Learn to Read with Reading Eggs

 

Reading Eggs provides a comprehensive online reading program that fits seamlessly into your homeschool program. Whether you’re a seasoned homeschooler or deciding whether or not to start, Reading Eggs is the perfect solution for home learning.

The comprehensive online reading curriculum is based on solid scientific research, with personalized, one-on-one lessons that match your child’s ability. Best of all, the program makes learning to read fun and highly motivating for young children, with colorful animations, interactive activities, and exciting rewards.

Why choose the Reading Eggs program?

Reading Eggs was developed by a team of elementary educators. The program has been used to teach children how to read at home for over 10 years and has received multiple awards and endorsements from leading homeschool associations.

Suitable for children ages 2-13, Reading Eggs covers the five essential components of reading success: phonics, phonetic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.

Placement test matches each child to the perfect level.

The self-paced lessons in Reading Eggs are carefully paced to make sure your child makes good progress. Children complete a placement test at the start of the program, which accurately matches them to the perfect level. There are regular assessment tests to help children retain what they have learned, as well as detailed progress reports that show you exactly how they’re improving.

A comprehensive family dashboard lets you view each of your children’s learning progress, including how many lessons they’ve completed, books they’ve read, their estimated reading age, and quiz scores. Parents also get emailed in-depth reports each time a child has completed a map.

Fun and engaging content that children actually enjoy.

The reason why Reading Eggs has become a tremendous hit for homeschoolers is because it makes learning fun and enjoyable for young kids. The program is carefully designed to engage children, build skills fast, and nurture a love of reading at an early age. This is the best way to set them up for lifelong success in reading and learning – turning them into avid readers!

Children love the funny characters, vibrant animations, catchy songs, and motivating golden egg rewards. The program includes multiple learning areas that focus on different skills, as well as variety of activities and books that keep them hooked from the beginning.

Bonus homeschool resources at your fingertips.

Reading Eggs combines interactive online learning with high-quality offline supplements to ensure children retain what they learn. The family dashboard includes over 500 printable worksheets that correspond with each of the lessons in the program.

The worksheets can be printed and are easy for children to use. Parents can also access helpful lesson ideas and activity suggestions to try at home. This is a great way to support your child’s understanding on each concept and skill in a practical, hands-on way.

What skills are covered in the Reading Eggs program?

Reading Eggs instructs homeschoolers in the five essential components of reading instruction, as outlined by the National Reading Panel. These include:

·         Phonics – each letter of the alphabet is introduced in its own lesson with a focus on reinforcing letter-sound relationships and highlighting the alphabetic principle.

·         Phonetic Awareness – children learn the necessary listening skills to become aware that speech is made up of sounds and that these sounds make words, syllables, and phonemes.

·         Vocabulary – new words are introduced with visual support to provide context and increase word knowledge and retention.

·         Fluency – children develop the rapid word recognition skills essential for reading fluency, including learning to instantly recall crucial sight words that make up 50% of elementary level books.

·         Comprehension – reading for meaning is the end goal of Reading Eggs. The program includes over 3000 eBooks, each with their own comprehension quiz.

There are four separate reading programs included in a Reading Eggs subscription:

·         Reading Eggs Junior for ages 2-4

·         Reading Eggs for ages 3-7

·         Fast Phonics for ages 5-10

·         Reading Eggspress for ages 7-13

Try the Reading Eggs program FREE for 30 Days!

Join 20 million users and see how Reading Eggs can improve your child’s reading skills in just 15 minutes a day. It only takes a few minutes to set up, and you’ll get instant access to hundreds of online lessons, activities, books, and printable worksheets – perfect for your family’s homeschooling needs.

Visit https://readingeggs.com to learn more about the award-winning homeschool reading program from Reading Eggs.

Bible Blueprints - Crew Review

 

Disclaimer: I received this complimentary product through the Homeschool Review Crew.

Bible Blueprints from Teach Sunday School is a Bible study tool not only for the Sunday School classroom, but also for family Bible study. This is a digital product that includes one-page study outlines for each book in the Old Testament and each book in the New Testament.

After you purchase this resource online, you will be directed to a download area, where you can get instant access to the Bible Blueprints. You can print off as many copies as you need for your church or home. Each outline provides the following:

·         order in which that book is found in the Old Testament or New Testament,

·         number of chapters in that book,

·         type of book,

·         time period covered,

·         author,

·         overview that includes essential content, background, and perspective

·         and a lesson plan to study the stories within the book. 

Bible students of all ages can use these printable outlines to dig deeper into God’s Word. These outlines have been a help in my own Sunday School class to provide an overview of each book before we study each story/lesson as we work our way through each book of the Bible.

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Healthy Habit Trackers - Crew Review

 

Disclaimer: I received this complimentary product through the Homeschool Review Crew.

