Nov. 26, 2008
The Old Schoolhouseฎ Magazine's annual Black Friday Sale
The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine is having an amazing sale on subscriptions
during their annual Black Friday Sale November 26 – 30. For those 5 days
only, they are actually lowering their new one-year U.S. subscription price
to $7.95! That's the price you would usually pay for just one issue at a
bookstore!
This is their lowest price ever on the magazine and they want all of you to
take advantage of this offer and share the info with your friends.
Please don't miss out. Your one-year subscription will pay for itself time
and time again as you receive practical tips and Biblical encouragement to
keep going strong in your commitment to homeschooling and to the Lord. Since
it's a quarterly magazine, they even have a monthly subscriber's only
E-Newsletter called Teacher's Toolbox that will give you seasonal teaching
ideas and a free E-Book download! It's like joining a unit study of the
month club! The free E-Books alone are valued at almost $250/year. It's
really perfect for people who are homeschooling on a shoestring or just
wanting to add in some little extras to your teaching.
Plus during the Black Friday Sale, they have all kind of bonus gifts when
you spend $50, $75, $100, or $150. Some are electronic downloads that you
can download immediately, while other are physical products mailed from
various vendors directly to your home.
Visit The Old Schoolhouse store at: www.TheOldSchoolhouseStore.com
Order Yours Today! And don’t miss out on this great price!!! |
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Nov. 18, 2008
Scholastic Customer Appreciation Warehouse Sale
You're invited to our biggest Customer Appreciation Warehouse Sale of the season! Save 25-80% off the cover price on books, software, gifts, and more at our Holiday Warehouse Sale.
Warehouse sales are exclusively for educators, homeschoolers, and Book Fair chairpeople / volunteers. It's our way of thanking you for your commitment to helping children become life long learners.
Register for a sale now! Sign up to get your Fast-Cart Pass to bypass the sign-in lines and you'll receive a valuable coupon worth $10 off a purchase of $50 or more. To get started, enter a zip code or select a state to find a book sale near you.
http://www.scholastic.com/bookfairs/events/warehouse/
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Nov. 11, 2008
Educational & Historic games & more
Chatham Hill Games is a leading developer and publisher of educational and historical games, posters, prints, and specialty items. From Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 to the American Civil War, from the voyage of the Mayflower in 1620 to the pioneering industrial achievements of Henry Ford, Chatham Hill Games will take you through 400 years of American history and culture!
Here are just a few of the games your family can enjoy this winter. Visit our website to see the whole catalog or shop online, or call 800-554-3039 9-5 EST to order by phone!
The Voyage of the Mayflower
 The Voyage of the Mayflower takes you to America on one of the most famous voyages ever made. Brave the winds and storms of the Atlantic, hoping to make landfall before supplies run out. Return in 1621, bringing much-needed help to the struggling colony. A unique solo version of the game is included.
For 2 to 4 players. More Info...
Family Tree Prints
 Our beautiful family tree prints give you the opportunity to proudly display your family history. A great item for museum and specialty stores, and a great gift for anyone interested in family history and heritage.
Folk Art & Victorian versions. More Info...
AND to go with the previous post of the Edison lapbook project:
The Wizard of Menlo Park
 The Wizard of Menlo Park turns you into one of Thomas Edison's enthusiastic but overworked assistants. Help Edison develop, test, and assemble the incandescent light and the electrical system that would revolutionize the world. Can you help Edison to achieve the seemingly impossible before New Year's Eve 1879?
For 2 to 4 players. More Info...
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Sep. 4, 2008
Library Sale
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Franklin Public Library Annual Book Sale
 Friday, September 5th 10 am - 5pm
Saturday, September 6th 10 am - 5 pm
Sunday, September 7th 1pm - 4 pm
9151 Loomis Rd., Franklin WI
414-425-8214 |
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Aug. 23, 2008
20% at off Half Price Books
Aug. 10, 2008
NEWHL Annual Homeschool Used Book Sale
NEWHL(North East WI Home Learners)Annual Homeschool Used Book Sale
Thursday, August 14, 2:00 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Hilton Garden Inn 1015 Lombardi Ave, Green Bay
(2 blocks from Lambeau Field)
New and used books, many different curriculums.
