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Footprints - The Early Years (for ages 8-14) is nearly ready!

Our most-loved South African homeschool curriculum, now updated after 20 years, will never let you down or your children!

Without replicating school-at-home and enduring all the tears and frustration that goes with that, you can rest assured that your children will be learning about topics prescribed by CAPS, through the enjoyable story format used in all our Footprints programmes - at your own pace!

Footprints and Voetspore meets 80-90% of the CAPS Social Sciences requirements and exceeds them! You can check how they compare with tables of comparison and a never-before-published scope and sequence for Footprints and Voetspore. See for yourself - Footprints and CAPS - Astonishing Alignment.

Footprints - The Early Years: 2024 updated edition

Footprints on our Land was always our best-selling literature-based curriculum. Footprints – The Early Years is the 2024 updated edition, centred around the same South African historical fiction, but it focuses mainly the history of our country.

The updated curriculum manual, which provides the historical background to the 21 historical stories, is written with the narration and dialogue of a grandmother recounting the history of South Africa to two of her grandchildren over tea times. Along with them, your children will discover centuries-old mysteries, political cover-ups and anecdotes that make history intriguing, rather than a boring list of names and dates.

Granny Stella and her two grandchildren will get you to investigate your family history and heritage, look at the history of your local area and learn how global events, like oceanic exploration, colonialism, wars in Europe and slavery, impacted South Africa’s early development.

This new edition includes expanded information about indigenous African tribes, slavery and its impact on the population of South Africa. A new chapter highlights the British-Zulu wars, which were not included in the previous edition. There are some new stories included, to give fresh insights into topics that were not previously addressed in enough detail and the conversational tone of the new edition, with Granny Stella’s anecdotes, makes the history much more engaging and relevant to modern children.

Importantly, to give a more well-rounded Charlotte Mason-style learning experience we have added:

 South African art featuring the scenes from the history of South Africa for art appreciation,

 South African poetry and

 a fun selection of music, mainly by well-known South African artists such as Miriam Makeba, Johnny Clegg, Jonathan Butler, PJ Powers and others for music appreciation

 a multi-media course webpage

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How did your homeschool year go?

At the beginning of the year you probably set out your weekly, monthly and termly plans. You purchased the books and printed your checklists.

We can be very tempted to measure our year's successes based on how many books were read, maths books completed and facts memorised. If curve balls have happened, new babies welcomed, home renovations done or challenges faced, sometimes we do not meet our beginning of the year goals. Does this mean we failed?

Definitely not. That is only one measure that we should use to gauge success of our year. Here are some more holistic questions you can ask to determine your homeschool successes this year.

Did my children grow physically?

*What can they do now that they couldn’t do at the beginning of the year?

*What more do they know about themselves at the close of 2023?

*Do they have a deeper appreciation for their bodies as created by God?

Did my child grow intellectually?

*What relationships have they made with knowledge?

*What new ideas have been sown into their minds?

*What connections and interests have they pursued this year?

Did my child grow morally?

*Have they learnt to love and serve their family more?

*Do they show (even small buds) of the fruits of kindness and generosity?

*Are they making the best choices for their lives at this stage?

Did my child grow spiritually this year?

*Did my child grow in relationship to God this year?

*Did they grow in prayer and faith and trust?

*Do they seek to honour and obey you more as the Bible instructs?

Don't beat yourself up with "We didn't do enough", instead, change your perspective. Change the way you measure by looking at the bigger picture. What did the interruptions and upheavals teach you and your children about life, about family and about relationships? Those lessons are priceless.

You can't get enough of them!

We wish you and your family a blessed festive season.

Regards
Shirley and Wendy

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Footprints - The Early Years: 2024 updated edition