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• WRITING Write On: The Kid Friendly, Mother Pleasing Gentle Way to Learn to Write
  
  
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  • Ten tips for teaching writing
    
    
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  • Check out our writing contest. Next deadline is December 5, 2011
    
    
  • WRITING GUIDELINES for Different Ages
    
    
  • More information on the WRITING PROCESS
    
    
  • More ideas for WRITING PROMPTS
    
    
  • Ideas on creating a final WRITTEN PRESENTATION.
    
    
  • Information on the SIX TRAITS OF WRITING
    
    
  • Writing for highschool and college
    
    
  • A simple WRITING RUBRIC to evaluate and score writing
    
    
    • More writing rubrics for grading written papers
      
      
    • Article: How to make your own writing rubrics
    
    
  • Ideas on developing BOOK REPORTS.
    
    
  
  
• Our current homeschool Writing Contest - Persuasive Writing
  
  
  • Character Sketch
    
    
  • Introductions and Conclusions
    
    
  • Writing Historical Dialogues
    
    
  
  
• GRAMMAR Main Page
  
  
  • ORDER page for the Big Bad Grammar Slammer
    
    
  • FEATURES of Grammar Slammer
    
    
  • An English grammar tutorial listing all 37 lessons.
  • Using parts of speech
    
    
  • Diagramming sentences
    
    
  • Definitions of common grammar terms
    
    
  
  
• SPELLING Syllable Savvy Spelling Curriculum
  
  
  • More Information on Syllable Savvy
    
    
  • FREE DOWNLOAD of the Instructor's Guide
    or to ORDER Syllable Savvy Spelling e-books
    
    
  • Information on the THREE COLUMN METHOD
    
    
  • Directions on HOW TO TEACH Syllable Savvy Spelling
    
    
  • Lists the THEMES grade by grade
    
    
  • Samples of 3rd Grade Spelling Lists
    
    
  • Samples of 4th Grade Spelling Lists
    
    
  • Samples of 5th Grade Spelling Lists
    
    
  • Samples of 6th Grade Spelling Lists
    
    
  • Samples of 7th Grade Spelling Lists
    
    
  • Samples of 8th Grade Spelling Lists
    
    
  
  
• LITERATURE Main Page
  
  
  • CHOOSING LITERATURE for your student
    
    
  • List of Our Classics
    
    
  • SHAKESPEARE plays and resources for all ages
    
    
    • Shakespeare Unit Study
      
      
    • Projects for your Shakespeare unit studies
    
    
  • HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL literature.
    
    
  • ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE for different ages.
    
    
  • Ideas on writing BOOK REPORTS
    
    
  • Join the SISTERS IN TIME for a trip through American History.
    
    
  • Depression era literature about sharecroppers in Texas
    
    
  • Creation literature from the time after the flood
    
    
    Older Pages of the Classics List (by grade level)
    
    • The former literature main page - Now retired!
      
      
    • Literature for EARLY READERS in 2nd to 3rd grade.
      
      
    • Literature for JUNIOR READERS in 4th to 6th grade.
      
      
  
  
• EARLY READING Main Page
  
  
  • Erudition: The Sight Word Game
    
    
  • Kindergarten Sight Words & Phonic Families
    
    
  • First Grade Sight Words and Phonic Families
    
    
  • Second Grade Sight Words and Phonic Families
    
    
  • Sight word lists without the phonic families
    
    
  • Phonics vs Sight Words: The Debate
    
    
  • Balanced Literacy: A Balanced Critique
    
    
  • Fun Reading Activities for Early Readers
    
    
  • Activities and Games to Reinforce Phonics
    
    
  • More ideas for games to teach reading
    
    
  • Preschool Handwriting Practice
    
    
  
  
• Overview of The Better Letter Primer HANDWRITING Program.
  
  
  • All the Better Letter Primer downloads on one page
    
    
  • Writing Direction and blank handwriting practice sheets.
    
