Unbelievable... I was sort surfing a bit and came upon this wonderful giveaway. The draw is the complete collection of Veggie Tales DVD. The best part is that the contest is open to Canadians as well! Horray!
Apologia is now producing notebooking journals that accompany each of the elementary science books. Both Botany and Astronomy are now available. You can see samples on the Apologia website here:
These journals are beautiful spiral bound notebooks that will save you time and money. You won't have to print and keep up with your child's notebook pages, buy and maintain page protectors, or purchase and compile binders...everything that makes notebooking time-consuming and labor intensive for mom. Also, your child will adore having their own notebooking journal.
Each of the notebooking journals include:
A daily schedule for those who like to have a plan or would like their children to complete the book on their own
Templates for written narrations, the notebooking activities and experiments
Review Questions
Scripture Copywork, with both print and cursive practice
Reading lists and additional activities, projects, experiments for each lesson
An appendix with beautiful, full-color, lapbook-style Miniature Books
Field Trip Sheets to keep a record field trips
A Final Review with fifty questions the students can answer either orally or in writing to show off all they remember and know at the end of the course.
Jeannie is giving away four Astronomy Notebooking Journals and four Botany Notebooking Journals to bloggers who post about this on their site. Visit her blog to learn more about this contest: www.jeanniesjournal.com .
As for me, I have discovered the wonderful products of Apologia a couple of years ago via a friend but never owned one. Now we have just started the Flying Creatures and we love it... I am planning to get the other ones one at a time.
Rosetta Stone is the fastest way to learn a language and has been the #1 foreign language curriculum among homeschoolers for a while — and you can WIN the *all new* version 3 Rosetta Stone Homeschool LATIN program… FOR FREE! This is the first year you can get Latin in the brand new Version III update.
This is a $259 program (and believe me it’s worth every penny!)
This is a computer based curriculum and Rosetta Stone will also include a headset with microphone, and a supplementary “Audio Companion” CD so you can practice lessons in the car, on the go, or where-ever! Students participate in life-like conversations and actually produce language to advance through the program. Rosetta Stone incorporates listening, reading, grammar, vocabulary and writing along with speaking and pronunciation lessons. For parents, the new Parent Administrative Tools are integrated into the program to allow parents to easily enroll up to ten students in any of 12 predetermined lesson plans, monitor student progress, grade completed work (the program grades the work automatically as the students progress- I love that!), and you can view and print reports for transcripts. Homeschooling a lot of kids at your house? This program is designed to enroll and track up to ten students (five users on two computers) and will work for nearly all ages — from beginning readers up to college students.
To win this most excellent Latin program copy these paragraphs and post them in (or as) your next blog post, and/OR link to the contest from your facebook page and/OR email the information to your homeschool support group – Then go to the original page http://Jeneralities.com and leave a comment saying that you’ve posted about, or have linked to, the contest. Please make sure the link works to get back to the original contest page when you post. And good luck!
My thoughts on it!
We love this company. We already purchased French and Spanish for our own kids. Right now, only my oldest one is using it but I am planning to use it with all of them eventually. My only negative point for it would be for the French product. They based it on French from France and consequently the keyboard is AZERTY and not QWERTY. We are French Canadians and it would have been nice to be able to select the keyboard according to the area you live. But on the other side, my son can use the mouse to select and type the words. It just takes a little bit longer that all. The software is very well made and uses all areas of learning - listening, speaking, writing, and seeing. I gave my two thumbs up for this company. You won't be disappointed if you decide to buy some language training from them. After all it is used by many companies around the world...
Another member of the TOS Homeschool Crew is giving away some wonderful products on her blog.
She has the following to give away - Rocket Phonics, Heads Up frames, Critical Thinking, Bible Story Songs, Math Tutor, a toy from Alphabet Alley, Zone Cleaning Charts and Spears Art Curriculum on cd.
So if you are interested, simply go to her blog and post a comment to Candace.
Grab your pencils and get those creative juices flowing!
The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine is hosting our second Storytime Writing Contest! We have two creative fiction categories: adults (16 and up 2,500 words or less) and children (15 and below 1,500 words or less). Deadline to enter is March 16, 2009. $7.95 fee per entry.
Grand prize winners in both the adult and child categories will receive prize packages valued at over $1,000, publication in the Summer 2009 issue of TOS, and publication in our Storytime 2009 Compilation E-Book. Eleven Honorable Mentions from each category will also be included in the E-Book in addition to receiving gifts from top homeschool companies.
My friend Heidi is having a contest on her blog. She has three membership for the site Ojolie to give away. If you want to have special e-cards to send to your friends go to ReviewsByHeidi and put your name down to win! It's that simple... and if you tell others about it on your blog, you get an extra entry.
Married to a wonderful man, mom of four adorable children, teacher, nurse, cleaning lady, driver, manager, accountant, pastor's wife, scrapbooker, card maker and artist at moments,... these are only a few of my hats. I love to read and watch movies as well as being creative. I dream of a house on many acres of land in the countryside...
