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*Love to Learn Homeschool Handbook
How to organize your homeschool, what resources to use, how to set up your homeschool schedule, details for teaching each grade: the "how-to" manual!
 
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Healthy, yummy recipes that we eat daily!
*Happy Phonics
My award-winning phonics program which uses games to teach reading—a best-seller!
*K-5 Journal and Language Arts Program
Teach your children to write well from their own daily writing experiences. Immensely popular!
 
*All About Me
A fun and meaningful Christian approach to writing while creating your own personal history.
*When Queens Ride By
I have re-read this treasure countless times during my 35 years of marriage—a treasure!
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Diane Hopkins has been reviewing and testing homeschool products for 23 years and you can benefit from her experience. Arranged by grade, from preschool to high school, you will find a listing of best books and materials for teaching each grade plus instructions on just how to to use these resources and run the school day. Set up your school schedule, learn how to get your kids to take charge of getting their schoolwork done, and get tips on how to make your homeschool fun and meaningful. Also includes articles of encouragement, and details on how to plan out an exciting school year full of progress for your students. Reproducible forms are included.
Large, spiral-bound book introduces you to the 7 Hopkins children, and shows you how Diane taught and raised them homeschooling: the mistakes she made along with the successes. Full of family photos, personal stories, and wisdom—this volume will give you the help you need to get enthused, get organized and get going. Enjoy the delightful journey of learning together!
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view | Hopkins' Healthy Home Cooking Want to eat wholesome whole foods? It can be hard to find good, tasty main dishes or yummy desserts without the refined products. Here is our family's own personal collection of original recipes that constitute our daily meals. Our standards for these recipes are—little meat, no refined flour, and no sugar. You'll find casseroles, main dishes, soups, breakfasts, sandwiches, cookies, cakes, muffins, and treats. I've included my favorite Whole Wheat Bread recipe too. I know you'll like "Taco Casserole," "Move Over Pizza Hut," "Subway Our Way," and more. And for lunch, we like "It's Not Tuna Sandwiches." If it's not tuna, then what is it? No one can guess, but it is 100% delicious and nutritious. Spiral bound, 120 pages, with black-&- white drawings by my son Nathan.
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view | Happy Phonics When my son Ammon was a very bright, wiggly and energetic 5-year-old, he couldn't seem to get interested in workbooks or sit still for lessons. The only way I could get his attention long enough to teach him to read was to play games with him. Over the years, these games have evolved into an easy, happy way to teach children to read, from the very first step (learning the ABC song) through advanced phonics and spelling.
Simple, yet entertaining and educational, these phonics games are printed on colorful, sturdy cardstock ready to cut out. Included is a mother-friendly guidebook which contains the details on how I teach phonics and reading, how to pronounce and teach the phonics sounds, how to make your own simple beginning readers, and step-by-step teaching info for each phonics sound.
Happy Phonics covers beginning to advanced phonics and is the sum total of my experience. My children enjoy the games and never really realize that they are drilling phonics sounds! Enjoy learning games, little books, and activities as well as a 76-page beginning reader, My Big Book. Use with the Explode the Code Primers for a complete manuscript handwriting and phonics course.
I think you will be very pleased with the pain-free, rapid reading results! I guarantee you will love it and your child will learn to read, or I'll send your money right back—happily!
I am excited and surprised to report that Happy Phonics was selected for the prestigious "Cathy Duffy's Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum" award!
Hear what others say:
Games! What a brilliant way to teach a child to read. My kids absolutely love and beg for "phonics time" at our house!
—Regina
"My daughter was a little annoyed when I got out the muffin match game since she says she "already knows the letters", but after a few different activities, any time I tell her it is time to work on phonics, she excitedly yells "Let's do the muffin match game!" Thanks for helping make homeschool so fun!"
—C.D.
