Real Life Learning

Gardening, By Raymond & Dorothy Moore, The Child Light Series, Encouraging Home School Books, Our #1 Customer Favorite, Organization, Health, Child Training, Simple Living

Gardening
These two books are our family’s favorite gardening manuals.
We refer to them often and love the results!!

$Carrots Love Tomatoes Rev. ’98 Edition $16.95 $14.95
Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening.

Ÿ Getting to know the good and bad companions can double the bounty of your garden. The only work required is to plan your garden planting right.
Ÿ Hundreds of interesting, practical, and educational facts
Ÿ Some plants show their good character by luring insects that would injure their neighbors.
Ÿ Compiled in alphabetical order according to subjects

$Square Foot Gardening $16.95$15.95
This system helps you to conserve the amounts of water, soil conditioners, and labor needed to produce a maximum amount of food in that space. Square foot gardens takes only one-fifth the space and work of a conventional single-row garden to produce the same harvest and is easy to maintain so the garden stays uncluttered all season. Practical and helpful information associated with general gardening included.

Raymond & Dorothy Moore

Successful Homeschool Family Handbook $12.99
Homeschool successfully and avoid burnout. MUST READ!!

The Child Light Series

For the Children’s Sake $12.99
Foundations of Education for Home and School by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay. This book will help you to break out of the "school at home" mentality and show you how education can be a wonderful life-enriching, joyous experience.

Books Children Love $14.99
A Guide to the Best Children’s Literature. One of the few resource books I have that I won’t loan out because I use it so often. Broken into subject categories such as Biographies, Geography and History, Math, Art and Architecture, Music, etc., with a commentary including the appropriate age group for each book. All the info you need for obtaining books through your library system. You won’t want to give your copy up either!

Teaching Children $13.99
A Curriculum Guide to What Children Need to Know at Each Level through Sixth Grade. Practical ideas for each subject.

$Three Book Set $41.97$35.99

What your Child Needs to Know When $19.99
An evaluation check list for Grades K-8. By Robin Scarlata. Includes the objectives contained on the five most widely used national achievement tests. Everything you need to: Plan your school year, overcome testing fears, check for learning gaps, evaluate your child’s progress, cover each subject thoroughly and check off each objective as it is studied and when it is mastered. Evaluation sheets for Bible reading, character traits, spiritual fruits, social evaluation, work and study habits, glossary of common teaching terms, Dolch sight word list, and the Biblical definition of true wisdom. One book per family is all you need!

Encouraging Home School Books

Our #1 Customer Favorite

50 Veteran Homeschoolers Share…
Things We Wish We'd Known $12.99 $10.95
A Homeschoolers Collection. You’ll laugh, cry, empathize, & be strongly encouraged as homeschoolers from around the world share their thoughts & experiences in this delightful new book.

Ÿ Find answers to the questions all homeschoolers ask…
Ÿ Read about true-life homeschooling families…
Ÿ Discover how homeschooling works in unique family situations & far-flung locations…

I felt greatly honored when asked to be a contributing author for this book. It was good for me to reflect on, and put in writing how God has led our family over the years. Whether you are considering homeschooling, just beginning, or a "veteran," this book will greatly encourage you (as it has encouraged me J ).

$Home Schooling-The Right Choice $14.95 $12.50
Updated & Revised! The Incredible Failure of Public Education and the Rising Hope of Home Education. By Christopher J. Klicka, The Home School Legal Defense Association's Senior Counsel. Deals with common home education concerns. Supplemental chapters by Greg Harris.

Organization

How to Home School $20.00
A practical approach. By Gayle Graham, a Homeschool mom.
This book will show you how to:
Ÿ Plan & Organize for Success
Ÿ Teach the Three R's with Ease
Ÿ Pull Subjects Together with Unit Studies
Ÿ Interpret of All the Curriculum Choices
Ÿ Streamline Record-Keeping
Includes Useful Charts & Much More!

Record Keeping Sheets $11.00
Save time & money
Ready-to-Use
3-Hole Punched
Student Assignment Sheets:
Color Coded for Three Children
40 each (Blue, Yellow, Green)
40 Weekly Unit Study
Planning Sheets

The Homeschoolers Journal $9.95
Won First place in Practical Homeschooling Magazine--Reader’s Choice Award’s for five years. Allows for teaching, logging, and organizing your home schooling schedule. Designed to accommodate many different styles of teaching. Can be used for several children simultaneously as with a unit study and/or for individuals with a structured approach.

The Homeschoolers High School Journal $9.95

$School Proof $10.99$9.99
Helps you weed out "educational clutter" and develop a sound philosophy of education. Most people who read this book say, "I've had those thoughts! Mary Pride just communicates and organizes them in a way that makes them understandable and practical. Includes a balanced view of different learning styles. A must!

A Survivor’s Guide to Home Schooling $10.99
Two home teaching moms tackle the nitty-gritty everyday life of the homeschooling household: "Will I burn out? How do I teach at different levels? What if my child is not ‘getting it’? How can my husband help?"

 

 

$Marnie’s Kitchen Shortcuts $11.95$9.95
(Cut Your Time, Cut Your Costs, Cut the Fat) This homeschooling mother helps you serve great-tasting meals that are quick and cost far less than you would expect. This 250-page manual provides easy and effective strategies designed to help you simplify your life.

Jonni McCoy

*Miserly Moms by Jonni McCoy $11.99
Living on one -ncome in a two-income economy.

Miserly Meals $12.99
Healthy tasty recipes under 75 cents per serving.
$Miserly Set $24.98 $20.99

*Frugal Families by Jonni McCoy $10.99
Making the most of your hard earned money.

Health

$Prescription for Nutritional Healing $23.95 $19.95
Third Edition, includes much more information. By husband and wife team James F. Balch, M.D. & Phyllis A. Balch. C.N.C. A practical A-Z reference to drug-free remedies using vitamins, minerals, herbs, and food supplements. A comprehensive & informative user-friendly self-help guide.

Child Training

Under Loving Command 10/$10.00 or $1.20 each
Formerly Children—Fun or Frenzy? An excellent booklet for personal use and gift giving.

$What The Bible Says About Child Training 2nd Edition $12.95$11.75
A chapter dealing with teenage rebellion, relationships and more has been added. The most practical book we’ve found on Child Training.

$Shepherding a Child’s Heart $13.95$12.50
Masterful book! Dr. Tedd Tripp knows what he is talking about and he knows who he is talking to. He knows children, he knows parents, and he knows the ways of God. Contains something very different from most parenting books. Highly recommended by Dr. John MacArthur. A must for every parent.

$Proverbs for Parenting (HC)$16.95$15.95
A topical guide for child raising from the book of Proverbs. Over seventy topics. Handsomely cloth bound. Specify KJV or NIV. A very useful resource. One of our top sellers.

$Playpen to Podium $14.95$12.50
Dr. Jeff Myers unique book shows parents how to improve their child’s reading, writing and thinking skills, enhance their comfort in social situations, help them resist negative peer influences, and develop leadership skills. He goes on to say that most of the critical development stages are passed by the age of three! He believes that skilled communicators are chosen to be leaders and he shows how Christian parents can easily instill these principles in their children.

Simple Living

*$The Encyclopedia of Country Living $29.95 $26.95
1998 Edition. The most complete source of step-by-step information about growing, processing, cooking, and preserving every kind of food. Wisdom for folks in the country or city from birthing, cleaning, quilting, lighting, heating, tanning, to herbs, money management, and health matters. Invaluable and practical information for a self-sufficient life style. Has big resource section!