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Beehive Reader 1 Review

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Beehive Reader 1 by Marie Rippel with Renee LaTulippe The Beehive Reader 1, recipient of the silver medal in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, is a phonics based early reader that correlates to the All About Spelling level 1 program.  Example: Story 1 ~ “At the Pond” can be read after completing step 15 of the program.  You can see more correlations to the program here.  Although the Beehive Reader 1 is set up to be used with the All About Spelling program, it can easily be used as an independent reader. The hard cover of this book makes it…

Dollar Homeschool – Ray’s Arithmetic Review

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Ray’s Arithmetic takes students and teachers back in time.  Ray’s was originally created to be used by frontier Americans who often lived in areas where available teachers were few, often far away, or even completely unavailable. The books are designed to allow children, once they can read, to work independently to a very great extent. Concepts are carefully explained, and all of the subjects follow one after another in a very logical progression, so that the child is never asked to work a type of problem which has not yet been discussed. The Ray’s Arithmetic cd contains 38 books indexed…

MathScore Review

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MathScore is an online math practice and assessment program for students between 1st grade and Algebra I developed by Steven Yang.  When Mr. Yang saw that many math educational software programs were heavy on the fun but light on the educational value, he set out to create a program that balanced learning and motivational fun. MathScore randomly generates math problems that automatically adapt in difficulty based upon the student’s performance.  This allows each student to progress at their ideal learning pace.  The automatic grading allows students to receive immediate feedback on their work. MathScore is intended to be a supplemental…

Presidential Penmanship BJ Style Review

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Zeezok Publishing was founded in 2003 with a goal to provide quality literature and educational books for use in training the next generation.  They believe that “It is better to build children than to repair men.” Zeezok Publishing sent us the Presidential Penmanship BJ Style Complete curriculum on cd to review.  This program includes handwriting skills practice for grades 1st through senior high.  While we do not normally use a separate handwriting program, I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to easily incorporate the use of this program in our every day schooling.  Since the program is made up…

Keyboarding for the Christian School Review

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Keyboarding for the Christian School is not just a typing product.  Yes, you begin the program by learning proper hand/finger placement for all of the letters, numbers, and symbols.  In fact, the first 29 lessons cover the routine typing practice that you will find in most basic typing program.  There are no frills – just good old fashioned typing practice. The part that differentiates this product from other typing programs is that it goes beyond just the basics of typing.  You will learn how to vertically and horizontally format a document using scripture passages from Psalms.  You will learn how…