Jun. 5, 2008 - Buy One Get One Free Unit Study Sale- From Now Until Saturday
I hope that everyone is doing well this week and that it has been enjoyable for you. We are in the process of wrapping up the school year, getting in those last days of school work that we need to get done. It has been extremely busy around here with the other added life's happenings that go on in a big family.
I have been having a sale on my unit studies the past few weeks, a buy one, get one half-price sale. Well I have changed the offer, starting yesterday until Saturday, June 7th. It is now a buy one, get one free sale. So if anyone is interested, you can go to my website and click on the Contact Me button and put it an order.
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Blessings to all!
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May. 17, 2008 - Sale at Hip2Homeschool Unit Studies/My Crazy Week
Well, I have decided to have my first sale for Hip2Homeschool Unit Studies. I am offering a buy one get one half price sale on my unit studies. The half price one must be of lesser or equal value and I am allowing up to 2 half priced units so you can get 4 unit studies, 2 full price and 2 half price, if you desire. Just go to my website at the following link, choose the ones that you are interested in, and then email me at hip2homeschoolunits@cox.net or click on the Contact Me button on my site to place your order.
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It has also been a very busy time for me personally, with trying to wrap up our school year in the next few weeks, going on vacation for almost a week, plus having a plumbing disaster in my home to top it all off! We also went strawberry picking this past week and they were some of the most delicious sweet strawberries that I have had in a long time. My husband and I also celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary this past Wednesday and went out to dinner at The Outback Steakhouse, yum, yum! To top off my busy week, I had my 4th Weight Watchers meeting yesterday and found out that I had lost 3.4 pounds! Needless to say, I am exhausted today and in need of another vacation!
Hope that everyone enjoys their weekend. I know that I plan to.
Blessings!
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May. 12, 2008 - Review of My Middle Ages Unit on Heart of the Matter Online Magazine
Hi All,
I just wanted to let everyone know that there is a review of one of my unit studies on Heart of the Matter today, an online homeschooling magazine. I am also having a giveaway (details at the end of the review) of my Rocks and Minerals Unit study. I hope that you all will go and take a look!
http://heartofthematteronline.com/
Blessings,
Heather L.
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Apr. 9, 2008 - Free Butterflies Unit
I am not sure when I will be getting my free Butterflies Unit announcement up on my website this week so I am taking orders at the following email addresses if you would like to have it before then:
hip2homeschool@yahoo.com or hip2homeschoolunits@cox.net
This unit will be free for the next few weeks.
Hope that everyone is having a great week.
Blessings!
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Apr. 5, 2008 - New Educational Link Website/ Free Butterfly Unit
I want to let you all know of a great new website that is out there from SO CAL Val. Valerie has put together an excellent selection of educational links that are sure to be helpful for any homeschool mom. I hope that if you haven't seen it that you will go there today. I think that you will be truly blessed by all of Valerie's hard work. All the links are divided up into subject headings, which makes it very easy to maneuver on the website. Great job Valerie! I also have a business button on the site, advertising my Hip2Homeschool Unit Studies, along with other homeschool friendly businesses. Hope that you are as blessed as I am to have found such a wealth of resources.
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I also wanted to tell you of a free unit that I will be giving away on my unit study website. It is a 2 week study on butterflies. I will be offering it for the next few weeks on my site, link below.
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I will have it up for the taking this coming week and will make an announcement as soon as my husband puts up the details on my site.
Have a blessed weekend!
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Mar. 17, 2008 - New Poll
I have a new poll on my unit study blog. Anyone is free to go and vote. I would love to have some more opinions on the topic. Basically, I am trying to find out whether homeschool moms would prefer me to do an Ancient Egypt or Dinosaurs Unit after I am done with Rocks and Minerals.
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Hope that every one's school year is going well. Right now we are in the process of doing our Easter Unit and will be having a Seder Meal at the end of the week with some other homeschool families in our park group. I a really looking forward to it as I know the kids are.
