Take a visit “down-under” to Australia with this Art & Nature-Science Unit. See photos of eucalyptus trees and try eucalyptus-and-spearmint tea. Discover Australia’s amazing animals, from spring-loaded mammals that can leap 30 feet in one bound to a 24-foot tiger shark. Learn about Australia’s mammals (with almost 50 extant (living) species in the kangaroo family alone), reptiles, and birds, including an incredible large songbird that can imitate not only other bird songs but also musical instruments, human sounds, and machinery. Discover the tiniest babies in the whole mammal world. Then color some of the 30 coloring pages, which come with specific instructions to help kids learn secrets used by professional artists, applied in ways that are simple enough for a 4th or 5th grader to pick up quickly. If you have teens, they will love the very professional high school art lessons using paints and colored pencils. If you have smaller children, we have some coloring pictures that they will enjoy, as well. Take a look at more of the fun and learning in this beautiful nature unit: Click on our links to hear a kookaburra laugh hear a lyrebird imitate the kookaburra laughing, along with many other amazing imitations check the weather and time in Australia take a virtual visit to the Australia Zoo go on a photo tour of Australia’s cities and countryside listen to the Australian national anthem and more! Discover 9 paintings of Australia and learn the art principles each painting demonstrates, just through simple discussion. Find out what Australians eat and do for recreation. Discover a unique Australian fruit. Learn about sheep shearing. Decorate an Aboriginal boomerang. Color a surfer scene and big and little creatures under the sea at the Great Barrier Reef. Pick up on unique Australian sayings. Color stained glass pictures. Visit a sheep station. Write your own Australian animal report using our simple report form. Learn how to convert American measure to metric and Fahrenheit temperatures to Centigrade — and back! Discover Aussie climates with a climate map. Color Australia’s flag while listening to its national anthem. In addition to all of these learning adventures, you can have fun with 7 big word searches, as well as word puzzles, words to unscramble, words to decode backwards, riddles, mazes, dot-to-dots, bookmarks to color, and more. Scripture verses throughout, plus a devotional on hearing God’s still, small voice. **Don’t miss the fun and learning in this packed 80-page Art & Nature-Science Unit on Australian Animals - download and use it today. ** Our penmanship book, "Australian Animals" Cursive Penmanship A-Z, makes a great addition to using this nature unit as a unit study! Originally published as issue #7 of the popular Artistic Nature Magazine, now out of print.

Are you facing tough times in your family or your home school? Do you want to help equip your children to be able to face hardships in their future? This book will help teach your children to take refuge in God as their stronghold in times of trouble. 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. “Thy Word have I hid in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee.” (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 selected from the Psalms (along with Proverbs and 2 of the Old Testament prophets) that show how God is a stronghold to those who trust in Him. Copying these verses and then coloring the pictures, including scenes of castles and stained-glass window patterns, makes Scripture copywork a beautiful experience. Some of the verses to copy come with a question or 2 to answer to help your children focus on the meaning of what they have just copied. Make copying and learning Bible verses a delightful experience for your child! 43 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).

Are you facing tough times in your family or your home school? Do you want to help equip your children to be able to face hardships in their future? This book will help teach your children to take refuge in God as their stronghold in times of trouble. 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. “Thy Word have I hid in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee.” (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 selected from the Psalms (along with Proverbs and 2 of the Old Testament prophets) that show how God is a stronghold to those who trust in Him. Copying these verses and then coloring the pictures, including scenes of castles and stained-glass window patterns, makes Scripture copywork a beautiful experience. Some of the verses to copy come with a question or 2 to answer to help your children focus on the meaning of what they have just copied. Make copying and learning Bible verses a delightful experience for your child! 43 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 Version (KJV) of the Bible.

Beach Math for Preschoolers is a colorful first counting book with beautiful ocean scenes for kids to count colorful coral reef fish, playful dolphins, inquisitive sea birds, and delightful seashells. As children learn each new number, they can use the accompanying worksheets designed for preschool children, even those whose hands are not ready to write. Highly gifted 3-year-olds, early 4’s, and normal 5- to 6-year-olds who are about to start First Grade will all enjoy this book. There are 4 to 6 colorful counting pages for each number (1-10), followed by a coloring page with large numbers to trace, or if the child isn’t ready to trace numbers he or she can color a bush shaped like the correct number. The worksheets that follow include more than one number bush. The child counts the beach creatures and then colors the bush that shows the correct number. Dotted numbers are also available in very large print on each worksheet for practice. Starting with the number 6, there are fewer bushes to color and more numerals to trace and circle, plus several rows of animals to count, with 3 or more numbers to choose between. Kids circle the numeral that goes with the number they counted on each row. This book is the first in a series of colorful preschool books created by Joymarie, with black and white and low-toner-volume worksheets to print out to go with the colorful talk-about activity pages to do with your preschool child on-screen. (See the second book in this series: Backyard Counting for Preschoolers.) This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the purchaser.

