Science Updates

Right now I am working to write new science unit studies. The lessons will NOT look the same as what we currently have on the site, but the topics will remain the same. 

We are planning to release them as units that families could use in any order, so that they are not bound to “years” of study like what you see on the site now. 

For those who have used all our current lessons and are waiting for new lessons, I would recommend doing them in the order in which we release them. 

In the next few weeks, you should see two new units, which would fit well with the end of our Science Year 2 curriculum:

• First, a unit on the sun, moon, and stars and their purposed for marking new years and months, as well as a look at sacrifices in the Torah. These will be very appropriate topics as we head into the spring feasts -- but we are looking at them from an "observational science" perspective. Students will learn some astronomy, weather, and agriculture.
• Second, a unit on solar eclipses, to be released in time for this year’s big eclipse in the United States.

Both of these units will include a teacher edition as well as notebooking pages and a test at the end to assist with grading.

After that, we will be releasing a motion unit for physics, which is part of our Science Year 3 -- and then it will continue after that. I hope to have a complete writing schedule on the site in the next month.

We hope these units will be FUN and interesting for the students, easy for the parents to use, and very flexible for families as they try to fit science into their long-range homeschooling plans. We also hope to release each unit as a printed book, too.

Bear with us as we update the site over the next couple weeks. It will look different, but you just want to focus on finding the NEW units. We will clearly mark them. You should see the first one by March 17 and the second unit before the eclipse on April 8.

Word Power Updates

Word Power 2 and 3 are also being worked on, as well as Word Power Hebrew. We do not expect to update the Homeschooling Torah site with new Word Power lessons until June, at which time we also hope to release all these subjects on Homeschooling Torah as well as in printed books. 

We don’t have a firm date for Word Power 4-8, but we are continuing to work as fast as we are able, so summer is still possible. We just don’t want to promise.

The Word Power section was confusing to a lot of students who started in January or after, so we locked access to it until we could upload more lessons. If you need a file you had previously downloaded from Word Power but aren’t able to get to that part of the site, please just email us. We would be happy to email files to you.

Other Updates

In other news, we are getting help to get many more of our books released in printed form by summer, so we'll keep you posted on all of that as we get nearer to June. We are pretty excited about this!

I had a lot of heart tests run in January and February, and my heart is fine! Nothing wrong with it. I also have a good and low A1C, as well as excellent results on kidney function tests. I was bit by a spider, which resulted in a deep infection in my leg, but it is coming along and healing as it should at this point. Please continue to pray for my continued healing. We are believing that this season of testing is passing, and we are asking our Father to give me strength and renewed energy.

We found out that we are going to be grandparents! We are expecting a new baby boy Elliott sometime in July. HalleluYah!

I hope this update helps you as you pray and plan. We continue to seek the Father's guidance and hand, and as always, we want to say, "If the Master wills, we will do this or that." 

Love to all in our Messiah,

Anne Elliott