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Featured Sponsor - The BusyBodyBook!
Posted 3:16 PM, Nov. 12, 2007
What a great sponsor to finish off the year! I know that we are all getting ready to enjoy the holiday season and also looking ahead to next year and finishing up your school year. Well, The Busy Body Book is an item you should look into if you are in need of some help organizing your day! Our two lucky bloggers chosen this week by Tia will each receive a copy of The Busy Body Book.
Look inside The Busy Body book here. Here is some information about The Busy Body Book from the website, "With BusyBodyBook, the time management tool for Mom and her very busy family, each family member has their own column to plan and track their schedules and activities while coordinating with each other side by side.
This WONDERFUL organizing item retails for $16.95 ... what a great price (see samples here). This item can also be purchased for fundraising purposes - more details here. If you are needing last minute ideas for someone who needs to buy YOU a present and you also need some help organizing your day, then The Body Book may be just what you are looking for! Or maybe you have a larger family and need more space to write out all of your commitments ... then you should consider the Fridge Grid Pad. This has 7 columns - you can use the extra columns to mark your dinner plans, chore list ... whatever! This retails $11.95 ... a true bargain in my book!   Well, that finishes off our Featured Sponsors for 2007. I hope that you have enjoyed getting to meet some new online sites! Hopefully, you have found some items you can't live without!
Featured Sponsor: Homestead Originals!
Posted 11:38 AM, Nov. 6, 2007
Lisa is a homesteading, homeschooling, homebusiness woman! You can visit her personal blog - OurLittleHomestead to get to know her a little better. This week, two lucky bloggers will each win a Homestead Originals Create Your Own Candle Kit!
Here is some more information about Lisa's home business - Homestead Originals! We are a family owned business specializing in handcrafted All Natural Soy Wax Candles, and Beeswax Candles, using only All Cotton Wicks. No toxins, no lead, no carcinogens! We want the best for our family and yours! If you use any type of paraffin (a petroleum product, byproduct of oil refining!) or animal fat based candles-you are unknowingly filling the air in your home with chemicals! Not healthy for our homes or fit for our families to breathe! Our handcrafted candles offer a natural, clean burning, toxin free way to still enjoy candles and support the American Farmer and American Economy! We offer a wonderful selection (we take custom orders too!) of unique hand poured jar and container candles, as well as Beeswax candles that will scent your entire home with wonderful, delicious fragrances....handmade, from Our Little Homestead... to yours. We also create other handcrafted wares, offer specialty gifts, and seasonal items, we invite you to sit a spell and take a look around! We thank you for supporting our family business. Sincerely,
Featured Sponsor - The Very First Noel DVD
Posted 7:49 PM, Oct. 28, 2007
Our Featured Sponsor this week is going to get us in the mood for the upcoming holiday season! Tia, the Front Porch Editor, will choose two lucky bloggers to win a copy of the following DVD, "The Very First Noel." Retail on this item is only $9.99 and you can see a preview, too! Here is some more information about this wonderful prize. A hearkening back to the family holiday specials of yesteryear, “The Very First Noel” features the iconic voice of Andy Griffith in this modern 3-D animated retelling of the traditional Christmas story. From Exclaim Entertainment, producers of the highly-acclaimed new “Boz the Bear” preschool DVD series, “The Very First Noel” includes an unforgettable music score and a wonderful story told in rhyme format as Griffith, playing the role of wise man Melchior, narrates the Magi’s journey to visit the newborn King. Join in this journey of a lifetime that will touch the hearts and the imaginations of you and your children. You'll meet Mary and Joseph, Gabriel and a host of angels, shepherds, innkeepers, and many more along the way! The Very First Noel is destined to become an instant classic, joyfully drawing families together every Christmas for years and years to come. I hope that you will check out this item ... what a great stocking stuffer for your kids or for those kids that you love the most!
Featured Sponsor - "Across the Wide River" offered by Kregel Publications
Posted 8:18 PM, Oct. 21, 2007
We have a wonderful book published by Kregel Publications to give away this week. Tia, our tireless, hardworking Front Porch editor, will choose two lucky people to win this item. Many thanks to Amy Stephansen for sharing this item with our bloggers.