This large-print manuscript penmanship book with its richly colored, lavish illustrations focused on the story of Jesus’ birth is a delightful way for kids to practice their handwriting while focusing on Christmas. We created this book as a way to draw the family together during the Christmas season. Our kids loved to make Christmas last, from the first of December to the new year. Why not combine Christmas celebration and handwriting practice as your kids learn the words to multiple verses of favorite Christmas carols by tracing or copying them in manuscript printing? For each of 14 Christmas carols, we provide each verse of each carol in large-size (32-point) dotted manuscript printing cursive to trace, plus the same verse in solid print for kids to copy using the 11 decorated lined pages, in 5 line sizes, at the back of the book. Includes 2 bonus carols in solid print for copying (these do include 2 of the verses each to trace). We also include coloring pages depicting scenes from the story of the birth of Jesus, as well as pictures to color of families celebrating Christmas around the world. You are allowed to print out the pages for all family members in your same household year after year. We suggest putting the finished carol pages in a notebook and using it to sing the Christmas carols, either just as a family or with guests. Let this book be a jump off point to instill in your children a love for singing and a special place in your family schedule for singing Christmas carols every year at Christmas time. You can also purchase our Christmas music CD, Christmas Carols, Sweet and Clear (available on this site), which includes 10 of the carols that are in this book, for your children to listen to while they do the handwriting practice on these pages, or to provide the accompaniment as they sing along with it. The 16 songs included in this book are: O Little Town of Bethlehem What Child is This? Angels We Have Heard on High While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night The First Noel Silent Night Away in a Manger O Come All Ye Faithful Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Joy to the World It Came Upon a Midnight Clear O Holy Night In the Bleak Midwinter Of the Father’s Love Begotten Our coloring pages include many different views of the Nativity scene, manger animals, angels, Jesus blessing the children, Jesus triumphant entry, black folk leaving slavery behind, men and horses working in a barn, the Mexican tradition of Las Posadas, children caroling, children gazing at nativity scenes, magnificent Mount Shasta, and a waterfall scene near Mount Ranier. All coloring pictures are relevant to one or another verses in the Christmas carols. 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.

This multilevel penmanship book with its richly colored, lavish illustrations focused on the story of Jesus’ birth is a delightful way for kids to practice their handwriting while focusing on Christmas. We created this book as a way to draw the family together during the Christmas season. Our kids loved to make Christmas last, from the first of December to the new year. Why not combine Christmas celebration and handwriting practice as your kids learn the words to multiple verses of favorite Christmas carols by tracing or copying them in printing and cursive? For each of 14 Christmas carols, we provide each verse of each carol in dotted manuscript printing and dotted cursive, plus the same verse in solid print and cursive for kids to copy using the 10 decorated lined pages, in 7line sizes, at the back of the book. Includes 2 bonus carols in solid print and cursive for copying only. We also include coloring pages depicting scenes from the story of the birth of Jesus, as well as pictures to color of families celebrating Christmas around the world. You are allowed to print out the pages for all family members in your same household year after year. We suggest putting the finished carol pages in a notebook and using it to sing the Christmas carols, either just as a family or with guests. Let this book be a jump off point to instill in your children a love for singing and a special place in your family schedule for singing Christmas carols every year at Christmas time. You can also purchase our Christmas music CD, Christmas Carols, Sweet and Clear, which includes 10 of the carols that are in this book, for your children to listen to while they do the handwriting practice on these pages, or to provide the accompaniment as they sing along with it. This book is for those of us who still love the old Christmas carols, with their focus on Jesus’ nativity story, and want to pass them on to our children and make them a part of our Christmas traditions. This book is a combination of beautifully illustrated Christmas carols, with all their rich verses, plus coloring pictures to go with each carol. Plus the card shaped color pictures can be decorated and embellished with shiny star stickers, shimmer paint, glitter glue, and other embellishments (as shown in our Christmas card-making book, only these are all on the subject of the nativity story. We also give you a set of 10 decorated copy-work pages in 7 different line sizes.

