Teaching your children how important it is to know how to do things around the house can be a challenge. The good news is that there are a lot of creative ways to make that challenge fun. The Schoolhouse Store has many great items for you to use for your home economics lessons.This sale lasts for a week, so take a look at what great items we have on sale.
Incorporate some hands-on learning as you prepare for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Enjoy a Thanksgiving unit study by sewing Thanksgiving play outfits or completing fun pioneer-related crafts from Corps of Rediscovery. Ready your home with open house ideas, home organization and cleaning resources, and recipes!
Don't forget, there's ALWAYS free shipping at the Schoolhouse Store.
Teaching Good Things
20% Off
Save 20% when you buy any of the following items by Teaching Good Things.
With this 70-minute DVD, you will learn all the basic stitches to crochet and how to read a pattern. You will learn about the different types of yarn and the difference in the sizes of hooks.
This is an E-Book that gets right to the point of purpose and attitude. It is also filled with hands-on ideas to encourage daughters to enjoy working in the kitchen.
This unit study combination is a great complement to any home economics course. The Kitchen Cooking & Terminology study covers over 300 kitchen and cooking terms that one might come across in preparing a recipe and the Grains unit study is a study in 5 sections. These sections include an overview of grains in general; rice; rye, Kamut, triticale and spelt; barley, oats, buckwheat, and flax; and finally corn, amaranth, quinoa, millet, and teff.
The Urban Homemaker Save 30-50%
Save 50% on E-Books, and 30% on spiral-bound books!
This cute, sturdy, spiral-bound, 8.5" X 5.5" flipchart walks children quickly and easily through the process of cleaning their room. It takes an overwhelming process and breaks it down into simple parts. Complete a step and flip the page. The fun, simple pictures (illustrated by one of our children!) make it easy for even pre-choolers to use. A little bit of direction makes life much easier!
Take advantage of this innovative chore system set and have your home ship-shape! The step-by-step illustrations make it easy--even preschoolers can succeed! Simply flip to the first page in the laminated flipchart and follow the illustrated instructions. Mark with a check when completed and flip to the next page.
Children love knowing exactly what to do and enjoy the immediate sense of accomplishment as they flip the page.
This cute, sturdy, spiral-bound, 8.5" X 5.5" flipchart walks children through the process of doing laundry by breaking it down into step-by-step instructions. Complete a step and flip the page. The fun, simple pictures make it easy!
Homestead Simplicity: A Primer shares helps for the keeper of the home! We like to keep it simple around here, and while I also want the best for my family, sometimes striking a balance between the two can be difficult at best. Join us as we share some simple hints, tips and recipes along with a little inspiration to add a little "Homestead Simplicity" to your life! Natural cleaning recipes, cooking from scratch (easily!), planning/stocking your pantry, and loving care for your homestead and those in it.
Homestead Simplicity: Natural Clean is our latest installment in the "Homestead Simplicity" series! Learn how to create natural cleaners & goodies that are not only better than their commercial counterparts, but MUCH HEALTHIER (not to mention, more FRUGAL!) for your homestead and those in it! We share natural recipes, frugal tips, & ideas for you to create & implement at your own homestead!
Bunkhouse Sewing
We have 42 Bunkhouse Sewing items in the Schoolhouse Store. What a wonderful way to teach your child with these wonderful E-Books. You can click here to go specifically to their home economics items.
To find all of our sale items, go to the Specials category in the store. Or go to the Home Economics category to see all of our home economics items. Or Remember there is always free shipping in the Schoolhouse Store!
This is our last week and we have a bunch of FREE stuff from our consignment that we can't take with us to our garage so come check it out. The rest of the store is 50% to 75% off. Great time to shop for Christmas! We still have Playmobil, quality reading, creation science, puzzles, craft kits and more........
Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to seeing you. Feel free to pass on this email.
Most of you have heard by now we are leaving our current location and must liquidate. Everything is now 30% off! This is a great opportunity to shop early for Christmas-remember we have an awesome selection of quality read alouds and we also still have quite a bit of playmobil. This will be our last week offering the consignment product at a discount off our already great prices. Thank you for your continued support! Feel free to pass on this email or post to your loops.