Please email Robyn at drekkl@yahoo.com if you have any questions. |
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Jul. 20, 2008
100 Great Books to Read To Your Kids
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100 Great Books to Read To Your Kids
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The National Education Association surveyed its members and compiled a list of the top 100 children's books as part of its annual Read Across America celebration.
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Infant to Preschool
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- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.
- The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
- The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
- Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
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4-8 Years
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- The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch
- The Mitten by Jan Brett
- Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
- Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss
- Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
- The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
- The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by John Archambault
- The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
- The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
- Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
- Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
- Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
- Are You My Mother by Phillip D. Eastman
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
- The Napping House by Audrey Wood
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
- Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss
- Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus
- The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
- Curious George by Hans Augusto Rey
- Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox
- Arthur series by Marc Brown
- Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
- The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
- Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
- The Art Lesson by Tomie De Paola
- Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
- Clifford, the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
- Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
- The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch
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9-12 Years
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- Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L 'Engle
- Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
- Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
- Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
- The BFG by Roald Dahl
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats fo Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
- Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
- The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
- Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Lois Sachar
- Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
- A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
- Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
- My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
- Stuart Little by E. B. White
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Chirstopher Paul Curtis
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Young Adult
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- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
- The Cay by Theodore Taylor
- The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
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All Ages
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- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Heidi by Johanna Spyri
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Jul. 20, 2008
Free Pizza for reading! Book-It Sign ups!
The Pizza Hut Book-It Program is no longer a group program. Each family must sign up individually.
You can call 1-800-426-6548 or sign up online http://www.bookitprogram.com
to enroll for the 2008-09 school year.
For Grades K-6.
Deadline is June 13, 2008.
Program starts Oct. 1, 2008 thru March 31, 2009 |
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May. 27, 2008
used book sale
Green Bay Area Christian Homeschoolers
Annual Used book Sale
Monday, June 2nd
Calvary Lutheran Church, 1301 Ridge Road
Church is located between Mason Street & Lombardi Avenue
The sale will be open to members from 6-8 p.m.
Open to the public from 7-8 p.m.
You may become a member that night if you want to get in the earlier
time. $10.00
Only CASH will be accepted for purchases!
Also, that evening……
There will be a Mini College Fair taking place in the foyer of the
Used Book Sale on the night of June 2nd. NWTC, UWGB, St. Norberts and
Rasmussen will be there to answer questions about highschoolers
taking college courses that would earn students credits for both
highschool and college.
If you have questions, call Cherie Winquist (chairman) at
(920) 869-7777 or email cheriewin@new.rr.com |
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Apr. 27, 2008
Summer Reading for as low as $1
Check out the new Bargain Bin at The Reading Warehouse!
The Bargain Bin is the place to buy publisher overstocks and remainder books at discounts up to 95% off retail everyday!
All of the books are brand new and come from all the major publishers including Random House, Scholastic, Penguin, and Harper Collins. Titles are available while supplies last, but we get new titles in constantly, so check back often!
http://www.thereadingwarehouse.com/bargainbin.php
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Apr. 26, 2008
Used Book Sale
Apr. 23, 2008
CLICKSCHOOLING REVIEW: Librivox
Librivox's Free Human-Read Audio Classics for Children
http://www.homefires.com/click?librivoxaudio
Age Range: All (Something for everyone. As always, parents should help
select material appropriate for each child.)
Now that the weather outside is getting nicer here in the Northern
Hemisphere, it seems a shame to keep the kids cooped up indoors, doesn't it?
Send them outside with some audio books! They can perch in a tree, skip
rope, start a garden, have a little picnic, or even play hopscotch while
listening to these wonderful classics.
