Level 3B

The Todds have some exciting news to share and so much more to discover as they continue to unlock the mysteries of the objects found in the hidden room. No one could have expected that behind the bricks of their own chimney lay unbelievable surprises that would lead the family far from home on their biggest adventure yet!

• 123 pages
• Black-and-white illustrations
• Paperback, perfect binding, 5.5″x8.5″

Clue in the Chimney is book 5 of the Badger Hills Farm series. These level 3B books are original publications, perfect for children who are about halfway through The Good and the Beautiful Level 3 Language Arts Course. It is recommended they be read in order.

Level 3B

The final clue for Timothy and his family to solve lies in the beautiful Swiss countryside. But when answers only lead to more questions, and some important things go missing, Timothy worries that they might end up losing Badger Hills Farm altogether. It becomes clear that finding the greatest treasure of all will require the help of some wonderful new friends.

• 148 pages
• Black-and-white illustrations
• Paperback, perfect binding, 5.5″x8.5″

The Hills of Hirzel is book 6 of the Badger Hills Farm series. These level 3B books are original publications, perfect for children who are about halfway through The Good and the Beautiful Level 3 Language Arts Course. It is recommended they be read in order.

Three full-color, interactive books and one game included in the optional Botany Read-Aloud Book Pack expand learning and provide a fun, engaging addition to your Botany study.

The unique, interactive The Good and the Beautiful Flower Study book helps children feel wonder as they discover forty stunning flowers found around the world. (43 pages, hard-cover, 11”x8.5”)

As children and parents play The Good and the Beautiful Flower Game, they will effortlessly master the identification and names of 40 flowers as they have fun. (40 full-color, double-sided cards in a custom box)

As you read about two amazing woman botanists and their adventures in Plant Hunters, you’ll find that it’s never too late, nor too early, to follow your dreams. (23 pages, full-color, 11”x8.5”)

Filled with beautiful illustrations, Carl in the Garden tells the story of one boy who opened a whole new world to those who came after him just by doing what he loved. (18 pages, full-color, 11″x8.5”)

These books are all published by The Good and the Beautiful Bookshop and are designed to appeal to children in grades K–8. Lessons will prompt students when to read these optional books, but they are not integrated with the lessons.

Three full-color, interactive books included in the optional Mammals Read-Aloud Book Pack expand learning and provide a fun, engaging addition to your Mammals study.

Become a nature detective while searching for signs of ten different mammals in Can You Track It? Mammals. (42 pages, 11”x8.5”)

Come on a wild adventure through a continent filled with mammals unlike any other as you explore Marvelous Mammals from Down Under. (35 pages, 11”x8.5”)

Follow industrious animals such as Woodchuck, Pygmy Shrew, Red Fox and more as they are born, learn to find food, escape danger, and build cozy homes in Along the Mountainside. (33 pages, 5.5”x8.5”)

These books are all published by The Good and the Beautiful Library and are designed to appeal to children in grades K–8. Lessons will prompt students when to read these optional books, but they are not integrated with the lessons.

The images, artwork, and words used in this course are all designed to connect children to the good and the beautiful: family, faith, high moral character, and the wonders and beauty of nature and human life.

Doodles & Pre-writing for Littles: Part 2 is designed for most children between the ages of 21/2 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.

COURSE ORGANIZATION
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. This workbook includes 115 sheets, which is 4–5 sheets per week for a normal school year. The course is divided into four sections:
1. Shapes & Strokes: provides a comprehensive review of the shapes and strokes learned in Doodles & Pre-writing for Littles: Part 1.
2. Letters: familiarizes children with letters and the kinds of strokes used for letters.
3. Trace & Try: allows children to trace shapes and strokes, then draw the same shape or stroke freehand.
4. Bonus Section—Find the Image: provides images hidden within a picture that children find and circle or
color.

COLORING AND NATURE
Each sheet in this course 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.

115 worksheet pages

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Doodles & Pre-writing for Littles is designed for most 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. This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for a normal school year. The course is divided into three sections:
1. Skill: continuous motions. Forms: curves, loops, waves, and spirals. Shapes: circle, oval, ellipse, quatrefoil, and curved triangle.

2. Skill: changing directions. Forms: straight lines, angles, and zigzags. Shapes: triangle, square, rhombus, parallelogram, trapezoid, pentagon, and hexagon.

3. Skill: 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.

Each sheet in this course 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.

The images, artwork, and words used in this course are all designed to connect children to the good and the beautiful: family, faith, high moral character, and the wonders and beauty of nature and human life.

100 worksheet pages

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*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 Level 1 is for children in first grade. This level focuses on the correct print formation of letters and numbers and, near the end of the course, introduces short words and sentences. The course starts with larger print and, near the end, starts to reduce the size as children’s motor skills improve. At the beginning of the course and at different times throughout the course, children will do “overview” sheets. These sheets allow children general exposure to all letters and numbers. The rest of the course introduces 2–3 new letters at a time, going in the order of the most used letters. This approach helps children to focus on mastering letters before moving on, but at the same time lets children have some experience with all letters, which may be helpful as children may need to write words and letters in other subjects. 

