OUR MOTTO: Prov. 27:17~"As iron sharpens iron, so one man {family} sharpens another."
OUR MISSION: "We are ordinary Christian families assuming the responsibility of home educating our own children in a way that honors God & encourages other families seeking the same path."
MEETINGS: 2nd Monday of the month from 7-8:30 p.m. at the YMCA Robinson Branch game room.
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Welcome to Freebie Fridays This week I have a bunch of great newsletters, contests and resources. So, grab a tall glass of iced tea and have fun reading!
The first freebie I have for you is a Financial Stewardship Activity Book from Kidswealth.com. This is an easy and fun way to teach your kids about giving and sharing from a Biblical perspective. The activities will help your kids learn to make good money choices and understand the joy of giving.
Crazy 4 Math is having their annual contest to encourage kids to keep up their math skills over the summer. To enter the Crazy 4 Math Contest, children simply have to describe how they use math in an activity they enjoy. Entries must be submitted online by July 30th at www.Crazy4Math.com. You can vote online for your favorite entry in August. The goal is to generate a free list of learning ideas to inspire families and teachers. There are hundreds of great entries posted from previous years and you can check out. Everyone wins something! This year all participants will receive several MP3s from Googol Power's inspirational music and a certificate. Finalists and winners will win much more!
Littledozen.com is offering a free E-Book that contains 11 chapters of their new book Tales of the Heartily Homeschooled. Find out what happens when you throw 20 children, four parents, and several cross country trips between the covers of one book. This book of essays will make you laugh, think, and thank God for family.
Professorpocket.com is offering a free 5 minute MP3 download of their new release Professor Pocket® Our Hawaiian Hula Adventure if you sign up for their newsletter. Yesyoucanpublications.com is offering a free art newsletter. When you subscribe you will get free monthly downloads that include practical projects, reviews, and information to help you teach art at home.
I'll see you next week right here at - Freebie Fridays!
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Summer Reading Splash
Contest of the Week
Make sure to stop by the Summer Reading Splash Blog and enter this week's contest. Here is this week's question. In a story you've read recently, which character would you like to be...and why?The winners will receive some great new books!
All email entries must be received by MIDNIGHT tonight, so be sure to visit the blog now!
There will be a great contest every week all summer long, so make sure to check here each week for details.
Grapevine Studies provides an easy to teach and effective curriculum to disciple students ages five to adult. If you are tired of simple, ineffective Bible lessons that leave your students with an incomplete understanding of God's Word, then we have what you need! With a Bible, colored pencils, and Grapevine Studies Bible curriculum, you can give your students a more thorough understanding of the Old Testament, New Testament, Biblical Feasts and Holy Days, or Bible geography.
Receive Free: A second Grapevine Student Book of equal or lesser value.
A value of up to $27.95 - free!
What To Do:
Purchase: Any Grapevine Student Book Type the name of the free student book you would like in comments.
Your free student book will be included in your order.
"Teaching Jeremiah" is a complete curriculum for teaching special needs children in preschool and early elementary grades. Originally written for a child with Asperger's Syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder, this curriculum is broken into chapters corresponding with educational goals set in his IEP (Individual Education Plan). There is a chapter for developing fine motor skills, one for letter and number recognition skills, speech development, matching patterns, and more. If you are as frustrated as I was in searching for a curriculum of activities tailored to special needs children, then this E-Book is for you. read more...
We are so excited to announce that our much-anticipated Schoolhouse Planner is READY!
The Schoolhouse Planner has so many wonderful features. You told us what you wanted in a planner, and we have delivered!
Some of the main features include:
Calendars in various forms - yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily
Planners for your homeschool - in various styles to meet your individual needs
Household planning forms
12 "homeschool must-know" items, one for each month of the year
12 essays from some of our favorite authors in the homeschool community - you absolutely won't want to miss these!
24 easy main-dish recipes from some top homeschoolers around the nation
and so much more!
PLUS, theSchoolhouse Planner is interactive! You can type right into the pdf! If you have Adobe Acrobat, you'll be able to save the changes you make. (Note: If you only have Adobe Reader, you can type in your planner information, print it, but will not be able to save these changes.)
Don't forget, monthly planner add-ons are available for purchase every month. We already have some great holiday related information ready for July's planner supplement!
