Freebie

From RIGHT NOW until midnight tonight (EST) you can get 31 Days to Clean – Having a Martha House the Mary Way FREE just by using the hashtag #31daystoclean in a tweet and linking to 31daystoclean.com OR by blogging about the ebook!

Click HERE for details.

Freebie

Don't forget my Valentine book marks.

Christmas Blessings

I am SO excited to let you know that Ann Voskamp’s Jesse Tree Devotions are now available to download for free! What a gracious gift Ann has given to us! Click here to go to Ann’s post where you can read all about the devotions and how you can download your own copy for free.

Meet Ann at, A Holy Experience. You will be blessed.

(Note: These are the devotions that were previously included in the 12-Week Holiday Planner and The Glorious Coming ebooks. Ann has rewritten them and they are absolutely amazing…you will be blessed!)

Another nice offer is one of Sheri Graham's Christmas ebooks for free from now until the end of December. Celebrating the Season is a fun ebook filled with some of her family's favorite holiday activities. I 'm sure it will bless you this holiday season! This ebook is available through her Book Shop.

Also, just a reminder that the Christmas Cookie Plates Project starts next week! Are any of you interested in participating this year with your family? Grab your ebook before the end of the month (it is on sale now for only $2!)…then get ready to do some baking! What a blessing it is to GIVE this holiday season…that is really what it is all about…His greatest Gift to use…and our Gifts to Him and to others.

Heritage Builders Podcast

Passing along a heritage of Christian faith to your family is a parent's highest calling.
Heritage Builders' goal is to encourage and empower you in this great mission with
practical resources and inspiring ideas that really work and help your children develop a lasting love for God. We exist to equip, train and motivate parents to become intentional about building a strong spiritual heritage.

By providing tools that help equip and train parents, Heritage Builders is a successful ministry that reaches around the world. Check out the free podcast family seminar! Also download a free Family Night pack, start building your family's spiritual heritage.

Heritage Builders was founded in 1995 by six parents with a passion for helping others be intentional about passing on a Godly heritage to their children. From 1996-2006, Focus on the Family developed the ministry expanding its resources and presence. Our resources have been featured and offered by Family Life, Promise Keepers, and the Billy Graham Evangelical Association. In 2007, Heritage Builders was spun off to focus on its primary calling of training and equipping parents to pass the faith to the next generation. The ministry not only works with parents but also with and through churches to educate, equip and encourage parents in the spiritual formation process at home.

Fun Freebies!

Currclick is having a treasure hunt for homeschool curriculum freebies until September 22

I have found 19 of them
Starting on the home page:

1. Pirate banner (top of page)
2. Bottom of page
3. Top 100 products (right side of page)
4. Free Stuff (left side of page)
5. Follow your favorites (click notices on left side of page)
6. About CurrClick
7. Quick Start Guide/ FAQ's
8. Troubleshooting
9. Contact us
10. Privacy Policy


Starting in Account:

11. View or change account settings
12. View or change my billing address
13. Change my account password
14. View the orders I have made (also same as show all orders on top of page)
15. View all products I've purchased with download links
16. View all products updated since my last download
17. View all products awaiting my review
18. Select how I wish to be contacted by publishers
19. Wishlist (which is currently not working for some strange reason)

Have fun on your treasure hunt!

Science in Creation Week

In my quest to find a science program for Bella this year I’ve had several ideas, from THIS to THIS. THIS is another very professional free option. But I didn’t really want to print all that out and Office Depot is expensive to print and bind stuff.

I found in my files this chart of the areas of Science that correspond with the days of creation. So I went through and plugged in resources I already had to the areas of science. There are 12 areas which we can spend 3 weeks on each. Some areas I had a lot of resources others not so much. So sometimes we will spend time every day and others only 3 times a week. So THIS is what I have so far.

The I Want to Know More About... series is a set of books I bought at a library sale. I sell Usborne books, (mostly to myself) so I have lots of them. Magic School Bus books would work great too. I only have 1 personally but the library has many and one can use the Dvds. I’m also using any free School Express unit worksheets that coordinate with the topics, but I've not added them to my outline yet.

If you want to use this planning worksheet for your own books HERE it is both in pdf and Word.

