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By Tricia Siletti, MEd, MS
From Earth to Sky Education
Step into a magical world where herbs become heroes and wellness becomes an adventure.
Herbamon Adventures is a hands-on herbal wellness course designed especially for curious kids and families who want to explore natural health, science, and creativity together. Through engaging lessons, storytelling, and real product creation, students learn how plants support the body and how traditional herbal knowledge can be used in everyday life.
In this immersive course, students meet a team of 27 unique Herbamon characters, each inspired by a real medicinal herb and connected to a specific body system. As children progress through the lessons, they learn how the body works, how herbs support health, and how to make their own natural wellness products safely at home.
Guided by step-by-step instructions and fun character stories, students will create 27 real herbal products, including:
• Herbal body wash
• Lip balm and sunscreen
• Bug spray and boo-boo spray
• Elderberry syrup and immune tinctures
• Natural shampoo and conditioner
• Herbal soaps and bath soaks
• Healing oils, salves, and calming sprays
Each lesson combines science, creativity, and practical life skills, helping children understand topics such as:
• Body systems and how they stay healthy
• The science behind herbs and natural ingredients
• Preventive health and daily wellness habits
• Safe herbal preparation methods
• How to create and label natural products
The course is organized into six themed modules, covering topics such as skin care, immune health, internal wellness, healing and recovery, and relaxation rituals. Along the way, students build confidence, learn problem-solving skills, and gain a deeper appreciation for the natural world.
Designed for homeschool families, nature-loving kids, and young creators, Herbamon Adventures transforms herbal education into an exciting journey of discovery.
By the end of the course, students will have:
• Made a complete collection of herbal wellness products
• Learned the basics of herbal medicine and natural health
• Developed practical science and crafting skills
• Built confidence in caring for themselves and their families
Most importantly, they will learn that health, nature, and knowledge are powerful tools they can carry with them for life.
🌿 Perfect for ages 8–13
🌿 Hands-on, project-based learning
🌿 Ideal for homeschool science, health, and life skills
Welcome to Herbamon Adventures, where learning, healing, and imagination grow together.
Build Real Businesses. Learn Real Skills. Sell at a Real Marketplace.
Young Entrepreneurs Academy is an exciting hands-on entrepreneurship course where students learn how to turn their ideas into real businesses.
Over the course of 18 engaging weeks, students move from curiosity to confidence as they design products, build brands, create marketing strategies, and launch their own business at a student-run marketplace event. young-entrepreneurs-academy-cur…
This is not a theoretical business class.
Students actually become entrepreneurs.
They learn to identify opportunities in their community, design a brand, calculate pricing and profit, build a marketing plan, and interact with real customers.
By the end of the course, students experience the excitement of launching a business and selling their products at Market Day, the culminating event where their hard work becomes reality. young-entrepreneurs-academy-cur…
What Students Learn
Throughout the academy, students develop essential real-world skills including:
• Identifying business opportunities in their community
• Designing logos and building a brand
• Creating a marketing strategy
• Writing a simple business plan
• Calculating costs, pricing, and profit
• Finding suppliers and managing inventory
• Delivering excellent customer service
• Pitching business ideas with confidence
• Selling products at a real marketplace
These skills build confidence, creativity, leadership, financial literacy, and problem-solving ability.
Course Structure
Duration: 18 Weeks
Grade Levels: 2nd–7th Grade
Class Length: 60–90 Minutes per Session
The course follows a clear progression:
Discover the entrepreneurial mindset
Identify problems and opportunities
Brainstorm business ideas
Design branding and logos
Build marketing strategies
Develop a business plan
Learn pricing, profit, and inventory management
Practice customer service and sales
Pitch ideas during Shark Week
Launch a real business at Market Day
Students finish the program having built and operated their own small business.
The Market Day Experience
The highlight of the academy is Market Day.
Students set up real booths and sell their products to customers. They greet shoppers, explain their products, handle money, and track sales.
This event transforms the classroom into a real entrepreneurial marketplace and gives students an unforgettable learning experience.
Many students leave this course with businesses they continue running long after the class ends.
Why This Course Matters
Entrepreneurship teaches skills traditional classrooms rarely address:
• Initiative
• Creativity
• Leadership
• Financial literacy
• Communication
• Resilience
Students learn that ideas have value, effort creates opportunity, and failure is simply part of growth.
