student learn math better. Saxon also integrates geometry with Algebra which ensures that the student will never have to stop learning algebra to learn geometry."
DIVE CDs are available on current editions of Saxon Math. DIVE Into Math CDs are also available for older editions of Saxon Math as a special order item.
All DIVE Into Math CDs work on Windows and Mac operating systems.
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Daily Geography Practice
You can teach Geography! Daily Geography Practice contains quick 15-minute lessons that help students become geographically literate.
Daily Geography Practice, based on the 18 US National Geography Standards, provides a quick way to incorporate geography into the school day. Each of the 36 weekly lessons includes:
A teacher resource page:
* statement of the geography standard and skill being addressed
* background information and suggestions for introducing the skill
* geography vocabulary and definitions
* an answer key for the lesson
Maps:
* a full-page reproducible map that illustrates the geography skill
* a transparency of the same map for a teacher-guided lesson
Reproducible question pages:
* two geography questions for each day of the week
* a challenge question at the end of each week
* questions that progress in difficulty from Monday to Friday
Additional Features:
* a reproducible geography glossary for students
* National Geography Standards Six Essential Elements correlated to weekly lessons
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Daily Paragraph Editing
Daily Paragraph Editing provides students with an engaging way to practice mechanics and usage of grade-level language arts skills.
Editing practice focuses on key language arts skills such as:
* capitalization
* punctuation
* spelling
* language usage
Each weekly lesson includes a four-paragraph composition for students to edit and a related writing prompt that generates an authentic writing activity. The content of weekly compositions relates to key grade-level concepts and topics.
The wide range of writing forms includes:
* biographies and character sketches
* science and social studies articles
* book reviews, news articles, and editorials
* historical and realistic fiction, fables, and fantasy
* letters and journal entries, personal narratives
* and more
Scope and sequence charts and an annotated answer key are included in the Reproducible Teacher's Edition.
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Daily Word Problems
Each book in the Daily Word Problems series is formatted as follows:
* There are 36 weekly sections.
* Each week’s problems center on a theme, creating more meaningful and interesting practice.
* Monday through Thursday contain a one- or two-step word problem
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