Almost done!

The girls are almost done with school. Emilie and Olivia have finished Literature, and Grammar. They will finish History June 2,
Science will continue until July 2. After June 2 Math will be 3-5 times a week, Grammar Girl podcast 3-5 times a week, free reading daily, pursuing interests other than computer.

Bella will finish next week. This week she will finish Wizard of Oz, next week she will have 5 James Herriot stories.

I made this President Notebooking page for the girls to use with A New World of Adventure.

2nd grade lesson plans

Bella's week 8 ( this week, 10/26-10/30) and week 9 (next week, 11/2-11/6).

The big girls won't have school on Novemeber 6, it's a holiday for us. Mom's birthday!

just catching up

I've got some more simple lapbook templets here, here and here.

Menu this week:

BBQ chicken

Chuckwagon Soup

Roast beef sandwiches

jerk chicken nachos

pizza

We had a Faithgirls meeting last night. We had fun. Faithgirls is what we call the Keepers At Home program at our church. We are doing a baking unit, and studying Missionaries.

We made apple crisp last night and worked on our Missionary lapbook.

Tonight is AWANA.

Girls have had a wonderful attitude with school this year. It has been nice. I'm not always good, patient and kind.

Notebooking Freebie

I made a new notebooking sheet for Marquette, Jolliet, and LaSalle's explorations.

Free lapbook templets

I made some super simple blank lapbook templets. I have some more on another computer that I'll load at Scribd sometime.

Homeschool Share Blast Contest!

Click for Blast 2009 Guidelines

Wholesome Children's Stories

Want to entertain your kids with wholesome stories?
Take a peek at Paws and Tales. You can subscribe to the free weekly podcast.

"Welcome to Wildwood! Here the folks live just like you and me. They love fun and adventure, enjoy their work and family, and try to learn each day what it means to be like Christ.

The Paws & Tales radio drama is heard every week on more than 450 radio outlets in North America and around the world, as well as on the Internet. As a ministry of both Insight for Living and Insight for Kids, the mission of Paws & Tales is to help parents teach biblical theology to their kids through memorable, meaningful stories and music."

Olivia's Birthday! and a gift for you!

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Celebrating Olivia!*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Gramma gift.

A two piece outfit from Kohls that Olivia had picked out. It has sparkly pink skulls on the top and the leggings.

Top from mom and dad.


Her big gift! A Game Cube! Was she surprised?

Got to love cake!



A Gift for you!
Jesus the Ultimate Valentine bookmarks

History Scribe Freebie

Grab this History Scribe freebie this month.

Weekly Planner

This is my Weekly Planner I keep on the refrigerator. Notebooks are nice but I don't find them very convenient. I like that I can look at one sheet of paper for a week. This page has Sunday-Saturday Daily spaces, a Menu space, Shopping List, & To Do list.
If you must have a notebook, these are easily 3 hole punched and placed in binder at the end of the week.

This week's freebie at Currclick.com

"Naaseh Venilmad are the Hebrew words for “we will do and we will learn”- our motto. With detailed explanations, this is the only comprehensive Rosh Hashanah lapfolder that can be found online. Our special interactive-learning product teaches all about Rosh Hashanah, its customs, prayers and how we prepare for this Jewish holiday. It includes over twenty different activities for all ages that will teach your children in an interactive way, or you can work with them, and gain hours of fun quality time with them. Lapfolders are the best way for children to organize information. It’s been a while since they finished making the lapfolder? They forgot a specific detail? No problem- look for the right minute-book that will provide them with the answer to their question.

Enjoy making this lapfolder by Naaseh Venilmad!"

Another Charlotte Mason Freebie

Check out the Christmas gifts on the home page of Living Books Curriculum for many ideas for a Christmas to remember.

Daily Bible Study CM Style

Free daily Bible studies for children below 6-teens. I downloaded the Proverbs Study and the first 6 months of the 6-up study.
Check out other teaching tips at Peregrina blog
Looks wonderful and we will be starting both of these in January.

Notebooking Freebie

Here are some notebook / lapbook pages for Tchaikovsky and The Nutcracker. More will be added in the next week or so.