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5 Days of Tips for Homeschool Parents
Check back tomorrow for a new tip from me! In the meantime, hop over to see what my fellow bloggers are up to! Annette @ A Net In Time Brandy @ Kingdom Academy Homeschool Brenda @ Counting Pinecones Carol @ Home Sweet Life Cassandra @ A Glimpse of Normal Chareen @ Every Bed of Roses Cristi @ Through the Calm and Through the Storm Crystal @ Crystal Starr DaLynn @ Biblical Womanhood Danielle @ Sensible Whimsy
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5 Days of Tips for Homeschool Parents: Simplify the Little Years
You’re in for a treat this week! I’m teaming up with 50 other homeschool bloggers to bring you 5 Days of Tips for Homeschool Parents, all designed to make your life easier. You can find the links to more of the bloggers at the end of this post – enjoy our blog hop! As a first time parent, and first time homeschooling mom, I was ready to dive into school with intensity. The clock was ticking, after all, and I needed to get my son ready to take on the world. I started when he was 4, but only because we didn’t settle on homeschooling until then. …
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Review: FishFlix.com Owlegories DVD
I love the opportunity to receive new Christian movies for the kids to try. Our van has a DVD player, and we love to take family road trips, especially to state parks. We also live about 30 minutes from the city, and so we are in the car a lot! FishFlix.com kindly sent us one of their new releases to review, entitled Owlegories: The Ant, The Fruit, The Butterfly, so we popped it in on a recent road trip to try it out. My kids LOVED this DVD! I wondered if it might be a bit young for Super D (3rd grade), but he is the most…
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Review: Demme Learning’s Math-U-See Digital Packs
Choosing a math curriculum is NOT an easy task. There are a number of good options on the market, but Math-U-See is far and away our favorite. We’ve been using it since Super D was in kindergarten, and he is currently breezing through the Gamma level. We were so excited to have the opportunity to review Demme Learning’s Math-U-See Digital Packs and especially thrilled that Demme Learning generously gave us not only a year’s access to the Delta Level Digital Pack but also surprised us and sent us the student workbook & tests too! Math-U-See is based on the premise that children learn best when they have tactile input…
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Review: The Resurrection Bible Study
I’ve posted before about how much we love the Grapevine Studies, so I was excited to have another opportunity to try another one of their studies. They kindly sent us their study called The Resurrection in their Beginner Student and Beginner Traceable, Student and Student Traceable levels. Each study leads the kids to draw stick figures of the Bible characters and events, as they listen to me read to them from the Bible. The Scripture references are generally short – we usually read only a couple verses for each box, so the kids stay engaged and focused. By the time they’re finished drawing, I’m ready to move on…
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Review: Here To Help Learning
Teaching our children to write can be as daunting a process as teaching them to read. I remember well how intimidated I was with teaching Super D to read. I had no idea how to start and was scared I’d fail miserably! Thankfully, he is now an avid reader and surprises me regularly with the words he can read AND spell! Our next stage of language development is learning to write, and Here to Help Learning is, well, here to help! They graciously gave us a year’s access to their online program and we started with Flight 1 Paragraph Writing. Here to Help Learning offers a…
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Aldi Organic, Gluten Free, and Natural Deals (Week of 3/2/16 – 3/8/16)
I am SO EXCITED that Aldi has started carrying organic and gluten free products on a regular basis!! I pulled the organic, gluten free, and natural products they have on sale this week for you. Aldi also announced that they now accept credit cards! No more cash or debit cards only! They also pledge that their Aldi exclusive brands are free from certified synthetic colors, msg, and partially hydrogenated oils. Yay! Aldi deals for the week of 3/2/16: Organic Baby Carrots (1 lb) – 79¢ Simply Nature Organic Spring Mix (5 oz pkg) – $1.99 100% Grass Fed Organic Ground Beef (1 lb) – $6.99 Creamy Almond Butter (12…
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Review: Faith Builders Bible
We know it’s important to get our kids in the Word, but it can be challenging, especially when they’re little! We’ve read a lot of Bible storybooks and my Super D, who’s 8 and in the 3rd grade, has really enjoyed his comic strip-like bible. I’m ready for him to really start digging in to the Word, and reading a more in depth version that is full of verses that he can memorize. Zonderkidz sent us their new Faith Builders Bible to review and I believe it fills a needed niche! I’ve looked at a fair amount of Bibles for slightly older kids, and it’s very difficult to…
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Essential Oils for Dogs
Our pets experience many of the same everyday challenges that we do in life. They catch colds and feel stressed. I’ve been using essential oils on myself and my family for several years now, for a wide variety of needs, and I love that we can use oils on our dogs as well! There are several important things to know when using oils on pets. Our pets are smaller than us (generally! lol), and so we will use fewer drops of essentials oils on them. You can always dilute an oil with water or a carrier oil like coconut, grapeseed, or jojaba. Methods of Application There are…
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Hidden Dangers of Minecraft
Like many of our kids, my oldest is CRAZY about Minecraft! He plays it every time I let him 🙂 and is always telling me stories about what he’s building. He eventually started learning about playing on other servers, and was particularly excited about one called LifeBoat that a neighbor boy showed him. I sat next to him one day while he played and I was HORRIFIED. Not at the game, although it wasn’t my favorite. But at the CHAT feed! It was full of profanity and sexual talk! Thankfully, Super D is still young enough that he doesn’t pay any of that a second glance, but we were getting…