• Wire bound
• Black and white with one color
• 8.5”x11″

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Handwriting Level 2 is for children in second or third grade. This course is for children with some handwriting experience who are still working on correct print formation of letters and numbers. Words, sentences, Bible verses, and poems are introduced part-way through the course. Text size is eventually reduced in the course as children gain experience with handwriting. This course also helps children learn to spell the names of colors and reviews the spelling of numbers.

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Handwriting Level 5 is for children in fourth, fifth, or sixth grade.

Recently updated to refine the cursive font and include engaging new art and activities throughout, this course mainly focuses on cursive, but some pages cover refining print handwriting in specific ways. Inspiring quotes, scriptures, and poems are included in the course and may be included more than once for repeated exposure. This course also helps children memorize grammar rules and definitions.

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Level K Handwriting focuses on correct print formation of letters and numbers and, near the end of the course, introduces short words and sentences.

This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for an average school year. The course introduces 2–3 new letters at a time, going in alphabetical order. Halfway through the course the text size is reduced as the child gains the motor skills for smaller print.

• Wire bound
• Black and white with one color
• 8.5”x5.5″

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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.

The Science for Little Hearts and Hands Parent Guide: Wind and Waves walks you through teaching each of the 30 interactive lessons. Each lesson requires minimal preparation and 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.

• 100 pages
• 30 lessons
• Includes access to all course audio narrations
• Full color; layflat binding; 11”x8.5″

The Big Book of Book of Science Stories: Wind and Waves is also needed to complete this course.

The Big Book of Science Stories: Winds and Waves contains seventeen beautifully illustrated stories that will inspire interest and wonder in a variety of science topics. Your child will enjoy learning about Cali’s Lightning Storm, the beaches of Brazil by taking a trip along the coast of South America, and Toby’s family’s day with the dolphins among other engaging and educational stories. The Parent Guide: Wind and Waves will prompt you to read each story throughout the course.

• 253 pages
• 17 engaging stories
• Full color; layflat binding; 8.5”x11”

The Parent Guide: Winds and Waves is also needed to complete this course.

PDF for self printing

The Science for Little Hearts and Hands Parent Guide: Wind and Waves walks you through teaching each of the 30 interactive lessons. Each lesson requires minimal preparation and 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.

• PDF for self printing
• 100 pages
• 30 lessons
• Includes access to all course audio narrations
• Full color; 11”x8.5

The Big Book of Book of Science Stories: Wind and Waves is also needed to complete this course.

PDF for self printing

The Big Book of Science Stories: Wind and Waves contains fifteen beautifully illustrated stories that will inspire interest and wonder in a variety of science topics. Your child will enjoy learning about among other engaging and educational stories. The Science for Little Hearts and Hands Parent Guide: Wind and Waves will prompt you to read each story throughout the course.

• PDF for self printing
• 253 pages
• 17 engaging stories
• Full color; 8.5”x11”

The Science for Little Hearts and Hands Parent Guide: Wind and Waves is also needed to complete this course.

The 120 engaging parent-led lessons in the Level 3 Course Book are open-and-go and were carefully designed to reduce teaching time, yet be academically robust. The course covers the following foundational principles: phonics, reading, spelling, writing, grammar and punctuation, literature, art, poetry, and geography. All of this is taught in gentle, natural, and enjoyable ways for the child.

• 428 pages
• Full color; layflat binding; 8.5″x11″

The Spelling Practice Book and the Phonics Read-Together Book Set are also needed to complete the course.

Engaging exercises in the Spelling Practice Book, an integrated part of the Level 3 Language Arts Course, provide practice and mastery of spelling rules, spelling principles, spelling patterns, and commonly misspelled and rule breaker words. The spelling practice book is not only fun, but also effective as it teaches children to segment words, use spelling patterns, and practice spelling rules through varied activities and sentence dictation. The Course Book will tell you when and how to use this book. It is used about every other lesson; thus, you will see lesson numbers skipped.

• 136 pages
• Full color; layflat binding; 11″x4.25″

Each chapter of the Level 3 Phonics Read-Together Books begins with a phonics page. The phonics principles studied are then reviewed repeatedly and reinforced within the engaging chapter. The parent and child take turns reading their labeled sections, which allows the child to dive into rich literature and complex plots and experience greater joy in reading. These books improve reading fluency, speed, and accuracy; expose the child to model writing; instill a love of good books; and create bonding time for the parent and the child. In addition, the books are packed with powerful messages about moral character.

The Level 3 Language Arts Course Book will tell you when to read from each of the 4 Phonics Read-Together Books. The Language Arts Level 3 Read-Together Book Set includes the following books that are integrated with the Level 3 course:

• Timothy of the 10th Floor by Jenny Phillips
• The Kingdom of Kind by Jenny Phillips
• Heather and the Highland Pony by Maggie Felsch
• The Journey of Five by Jenny Phillips

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All books may be purchased separately, although significant savings are available with the purchase of the full Book Set.