This course is part of the From Earth to Sky Education philosophy: practical, hands-on learning that prepares students for the real world.
Young Entrepreneurs Academy helps students discover something powerful:
They are capable of building something meaningful from their own ideas.
A Homeschool Cooking Curriculum for Elementary aged children
24 Weekly Lessons in Old-World Kitchen Skills
Teach Your Child to Cook Real Food. Teach Them So Much More.
What if your child could learn fractions while measuring flour? Understand chemistry while watching yeast bubble? Explore world history while kneading bread dough passed down through generations?
Little Hands Kitchen is more than a cooking curriculum. It's a complete, multi-subject educational experience disguised as the most delicious school day your child has ever had.
What's Inside
24 complete weekly lessons organized into 8 thematic units, each designed for 60-90 minute sessions. Every lesson includes:
Step-by-step recipes with clear instructions
Specific learning objectives
Hands-on tasks appropriate for ages 5-8
Discussion questions that spark curiosity
Cross-curricular connections to math, science, history, geography, reading, and more
Safety notes for each activity
Recipe continuations showing what to make next
One Recipe. Multiple Subjects. Zero Worksheets.
Here's what a single lesson looks like in action:
Week 1: Homemade Butter
What They're Making: Fresh butter from cream in a mason jar
What They're Actually Learning:
SubjectConnectionSciencePhysical transformation, emulsion breaking, fat molecules clumping togetherMathMeasuring cups, timing each stage, comparing starting vs. ending amountsHistoryHow families preserved food before refrigeration, researching butter churnsPhysical EducationRhythmic shaking builds persistence and coordinationLanguage ArtsNew vocabulary: buttermilk, emulsion, churn
Your child finishes the lesson with butter they made themselves, a deeper understanding of where food comes from, and knowledge that spans five subject areas.
And they had fun doing it.
The 8 Units
Unit 1: Dairy Fundamentals Homemade Butter • Fresh Ricotta Cheese
Unit 2: Yeast Breads Simple Yeast Bread • Pizza Dough
Unit 3: Sourdough Adventures Sourdough Starter & Crackers • Breadsticks • Focaccia • Bagels
Unit 4: Flat Breads & Pasta Hand-Rolled Pasta • Flour Tortillas • Cheese Crackers
Unit 5: Hearty Meals Vegetable Soup • Meatloaf & Scalloped Potatoes • Macaroni & Cheese • Homemade Sausages
Unit 6: Preserving & Condiments Homemade Ketchup • Mayonnaise • Chocolate Syrup • Applesauce • Berry Jam • Refrigerator Pickles
Unit 7: Fermentation Sauerkraut • Kombucha
Unit 8: Sweet Treats Marshmallows (made with real marshmallow root!) • Lilikoi-Date Ice Cream • Whoopie Pies
More Than Recipes: Real Examples of Learning in Action
Making Sourdough Starter (Week 5) Your child captures wild yeast from the air, feeds it daily like a pet, and learns responsibility while exploring microbiology. They'll discover that Gold Rush miners carried starters around their necks to keep them warm. That's science, history, and life skills in a single jar of bubbling flour and water.
Hand-Rolled Pasta (Week 9) Children create a flour "volcano," crack eggs into the crater, and slowly incorporate the flour. They practice fractions (¼ inch for fettuccine, ⅛ inch for linguine), learn about gluten development, and discover that Marco Polo may have encountered noodles in China. One recipe. Math, science, geography, and fine motor skills.
Homemade Ketchup (Week 16) Before cooking, your child reads the ingredient label on store-bought ketchup. High fructose corn syrup. Sodium benzoate. Natural flavors. Then they make their own with just six ingredients: tomatoes, vinegar, honey, and spices. This is consumer education. Critical thinking. And a ketchup that actually tastes like tomatoes.
Vegetable Soup (Week 12) This lesson teaches that there's no single "right" recipe for soup. Children learn knife safety, practice "mise en place," explore how different cultures make soup based on what grows in their region, and discover the vocabulary of cooking: sauté, simmer, dice, mince. The lesson includes Italian Minestrone, French Country, Mexican-Style, and Asian-Inspired variations.
Why This Curriculum Matters
I spent years teaching my oldest child to be more self-sufficient in the kitchen. What started as cooking lessons became something deeper: learning to read ingredient labels, questioning what's really in our food, and understanding that our great-grandparents knew how to make everything from scratch.
