He will feed His flock like a shepherd;
He will gather the lambs with His arm,
And carry them in His bosom,
And gently lead those who are with young.
Isaiah 40:11
Gentle Shepherd is a project of the Hurst family. Our own homeschooling experiences have inspired these products. We began homeschooling in the 1980’s, and have always dabbled in a variety of curriculum materials.
“We” are Michael and Diane Hurst. Michael is an educational technology teacher who teaches public school and university. Diane is a stay-at-home mom who really enjoys home teaching. We have nine children, and they all have been or are currently being homeschooled.
Over the years, Diane has created many work pages, and now we are beginning to make them into books that other educators can use.
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions for improvement, please contact us.
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eBook: $4.00 Fuzzle Family Felt is an e-book of patterns and instructions for making your own felt people, along with a house, a car, trees, and misc. other felt figures.
FELT TOYS ARE FUN, and can be easily taken with you when a quiet toy is needed.
You can tell stories with the felt figures, or children can make up their own stories.
There are patterns for five sizes of people:
baby, young child, child, teen, and adult.
There are also clothing patterns, and patterns for a house, a car, trees, a cat and a dog, and misc. other items.
These figures are hand-sewn; complete instructions are provided.
This e-book has 27 pages.
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eBook: FREE This article gives detailed descriptions of some easy to do toddler and preschool learning activities. It also describes how we taught our young children while also homeschooling several older children.
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eBook: FREE This is an article that tells about how our family used the "rocking chair method" for informal learning in our homeschool. It's easy and fun, and takes very little time. Great for families who are not homeschooling, too. Download this free article, and read about it!
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eBook: $6.00 This set of work pages gives prompts for making pictures, and writing about the pictures. There are 36 work pages, so one page can be used each week for a school year, or they can be used less often over two or three years. These pages are for grades two through four.
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eBook: $6.00 This set of work pages gives prompts for making pictures, and writing about the pictures. There are 36 work pages, so one page can be used each week for a school year, or they can be used less often over two or three years. These pages are for grades five through eight.
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eBook: $8.00 Type Write Touch Typing is a beginning typing program, designed to be used by children in upper elementary or middle school. The home row (middle row of keys) is introduced first. Then other letters are introduced one at a time, while continually practicing the letters already learned. There are three components used in Type Write for learning new letters: practicing letter combinations, practicing words, and practicing sentences. The sentences are generally in the form of a short story. For example, the sentences for letter "u" tell about a car: "The car's trunk clunks shut. The car's key turns. The car's engine runs. The car puffs fumes and charges ahead in the blinding dust." The use of meaningless nonsense syllables is kept to a bare minimum, which makes beginning typing more interesting for students.
It takes 90 days to complete this program. Instructions and an assignment syllabus are included in this e-book.
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eBook: $8.00 Typing Practice Pages is a collection of interesting written material for beginning typists to use for typing practice, after they have learned the correct fingering for all the letters. Topics include "The World" (the solar system, deserts, rivers, mountains, etc.), "Materials We Use" (metals, glass, etc.), "Animals" (kangaroos, owls, frogs, hummingbirds, etc.), and some traditional rhymes.
There are enough practice pages to cover 90 days of work, doing a page a day.
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eBook: $8.00 Preschoolers often don’t have the manual dexterity to write numbers. But that doesn’t mean they can’t do math! Young children are usually very quick to learn counting and beginning math concepts, such as addition and subtraction. Using number tiles is a way they can do regular math practice that is easily within their ability.
This e-book gives instructions for making and using number tiles, and for making and using a 10-bead abacus, along with four different sets of math problem pages for young children to use with the number tiles and abacus.
There are twenty pages in each set of math problems. These pages are designed to be printed out on cardstock, and used over and over again.
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eBook: $4.00 This e-book has a collection of 15 pages that can be printed out and used to make a preschool notebook. Using a 3-prong report folder, pages are put in and removed as needed. A preschool notebook is fun and easy to do. It is a way to practice learning letters and their sounds, numbers and counting, and other concepts such as days of week, rhymes, and singing.
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eBook: $6.00 My Alphabet and Number Pictures is a set of alphabet printables that children can use to make their own printable abc book! There are pages for writing each letter, and pages with prompts for making original pictures to go with each letter. There are also pages for writing numbers one to ten, and for drawing pictures to go with them.
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Print: $8.50 My Alphabet and Number Pictures is a workbook that kindergarten through second grade children can use to make their own abc drawings! There are pages for writing each letter, and pages with prompts for making original pictures to go with each letter. There are also pages for writing numbers one to ten, and for drawing pictures to go with them.
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To see sample pages for any of the books, click on the title and then on the preview link.
We will be adding many new books and e-books in the near future. If you would like to get product updates as new materials become available, please subscribe to our blog;
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