The Gifts in Christmas Gift Guide 2021: Homeschooling: Part Two were sent to us in exchange for a spot in our Christmas Gift Guide.
Like I explained in Christmas Gift Guide 2021: Homeschooling: Part One. Homeschooling can get expensive at times. But you can have created Wish List people can shop from on Birthday and Christmas to help you supply your Classroom.
Charlie and I begin building our Homeschool Wish List Charlie and I thought you might like to see what we would like to have. If you see something we left out leave me a comment and I will add it as soon as possible.
Everyday Mathematics Made Easy published by Tom Begnal
This easy-to-understand handbook teaches essential math concepts using real-life examples so you can confidently apply math skills in everyday situations such as personal finance, cooking, home repair, and shopping.
For many of us, math can conjure memories of frustration and embarrassment, yet math and its application are all around us every day–in the workplace, supermarket, mall, and the gas station, where a basic math solution can easily and quickly solve a problem.
However, some of us have either blocked out, forgotten, or simply did not learn the basics of math. With Everyday Mathematics Made Easy, Author Thomas Begnal brings math back to the forefront of our brains and re-teaches (or teaches) all the basic math concepts.
Using an encouraging voice throughout, each chapter is devoted to a specific math topic and explains the underlying basic math function in a simple and easy-to-understand way.
Step-by-step instructions on topics such as the traditional operations of arithmetic, fractions and decimals, averages, ratios and percentages, geometry, and more are enforced with sidebars on how to solve math problems quickly and correctly in common situations, including:
- Cooking: How to double or half recipes; how long to thaw food items based on ratios; how to convert measurements from imperial to metric; and how to work with ingredient ratios in food recipes.
- Shopping: How to determine a better deal between two sale items; what is the real cost of an item after the sale percentage is taken off; how much is the sales tax; and how much to tip at a restaurant.
- Finances: How to figure out interest rates on credit cards, loans, and mortgages; how to determine the value of a car; how much will it cost to use gasoline on a road trip; how to determine the cost of gas per gallon; how to balance a checkbook; and how to determine currency exchanges.
- Home: How to determine how much a home-improvement project will increase the value of a home; how to take accurate room measurements; how to determine the correct size of furniture to fit in a space; how determine the ratio of a solution when mixed with water; how much does it cost to run appliances; how much fertilizer do you need for a yard; and how to determine if a rotting tree may hit your house.
Get a quick review of everything you forgot you knew with the Everyday Learning series from Wellfleet Press. Need a refresher course in topics like grammar and philosophy? Then let these handy reference books be your sidekicks on your journey to higher learning.
You’ll learn about timeless global topics, as well as the thought leaders responsible for some of the greatest contributions in the worlds of science, art, and more. Packed with useful information, these portable books are perfect for commuters who want to jump-start their day with useful and fun facts. With the Everyday Learning series, you’ll be an expert in any field in no time.
Everyday Grammar Made Easy published by Rod Mebane
For both adults and students who want to brush up on basic grammar skills, this easy-to-understand and fully illustrated handbook teaches the important and commonly encountered grammar concepts and basics using real-life situations. Confidently apply perfect grammar usage by learning:
- Correct verb agreements
- Appropriate pronoun use
- Common grammar pitfalls
- Common spelling mistakes
- And more
Build your grammar skills and confidence day by day in no time at all!
Get a quick review of everything you forgot you knew with the Everyday Learning series from Wellfleet Press. Need a refresher course in topics like grammar and math? Then let these handy reference books be your sidekicks on your journey to higher learning.
You’ll learn about timeless global topics, as well as the thought leaders responsible for some of the greatest contributions in the worlds of science, art, and more.
Packed with useful information, these portable books are perfect for commuters who want to jump-start their day with useful and fun facts. With the Everyday Learning series, you’ll be an expert in any field in no time.
Order Out of Chaos Academic Planer 21/ 22
Order Out of Chaos® offers study skills, time management and coaching services; family education, ADHD resources as well as classes, educational videos and products to families and their students —both mainstream and those with learning differences. Our mission is to help parents help their students be successful in learning and in life.
Seventeen years ago, award-winning Academic/Life Coach and Time Management expert, Leslie Josel scoured the market to find an academic planner with features which would help her students “SEE” time so they could learn to manage it. Most of the planners she found were “TO-DO” style planners—used to just record homework assignments and test dates.
Motivated to create a tool that would help ALL students learn the necessary skills they needed to succeed in school and in life, she designed her own! Products Designed With Students In Mind!
The Academic Planner: A Tool for Time Management is an award-winning educational tool for students that keep them on task and on track to succeed with their assignments, projects, goals, and more.
This planner’s patented layout design allows students to see when assignments are due and tests scheduled alongside after-school commitments and free blocks of time, enabling students to visualize their time so they can learn to master and manage it.
Leslie Josel is also an award-winning author of three books including, “What’s the Deal with Teens and Time Management”, and “How to Do It Now Because It’s Not Going Away.”
