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Life Prep for Homeschoolers
The Body Box
The Great Forensic Challenge
Little Box of Card Games and Tricks
The Anatomy Student’s Self-test Coloring Book
ABADABA ALPHABET by Sheila Moore
In Jesse’s Shoes by Beverly Lewis
Greathall Productions - Greatest Stories by Jim Weiss
Life Prep for Homeschooled Teenagers by Barbara Frank
Life Prep for Homeschooled Teenagers by Barbara Frank is a parent-friendly curriculum for teaching your teenagers how to live as morally and financially responsible adults. It includes instructions for customizing the curriculum for all homeschooled teenagers, whether they are work-bound or college-bound. (taken from the press release).
Step-by-step projects (requiring minimal preparation) teach your teenagers about credit, insurance, taxes and much more. Lessons are presented in a “hands-on” project format and include: the Credit Card Project, the Car Project (covers all aspects of car ownership), the Health Insurance Project, the Rent Project, the Food Expense Project, the Utilities Project, the Budgeting Project, the Mortgage project, the College Application Essay project, the Financial Freedom project. Each lesson includes clear explanations on the subject, lists of resources, and a variety of high-interest and practical assignments. There are additional reading assignments from recommended books and/or internet sites.
A very helpful section for parents provides useful tips on helping your teen find part-time work, more guidance in using credit cards wisely and answers to lesson questions. A Book and Resource list rounds out this highly recommended curriculum. Because it covers so much information in such a comprehensive way, Life Prep could easily be a high school level one-half to one-credit course depending on the amount of work completed. Highly recommended. Go to www.cardemompublishers.com for more information.
~ Home Educator’s Family Times
From Barron's Education:
THE BODY BOX: See How Your Body Works
Anita Ganeri
List Price: $24.99
A human kidney, a brain, a heart, an eyeball, and a plastic skeleton with removable parts are assembled in this unusual and instructive kit for budding junior biologists. The shapes of all organs are accurately rendered, and an accompanying book is filled with full-color illustrations and descriptions of the human body's organs and functions, described on a level that is understandable to older children. The book describes the human body in a series of 14 two-page spreads. The body parts and functions described include the senses, brain, lungs, heart, blood, muscles, bones, stomach, intestines, liver, kidneys, and cells. Illustrated overlays show the human body's skeletal and muscle systems. The book and models of organs are attractively packaged in a book-shaped box. The book slips into a pocket on the box's inside cover, and a see-through window shows all model body parts when the imitation book cover is lifted. (Ages 11 and older)
Boxed set with book: Paperback, 32
Review: This is a great way to introduce anatomy without too much technical information. Kids will like the “human organ replicas” with clear descriptions of organs and systems. It all fits neatly into a box for storage.
~ Home Educator’s Family Times
THE GREAT FORENSIC CHALLENGE
Clint Twist -
List Price: $19.99
Heres a fun-filled crime detection kit for kids, a four-box package designed to test their reasoning skills and their attentiveness to details. Each box focuses on a different aspect of forensic science and contains its own instruction mini-book—
Box 1: Reconstruction of a crime scene, including collecting evidence, dusting for fingerprints, making diagrams of the scene, and more
Box 2: Identification of suspects, including comparing witness' statements, comparing facial features using biometric measurements, examining documents, and more
Box 3: Investigation of footprints and tire tracks, matching shreds of torn clothing, lifting fingerprints from difficult surfaces, and more
Box 4: Analysis of soil scraped from shoes, of DNA samples, of bullets and shell-casings to identify the weapons they came from, and more. Children will confront more than 20 different hypothetical crimes to solve, but they'll also get instruction on how to go about the process of detection in a methodical manner that gives them accurate results. When their investigations are completed they can check their solutions against printed answers provided in the back of The Criminal Files booklet. Components of The Great Forensic Challenge include a crime scene stencil, a fingerprint ink pad, a magnifying square, and sample DNA bar codes printed on acetate sheets. The four 32-page paperback mini-books included in each box describe crime scenes and give crime detection instructions. Included in the main box is an album that kids can use to identify perpetrators of each crime. (Ages 9 and older)
Review: Children (and adults) will be fascinated by the information presented in this kit. Learning and fun. This would make a great gift.
~ Home Educator’s Family Times
LITTLE BOX OF CARD GAMES & TRICKS
Andrew Heritage
List Price: $16.99
Two packs of playing cards - one standard size; the other, miniature, play board, miniature chips, and a score pad are attractively packaged with a pair of illustrated instruction books. The standard card deck is for card games, and the miniature deck is for card tricks and Solitaire. The double-sided play board is set up to show a Solitaire layout on one side and a poker layout on the other. One of the two enclosed books is a 32-page volume of card games; the other is a 24-page book of card tricks. The games for kids to learn and play are clearly presented, and include Fish, Rummy, Blackjack, Solitaire, and six more. The card tricks introduce kids to fun of a different kind, and instruct on such slights of hand as Mysterious Mind Reader, Aces High, The Magic Appearing Card, and nine more tricks to amaze friends and family. With the Little Box of Card Games and Tricks, boys and girls discover that card games and tricks are not only fun, but also ways to improve memory and concentration skills. (Ages 8 and older)
The Anatomy Student’s Self-test Coloring Book
Dr. Kurt Albertine
Learning and naming the many parts and systems of the human body can be a daunting task for student nurses, as well as for other students preparing for careers in the various scientific and medical professions. This highly original book helps make learning a great deal easier. Hundreds of anatomically accurate line illustrations show human body parts and readers are encouraged to shade them in with colored pencils. It’s a simple physical task intended to imprint on students’ memories the shape and location of each body part, making later visualization and memory retention much easier. The book has a spiral binding hidden beneath the cover?s spine so that pages lie flat for easy coloring. Other features include?
