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Exodus Mandate Project is a Christian ministry to encourage and assist Christian families to leave government schools for the Promised Land of Christian schools or home schooling. It is our hope that this fresh obedience in educating our children according to Biblical mandates will prove to be the key for revival in our families, churches and nation.
This method has been in use since 1908, and they offer a “cursive first” option for those who wish to start their chilidren’s study of handwriting in that manner. They do charge for their packages; but have a lot of good, free, downloads and videos online. You can purchase their homeschool packages here: Homeschool Packages
I wasn’t sure which category to put this entry under; the family who runs this business offers several products for sale, including “...cheap pregnancy and ovulation tests (a necessity in our home.)”
They also sell Copywork packages using a variety of copywork resources “...in the four most-popular penmanship styles, ZB (Zaner-Bloser), DN (D’Nealian), HWT (Handwriting Without Tears), and GDI (Getty Dubay Italic).”
Their prices are reasonable, and they have some excellent free downloads.
I don’t remember if I’ve mentioned them before, but I thought I’d highlight them today because, for those of us using the 1836 version of McGuffey’s Readers with our children (Mott Media puts this out), they have just been licensed to produce copywork for this Primer and Readers.
Now young children can use selections from the Primer in their copywork lessons to reinforce the material they have just learned. This title is available only in our 1-A level, as it is designed specifically for beginners.
Our ZB 1-A titles feature a ZB style manuscript font, 5/8” line spacing, line-by-line copywork models, and simple formatting. If you had a chance to download the free lesson I sent out yesterday, you’ll have a feel for the style of a ZB 1-A lesson.
Here you can find classic Mother Goose and other traditional poems and lullabies from English speaking countries.
I remain convinced that nursery rhymes are very important developmentally with small children as they are a first exposure to poetry, and have strong rhythm and rhyme that helps develop memorization skills. I still remember Nursery Rhymes I learned when I was a small child.
Have a student who wants to learn software programming? You can get him or her started at home learning the open source programming language Python via SoftBaugh Software’s Professional Development Course Series. This is the first offering in a series of engineering courses for distance learners.
This website has an extensive listing of Family & Consumer Sciences Extension documents, including a vast number of individual instructional sheets for many aspects of sewing. Free!
Clothing and Textiles
Family Resource Management
Food and Nutrition
Nutrition Education Programs
Health, Safety and Wellness
Housing and the Environment
Human Development and Family Relations
Home Based and Micro Business
Leadership Development
Cultural Arts and Miscellaneous
Heritage Skills and Crafts
In regards to Math, my wife favors Ray’s Arithmetic. Has anybody here used this? Any comments, good, bad, or indifferent? Thanks.
God Bless from the Hoosier State,
Brian
While I have not used Ray’s Arithmetic myself, I do own a copy, and it looks very similar to the math I grew up with, back in the day, back in the far, far day.
It was very good for the basic math; I personally have issues when it comes to algebra, but that’s a separate issue.
HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance. The first phase of this project focused on books published between 1850 and 1925 and a small number of journals. Future phases of the project will include books published between 1926 and 1950, as well as additional journals. The full text of these materials, as well as bibliographies and essays on the wide array of subjects relating to Home Economics, are all freely accessible on this site. This is the first time a collection of this scale and scope has been made available.
Older resources are oftentimes better; at least that’s been my experience. They also don’t try to sell you as much stuff (although commercialism is never far away in American housekeeping).
“There are two quite distinct purposes of history; the superior purpose, which is its use for children, and the secondary, or inferior purpose, which is its use for historians. The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.”
—G. K. Chesterton
The mission of Heritage history is to make old-fashioned history books, written for the enjoyment of young people, freely available in a convenient, and easily reproducible electronic form. There are restrictions on usage, but most of the information on this site can be freely shared for any non-commercial use.
We have developed the Heritage History website with the specific intention of doing our small part to help redirect the modern focus of history from its current degraded position as fodder for historians and social scientists, to its former and more elevated purpose as entertainment.
That history can be very instructive we do not deny. That it must be instructive, and that its primary purpose is to instruct, is the modern impulse that we seek to oppose. We seek to promote, not so much the study of history, as the enjoyment of History.
By making available “old-fashioned” history, as it was enjoyed as a pastime rather than studied as a subject, Heritage-History hopes to repair some of the damage to its reputation inflicted by “social studies”, and reawaken the interest of a new generation.
A math games book from Britain, early 1900s. Some of the comments on the listing at archive.org complain about the certain stereotypes displayed in some of the problems; I figured no one here would care about that.
