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Book of Greek Myths - D'Aulaires
-- $19.95
-- For any child fortunate enough to have this generous book...the kings and heroes of ancient legend will remain forever matter-of-fact; the pictures interpret the text literally and are full of detail and witty observation. This children's book about the gods and goddesses, kings and heroes of ancient Greek mythology offers a brief introduction to Zeus, Hera, Hermes and the other gods, and their often frolicsome behavior on Mount Olympus and among mortals on Earth.
Paperback - 192 pages
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Charlotte Mason Companion
-- $19.99 $15.47
-- This book on Charlotte Mason's philosophy by well-known speaker and columnist Karen Andreola provides a wealth of insight, practical advice, and narratives illustrating how the ideas of the famed turn-of-the century educator actually work in "real life". With warmth and humor, Karen weaves together her own stories of the joys and struggles of the educational life and Charlotte high ideals and firmly held principles. Her years of home schooling the Charlotte Mason way are clear and compelling evidence . . .
Children's Homer
-- $9.95 $8.94
-- The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy A retelling of Homer's ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY.
This resource is required for the following titles - The Greenleaf Guide to Famous Men of RomeThe Greenleaf Guide to Famous Men of Greece
Author Willy Pogany
D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths Student Guide
-- $17.95 $15.95
-- Take advantage of the 85 page study guide that fully utilizes the detailed D’Aulaires stories and pictures through drill work, comprehension questions, vocabulary, and activities.
Similar in format to the Famous Men of Rome Study Guide, the Greek Myths Study Guide pares down each of the entertaining and information-rich stories of D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths to the golden nuggets. Thirty lessons present
Important facts to know
Vocabulary
Comprehension . . .
D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths Teacher Guide
-- $17.95 $15.95
-- To be used with the D’Aulaires' Greek Myths Student text. Recommended for grades 3-6.
143 pages, softcover
English For the Thoughtful Child
-- $18.95
-- 2nd - 3rd grade skills. Originally published in 1903, this book uses wonderful pictures to stimulate the child’s imagination and lead him or her into writing. The grammar that is introduced includes those things necessary to the writing task. Memorization assignments, oral compositions, written composition, practice exercises, names of people, writing initials, names of cities and streets, questions, contractions, dictation, has and have, letter writing, titles, comma with quotations, writing addresses . . .
English for the Thoughtful Child 2
-- $18.95
-- Like the first volume, English for the Thoughtful Child , this second volume concentrates on the development of composition skills. It contains picture lessons, oral and written narration exercises, memory work, and copy work. In addition to these lessons, which help build narrative and descriptive skills, this book includes nature lesson, which help build expository written skills. Those families who keep nature notebooks may find these lessons work well with their own nature studies.
Much of . . .
First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind Level 1&2
-- $18.95 $14.74
-- Parents can assure their child's success in language arts with this simple-to-use, scripted guide. First Language Lessons uses picture study, and other classical techniques to develop the child's language ability in those first two all-important years of study.
First Language Lessons is a complete beginning grammar and writing text that covers a wide range of topics including parts of speech, forming complete sentences, beginning writing, storytelling and narration skills.
Author Jessie Wise
Paperback . . .
First Language Lessons Student
Workbook - Level 3
-- $18.95 $14.74
-- This simple-to-use workbook accompanies First Language Lessons for Well-Trained Mind Level 3. Instructions and scripted lessons are included in the accompanying book. This workbook contains only the exercises, including room for dictation, copy-work, diagramming sentences and other activities.
343 perforated, three-hole-punched pages. Softcover.
Author Jessie Wise
First Language Lessons Student
Workbook - Level 4
-- $18.95 $15.74
-- Designed to accompany the First Language lessons, Level 4 core text, this workbook provides complete worksheets for the student, making it possible for busy parents and teachers to spend more time teaching and less time preparing.
The Student Guide is perforated and 3-hole-punched for your convenience.
380 perforated, three-hole-punched pages. Softcover.
Author Jessie Wise
First Language Lessons Teacher - Level 3
-- $29.95 $23.24
-- Level 3 reinforces the grammar and writing concepts introduced in the previous levels. It also introduces new material, including sentence diagramming. Level 3 has two parts: the instructor book and the student workbook. The instructor book has the same simple-to-use, scripted format as the previous levels. The accompanying student workbook makes it easier for busy parents to spend more time teaching, and less time preparing (you don't have to hand-draw any diagram frames!).
First Language Lessons . . .
First Language Lessons Teacher - Level 4
-- $29.95 $23.47
-- First Language Lessons 4 uses classical techniques of memorization, dictation, and narration to develop your child's language ability in the important, foundational years of language study. The text covers a full range of grammar topics, including parts of speech, punctuation, sentence diagrams, and skills in beginning writing and storytelling. Optional end units provide practice in dictionary use a letter writing.
Scripted exercises provide a flexible framework for each lesson. The innovative question-and-answer . . .
Invitation to the Classics
-- $24.99 $19.97
-- It's your guide to those great works of literature that you always meant to read. Full color and engaging, this book is a gateway to the fulfilling pursuit of understanding our culture by exploring its most enduring writings. Use this resource to help direct your junior and high school student to and through excellent reading choices. The first three chapters help to explain why we should read the classics and their importance. Authors from all the ages are discussed along with their most important . . .
