My newest grandson arrived last night.

Matthew Nicholas Foote, Jr.

9 pounds 1 ounce

20 inches long

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~Candy~

We are back home from South Carolina.

It was our first family trip.

We had such a wonderful time.

I even got to see the ocean.

Most of my kids had already seen the ocean because daddy likes to take a couple of them and head out to different places.

They finally talked mommy into going along.

What a great time!

I hadn't seen my sister in over a year and a half, so that was the best part for me.

God is so good to us!

~Candy~

This is good-bye....um, for now.

We are heading to South Carolina on Monday.  Yea!

Our monthly newsletter won't be sent out until after I return in two weeks.

Hey, that gives you time to sign up for it! :D

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See you in two weeks!

~Candy~

Today was our last day of school.

We are officially on summer vacation.

I laugh when I use the word 'vacation' though.

The kids anxiously await their 'vacation', then they spend their time doing school work!

They love school.  They are able to pursue their work without any pressures of having to get it done.  I love it!

~Candy~

Hey, what better way to teach geography?!?

We are headed to South Carolina in 6 days!  Yea!

~Candy~

The kids are counting down until "summer vacation".

I always laugh at them because they truly love school.

Many "first day of summer" days, my kids could be found somewhere reading a good book.

We tend to do school through-out the year.  We just change up what we are learning and how it is being taught.

We are finishing up our ocean study by actually going to the ocean!

Technically, we are going on 'vacation' on May 28th.  Then, on June 1st we are headed to South Carolina!!  Yea!!!!!!!!!!

How are you spending your 'summer vacation'?

~Candy~

I've been spending the day reading over Karen Andreola's book, "Charlotte Mason Companion".

I could just read it over and over; couldn't you?

~Candy~

If you haven't used up those BOOK-IT coupons from Pizza Hut, you had better hurry up.  They expire on May 1st!!!

~Candy~

We only have four and a half weeks of our regular school year left!  Wow!

The funny thing is that we never actually stop learning, we just switch up the way we learn.  We also focus more on science and nature studies.  We get to spend a lot more time on learning crafts too.  The kids are getting pretty good at crocheting!  Read alouds never stop!  We actually do so much learning during the summer that we shouldn't even call it summer vacation.  Oh, well, it makes the kids feel better thinking they are on vacation.   lol

We are preparing to go to the ocean in June.

What a great way to complete our ocean unit study!

I have never been to the ocean before.  Many of the kids have been to the ocean, but this will be my first trip.  Yahoo!

What are your summer time plans?

~Candy~

We just got three new Drive Thru History DVDs!!

I love them!

Have you seen any of them?

~Candy~

One of my all time favorite kid's book is the story of Peter Rabbit.

What is one of your favorites?

~Candy~

Here is another awesome site.

There are a lot of free worksheets available for multiply grade levels.

It's a wonderful resource.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

http://www.tlsbooks.com/miscellaneousworksheets.htm

~Candy~

Have you read any of John Hudson Tiner's books?

I love his books!

They are absolutely wonderful.

We are working through his books on exploring the earth, chemistry, and medicine.

Which one of his books are you reading?

~Candy~

Saturday, March 21st was our 22nd wedding anniversary!!

I had a lovely day.

It was great.

My husband and I went out to lunch and did a little shopping.

Later, we ordered pizza and had all of our kids over.

Some extended family came over too.

We ate pizza, cake, and watched our wedding video.

What fun!

Everyone enjoyed laughing at my huge glasses!

I tried to tell them that it was the style in the 80's, but they just laughed all the more!

~Candy~

http://donnayoung.org/index.htm

This is an awesome site!!

~Candy~

We love Vocabulary Cartoons.

They are really awesome!

My kids are not only learning, they are learning fast!

Do any of you use Vocabulary Cartoons?

We have just started our second book.

~Candy~

My husband is so awesome!

I caught him teaching the little ones how to spell using the alphabet.

(Okay, I do realize that all words are spelled from the alphabet. )

Here is what he was doing:

a = ay

b = bee, be

c = see

d = Dee

g = gee

i = eye, I

j = Jay

k = Kay

o = oh

p = pea, pee

r = are

t = tea, tee

u = you

y = why

Isn't that awesome?!?