Looking for great activities to go along with books that your kids already love?
You'll find just what you need in
Adventures in Reading
The newest Planner module from The Old Schoolhouse®--full of games, activities, and recipes to enhance your story time!
We are providing more variety than ever before, with our High School Add-On and Lapbook Beginnings!
Look inside to find:
Lapbook Beginnings, a wonderful way to jump-start your next lapbooking project.
The High School Add-on--we are including high school students at their own level. They will read Robinson Crusoe and Silas Marner, and have activities to match
Activities for books such as: Frog and Toad are Friends, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Little House on the Prairie, and more!
Yummy recipes to add to the experience of reading these books.
Handwriting practice and Copywork for printing and cursive writing.
Fill-in-the-blank quizzes to assess how much your children remember from the books.
Creative writing activities to encourage even the youngest children to write.
You'll find all of this and more inside this module! These activities are sure to increase your child's love for reading.
What is a Module?
A module is an add-on for The Schoolhouse Planner, the amazing planner brought to you by The Old Schoolhouse®. Click here to see The Schoolhouse Planner for yourself. The Planner has a theme for each month, and these modules follow those themes. This module includes a study guide, activity pages, writing prompts, quizzes, coloring pages, copywork, and more!
You do not have to have The Schoolhouse Planner to use the modules. Each module is designed to be its own stand-alone unit study. You can choose to purchase the modules by themselves or bundle them with The Schoolhouse Planner.
Adventures in Reading will extend your favorite books into real lessons. We have searched high and low to bring you an educational, entertaining module that will leave your kids begging for more. On top of the enjoyable text, the fantastic activities, the beautiful coloring pages, and amazing copywork pages, we have included an extensive resource list.
This resource list will allow you to expand your studies even further, showing you fantastic products that you can add to your lessons. The resources listed will allow you to include older children and younger children in the same study, saving you time! These products are all sold in our Schoolhouse Store. You'll also find links directly to valuable information right on the Internet. That's right! We have done all of the time-consuming research for you, allowing you to spend your time with your children having fun learning about summer holidays, trying new recipes, and playing new games! This is a wonderful unit study that will keep your children engaged and learning from the first page to the last.
A custom-designed study guide complete with additional links to further expand the research.
Coloring pages made just for this module. You will not find these anywhere else.
Activity pages that relate to the topic. These include crossword, word search, a rebus puzzle, and more!
Original copywork pages.
Writing prompts that will encourage your children to continue to write, even during summer break.
Resource pages to increase your knowledge.
Additional activity pages created for older students. We want your entire family to benefit from this module, so we are offering resources to expand the learning up through high school!
Our newest section--"Lapbook Beginnings!" We provide the first couple of lapbooking activities for you, along with links to resources that will help you build beautiful lapbooks with your children. Create a project your entire family will enjoy!
Here's your chance!
P.S. Don't forget! You can earn back-to-school bucks while you shop!
When you shop the Schoolhouse Store, you'll earn "Back-to-Homeschool Bucks"--a coupon code good for dollars off your next purchase of TOS products listed in the wide selection of our Totally TOS category in the Schoolhouse Store, which includes the August Planner module!
(A return as high as over 26% when you spend $95!) Spend $30 and earn $5 in "Back-to-Homeschool Bucks" Spend $50 and earn $10 in "Back-to-Homeschool Bucks" Spend $65 and earn $15 in"Back-to-Homeschool Bucks" Spend $80 and earn $20 in "Back-to-Homeschool Bucks" Spend $95 and earn $25 in "Back-to-Homeschool Bucks"
Purchase your curriculum for the year. Order lapbooks or notebooking supplies, stock up on puppets and games--whatever you need for your homeschool year--it is all up to you! Purchase anything in the Schoolhouse Store and earn "Back-to-Homeschool Bucks" to come back and spend in the Totally TOS section of the Schoolhouse Store.
