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New Course for Preschool–2nd Grade

Dig into the exciting world of dinosaurs, rocks, earthquakes, volcanoes, maps, and more with your young learners in this fascinating course! Science for Little Hearts and Hands: Bones and Stones is a gentle introduction to paleontology and geology created especially for children in preschool through second grade.

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Bones and Stones: Course Set

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Language Arts for Littles

  • Preschool Language Arts Course Set

    Preschool Language Arts Course Set

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    Preschool Course Book, Preschool Folder Activities, Preschool Practice Sheets, Access to Learning Songs and Videos (available only with Course Book purchase)

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    Introduce your littlest learner to letters, sounds, numbers, counting, fine motor skills, and much more using the Preschool course. Interactive activities and games included in every open-and-go lesson provide a strong learning foundation for children ages 3 and older. This course allows you to feel the joy of teaching your child as you help him or her connect learning to God, high character, beautiful artwork, and parent/child interaction right from the start of your child’s educational foundation. The newly updated Preschool course includes
    • A full-color Course Book including 90 fun, engaging lessons that were carefully designed to maximize learning
    • Adorable Preschool Folder Activities including games and punch-out pieces that are incorporated throughout the course
    • Preschool Practice Sheets to boost independent learning and encourage even more fun
    • Interactive letter sound and letter movement videos to increase letter and sound recognition
  • Kindergarten Prep Language Arts Course Set

    Kindergarten Prep Language Arts Course Set

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    Kindergarten Prep Course Book (no other items needed to complete this course)

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    Make preparing for kindergarten fun, interactive, and hands-on! Kindergarten Prep features 30 beautiful full-color lessons that are perfect for children who need to master letters and their sounds. This full-color, single-book course is beautifully illustrated and easy to teach. Just open the book and go! 

    Help your child get ready for kindergarten through these amazing features of this course:

    • Teach letter sounds, vowels, numbers, and more 
    • Interactive lessons and songs
    • Fun games and short videos
    • Connections to God, art, and nature
    • Reading two-letter words
    • Introduction to word families and vowels

    Watch the Kindergarten Prep Flip Through video below to see how the course uses fun lessons to teach mastery of letter recognition and letters sounds, vowels, numbers, and an introduction to blending letter sounds!

Handwriting for Littles

  • Handwriting Workbook: Doodles and Pre-Writing for Littles Part 1

    Handwriting Workbook: Doodles and Pre-Writing for Littles Part 1

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    Doodles & Pre-writing for Littles is designed for children between the ages of 2 1/2 and 5 years old who are ready to develop the dexterity and coordination of small muscles as well as the mental focus needed to write. This level focuses on the strokes and forms used to create letters and common shapes and is designed to help small children develop the fine motor skills necessary for writing. The course is divided into three sections:
    • Continuous motions of curves, loops, waves, and spirals. Shapes: circle, oval, ellipse, quatrefoil, and curved triangle.
    • Changing directions with straight lines, angles, and zigzags. Shapes: triangle, square, rhombus, parallelogram, trapezoid, pentagon, and hexagon.
    • Combining different forms and shapes from sections one and two to create letters or more complex shapes, such as hearts and stars, and finding shapes in nature.
    This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for a normal school year. Each sheet provides an opportunity for the child to color, improving both coloring and motor skills. The doodles, forms, and shapes the child practices are all connected to nature or other common objects in a child’s world.
    • Wire Binding
    • Black and White with One Color
    • 8.5”x5.5″
    *NOTE: We are currently releasing new covers for all our Handwriting books as the stock of previous covers sells out. The content of the books is the same. Interior illustrations have been slightly modified for consistency. The transition to new covers will happen over the next few months. You will receive the cover that is pictured at the time of your purchase.
  • Handwriting Workbook: Doodles and Pre-Writing for Littles Part 2

