Happy Friday morning, everyone!
Today, we have LOTS of great new products to showcase! Carrie has spent the last several years looking at our guides and ways to make them even better. We’ve been hard at work making changes, and now we’re finally able to announce many of these new Heart of Dakota selections, which will be available in the upcoming Spring Sale!
Our first exciting news is that we are adding two outstanding, new elementary math choices -
Math With Confidence and
Apologia’s Exploring Creation With Mathematics. This is the first time we have added new elementary math options in 20 years, and we know you will love what these program have to offer! We are also adding new phonics choices, while still keeping tried and true favorites. These options will make the path to reading easier for so many students!
Two other exciting changes include a new devotional for
Little Hearts for His Glory and a new “Visual History” set of picture books for
Beyond Little Hearts for His Glory. Take a look below to learn more about each new product – and be sure to keep an eye out here and our
email list, where we’ll be announcing another round of amazing new products!
Math With Confidence
Math With Confidence is an easy-to-use program that features short, daily lessons 4 days a week. Scripted, open-and-go lessons are both friendly and approachable with hands-on games, activities, real-life context, and helpful tips. Straightforward, colorful worksheets help students practice new concepts and review previously-learned material. For each level of
Math With Confidence, all you need is the Instructor Guide, a Student Workbook, and common household materials (like coins, a ruler, a clock, small toys/stuffed animals, etc).
Math With Confidence is currently available for grades K-3 with a new level releasing each year through grade 6. Your kids will learn to love math as they use Math With Confidence!
Apologia Math
Apologia's
Exploring Creation with Mathematics helps students make strong connections between math, science, and our Creator! Rather than simply studying abstract mathematical principles, connections are taught so students understand the value of math as “the language in which God has written the universe.” This course features a 4-day weekly schedule that reflects a systematic progression from one skill to the next. Each level requires the Teaching Guide and an All-in-One Student Text (as well as a selection of household objects). Interactive lessons begin with an illustrated hands-on activity, followed by clear practice problems. Colorful activity pages, fun games, and intriguing projects ensure students are ready for new math concepts. Options and suggestions for adjusting a lesson if your child is struggling - or if your child is advancing quickly - are also provided.
Apologia Math is currently available for grades 1-5 with Level 6 releasing next year.
Exploring Creation With Mathematics is a well-designed math course that your children will love!
Just the Facts
Just the Facts is perfect for students who have mastered addition and subtraction and are ready to learn multiplication, division, and other basic operations. Help your student discover or reinforce third grade math concepts with 45 easy-to-teach lessons. Each lesson is first done with the student, side-by-side, followed by 1-3 pages of independent work. This math curriculum is designed specifically for visual learners, utilizing many visual aids. It is well-suited for students who have struggled with reading and/or may have memory difficulties. We recommend this program for students as a summer precursor to a third-grade math program or as rescue program for a fourth or fifth grader who has struggled with multiplication and division facts.
Learn to Read
Learn to Read is a fantastic beginning phonics program for little ones ages 3-5. This “learn-to-read” activity book sports over 100 easy lessons that will keep kids engaged from start to finish. Brief daily scripts help you know exactly what to say to keep your child focused and motivated. Cumulative phonics lessons feature coloring, mazes, word searches, and other exciting activities. Bond with your little ones as they learn to recognize letters, sound them out, and put them together in complete words and simple sentences.
Learn to Read is perfect for little ones doing
Little Hands to Heaven who are ready to begin reading. Its gentle pace, short lessons, and simple two-page format make it an ideal first phonics experience for new readers. After using
Learn to Read, we recommend students progress into Book 1 of
R.E.A.L. Phonics.
R.E.A.L. Phonics
We’re absolutely thrilled to present to you
R.E.A.L. Phonics, an open-and-go beginning phonics program designed around full-color stories! Through this step-by-step reading program, children ages 4-7 (who know their alphabet) will learn to read in a fun and memorable manner. This thoroughly modern and unique approach encourages children’s natural love of stories by teaching them to sound out words in vibrantly illustrated tales. These stories gradually increase in complexity as new letter sounds are slowly added. No prep time is required! Just sit down and start reading the stories together. Lessons are only one page a day, with a new 4-panel colorful story on each page. Teacher instructions are on the bottom of each page. Flash card sets at the back of the book provide practice for the letter names and sounds. “Writing Practices” are interspersed throughout and include all-new words and sentences. When students finish
R.E.A.L. Phonics, they are ready to jump in to Lesson 9 of
The Reading Lesson!