Healthy Habit Trackers from American Coaching Academy is a fitness tool for homeschool physical education.  This is a digital product that includes twelve monthly challenges to build healthy habits in just five minutes per day. Each one includes a series of daily tasks that will help build healthy habits over the course of an entire month. Let’s explore each challenge in more detail.

Challenge 1: Muscular Endurance – Muscular endurance refers to the ability to exert force, consistently and repetitively, over a period of time. This challenge features a 5-minute exercise circuit that includes wall sits, running in place, planks, crab bridges, and wall pushups.

Challenge 2: Household Chores – One of the best ways to get kids more active is to get them helping out around the house. This challenge includes tasks like making the bed, washing the dishes, taking out the trash, and walking the dog.

Challenge 3: Healthy Body – Building healthy habits is about more than just exercise! This challenge includes self-care tasks like hydration, playing outside, hygiene, and sleep.

Challenge 4: Kindness – This challenge is all about exercising our kindness muscles. It includes daily tasks to lend a hand, help others feel cared for, or just make someone smile.

Challenge 5: Nutrition – This challenge will help kids build healthy eating habits. Daily tasks will reinforce eating balanced meals and getting proper hydration to fuel an active lifestyle.

Challenge 6: Locomotor – Practicing different locomotor movements is a great way to help kids improve their balance, strength, and coordination. This challenge includes daily tasks like hopscotch, tiptoes, and army crawls.

Challenge 7: Boot Camp – This fun conditioning circuit will challenge kids of all fitness levels. Tasks include burpees, pushups, squat jumps, sidekicks, sit-ups, and high planks.

Challenge 8: Yoga Flow – Yoga is an ancient form of exercise that focuses on strength, flexibility and breathing to boost physical and mental wellbeing. This challenge includes basic yoga poses like Warrior, Triangle, and Child’s Pose.

Challenge 9: Cardio – Cardiovascular endurance is a measure of how well you can do body exercises at moderate to high intensity for an extended time. This challenge is a 5-minute circuit that includes plenty of jumping, dancing, and hopping.

Challenge 10: Flexibility – Flexibility is the ability of a joint or series of joints to move through an unrestricted, pain-free range of motion. This challenge includes tasks like butterfly stretches and tow touches.

Challenge 11: Muscular Strength – Muscular strength is your ability to move and lift objects. It is measured by how much force you can exert and how much weight you can lift for a short period of time. This challenge includes tasks like push-ups, squats, and lunges.

Challenge 12: Bee Fit – This fun challenge brings it all together. Tasks include a mix of strength, movement, hydration, and kindness.

After you purchase this resource online, you will be directed to the download area, where you can download and print each Healthy Habit Tracker, and let the fun begin. Pick a tracker, hand out a copy of the tracker to each student, and have them complete the daily task for an entire month. If you have a kinesthetic learner or your student just needs a brain break, these daily exercises are a great way to re-energize your students between subjects. And what better way to motivate your students, than to get active with them, family fitness is a fun way for everyone to be healthy.

In just five minutes per day, you can motivate and inspire your kids to make time for daily exercise, and help them learn the value of an active lifestyle. Visit the Crew Blog to read more reviews from the Homeschool Review Crew.

Let Freedom Ring

 

What does freedom mean to you? We differ in our perceptions about freedom depending on what aspect we’re looking at. But, do you think you are free? We are all bound by the chains of sin. Every human is a prisoner of sin. It’s part of our nature. We are all born to a sinful world and it’s inevitable for us to commit one as we grow up. Thanks to our loving God for sending us His only son Jesus Christ. By shedding His precious blood and giving His life to the cross, we’ve been saved from the wages of sins which is death. Still, many of us remain captives of this sinful world. Because our body is weak, we are often trapped by sin’s chains. However, the holy scripture says Christ is our freedom. Therefore, the only way we can be totally free is by having Him in our lives.

There have been many songs written about freedom; but one of my favorites is “Let Freedom Ring” by William James Gaither and Gloria Gaither. The song was basically inspired by the many political and historical events that hindered thousands of individuals to live their lives freely elsewhere. Many had been captives of the numerous wars that happened in the world. But the most striking message of the song is the fact that all humans are not free. It’s because they’re enslaved by sins.

Though we are blessed because of God’s great love to the world, He sent Jesus Christ to Calvary. That great sacrifice was the most liberating event that ever happened in history. Indeed, it’s worth singing, it’s worth proclaiming that Jesus is our freedom. Let Him reign in our lives. Let freedom ring in the whole world!

I’ll sing it out with every breath, I’ll let the whole world hear it,

This hallelujah anthem of the free,

That iron bars and heavy chains can never hold us captive,

The Son has made us free and free indeed!