My Father’s World ~ Vocals by Joymarie Dunlap ~ Arranged by Joshua Dunlap So many churches today neglect the old hymns, but they are so full of important spiritual concepts and teaching about the Christian life! In these music recordings, we present hymns with original and exciting instrumental arrangements. We hope to encourage a new generation of believers to take up their timeless message, one of tender obedience to Christ, delight in His creation, reverence for His Word, and devotion of our all to the Master. Joymarie’s rich, sweet, clear voice is as fresh and beautiful today as it was on tour when she was 16 years old. Her beautiful vocals on these 5 hymns lend a freshness and charm that reflect her love for the old hymns as she cherished them growing up on a mission base in the South Pacific. Joshua’s exciting and inspiring arrangements invigorate her lovely renditions of these familiar hymns. He has provided vivid, bright arrangements that carry the hymns along, making this a fitting album for young and old alike. You can hear a preview of the songs by clicking on the video preview.

Do you love our Art & Nature Science Units, but have children too young to use them? We are now producing a new series with our Art & Nature Science Units (which are back issues of our colorful magazine for kids that is no longer in production) adapted for smaller children (grades 1-3). Now if you plan to use our Ocean Fish nature unit for a multilevel unit study in your homeschool, you can order our regular version for grades 4-8 and our “Little Kids” version for grades 1-3. That means you can do art (3 or more months worth) with grades 1-8 together, and science with grades 1-6 together. If you just give our nature units to your kids for enjoyment (with or without homeschooling), you can give your 1st through 3rd graders their own version of the Ocean Fish nature unit that they can understand and enjoy in addition to giving our regular Ocean Fish nature unit to your children in grades 4-8. (Our nature units are enjoyable to 1st through 8th graders and suitable in art for 4th grade through beyond 8th grade level.) Because recreating our nature units for younger children takes a lot of work, this is the only Art & Nature Science Unit for which we have produced a “Little Kids” version so far.

Illustrated with beautiful full-color graphics, photos, and paintings by famous artists, this Art & Nature Science Unit on America the Beautiful, which was the third issue of Artistic Nature Magazine, includes the following features: Nature-Science Articles Raccoons, moose, deer, squirrels, chipmunks, pikas, prairie dogs, bighorn sheep, bison, elk, bears, caribou American Natural Wonders Niagara Falls, Estes Park, Rocky Mountains, Petrified Forest, Grand Canyon, Giant Sequoias, Yosemite, Hawaiian Islands US Regions Eastern, Southern, Midwest, Rockies, Desert, West Coast, Northeast, Alaska, and Hawaii Historic Places Greenfield Village, Washington DC Zoo, Smithsonian Institute, Arch of Saint Louis underground wagon train museum (Museum of Westward Expansion) History What life was like in a wagon train, Oregon Trail map, wagon train coloring page Activities to Do July Fourth parade, Uncle Sam card to make, How to make a doll-size “covered” wagon, recycling, reusing and living green, Hawaiian fruit salad to make, deer at sunset bookmark to cut and paste Art Lessons How to paint a tassel-eared squirrel silhouette with sunset background, elk painting for kids to draw and paint (with art instructions). Coloring Pages Most of our coloring pages also have art instructions to teach kids how to become better artists. Coloring pages include a seashore picture, a moose in a lake, mother deer and 2 fawns, a wagon train picture, bighorn sheep in the mountains of Colorado, a scene from the Sonoran Desert, giant trees in California, elk in Alaska, and more! Stories Kit Goes West - Grand Canyon, Joymarie’s story of her childhood travels to 20 states Artist Masterpieces Featured artist Albert Bierstadt, painter of American scenery: 14 of his majestic paintings, plus 3 paintings of American scenery by 3 other artists Poetry Four original poems by Joymarie Dunlap: “America the Beautiful” “Precious Gifts from Thee” “I’d Rather Have Contentment” “Sunshine Poem” Spiritual Focus Psalms about nature; Contentment; Being good stewards of our land (includes the teaching of Jesus) Our Family and Home School Outdoor family photo collage, our July Fourth parade and celebration, our family park photos Fun Puzzle and Activity Pages Change-a-Word puzzles, word scramble, Find the Animal Tracks, Animal word search, and more You can add in books, videos, other library materials or any other activity you choose! One of the advantages of using this book is that you can print out any page the day it is used, and when your child is through with that page, it can be put into a notebook that becomes a record of what that child has learned and done. Your children can then decorate the pages and add pages from other sources you or they choose as the unit study progresses. So download this book and get started on your Art & Nature Science Unit on America the Beautiful today!