The red brick home of Rev. John Rankin is a beacon—the first northern stop on the Underground Railroad. Across the Ohio River in Kentucky, every slave knows to look for it. They have heard that if they reach that house, they will never be captured. Across the Wide River tells the true story of the selfless sacrifices one Christian family made to help runaway slaves reach freedom. About the Author: During her childhood, Stephanie Reed's family would often pass through Ripley on their way to her grandparents' home. The signs she read there about the Rankin house were what prompted her to write this story. After working for nearly a decade with the Dayton Metro Library, Stephanie is currently a volunteer spotter for the National Weather Service. She lives with her husband and two children in Dublin, Ohio.
Featured Sponsor: Martha Greene of MarmeeDear & Co.!
Posted 5:09 PM, Oct. 14, 2007
Martha Greene is the owner of Marmee Dear & Co. and her site offers lots of good stuff for the homemaker. I own several of the books written by Martha and highly recommend all of them! I own these titles and they have been wonderful titles for our home economics & life skills studies: Treasury of Vintage Homekeeping This week's bloggers to be chosen by the Front Porch editor, Tia, will win a $50 package of downloads which includes the following titles: "Grand Granola" Martha is a very talented woman! She sells handmade skirts, aprons and blouses, grain mills and mixers, kitchen aids, books and so much MORE! If you've never visited MarmeeDear, then you need to head over there this week and visit her wonderful online site & store!
Featured Sponsor - Hands of a Child
Posted 7:30 PM, Oct. 7, 2007
We have a *GREAT* Sponsor for this week. The Featured and Random bloggers chosen this week will get to choose ONE item as their prize from In the Hands of a Child - any eBook unit study (excluding the template book)!
From their website, In the Hands of a Child features ... "Complete Ready-to-Assemble Lapbook Project Packs and Research Packs. Click on "Our Products" to see our newest Project and Research Packs, Kits, Craft Packs, Memberships, and More!
Complete your next lapbook with a Project Pack from In the Hands of a Child! Whether you are planning a lapbooking or unit study on Geography, Literature, Science, History, the Bible, or any other topic, let us help you put laughter and learning together In the Hands of a Child! Whether you are a teacher, homeschool parent, or a parent that wants something to supplement your child’s education, let us take the preparation and organization out of your job description!
Our Project Packs are jam-packed full of stimulating lessons and all the black line masters reproducible graphics needed to create your very own lapbook! They include a variety of subjects such as: Bible, Vocabulary, Science, Writing, Drawing, Measurement, Sequencing, Literature, Geography, Foreign Language, Nature, Arts & Crafts, and Math. Your student’s completed lapbook will contain many activities to reinforce the learning experience.
In the Hands of a Child brings the excitement of hands-on learning to life with Project Packs and Research Packs for students of all ages and all learning abilities. After completing the research and hands-on activities, your student will have a complete lapbook. Each of the completed lapbooks fit neatly into a file folder; storage is simple and the projects become wonderful keepsakes with an educational value. Children retain more when what they learn belongs to them. Project Packs and Research Packs fulfill that need for ownership of knowledge. This is a great educational value for classrooms, homeschools and individual student projects. Our Project Packs are complete unit studies and are easily adaptable to fit the needs of any age, skill, or special needs level! Project and Research Packs bring laughter and learning together In the Hands of EVERY Child." I had the privilege of receiving a unit to review for my blog ... you can read the review here. There is a unit study for everyone with over 100 titles available for immediate download! There are also site memberships available - these give you access to free monthly studies and more!
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Featured Sponsor - Tamy Davis of Growing with Grammar!
Posted 7:08 PM, Sep. 30, 2007
Our lucky Featured and Random bloggers chosen this week will receive their choice of Growing With Grammar programs - 1 & 2, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade. Let's meet the author ... "My name is Tamela Davis, and I am a homeschooling mother of two. For several years, I have been aware that homeschoolers around the world are in need of a thorough grammar program that can be used by all educators regardless of their background or beliefs. My husband and I began Growing With Grammar to fill that need in the homeschool community.
I have seen both years of this program and have reviewed them, too (Grade 3 review and Grade 4 review). To read reviews by other users, please visit the Growing with Grammar website.