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 slant print (a transitional writing form between manuscript and cursive, but beautiful in its own right) with an average of about 50 words per page. This book makes great transitional practice for late first through fourth grades in preparation for learning cursive. (These slant-print letters each have elements of manuscript and cursive writing.) It is also great for children of any age who want to learn or practice this style of writing for making fancy cards, notes or other handwritten documents. 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. 59 usable pages. Copy guide line size: 32. (You can download and print our free LightHome Guide Line Size Sheet to see for yourself how big that is.) Please note: this book is also available in manuscript writing: "Birds of North America" Manuscript 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.

Strengthen your children’s appreciation for family life, teach them why they should value it, and help them know how to make it richer with their own contributions. This book contains penmanship copywork about what it means to be a family, from A to Z, with one page for each letter of the alphabet. We share photos of our children growing up in our home and home school, to go with each family value, along with a few pages of photo collages of our family life. We also tell about our family life as an example, although not a perfect one, to make this book more personal. We hope that this will inspire your kids to give themselves wholeheartedly to your family life. We also share paintings by famous artists that illustrate family life. Below each painting we talk about the old-fashioned values that painting inspires, and we make observations about the paintings to help kids develop art sense. These are followed by outlines of the paintings for kids to paint or color, to help their art skills along and add to the enjoyment of this course. Coloring them is not mandatory, of course, but we include them for those artistic-minded kids who will really enjoy them. We try to make each of our books cover more than one school subject. This beautiful book provides inspiration to your children that just might change your family life. 57 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.

Looking for a way to include your preschool child in your homeschool? Small children love to use books and do worksheets like their older school-age siblings! Backyard Counting for Preschoolers is a colorful first counting book that gives little children an enjoyable way to learn to count, using interesting but familiar backyard creatures in colorful settings, and worksheets that don’t require the ability to write, just simple coloring, circling, underlining or scribbling out. For each number, 1 to 10, you get: 4 full-page, full-color counting scenes for your young kids to count the many colorful butterflies, birds, dogs and cats, either on-screen or printed out 5 different kinds of worksheets to print out, with many different familiar backyard creatures to count (such as rabbits, squirrels, songbirds, butterflies, ladybugs, grasshoppers, dragonflies, mice and many others), making a total of over 50 pages of easy-to-assign worksheets! A coloring page with the numeral to color in large outline and that number of objects to color Gifted 3-year-olds and normal 4 and 5-year-olds will enjoy this book. Your preschool child will feel as important as the BIG kids in your homeschool, with these worksheets of their very own. This book is the second in a series of colorful preschool books created by Joymarie, with black and white and low-toner-volume worksheets to print out to go with the colorful talk-about activity pages to do with your preschool child on-screen. (See the first book in this series: Beach Math for Preschoolers.) This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the purchaser.

Take a trip south to the frozen land of Antarctica with this fascinating Art & Nature-Science Unit, which contains over 90 pages full of colorful pictures and information. Discover a whole continent you probably know very little about: Antarctica. Here’s what you can do with this nature unit, either for your pleasure or for your homeschool art and science program: See photos of Antarctica’s incredible scenery Learn about its history from the whaling industry to today’s scientific research stations and booming tourist business Enjoy and discuss paintings of Antarctic sunsets Learn about the world’s lowest recorded temperature, temperatures at the South Pole, and ice 15,000 feet thick Learn what continents and nations are closest to the South Pole Look at photos taken at the South Pole, including the official sign post, and scientists at play Learn about ozone depletion and how it affects the South Pole Follow links to videos for a tour of Antarctica and to experience nature there Discover the creatures that live in Antarctica, including penguins, seals, and whales Get to know about and recognize the 5 main Antarctic penguins, with photos, facts, coloring pages and videos See where different penguin species live on a habitat map of Antarctica Search for the world’s 17 different types of penguins in a fun wordsearch Find a form to fill out to help kids write their own penguin “U-reports” Match real snowflake photos - beware, they are deceptively alike, yet not identical Color some gorgeous snowflake designs - and glitter them to make snowflake ornaments Penguin mazes, bookmark, and a word puzzles activity page Learn about whales that literally sing and dance in the wild, in their watery home - and see videos of whales singing Discover the world’s largest and second largest animals - whales that feed in Antarctica Learn about Orca communication and social lives Read the story of 2 special Orca encounters by the author, with photos and video Follow our family on assignment to photograph Arctic and Antarctic wildlife at Sea World in San Diego Learn about an Antarctic porpoise and an Antarctic dolphin, and color them Discover the world of the albatross, with the largest wingspan of any bird, and color it in breathtaking scenery Find the names of 29 different Antarctic birds Discover 6 different Antarctic seals through photos, stories, and facts, then color them and solve seal mazes Antarctic mammal word search with names of Antarctic seals and whales, plus words to unscramble Use our penguin and seal cutouts for your notebook or reports - or use them as cookie cutters! So get ready to be inspired! Download this book and get started on your Art & Nature-Science Unit on Antarctic Wildlife today! Originally published as issue #10 of the popular Artistic Nature Magazine, now out of print. The editor wrote for The Teaching Home *magazine for 8 years.