Each chapter of the Level 3 Phonics Read-Together Books begins with a phonics page. The phonics principles studied are then reviewed repeatedly and reinforced within the engaging chapter. The parent and child take turns reading their labeled sections, which allows the child to dive into rich literature and complex plots and experience greater joy in reading. These books improve reading fluency, speed, and accuracy; expose the child to model writing; instill a love of good books; and create bonding time for the parent and the child. In addition, the books are packed with powerful messages about moral character.

When the river suddenly dries up without explanation and strange soldiers demand gold to make it flow again, the village council chooses a group of five special people to discover who these soldiers are and how they are controlling the flow of water. “These five will journey forth bravely and wisely, representing every person in the land, to discover how we can overcome this challenge without weapons and without war. . . . Our freedom and our way of life will never be the same if this mission does not succeed.”

• 187 full-color pages
• 5.5”x8.5”
• Perfect binding

This read-together chapter book, along with Heather and the Highland Pony, Timothy of the 10th Floor, and The Kingdom of Kind, is included in the Phonics Read-Together Book Set, which is integrated with the Level 3 Language Arts Course. This book is perfectly aligned with phonics principles the child has learned.

Each chapter of the Level 3 Phonics Read-Together Books begins with a phonics page. The phonics principles studied are then reviewed repeatedly and reinforced within the engaging chapter. The parent and child take turns reading their labeled sections, which allows the child to dive into rich literature and complex plots and experience greater joy in reading. These books improve reading fluency, speed, and accuracy; expose the child to model writing; instill a love of good books; and create bonding time for the parent and the child. In addition, the books are packed with powerful messages about moral character.

Heather’s mum quickly pressed a heavy cloth bag into her daughter’s arms. “Heather, if we’ve not arrived at the waterwheel by sunrise, you should leave town. Look after your brother and take care of this bundle. It will help you. You need to—”

But Heather’s mum couldn’t finish her sentence. A soldier called her name loudly.

Armed with sheer determination and a cloth bag of mysterious items, Heather and her young brother set off on a curious journey to find the reason for their parents’ disappearance. As they travel across the Highlands and isles of Scotland, they discover new friends and solve old mysteries.

• 184 full-color pages
• 5.5”x8.5”
• Perfect binding

This read-together chapter book, along with Timothy of the 10th Floor, The Journey of Five, and The Kingdom of Kind, is included in the Phonics Read-Together Book Set, which is integrated with the Level 3 Language Arts Course. This book is perfectly aligned with phonics principles the child has learned.

Each chapter of the Level 3 Phonics Read-Together Books begins with a phonics page. The phonics principles studied are then reviewed repeatedly and reinforced within the engaging chapter. The parent and child take turns reading their labeled sections, which allows the child to dive into rich literature and complex plots and experience greater joy in reading. These books improve reading fluency, speed, and accuracy; expose the child to model writing; instill a love of good books; and create bonding time for the parent and the child. In addition, the books are packed with powerful messages about moral character.

If you use your imagination, you might be able to picture the Kingdom of Kind with its vast forests, turquoise lakes, and rolling hills of rich soil and long, waving grass. It is here that we find Prince Eric, a young man who believes power and material things should bring him happiness and cannot understand why he is so miserable. Join Prince Eric as his quest for true happiness leads him to the most unexpected places.

• 150 full-color pages
• 5.5”x8.5”
• Perfect binding

This read-together chapter book, along with Heather and the Highland Pony, The Journey of Five, and Timothy of the 10th Floor, is included in the Phonics Read-Together Book Set, which is integrated with the Level 3 Language Arts Course. This book is perfectly aligned with phonics principles the child has learned.

Each chapter of the Level 3 Phonics Read-Together Books begins with a phonics page. The phonics principles studied are then reviewed repeatedly and reinforced within the engaging chapter. The parent and child take turns reading their labeled sections, which allows the child to dive into rich literature and complex plots and experience greater joy in reading. These books improve reading fluency, speed, and accuracy; expose the child to model writing; instill a love of good books; and create bonding time for the parent and the child. In addition, the books are packed with powerful messages about moral character.

Eleven-year-old Timothy Todd lives happily with his dad on the tenth floor of the Bedford Apartments building—that is, until Timothy’s cousin, Zoey, and her grandmother, Nanna Bell, come to live with them. Timothy isn’t thrilled about giving up his room or sharing his life with people he barely remembers, but he soon learns how much this homeschooled girl and her loving grandmother will change his life. This read-together book is filled with mystery, fun, and powerful messages.

• 161 full-color pages
• 5.5”x8.5”
• Perfect binding

This read-together chapter book, along with Heather and the Highland Pony, The Journey of Five, and The Kingdom of Kind, is included in the Phonics Read-Together Books Set, which is integrated with the Level 3 Language Arts Course. This book is perfectly aligned with phonics principles the child has learned.

The Level 3 Language Arts Answer Key includes the answers for all lessons within the Level 3 Language Arts Course Book.

• 232 pages
• Full color; layflat binding; 8.5″x11″

Please note, this product is not included in the Level 3 Language Arts Course Set and is an optional purchase. A free PDF download can be located by clicking on the blue FAQs, Helps, and Extras button on the Level 3 Language Arts product page.