She is also an international sought-after speaker and the weekly “Dear ADHD Family Coach” columnist for ADDitude Magazine. She is a long-time member of NAPO and ICD and a graduate of the JST Coaching Program for Teens and College Students with ADHD and LD. Leslie has also been named by Global Gurus 5 YEARS IN A ROW one of the top time management experts in the world. See Less
Connecting With Kids In A Disconnected World by Trevor Romain
For the last thirty years, award-winning children’s book author Trevor Romain has been working with children from all walks of life. In the last decade alone, he has presented to over a million children across the globe.
Connecting With Kids In A Disconnected World is the culmination of Trevor’s life-long work and his mission to help kids become happier, healthier, and more confident.
The book is filled with practical, proven strategies, effective tools, and inspiring stories designed to help adults shape and improve connections with kids.
Based on his personal experience while working with terminally ill children, former child soldiers, children in orphanages, military children, foster children, and at-risk children, Trevor shares ideas, case histories, and successful techniques to help adults connect with kids, even under the
most stressful and trying conditions.
ABC, Rise Up and Be!: An Empowering Alphabet for Changing the World published by Annemarie Riley Guertin
In a world where you can be anything, be . . .
Accepting: A rising leaf doesn’t cause others to fall. Be the wind that helps everyone soar to new heights.
Big-hearted: A big heart embraces life and all of its beauty and marvels.
Courageous: Courage is a whisper from inside that says, “You can do this.” Fighting for what is right will never be wrong.
In this empowering Alphabet to inspire kids to become their best selves, readers will discover traits like humble, just, mindful, persistent, and twenty-two other character-building words with thought-provoking advice designed to empower and encourage.
Each page includes an adorable illustration of kids with famous heroes who have exemplified each of these traits: kind like Mother Teresa, generous like Clara Barton, encouraging like Anne Frank, respectful like the Dalai Lama, and more!
10 Little Monsters visit Texas by Trish Madson
10 little Monsters feelin’ a little reckless
Take a trip to the great state of Texas.
10 Little Monsters they can’t wait
‘Cause monsters love the Lone Star State!
From the Alamo to the Rio Grand and off to the Rodeo, these 10 Little Monsters discover some of the most unique and interesting things about Texas and what it has to offer. Silly, over-the-top fun and a bit macabre, 10 Little Monsters Visit Texas is the perfect book for every little boy and ghoul!
The Day Punctuation Came to Town (2) (Language is Fun!) Hardcover – Picture Book, August by Kimberlee Gerard
There’s a new family in town: the Punctuations! When Exclamation Point, Question Mark, Period, and Comma join the letters at school, they form words like Wow! and Why? and Yes. But Comma isn’t sure where he belongs. He just seems to get in the way. Is he really important?
Kids, parents, and teachers will enjoy this latest installment in the Language Is Fun series. With colorful illustration and clever wordplay, The Day Punctuation Came to Town is a wonderful introduction to punctuation and the important role it plays in language.
The Mighty Silent e! by Kimberlee Gard
Little e is sure he could be a hero—he even has the cape to prove it! But at school, he is so quiet, he just doesn’t stand out. That is, until one day when Little e doesn’t show up to class.
The other letters don’t even notice he’s gone at first, but when c, a, and k try to form a word for dessert, they realize that no matter what they do, they can’t make it work.
The whole class is in an uproar! Without their silent friend, what are they going to do? Will Little e finally get his chance to come to the rescue?
With adorable illustrations, helpful examples, and a cute classroom setting, The Mighty Silent e teaches spelling and vowel sounds in a new, exciting way that is sure to engage and successfully teach even the most stubborn reader.
And its message about how every child’s identity and diversity is valued through the clever story will encourage children to celebrate their unique contribution.
When You Wonder, You’re Learning: Mister Rogers’ Enduring Lessons for Raising Creative, Curious, Caring Kids Published by Mister Rogers
Bringing the lessons of Mister Rogers into the digital age
Playful and practical, When You Wonder, You’re Learning introduces a new generation of families to the lessons of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. By exploring the Science behind the iconic television program, the book reveals what Fred Rogers called the “tools for learning”: skills and mindsets that Scientists now consider essential.
These tools—curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and more—have been shown to boost everything from Academic Learning to children’s well-being, and they benefit kids of every background and age. They cost next to nothing to develop, and they hinge on the very things that make life worthwhile: self-acceptance; close, loving relationships; and a deep regard for one’s neighbor.
When You Wonder, You’re Learning shows parents and educators the many ways they might follow in Rogers’ footsteps, sharing his “tools for learning” with digital-age kids. With insights from thinkers, scientists, and Teachers—many of whom worked with Rogers himself—the book is an essential exploration into how kids and their parents can excel at what Rogers taught best: being human.
The World Book Published by Joe Fullman & Rose Blake
Where would you like to visit next? Take a tour of every single Country in the world within the pages of The World Book. Packed with facts, stats and Flags – explore different Cultures and the best things to see, do and taste on this Planet.
Find out how to say ‘good morning’ in Maltese, the most popular dishes in Colombian Cuisine, and where you can see over 60 species of Hummingbird. Seek out the tallest Mountain, the longest River, and everything in between.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