This fascinating book has paragraphs about 26 very unusual, little-known mammals, A to Z, to copy in cursive, with all 26 animals pictured. Also includes pictures to color of more than half of the animals in their natural surroundings. No more boring penmanship! Have you ever heard of an addax? What about a capybara, fennec, ibex, kinkajou, or numbat? How about an okapi, pangolin, quokka, or saiga? Or what about an uakari or a zorille? If you haven’t heard of these strange and unusual animals, you will really enjoy our Animals You Never Heard Of penmanship series, which starts with this book. Kids will love getting to know these unusual animals. Each page includes text in cursive, copywork lines, plus word puzzles added as a bonus for when the copywork is done. We also give you 2 colorfully decorated extra copywork pages in 2 line sizes, plus a word search that includes all 26 unusual mammals. Your kids will also be inspired by the fact that some of the illustrations are by family artists educated at home. This book was inspired by the extensive research of our homeschooled middle son, Judah. This book is the first in a series of 12 books of unusual animals, A to Z, which will include little-known mammals, birds, sea creatures, and reptiles and amphibians. The professional handwriting font set used in our penmanship books is used by public schools across the U.S. This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s purchaser.

Most boys are enthralled with things that crawl along the ground. Here is a whole cursive penmanship book chock full of these creatures to motivate your kids to learn and practice their cursive handwriting every day! (Most girls are more motivated by our cursive penmanship book full of flowers and butterflies: An Elegant Floral Alphabet!) This beautifully illustrated, kid-friendly reproducible workbook is designed to be your child’s first cursive writing course, with letters to trace in order of difficulty, then 26 pages (A to Z) of animals kids in grades 2-4 love, one page per animal, with sentences to trace and copy (both traceable letters and lines on which to copy are provided on each page). All practice pages are beautifully illustrated, plus more than half of the animals include an additional coloring page, so you can combine handwriting with art. The animals represented are familiar to and loved by children of North America (and highly interesting to those of other continents). Fifty (50) usable pages of beginning cursive practice that will interest and motivate your children to do their best handwriting. The professional handwriting font set used in our penmanship books is used by public schools across the U.S. This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s owner.

With everything from robins and cardinals to vireos and loons, this book graced with illustrations in color introduces your child to common North American birds through copy-work in manuscript printing with an average of about 50 words per page. This book makes great printing practice for late first through third grades. It is also great remedial handwriting practice for older kids (grades 4-6) who are computer spoiled and need to spruce up their printing ability. After all, adults fill out forms all the time in printing by hand. So if your older child is losing his printing skills, or could use work on neatness, this book is also great for your family. Buy this book once, and you can use it for any member of your immediate household indefinitely. That means you can use it for any of your children now or in the future. We give you a different bird for each letter of the alphabet with an illustration of each bird in color. Plus we give you a coloring page for your child to color for each and every bird in this book. These can be used as part of a notebook or simply as reward pages for a job well done. We also give your child fun puzzles pertaining to the birds found in this book. Your kids can even use this book as a beginning field guide to 26 North American birds. Please note: This book is also available in slantprint (transitional) writing: "Birds of North America" Slant Print Penmanship A-Z. The professional handwriting font set used in our penmanship books is used by public schools across the U.S. This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s purchaser.

