Beginning today Vision Forum has many best-selling gifts on sale at discounts of up to 50%. And shipping is a flat $5 per order!

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Shop from your seat, not your feet while earning great bonus gifts at the $50, $75, $100, and $150 price levels. Click here to see the bonus gifts for each level. You'll more than double the value of your purchase at each level.

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Buy a New one year subscription (not renewal) to the The Old Schoolhouse Magazine for the LOWEST PRICE EVER!!!

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The Interactive Parables Computer Game Download Christian Games! Now! $14.95 value New Harvest Homestead E-Newsletter New Harvest Homestead $10 value Let’s Make a Webpage E-Book Motherboard Books $19.95 value All About Horses E-Book Brandenburg Studies $9.99 value Help Me 2 Teach one month free website access Help Me 2 Teach $10 value Alexander Hamilton Young Statesman E-book and teacher’s guide Patria Press, Inc. $12 value

Computer Keyboarding for Beginners E-Book Teacher Created Resources $9.99 value Interactive Jigsaw Puzzle download Courseware Solutions, Inc. $15 value Money Management E-Book Living on A Dime $9.95 value Full line of Copywork Notebooking Pages E-Book NotebookingPages.com $19.75 value Complete Modern Worship Guitar Program E-Book 8 Chords 100 Songs $29.99 value Teaching Less While Your Child Learns More E-Book Living Books Curriculum $12 value

Soldier Fritz and the Enemies He Fought: A Story of the Reformation book Salem Ridge Press $10.95 value Heroines of the Past – Colonial 1630-1775 E-Book AmyPuetz.com $17.95 value “Publisher’s Choice” book Laurelwood Books $12 minimum value Organizing Happiness book TEACH Magazine $9.97 value A Woman of Noble Character E-Book Out of the Nest & Beyond $10 value Gift package of 3 E-Products – printable calendar, activities book, and more Art of Eloquence $34.85 value

Homeschooling with Heart totebag The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine $13.95 value Beginners Letter Writing Kit Grandconnect $29.95 value Activity Bags Sampler E-Book Activity Bags $18.95 value “Publisher’s Choice” DVD Janson Media $24.95 value America’s Heritage – An Adventure in Liberty CD-ROM American Heritage Education Foundation, Inc. $19.50 value “I Had No Idea” downloadable music CD Val  Halloran $15 value The Virtue in Knowledge – Write Thinking Package of E-Books Virtue in Knowledge Publications $29.95 value The Little Man in the Map wall map Schoolside Press $21.95 value And Then Mama Said, It Takes Time to Learn to Read softcover book The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine $9.95 value

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I hope you have a good end to your week!

Kris

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This Friday, November 28th, put on your pajamas, put away your pocketbooks and "head over" to CurrClick's best ever Black Friday Freebie Giveaway and Homeschooling Through the Holidays Sale!

Black Friday is about savings, this season is about being frugal and CurrClick is and always has been about helping you trim your education budget. That's why this year, we're pleased to invite you to our biggest Black Friday Giveaway and Homeschooling Through the Holidays sales event yet, offering 28 COMPLETELY FREE TITLES from our most popular publishers, and dozens of your favorite holiday education titles up to 85% OFF! Don't miss out! Click here to start shopping (after 10am EST, of course!)

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I have been blogging on my personal blog "30 Days of Thanks" and just recently I shared these thoughts.

(I am) Thankful for some wonderful music to listen to in my home during the day or afternoon while  kids are working on homework. I was blessed to receive all three of Steve Sensenig's CD's a few weeks back and they are absolutely wonderful! He is an accomplished pianist and his music is soothing and uplifting. I have not tired of listening to it on a daily basis since I received them! He has a Christmas CD which is starting to put me in the mood for the upcoming holidays!

I'd like to add to that I have all three of his CDs loaded into our disc changer and I turn on the music about 8am and listen to it all day long. It is just lovely to have spirit-filled music playing in our home. My kids have even said, "Mom, this music is so soothing." and they like to listen to it while doing their homework or reading or cross-stitch, etc.

Here is a bit more information about each CD and you can even listen to samples of the music on each page!

'Tis So Sweet - Steve returned to his childhood roots by recording such classics as "How Great Thou Art", "Great Is Thy Faithfulness", "Just As I Am", "Amazing Grace" and many more (19 hymns in all).
Intimately played in a free-flowing, uninterrupted fashion, you will find a refreshing hour of personal worship awaits you every time you listen.

Ivory Worship - Originally released as “To Worship You”, Steve’s first piano CD has now been re-released under the title “Ivory Worship”. This project includes intimate interpretations of many modern praise-and-worship classics such as "Breathe", "We Bow Down", "Shout to the Lord", "Agnus Dei", and others.