    Handwriting Workbook: Doodles and Pre-Writing for Littles Part 2

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    Doodles & Pre-writing for Littles: Part 2 is designed for children between the ages of 2 1/2 and 5 years old who are ready to develop the dexterity and coordination of small muscles as well as the mental focus needed to write. This level focuses on the strokes and forms used to create letters and common shapes and is designed to help small children develop the fine motor skills necessary for writing. The course is divided into four sections:
    • Shapes & Strokes: provides a comprehensive review of the shapes and strokes learned in Doodles & Pre-writing for Littles: Part 1.
    • Letters: Familiarize children with letters and the kinds of strokes used for letters.
    • Trace & Try: allows children to trace shapes and strokes, then draw the same shape or stroke freehand.
    • Bonus Section—Find the Image: provides images hidden within a picture that children find and circle or color.
    This workbook includes 115 sheets, which is 4–5 sheets per week for a normal school year. Each sheet provides an opportunity for the child to color, improving both coloring and motor skills. The doodles, forms, and shapes the child practices are all connected to nature or other common objects in a child’s world.
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    • Black and White with One Color
    • 8.5”x5.5″
  • Handwriting Workbook: Level K

    Handwriting Workbook: Level K

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    Handwriting Level K is for children in kindergarten and focuses on the correct print formation of letters and numbers. This course introduces 2–3 new letters at a time, going in alphabetical order, and introduces short words and sentences near the end. Text size is reduced halfway through the course as the child gains the fine motor skills for smaller print.  The Good and the Beautiful handwriting courses incorporate drawing activities to make handwriting more enjoyable and increase fine motor skills. This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for an average school year. 
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    • Black and White with One Color
    • 8.5”x5.5″

Science for Little Hearts and Hands

Many families find that teaching one Science for Little Hearts and Hands lesson per week or more is ideal. Each course will take one full school year to complete if it is completed at a pace of one lesson per week. If you plan to teach more than one lesson per week, we suggest also purchasing one of our other Science for Little Hearts and Hands courses as well.

  • Bones and Stones: Course Set

    Bones and Stones: Course Set

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    Parent Guide: Bones and Stones, The Big Book of Science Stories: Bones and Stones, Access to Course Audio Narrations

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    Introduce your youngest learners to the exciting world of dinosaurs, rocks, earthquakes, volcanoes, maps, and more in this thoughtfully designed course. Including engaging stories, hands-on activities, and interactive audio narrations, the fun and simple lessons in Science for Little Hearts and Hands: Bones and Stones are a gentle introduction to paleontology and earth science for your children in preschool to second grade.
  • 30 short, engaging lessons
  • Beautifully illustrated storybook
  • Interactive audio narrations, activities, and experiments that explore scientific ideas
  • Foundational scientific learning presented in a child-friendly way
  • Perfect for preschool to 2nd grade
    • This course includes a full-color Parent Guide that walks you through teaching the lessons. Each lesson includes either a captivating story from The Big Book of Science Stories: Bones and Stones, an interactive audio narration, or activities and experiments that explore scientific ideas. Many families find that teaching one lesson per week or more is ideal. This course will take one full school year to complete if it is completed at a pace of one lesson per week. If you plan to teach more than one lesson per week, we suggest also purchasing one of our other Little Hearts and Hands Science courses. *Note: The Science for Little Hearts and Hands: Bones and Stones course has been written with a focus on basic Bible principles, allowing all families to use this course and add in their specific beliefs. This course works well for those who hold either Young Earth or Old Earth beliefs.
  • Fields and Flowers: Course Set

    Fields and Flowers: Course Set

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    Parent Guide: Fields and Flowers, The Big Book of Science Stories: Fields and Flowers, Access to Course Videos

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    With beautiful illustrations, captivating stories, hands-on activities, and engaging videos, Science for Little Hearts and Hands: Fields and Flowers is a gentle introduction to science for the youngest learners. This science unit for young children is a gentle introduction to exploring God’s amazing creation. Learn about bees, trees, and so much more.
    • Short, engaging lessons
    • Beautifully illustrated science storybook
    • Videos packed with learning
    • Perfect for preschool to 2nd grade
    • Science activities for preschoolers and early elementary children.
    • Foundational scientific learning presented in a child-friendly way
    This course includes a full-color Parent Guide that walks you through teaching the lessons. Each lesson includes either a beautifully illustrated story from The Big Book of Science Stories: Fields and Flowers, or a short, engaging video. Many families find that teaching one lesson per week or more is ideal. This course will take one full school year to complete if it is completed at a pace of one lesson per week. If you plan to teach more than one lesson per week we suggest also purchasing one of our other Science for Little Hearts and Hands courses.
  • Sparks and Stars: Course Set