Experience what it was like to travel west in a wagon train. Practice all the cursive letters in the alphabet with this exciting unit study in a penmanship book. Copy-work pages tell about different aspects of life in a wagon train on the way to Oregon or California, exploring the hardships, meals, kids’ daily chores, challenges, recreation, and much more. We have pioneered a new concept in penmanship, our A-Z History Unit Study Penmanship Series, which includes well researched history content, along with ideas and activities to help make history come alive for your children. This book includes: 5 recipes for an authentic wagon train meal a map of the Oregon and California Trails a supplies word search puzzle 3 pioneer paper dolls and extra costumes pioneer crafts to make activity ideas for your family to enjoy, either as a family or with your homeschool support group (ideas for both contexts are provided) illustrations on every page that reflect the time period and show what life was like 8 paintings of life on the trail by artists of the period, one of which has an outline line drawing for your children to use in order to try their hand at copying the painting 8 additional coloring pages of scenes from the Trail, from beginning to end 54 usable pages of highly interesting penmanship and activities! Other titles in our A-Z History Unit Study Penmanship Series include: A-Z Family Life in Colonial Times Other titles coming soon! The professional handwriting font set used in our penmanship books is used by public schools across the U.S. This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s purchaser.

Do you want to equip your children to be useful in God’s Kingdom? This book will help teach your children the importance of being useful to God (bearing fruit) as emphasized by Jesus Himself in His teachings. Our Artistic Bible Copywork series combines Bible verses, penmanship copywork, and art. Our goal with this series is to familiarize kids with the Scriptures in an enjoyable context. Through careful use of the books in this series, you can even help your children keep these Bible passages in their hearts, entrusted to their memory. “Your word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against You.” (One way to do this is to have them do the same copy page several days in a row, while saying the verse together as a family to learn it by heart.) It is so vitally important for our children to know the Bible and its teachings. This book presents children with verses in the New American Standard Bible (NASB) version selected from all 4 Gospels that show how God requires those who repent and trust in Him to bear fruit in keeping with their repentance. Copying these verses, doing the activities and coloring the many pictures of fruit that adorn these pages makes Scripture copywork a beautiful experience. Some of the verses to copy come with a question or 2 to answer, helping your children focus on the meaning of what they have just copied. This book includes: 46 Gospel verses to copy on the topic of Bearing Fruit 12 mystery verses for kids to figure out by word clues and fill in (in cursive) 7 crossword puzzles for review 4 high-quality realistic coloring pages 3 decorated verse posters to color 2 word search puzzles including the Fruits of the Spirit and another mystery verse in word search form 14 extra lined pages in different line sizes (4 decorated with color pictures and 10 with pictures in grayscale) Make copying and learning Bible verses a delightful experience for your child! 63 usable pages The professional handwriting font set used in our penmanship books is used by public schools across the U.S. This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s purchaser.

Come back in time with us to the Colonial days and see what life was like for non-wealthy Colonial families. Discover a world without TV, radio, electricity, flush toilets, or central heating. Copy cursive text and do our suggested activities to experience a world that revolves around nature, growing things, hard work, rural living, and simple pleasures. We have pioneered a new concept in penmanship, with our A-Z History Unit Study Penmanship Series, which includes well-researched history content along with ideas and activities to help make history come alive for your children. 41 usable pages of highly interesting penmanship and Colonial activities, including: 5 recipes for an authentic Colonial meal, a Colonial paper doll with costumes, Colonial crafts to make, plus activity ideas for your family to enjoy, either as a family or with your homeschool support group. (Ideas for both contexts are provided.) The professional handwriting font set used in our penmanship books is used by public schools across the U.S. This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s owner.

Children learn to focus on loving and helping each other when they copy what the Bible says about love and answer questions about what the Bible verses mean. A Treasury of Bible Verses on Love is part of our Artistic Bible Copywork series, which combines Bible verses, penmanship copywork, and art. Our goal with this series is to familiarize kids with the Scriptures in an enjoyable context. Through careful use of the books in this series, you can even help your children keep these Bible passages in their hearts, entrusted to their memory, helping to fulfill Psalm 119:11: “Your word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against You.” (One way to do this is to have them do the same copy page several days in a row, while saying the verse together as a family to learn it by heart.) It is so vitally important for our children to know the Bible and the love that it inspires in us. In this book we have chosen 78 verses from the King James Version (KJV) of the Holy Scriptures about what love is and the importance of Christian love, put them in a true cursive font, and added stained glass designs to color, so that each page feels like the making of a masterpiece your child (or teen) can feel proud of creating. This makes Scripture copywork a beautiful experience. Each Bible passage to copy comes with a question or two to help your children focus on the meaning of the verse(s) they have just copied. In addition, this book includes 12 beautiful Scripture posters to color and put up on your bulletin board or your child’s bedroom wall. Make copying Bible verses a delightful experience for your child! 65 usable pages The professional handwriting font set used in our penmanship books is used by public schools across the U.S. This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s purchaser. Please note: The verses in this book are taken from the King James (Authorized) Version (KJV) of the Bible. This book is also available with the same verses taken from the New American Standard Bible (NASB).

