From the ages of 11-15, my family lived in Tijuana while my dad was the construction coordinator at a local orphanage. We explored a wide array of homeschool curricula in those years. Still, we never found something that allowed us to learn together and connect as a family while providing challenges for various ages, education, and skill levels.
At the same time, we were moving ALL OF THE TIME. In less than 4 years, we lived in a pool room, a travel trailer, a partially furnished parsonage, a tiny, cold beach house in Rosarito, a slightly larger, warmer beach house in Playa de Tijuana, a house in Otay Lakes, and finally "the house that dad built". We also realised that moving loads of curriculum was too much work in all of these moves! How about paying for a workbook that you have to repurchase year after year for every child?
Do you actually really like the idea of pre-printed resources? I get that. Here's a list of the printed Peaceful Press Resources.
The Homeschool Planner, Student Planner, the Cookbook and the print version of the Peaceful Preschool.
Thus, the Peaceful Press was first born as an all-digital resource, so it's easy for many children to use it repeatedly. You can also choose which student sheets you want to print or buy, move houses, and then print them. This is especially useful for military families. A digital resource allows you more flexibility and options for your family.
But how do you print and utilise your Peaceful Press purchase?*
Preschool, Kindergarten, and Elementary Bundles**
These bundles range from 26 weeks for preschool to 39 weeks for elementary.
- The elementary bundles, The Kind Kingdom Volume 1 and Volume 2, the Playful Pioneers Volume 1 and Volume 2*** and the Precious People, contain a Parent Guide, students sheets for elementary, cursive, print, and Kindergarten, a cookbook****, and art files.
- The Nourishing Nature Kindergarten contains a parent guide, student printables, handwriting resources, and an art and literature guide. Your Peaceful Preschool downloads will have a Parent Guide and student printables.
- When you first get the email with your downloads, we recommend waiting to open it, no matter how excited you are, until you are at your computer. The downloads are limited; you will want to download the files and save them to a hard drive.*****
What's Next?
- Now, with your files downloaded, you are ready to start printing. You will want to print every Parent Guide and have it spiralbound. You can also have a print shop put a plastic cover on it.
- You can review the student's sheets and decide which is best for your children. The cursive and print sheets have words for tracing, the kindergarten sheets have straightforward tracing words, and the elementary sheets are blank for older children. These can be printed at home on basic print paper and placed in a three-ring notebook as your child completes them.
- The art files should be printed on card stock or semi-gloss paper for the highest quality. These should be printed in colour, and you will get what you paid for in terms of quality. We also used an at-home laminator to ensure long-lasting protection for our mini works of art.
- If you purchased a bundle that comes with a cookbook, then you can either print and spiral bind it like the parent guide, use it on a tablet or other electronic device, or print and place it in a three-ring binder like the student sheets.
What about the student printables in the Kindergarten and preschool guides?
- The student printables vary from templates to large letters for hand-eye coordination activities, like glueing beans to the B and creating bumpy glitter letters for tracing, number cards for counting, and phonics cards for practising word formation.
- So, to summarise, we have 3 types of printables in the Nourishing Nature and Peaceful Preschool: learning resource cards, art projects, and templates.
- Print any cards on cardstock and cut them out, or have your child cut them out for hand-eye coordination.
- Before cutting them out, you can laminate them if multiple children use them.
- For the letters in the Peaceful Preschool, you will want to print two copies of each letter on cardstock.
- The templates will need to be printed on an array of paper. I'm not going through each one, but the best paper to print on should be apparent from the activity.
- If you are not printing the student printables at home, you will want to specify that the whole document be printed on cardstock.
Seasonal Guides
Additional Peaceful Press Resources:
Peaceful Press Chore Cards: Your bundle will come with two options, colour and black and white. These cards can be printed on cardstock at home and laminated for durability. Our Facebook group has many creative ways to use the chore cards, and we recommend joining to find more information. However, one of the most popular ways is giving a child a stack of chores for the day that they then place in the finished stack as the day progresses. Or you can let your child choose a few for the day to take turns with projects. Some families like to string up twine and pin chores for the day, which are then taken down as they are completed.
Native American, King and Queen, Saint Cards, and the Art Memo Game: These cards can be printed on card stock, laminated, and used as a beautiful resource to enhance learning alongside Volumes 1 and 2 of the Playful Pioneers, Kind Kingdom, and Precious People.
Morning Menus: Each of our Elementary Bundles has an accompanying Morning Time Menu that contains additional readings, poems, and art. These can be printed and spiral bound, or printed and placed in a three-ring binder or used from a tablet.
For more information on morning time check out this guest post.
Recommended Printers
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The Homeschool Printing Company
Making Family Count has pre-uploaded bundles with built in links that offer a discount, and these links are included with your purchase but feel free to shop around.
Canada
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Check out what our community says about printing in the Peaceful Press Facebook Group
*Some bundles contain booklists, if you do not see the booklist in your bundle you can find it on our blog.
**This is a general and not exact account of what each bundle contains.
*** Playful Pioneers Volume 2 does not come with the cookbook.
**** The Peaceful Preschool does not come with the cookbook.
***** We are very happy to resend links that are less than 18 months old.