Excelerate Spanish DVD and activities has been a hit!
the Child’s Story Bible by Catherine Vos, Bible Maps Then and Now with overlays, we use almost weekly. SCM Scripture Memory System, so easy!
LDTRails for Children, love that everything for habit study is there, plus the poems and stories are great and often funny, helping us to really connect and think. Story Starters.
For mom: Gentle Art of Learning by Karen Andreola, and Ruth Beechik’s A Biblical Education. Raising arrows.net for practical encouragement and Sallyclarkson.com for building family legacy/vision. Read for the Heart – book lists.
AiG science, supercharged science, smarter everyday videos.
Math on the Level, so easy to implement short lessons, even teaching kids together at times; once I got over my learning curve! Love 5 review problems a day. Utilize the spreadsheet please:) and the free webinars from author, so refreshing and doable. Paper and cardboard Sloyd.
Picture study portfolios, but wish there were more with landscapes and still lifes.
SW, able to simplify this area and seems more effective. Still like AAS till grade 3, helped my kids learn to read.
AAR readers are the best I’ve found, engaging and funny, not twaddley for early readers, great sketch pictures.
Creating a Masterpiece, but so sad I can’t find on DVD anymore. SCM Learning and Living DVD series.
spreading the feast: My First Lab duoscope microscope kit (need to add light from a desk lamp or led flashlight, but very sturdy), binoculars, The Backyard Birdsong book, Bug Zoo, good art supplies in basket, A Child’s Garden of Verses illustrated by Tasha Tudor, field guides (flowers by color, birds, rocks and minerals, bugs and insects, edible and medicinal plants), rock pick hammer, bug net and containers, flower press.
Less mentioned books:(lit.) Swallows and Amazon’s series, Mistmantle series, Ginger Pye and others, Narnia audio drama, Swiss Family Robinson (book, picture book, old movie, and audio by Jim Weiss), E. Nesbit books
<span style=”line-height: 1.5;”>Trailblazer series (history/missionary), SCM Stories of America and World volumes, and Ancient Egypt and Her Neighbors audio. G.A. Henty audio dramas.</span>
<span style=”line-height: 1.5;”>Bear Wants More series (picture books/early years read alouds), The Complete Brambly Hedge, The Evergreen Wood, Mike Mulligan and More, Wind in the Willows and The House in the Woods illustrated by Inga Moore.</span>
Oops, this became quite long, ha ha! 🙂