Children learn to focus on loving and helping each other when they copy what the Bible says about love and answer questions about what the Bible verses mean. A Treasury of Bible Verses on Love is part of our Artistic Bible Copywork series, which combines Bible verses, penmanship copywork, and art. Our goal with this series is to familiarize kids with the Scriptures in an enjoyable context. Through careful use of the books in this series, you can even help your children keep these Bible passages in their hearts, entrusted to their memory, helping to fulfill Psalm 119:11: “Your word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against You.” (One way to do this is to have them do the same copy page several days in a row, while saying the verse together as a family to learn it by heart.) It is so vitally important for our children to know the Bible and the love that it inspires in us. In this book we have chosen 78 verses from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) version of the Holy Scriptures about what love is and the importance of Christian love, put them in a true cursive font, and added stained glass designs to color, so that each page feels like the making of a masterpiece your child (or teen) can feel proud of creating. This makes Scripture copywork a beautiful experience. Each Bible passage to copy comes with a question or two to help your children focus on the meaning of the verse(s) they have just copied. In addition, this book includes 12 beautiful Scripture posters to color and put up on your bulletin board or your child’s bedroom wall. Make copying Bible verses a delightful experience for your child! 68 usable pages The professional handwriting font set used in our penmanship books is used by public schools across the U.S. This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s purchaser. Please note: The verses in this book are taken from the New American Standard Bible (NASB). This book is also available with the same verses taken from the King James (Authorized) Version (KJV).

We have made handwriting practice delightful by creating beautifully illustrated pages in color with gorgeous flowers and fancy letters on each page, one for each letter of the alphabet. When your daughter (or son—many boys like this book, too!) traces or copies each sentence about yet another girl name and flower, she is taking part in completing a work of art, not just doing copy work. That makes handwriting pure delight. We start by teaching the cursive letters with dotted lines to trace, introduced in order of difficulty (the easy ones first). Throughout the book, each exercise appears in dotted letters to trace as well as in solid letters with blank lines to copy on. We also give you beautiful coloring pages to go with more than half of the exercises. You can use these as reward pages, or simply as art to go with handwriting. Plus we give you Bible verse posters, extra copy-work pages in color to use as you choose, and a flower word search puzzle at the end. Each page has a word scramble or other word game to add to the fun. Your daughter will love this book! (Many boys will be more motivated by our cursive penmanship book full of creatures that move along the ground, “Crawly Critters” Cursive Penmanship A-Z.) Sixty-three (63) usable pages of beginning cursive practice that will interest and motivate your children to do their best handwriting. The professional handwriting font set used in our penmanship books is used by public schools across the U.S. This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s owner.

Kids are fascinated to learn about the unique and unusual animals of Australia, like the kangaroo, koala, platypus and wombat! This highly motivating penmanship copy book has all of these animals and much more, including many you have probably never heard of before - 26 Australian animals in all (marsupials, 2 different egg-laying mammals, flying mammals, flightless birds and more), all of them highly interesting! This book contains the following features: 3 pages of cursive letter practice (tracing and copying) 26 copy-work pages, one for each letter of the alphabet, with each one featuring a different Australian animal Low-saturation colored pictures of most animals (requires less color toner, or you can print in black and white) 4 extra lined pages, each with a different line size A coloring page each for most of the animals (19 total) PLUS you get 10 additional reward pages: 2 word search puzzles 6 additional word game pages A picture hunt challenge A maze for younger children 64 usable pages. This book, which is part of our Animals of the Continents Penmanship Series, can be used with our Australian Animals Nature Unit if desired, or it can be used alone. The professional handwriting font set used in our penmanship books is used by public schools across the U.S. This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s purchaser.