Or keep a supply of titles handy for those days when you're unable to read
to them. With about 250 completed works listed in the "Children's" category,
there is more than an entire year's worth of bedtime stories and read-alouds
here, including the works of such well-known authors as:
*Aesop (Fables)
*Alcott, Louisa May (Eight Cousins, Little Women, etc.) *Baum, L. Frank (Oz
books) *Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Little Lord Fauntleroy, Little Princess,
Secret Garden, etc.) *Carroll, Lewis (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,
etc.) *Collodi, Carlo (Adventures of Pinocchio, available in English and
Italian!) *Dickens, Charles (A Child's History of England) *Dodge, Mary
Mapes (Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates) *Grahame, Kenneth (Wind in the
Willows) *Grimm, Jacob (Grimm's Fairy Tales) *Harris, Joel Chandler (Uncle
Remus) *Kipling, Rudyard (Just So Stories, Jungle Book, etc.) *Lamb, Charles
(Tales from Shakespeare) *Lofting, Hugh (Story of Doctor Doolittle, etc.)
*Montgomery, Lucy Maud (Anne of Green Gables, etc.) *Nesbit, E. (Five
Children and It, The Railway Children, etc.) *Potter, Beatrix (Peter Rabbit,
etc.) *Pyle, Howard (Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, etc.) *Sewell, Anna
(Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse) *Stevenson, Robert Louis
(Child's Garden of Verses, Treasure Island, etc.) *Twain, Mark (Huckleberry
Finn, Tom Sawyer, etc.) *Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,
etc.) *Williams, Margery (Velveteen Rabbit) ... and many, many more.
Click any title to see a brief synopsis before downloading/listening.
But that's not all! Parents may like to browse the other categories as well:
http://librivox.org/newcatalog/genres.php . These include adventure,
animals, biography, history, spy stories, teen/young adult, and many others.
This site can be searched for a specific book by title and author:
http://librivox.org/newcatalog/visitor.php .
In addition, you can view the titles of books currently in progress, and
beside each of these is a link to request to be notified by email when this
book is completed. :)
You can request that a favorite book (in the public domain) be recorded, and
older students can volunteer to help record or proof-listen. This is a great
community service as well as excellent language arts practice.
Note: There is an overlap between these books and the ones you would find in
Project Gutenberg or Archive.org. This is because Librivox allows both of
these sites to house their entire collection of completed works. However,
Librivox maintains the best-catalogued and most easily searchable list of
these titles. Also, only Librivox itself includes a brief synopsis for each
completed title, lists the works currently in progress, allows you to
request email notification upon completion of desired books in progress,
allows you to request specific titles, and allows you to participate in the
recording and editing process and their lively forum as well.
Additional Note: This review focuses on the "Children's" page. The rest of
this site is not specifically geared for children, so parental preview and
guidance is, as always, advised.
Books are continually being added to this collection, so bookmark it and
return often.
Also, don't forget that these books can be burned onto CD's for on-the-road
education, also known as CarSchooling. (For more information about
CarSchooling, visit http://www.CarSchooling.com .)
Enjoy! :)
MaryAnna Cashmore
& Diane Flynn Keith
for ClickSchooling
Copyright 2008, All Rights Reserved
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Mar. 21, 2008
WCCHE-Annual Used Book Sale
Waukesha County Christian Home Educators
Annual Used Book Sale
Saturday, May 10, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Oakwood Church
3041 Oakwood Road
Hartland, WI
(at the intersection of Hwy. 83 and Oakwood Rd. north of I-94)
(Please use the upper parking lot and east entrance)
Come shop for great bargains on gently-used
books, curriculum, games, computer software, etc.
Items will be sorted by subject
for your shopping convenience.
Only cash payments will be accepted
so that sellers can be paid that day.
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Jan. 19, 2008
WCCHE Used Book and Curriculum Sale
WCCHE Used Book and Curriculum Sale
Saturday, May 10, 2008, from 9:00 a.m. until Noon.