Grades 1& 2, 3, 4 and 5 are currently available for purchase! According to their website, "Next in line for publication will be a Student Manual and Student Workbook for Grade 6, which will available in time for the 2008 school year. Please click here and send us an e-mail if you would like to be placed on our e-mail notification list for new product availability."
If you are looking for an easy-to-use grammar curriculum, then take a look at Growing with Grammar. My son is using the program this year and things are going very well. He can just grab the book and do the next lesson on his own without complaint - LOL!
Kris in TN
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Featured Sponsor - Ranny Levy of KIDS FIRST!
Posted 4:40 PM, Sep. 23, 2007
Our sponsor for this week is Ranny Levy of KIDS FIRST!. The website is FULL of wonderful products for your children. Be sure to hop on over and check out the clearance section - you might find some great gifts for your friends this holiday season!
From their website, "The Coalition for Quality Children's Media is a national, not-for-profit organization founded in 1991. Because we believe that media profoundly affect children, our mission is to 1) teach children critical viewing skills and 2) to increase the visibility and availability of quality children's programs.
The two bloggers chosen by Tia this week will both receive one of each of the following items:
Featured Sponsor - Terri Johnson of Knowledge Quest
Posted 9:58 AM, Sep. 17, 2007
Our Featured Sponsor this week - Knowledge Quest Maps - will give the following item to our lucky Featured and Random Bloggers that will be chosen by our illustrious Front Porch Editor, Tia! The Star-Spangled State Book (retail $18.95) is a great book for reviewing the facts about our 50 states. I even did a review of this product on my blog - you can read it here!
Give your kids a head start on the states in the union that begin with the letter A. Do you know how many states start with A? Download these two samples and find out! (Scroll down for image of Workbook.) Download your State Book sample pages here! Download your Workbook sample pages here! Like these samples? Then you will LOVE the book! 
The Star-Spangled State Book Join us as we travel from coast to coast, learning about the 50 states! From the disappearance of England’s first American settlement to California’s population explosion of 1849, you’ll experience the growth of a new nation. From Plymouth Rock to Pearl Harbor, you'll follow the course of American history and geography! And when you're done and you think you've learned everything you can... Well, crack your knuckles, take a seat, and turn the pages to one of our challenging brain games. Trust me, if you want to stay in the know, the four GeoQuizzes are for you! Great for children 4th grade on up to adult! The State Book contains 80 glossy full-color pages! The coordinating workbook that turns the State Book into a 36 week curriculum is 264 jam-packed pages.
Kris Price
Featured Sponsor - Loretta Hayward of Garden Gate Cards
Posted 1:48 PM, Sep. 9, 2007
If you haven't seen these notecards before, then you are in for a treat! Garden Gate Cards, owned by Loretta Hayward, offers the cutest pictures of rabbits in various settings and seasons. Our two lucky bloggers, chosen by Tia (to choose our winners, I guess Tia will just pull a couple of bunnies out of a hat - LOL!), will get to choose their gift from the following choices: ** GARDEN GATE NOTE CARDS **
A boxed set of Garden Gate’s beautiful note cards. The Rabbit Park set has a 10 card variety of Garden Gate's rabbits dressed as sailors, pilots and in other amusing poses . These note cards are great inspiration for writers of all ages. Garden Gate note cards are incentives for using various writing skills to send messages of cheer, important news, as well as loving wishes and words from the heart! All of Garden Gate's note card pictures feature real roses, ivy, and gardens along with adorable bunnies posing in heirloom stitched pinafores, aprons, bonnets, made especially for them! All of Garden Gate products are made here in Here is a bit about the cards from Loretta, "Here at the Garden Gate Rabbit Park in South Carolina, USA, our family raises prize winning rabbits. Our rabbits have pedigrees too!( Imagine that!) We got the idea of placing the rabbits in some very interesting settings; but photographing rabbits can be quite a challenge especially when the neighbor’s dog comes over for a visit, or a clumsy skink drops in from the tree branch over head! We never know when the flower garden “setting” is going to become rabbit lunch. The more pictures that we take the more we have noticed that our flowers seem to disappear! You can now see the results of our work in Garden Gate Cards. We have a variety of beautiful, note cards featuring our adorable bunnies!" I personally have two sets of these cards and they are larger than most, measuring 5 x 7, which gives me lots of room to write a note to a friend. To view the adorable bunnies featured in these cards, click here. Are you like me and never have a blank card handy for those last-minute gifts you need to give? These cards are perfect to attach to presents or mail to someone needing a mood boost! Or maybe you sometimes need to give a quick gift in a jiffy ... well, head on over to Garden Gate Cards and buy several boxes of these cards to have on hand for last-minute gift-giving. .... or a copy of their new book .... ** ON THE BANKS OF DURBIN CREEK **
