Win a $100 Gift Certificate to the Schoolhouse Store!

We Want Your Input!

The Schoolhouse Store needs you! We’ve been adding great new products like crazy! (And every one of them ships FREE!) Each product is complete with an official detailed review from the staff of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine. But we want to hear from you, too! The more information our customers have, the better choices they can make.

Browse the store for a favorite product and leave an honest review letting other customers know what exactly you liked or didn’t like about it and what makes it special.  Appropriate language and honest reviews only, please.  For each completed review you will be entered into our random drawing for a $100 Schoolhouse Store gift certificate!

To leave a review simply go to the product page of the item you’re reviewing and scroll to the bottom. Click on “review” and then “write reviews”. Be sure to browse around and see what others had to say as well!

~Note from Nancy- You actually have to click on the picture of the product over in the Review box on the right.  Then it will show you if there is a review.  Below that on the right, click where it says "Write Reviews". You'll have to register, but it only takes a second and then you can enter your review.  Your review won't be immediately posted because they have to go through the system first, but when you submit your review THAT is what enters you in the contest.~

What’s not to like about that? We can’t wait to read what you have to say!

The drawing will take place on September 1, 2006 so check back regularly to see all the new products you can review!  One review per household per, product.  Unfortunately, employees, staff and independent contractors of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, LLC are not eligible for the contest, but are more than welcome to leave a review.

Products currently include:

The American Schoolhouse Readers Preschool Activities In A Bag

Pilgrims Progress Curriculum Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Sequential Handwriting Sequential Spelling

Quarter Mile Math Christian Kids Explore Chemistry

All American History The Mystery of History

All Through the Ages Exploring Creation With Astronomy

See, I Told Me So! The Fallacy Detectives

Easy Homeschooling Techniques Easy Homeschooling Companion

The Easy French Hey Andrew! Teach Me Some Greek

Latin's Not So Tough History Through The Ages

Blackline Maps of World History Marmee's Kitchen Primer

Marmee's Kitchen Primer & Tool set The Kingdom Series, 3 book set

Homeschooling the High Schooler E-book Times Tales

Life on the Farm board game Write Shop

Literary Lessons from Lord of The Rings HomeschoolBlogger.com T-Shirts

Secrets Of Successful Homeschooling E-book Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten!

Let’s Get Ready For First Grade! Artistic Pursuits Art Programs

Hands-On Geography Complete-A-Sketch Products

Practical Accounting Fundamentals™ Practical Drafting™

Practical Graphic Design™ Barcharts: QuickStudy Guides

*Young Man’s Handybook G.A. Henty Audio Books

Creation vs. Evolution DVD Series  God Made Music Series

The Five Finger Paragraph Balancing the Sword Bible Study Set

The Scripture Sleuth Series Reading Planner Bible Study Software

Teaching Writing: Structure and Style Student Writing Intensives

Phonetic Zoo Program Developing Linguistic Patterns Through Poetry

The Effects of Music on Life Teaching the Classics

Go Outside & Play - Oceans & Gardens

With more added weekly!

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Do you have your very own subscription to TOS?  If you don't, now is definitely the time to subscribe.  It truly is a great way to invest in your homeschooling.  You can show it off to your skeptical friends and family to show them that homeschooling is not stuck in the dark ages.  They'll be impressed when they see the resources available to homeschoolers these days, as well as the success stories of homeschool graduates. 

Besides that you'll get plenty of encouragement and inspiration.  I love TOS because they don't try to make all homeschool families look alike.  They respect that we have different lifestyles and interests, but that we share the same conviction to educate our children. 

I can remember when I first started homeschooling.  The only homeschool magazines that I saw featured very large families, wearing dresses and color coordinating outfits.  I struggled with feeling like I would never fit in or measure up to those families.  But when I look in TOS, I see families of all different sizes, wearing all different styles of clothes, etc... 

There was one time when I read "that other" magazine, that I nearly threw it across the room.  It had one of those large families and they were truly doing the 15 minute intervals.  Everything was just too perfect.

7:00 - 7:05 Children dressed, beds made & seated at table

7:05 - 7:20 Father leads devotions while I serve nutritious homemade breakfast

7:20 - 7:25 Breakfast clean up. Children begin studies

BLECH!  I couldn't stand it and honestly I couldn't even believe it.  We can't get our beds made, dressed and to the table in 5 minutes.  Much less if there were 10 children in the house.  And cleaning up in 5 minutes - that's an admirable goal, but not happening at this house.

But with TOS, the families featured seem more real, more approachable.  I find myself so often wishing that I was in a support group with some of these folks.  I think they would be great fun!

And I love how they not only tell you what they are doing, but why and how.  That's such a big part of things for me.  I want to know why people choose their educational approach and how they work it into their family life. 

So, take a look at our current promo. You get the 19 free gifts whether you are subscribing for the first time or whether you're renewing.  And we want you to subscribe.(Oh and if you subscribe by clicking through that link in my sidebar - the picture of the woman reading the magazine, I get credit for the sale!) 

Hey what better way to celebrate TOS's 5th birthday than by getting your own subscription. Gena & Jen will love that a lot more than a dancing carrot.

You know how ebay (the loser) has decided to quit allowing the sale of Teacher's Editions on their site?  Well Sagerats decided that instead of just taking our little red wagons and going home, we should just keep our little red wagons right here at HSB to play.  She's holding a contest to promote The HSB County Fair where you can buy and sell your curriculum FOR FREE!

All you have to do is:

Copy and paste the following in your blog and then post a comment on her blog letting her know that you're joining in the fun.  Then she'll pick a lucky winner on May 15th.  Let the games begin!

Sagerats is having a contest to help promote The HSB County Fair where you can sell and buy used curriculum, EVEN teacher edition's/guide's/answer key's, with no host percentage fees!