Think fish are boring? Think again! We have a feast for your children’s eyes and minds in this Art & Nature-Science Unit on Ocean Fish, with over 80 pages in PDF format. Your kids will discover: giant fish, including the 8-foot long Goliath grouper the 10-foot ocean sunfish, and the 40-foot whale shark flying fish and colorful fish, including butterflyfish angelfish clownfish and more special fish, including pipefish seahorses leafy sea dragons sharks and rays. Your kids will love our photos of the shark tunnel surround-aquarium at Sea World, which our 17- and 20-year-old homeschool grads, Jonathan and Jennaya, and Joymarie, the editor, visited to take photographs for this nature unit, which includes 37 color photos. Your kids can read about our family on assignment and then discover our tips for taking photos in our Photography Workshop column. As always this Art & Nature-Science Unit is packed with art experiences for your children. In addition to our photography workshop, we have included 5 paintings in this issue by famous artists for your kids to learn from and try, using our detailed instructions. We have included 30 beautiful coloring pages, each with instructions and either a photo or a colored example or both to help them develop new art skills as they color. Please note that in addition to all of the other enjoyable, educational features you receive, each of our nature units gives you a quarter year or more of art instruction. This issue also includes: enjoyable poetry a fish quilt patch to color easy drawing lessons that any child can do, with many very different types of fish a fish kaleidoscope picture to color creatively instructions for setting up and caring for a real aquarium famous paintings by Claude Monet, including one with a line drawing of the painting for grades 6 and up to color or paint swimming safety rules a page comparing different sizes of sharks, and instructions for drawing silhouettes of hammerhead sharks. We also include Bible verses, a devotional page, and as always, we include word searches and a variety of word puzzles, dot-to-dots, and other activity pages as well. Plus, a treasure-hunt search throughout the magazine for tiny seahorses adds to the fun. This also comes in a version for 2nd-4th graders so you can include younger children in your unit study. Don’t miss the fun and learning in this packed 88-page nature unit! Download this book and get started on your Art & Nature-Science Unit on Ocean Fish 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 #8 of the popular Artistic Nature Magazine (no longer a magazine). The editor, Joymarie Dunlap, was the leading writer for The Teaching Home magazine for 10 years.

This multilevel penmanship book with its gorgeous paintings by 18 master artists portraying the harvest, majestic scenery, and children delighting in God’s creation, is a delightful way for kids to practice their handwriting while focusing on Thanksgiving. We created this book as a way to draw the family together during Thanksgiving week and throughout the month of November. Why not combine Thanksgiving celebration, music, art appreciation, Bible, and handwriting practice with singing, crafts, coloring pages, new recipes, table decorating ideas, and more? (The coloring pages will keep your kids’ hands busy while you fix Thanksgiving dinner, not to mention looking through this beautiful full-color picture-filled book.) For each of 10 Thanksgiving songs, we provide each verse of each hymn in manuscript print and cursive for kids to copy on the same page or on the 6 decorated lined pages, in 6 line sizes, at the back of the book. Each hymn includes the author and composer or source of the music. Each of the paintings includes notes about the artist and a brief discussion of art concepts related to that painting. Bonus photos of planting and harvest on our own one-acre orchard and gardens demonstrate making the land fruitful by vigorous work, which gives us abundant reason to be thankful. You are allowed to print out the pages for all family members in your same household year after year. We suggest putting the finished pages in a hymn notebook and using it to sing the Thanksgiving songs, either just as a family or with guests. Let this book be a jump off point to instill in your children a love for singing and a special place in your family schedule for singing hymns every year during Thanksgiving week. 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.