Christmas Solitude - Steve's Sensenig's third CD celebrates the Christmas season with 16 tracks of Christ-centered Christmas worship. "Christmas Solitude" includes "O Come, O Come Emmanuel", "O Holy Night", "What Child Is This?", "Mary, Did You Know?" and many more. This CD will bring a peaceful, relaxing time of worship to what has otherwise become a very hectic time of year! Included on this CD is one vocal number written and sung by Steve's wife, Christy. This intimate lullaby, sung from the perspective of Mary, the mother of Jesus, serves as a beautiful complement to the instrumental worship that precedes it.

Treat yourself or someone you love this holiday season with beautiful music. And shipping is always FREE in the Schoolhouse Store!

... Kris ...

I have reviewed several other products by Lighthome Publications (see those reviews here) and am happy once again to review a newer product of theirs. This item, As We Gather, is currently on sale at Currclick for only $8.77 (retail on it is $25.00). Here is their own description of what is inside:

We created this book as a way to draw the family together during Thanksgiving week and throughout the month of November.   Why not combine Thanksgiving celebration, music, art appreciation, Bible, and handwriting practice with singing, crafts, coloring pages, new recipes, table decorating ideas, and more?  (The coloring pages will keep your kids’ hands busy while you fix Thanksgiving dinner, not to mention looking through this beautiful full-color picture-filled book.)

For each of 10 Thanksgiving songs, we provide each verse of each hymn in manuscript print and cursive for kids to copy on the same page or on the 5 decorated lined pages, in 5 line sizes, at the back of the book.  Each hymn includes the author and composer or source of the music.  Each of the paintings includes notes about the artist and a brief discussion of art concepts related to that painting.  Bonus photos of planting and harvest on our own one-acre orchard and gardens demonstrate making the land fruitful by vigorous work, which gives us abundant reason to be thankful.

You are allowed to print out the pages for all family members in your same household year after year.  We suggest putting the finished pages in a hymn notebook and using it to sing the Thanksgiving songs, either just as a family or with guests.  Let this book be a jump off point to instill in your children a love for singing and a special place in your family schedule for singing hymns every year during Thanksgiving week.

There are 76 pages of wonderful activities for your children! You and your children can decorate the table together for Thanksgiving dinner, create an artistic menu to post and share with your guests, as well as cook some of the delicious recipes included just for you. Make a leaf suncatcher, a "thankful" bag, pressed leaf bookmarks, and color pictures together. I know that my family often took the week of Thanksgiving off, but there are some wonderful copywork pages for the children to complete that week if you'd like to do a "lite" week of school. On the copywork pages are reproductions of beautiful paintings with information about the painter underneath. What a great way to throw in a little Fine Arts study without the children knowing it!

Towards the end of the study, the Dunlap family shares a bit about their one-acre homestead where they have a huge fruit orchard and garden. It is nice to see the faces behind this project. After this section are some harvest and garden pictures to color - these pictures could also be used during the summer months when your garden is producing its harvest.

If you'd like to view some sample pages of this item, just click here! But don't wait too long to grab this item .... Thanksgiving is just around the corner and this sale is for a limited time only!

... Kris ...

I have reviewed several other products by Lighthome Publications (see those reviews here) and am happy once again to review a newer product of theirs. This item, As We Gather, is currently on sale at Currclick for only $8.77 (retail on it is $25.00). Here is their own description of what is inside:

We created this book as a way to draw the family together during Thanksgiving week and throughout the month of November.   Why not combine Thanksgiving celebration, music, art appreciation, Bible, and handwriting practice with singing, crafts, coloring pages, new recipes, table decorating ideas, and more?  (The coloring pages will keep your kids’ hands busy while you fix Thanksgiving dinner, not to mention looking through this beautiful full-color picture-filled book.)

For each of 10 Thanksgiving songs, we provide each verse of each hymn in manuscript print and cursive for kids to copy on the same page or on the 5 decorated lined pages, in 5 line sizes, at the back of the book.  Each hymn includes the author and composer or source of the music.  Each of the paintings includes notes about the artist and a brief discussion of art concepts related to that painting.  Bonus photos of planting and harvest on our own one-acre orchard and gardens demonstrate making the land fruitful by vigorous work, which gives us abundant reason to be thankful.

You are allowed to print out the pages for all family members in your same household year after year.  We suggest putting the finished pages in a hymn notebook and using it to sing the Thanksgiving songs, either just as a family or with guests.  Let this book be a jump off point to instill in your children a love for singing and a special place in your family schedule for singing hymns every year during Thanksgiving week.