Everyone have a blessed week!
Blessings!
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Mar. 4, 2008 - Getting Back Into the Swing of Things/New Poll on Unit Study Blog
We are finally feeling better and the cold is a fading memory. Praise God! I haven't been that sick in a long time. The kids and I have been really blessed with good health lately (up until last week) as far as colds and flu. I have really been enjoying that. I do have fibromyalgia which makes me feel bad at times, but all in all, I am in pretty good health. At least I think that I am. Now I am in the process of trying to get back into the swing of things, which is really hard when you have been out of commission for 4 or 5 days! Anyway, God is good and we are all better! I am trying to wrap up our Japan unit this week (which we haven't been able to do all of) so that we can start our Easter Unit on Monday. Most of my children are anxious to get to it, except for my 11 year old son, who is in love with learning about Japan! Not to say that he isn't looking forward to the Easter one.
I have added a new poll to my unit study blog. The other one ended yesterday with most of those who voted saying that they preferred to use unit studies for older students and tweak them for the younger ones instead of the other way around. The poll results are up on my blog's recent entry and I added the new one. So go and vote. Let me know what you think. You can also view the other poll results after you vote.
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Hope that everyone is enjoying good weather! It is about 70 here in Virginia Beach today. Getting that spring fever!
Blessings!
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Feb. 27, 2008 - Sickness in the Family/New Deep Sea Unit Done
Well, the cold that has been going through our area and in our church has finally hit the Langston family! The kids and I have been taking turns coming down with this awful cold. But of course, who gets the sickest? Me! I have been battling this since Sunday and I am just now finally feeling a little more human! 
I think that the hardest thing for me is that I don't have the time to be sick! Nothing bugs me more than having a lot to do and being too sick to do it. Of course school is out of the question and that makes me feel like we are falling behind. There are some things that I need to do to make our school run more effectively and I can't get to them. Ugh! Oh, the woes of being a sick homeschool mom!
On the bright side of things, I did manage to get my Exploring the Deep Sea and Its Creatures unit done on Monday (I wasn't feeling as badly as I did yesterday) and started a little on my Rocks and Minerals unit, which I was also able to work on a little bit today.
I am also still having the poll on my blog to see whether homeschool moms would rather use a unit for older students and adapt it to the younger or visa versa. So far, 10 homeschoolers prefer to adapt the older student's unit to the younger and 1 didn't care either way. I found that very interesting. If you are interested in voting, you can go to my unit study blog:
Hip2Homeschool Unit Studies
Have a great evening. If you think of me, please keep my family and me in your prayers.
Blessings!
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Feb. 24, 2008 - New Poll on My Unit Study Blog
I have a new poll on my unit study blog and would love for you all to go and vote. The poll information is below.
One topic of conversation that I have been having with fellow unit study writers or users just recently is the topic of adjusting unit studies to fit the different ages and grades so that they can be used to teach younger and older grades together. So I came up with the new poll on my blog right now. One lady wrote and said that she preferred to adjust a unit study geared towards the older students to fit the younger students instead of visa versa. So I wanted to see how many other homeschool parents feel that way. I would love for you all to go and vote. Let me know what you prefer.
The following is my blog address URL:
http://hip2homeschoolunits.blogspot.com
Blessings!
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Feb. 22, 2008 - Blog of Excellence Award
Missy, over at Homeschooling His Way, has given me the Excellence Award for my blog. I am deeply honored and touched by this. Thanks Missy!
I will be passing this honor onto some other well deserving ladies for their Blogs of Excellence later.
Hope that everyone has a great day!
Blessings!
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Feb. 20, 2008 - Next Unit Study/New Chapter in Homeschool
Well, the poll results finally came out with a winner in the end. The most votes were for the Rocks and Minerals Unit so that is the unit that I will be working on next. I almost have my Exploring the Deep Sea & Its Creatures done, just needs some formatting fixed. I should have it done by the end of today, Lord willing.