I tell you, my husband is not only awesome, he is cute too!

~Candy~

Hey, my books are on sale!

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They are 50% off!!

~Candy~

How do your kids memorize their math?

I love to simply have the kids recite.

It is amazing how quickly and painlessly they memorize them.

~Candy~

No school today!!!  Today is Jacob's thirteenth birthday.

Happy birthday, Jacob.

Do you have a favorite book to share today?

Stop by every Monday this month and share about one of your favorite homeschooling books.

I really love Vocabulary Cartoons.  My kids pick up these books without having to be talked into it.

They learn from them quickly and painlessly.

Not only that, they these vocabulary words weeks, even months later.

It really sticks with them.

Have any of you used Vocabulary Cartoons?

Your turn.  Tell me about one of your favorite sources.

~Candy~

All of these books and papers seem to get out of control so easily!

Time for a new system.

I hope to get some new book shelves up this week-end.

I need to make time to go over schedules and prepare for next week.

We don't have school on Monday, though.

It's Jacob's thirteenth birthday!

What are you doing this week-end?

~Candy~

We have been having fun collecting things in preparation for our ocean books.

I picked up some ocean stickers at the dollar store, but they didn't have very many.

I picked up a book on sea creatures at the junk store.  We are going to use it to cut pictures and paste them inot our books.

Preparing seems to be half the fun.

What kind of lapbooks are you working on?

~Candy~

I am trying to get stuff collected and organized to make lapbooks on the oceans.

Any ideas?

~Candy~

The more that I read this book, the more I love it!

It is written as a letter to a nephew from his uncle.

It is written very clearly.

It is really a no tears economics course!

It is endorsed by John Taylor Gatto, Mary Pride, Cathy Duffy, and many, many others.

Have any of you used this book?

Let's share different books that we truly love in our homeschool.

Each Monday in March come back here to read which book I love, then share which one you love.

Sound like fun?

I'll start. 

We just got, "Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?" in the mail.

It is an economics course, but don't let that scare you.

This book is wonderful!

It truly captivated us. 

It is really a 'living' book.  I love it!

The chapters are short, but you get a lot out of them.

When I told my 16 year old that we got his new economics book in the mail, he wasn't excited.

That is until we started it.  He was really impressed with it too.

Have any of you tried this book?

Are any of you thinking about it?

Go for it!  It is a great resource.

Don't forget to go over to candyfoote.com and sign up for our monthly newsletter.

You will get a free sample of one of our books just for signing up!

~Candy~

Hurry, today is the last day to enter Rachel's contest.

The prize is one of my books!

http://dixonhomestead.com/rachel/?p=929

~Candy~

Timing is everything!

Each one of my kids has a certain time of day when they learn the easiest.

Life is much easier when I tune into these times.

When Olivia was little, she couldn't seem to understand anything during the day.

The funny thing is, when nighttime rolled around, she turned into a different child.

She could do all of her work without tears. Yeah!!

Learn which time works best for your children.

Believe me, the tears it saves makes it worth it alone!

Here's another chance to win one of my books!

Go to http://dixonhomestead.com/rachel/?p=929

If you win, you can make your choice of book over at

http://candyfoote.com/

If you have been around the blogosphere for very long, then I'm

sure you know Tiany.

Well, did you know that Tiany created this great site called,

The Homeschool Lounge????

It's great!

Check it out http://www.thehomeschoollounge.com/profile/CandyFoote

I forgot to tell you in my last post that three of my books are included in the raffle.

Go check it out Homeschool Christian.com :: HSC Raffle - 2009

~Candy~

Martha Robinson is  having an awesome raffle over at

HomeschoolChristian.com.

Go check it out Homeschool Christian.com :: HSC Raffle - 2009

~Candy~

I spent the day working on school papers and schedules.

I still didn't get all of my paper work done!

Does it ever really get all done!?!

Well, more paper work tomorrow.

We are going to  have some fun tomorrow too!!

We are heading over to my aunt's house for a sledding party.