Text on back cover: On the banks of Durbin Creek, it is bedtime for the bunnies at ======================================== Kris Price Featured Sponsor - Robin Koury & Answers for New Christians
Posted 3:53 PM, Sep. 2, 2007
Our sponsor for this week is Robin Koury who has written Answers for New Christians. Tia, HSB's hard-working Sr. Editor, will choose two lucky bloggers who will each receive a copy of this book. Here is the story behind how the book came to be. The Answers For New Christians Story Today Answers is in its second printing (the new Keepsake Edition). I thank God that Answers For New Christians is a helpful resource for parents and ministry leaders all over the U.S. This book retails for $14.95 and can be purchased at the Salvation Kids website. You can look inside the book, too! I'll see you again next week with a new sponsor ... I wonder who it will be? Kris Price, Assistant to the Publishers, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, LLC
Featured Sponsor - The Bluedorns of Trivium Pursuit!
Posted 3:48 PM, Aug. 26, 2007
Laurie and Harvey Bluedorn of Trivium Pursuit are graciously sponsoring the giveaway for the coming week and the two bloggers chosen by Tia will each win a copy of The Thinking Toolbox.
If you have never visited Trivium Pursuit then you are in for a treat! Their website is full of wonderful articles to read - I think my favorite is Ten Things to do with Your Child Before the Age of 10 - a definite must-read! Trivium Pursuit has even more items available in their online catalog ... so visit them today!
This book is like a toolbox, full of different kinds of tools you can use for different thinking tasks. Just as you use the wrench to fix the sink, so you can use the tools we give you in this book to solve thinking problems. We wrote this book for children and adults who want to learn logic and critical thinking skills. The Thinking Toolbox follows the same style as The Fallacy Detective with lessons and exercises and an answer key in the back. Parents and teachers, as well as anybody who wants to learn logic, will find The Thinking Toolbox easy to use and practical. Features
Featured Sponsor - Maggie Hogan of Bright Ideas Press!
Posted 6:16 AM, Aug. 20, 2007
Maggie Hogan of Bright Ideas Press! is back as the Featured Sponsor this week and has two great prizes for the bloggers that will be chosen and highlighted at the end of this week. The Featured Blogger will win the 3-book set of All American History, Vol. 1.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Random Blogger will win a copy of ... From Basic to Baghdad:
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Featured Sponsor - The BusyBodyBook!
What a great sponsor to start off the new homeschooling year! I know that many of us will be starting back to school this month. Well, The Busy Body Book is an item you should look into if you are in need of some help organizing your day! Our two lucky bloggers chosen this week by Tia, our dutiful Porch editor, will each receive a copy of The Busy Body Book.
Look inside The Busy Body book here.
Here is some information about The Busy Body Book from the website,
"With BusyBodyBook, the time management tool for Mom and her very busy family, each family member has their own column to plan and track their schedules and activities while coordinating with each other side by side.
Easily view overlapping schedules and avoid doublebooking with the BBB family calendar. Find perfect time slots for important family time!
And, BusyBodyBook Organizer is versatile. Use spare columns for babysitter instructions, meal planning, holiday or vacation preparations, home renovation scheduling.
Or, make use of an additional BusyBodyBook planner to manage your home business, or personal goals, - a separate BBB for your children to track their 5 school subjects. "
This WONDERFUL organizing item retails for $16.95 ... what a great price (see samples here). This item can also be purchased for fundraising purposes - more details here. If you are needing last minute ideas for someone who needs to buy YOU a present and you also need some help organizing your day, then The Body Book may be just what you are looking for!
Other items offered at this site include the7-Column Weekly Fridge Grid Pad and a 2008 (Jan-Dec) BusyBodyBook. I especially love the fun covers of all of the organizers! Check out all of the products at BusyBodyBook.com this week!
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