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Science Naturally ~ Review

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 Science Naturally sent us One Minute Mysteries: 65 More Short Mysteries You Solve With Science! to review for them, and we were happy to read it. 

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We decided to read this book aloud as a group. I really liked how the book was broken up into different sections; Life Science, Earth and Space Science, Physical and Chemical Science, General Science, there is a bonus section and then a excerpt of One Minute Mysteries: 65 Mysteries You Solve With Math! Guess who will be buying the Math book??!?!

Each story is really short, and I love that the front page tells the mystery and the answer is on the back of the page. So I would read the short excerpt and then ask the girls to solve the mystery. After we had discussed what we though the answer was I would turn the page and finish the story. It was really cool to “see” how much the girls had retained from previous lessons in science. There were quiet a few mysteries that sparked their interest and so off we would go to find answers to questions that had stemmed from these short mysteries. The one change the girls would have liked was if the stories were a little longer and if the pictures were in color. Besides that they LOVED it and can’t wait to start the Math version.

Eric & Natalie Yoder, this father-daughter team has got a winner here. This book is a great read for all ages, Leann age 7 enjoyed listening to the stories and figuring out the answers. We would recommend this book!! 

Science Naturally has graciously offered our readers a special coupon: you can use coupon code 3SPEC to purchase any 3 books on the website for $19.95 plus $2.95 shipping. (a $12.90 savings). Pick out your books here!!

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Wishing you many Blessings Rainbow

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Spanish for You! ~ Review

Spanish for You Logo photo spanishforyoulog_zpsa3fadef7.jpgWe were picked to review Fiestas from Spanish for You! and I was excited to see my name on the list for this review. I have wanted the girls to learn a second language and I have a hard enough problem speaking English that I knew if I tried to teach Spanish I would butcher the language. The program recommends using with children in grades 3-8, but I thought I could tweak it a bit for Leann, who is in 1st grade. Knowing that there was an audio file for the whole book and it was a native speaking person and that I was being provided with a lesson guide to follow, I thought I got this!!

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ALL Spanish for You! packages come complete with:

  • soft cover book or e-book
  • 24-30 week lesson guide for the grades you need (24 weeks for G5-6 & 7-8, 30 weeks for G3-4) (PDF download)
  • self-checking worksheets (PDF download)
  • audio files of entire book (includes bonus audio of native speaker of entire book) (MP3 download)
  • flashcard/activity pictures (PDF download)

Price:

For the complete package grades 3-8 is $64.95

Or you can purchase the separate grade levels (3-4, 5-6, 7-8) for $39.95

Extra Books $12.95 each, Teacher lesson plans are $12.95.

 

The suggested schedule is 3-4 days per week or you could take it a bit slower if you needed too.

During the review process we received a email from Debbie Annett letting us know that they have reconfigured the placement of the audio downloads for better organization and that all the worksheets are now in folders according to grades, and that all the audio files are now in folder according to the lessons.

This was the biggest problem for us. Since we had minimum Spanish  knowledge it was a little difficult for us to use the lesson guides, trying to find the right worksheets and actually reading the lesson guide. The native speaking audio while it was helpful to actually hear how it was suppose to sound, we had a hard time actually understanding what she was saying.

We also seemed to mix up the worksheets, since they are not numbered and at that time they were not grouped in files according to grades. The changes that were made to the downloads we make finding the correct worksheets easier.

 We thought that the concept of immersing yourself into a unit study on a particular subject would make learning a second language easier. It is also nice that you can use this product with multiple grade levels. I would definitely recommend not starting this until your child is reading. Maybe this is why they start in 3rd grade!

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Wishing you many Blessings Rainbow

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Home School in the Woods ~ Review

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This past month we have been learning all about the Great Empires. We have been reviewing the Great Empires Activity Study from Home School in the Woods. We received the instant download, which includes the different empires starting with Egypt and goes through the USA. We printed up the timeline and the figures that go with each period.

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   Prices : Download $18.95 or a CD $19.95

Each Empire comes with a text page that gives you a overview of that particular empire. There is a projects page that directs you as to which other pages you will need to print for each day.

We used this study each day. The first week we worked on Ancient Egypt, on the 1st day we printed up everything and went over the timeline, then we read the text. On the 2nd day we did some mapping, on the 3rd day watched a documentary on Ancient Egypt, on the 4th day we did some cooking egyptcooking and then on the 5th day we made a Cartouche complete with hieroglyphs.

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This activity guide is a wonderful Unit Study!! It is so easy to use that anyone could do it and it is so much fun!! The girls can’t wait until we do world history each day. Here I was nervous about teaching them about world history since I wasn’t sure about what to teach and now I don’t have to worry about it. All I need to do is print up some pages, read a bit about that empire and then do some fun hands on projects.

The weeks that followed included; Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, China. And of course they can’t wait to find out what going on with these empires; Arab-Muslims, Japan, Vikings, Mongols, England, Spain, Russia, France, Germany and the Untied States! We decided to follow the timeline and learn about each empire according to it but you could pick and choose which empire you wanted.

This guide is recommended for elementary ages. If you wanted to use it for middle school ages I would recommend using more of the Addition Reading Material list.

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Wishing you many Blessings Rainbow

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