With this listing, you get to choose which printed books you want for unit #4: your Homestead Kitchen. You can choose from: The K-6th Teacher's Guide (essential), the K-6th student notebook, the 7th-Adult Teacher's Guide (you don't need this along with the K-6th Teacher's Guide if you are teaching multiple ages), and the 7th-Adult student notebook. 

If you have multiple ages you are teaching, we recommend teaching from the Teacher's Guide for K-6th and read it all together. Then let either your K-6th students work from the student notebook or your 7th grade and up to work from the adult student notebook. 

Welcome to our brand new project: The Sterling Spectacles Homeschool! Join the Sterling Family (as featured in the popular Sterling Spectacles book series!) as they take on the giant and exciting task of building their homestead from scratch. 

You will get to join them as they buy their property, think through electricity options and water sources, buying animals and building barns, planting a garden and preserving the harvest, cooking, baking, and so much more! And your family gets to learn along the way. 

If you have any interest in real life, modern homesteading, then these new units and are for you! 

Throughout the units, not only will you learn all about modern day homesteading, you will also find an emphasis on real life, real world skills that can be passed down to future generations. Let's dive into this exciting new project:

As homeschoolers, we want to provide our children with a rich, deep, and vibrant education. 

We want them to learn their multiplication tables and how to write a solid paper. We hope they fall in love with reading and learn biology.

But another huge part of my educational goals for my children is helping them to learn real world skills. To learn how to pick up a hammer and some nails and make something new. To know how to bake bread and start a garden. Real, essential skills that they can carry on to the next generation one day. We want their vibrant book learning to meet rich real world skills that engage their mind and their hands.

But, with so much of our focus going to those essentials of reading, writing, and arithmetic, it can feel so hard to be intentional about the rest. As a homeschooling mom of 7 kids, I know this challenge well. You can have the best intentions but it can be so hard to figure out how to fit these additional skills in, or even know how to teach them.

We designed the units so you would work through all 4 one after the other. However, you can just jump into any of the units you want, without feeling like you missed something. 

Unit #4: Your Homestead Kitchen

With unit #4, you will dive into the wide world of your kitchen. But not just any kitchen, your homestead kitchen. In many ways, this is the first and most important place to start on your homestead. 

When you grow some fresh tomatoes, grab your kitchen eggs each morning, or learn how to butcher your own pigs, there's an important next step: what do you do with those things?

In this unit, we will dive into your homestead kitchen and tackle learning how to make all of these amazing treats from your homestead. 

Join the Sterling Family as they learn some valuable kitchen lessons. They will learn how to preserve the harvest using different methods, baking bread and grinding fresh grains, dairy & cheesemaking, fermenting, and so much more! This is a super fun and practical unit that you will use for years to come with all the yummy recipes included. 

Each unit is broken down into 12 weeks (or 12 lessons). It’s designed to easily fit in with all your other homeschool endeavors.

Each week features 2 parts: The first part is the teaching, your lesson for the week. It has about 2-4 pages to read together, it features a brand new Sterling Spectacles short story about the family settling on their homestead, and includes a real life video, bringing the lessons to life! You will also get access to the full audio version of the story AND the teacher's guide so if you just want to hit play and have Jason read it to everyone while you drink your coffee, you can do that too!

The second part to each week is your project. Instead of hands-on projects to work on through these lessons, you'll get a new fun recipe to make each week. As you work through this unit, you'll slowly start to build your own homestead recipe binder as you acquire these new skills. 

For example, you'll learn how to make homemade yogurt, pesto, and even apple pie! 

Our aim is to be able to go deep into these essential topics, but also engaging and fun while being soo easy on the parents. It would also work excellently in a co-op setting!

The student notebook will give you a coloring page and an additional project for the week that your kid can work on throughout the lesson!

Table of Contents: 

Week 1

• Lesson 1 - Your Homestead Kitchen
• Project - Create Your Own Family Recipe Book

Week 2

• Lesson 2 - Preserving the Harvest: The Methods
• Recipe Project - Homestead Pesto

Week 3

• Lesson 3 - Preserving the Harvest: Through the Year
• Recipe Project - Homemade Apple Pie

Week 4

• Lesson 4 - All About Bread! 
• Recipe Project - Easy Artisan Bread

Week 5

• Lesson 5 - Grinding Fresh Grains
• Recipe Project - Freshly Milled Muffins

Week 6

• Lesson 6 - Cooking with Natural Sweeteners
• Recipe Project - Ginger Molasses Cookies

Week 7

• Lesson 7 - Dairy & Cheesemaking
• Recipe Project - Easy Ricotta cheese

Week 8

• Lesson 8 - The Art of Cooking Meat!
• Recipe Project - Rendering Lard/Tallow

Week 9

• Lesson 9 - Fermenting 101
• Recipe Project - Homemade Yogurt

Week 10

• Lesson 10 - Measuring and Cutting Skills in the Kitchen
• Recipe Project - Learning Fractions with Homemade Pizza

Week 11

• Lesson 11 - Basics of Grilling
• Recipe Project - DIY BBQ Sauce

Week 12

• Lesson 12 - Secret Sauces (Every Chef’s Secret Weapon) 
• Recipe Project - DIY Chick-Fil-A Sauce

Teacher's Guide:

This teacher's guide is all of your teaching for the 12 weeks. This is what you will read out of and guide the learning. When you purchase the print version, you will also get FREE access to the digital version AND the audiobook that Jason reads. 

Then you'll get a student's guide for each student you are teaching that they can work through throughout each lesson. 

Download a sample of our new curriculum! You'll get access to all of Lesson #1 Unit #1 to try it out! 

Download it here: https://sterlingspectacles.mykajabi.com/Unit-1-Lesson-1-Download-Sign-UP