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Win a Roseta Stone Program!

Wed, 13 May 2009 17:23:00 -0500

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!

Christmas!

Mon, 1 Dec 2008 20:20:00 -0600

It is that time of year again! Time to make the house festive. Time to watch It's a Wonderful Life again! Time to drink eggnog! Yummy! Time to play on the Homeschool Lounge!

If you have not joined The Homeschool Lounge yet now is the time to do so!

They are having fun & festive givaways all month. So come join the fun!

Christmas on the Lounge

Signs and Seasons 2

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:44:00 -0500

When I won my copy of Signs & Seasons Understanding the Elements of Classical Astronomy from the Old School House I was excited. After looking through the book I am even more excited.
This is much different than the other star books on our shelves or the chapter in the textbooks that tell you dry numbers about how big the sun is and how many years it would take you to go to the planet Neptune. This book tells you how to find the stars how to keep time with the sky, how to follow the seasons with the stars. It has 7 chapters on everything you wanted to know about the night sky, a chapter about Calendars, and 40 pgs of field activities to do with the chapters. The first activity is to get 5 paving stones to build a backyard compass, (about 7.50$ at our local Lowe's Hardware.)I am already looking forward to doing this with my kids!
Oh! I should say that you do not need any fancy equipment to do the things in this book.
Very user friendly. The things we will do in this book will build memories that will last a life time.
http://www.classicalastronomy.com/

I Won The Classical Astronomy Contest!

Sun, 6 Jul 2008 14:44:00 -0500

I am so excited that I won the contest for the classical astronomy curriculum! I promise a thorough review when we get it & while we are doing it.

If you don't know what I am talking about, go to http://www.ClassicalAstronomy.com and check out Jay Ryan's sight. I have been receiving his newsletters for years & I was so excited when I heard he had written a book!

If you think of me this week, pray that God will give me bucket loads of wisdom! I will be planning our school year this week. Of course you KNOW we will be doing some Classical Astronomy! :-)

My Garden an Update

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:25:00 -0500

I have tiny little beans on my bush bean plants, a little green tomatoe growing, and beautiful flowers growing on my zucchini, and pumpkin plants! YEA! Oh and we had a salad already with lettuce from my garden, and will be picking more for dinner tonight!

Here are some pictures I took just this morning. okay 1 picture. My files are to big so I will have to shrink my pictures before I can show you the rest.

The newspaper is ugly, but so was the blankes of grass & weeds that were coming up faster than I could ever pull them, and it will break down and become compost.

I found out that I needed to ad lime to my soil. I found this out after I planted of course! My neighbor added several bags of lime to garden before planting & it is going crazy!