A dollar spent at the Schoolhouse Store really does offer a return!
In honor of the WATCH Conference I will be extending our Conference special which is buy 5 items and receive 20% off through the whole month of August. Playmobil and consignment product excluded but they do count toward your 5 piece total.
Additional Store Stock on sale for 50% to 70% off
EVENTS:
WATCH Conference August 7 & 8---Grand prize drawing for conference attending WATCH members: Free Trip for 4 to Creation Museum ($2000 value). Please invite church members and friends (whether they homeschool or not) to listen to Ken Ham. They can come to the Friday evening session only for $10 per person ($40 family max), or can attend the whole conference and hear him speak 6 times.
See our website www.watchhome.org for conference details, and www.registration.watchhome.org to register.
Homeschooling Through Highschool by Janice Hedin Olympia September 24th
As always please feel free to post this email or pass it on. Your word of mouth advertising is always appreciated. If you wish to be removed from this list please let me know, or if you received this email from a friend and would like to be added to my list please email whatsnew@familyschoolsupply.com.
Also remember we have a great selection of used books and curriculum -check with us first before buying new.
Blessings,
Anita King
Family School Supply Hours Tues - Fri 11-6 Sat 10-4 PH 253 539 9699
Our Summer Bouquet of Gifts is Blooming
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We are already at summer bouquet subscriber #1196!
We are only about 300 away! It won't be long before we reach the 1500th subscriber and the first bonus gift pack is gone!
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There are gift certificates from Science Shepherd, Discount Homeschool Supplies, and Notebookingpages.com, a beautiful Creative Memories® paper album kit, and a sweet-smelling soy candle from Homestead Originals. Check out all the details about these wonderful gifts below.
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Get ready for the upcoming school year! From Bible study to writing curricula, DHSS offers an extensive selection of learning resources. Use this gift certificate on anything in their store!
Creative Memories Paper Album Kit--$16 Value!
Create the perfect mini storybook with our new Paper Album Kit. Makes a great gift just as it is, or quickly assembles with photos using the coordinated, pre-cut decorative accessories. All the pieces to create a beautifully accessorized album are provided in the kit. Get more information here.
$10 Gift Certificate from NotebookingPages.com
Make learning a journey with resources from NotebookingPages.com. Visit their site and find articles, free homeschooling resources, and a growing line of notebooking products designed to "fit the family" and to "fit the budget."
Homestead Originals Soywax Half-Pint Candle--$16 Value
A hand poured, all-natural soy wax, Half Pint Candle in an adorable, old-fashioned canning jar! These are lovely anywhere in the homestead. Visit their site to see the unique, handcrafted, specialty products for your homestead and those in it!
$10 Gift Certificate from Science Shepherd
Science Shepherd curriculum was developed to meet the needs of the growing number of families who want to continue to homeschool their children all the way through high school. Their goal is to take the fear out of teaching science.
As the new school year gears up, treat yourself and your family to two years of homeschooling ideas, encouragement, expertise, and product reviews. Other families just like yours share their homeschooling trials and triumphs with information you can start using now!
NEWS: We have decided to expand our consignment in the hope that we can help more people save money during this challenging economic time. We are currently accepting consignment just call for an appointment. Remember too, that we love to do curriculum consultations both to find the right product for you and your student and to save you $. Some hot items we currently have on consignment...Math U See-Blocks-Epsilon-Gamma-Stewardship and more, Abeka 4th grade math set Complete and brand new, Teaching Textbooks Algebra 1, a large selection of Montessori things and great summer readers. It is worth a phone call or dropping by to see if we can fill your list with used before buying new.
OUR JULY SPECIAL IS OUR INSIDE SIDEWALK SALE :)
JULY 16TH TO 30TH OR WHILE SUPPLIES LAST
We have many great things on sale-
40% off Gods Design Science Series
50% off several great books by Joyce Meyer,Max Lucado, John & Staci Eldrige & more..
50% off select Carson Dellosa product like- Adventures in Writing, Writing a Persuasive Essay, Economics, Chemistry & more....