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view | K-5 Journal and Language Arts Program Teach your children English from their own daily writing experiences in this "school journal" that I use in my own homeschool. Everyday my children write their journal entries on special lined paper that promotes good penmanship. The top of the page is left unlined for illustrating their writing.
As they fix their mistakes with Mom's help, misspelled words are transferred to the spelling section for a custom-made spelling list to be practiced every day and tested once a week. The teacher's section includes lessons to teach on creative writing, poetry, prefixes and suffixes, antonyms, abbreviations, punctuation, contractions, letter writing, and more.
Dictation is a very beneficial way to teach children to write well, so I've included selections and instructions for dictation: inspirational quotes, patriotic quotes, character-building poems, and scriptures. Comes in a 3-ring binder, which becomes your child's ongoing school journal year after year. Paper line size begins with wide spaced kindergarten lines, and progresses to narrower lined paper for 5th graders.
At the end of the year, we take the journal pages out of the notebook and have them bound (approx. $3-4) at the printer into a treasured childhood book. (The printer commented that these were so precious he couldn't help reading a few pages!) I developed this program for my own children after years of trying different writing and language workbooks, and think you'll find it works very well. Use it year after year, just by replacing the journal paper.
Hear what others say:
I've tried about every workbook and English program on the market, and my kids were still bored and not making much progress. Then I discovered your journal program. It seemed too simple to work, but I can't believe the results! My kids writing has improved drastically, and they are so proud of their bound journal books and want to show them off to everyone. Thanks!
—SueAnn
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| | All About Me Here's a fun and meaningful Christian approach to writing for either boys or girls. Perfect your writing skills while creating your own personal history! Each decorated page poses a question and provides plenty of space for responding with a composition, detailing the writer's own likes and dislikes, experiences and feelings.
When you finish the book you will have written your own story about yourself. Created by Julianna Hopkins (my daughter!). Each level contains different questions. This spiral bound, write-in book will become a treasured keepsake. What an easy way to write your personal life story!
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view | When Queens Ride By I have re-read this treasure countless times during my 35 years of marriage to help me remember how important it is to be the wife and mother God wants me to be! This charming, touching story will make you want to put a tablecloth on the table, brush your hair, and put on your lipstick right now.
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view | Christian Home School Student Planner 15% OffThis is what I use in my homeschool to keep my children's work orderly and expectations clear. My Student Planner will help you organize your children's assignments and help them use their time wisely. Binder contains sections to store daily schoolwork assignments, so all their work is in one neat place. Information is included for pursuing and recording personal goals and educational goals, a personal finance section, and an address and phone section. Instructions written to Mom will help in setting up your homeschool, following a daily schedule, checking up on assignments, and choosing and completing educational goals. This planner is the result of years of experimenting to find what works to make our homeschool run smoothly. My children open their planners for school every morning—this is where all their work is kept and all their assignments are written down and checked off. They can direct themselves by doing their planned assignments. Each child (8 years and up) needs their own for a great school year.
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view | Happy Homeschooling This book is written from my heart to yours, both to help new homeschoolers get started and to help veteran homeschoolers get some fresh ideas. Includes the popular article entitled, "The Baby is the Lesson!". We all need a little help to keep going, along with some creative ideas, encouragement, and inspiration. Even though I wrote it, I go back and reread it when I wonder if homeschool is really worth the sacrifice. Topics cover social life, schedules that work, child discipline, a rotating academic plan for making sure you cover everything, the value of memorization, best books for read-aloud time, getting kids to do their schoolwork, how to make grammar fun, what to do with your toddler during homeschool time, father's role in the homeschool, dividing up the chores, preparing for college. . . and much more! Unique and essential information. Spiral-bound.
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view | Homeschooling Questions and Answers What do I do about a child who writes his letters backward? Should I homeschool an only child? What if my younger child is smarter than his older sibling? What if relatives don't approve? How do I convince my husband? How do I keep from getting overwhelmed? I (Diane Hopkins) am the author, and this volume is a result of 2 decades of counseling families in how to train and educate their children joyfully. Learn the answers in this volume of actual questions from parents. Photos throughout. Paperback.