Children Love A Trip to the Zoo! Your child will love copying text about favorite zoo animals and other zoo features in this Slant Print copy-work book, with an average of about 30 words per page. Here’s what you get in this book: 4 zoo-animal mazes to help your young child develop writing readiness 3 alphabet practice pages to help your child learn and practice the individual lower-case and upper-case letters 26 illustrated copy-work pages, A to Z, with a different zoo animal or feature for each letter of the alphabet to give your child practice in writing all of the letters in a sentence context, with special emphasis on that letter of the alphabet in the text 27 simple, good-quality zoo-animal coloring pages to use as Art and/or as reward pages for a job well done and/or as part of a notebook for a unit study on animals or zoos This book makes great transitional handwriting practice for late first through third grades before going on to cursive handwriting. It is also a great fancy handwriting practice for older kids (grades 4-6) who can perfect this simple style of fancy lettering to use on anything that requires it. Buy this book once, and you can use it for any member of your immediate household indefinitely. That means you can use it for both a younger child who has already learned to print but has not yet learned cursive and for an older child who wants to learn and practice this fancy handwriting style. 60 usable pages. Please note: This book is also available in manuscript print writing: “A Trip to the Zoo” Manuscript Penmanship. The professional handwriting font set used in our penmanship books is used by public schools across the U.S. This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s purchaser. (Slant Print is a writing format that transitions from manuscript to cursive. It is quite beautiful and can be used for fancy writing on cards or gift labels, as well as for helping your child to make the transition from manuscript to cursive handwriting.)

What is there to do to give your kids a God-honoring Easter celebration that isn’t about chocolate eggs and Easter bunnies? We have a great solution. Your kids will enjoy making Easter cards with our 60-page book of God-honoring card-making ideas and materials for making cards (in case all you have the time and money to buy are glue and scissors). We share ideas for jeweled crosses, stained-glass tissue sun-catcher crosses, and brown construction-paper crosses decorated with flower photos cut out from bulb and seed catalogs. This book is bursting with gorgeous, colorful illustrations and key art instructions that are sure to make your children’s cardmaking succeed! We also provide your kids with card fronts, as well as greetings and pictures to glue inside their cards. We give instructions and examples for making bookmarks, too, as well as serious devtionals, and the words for 2 different children’s hymns about Jesus and the Easter story. This beautiful book contains all of these features: A stained-glass picture of Jesus to color & make into a card 5 famous paintings that tell the Easter story 4 devotionals about Jesus’ suffering and death 2 hymns to sing at Easter; one tells the story 7 examples of how to decorate foam crosses with foam shapes, craft jewels and buttons Sunrise dove card example for you to make Bible verses to cut & paste in your cards 8 decorated cross card examples with art instruction Cross card and heart patterns Flowers to print, cut, and paste on your cross cards 1 fancy cross card for experienced crafters to make Tissue paper stained glass cross card example 18 full-color devotional card fronts to print out 8 examples to help you make the inside of the card with correlated teaching of the art principles involved 3 bookmark examples that you can make 1 four piece full color window card for you to make 70 color illustrations to print and paste in your cards 7 greetings in color to paste in your cards 4 additional card fronts for you to color 22 B&W pictures for you to color & paste in your cards 14 B&W greetings to trace in color & paste in your cards 3 notebooking pages to print out and write on One B&W bookmark for you to color So much to choose from! But the best part is that you can reuse this book as many times as you like within the same household, year after year. This book will be a blessing to your family! Why not use this book to draw your children’s attention back to Jesus at Easter time? This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s purchaser.

