Shining Dawn Books

He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. – Psalm 37:6

Boat Building

Cindy | August 25, 2010

In all of our units, we often suggest activities that supplement the study of nature and pull other subjects into the picture at the same time.  In our Incredible Creeks unit, for instance, we offer the idea of constructing boats to float in the creek.  Why?  Well, much can be learned about buoyancy (floating and [...]

Build Your Own Bird Blind

Cindy | July 9, 2010

In our Animal Signs NaturExplorers study, we make a suggestion to build a secret hiding place in which to observe animals without them observing you.  Rosina from Rosy ~ Posy, and her children, spent some time recently making an indoor bird blind.  We loved the idea so much that we asked if she would mind [...]

Real Homeschooling with Remarkable Rain

Cindy | June 7, 2010

We were blessed beyond words when Jessica from Powers Taiwan Chatter left us a wonderfully sweet comment about her family’s experience with our newest unit, Remarkable Rain.  She has graciously allowed us to share some of a post from her blog where she wrote about the fun they had studying and playing in the rain [...]

Dioramas

Cindy | May 20, 2010

In some of our NaturExplorers units we suggest the completion of a diorama to go along with a research project.  Dioramas are such a fun and creative way to model entire habitats or ecosystems.  Even better, they can prove to be an informal assessment of your child’s understanding when you ask him or her to [...]

Organizing E-books

Cindy | May 10, 2010

I was giddy with excitement when I came across this post about keeping a visual organizer of all your e-books.  Melissa and I have struggled much with the fact that it’s entirely too expensive to put our e-books in print.  We know how many of you would much rather have a hand-held copy.  Luckily, we [...]