Short, simple directions outline what your child needs to learn and how to teach it in engaging,  meaningful ways.   You can be confident that you are teaching everything your child needs to know.  Provide high quality instruction right at your child’s level without spending hours reviewing lesson plans.  If you need more explanation, video demonstrations showing how to teach every lesson are available in the member community.  Feel great about teaching math – you got this!

H4RL’s lessons and activities use a variety of approaches that reach all types of learners and keep kids engaged.  Rather than piles of busy-work, your child’s understanding will grow through activities designed to develop specific concepts and skills.  You can teach math with confidence knowing that you’re using high quality instructional methods and your child is learning everything they need to know, including strong math, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.

H4RL makes math fun!  Hands-on lessons use your child’s toys, food, and playdough to teach important math concepts.  Games designed for our math program make practice so much fun that your child will ask to play again.  High quality, colorful pages make activities appealing to young learners.  Your child will enjoy exploring math with you rather than staring at a huge, boring workbook or computer screen alone.

Our math curriculum is created by a homeschool mom.  It is designed to make home math instruction a positive experience for both parents and children.  Jill uses her knowledge as a licensed teacher as well as what she has learned while homeschooling her own children to develop excellent lessons using simple materials.  H4RL math is designed to build math confidence and make math one of the best parts of every family’s homeschool day.

Enhanced read-alouds help you expand the learning and fun when you enjoy excellent books with your whole family.  Choose from related writing, art, science, music, reading, and history activities – and more.   With delightful books as inspiration, children of all ages engage in effective thinking and learning activities.  Choose the ideas that best fit your family, align with your learning goals, or sound like fun!

A daily calendar time is a comforting routine to include in your preschool, kindergarten, or first grade homeschool day.  It’s also an effective way to teach children the days of the week, months of the year, seasons, weather, continents and oceans, sight words, shared reading, skip counting, place value, and more!  This unit explains how to include a calendar time in your day and provides ready-to-use materials to help you get started.

Poetry is an important element of effective reading instruction in kindergarten, first, and second grades.  It is a fun way to build literacy skills in just a few minutes a day.  Children enjoy the rhythm and rhyme and increase their fluency as readers as you enjoy the poems together.  Over thirty poems are provided along with a teaching guide for each that explains activities you can do with your child.

Raise kids who love to read!  In this section, you’ll find tips for reading with babies, toddlers, preschoolers, primary students, and kids in the upper elementary grades. Video lessons introduce effective methods for teaching and developing reading strategies for fiction and non-fiction. You’ll also learn how to assess your child’s reading level and plan guided reading lessons.