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.

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.

The perfect starting point for parents who suddenly find themselves homeschooling due to COVID-19 related school closures. Are you new to homeschooling and not sure how to go about teaching your children successfully? Or have you been homeschooling already but need help making sure your children learn the material you cover? In this informative article, veteran home educator and author Joymarie Dunlap shares the secrets that make your teaching job simple, effective and easy. After reading this article, you will find homeschooling easily doable, even as a complete beginner. Filled with first-hand examples from the author’s own experience. First published in The Teaching Home magazine.

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.

These Christ-centered carols in a gentle style with classical style accompaniment make a restful but inspirational background for relaxation amidst the Christmas rush. Give your homeschool a holiday touch with Christmas music in the background during schooltime or as a sing-along with your children. Use this CD with our Christmas penmanship book, A Treasury of Christmas Carols to Trace and Color, to teach your children the carols you love and to draw your family together during the holiday season. Joymarie’s trained voice is soothing, rich, and sweet, and is accompanied by James’s and Joshua’s gentle but exhilarating classical-style harmonies on harp, recorder, flute, oboe, and strings, in a style reminiscent of Baroque composers. James sings baritone harmonies in some of the songs, and the children also sing several of the songs with Joymarie. Our music is very relaxing, yet intricate enough to keep revealing new musical secrets each time you listen to it. This CD includes the following tracks: Jingle Bells O Come, O Come, Emmanuel In the Bleak Midwinter Joy to the World Away in a Manger What Child Is This? Little Drummer Boy Of the Father’s Love Begotten It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Once in Royal David’s City Ding Dong Merrily on High Stille Nacht (Silent Night in German) Un Flambeau (Bring a Torch in French) O Holy Night Angels We Have Heard On High Quotes About This Product I really like your music! It’s so beautiful and subdued…I hope you and your family will continue to create beautiful music. P. Alegria I have been very blessed to discover *Christmas Carols Sweet and Clear by the Dunlap family…. Their voices are fresh and inspiring and the songs they have chosen are among some of the most God-honoring out there. This is a great addition to any family’s music collection. It will certainly be a collector’s item at our house. Lynda Coats Author of Far Above Rubies and How Blessed Is the Man

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.

Joymarie’s 26 character poems contain one Christian character trait in poetry form for each letter of the alphabet, 4 lines per poem. Each of the 26 character poems wisely teaches the moral basis and practical application of each character trait in the context of everyday life. Each poem is accompanied by a matching Bible verse for students to copy as well. Every page is graced by a large, fancy decorated letter reminiscent of “illuminated” Bibles of the Middle Ages. At the end of the character poems (A-Z) is a word search puzzle, followed by 14 pages of New Testament verses that form the foundation of Christian character. Each verse is accompanied by a stained-glass style bookmark to color (more than 14 bookmarks in all), with a colorful Bible memorization page and a crossword puzzle at the very end. We also have a character-building manuscript penmanship practice book for the early grades called A-Z Kind Kids Care. 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.

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 Nativity activity and craft book encourages kids to give back to Jesus on His birthday by helping and loving the needy! It has 11 coloring pages, including 7 of the Nativity story, plus cut & paste and card-making crafts, ready to print. This will keep your kids occupied during your busy holiday preparations. This book also contains 4 pages of recipes for hot drink mixes and a healthy soup mix for gift giving, gingerbread cookies, sugar cookies, and frosting (including how to make natural colored frosting without artificial colors or flavors), plus frosting tips and 6 cookie shapes to cut out. Plus instructions for making mittens and warm neck scarves as Christmas gifts for the needy. This book is adapted from our big book, “A Victorian Christmas”, but does not focus on the Victorian Era or lavish Christmas celebrations. It is written from a biblical perspective, focusing on Jesus’ Birthday. There are 3 thought-provoking stories on the Nativity and Christian giving, and 8 motivating discussions on Christian giving and on living as a Christian. And we include Bible passages on giving, as well. Your children will use this book year after year! You may print copies of this book’s pages for members of your own household as often as you like. In addition, during the Christmas season you may choose 3 pages to share with all of your Christmas guests.