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view | Best Homeschool Secrets This booklet sums up what I've learned about keeping your homeschool happy and productive. Includes lots of hard-earned "how-to" advice from yours truly (Diane Hopkins). Paperback booklet.
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view | New Homeschooler Set New to homeschooling? This is just what you need to orient yourself! Includes four popular books, written by Diane Hopkins:
Love to Learn Homeschool Handbook
Best Homeschooling Secrets
Happy Homeschooling
Homeschooling Questions & Answers
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view | Mother's Planner 50% OffMake your own Mother's Planner to help you take charge of this very vital work of being a mother! If you are a homeschooling mother, you need even more organization. Even though I use my computer for most everything, there are some times when paper and pencil is so much more effective. And it is crucial to have everything in one place, so a notebook works well. 9 page e-book includes the ready-to-copy forms plus directions to help you put together your planner. I created it out of need, and used it to steer me without too much chaos, through my childraising and homeschooling. I think you'll find this very valuable! Here's to organization and structure in your daily life and homeschool!
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view | Heart-to-Heart with Diane: Homeschooling, Parenting and Happy Living I am the happy mother of 7 children, and have been homeschooling for 25 years. I have plenty of homeschooling tips, recipes, projects, suggestions and insights I'd love to share with you. Read them fresh from my heart to yours in this photo-illustrated compilation volume. Spiralbound, 211 pages.
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view | Heart-to-Heart with Diane: Crafts and Projects, Formulas, Recipes Spiralbound, 111 pages.
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view | Classical Piano with Mark Hopkins (my son) 30% OffEnjoy the enthusiastic, moving piano masterpieces of the great composers Chopin, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Joplin, and more played by my own son Mark Hopkins. At age 14, Mark listened to his cousin play the piano and was struck with ambition to become a concert pianist! As many homeschooled children are, he was totally self-motivated and driven to accomplish his dream. Mark loves classical piano and has performed his personal favorites, some of the most beautiful and touching pieces ever written. Mark tells his own journey of learning how to play, having amazing opportunities come his way, and his quest for how to consecrate his musical talent to God's glory in the accompanying leaflet. This 7-track CD is full of excitement and emotion, and is sure to motivate those who are wondering if their piano practice will ever pay off. I may be biased since he is my son, but I trust you will love it!
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view | George Washington's Rules of Decent Behavior George Washington spent time analyzing and collecting rules that he felt constituted decent behavior. His 110 rules include such gems as "Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another, though he were your enemy" and "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little celestial fire called conscience." We mention these rules often in our family, especially when someone laughs at her own joke (thus breaking one of Washington's rules!). Promotes gentility and provides an interesting glimpse into our beloved founding father. Paperback booklet, 18 pages, illustrated.
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view | Let's Cook
Healthy Recipes for Kids Large print, simple healthy recipes contain no sugar or white flour. Whip up some Orange Julius, Banana Muffins, Potato Carrot Casserole, Nuts-Gone-Crazy treats and more! 20 recipes on sturdy cardstock. spiral-bound to stand up straight on your countertop while you cook. Great for young aspiring cooks! By Diane Hopkins.
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view | Treating Illness Naturally Most of us would like to be more self-reliant, to be able to do something instead of wait for our children to get ill enough to go to the doctor. You can so something to help your family when they are ill. This booklet written by yours truly sums up what I've learned over the past 33 years of mothering my 7 children about treating illness naturally.
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view | Meet the Masters This is our favorite way to learn about the musical masters! What a simple way to bring some cultural refinement into your homeschool without any effort on your part. The narrated life story of the composer is interspersed with excerpts of his greatest works. Our whole family (8 years to adult) especially enjoys the story-like narration. Each recording ends with the performance of one of the composer's famous pieces. Each set contains 6 audio CDs. Highly recommended!
Set 1 Composers: Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann & Grieg.
