Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - State Study Motto Copybook and Notebook Pages Sampler
I will be away from my computer for about a week. I thought while I was away I’d let you view a sampler of my State Study Motto Copybook and Notebook Pages e-book. I’m really pleased with how it turned out. I chose a few pages from the cursive and the manuscript books. And seeing that I hail from South Carolina, I used those pages. Let me know what you think. If you really like them, you may purchase the whole book from the Old Schoolhouse Store. Remember these are only a sample of the 168 pages included. All 50 states are covered and there are a whole lot more notebooking pages to chose from.
State Study Motto Copybook and Notebook Pages Sampler
My Corner of the Old Schoolhouse Store
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Monday, June 30, 2008 - July Writing Prompts Calendar
Here is the July Writing Prompts Calendar.
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Monday, June 9, 2008 - High School Planning
Over the past few days I’ve been working on planning out the next four years of my son’s schooling-high school. While I’m not too concerned with being able to teach him his subjects, I have been trying to decide what to teach when, trying to work out the best college prep course plan. The only subject that I am trying to decide on is his English courses. I know what he needs, but finding just the right course of action and the books that will meet our vision has been on my mind. I’m sure it will all fall together.
I created this worksheet to help in my planning. Maybe it will help you out also.
While checking some of the other homeschool planner pages I posted back in June 2007, I found that something had happened to the files. I have fixed them and also tweeked the originals a bit. I still use the basic planning sheets to layout the year. After I get the kids' year roughly laid out, I think I’m going to work on tuning up this blog.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 - June Writing Prompts
Really short post here. Just wanted to get you the June writing prompts.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - May Journal Writing Prompts
Just wanted to be sure to post this month's journal prompts for those that use them. Just wondering if I should continue posting the calendars for during the summer months? What do you think?
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Monday, April 14, 2008 - Princess Ceremony
We had quite the busy weekend. Friday evening my son and his girlfriend came over for their birthday celebration. His girlfriend’s birthday is the day before his and he wanted to have a joint celebration.
He really liked his quilt and we shared stories that went along with the patches of fabric.
On Saturday we had our daughter’s Princess ceremony. It really was beautiful. My sons took the pictures and videoed it. There was a little glitch in the videoing part. My middle son thought the camera was on but it wasn’t so he missed the first half of the ceremony, but he got the last half. We sent out invitations, had programs, and I wrote out the whole ceremony. We don’t have much family living near us, but my folks and my oldest and his girlfriend all came. We found a ‘princess’ dress at the Goodwill months ago and we had bought her crown at the Renaissance Festival in the fall. We also decorated the room to make it special.
We made the arch from PVC pipe we had and covered it with streamers. The two tables are from my bedroom and held the pillow I made to hold her Princess Kiss necklace and the other held the “kiss” candles. We had three chairs decorated with streamers also. She sat in the middle under the arch with her father and I on each side. While we were waiting to begin we passed around her completed Princess Notebook and a special certificate for everyone to sign.
We used battery operated tea light candles we found at Hobby Lobby, purple heart shape candle holders we got at the dollar store and a tall candle stick I had. We placed the glass globe from my anniversary clock that my son gave me over the tall set up to represent her ‘kiss’ and the two other candles represented her father and I helping to guide and light her path in purity. When she came down at the beginning of the ceremony she was carrying the silk rose and placed it in front of the candles symbolizing how precious her kiss was.
After welcoming everyone and an opening prayer, I read the Princess and the Kiss story while she quoted Scriptures she had learned through her studies. I had these typed out on slips of paper so she wouldn’t be nervous that she would forget them all. After she read each Scripture at the appropriate time she placed them on the table around the necklace/pillow to represent how her purity is surrounded by God’s Word.
After reading the story, she told everyone what she had learned during her studies and explained the meaning of the candles.
Then it was everyone’s turn to express what they thought was special about her and why she is a treasure to them. It was very emotional for my daughter. She understood how important it was making this formal commitment to purity. We paused for a few moments after everyone said what they wanted to let her compose herself. I knew she was tenderhearted but now I know how much like me she really is. There were quite a few tears all around.
Then I read the meaning of the symbols on the necklace from the Life Lessons from the Princess and the Kiss book.
Next my husband gave her the Princess blessing from the book and presented her with the necklace.
We ended in prayer and lots of hugs and kisses. She then served refreshments to everyone. It was a wonderful afternoon.
If you are interested, here are some of the printables I made for the ceremony.
Life Lesson’s from the Princess and the Kiss notebook pages.
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Monday, March 31, 2008 - April Writing Prompts
Just a quick post for today. The kids and I are taking today as a ‘Catch-up/Clean-up’ day. We need one of these days about once a month to stay on track. It’s a rainy day here, so it’s a perfect day for it.
I wanted to post the April Writing Prompts calendar though, so those who are using it will have it for tomorrow. I am so glad that everyone is finding these useful. If you get a minute please let me know if you like the format of the prompts in a calendar or do you think that they would be better in a list form. I am working on an e-book and would appreciate any input as to what works best for you. Thanks for your time.
April Writing Prompts Calendar
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Friday, February 29, 2008 - March Writing Prompts
Here is the March Writing prompts calendar. I sure would love to hear from those who have been downloading them. Last month there were over 50 downloads, but I only heard from a few. Would really like to know what you think of them, how you are using them and what I might do to make them better. Thanks.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - Thirteen Colonies Study
We have been working on a unit about the 13 colonies. We are only studying the basics of who, what, where and whys of the founding of the colonies. We will be using Homeschool in the Woods Time Travelers The American Revolution after we complete this study so I needed to fill in the gap between our Explorers study and the American Revolution. I’ve been able to find a few things to use for our lapbook and have made some. I am still working on a couple of things to add to our. We hope to complete this unit by the end of the month. I haven’t completely laid out the lesson plan, but wanted to share what we have so far.
These are a few of the sites we are using.
USGenNet has a lot of links to help in our research of the subject.
Education World has a neat lesson plan for Colonial America including a link to George Washington’s Rules of Civility, which makes for excellent copy work.
This site has a timeline for colonial America from 1492 to 1763 as does the History Place.
And if you haven’t found anything useful at these sites let’s not forget Mr. Donn’s site. His site is a great stepping off point for lessons and Power Point presentations.
A good site for printable ‘foldables’ for U.S. History up to 1877 is the US History Standards of Learning Site.
For each state we will be doing a wheel with a window. The inside has been broken into 8-pie shapes with the following labels for each section: year founded, founded by, first settlement, first leader, chief economics, religion, government, and reason for colonization. The top circle has the state name and an outline map of the state. The kids will mark the important places on these mini maps and fill out the information on the inside circle.
Inside Circle- (four circles per page) (you will need to print 3 of these)
Georgia- (includes top and bottom)
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - February Writing Prompts
Didn’t get a whole lot done with the room switching yesterday because we had skating and my daughter had a basketball game. She had the opportunity to play most of the game and I forgot to bring my camera. Drat! Being the youngest player on the team by 3 years, she hasn’t played a whole lot, but last night she did awesome. I am so proud of the way she plays and is always positive towards the players. They won the game with a score of 44 to 26.
I finished February’s Writing Prompts calendar this morning. I’m glad that others have found them helpful. I know that when I find something I can use in our school I am happy that others freely share their creativity.
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