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.

Joymarie’s 26 character poems contain one Christian character trait in poetry form for each letter of the alphabet, 4 lines per poem. Each of the 26 character poems wisely teaches the moral basis and practical application of each character trait in the context of everyday life. Each poem is accompanied by a matching KJV Bible verse for students to copy as well. Every page is graced by a large, fancy decorated letter reminiscent of “illuminated” Bibles of the Middle Ages. At the end of the character poems (A-Z) is a word search puzzle, followed by 14 pages of New Testament (KJV) verses that form the foundation of Christian character. Each verse is accompanied by a stained-glass style bookmark to color (more than 14 bookmarks in all), with a colorful KJV Bible memorization page and a crossword puzzle at the very end. We also have a character-building manuscript penmanship practice book for the early grades called A-Z Kind Kids Care (KJV). 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 Version (KJV) of the Bible. This book is also available with the same verses taken from the New American Standard Bible (NASB).

Bring the whole family together this Christmas season without having to depend on commercialism. Put Christ back in Christmas in enjoyable ways. And get those creative juices flowing with simple activities that bring beautiful results. This multilevel book is a smorgasbord of artistic activities revolving around Christmas—both the Nativity story of the birth of Christ and old-fashioned Victorian Christmas celebrations—for the whole family. In addition to sharing ideas for bringing the family closer at Christmas time, we give you easy arts and crafts in 3 different segments, for grades K-12, 48 pages in all. In the first section we give you Victorian Christmas cards and Nativity Christmas cards in color to embellish with star and snowflake stickers, glitter glue, and craft jewels. (You can take or leave any step you choose in embellishing the cards. Be as frugal or creative as you choose.) These are mixed with ideas for family togetherness, plus 3 hot drink recipes for cold winter days. The second section gives you nativity stained-glass cards to color, art instruction, and the Christmas story from Scripture to go with each nativity card, plus pictures and greetings (mostly with a Christian focus) for kids to paste inside the cards they make. The third section is a mix of artistic endeavors, including ornaments in color to fold, glue and hang, gift labels to color, a wrapping paper sponge stamping craft, Christmas star stained glass designs to color at 5 different age levels, decorated notebooking pages, 3 famous angel paintings with outlines for older kids to color or paint, plus additional angels for kids of any age 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! You can also purchase our Christmas music CD, Christmas Carols, Sweet and Clear (available in our store) for your children to listen to while they do the artwork on these pages, and a Christmas handwriting practice book, A Treasury of Christmas Carols to Trace and Color (in both cursive and manuscript to trace–also available in manuscript only). This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s owner.

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.

This 36 lesson course introduces children in the early elementary grades to fine art with 36 different wholesome and delightful kid-friendly paintings by famous artists. The subjects of these paintings are children and their pets, farm animals, flowers, and birds. The children in the paintings are doing a variety of things, including cuddling their pets, having a tea party, playing in the sand, pretending to doctor patients, and being read to by Grandma. In one painting, a girl is standing next to a very big dog, seeing if she is as tall as he is. With each painting is a single paragraph of simple questions designed to get kids to relate to the paintings and develop their observation skills. All you have to do is to either print out the paintings from your computer or show them to your child on your computer screen, and talk about what is in each painting using our provided questions, and/or choosing questions of your own. This will prepare your young children for the other levels of this course series. Our grades 3 and 4 art appreciation course is also available in our store. It goes a step further by introducing art terms and concepts through similar (but higher level) discussion questions. This course includes the biographies of 4 artists at an early elementary level. It also includes a student worksheet template and 2 painting scavenger hunts (in both color and gray-scale for printing, along with answer keys). 47 usable pages This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s purchaser.

These 2 sheets define the numbering system we use when we provide lines for copy-work and dotted letters to trace in our penmanship publications. You can download it for free and print it out to see what sizes your child is comfortable with at any given time.

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.