Occupy your kids with LOTS of activities including the Thanksgiving story, puzzles, poetry, decorated menus, thankfulness activities, paper dolls and props. Give your kids something fun** and meaningful to do for the entire week of Thanksgiving. This 70-page reproducible, printable Thanksgiving activity book can be used for any child in your household, including guests. It has 10 different kinds of art, based around the Pilgrims’ story: a Pilgrim coloring page Thanksgiving-themed bookmarks to color 6 pages of print-out, cut-and-paste pictures to make Thanksgiving greeting cards decorated menus in color for your kids to write on decorated menus in black-and-white for them to color and write on, a 4-page menu craft with colored leaves to cut and paste to create their own decorated menus, 4 different patchwork quilts to color creatively a drawing lesson showing how to draw a sailing ship like the Mayflower paper dolls and their outfits to color 28 play props to go with the paper dolls, both in color and to color. And if that wasn’t enough, we include The story of the Pilgrims as told by Joymarie Dunlap A section on what life was like in Colonial times A poem for your children to learn to encourage a giving heart Plus a thankfulness word search puzzle, and A word scramble of character traits that make for a better family life None of these activities requires anything more of you than to print them out and provide crayons or colored markers, a pencil, cardboard, scissors and a glue stick. Once you purchase this book, you are free to use it with anyone living in your same household (and we allow you to print out and share any of these activities with your Thanksgiving guests, as long as you are the one printing them out). Best of all, you can download this book immediately, so you don’t have to wait a single day to have it in your kids’ hands. And there are enough art activities in this book to keep your children occupied from now through Thanksgiving and beyond, with enough left over for next year and maybe even the year after that! You can also include these activities as Art in your homeschool during any study of the American Colonial Period. Where else can you get such a wide variety of Thanksgiving art projects for your kids to choose from, so cheaply and conveniently, and yet still be God-honoring and also educational? Don’t miss out on this bargain! Buy now and enjoy happily occupied kids and greater peace as you prepare the big meal. You can chalk up it up as stress relief for a low price. This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s owner.

Wow! Who wouldn’t want a penmanship practice book about a whole menagerie of sea creatures? In addition to 26 interesting, informative pages (A to Z) to copy in cursive, we give your child dot-to-dots, a word search, a crossword puzzle, and a sea diorama to make in a shoebox. We also give your child a coloring page of every creature in this book, and we include a page on oceanography and share the author’s real-life childhood experiences with sea creatures. So you get exciting copy-work and a whole lot more in this low-priced book! On top of that, we allow the purchaser to make unlimited copies year after year for every child living in your household and/or present daily in your homeschool. This book is a real deal. Your kids will beg to do handwriting practice just to read about these exciting, varied, and often unusual creatures of the sea. 69 usable pages. *NOTE: The three-lined guides provided for copying the sentences in cursive are small and intended for older students, grades 4-8. 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.

Young children will enjoy the beautiful illustrations and poetry in this book as well as practicing their penmanship (printing) by tracing dotted letters. We share 58 delightful poems about God’s creation and our relationship with Him as His children. These include 41 original poems by author Joymarie Dunlap on topics that include flowers, sunshine, rainbows, swinging, bubbles, the seashore, snow, birds, singing, family, kindness, and sharing. We have also included 17 poems by other authors on the subject of prayer and thankfulness. Two of those poems are by well known authors Louisa May Alcott and Fanny Crosby, written at age 8. This book also includes 15 Bible verses, and 44 delightful, wholesome, old-fashioned paintings of children and their natural surroundings by famous artists, along with illustrations of things kids love, such as birds, butterflies, animals, fruit, flowers, and toys. This book strengthens children’s spiritual values in a gentle, natural, enjoyable way. And while the trace manuscript penmanship in this book is designed for kids in kindergarten to 3rd grade (pre-cursive), kids as young as 3 and 4 years old will enjoy the poetry and pictures, as will some nature-loving kids ages 9, 10, and 11 as well. (Whether or not you use the penmanship in this book, your children will really enjoy the pictures and poetry.) 69 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.

This beginning penmanship course is created to be your child’s very first introduction to hand printing, with letters introduced in order of difficulty, easiest letters first, upper and lower case, in trace printing. The child traces over each letter in order to learn writing the easy way. We start with super-easy fun mazes that develop the child’s hand coordination. Each maze contains the letter shapes included in the next set of letters. After practicing with letters, your child copies a list of mostly one-syllable animal names (ant, bee, cat, dog, etc.) and goes on to tracing sentences about each animal. Every page is delightfully illustrated and includes a picture of that animal to color on the facing page. To top off the fun format, we also have bees scattered through the pages for your child to find and count. A fantastic resource for new homeschooling moms! 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. Quotes About This Product “A gentle and playful introduction to trace manuscript and penmanship. … The animal themed format is child-friendly and fun, and very non-threatening to the beginner writer.” Kathy Davis homeschoolbuzz.com

