Today, we’ve got a lot to unpack! First of all…
our Spring Sale is back!! It will be running from
Thursday, April 3 to
Monday, April 7 at midnight. You can see this year's coupon code at the bottom of this post.
Additionally, as many of you know, Carrie is always thinking about ways to make our guides even better. We’ve been hard at work making these exciting changes, and now we’re finally able to announce many new Heart of Dakota selections, which will be available during our Spring Sale. So take a peek below; we can’t wait to share these terrific new products with you!
New Writing Program for High School: World Geography
Does the thought of writing essays strike fear in the hearts of your students? Fear not – you can take the guesswork out of writing effective essays with this practical guide on
How to Write a 5-Paragraph Essay! In this independent, workbook-style text, step-by-step lessons build on each other for a layered approach to writing. Engaging exercises aid the retention of essential information throughout the essay-writing process. Sample essays model quality essay writing, and a helpful answer key is provided to be sure students are on the right track. With no more time wasted watching video lessons, students can concentrate on practicing the steps to better essay writing. (Note: With the latest revision of the videos for
Essentials in Writing, we prefer the user-friendly approach in
How to Write a 5-Paragraph Essay instead.)
New Foundations in Personal Finance for High School: U.S. History II
Enjoy a finance curriculum that’s got everything prepped for you, in one place, and made with your unique homeschool environment in mind! Teaching your teen about personal finance doesn’t have to be complicated – this course trades heavy formulas and financial theories for time-tested principles, real-life applications, and humor. Dave Ramsey and his team of experts teach all the content for you. You’ll get everything you need, from lesson guides to engaging video lessons to auto-graded assessments – so you can teach confidently. And, best of all, there’s no personal finance degree required! By the end of this program, students will learn crucial money skills they’ll use now and for the rest of their lives…so they’ll have a solid foundation they can depend on when they’re out on their own.
New Visual History Set for Preparing Hearts for His Glory
Picture the past with our new
Preparing Hearts for His Glory independent “Visual History” Set! Designed to round out the history study in
Preparing Hearts for His Glory, this collection of 24 engaging books provides a gorgeous visualization of world history. Find answers about Noah and the flood, discover King Tut’s mummy, stow away in a Trojan horse, witness Alexander’s conquests, experience the coming of Christ, train to be a medieval knight, meet Kublai Khan, pen Beethoven’s Heroic Symphony, crack a wartime spy code, and soar to freedom in a hot air balloon – all just a sampling of what awaits you! By bringing history vividly to life, this set is an excellent transition for students to independently read their own history in
Preparing Hearts for His Glory. This set corresponds with our newly updated
Preparing Hearts: Visual History Notebook.
New Science Study for Bigger Hearts for His Glory
Explore the wonderful world of nature and discover animals, insects, birds, trees, and more in our all-new living science for
Bigger Hearts for His Glory! First, take a tour of the Amazon rain forest, discover why fireflies glow, learn why flamingos are pink, see how creatures adapt to their natural habitats, and follow the life cycle of an oak tree. Next, delve into the science of pioneer times and study farm anatomy from the past to the present. Finally, end the year by immersing yourself in the wonders of the ocean realm – from the sun-soaked tidepools of Hawaii to the depths of the sea! This new science study for
Bigger Hearts for His Glory integrates eye-catching, full-color readings with exciting visual follow-ups to help students interact with their reading in a brand-new way. As part of the study, students will complete written narrations in our brand-new
Living Science Narration Journal, which coordinates with the daily readings.
New Creature Crew Kit for Bigger Hearts for His Glory
The
Bigger Hearts for His Glory: Science Kit is a one-of-a-kind kit from Creature Crew that coordinates with our science study in
Bigger Hearts for His Glory! This unique kit covers a host of topics, including amphibians, insects, birds, coniferous forests, farms, and the ocean from shallow to deep. With color-coded animal and habitat cards, animal footprint stickers to track where creatures live, unique supplies, and creature collectibles - this kit is packed with fun resources! Vibrant mini-magazines direct you through the kit with creature-themed recipes, activity pages, step-by-step crafts, experiments, and hands-on projects.
From modeling the tree frog’s life cycle to creating a luminescent firefly, from tracking the arctic tern’s migration to experimenting with pine cone seeds, from constructing an alpaca (with real alpaca wool) to forming a beeswax candle, from learning about a sea star to studying the angler fish, your kiddos will love the activities included in this kit! Six exciting creature collectible surprises are also included. Science has never been this much fun!
(This kit is included in the Science Package for
Bigger Hearts for His Glory.)
Living Science Narration Journal
Capture your students' written narrations in our beautiful
Living Science Narration Journal! Designed by Heart of Dakota for use with the science study in
Bigger Hearts for His Glory, this narration journal helps ease the transition from oral to written narrations. Paired with the step-by-step plans in
Bigger Hearts for His Glory, our
Living Science Narration Journal is focused on guiding students into writing short narrations. Using the living books in the science study, along with guided questions, students will orally share and then copy short written narrations. This journal is a wonderful stepping-stone to the written narrations required in future guides. So let’s jump into written narrations using our gorgeous
Living Science Narration Journal to show your student’s progress!
Spring Sale dates announced!!
For now, I will just say we felt it was time for a change. New writing resources that are excellent became available, and Carrie loved them! Families using Writing and Rhetoric in CTC (which was the first change Carrie made) loved that change. As far as MTMM, we loved the idea of a boy and a girl option, as teens tend to enjoy writing about topics they can best relate to, and boys and girls are often quite different in that regard! Also, Carrie just immediately loved Writer's Gold Mine and Writer's Roundup. Something totally new that was done well! Here is a link to another post I just made explaining the other guides' writing changes...
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