The Adventist Home Educator Curriculum Guide

The Adventist

Home Educator

Curriculum Guide

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates." Deuteronomy 6:5-9

The Adventist Home Educator Curriculum Guide

First Edition ~ 2011 First E-Book ~ 23 ? June - 2011 ? Copyright 1990-2011 by The Adventist Home Educator Melissa Bull, editor and compiler

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The information is as accurate and up to date as we have at this time. We would appreciate it if you would report any inaccuracies in information.

Melissa Bull, Editor and Compiler The Adventist Home Educator 3450 Quail Avenue Manly, Iowa 50456 Email: adventisthomeducator@ Internet:

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Mission Statement:

It is the prayer and purpose of The Adventist Home Educator Ministry that all who need information, encouragement and support for Adventist home education will find it through the ministry of The Adventist Home Educator. Consider AHE to be the support group that is hard to find anywhere else ~ Adventist parents in Christ sharing with each other in an understanding that only a few have.

"Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." II Corinthians 4:5

Curriculum Guide Forward

This mini e-Book was originally part of the Adventist Home Educator Handbook. We are offering this for free for a limited time, as we work at creating a new Handbook.

This Curriculum Guide offers reviews on many items that have been used by other SDA homeschoolers. Some of them we feel are better than others. We have put a by the items that are our favorites and ones that tend to follow "true education" more closely. Other resources are included as some resources are ones that may fit particular situations or desires of other SDA homeschoolers.

To view newer reviews of products, books, or curriculum, visit our website and look under Past Newsletters. Each newsletter usually contains at least one new review.

As you go into reading this Curriculum Guide, please say a prayer so that God can lead you to what is best for your family. May God bless you as you search diligently for products that will glorify Him in the lives of your children.

Table of Contents Art Bible Character Development Computers Early Childhood Foreign Language Handwriting Health and Physical Education Internet and Software Language Life Skills Mathematics Music Reading Science Social Studies

Art

Adventist Materials and Resources

AY (Pathfinders and Adventurers) Various AY honors in the Arts and Crafts category such as glass painting, sculpturing, and drawing.

Applied Art, Grades 1-8. (Country Garden School) Drawing, painting, design, color, modeling, and handicraft presented separately and interwoven together. Teacher's Key available.

"And let the beauty of the Lord our God

be upon us; and establish the work of

our hands."

Psalm 90:17

Other Christian/secular materials

Adventures in Art (Cornerstone Curriculum Project) Four-year art appreciation curriculum, with beautiful art prints in portfolios, studied from a Christian perspective.

"The Author of all beauty, Himself a

lover of the beautiful, God provided to gratify in His children the love of beauty." Education, page 41

Art with a Purpose (Country Garden School, Rod and Staff) Share-a-Care Publications. Includes drawing, coloring, lettering, paper cutting, and project making. Artpac number identifies grade level 1 8.

Developing Motor Skills in Art (Rod and Staff), For grades 1 and 2. Focus on paper and craft projects, including coloring, cutting, folding, pasting, tracing, drawing, painting, and project making. Teacher's Manual and Student Packets ordered separately.

Draw Books

Build your drawing skills with a step by step approach.

Draw ?Write-Now (Timberdoodle, Borders) The eight-book Draw-Write-Now series has step-by-step drawing instruction and short sentences for writing practice. Each book is a complete unit study for exploring history, geography, natural science, and social studies.

Drawing Textbook (The Sycamore Tree) Bruce McIntyre. Step-by-step approach to the seven basic elements of drawing. Even if you "just can't draw," you will learn easily with your child with this course. Uses ordinary pencils and paper. Inexpensive and fun! Early elementary to adult.

Drawing With Children and Drawing for Older Children & Teens Mona Brookes. A creative teaching and learning method for children that works for adults, too. Assumes no prior knowledge of art or special talent, only requirement is the desire to learn and ability to recognize and reproduce the five basic shapes that combine to form all objects.

Face and Body Paint Two tablespoons solid shortening (Crisco), one tablespoon cornstarch and 4-5 drops food coloring.

Feed My Sheep (Timberdoodle) Two plus years of information by Christian artist Barry Stebbing containing 200 lessons of drawing, acrylic painting, nature studies perspective and more. Ages 10 ? adult.

How Great Thou Art Box 48, McFarlan, NC 28102; 800/982-3729; Books, video's and Christian art program for ages 3 through adult.

For Your Home Art Program: Provide plenty of blank newsprint, large and small crayons, unscented markers, paints, glitter, play dough, scissors, glue sticks, tape, and an area in which your child can "do school." Don't forget carpentry, needlework, sewing, and whatever else your child can imagine.

Meet the Masters 866/686-4278; 40,000 discounted art supplies including, art history CD-ROM's, and art projects and programs.

Play Dough Here is our favorite recipe for homemade play dough with natural coloring. It turns out even nicer than the commercial kind, plus it's a lot of fun to make with your children:

1 C water (or 1 C naturally colored liquid* see below) 1/4 C salt 2 t cream of tartar 1 T vegetable oil 1 C white (bleached) flour

In medium saucepan, stir salt into the liquid. Add remaining ingredients and mix well. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture sticks together and forms a large ball. Remove mixture from saucepan onto surface protected with waxed paper. Knead to a smooth consistency. Store cooled play dough in covered, airtight container.

*Natural colorings: Red?juice from canned or fresh beets, add water to make 1 cup Yellow?1/2 teaspoon turmeric dissolved in 1 cup water Brown?1 teaspoon instant cereal beverage or coffee in 1 cup water Melon?1/4 teaspoon paprika in 1 cup water Purple?boil red cabbage in water, use 1 cup of the liquid Green?pureed spinach, amount varies with intensity desired Blue?crushed/pureed blueberries or juice from canned

Sidewalk Paint A half cup cornstarch, half a cup of water, six drops food coloring (or one tablespoon poster paint). Have fun being artistic on the driveway or sidewalk and it will wash away.

Copyright 1989 ? 2011, The Adventist Home Educator

Bible

Adventist Materials and Resources

"As a means of intellectual training, the Bible is more

Adventist Correspondence Courses

Several courses are available for children and youth from various publishers, such as Voice of Prophecy and Faith for Today. They can make a good basic Bible doctrines course for Adventist children. Ask your pastor or ABC about what is available.

effective than any other

Adventures in the Holy Bible Your Story Hour,

book, or all other books combined."

Discover Bible Correspondence Course Available from Voice of Prophecy, Box 55, Los Angeles, CA 90053

Education, page

124 Adventist Sabbath School Lesson Quarterlies (Cradle Roll, Kindergarten, Primary, Junior, Earliteen,

Youth, Collegiate) Sabbath School web page:

Cradle Roll, Kindergarten, and Primary quarterlies contain not only the Bible story for the child but suggested activities for the parent to do with the child. Custom-designed Bible curriculum for homeschools can very nicely be built around the Sabbath school lessons, especially those dealing with Bible stories. Supplement with My Bible Friends, The Bible Story, and other similar books. Mother should study the Spirit of Prophecy recommended reading because this enhances her teaching of the lessons. Audiocassettes such as The Bible In Living Sound are great supplements. You could also use the memory verses set to music, using available printed music and cassettes. (See Music).

Junior, Earliteen, and Youth quarterlies should be thoroughly screened by you for content before your child uses them. Recently, there have been issues discussed in the Junior quarterlies that many parents feel should be only discussed in family situations such as dating, sex education and values clarification. This has led many parents to choose Young Disciple as an alternative.

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