    
  • Handwriting Worksheets for the 8 Letter groups
    
    
  • Number Formation Handwriting Worksheets
    
    
  • Handwriting Practice Pages to Review All Letters/Numbers
    
    
  • Handwriting Practice Coaching
    
    
  • Kindergarten Handwriting
    
    
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  • Compare Pencil Grips
    
    
  
  
• SCIENCE Main Page
  
  
  
  • Components of a MatchCard Science Unit Study
    
    
    • Light & Energy Unit Study
      
      
    • Weather Unit Study
      
      
    • Force and Motion Unit Study
      
      
    • Geology Unit Study
      
      
    • Oceanography Unit Study
      
      
    • Human Anatomy Unit Study
      
      
    • Hands on resources for human anatomy study.
      
      
    • Chemistry Unit Study
      
      
    • Astronomy Unit Study
      
      
    • Botany Unit Study
      
      
    • Zoology Unit Study
      
      
    • Nutrition, Health, and Safety Unit Study
      
      
    • Instructor's Guide for MatchCard Science
      
      
    
    
  • Cool SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS: Individual experiments from MatchCard Science
    
    
    
    • Translucent, transparent, and obaque objects
      
      
    • Refraction, Reflection, and Absorption of Light Waves
      
      
    • Magnetic Poles
      
      
    • Sound Waves: Frequency and Amplitude
      
      
    • Celsius to Fahrenheit
      
      
    • Freezing, Melting, Evaporation and Condensation
      
      
    • Convection, Conduction, Radiation: Transfer of Heat
      
      
    • Diagram and build an electrical circuit
      
      
    • Test materials to see if they are conductors or insulators
      
      
    • Explore static electricity
      
      
    • Compare amps, volts, and watts
      
      
    • Compare the two forms of nuclear energy: fusion and fission.
      
      
    • Arrange the colors on the light spectrum.
      
      
    • Experiment with a triangular prism
      
      
    • Contrast the different electromagnetic waves
      
      
    • Compare actual and potential kinetic energy.
      
      
    • Changing Seasons in the 2 Hemispheres
      
      
    • Precipitation Experiments
      
      
    • Explore the Water Cycle
      
      
    • Identify wind strength with the Beaufort Scale
      
      
    • Use weather instruments to measure weather conditions
      
      
    • Compare a hurricane and tornado
      
      
    • How to use a pet tornado
      
      
    • Identify cloud types
      
      
    • Atmospheric Pressure and Temperature
      
      
    • Six Simple Machines
      
      
    • Compare mass and weight
      
      
    • Demonstrate effects of friction and inertia
      
      
    • Analyze the effects of gravity
      
      
    • Compare speed, velocity, momentum, and acceleration
      
      
    • Explore Newton's Three Laws of Motion
      
      
    • Compare Newtons, Joules, and Watts
      
      
    • Compare Rocks and Minerals
      
      
    • Learn the Layers of the Earth
      
      
    • Investigate the 4 types of Weathering.
      
      
    • Learn the 3 types of rocks and the rock cycle.
      
      
    • Use the Mohs Hardness Test to identify rocks and minerals.
      
      
    • Mineral identification lab to test the physical properties of minerals.
      
      
    • Identify the five types of mountains.
      
      
    • Erupt a volcano and learn its parts.
      
      
    • Demonstrate the three types of waves in an earthquake.
      
      
    • Find the six major oceans.
      
      
    • Investigate the three major types of ocean creatures.
      
      
    • Explore the ocean floor.
      
      
    • Trace the route water takes from mountain springs to the oean.
      
      
    • Compare different specimens of seaweed.
      
      
    • Learn the three ocean zones.
      
      
    • Compare different types of algae with plants.
      
      
    • From Cells to Systems - Identify how the body parts work together.
      
      
    • Trace the route of food through the digestive system.
      
      
    • Build a tooth model and observe tooth decay.
      
      
    • Listen different parts of the respiratory system.
      
      
    • Trace the route of blood through your heart, lungs, and body.
      