The foods on grocery store shelves today are filled with preservatives, artificial ingredients, and chemicals that were never part of the human diet until recent decades. Most families have lost the simple skills to make real food from real ingredients.
This curriculum changes that.
Every recipe uses simple ingredients you can pronounce. Every lesson teaches children not just how to cook, but how to think critically about the food they put into their bodies.
When your child makes their own bread, they realize it only needs flour, water, yeast, and salt.
When they make their own mayonnaise, they discover it's just eggs, oil, lemon, and mustard.
When they ferment their own sauerkraut, they learn that humans preserved food for thousands of years without refrigeration or chemical additives.
These lessons plant seeds of wisdom that will grow throughout their lives.
What Parents Are Saying
"My 6-year-old now reads ingredient labels at the grocery store and asks why there are so many things she can't pronounce. That's worth more than any worksheet."
"We replaced our entire language arts block on Fridays with Little Hands Kitchen. The vocabulary, the reading, the sequencing, the discussion... it covers everything and my kids BEG for cooking day."
"My son struggled with fractions until we started measuring ingredients. Now he gets it. Turns out he just needed to see ½ cup in real life."
What You Get
✓ 24 Complete Lesson Plans covering dairy, breads, sourdough, pasta, meals, condiments, fermentation, and sweets
✓ Full Recipes with ingredients, equipment lists, and step-by-step instructions
✓ Learning Objectives for every lesson
✓ Hands-On Tasks appropriate for ages 5-8
✓ Discussion Questions that encourage curiosity and critical thinking
✓ Cross-Curricular Connections linking each recipe to math, science, history, geography, reading, art, and health
✓ Safety Notes for every activity
✓ Recipe Continuations showing how basic skills lead to advanced techniques
✓ Professional formatting ready to print or use digitally
Perfect For
Homeschool families looking for hands-on, multi-subject learning
Parents who want to teach practical life skills
Families interested in real food and simple ingredients
Co-ops and Homeschool Hui groups seeking engaging Friday activities
Anyone who believes children learn best by doing
Charting Your Course: Goal Setting for Homeschoolers
By Tricia Siletti | From Earth to Sky Education
What if students learned to design their lives with intention instead of simply completing assignments?
Charting Your Course is a 15-week, hands-on goal-setting course designed specifically for homeschool students in grades 6–12. Instead of focusing on grades and tests, this course teaches one of the most important life skills a young person can develop: how to set meaningful goals and pursue them with clarity, discipline, and resilience.
Students begin by discovering who they are. They explore their values, strengths, interests, and personal story. From there, they learn how to craft a vision for their future and transform their ideas into structured, actionable goals.
But this course goes further than traditional goal-setting programs.
Students are taught to write stretch goals. These are ambitious goals deliberately set slightly beyond what feels comfortable or easily achievable. Stretch goals push students to think creatively, develop new skills, and grow into the kind of person capable of achieving something bigger than they first imagined. Instead of aiming for safe targets, students learn how to pursue goals that expand their potential.
Equally important, students learn what to do when things do not go as planned.
One of the most powerful lessons in this course is that failure is not the opposite of success. It is part of the process. Students are taught a practical Failure Recalibration Framework, which guides them through how to analyze setbacks, extract lessons, adjust their plan, and move forward with greater wisdom and resilience. Charting-Your-Course-Goal-Setti…
Throughout the semester students will:
• Identify their core personal values
• Write a personal vision statement for their future
• Build SMART stretch goals with clear action plans
• Learn time management and habit-building strategies
• Develop resilience, grit, and growth mindset thinking
• Track progress through reflective journaling
• Research a real person who achieved a significant goal
• Complete and present their own personal goal project
The course culminates in a Goal Showcase, where students present their research project and reflect on their personal growth throughout the semester. Charting-Your-Course-Goal-Setti…
Rather than memorizing information, students learn how to direct their own lives.
By the end of this course, students do not just understand goal setting.
They have practiced it, tested it, struggled with it, and experienced the growth that comes from pursuing something that truly matters.
This is not just a class.
It is a framework for a life lived intentionally.
Course Details
Grades: 6–12
Length: 15 Weeks
Format: Discussion, activities, journaling, and project-based learning
Assessment: Portfolio and final presentation rather than traditional tests
Perfect for homeschool co-ops, independent study, or small learning groups.
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