Your students can have fun solving puzzles while practicing their cursive capital letters by copying the names of all the countries around the world in alphabetical order. Each page of this book represents a letter of the alphabet and includes a fancy letter, games and puzzles, country names that start with that letter of the alphabet to copy in cursive, and a Mystery Flag. The Mystery Flags are real flags for kids to color, with coloring instructions, belonging to a country that is listed on that page — but which one? Kids can use the Internet or encyclopedia to discover the country each flag represents. In this book we also include an account of our home school “Trip Around the World” unit study with photos, plus a page of facts of extremes from around the world (tallest mountain, highest waterfall, largest river, etc.). We top it all off with 2 word searches of countries around the world. Includes a colorful answer key to the Mystery Flags and puzzles. 40 pages packed with challenging fun! Faith-based The professional handwriting font set used in our penmanship books is used by public schools across the U.S. This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s purchaser. Quotes About This Product “In a word, this product is delightful!.. It is useful, creative, simple, and helpful. The graphics are absolutely wonderful, and the pages are beautifully designed. This is the perfect supplement for a geography course, and I started assigning these pages right away as part of my children’s geography (3rd and 8th grade). It is also just a great penmanship book on its own… This is one of the finest quality products I have seen, and I am thrilled to have made the discovery!” Camilla Anderson The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, LLC October 2007 “Here is a great way for kids to brush up on their cursive writing and do geography at the same time. This 40-page e-book provides children the opportunity to practice their cursive letters while giving you some great ideas and starters for doing your own world unit study. … You could … locate the countries on a map, study the culture, try some of the regional cuisine, make a craft, etc. The possibilities are numerous. This book offers so much more than just cursive practice … ideal for those who like world geography and enjoy combining research with writing practice.” Kathy Davis homeschoolbuzz.com

The theme for this unit study is Animal Homes. This Artistic Nature-Science Unit Study, with 70 pages published in PDF format, covers the unique homes of over 30 different creatures, including beavers, prairie dogs, badgers, chipmunks, crabs, flying squirrels, muskrats, tree frogs, birds, and more: Follow moles and rabbits underground and see inside their burrows. Find out why bats sleep upside down. Discover a prairie dog town. Find out how squirrels build their nests. Find out about frogs that live out their entire life cycle 200 feet up in the jungle tree tops. That’s the science side of this Artistic Nature-Science Unit Study. But half (about every second page) of this unit study is also about art: Learn valuable art principles while coloring beautiful, high-quality pictures of sea shells coral puffins flying squirrels gliding across the night sky beaver dams a nature kaleidoscope. Design your own tortoise shell or seashell. Paint a silhouette of an animal at sunset. We also provide a report form so your kids can write reports on animal homes, plus word search puzzles, mazes, dot-to-dots, hidden animal tracks, and more. So get ready to be inspired! Download this book and get started on your Art & Nature-Science Unit on Animal Homes today! And don’t forget to tell your friends that it costs so little for so much fun and educational value! This was originally published as issue #6 of the popular Artistic Nature Magazine, no longer produced as a magazine. The editor, Joymarie Dunlap, was the leading writer for The Teaching Home magazine for 10 years. She homeschooled her 5 kids from preschool to high school graduation. After The Teaching Home stopped publishing in 2001, she founded LightHome Publications and has created over 70 books for homeschoolers.

Take a safe visit to the Deserts of North America with this Art & Nature-Science Unit. Explore the 4 main North American Deserts in this informative nature unit of over 80 pages, with 30 fascinating articles, 5 stories to learn from and enjoy, 8 pages of desert history and geography, 8 paintings to talk about and learn from (with instructions for your older child to recreate), and 30 different coloring pages with art instruction to help your student learn and grow as an artist. These beautiful coloring pages include desert animals, birds, and plants, along with covered wagons, a cowboy, a Navajo woman on horseback and Pueblo villages. We also give you 2 decorated Scripture pages, one from the Psalms and the other with the teaching of Jesus, and a story about Elijah in the wilderness. This nature unit includes 4 desert math assignments at different grade levels 4 articles on desert safety 5 articles that include discussions of Creation and the Biblical Flood a music listening article with a link to the Grand Canyon Suite, and other Web links to sites that you can learn from and even print out worksheets from (to add to the 80-plus pages of this nature unit, all on the topic of deserts). We also give your kids 4 additional art experiences, including drawing and painting instruction, and tips for better photography. In addition to all this, you get 4 word-search puzzles 4 pages of animal tracks to search for a hidden pictures page a desert fun page many additional word puzzles You also get 58 color photos, including photos of our homeschool experiences and a 2-page spread of photos of our family on assignment doing photography for this issue at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert, California. So get ready to be inspired! Download this book and get started on your Art & Nature-Science Unit on North American Deserts today! And don’t forget to tell your friends that it costs so little for so much fun and educational value! This was originally published as issue #5 of the popular Artistic Nature Magazine, now out of print. The editor, Joymarie Dunlap, was the leading writer for The Teaching Home magazine for 10 years. She homeschooled her 5 kids from preschool to high school graduation. After The Teaching Home stopped publishing in 2001, she founded LightHome Publications and has created over 70 books for homeschoolers.