I never thought that this would happen to our family but there is now a new chapter on the horizon for my 10 year old son and our homeschool. We have strongly suspected that my son has some type of learning disability for a long time. My friend who has a son with Aspergers Syndrome (sp?), among many other learning disabilities (or "learning uniquenesses", as she likes to call them), has been observing him and I have been telling her things that have been going on in his school time and just every day life. She strongly suspects that he has Aspergers and from what I have read about it so far, I do too. I am not sad about it or worried about it. God made him the way he is and loves him. So do I. I am just having to readjust the way I teach and have to fit in more teaching time with him to make things easier on him and to help him learn to his fullest potential. I am going to continue with doing unit studies with him as i know that these work well with Aspergers children. I also have put a book on hold about homeschooling children with this "disability" from my local library which I am very anxious to start reading. I found out that it is suspected that Einstein had this so who knows, maybe I have another Einstein on my hands!
If anyone has a child with this, please feel free to post a comment or send me an email with any advice or encouragement that you would like to share. I would love to hear from you!
Have a great day!
Blessings!
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Feb. 14, 2008 - 17 Hours Left on Poll and Still a Three Way Tie
I still have a tie on my poll for the next unit study topic in my series of unit studies. You will find it on my unit study blog (URL posted in my last entry). I would love to break this three way tie, so if you haven't voted, please do. Or if you are not interested in purchasing, what unit study would you want to see if you were?
I will greatly appreciate anyone willing to go and vote, thank you.
Blessings!
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Feb. 13, 2008 - My Next Unit Study Topic Poll/Hello again!
Wow, it has been a long time since i have written on here! I have just been so busy and had no time to write on my blog here. Basically we have been plugging along with our schoolwork, faithful to do the 3Rs and doing our Japan unit when we can. It is almost time to move on to our Easter Unit, which is for sale on my website, and to put away our study on Japan. So I am trying to get in as much as possible this week so we can wrap it up. Plus we have our Valentine's Day Party with our church's homeschool group tomorrow morning and our outreach to the local nursing home in the afternoon. Not to mention working hard on my unit studies, trying to get them out as soon as I can. I am almost finished with my Deep Sea one and am currently trying to figure out what topic to do next. Which brings me to the following.....
I have a poll on my unit study blog that is getting to wrap up with one day left to go. It is a poll on what others would like to see as my next unit topic. Currently it is a 3 way tie and I need some others to vote to hopefully break that tie. Even if you are not sure about whether you want to buy one of my units, please go and vote. it would really help me out and give me some direction with my next units.
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Hope that everyone has an awesome day! I am off to get my haircut and run some special Valentine's Day errands this afternoon.
Blessings!
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Jan. 31, 2008 - Just a Reminder/ Our Homeschool Day
Just a reminder to anyone who may be interested in checking out or buying my unit studies, that you can go onto my other blog at hip2homeschoolunits.blogspot.com and sign up for an Email Subscription for my blog to keep you up to date on units that I am working on and new units for sale. I am almost done with the Easter one and will start working on the Deep Sea soon.
Well, we finally got to our Japan unit yesterday and had a lot of fun. Something funny happened as the kids were writing their information onto their notebooking page on the Japanese Tea Ceremony. My 11 year old didn't see the comma in the following sentence: "As they are waiting for the water for the tea to start boiling, the guests are served a small snack." He looked puzzled and said, "They boil their guests in the boiling water for the tea?!" We got a big chuckle out of that one and that was the joke the entire day in this house.
We also read about kokeshi dolls as well as the tea ceremony at my 11 year old's request. My husband made them some for Christmas and that was the big hit. The kids colored a flag of Japan before we read about the above. Of course that didn't take long since the only color on the flag is the red circle in the middle!
Today we are going to try to get to it again. This time I am thinking of reading about the Kabuki theater and the Noh Play. Then watching a little of one on the web.
Have a great day!
Blessings!
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