Take a trip north to the frozen land of the Arctic Circle with this fascinating Art & Nature-Science Unit. It contains 100 pages full of colorful pictures and information. Discover a place you probably know very little about! In this nature unit, we explain the fascinating world of the Arctic Circle, across the globe from our last nature unit on Antarctica. This time, in addition to a different set of whales and seals, we cover moose, caribou (reindeer), muskoxen, Dall sheep, Arctic foxes, hares, wolves, ground squirrels, ermines, lemmings, lynxes, wolverines, and more. Starting with this nature unit, we have added a lot more photographs and many more links to videos, so your kids can, under your supervision, watch these animals in motion. We are very careful in our choice of videos to avoid anything that might be offensive to Christian families, such as swearing, harsh music, mating, blood and gore, or anything that would upset children or their parents, and no cartoons. We choose only videos that are pure, innocent, uplifting and inspiring, so that you and your family can look forward to enjoying the over 100 videos linked in this issue. In this issue we include videos with beautiful views of the aurora borealis (northern lights) dog sledding real reindeer pulling tourists in sleighs footage about the children of reindeer herders instructions and demonstrations of igloo-making mother and baby animals wolves howling animal rescues baby animals playing in the wild even a real moose trying to play soccer with its antlers! This issue also includes animal tracks: tracks labeled with the animal that makes each one individual tracks on different animal pages a space for your kids to draw the tracks tracks for them to label, and several coloring pages with hidden tracks to find Our coloring pages in this issue include an aurora borealis picture for your kids to color in any color they choose a polar bear family swimming a muskox family huddling together in a blizzard a dogsledding scene a family for loons with the chicks on the mother’s back a pod of white beluga whales and many others 23 coloring pages in all, enough to give you 2 months of art more than twice a week. So get ready to be inspired! Download this book and get started on your Art & Nature-Science Unit on Life in the Arctic Circle today! This was originally published as issue #11 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.

The theme for this unit study is African Safari (Life in the African Savanna). We have a treat for your kids — a nature unit that will excite them. Everyone loves an African safari! This Art & Nature-Science Unit contains over 100 pages full of colorful pictures and information on the African savanna. (African rainforests and deserts will be covered in other nature units.) We share fascinating facts about kids’ favorite safari animals, like the elephant, giraffe, zebra, rhinoceros and lion. We also introduce animals you and your kids have probably never heard of before, such as the caracal, serval, honey badger, lechwe, sitatunga, and aardwolf. We tell your children true stories about encounters with lions in Africa and elsewhere, plus we share a lion Bible verse to memorize that gives a timely warning regarding our spiritual lives. While we have as much factual nature science content as usual, this 100+ page nature unit is packed with more word games than ever before, with over 40 pages that include a variety of word games amidst the factual articles. Some of these games help kids eagerly learn facts that they might never try to learn in any other way. Our pictures for kids to color include wildebeests, zebras, giraffes, lions, cheetahs, caracals, servals, baboons, an aardwolf family, a cute bush baby (lesser galago), birds, and other animals. This issue includes 14 different African antelope (including wildebeests or gnu) and 10 fascinating African birds. There are 2 pictures with watercolor painting instructions, and several silhouette drawing lessons as well to help kids learn to identify and replicate shapes as one of the basic building blocks in their art development. This Art & Nature-Science Unit on Life in the African Savanna will keep your kids out of boredom and mischief for quite a while. So buy this unit study, download it immediately, and let the Safari begin! Our penmanship book, "African Safari" Cursive Penmanship A-Z, makes a great addition to using this nature unit as a unit study! This was originally published as issue #12 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.

Kids love African animals, like lions, elephants, zebras and giraffes! This highly motivating penmanship copy book has all of these animals and much more, including many you have probably never heard of before - 26 African animals in all. This book contains the following features: 26 copy-work pages, one for each letter of the alphabet, with each one featuring a different African animal Low-saturation colored pictures of each animal (requires less color toner, or you can print in black and white) 27 extra lined pages, 5 in color and 22 in black and white, with 4 different line sizes A coloring page each for most of the animals (19 total) PLUS you get 22 additional reward pages: 3 drawing lessons (elephant, lion, giraffe) 6 section review crossword puzzles 4 picture hunt challenges A “What’s Different” picture puzzle A word search puzzle 5 additional word puzzles 2 mazes 94 usable pages. This book, which is part of our Animals of the Continents Penmanship Series, can be used with our African Safari 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 books purchaser.