Happy New Year from the Schoolhouse Store! We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are ready for a great new year!
The Winter issue of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine is just about ready to send to the printers. It's going to be fabulous!
We've got articles on balancing home and work, tips on organizing your homeschool, a look at day-to-day life with Susan Wise Bauer, our first ever Freebie Directory, and so much more. What a great way to start the New Year.
The magazines will start hitting mailboxes at the end of January so if you want to get the Winter issue, you need to subscribe by January 6, 2008.
We're going to show you some free resources for your homeschool, let you peek in on homeschool life for other families from Hawaii to South Africa, and give you unit study information on the Iditarod and Civil War. We've got tips on educational games to play with reference books, do's and don'ts on teaching history, and information on working at home and finding balance.
If you're already a subscriber, but you need to renew, now's your chance to do that so that you don't miss an issue.
Subscribe or renew by January 6, 2008 and we'll give you FIVE issues for the price of four. That's right, we'll tack on an extra issue to your one-year subscription for FREE. Just use coupon code FREEBIEPLUS4 in step two of the checkout to get an extra issue! The deadline is January 6, 2008 and we don't want you to miss this fabulous Winter issue. It's a great way to start 2008!
We also have a great new free E-Book in the Store for January!Math Mammoth's Division 1: Divide and Conquer the Concepts lays a good foundation in basic division, cementing the link between multiplication and division, and then solidly presents the concepts of remainder and divisibility. A good understanding with these helps the student later to understand factoring and long division.The book provides plenty of practice and stresses understanding of concepts. You can get it FREE by clicking HERE.
Now for Store News! As always, we've added all kinds of new goodies you're sure to enjoy.
We have just added some GREAT Multimedia Download Presentations to the Store at the great price of $4.99 each!
These downloads include: Learning objectives, discussion and debate topics, review questions and research and essay assignments. These are a fun and easy way to teach History!
Topics include:
Becoming a Nation
Covered Wagons and Westward Expansion
Expanding Our Nation
Social Reform Movement
The Great Depression
US Government (1783 - 1865)
Another fun new item we have just added is The Little Man In the Map - With Clues To Remember All 50 States.
Learning and remembering all 50 states of the United States of America has never been easier. Once you open this book, everything you thought you knew about the U.S. map will change.
With the help of the book's main character, the Little Man In the Map (MIM), the states come alive, interacting with each other and with you, playing roles you'd never have expected. As you read the story and see how the states relate to one another, you'll find yourself easily learning their names and locations.
So let your imagination run free! Read the book just for the excitement of discovery and the fun of the rhymed verses. Then go back and review the clues in the individual sections.
Soon you'll know all 50 states of the United States of America!
We also offer the The Little Man In the Map Wall Map. This resource will make learning and remembering all 50 states of the United States of America is even easier. This 38 x 22 inch full-color wall map is the ideal complement to The Little Main In the Map and makes learning U.S. geography even more fun and easy!
We are very please to bring you this exclusive offer from Kregel Publications! The Parker Twins Series a 6 Book Set is a TOS exclusive that has been extended through March 1, 2008!
Buy all 6 books in the Parker Twin Series and SAVE $16.95!!!
Normally globe-trotting escapades are reserved for adults-such as a certain whip-cracking adventurer who asks not to be named-but somehow teen twins Jenny and Justin Parker always find themselves neck-deep in danger and intrigue. From the jungles of South America to an Indian reservation in Montana, the Parkers are never short on excitement wherever they go.
This series includes:
1.. Cave of the Inca Re - Click HERE for more info. on this title.
2.. Jungle Hideout - Click HERE for more info. on this title.
3.. Captured in Colombia - Click HERE for more info. on this title.
4.. Mystery at Death Canyon - Click HERE for more info. on this title.
5.. Secret of the Dragon Mark - Click HERE for more info. on this title.
6.. Race for the Secret Code - Click HERE for more info. on this title.
This is a great savings on a great set of books which you will find only at TOS!
Two Plus Two Is Not Five, Easy Methods to Learn Addition and Subtraction
This is a great resource to help children learn the addition and subtraction facts!
Two Plus Two is Not Five is a supplementary workbook that teaches children a way to remember the addition and subtraction facts.
The math facts are introduced with easy-to-learn methods and tricks, and there are many reproducible pages for written practice and review.
The methods and tricks in Two Plus Two is Not Five have been tried and proven to work!
You can find this book by clicking HERE. If you are interested in purchasing a scuffed copy of this book at 20% off click HERE. (While supplies last!)
As always, you can check our New Products link to keep up-to-date on new additions at all times. We hope you have a wonderful Christmas!
Why don't you take some time and wrap up 2007 by voting for your favorite curriculum in our Excellence in Education Survey?
Winners will be announced in our Spring 2008 issue.
These are only a few of our exciting new products at The Schoolhouse Store. As always, you can scroll to the bottom of the category listings in the store and click on "New Products" to see the latest additions. Make it a habit to check in regularly!
And remember to be sure and let your friends know about the Always Free Shipping at the Schoolhouse Store!
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