Location: Oakwood Church, Hartland, WI |
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Jul. 18, 2007
Any NCFCA Debators need to order the "Blue Book"?
A mom in SE Wisconsin area is organizing a group order for the 2007 Blue Book (Jeub, Chris and Trefethen, Vance (2007). The Blue Book. Monument Publishing, ISBN: 0-9709773-2-8. $40.00.) the price is reduced to $28.77 - but she must place the order TODAY JULY 18!
Contact walla@juno.com if interested. |
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Jul. 16, 2007
Home Educators Rummage Sale
........ July 19th, 20th, 21st. S88W22580 Milwaukee Ave. Big Bend. SAXON, ABEKA, ALPHA/OMEGA (to name a few) Textbooks, workbooks, answer books, cd's, videos, clothing, toys and more. 9-3
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Apr. 2, 2007
Used Book Sale
WCCHE Home School Curriculum and Book Sale
Saturday, May 12
8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Fox River Christian Church, Waukesha |
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Mar. 24, 2007
Annual Conference
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The WI Charter Schools Assoc. is having their annual conference April 15-17. The afternoon of Sun. April 15th is open to the public to check out the exhibitors and is free. It is at Country Springs Hotel. I believe the time is 1:30-5:00pm. For more info: http://www.wicharterschools.org/conf.2007.main.cfm
Here are the exhibitors so far:
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Mar. 17, 2007
BJU materials needed
It recently came to my attention that a fellow home schooling family I know through church is experiencing extreme financial difficulties (to the point of almost losing their house and not being able to properly feed their family of 9) due to overwhelming legal fees in a long and drawn-out custody battle. Fortunately, she and her second husband have retained custody and the right to home school, which was a key component of the battle. As part of the settlement, though, she is required to use all BJU Press materials with the children. She was already using some of this curriculum, but not in every subject and grade level. She called me to see if I knew of anyone who had BJU materials that they would be willing to loan out or sell at a discount in order to help her out. She is in need of the following materials:
Complete curriculum - Grades 6 and 8
Bible - Grades 6 and 8
All Vocabulary - Grades 7 through 12
Physical Science - Grade 9
Health - Grades 7 through 12
Writing and Grammar - Grades 10 and 11
High School Latin 2
High School Spanish 1
Bible - Grades 11 and 12
Algebra I and II
All Teachers Books and Answer Keys to go with materials
If you are able to help out in any way or have any questions, please call me at (608) 835-1758. Please pass this information along to any other home school families you think might be of assistance. Your prayers for this family are greatly appreciated as well. Thank you.
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May. 7, 2006
Book Review
When I first received Homeschooling Methods; Seasoned Advice on Learning Styles I wasnt in too much of a hurry to read it. I thought, How much more can you say on learning styles? If you know what they are, you know, right? So I put it aside and kind of forgot about it.
Then, I received a letter kindly reminding me that I had promised to read and review the book. So I pulled it out and took it with me to my daughters ballet rehearsal. I read the whole book in that one sitting!
The Lord certainly does know what you need and provides it for you. Our homeschool had become quite bogged down, dull and boring. My kids were resisting doing any of their work. I was feeling like I was failing. We were definitely in a rut.
Reading this book was like God speaking directly to me. It is filled with reminders of why we choose to homeschool in the first place. No matter what your teaching style or your childs learning style you have to keep that vision.
Besides that, I did also learn more about the various teaching styles. By having two different authors writing about each style, I was able to really get a feel for how you can customize each and find what works for your family.
The writers not only give the traditional definition of the methodologies, they also get into the details of how they have used each to formulate a plan for their child. Most go on to give examples of their day, to show exactly what it looks like for them. However, each author also constantly reminds the reader that it is not a cookie cutter recipe every family has to take what works for them and leave the rest.
The book provides a great starting point for someone just starting out on their homeschool journey as well as a nice refresher for families, like mine, who might need to reevaluate their current methods and be reminded that a change of pace can get you refreshed and refocused.
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