Another Wondeful Homeschool Resource..Hands of a Child!!!

Are your children tired of a standard science textbook?!?!  Do they like learning cool facts about unique animals and areas of the world?  I was ready to beat my head into a wall trying to get a touch of excitement out of the kids about science.  Then I discovered the Habitat Series from Hands of a Child.




Wow are these awesome!!!  Age/Grade levels vary and they are so easily adaptable for multi-level teaching.  I have kids in Grades 4 down to Pre-k.  I was able to easily adapt our study to them. 

Now we do not do traditional lapbooks.  I have 2 with special needs, so I actually print and help cut out all components and then I bind them in a spiral book style.  The information provided on each top is quite thorough and to be honest, we checked out tons of rain forest books to go through to "research" answers, and the answers to each component is given in each informational section.  There is some copywork provided with each of these.  Ideas for further activities and websites to seek out further research are also provided.  Click here to see our week in the Rain Forest.

When we finish this series our next purchases will be for the Animal Series.  The nice thing about Hands of a Child is if you are preferring Secular curriculum, they do offer General Science.  They also offer a Creation Science series. 

The literature series is also wonderful providing units to go with books for boys and girls.  They have a really cool princess lapbook

that we will be starting soon.  For American Girl fans, they have a full lapbook series for all the girls.



I think one of my favorite options is the Ebook order.  Very easy checkout and then my book is immediately available for download.  The option is also given to you to order a printed book,spiral bound printed book, CD, or they also offer premade supplies that are cut out and ready to go. 

Another benefit of Hands of a Child is their $5.00 eBook special. 

Our kids are giving all of these TWO THUMBS UP!!!  I am giving them the same rating.  These are very much like a unit study and we are able to break down what we are learning about each day.  Each one could be done in a week, but we choose to do the rain forest unit over a two week period.  But our average time is about a week. 

Benefits:

• Ages of all the products range from Prekindergarten through High School Age. 
• Great for Multi-level learning.
• Low pricing
• Ebooks available with links for unlimited downloads of what you purchase.
• Tons of information and research links made available for you in each unit.
• Downloadable samples made available for each unit.
• You can order custom project packs on topics...Low price and they do all the research!!!
• Easy to use website that you can shop by topic, age or subject.

So if you want a little help, just check out Hands of a Child for a wonderful selection of educational and fun lapbooks.  You will not regret it.

**I purchased all lapbooks that I have mentioned here.  Hands of a Child did not provide any of the books at no cost.  I provide my honest opinion about these books and verbally told many about how much I love these products.  All clipart is from the Hands of a Child Website.

Lapbook giveaway from Hands of a Child

Last year I started reading about Lap books.  I was a little confused, but decided to try them.  We have done a few in the past year.  Some of them in traditional Lap book format in file folders and some of them just in a folder or 3 ring binder.  When I do them in a binder we are able to add extra information and reports.

One of my favorite places to purchase lap book materials is Hands of a Child. 

They run some wonderful specials, and you can't beat their $5.00 lapbook specials.  They also offer a free lapbook, that changes every few months. 


Music Appreciation Pack

I recently purchased their Music Appreciation pack, and the lovely thing about their project packs is you can adjust how you complete the unit.  It comes with a suggested time frame to complete the unit in, and even has a guide you can follow.  You can complete lap books in a week.   We have chosen to break this one down to a much longer period and only complete one activity a week.  Each unit comes with a suggested reading list that you can chose from.  This unit features 6 different composers, different ways we can make music, different kinds of musical instruments, etc.  It is definitely meeting all of our needs for a music class for the final semester of school.

Lessons can be purchased from Pre-k through high school.  But I like the fact that I can use one unit to teach across the board.  I just adjust for each child's learning level.  We are using the Music Appreciation unit for Kindergarten to 4th grade. 

Pros:
*Completely laid out lesson plan.
*Ability to adjust the lesson plan to our family's needs.
*All templates provided for each activity.
*All information is provided to complete each activity.  This includes vocabulary lists with definitions.
*You can order packs to be printed and shipped to you or just order the ebook version and download immediately.  You only print what you want to then.

Cons:
***I have noooo cons for this unit.  Or any other unit that I have purchased in the past year.  The only issue you may have is if you do not have a good printer (and you order the ebook versions), make sure you print in Fast Draft printing mode.  We are using an older printer right now since my good one broke down, and it doesn't print as well. 

After Redoing their website.....Hands of a Child is prepping for the release of the 400th Project Pack release Party!!! It's going to be a huge celebration!! 

They are going to generously be giving away this pack to one of our readers.  Here is how to enter:

*Visit Hands of a Child and come back to our blog and post a list of your 5 favorite project packs you would like to get. 

Extra entries:
*  Follow our blog using a reader.
*  Follow us on email.
*  Subscribe to their newsletter.

Please leave an individual post for each entry.  A reader will be chosen at random.

**Free bundle packs include a printed Project Pack, Kit Pack, and Answer Key
(when available) which will be mailed to your winner when the drawing is
completed. This is a $40 value with EVERYTHING covered by us, including
shipping!  Hands of a Child will be mailing the project pack to you upon release.