Set 2 Composers: Wagner, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Corelli, Dvorak, Handel & Haydn.
Set 3 Composers: Brahms, Verdi, Strauss, Sousa, Foster, Berlioz and Tchaikovsky.
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view | Take Your Hat Off When the Flag Goes By What an easy way to learn about the Constitution! Includes songs such as Take Your Hat Off, I Love America, In 1776, Here in America, George Washington, and more. CD comes with large, paperback, full-color 9x11" picture book complete with all the lyrics to the songs. Book has a quiz section in the back to see how much you really learned. You'll be surprised how much information sticks when you learn it to music. Produced by Brite Music, known for excellent quality. Ages 5-12, but an exciting and easy way to learn for the whole family. Includes both an ebook in color and a musical audio download.
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view | 4 Worksheet Extenders & Damp Erase Markers Save money on workbooks with these durable, thick plastic sleeves that are open on two sides for easy page insertion. You can even slip them over a page in a book! Wipe-off pens write easily on plastic and wipe right off with a damp cloth. Set of 4 worksheet extenders and 4 colored pens.
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view | Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka Set 10% OffDo you remember reading these charming old-fashioned stories of three little Swedish triplets and their adventures when you were a child? Originally written in the '40s, these tales reflect a time of innocence. What makes these wholesome books so dear is that the children are especially respectful, kind, independent, resourceful, helpful, eager to work without thought of pay, and have every other virtue that we are trying to instill in our own children. Moreover, our children beg to be read them again and again! Paperback, 32 pages, large print text and a color illustration on every spread. Reading level is for 8-12 years or read-aloud to children 3 years and up. Set includes 7 books.
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view | Pearls to Remember, Ladies White Stretch Pearl Bracelet When I was searching for a very special gift for my daughter Emily upon her graduation, I found this lovely, classic bracelet of large freshwater pearls and Austrian crystals. She loves it and wears it every day! The stretch band makes it simple to put on, and makes for a snug fit, rather than a loose bracelet that slides around and is cumbersome. This bracelet is so sparkly and lovely-the photo does not do it justice! This fine piece of jewelry is remarkably low-priced. I found myself buying one for a bride, then one for a special birthday, and another one for a religious event . . . one for every occasion where I wanted a young lady to feel very beautiful and special. Get one for yourself, you'll wear it often and feel pretty!
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view | Pearl Bracelet Just for Girls Bracelet Real freshwater pearl and Austrian crystal bracelet for girls is easy-to-put-on and easy-to-wear on sturdy stretch elastic (no clasp). Unique rose-colored oblong freshwater pearls are so pretty! Makes a special gift for a special girl. Fits ages 5 to 12 years.
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view | Safety Kids! 35% OffWhat times we live in! Without frightening children, it is vital to teach them to protect themselves. These catchy songs from Brite Music teach a powerful lesson in personal safety, and one that is not easily forgotten over the years. Sing-along CD comes with quality coloring book illustrating each song, complete with lyrics. Your child will learn his telephone number, what to do if he is lost, not to go to the restroom alone, what parts of his body are private—how to be safe in every situation.
Let the Safety Kids share their knowledge about personal safety. These great songs will teach your child to stay safe from strangers, use the buddy system and learn his telephone number.
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view | Fabric Calendar Pocket Chart This fabric calendar has 50 clear plastic pockets in which to slide colorful cards for the days of the week, date, month, and special days. A fabulous way to start the day and help orient children time-wise. Three grommets make it easy to hang. 29 1/2".
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view | Pink Cowgirl Dress-Up Set Pink set has a pink hat, navy blue bandanna, and a sheriff badge. Child sized.
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view | Pirate Adventures! 13% OffAhoy matey! You'll have all you need for an imaginative pirate adventure: felt pirate hat, metal treasure chest with lock and key, paper treasure map, and 2 drawstring bags of loot (one of jewels, and one of gold coins).