There are 76 pages of wonderful activities for your children! You and your children can decorate the table together for Thanksgiving dinner, create an artistic menu to post and share with your guests, as well as cook some of the delicious recipes included just for you. Make a leaf suncatcher, a "thankful" bag, pressed leaf bookmarks, and color pictures together. I know that my family often took the week of Thanksgiving off, but there are some wonderful copywork pages for the children to complete that week if you'd like to do a "lite" week of school. On the copywork pages are reproductions of beautiful paintings with information about the painter underneath. What a great way to throw in a little Fine Arts study without the children knowing it!

Towards the end of the study, the Dunlap family shares a bit about their one-acre homestead where they have a huge fruit orchard and garden. It is nice to see the faces behind this project. After this section are some harvest and garden pictures to color - these pictures could also be used during the summer months when your garden is producing its harvest.

If you'd like to view some sample pages of this item, just click here! But don't wait too long to grab this item .... Thanksgiving is just around the corner and this sale is for a limited time only!

... Kris ...

I received this information in my email yesterday and it is definitely worth passing on. If you don't already, you should subscribe to the CurrClick newsletter as they give away an item for free each week and list other free items at the bottom of each Monday newsletter. At the bottom, there is an INCREDIBLE PRODUCT available for only $4.99. It is over 160 pages of activity for this month - what a great value!

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Thanksgiving Notebooking Pages
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These Notebooking pages can be used for Copywork, Notebooking what was learned from a book or poem, writing what you are thankful for, and much more.     Includes:   ·      15 Thanksgiving Notebookin...

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WisdomKids: Thanks and Giving by Firstfruits Publishers Holiday edition features Wisdom Stretchers, coloring pages, Challenge pages, puzzles, and a certificate of completion! Combine with WisdomKids: The ABC's of Being Thankful for an entire study where your child is finding the daily blessings in their lives. Your child will not only learn what grace and mercy mean, but they'll also be able to recognize how God pours these two blessings on them. Thought provoking Wisdom Stretchers will have you both sharing from the heart. What a delight to hear what's in your child's heart! An $8.95 Value!

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November Book Bag by Teacher Book Bag November Book Bag is a cornucopia of wonderful activities from aviation, a tribute to Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving activities, a featured study on the work of painter Claude Monet, and so many other activities designed for the entire family. Take a look at what we have in store for you: I. November Birthdays of Children’s Authors  II. Book Comparison Graph          III. Main Character Comparison Graph             IV. Primary Book Report Form               V. Setting Comparison Graph                  VI. Featured Author: William Steig                  VII. Recommended Aviation Literature  VIII. History of Flight           IX. History of Flight Timeline                 X. History of Flight Timeline Questions          XI. Aviation Activities           XII. Helicopter and Propeller Plane Venn Diagram   XIII. Make-A-Book: Wilbur and Orville Wright Booklet   XIV. Aircraft Sorting Activity XV. Aircraft Graph                XVI. Aircraft Speeds Graph            XVII. Writing Graphics: Blimp, Helicopter, Hot Air Balloon, Jet Plane, Propeller Plane, Seaplane              XVIII. “My Shadow and Me” Activity               XIX. Veteran’s Day Suggested Resources        XX. History of Veteran’s Day                  XXI. Make-A-Book: Branches of the Military  XXII. Veteran’s Day Paper, Intermediate and Primary        XXIII. Thanksgiving Suggested Resources                 XXIV. History of Thanksgiving               XXV. Thanksgiving Activities                 XXVI. “How to Make a Turkey” Paper             XXVII. First Thanksgiving: Five W’s               XXVIII. Make-A-Book: Pardon Me, Please!              XXIX. Thanksgiving Paintings                 XXX. Mapping the Pilgrim’s Journey               XXXI. Assorted November Activities               XXXII. Counting Leaves                 XXXIII. Turkey Craft             XXXIV. Create a Cornucopia         XV. Thanksgiving Vocabulary Cards                XVI. Cornucopia Alphabet             XVII. Robert Frost’s Gathering Leaves   Poem and Poetry Study                  XVIII. Ten Little Pilgrims               XVIX. November Specialty Paper  XX. November Acrostics                XXI. Calendar Pieces: Pilgrim Hats                  XXII. Calendar and Math Pieces              XXIII. November Calendar             XXIV. November Coloring Pages  XXV. Featured Artist: Claude Monet      XXVI. “Little Boy Blue” Reformed and Responsible         XXVII. A Harvest Hymn                 XXVIII. Handwriting Pages           Our Price: $4.99

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I've been trying to decide whether to close this blog or keep it up. I am no longer homeschooling my children, but I have LOTS of product reviews stored here and I really don't want to take them down in case they might be helpful to someone. Also, I still like to share good sale information or news about good finds related to homeschooling. Someone commented that this blog is only advertising. I don't feel that's true - it's just that I don't have anything to share about homeschooling because I am no longer involved with that as a part of my daily life. So, I will continue to share good finds and leave the product reviews available to those that find them in their Google searches!
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