Simply Grammar
-- $25.00 $18.57
-- A Revised and Expanded Edition of First Grammar Lessons By: Charlotte MasonThis book brings to bear more of the child’s natural thinking ability than ordinary grammar lessons. For, the student is given the opportunity to create his own sentences, often to tell a story using the large nineteenth-century illustrations. By this method he uses his new understanding of the “sentence” to demonstrate a more thorough knowledge. Simply Grammar can be used to enhance any other grammar program.
Author Charlotte . . .
The Fallacy Detective
-- $22.00
-- "What is a fallacy?" you may ask. A fallacy is an error in logic - a place where someone has made a mistake in his/her thinking.
This book is for fallacy detectives - designed to be a handy text for learning to spot common errors in reasoning. Features include -
a Christian view of logic
self-teaching
written for ages 13 through adult
focus on practical logic skills
exercises with answer key
includes The Fallacy Detective Game
Author Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn
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The Fallacy Detective - Revised
-- $22.00
-- "What is a fallacy?" you may ask. A fallacy is an error in logic - a place where someone has made a mistake in his/her thinking.
This book is for fallacy detectives - designed to be a handy text for learning to spot common errors in reasoning. Features include -
a Christian view of logic
self-teaching
written for ages 13 through adult
focus on practical logic skills
exercises with answer key
includes The Fallacy Detective Game
Author Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn
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The Thinking Toolbox
-- $22.00
-- Thirty-Five Lessons That Will Build Your Reasoning Skills by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn This book is like a toolbox, full of different kinds of tools you can use for different thinking tasks. Just as you use the wrench in a regular tool box to fix the sink, so you can use the tools you are given in this book to solve thinking problems. For ages 12 and up.
Features
Fun to use – not dry like a math textbook
Can be used after or before The Fallacy Detective
Introductory – teaches . . .
The Well-Educated Mind
-- $27.95 $21.94
-- A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had Are you reading the newspaper when you could be reading a book? Have you missed out on, or lost, the enjoyment of great literature?
A few minutes a day, four times a week, will enable you to -
Read challenging novels or complex historical arguments with ease and understanding
Keep a diary of thoughts and reactions to what you have read
Discuss materials with a reading partner
Understand the historical continuities and innovations in . . .
The Well-Trained Mind (revised 10th anniversary edition)
-- $39.95 $28.46
-- Feeling overwhelmed? Not sure where to begin with this crazy idea you have about homeschooling your family? Anxious about what curriculum to pick for English, or Science, or (gulp!) Latin?
The Well-Trained Mind is the perfect book for those just starting out with homeschooling, those who have a few years of experience, or those who have been educating their families for a long time and just need to read some recommendations for working with older students.
Hundreds of thousands of moms and dads . . .
Vocabulary Bridges
-- $24.00
-- As much as 80% of English Vocabulary is derived from Latin and Greek. If we could recognize the Latin and Greek in English, we would understand our own language better. Vocabulary Bridges , by Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn , teaches 50 Latin Prefixes and 60 Latin Roots; 50 Greek Prefixes and 80 Greek Roots. All of the major Prepositions of Latin and Greek are covered. 2,000 English Vocabulary words are examined. Vocabulary Bridges requires your child to research the origins of English words in a dictionary . . .
Writing Tales Level One
Student Workbook
-- $19.95
-- Amy Olsen has produced an awesome home school product that encompasses writing and grammar for 3rd - 5th graders. Level One (for 3rd or 4th graders) has 30 writing lessons, each one five days long, that include lessons on capital letters, punctuation, quotes, both direct and indirect, and all eight parts of speech. Practice is also included in handwriting (with copy work), vocabulary and dictionary skills, and spelling. Plenty of games (can be played with just . . .
Writing Tales Level One
Teacher's Guide
-- $24.95
-- In addition to answers for the Student Workbook, the Writing-Tales Teacher's Guide also contains two sets of specific day-to-day lesson plans for both one-on-one homeschools as well as co-op classes, both of which include discussion questions for the stories that are studied, biographical information about the stories' authors, specific lesson ideas and materials for teaching the grammatical concepts, and grammar games to reinforce the grammar concepts that are taught.
Author Amy Olsen
Softcover . . .
Writing Tales Level Two
Student Workbook
-- $24.95
-- Amy Olsen has produced an awesome home school product that encompasses writing and grammar for 3rd - 5th graders. Level Two (for 4th or 5th graders) has 30 writing lessons, each one five days long, that include lessons on four different kinds of sentences, all eight parts of speech, paragraph definitions in fictional writing, sentence combining, and ten different ways to start sentences. Practice is also included in handwriting (with copy work), vocabulary . . .
Writing Tales Level Two
Teacher’s Guide
-- $32.95
-- In addition to answers for the Student Workbook, the Writing-Tales Teacher's Guide also contains two sets of specific day-to-day lesson plans for both one-on-one homeschools as well as co-op classes both of which include discussion questions for the stories that are studied, biographical information about the stories' authors, specific lesson ideas and materials for teaching the grammatical concepts, and grammar games to reinforce the grammar concepts that are taught.
Softcover, 461 . . .
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