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view | Stretchy Mice and Cheese Two adorable white stretchy mice can find lots of hiding places in this block of super stretchy cheese. Very fun to play with and appealing!
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Standin' Tall
Character Training to Music I love the cheery, value-teaching songs and motivating stories that these wonderful read-along book/tape sets provide. In fact, they have been a integral part of my childraising. Each CD contains a unique, original story with modern-day children as characters. Happy songs with easy-to-remember tunes and lyrics are included within the story. The follow-along storybook opens to a full-page drawing (suitable for coloring) on each spread, as well as the text of the story and the words to the songs. My children love these and listen to them over and over again, learning these wonderful character-building songs! My favorite set is "Obedience." The children in the story accidentally end up in the Land of Disobey, where no one keeps any rules and everything goes haywire. I often find myself singing the song, "Better Obey Your Mother" (from this set) to my children to help them remember to obey. What great lessons for young ones! Virtue-building fun for ages 3-10 years. Complete set of 12 Books + CDs.
Includes the following:
#1: Obedience, Book and CD
#2: Honesty Book and CD
#3: Forgiveness Book and CD
#4: Work Book and CD
#5: Courage Book and CD
#6: Happiness Book and CD
#7: Gratitude Book and CD
#8: Love Book and CD
#9: Service Book and CD
#10: Cleanliness Book and CD
#11: Self Esteem Book and CD
#12: Dependability Book and CD
12 Books and 12 CDs plus case
Downloadable ebooks and music (pdf and music audiobook MP3 formats) 12 eBooks and 12 music audiobooks
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Teach Character with Bedtime Stories! 44% OffEverybody loves a story! Evenings at my house are time for read-aloud, and my children's favorite stories have always been Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories. These charming, old-fashioned stories have incredible appeal because they are true! These tales really happened, and they sometimes turn out disastrously! Each story is just a few pages long, so it is easy to sneak one in here and there in a busy schedule.
The five-volume set has a publication date of 1976, and it is actually a collection of the best stories found in the 1964 version, so you know old-fashioned Christian values are alive and well. In addition to the real stories about real children, each book has a story from the Bible. Each book has 192 pages, a glossy picture cover, and wonderful color drawings throughout. The very best thing about these stories is that they speak right to a child's heart! I read my daughter Louisa the story "Two Carolines," a story about a little girl who was very pleasant and lovable when out of the house but not very happy to those at home. A day later, Louisa came to me to confess, "I am like that story, Mom." The best part was that I never said one word! I read the story out loud, then Louisa saw herself in it and strived to correct her own behavior. Ooh, hard to beat that kind of powerful teaching—teaching through parables!
One of the stories my grown children remember best is "The Hollow Pie." Seems a certain young man always grabbed the biggest piece for himself rather than watching out for others and saying, "You go first." After a very disappointing dinner, one very sorry boy learned that maybe the biggest isn't always the best!
If a set will bless the whole family for years to come, this is it! As always, your satisfaction is unconditionally guaranteed.
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*The Patriot's Handbook
A fabulous collection of source documents read on CD. Wonderful!
*A More Perfect Union DVD
My favorite movie on the founding of our nation—inspiring!
*Take Your Hat Off When the Flag Goes By
A wonderful "short-course" in the making of our nation, set to song for kids.
*Learning the Bill of Rights in Minutes
Knowing our rights is vital to our freedom. Even kids can learn them quick!
*American History Stories You Never Read in School . . . But Should Have!
Fascinating, true, little-known stories from America's founding.
Hi!
I am Diane Hopkins, mother of 7 children (ages 12 to 32) whom I have had the privilege of homeschooling over the past 18 years. I'm a mom, just like you, and have those fabulous days and those not-so-good days like we all do. My hope in writing is to share experiences, and hopefully we can encourage one another in this wonderful, intense adventure of childraising--that is really what homeschooling is, after all.
Hoping to help, if I can!
Love, Diane
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