Come visit the fascinating world of lovable Sea Mammals in this Art & Nature-Science Unit. It contains 76 pages of delightful pictures, poems, articles, and art lessons about dolphins, porpoises, whales, and seals—from the up-to-110 foot blue whale that can hold an entire football team on its tongue, to the cute little 5 foot long ringed seal that can dive down 1,640 feet deep. We have included fun tables for your kids to compare the sizes of whales, speeds and leap heights of dolphins, and deep diving records of seals. Your kids will read about dolphin intelligence, whale watching, and our editor’s experiences petting a baby killer whale. They will learn about pinnipeds and cetaceans, including deep ocean cachalot whales, singing humpback whales and a man who composes cello music to go with their songs, delightful white beluga whales, and even a little whale with a long horn reminiscent of unicorns! They will learn about 3-ton (6,000-pound) elephant seals, trick-performing sea lions, cute little furry harp seals, and walruses feeling their way around in the dark depths of the Arctic Ocean, eating over 6,000 mollusks from the ocean bottom each day. How are they able to dive down so far and stay down so long without running out of breath? At each turn we share with your kids the understanding that these incredible feats of nature can only happen through design by an intelligent Creator, God. In this issue we have included more than 20 coloring pages, beautifully done, in most cases with our colored picture examples for your kids to learn from. They will definitely improve their art abilities as they learn about color gradations, as the light aqua water at the ocean’s surface fades gradually into darker shades of turquoise and darker and darker blues. We show them how to portray the ocean’s sunshine surface as a sea mammal looks upward from beneath the water. And they’ll learn about reflecting sunset skies in the water, too. This issue contains more than a dozen paintings of the sea (including sailboats) by famous artists for your kids to enjoy, discuss, and in some cases seek to replicate, in order to learn the simple art principles that they convey. We feature artist Winslow Homer and discuss how he creates cheerful or anxious moods depending on the colors he uses. And we share our own family drawings of dugongs, beluga whales and seals (drawn by our kids at ages 13 and 15). Best of all, we give you an exciting 2-page article about archaeological discoveries that may confirm the crossing of the Red Sea by Moses and the Children of Israel by God’s incredible miracles. So get ready to be inspired! Download and get started on your Art & Nature-Science Unit on Sea Mammals today! Originally published as issue #4 of the popular Artistic Nature Magazine (no longer a magazine). The editor, Joymarie Dunlap, was a leading writer for The Teaching Home magazine for 10 years.

Children Love A Trip to the Zoo! Your child will love copying text about favorite zoo animals and other zoo features in this manuscript copy-work book, with an average of about 30 words per page. Here’s what you get in this book: 4 zoo-animal mazes to help your young child develop writing readiness 3 alphabet practice pages to help your child learn and practice the individual lower-case and upper-case letters 26 illustrated copy-work pages, A to Z, with a different zoo animal or feature for each letter of the alphabet to give your child practice in writing all of the letters in a sentence context, with special emphasis on that letter of the alphabet in the text 27 simple, good-quality zoo-animal coloring pages to use as Art and/or as reward pages for a job well done and/or as part of a notebook for a unit study on animals or zoos This book makes great printing practice for first through third grades. It is also great handwriting practice for older kids (grades 4-6) who are computer spoiled and need to spruce up their printing ability. After all, adults fill out forms all the time in printing by hand. So if your older child is losing his printing skills, or could use work on neatness, this book is also great for your family. Buy this book once, and you can use it for any member of your immediate household indefinitely. That means you can use it for both a younger child who has just learned to print and for an older child who needs more practice in neatness. 60 usable pages. Please note: This book is also available in slant print (transitional to cursive) writing: ***“A Trip to the Zoo” Slant Print Penmanship***. The professional handwriting font set used in our penmanship books is used by public schools across the U.S. This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s purchaser.