      
    • Identify the major bones of the human skeleton.
      
      
    • Identify four types of joints and two muscles of the human anatomy.
      
      
    • Find what human organs are part of the renal system.
      
      
    • Learn about the nervous system.
      
      
    • Learn the parts of the human eye.
      
      
    • Identify and use the parts of the human ear.
      
      
    • You're covered in it. Get a feel for what your skin can do for you.
      
      
    • Match the hormones to their endocrine glands.
      
      
    • Build a model of an atom.
      
      
    • Make a hydrogen and helium model.
      
      
    • Play a game with carbon, nitrogen, oxygen models.
      
      
    • Learn electron configuration with easy chemistry worksheets.
      
    • Construct molecules with the molecule worksheets.
      
      
    • Construct water molecule models and eat them.
      
      
    • Compare elements, compounds, and mixtures.
      
      
    • Differentiate between chemical and physical changes
      
      
  • Other Science Helps
    
    
    • Science Notebooks
      
      
    • Nature Walks
      
      
    • Science Projects
      
      
  
  
• BIBLE study lessons Main Page
  
  
  • Bible Reading Plans
    
    
  • Of Faith and Knowledge - High school Bible
  
  
  
• ART Main Page
  
  
  • Read about the Art With A Purpose Curriculum
    
    
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  • Order information for Art With A Purpose.
    
    
  • Old page - updated
    
    
  • Here is a list of our art appreciation cards.
    
    
  • Ideas on how to use th art appreciation cards and art appreciation unit studies.
    
    
  • Spot the Differences in the Art Masterpiece Mysteries Series
    
    
  • These coloring pages will produce dazzling designs.
    
    
  
  
• MATH Manipulatives make math fun and understandable.
  
  
  • Activities to Teach Math Skills and information on math stations and using math games.
    
    
    • Teach Addition with Games and Activities
      
      
    • Teach Subtraction with Games and Activities
      
      
    • Multiplication is easier to learn with our multiplication activities and game.
      
      
  • Best Math Games to Buy - Elementary math games to purchase
    
    
    • Egg Carton Math Game - Basic Skills Preschool through 1st/2nd Grade
      
      
    • Moose Track Math Bingo Game - Practice Addition and Subtraction digits 1 - 18
      
      
    • Pizza Fraction Fun Junior - Teach fractions from ages 6 and above
      
      
    • Totally Tut Math Game - A unique game to teach math operations - age 8 to 12.
      
      
  
  
• HOW TO HOMESCHOOL Main Page
  
  
  • Getting started with homeschooling
    
    
  • Consider legal issues and homeschool laws for your state
    
    
  • How to choose curriculum for your family
    
    
  • Compare unit studies and textbook based curriculums
    
    
  • Compare the models of different homeschool unit studies.
    
    
  • The LEARNING TREE - A model for developing your own UNIT STUDIES
    
    
  • What role do computers play in your homeschool curriculum?
    
    
  • How to write EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES and goals
    
    
    • Writing educational objectives for each subject.
      
      
  • Tips on getting organized and staying organized
    
    
  • Tips for Planning Together with the kids
    
    
  • Enjoy your local homeschool convention with these tips
    
    
  • TOT SPOT - Activities for the youngest
    
    
  
  
• COMPUTER SKILLS are essential in the modern market
  
  
  • The best computer course available
    
    
  • Click here for the scope and sequence of COMPUTER SKILLS.
    
    
  • Practicing keyboarding skills
    
    
  
  
• Building SOCIAL SKILLS in your homeschool program - article on social skills activities
  
  
  • Social Skills Worksheets
    
    
  • Free printable download of the social skills worksheets/checklist above
    
    
  • 3 Great Ways to Boost Self Confidence
    
    
  • The Social Advantages of Homeschooling
    
    
  • Assess Social Disadvantages of Homeschooling
    
    
  • The Shy Homeschool Child
    
    
  • The Social Goals of Homeschoolers
    
    
  
  
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