Illustrated with beautiful full-color graphics, photos, and paintings by famous artists, this Art & Nature Science Unit on Organic Gardening, which was the premier issue of Artistic Nature Magazine, includes the following features: Nature Articles Water, soil, bees and pollination, orcharding, successful vegetable gardening, 4 basic plant needs, kitchen composting, little kids’ worm compost project, At-a-Glance Gardening, warm and cold weather crops, chill hours for fruit trees, soil pH, sunlight requirements, beneficial insects, bats and toads, weed math Our Family and Home School Gardening, orcharding, plant experimentation, and old-fashioned values Poems (with originals by Joy Marie Dunlap) Sunflower, Planting Little Trees, What Plant Part I’m Eating, Foods under the Ground, God Made Good Soils Paintings Biography of artist Vincent van Gogh, with 3 of his paintings: Blossoming fruit tree Blossoms against the sky, with instructions so children can paint the same scene themselves Gardeners and small child learning to walk in the garden Coloring Pages Planting, ladybugs, bats, toad, pea plants, skunk, bees and blossoms, plus a coloring page to go with the color cover of this unit study. Activities To Do Gardening, composting, tree planting, caring for fruit trees, introducing beneficial insects and creatures to your garden Bible Reciting Psalm 1 with hand motions, verses from Genesis and Psalms, creation vs. evolution: how can plants know how to grow? Story from History Saint Patrick, missionary to Ireland Fun Puzzles and Activity Pages Fruit word search, vegetable word search, crossword puzzle, mazes, color-by-number, “what’s different?” This Art & Nature Science Unit includes enough material for a gardening unit study. (You are always free to add in books, videos, and other materials from the library 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 progresses. So download this book and get started on your Art & Nature Science Unit on Organic Gardening today!

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.