Five in a Row was created by Jane Claire Lambert,
a successful homeschool teacher with more than 17 years experience. Five in a Row provides students with a unit-study approach to early education based on outstanding children’s literature. Together, the four volumes of Five in
a Row provide 70 unit plans covering Social Studies, Language, Art, Applied Math, and Science in a way that causes children to fall in love with learning.

Intended to be easily usable, even for new homeschool mothers, each day’s activities are carefully laid out.
Expect to be ready to teach with as little as five minutes
of preparation time. You’ll find everything you need to be
an effective teacher at your fingertips--pronunciation guides to foreign words or phrases, background information on history, geography, art and science lessons, facts, figures, and activity suggestions for a wonderful variety of hands-on learning experiences.

Visual, auditory and kinesthetic learners will all benefit from Five in a Row’s variety of lessons and activities.
Just bring home one of the 70 books used in Five in a Row from the library and then locate the corresponding lesson plan in your teacher’s guide. Read the story aloud each day during the week and use Jane’s suggestions and lesson plans to lead your children on a wonderful
learning adventure.

You’ll teach a different subject each day beginning with social studies on Monday. You’ll find history lessons, geography lessons and discussions on foreign culture
taken directly from the story you’ve just read. On Tuesday you’ll examine the author’s use of language learning about punctuation, vocabulary, literary devices, creative writing and more. Wednesday you’ll discover a comprehensive art curriculum as you explore the illustrator’s techniques, style and use of materials with lots of hands-on art lessons for early learners. Thursday your children will explore applied mathematics (math concepts found in the story) as they learn about counting, grouping, measurements, simple geometric shapes, etc. (You will need to add a math curriculum when you are ready to teach daily math mechanics.) Finally, on Friday you’ll explore science together with activities to learn new facts about weather, astronomy, biology, physics, chemistry and more.

Easy to use and fun to do, Five in a Row is designed to teach children the joy of learning while exposing them to
the vast world of information that’s so important in building
a solid educational foundation. Jane’s lesson plans ensure that every week your children will have dozens of opportunities to discover exciting new facts about the world around them as you invite them to engage their natural curiosity and explore specific areas which interest them in greater detail. Experience tells us that the most important educational lesson we can teach early learners is to fall in love with learning itself. When children discover that learning is a pleasurable experience, both their job and yours becomes immeasurably easier!

So gather your young learners around you and begin teaching the way you always hoped it could be; fun, spontaneous and enjoyable for both you and the student. Five in a Row provides a delightful gateway to the extraordinary lifelong adventure of learning.