    Sparks and Stars: Course Set

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    Parent Guide: Sparks and Stars, The Big Book of Science Stories: Sparks and Stars, Access to Course Audio Narrations

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    Through fun and simple lessons, hands-on activities, engaging stories, and interactive audio narrations, Science for Little Hearts and Hands: Sparks and Stars is a gentle introduction to science for the youngest learners. In this beautifully designed course, children learn about space, planets, electricity, gravity, and machines that move!

    • Short, engaging lessons
    • Beautifully illustrated science storybook
    • Interactive audio narrations, activities, and experiments that explore scientific ideas
    • Perfect for preschool to 2nd grade
    • Foundational scientific learning presented in a child-friendly way

    This course includes a full-color parent guide that walks you through teaching the lessons. Each lesson includes either a beautifully illustrated story from The Big Book of Science Stories: Sparks and Stars, an interactive audio narration, or activities and experiments that explore scientific ideas.

    Many families find that teaching one lesson per week or more is ideal. This course will take one full school year to complete if it is completed at a pace of one lesson per week. If you plan to teach more than one lesson per week, we suggest also purchasing one of our other Little Hearts and Hands Science courses.

  • Wind and Waves: Course Set

    Wind and Waves: Course Set

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    Parent Guide, The Big Book of Science Stories: Wind and Waves, Access to Course Audio Narrations

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    Through fun and interactive lessons, your family will explore and learn about rain and snow, rainbows, clouds, the water cycle, what meteorologists do, and more in Little Hearts and Hands: Wind and Waves! With beautiful illustrations, captivating stories, hands-on activities, simple experiments, and interactive audio narrations, this course is a gentle introduction to science for the youngest learners.

    • Short, engaging lessons
    • Beautifully illustrated science storybook
    • Interactive audio narrations, activities, and experiments that explore scientific ideas
    • Perfect for preschool to 2nd grade
    • Foundational scientific learning presented in a child-friendly way
    This course includes a full-color parent guide that walks you through teaching the lessons. Each lesson includes either a beautifully illustrated story from The Big Book of Science Stories: Wind and Waves, an interactive audio narration, or activities and experiments that explore scientific ideas. Many families find that teaching one lesson per week or more is ideal. This course will take one full school year to complete if it is completed at a pace of one lesson per week. If you plan to teach more than one lesson per week we suggest also purchasing one of our other Science for Little Hearts and Hands courses.

    Music for Littles

    Bring the peacefulness and power of good music into your child’s day! Our songs about counting, sharing, nature, saying thank you, the alphabet, imagination, the wonders of God, and so much more are perfect for bringing calm to your home or car. Available only on our website as a download, these songs feature original lyrics and music by Jenny Phillips as well as classic songs and poetry.

    • Quiet Time Learning Songs

      Quiet Time Learning Songs

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      12 Quiet Time Learning Songs (MP3s)

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      Bring the peacefulness and power of good music into your child’s day! Our new Quiet Time Learning Songs album features twelve new songs about counting, sharing, nature, saying thank you, the alphabet, imagination, the wonders of God, and so much more—perfect for bringing calm to your home or your car. Available only on our website as a download, these songs feature original lyrics and music by Jenny Phillips as well as classic songs and poetry.

      You will receive a link to download 12 songs:

      • Where is God?
      • Who Has Seen the Wind?
      • The Alphabet Song
      • Snowflake World
      • Say Thank You
      • My Gift
      • Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night
      • Little Raindrops
      • I'd Like to be a Lighthouse
      • Fifteen Sheep on the Hillside
      • I Can Count by Tens
      • I Can Share
      Click here to see our other music album, Bedtime Songs.