- Tabbed chapter openers for quick reference
- Extra-heavy paper that minimizes show-through
- Every body system and part is presented
- All parts labeled with correct anatomical names
An extra feature is a set of eight transparent overlays illustrating the human body. They simulate the peeling away of layers of tissue to reveal anatomical features, such as muscles, bones, organs, and circulatory system. The overlays are bound into the book with ‘scissor-perf’ lines that show students where to cut. The Anatomy Student’s Self-Test Coloring Book is a must-have learning tool for all students and practitioners who require detailed anatomical knowledge. In addition to a substantial and instructive text, it features 144 two-color pages and 32 additional pages in full color.
From the Reviews:
Dr. Kurt Albertine is the Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Neurobiology and Anatomy in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Albertine has taught human gross anatomy for more than 25 years and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Anatomical Record.
ABADABA ALPHABET
Written by Sheila Moore/Illustrated by Carol Holsinger, and read by Jim Weiss
When young children know the sounds that the letters of the alphabet make, they begin to make sense of written symbols and the then the door to literacy opens wide. The combination of Sheila Moore's clever rhyme and repetition, Carol Holsinger's hilarious illustrations, and the accompanying audio with Jim Weiss' cadence and candor, ABADABA ALPHABET offers pre-readers a delightful introduction to the alphabet and phonics, as well as an exceptional learning advantage.
Read-Along-CD/Book Set $19.95 The CD is narrated by Jim Weiss (below)
Review:
You cannot go wrong with any of Jim Weiss’ recordings or recorded books. If you are shopping for a holiday gift for a special child, consider a gift certificate. As well as the book just mentioned, Jim Weiss has so many titles available, it is very difficult to choose just one. And once you’ve heard Jim’s wonderful narrations, you’ll be hooked! My grandchildren have enjoyed hours of Jim’s storytelling magic and insist on listening again and again to their favorites - all classics. My two oldest grandsons, ages 12 and 11 are now looking forward to moving into his G.A. Henty collection and I can’t wait! Here are some of the titles you will find on the Greathall Productions (Jim Weiss) web site:
Greathall Productions - Stories by Jim Weiss
• Uncle Wiggly's Storybook
• Tell Me A Story! A Treasury of Classics
• Good Night
• Sweet Dreams
• Animal Tales
• Good Luck Duck
• Famously Funny: A Collection of Beloved Stories and Poems
• American Tall Tales
• Tales From Cultures Far and Near
• A Christmas Carol and Other Favorites
• King Arthur and His Knights
• Rip Van Winkle / Gulliver's Travels
• Greek Myths
• Arabian Nights
• Best Loved Stories in Song & Dance
• She & He: Adventures in Mythology
• The Three Musketeers / Robin Hood
• Fairytale Favorites in Story & Song
• Tales From the Old Testament
• Jewish Holiday Stories
• Giants! A Colossal Collection of Tales and Tunes
• A Treasury of Wisdom: True Stories of Hope and Inspiration
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• Masters of the Renaissance: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and more
• The Prince & The Pauper
• Abraham Lincoln and the Heart of America
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• The Queen’s Pirate: Elizabeth I and Sir Francis Drake
• Classics for Children
• Sherlock Holmes for Children
• Mystery! Mystery! for Children
• Shakespeare for Children
• Heroes in Mythology
• Celtic Treasures
• The Jungle Book
• Treasure Islan
• Egyptian Treasures: Mummies and Myths
• Galileo and the Stargazers
• Romeo & Juliet
• Thomas Jefferson's America
• New- Many G.A. Henty titles
Visit www.greathall.com to read all about Jim Weiss and view his multi- award-winning recordings.
NY Times Bestselling Author Helps Children Understand Those With Special Needs
In Jesse’s Shoes by Beverly Lewis
Illustrated by Laura Nikiel
“Being the adoptive mother of disabled children,” explains New York Times bestselling author Beverly Lewis, “I have wiped away their tears after frequent ridicule from peers
threatened to destroy their self-esteem.”
Because of these life experiences with her children, Beverly saw a need for a book to address not
only the ways in which special needs children are different, but also how they are just the same— and just as valuable—as everyone else. She wrote In Jesse’s Shoes to meet this need.
Gently showing children how to accept and be kind to those who are different from them, this sensitive yet realistic story follows Jesse’s sister, Allie, as she struggles to understand and relate to her autistic brother—and to the kids who make fun of him.
Beautifully illustrated and lovingly written, In Jesse’s Shoes will encourage families everywhere to appreciate and befriend children with special needs.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Beverly Lewis is a New York Times bestselling author of novels for adults, children, and teens. As a former teacher and adoptive mother of disabled children, she is uniquely gifted to instruct and encourage everyone to offer patience, gentleness, and yes, love to those who struggle with physical and developmental disabilities. Beverly and her husband make their
home in Colorado Springs. Visit www.beverlylewis.com.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR:
Laura Nikiel is a freelance illustrator whose work has been published by SRA-McGraw-Hill, Harcourt Achieve,Warner Press, ZonderKidz, and others. Her vibrant watercolor illustrations bring Jesse’s world to life
and help readers “walk” in his shoes.
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