We plan on having a fun filled afternoon with sledding, singing and playing guitars, and good food!

Sounds like fun - doesn't it?

~Candy~

We are offering our Woman's Special for only $25.00!!

You get three e-books in this set:

The Word of God on the Book of Ruth,

The Word of God on the Book of Esther,

and

The Word of God on Being a Woman, a Wife, and a Mother.

Go to http://candyfoote.com/  and look under, "GREAT DEALS".

~Candy~

Okay, I know that  I told you to read Shakespeare, but I'm wondering which plays you decided to read.

We started both MacBeth and Hamlet, but didn't like the witches and ghosts in the stories.

How do you guys handle that junk?

~Candy~

Today is President's Day!

Does your homeschool take the day off?

We don't!

How are you spending Valentine's Day?

We are spending the day celebrating our little

girl's fourth birthday.

When she was born, the nurse said, "Gee, all

I gave my husband were candles." LOL

Happy birthday, Christina Pearl!

So, what will you be doing today?

~Candy~

Have you thought about teaching Shakespeare, then decided to think again?!?

Do you think it sounds a little overwhelming?

Don't worry - there's a solution!

Charles and Mary Lamb have put many of Shakespeare's plays into enjoyable stories that even your little ones will enjoy.

Give them a taste of Shakespeare!

Check it out for yourselves at http://www.eldritchpress.org/cml/tfs.html

And don't forget to have fun!

~Candy~

http://www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/lapbooks.htm

This site is great!  It has a lot of free stuff to help you make those lapbooks!

Have fun!

~Candy~

My kids love to make little books.

Not only are they fun, but they make it easy to remember what's being taught.

You can use them with any subject.

My kids really loved their fraction books.

We just use card stock or even construction paper.

They can be put together with paper fasteners or simply yarn.

The topics are endless.  They can be simple or complicated, so they work well for any age.

- shape books

- color books

- math books (like our fraction books_

- China books (any place)

Well, you get the picture.

Have fun!

~Candy~

I just love free - don't you?!?

http://schoolexpress.com/ offers all kinds of

free school worksheets.

Not only that, they have a lot of

educational things for kids to do

online too!!

Make sure you stock up on ink and

paper though.

I'm going to have to send my husband

back out to get more!!!

~Candy~ ;D

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Trainupachild.com offers free worksheets to  help you teach your children Bible lessons.

I printed out a bunch of their lessons.

We are going to put them on construction paper and turn them into little books.

Check it out!

~Candy~

Have you ever heard of Charity Tapes Minisitry?

They have a website where they take donations for all

of their tapes.  If you can't afford anything, you simple

click a button and can receive them for free.

They also have a quarterly magazine entitled,

Charity Christian Missions.  You are able to copy anything

you would like out of their magazine.  This makes an awesome

homeschool resource.  Their newest volume has an article called,

Blood on Our Hands.  It is a little history lesson on the American Indians and missionaries.  It includes awesome pictures of early American Indians. It also has a United States map showing where the different tribes lived.  There is a worksheet included where you can match up a picture of a 'house' to the tribe that used that type.  To end with, there is a little biography on the missionary, David Brainerd (a young Puritan minister to the American Indians).

I printed out a copy of this story for each one of my children.  They are going to turn it into their own little books.

After this sparks their interests, I'm going to encourage them to dive deeper through the use of our local library and the internet.

Have fun!

~Candy~

The younger kids are turning all of those lists into books this week.

We made books out of construction paper, wrote "Sophia's List Book"

(or whichever child's name) then used each page for a different list.

For example:

page #1 - school supplies list

page #2 - grocery list

page #3 - things I want to do this year list

The possibilities are endless.

Why not make a list book with your kids today?

They are fun and educational.

Lists are a great way to teach spelling!

Have fun!

~Candy~

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~Candy~

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~Candy~

We have started a new adventure at our home.

We started an in house Bible study in our home on Wednesdays.

This is not a mommy and daddy thing.  It is a family thing.

We are in this thing together.

It is awesome to see our children discuss and explain the Word of God.

What a learning experience.

This is just another step in training them how to teach and spread the Word.

~Candy~