      *NOTE: These songs are not available in physical format or on a CD. You may burn a CD for your own family's use using the downloaded MP3s. Files may not be shared with those outside of your household. Downloads are final sale and may not be refunded, returned, credited, or exchanged.

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    • Bedtime Songs

      Bedtime Songs

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      8 Bedtime Song MP3s

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      The type of music children listen to at a young age can greatly impact their minds and their characters. The eight songs on the Bedtime Songs album will lull children to sleep as beautiful musical and language patterns fill their minds and messages about the love of God and family and the wonders of nature fill their hearts.

      Please note: These songs are available for free on our Kids YouTube Channel. As a convenience and for those who would like an alternative to YouTube, we have also made these songs available as purchasable MP3s.

      You will receive a link to download 8 songs created by Jenny Phillips:

      • Child’s Lullaby
      • Mr. Owl
      • The Nesting Hour
      • Thou God Seest Me
      • Song at Dusk
      • Meadow of the Night
      • Tender Shepherd
      • Goodnight

      Click here to view our other music album, Quiet Time Learning Songs.

      *NOTE: These songs are not available in physical format or on a CD. You may burn a CD for your own family’s use using the downloaded MP3s. Files may not be shared with those outside of your household. Downloads are final sale and may not be refunded, returned, credited, or exchanged.

      Downloadable MP3s do not count towards the Free Shipping promotion. Original Publication Only Available from The Good and the Beautiful
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    Independent Activities for Littles

    These hands-on, independent activity books are perfect for preschoolers to explore the insects and animals in nature.

    • Butterflies & Beetles Flip Books

      Butterflies & Beetles Flip Books

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      Uh-oh! These beetles and butterflies are mixed up! Are you able to put them back together?

      Two Butterflies and Beetles Flip Books are a hands-on, independent activity perfect for preschoolers to explore as they match up different insects or make silly creature combinations.

      • 2 flip books with wire binding
      Six beautiful, engaging insects included in each flip book. Not sold separately. Original Publication Only Available from The Good and the Beautiful
    • I Can Spy Mammals & Nature

      I Can Spy Mammals & Nature

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      Introduce your littlest learners—ages 2.5 to 5 years old—to science in a fun, unique way with this original, hands-on book. I Can Spy Mammals and Nature increases focus and attention to detail as children explore animals, nature, and habitats and find details and hidden images throughout this fun book.

      This book pairs perfectly with our Mammals science unit to keep little hands busy while you are working with your older children or to use one-on-one with your preschooler.

      • 31 pages
      • Perfect binding

      Note: This product was previously part of the For Littles Mammals Bundle.

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    • Insect & Spider Mazes

      Insect & Spider Mazes

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      For Littles
      Why do honey bees make honey? What is that insect that looks like a stick? Young children will love learning about insects and spiders as they complete these wipe-clean mazes. Simply wipe the ink away to use again and again!
      • 24 laminated, wipe-clean pages
      • Wire binding
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    • Mammals Flip Books

      Mammals Flip Books

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      Two Mammals Flip Books

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      Uh-oh! These mammals are mixed up! Are you able to put them back together?

      Introduce your littlest learners—ages 2.5 to 5 years old—to science in a fun, unique way with two interactive Mammals Flip Books. This hands-on, independent activity is perfect for preschoolers to explore as they match up different mammals or make silly creature combinations.

      The Mammals Flip Books pair perfectly with our Mammals science unit to keep little hands busy while you are working with your older children or to use one-on-one with your preschooler.

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      Note: This product was previously part of the For Littles Mammals Bundle.

    • Poetry Parties for Littles: Insects and Spiders

      Poetry Parties for Littles: Insects and Spiders

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      Oh, how beautiful it is to see,

      A spotted ladybug on my tree,

      A yellow bee on a flower white,

      A firefly shining in the night.

      Poetry Parties for Littles is an easy guide to planning a special time of celebrating poetry and nature with your preschool-aged child. Each themed party has been carefully created to include poetry, supply lists, and crafts with photographs and directions so that you can enjoy the party with your child or together with your child and his or her friends.
      • 46 pages
      • Full-color illustrations
      • Paperback, perfect binding, 8.5"x5.5"
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