Miss Rhonda's Readers
Are you looking for a fabulous introduction to reading? Look no further -
Miss Rhonda’s Readers provides 16 colorful short stories and 2 delightful chapter books for beginning readers! Featuring phonetically correct words and fun, child-friendly plots,
Miss Rhonda’s Readers help young children take joy in successfully reading right from the start. Rhonda Lucadamo, a certified Montessori teacher, discovered that children had the most success when first given realistic stories to read. So she penned some for her youngest readers. Each book contained phonetic words so children could sound out complete sentences. Her children’s accomplishment were immediate! They laughed, asked questions and reacted to each story. But most importantly, they read. And then they picked up another book, and another, and another. You’ll surely find the same to be true for your own children! We’ve scheduled
Miss Rhonda’s Readers for use with both
R.E.A.L. Phonics and
The Reading Lesson. As an added bonus, these sets come with lovely full-color progress charts - made right here at Heart of Dakota!
Learn to Read for Kids with Dyslexia: Volumes 1-2
Learning to read with dyslexia can be a challenge for kids. But with the right tools, it’s a challenge they can conquer! Using a targeted approach to skill development,
Learn to Read for Kids with Dyslexia: Volumes 1-2 feature more than 100 colorful games and activities in each volume. These work together to strengthen auditory processing skills and support letter formation in writing. Most importantly, they make reading fun! These standout dyslexia books help kids aged 6-9 practice their reading skills with exercises focused on phonemic awareness, dysgraphia, and auditory processing disorder. Kids will delight in exploring everything from phonics games to mazes, word association, matching, coloring, listening, and more. 6 different learning methods are provided, giving kids a chance to see what works best for them. So, turn kids into lifelong readers, and help them along the road to overcoming dyslexia with fun-filled games and activities that build their skills and confidence. These books can be added to any reading program – simply do one short activity a day!
Blast Off to Reading!
Blast Off to Reading! is a multisensory, Orton-Gillingham-based program for children ages 8-13 who are reading below grade level. It is designed for children who have dyslexia, speech delays, auditory processing disorder (APD), and other learning difficulties. This revolutionary program, in workbook format, will systematically teach your child to read – taking students from the most basic units of sounds to multi-syllable, complex words in just 50 lessons! Each lesson includes a new sound or rule, followed by several exercises, which review concepts taught in the lesson as well as those taught previously. Consequently, children will learn to know their sounds and see how they are put together to form words. This colorful book includes large text and a visually appealing layout. The back of the book includes a complete phonics “reference” chart for quick reviews of all the sounds being taught. In addition to all this, you can take advantage of additional teaching tools and activities available at the “Blast Off to Learning” website!
“Visual History” set for Beyond Little Hearts for His Glory
Picture the past with our new
Beyond Little Hearts for His Glory “Visual History” set! Designed to round out the history study in
Beyond Little Hearts for His Glory, this collection of 27 engaging books provides a gorgeous visualization of the people, places, and events students are learning about. Sail to America on the Mayflower, bargain with tulips in Holland, settle in Jamestown with Captain Newport, plant apple trees across the nation with Johnny Appleseed, become a spy during the revolutionary war, build inventions with Benjamin Franklin, and live out on the prairie with Laura Ingalls Wilder - all just a sampling of what awaits you! By bringing history vividly to life, this set makes an excellent addition to
Beyond Little Hearts for His Glory. This set will be scheduled in the new edition of
Beyond Little Hearts for His Glory.
The Magnificent Names of Jesus
Names can tell us a great deal about people, and the various Biblical names of Jesus are no exception!
The Magnificent Names of Jesus is a unique devotional and prayer guide that explores 37 memorable names of Jesus. Each short chapter spotlights one name and offers a conversational explanation, related Scripture, and name-focused prayer that shows the breadth and depth of Christ. Charming illustrations further convey the message and meaning behind each name. As kids learn to pray to Jesus their Shepherd, Jesus their Friend, and dozens more, we hope the experience will bring deep heartfelt change both for the children and the loving adults who read with them. We have scheduled this devotional to correspond weekly with the history readings in
Little Hearts for His Glory. (A schedule is available with purchase of the devotional.)