We're there with you each month to make your home and school planning as easy and fun as possible throughout the year!
Have a friend who likes an organized home and school? Let them know about the Schoolhouse Planner.
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We want to say a very special "thank you" to those of you who pre-purchased the planner.
If you pre-ordered the TOS Planner, you will receive download instructions within the next 48 hours. Watch your inbox! If you haven't ordered your Shoolhouse Planner, now is the time to order your copy. The new school year is quickly approaching!
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 subscribeby 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.
Basically a person just buys a one-year sub for $25. It can be a new sub, renewal, or gift sub. And then they can add a one-year gift subscription for just $5 to their order! It's a great way to send a little encouragement to your homeschool friends. It's cheaper than a book, most candles, even the price of eating out for a lunch! And it's encouragement that will come right to their door four times a year. :O)
Since you're already online, why don't you surf on over to Grace Talk Soup? This is a brand new podcast by JoJo Tabares that brings you stories of courage in sharing/defending the faith, with inspiring testimony and tips for doing it effectively. Beginning in June, Grace Talk Soup listeners will have a chance to win a huge prize package valued at over $200 during our Summer Jumble-aya Contest! For more information and to see the line up of upcoming topics and guests, click here!
When the days are boiling and the kids and I just can't stand to be outside, sometimes we'll go to Chuck E. Cheese. Did you know you can get 15 free tokens for each child if you bring in their report card? Now that's a deal! I've even handwritten mine and they take them just fine! Here's the details! And here's some great coupons in celebration of their 30 year anniversay!
Speaking of freebies, don't miss out on The Schoolhouse Store's "Back to Homeschool" Sale...there's over $120 worth of freebies if you spend $100 or more! Spend just $50 and you get over $40 worth of freebies! Check it out! Right now is a good time to RENEW or START your subscription to The Old Schoolhouse Magazine!
A second CD FREE. For only $12 you can give two of these wonderful CD's to show your appreciation.
After adding the the They Are Fighting For Me CD to the cart, write "Free CD" in the comments to receive a second CD at no additional charge.
And yet another freebie...
Purchase:
Times Tales Deluxe. The quick and easy way to memorize those tricky upper math facts. Summer is the perfect time to get these down pat! Believe it or not, your kids will even enjoy it!
Receive FREE:
A child's "mini-flip" so they can review on their own. This miniature version of the full-size flipchart retails for $4.95.
After adding a Times Tales Deluxe to your cart, type "Free Mini Flip" in the comments section at checkout. The free mini will be included with your order.
These specials are only good
through June 7th!
We sure hope you enjoy our "Freebie Fridays" promotion! Watch your inbox every week for specials galore!
First of all...my new column - The Lesson Planner - will be debuting in this up-coming Spring issue of The Old Schoolhouse! I'm SO excited!! What I do in this column is deeply compare and contrast similar curriculums, resources and/or learning aids. It will be the next best thing to actually holding the items in your hands and looking through them yourselves.
HERE'S WHERE I NEED YOUR HELP...Of course I have a few things up my sleeves already, but an on-going column needs on-going ideas. SO...if you would, please let me know about any curriculum, learning resources, learning games, CDRoms, etc. that YOU would like for me to scrutinize for you.
Be sure to keep those ideas coming - even at later dates - when something crosses your mind. THANKS AHEAD OF TIME!!
What's your most pressing question about teaching art at home?
Michelle Geffken of Yes, You Can! Publications would like to give you her $14.95 ebook, Artful Advent, as a thank you bonus when you answer her brief survey here before February 28th.
A fourth Edutunes CD/Book set of your choice at no additional charge!
Choose and add three Edutunes CD/Book sets to your cart. Choose a fourth set but, instead of adding it to the cart, write it's title in the comments. Example:
"Free Edutunes: Character Education"
Your fourth book will be included with your order at no additional charge. ($19.99 value!)
Your choice of a third Project Pack from the list at no additional charge.
After adding any two of the above listed Project Packs to your cart, choose a third Pack. Instead of adding it to your cart type the name in the comments box. Example:
"Free Winter Sports Project Pack"
The third Pack will be included with your order at no additional charge. (Up to $15.50 value!)
These specials are only good
through March 1st!
We sure hope you enjoy our "Freebie Fridays" promotion! Watch your inbox every week for specials galore!