70% off some misc. product including Bob Jones- Bible Truths, Vocabulary, Book links
and last but not least some FREE STUFF just for stopping by and checking it out!
(limit one item per customer per day) some things may be of particular interest to school teachers
EVENTS: WATCH Conference August 7 & 8
Preregistration for the WATCH conference ends July 31 - at the door registrations are $10 more. Free picnic dinner with entertainment Friday evening for full conference preregistrants. Grand prize drawing for conference attending WATCH members: Free Trip for 4 to Creation Museum ($2000 value). Please invite church members and friends (whether they homeschool or not) to listen to Ken Ham. They can come to the Friday evening session only for $10 per person ($40 family max), or can attend the whole conference and hear him speak 6 times.
See our website www.watchhome.org for conference details, and www.registration.watchhome.org to register.
As always we appreciate your continued support. Feel free to pass on this email. Thank You :)
Thank you for your continuing support. A quick reminder to check my consignment area for your ABEKA/Bob Jones before buying elsewhere. Please note my "conference special" for any thing that I stock or can order. Also remember that I can order most things you would get at a Christian Book store and if they are on sale I will do my best to match their price. Please continue to keep the store in your prayers during this challenging economic time. :) Last but not least - remember we are available for free curriculum consultations-if something is not working for you or your students -let us help! :)
Bless you all!
Warmly,
Anita
P.S. Your word of mouth advertising works! Thank You! Also feel free to post or pass this email around!!
August 8th & 9th WATCH Conference http://www.watchhome.org/ Featuring KEN HAM! This is a great Family conference it will be fun for everyone homeschoolers or not!
New Arrivals-
Bible Explorer Series (Three DVD Boxed Set) The Search for Noah’s Ark, Mt. Sinai & The Ark of The Covenant
Great Fathers Day Gift! $29.95
Lies Homeschooling Moms Believe by Todd Wilson - A book full of encouragement to finish the race with peace and joy! Great gift for anyone you know is feeling a bit burnt out.
June Special- 10th to the 30th
I usually call this my conference special but since we won't be doing a booth at the WHO conference this year I am doing it in store :)
Buy 5 items and get 20% off (new in stock & special order) excludes playmobil & consignment but they do count toward your 5 item total
MAY 26 -FAMILY SCHOOL SUPPLY SUPPORT GROUP MEETING TUESDAY MAY 26th 7:00PM
Bring your friends to see "TROJAN HORSE DVD SHOWING"(7:00)
and sharing meeting(8:00)-Topic "TESTING"
Please RSVP to Anita at the store 253-539-9699 or Via email
June 9th--Homeschooling Highschool Seminar with Janice Hedin
June 18-19th WHO Conference
August 8 & 9th WATCH Conference featuring Ken Ham & Todd Wilson
News:
Family School Supply will be closed Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. May 23
Please contact the store for further details on the above events. As always thank your for your continued support. Your referrals are making a difference. Please feel free to post and share this email with your friends and support groups, it really helps get the word out. Please note the store hours change Tues-Fri 11-6 Sat 10-4 Closed Sun/Mon
Remember we are always here to help! Happy Spring from all of us at Family School Supply!
Back in stock just in time for Easter - His Princess, His Little Princess & His Mighty Warrior
(these are great Character building books & make great gifts)
Great batch of consignment just came in with NEW Abeka and some great sonlight books and books on Egypt and Ancient History.
We are also ready to accept consignment again in preparation for the spring buying season so check your shelves, box up the things you are done with and call for an appointment.
Thank you so much for your support during these trying economic times. Please continue to spread the word about our store to your friends and family. You are our best advertising :)!!!!
Blessings to you all!
Anita King
253-539-9699
Store Hours Tues-Fri 11-6 Sat 10-4
PS. Sorry if you have received this in duplicate, I am still working through the email change. If you haven't yet done so please reply to whatsnew@familyschoolsupply.com it will be a big help to me and insure you stay informed of news at Family School Supply. I am hoping to have my transition complete by the end of May.
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