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November Plans…

November 4, 2011 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

Thanks to our November Sponsors:

Speekee offers a Free Trial of their online Spanish program for kids!
Did you know that Speekee won the 2011 TOS Homeschool Crew Blue Ribbon Award.
Homeschool Mom’s simply LOVE this program.
Pssst…. Like them on Facebook for a chance to win a TWO FREE Months!

Hearts at Home Curriculum will solve your curriculum gaps!
They have Over 9,500 products & 200+ publishers and
Pssst….Mystery of History for 25% Off!!

And I want to say a special THANK YOU to everyone for sharing a link to
The Crafty Classroom Blog!
Here are the Top Five referring websites:

Pinterest
Homeschool Creations
Confessions of a Homeschooler
Family Education
Spell Outloud

Thanks Friends!!!

And here were the Top 5 blog posts Last Month:

Nursing Cover Sewing Pattern

Science Activities: The Brain

Multiplication Pocket Folder

Our Claude Monet Craft

Landform Diorama

We are continuing our studies on Human Anatomy,
currently the Human eye so I’ll have some fun printables,
crafts and notebooking ideas for you soon!

I’ll also be working on our History Visuals
(as we roughly follow along the MOH scope & sequence)
so I’ll share those as they are ready!!

And of course, I’ll be posting two more Bible Verse Printables on Totally Tots!
We’re currently on the third CD of Seeds family worship music.

And I also have plans to sew a purse this month. This one. Wish me luck!!

On the docket….September!

September 2, 2011 By Valerie Mcclintick 2 Comments

Thanks to our September Sponsors:

We Choose Virtues is a Brand NEW company, helping you transform your classroom or your home with Virtues. Real, Lasting, Change.
Pssst…..Use coupon code: BTS2011 for 25% OFF through 9/7/11

Speekee offers a Free Trial of their online Spanish program for kids!
Pssst…. Like them on Facebook for a chance to win a Free Month!

Hearts at Home Curriculum will solve your curriculum gaps!
They have Over 9,500 products & 200+ publishers and
Pssst….Apologia titles at 30% off?

And I want to say a special THANK YOU to everyone for sharing a link to
The Crafty Classroom Blog!
Here are the Top Five referring websites:

Pinterest
Heart of the Matter
Homeschool Creations
No Ordinary Moments
Totally Tots

Thanks Friends!!!

And here were the Top 5 blog posts Last Month:

Scientific Method Printables
Nursing Cover Sewing Pattern
Our Homeschool Classroom
Our Curriculum
Writing Notebook Printables

We are officialy “Starting School” next week.
We’ve been Summer Schooling, but next week we’re officially into
our new curriculum and our new schedule.
Am I ready? Nope. But I’m sure we’ll survive just fine.

We’ll be busy here on the blog too!

First, I’m super excited to be reviewing some fantastic products this month!
I’ll be working with The Old Schoolhouse Homeschool Crew, and Timberdoodle’s Blogger Reivew team. Both have sent some
wonderful products that I can’t wait to tell you more about!

I’ll also be doing a review for our newest Sponsor, We Choose Virtues.
This is an amazing Character Education Program,
and I can’t wait to SHARE
HINT, HINT, ahem, *grins, HINT. ;)
these products with you.

I didn’t quite wrap up the Ten commandment lapbook last month, but I’m making progress!
I’m hoping to put the finishing touches on it and share it with you this September.

Also, I’ll be posting three more Bible Verse Printables on Totally Tots!
We’re currently on the third CD of Seeds family worship music.

Other then that I’ll be hanging out on Pinterest, and Facebook.…come stop by and say hi!

Coming in August…..

August 4, 2011 By Valerie Mcclintick 1 Comment

Thanks to our July Sponsors: Hearts at Home Curriculum Store and Speekee

Hearts at Home Curriculum is a fantastic place to do your curriculum shopping, did you know they have Apologia titles at 30% off?

Speekee offers a Free Trial of their online Spanish program for kids! This is a great time to test it out to see if it’s a good fit for your family.

And I want to say a special THANK YOU to everyone for sharing a link to
The Crafty Classroom!
Here are the Top Five referring websites:

Pinterest
Homeschool Creations
Heart of the Matter
Homeschool Giveaways
No Ordinary Moments

Thanks Friends!!!

Okay….so it’s August.
Already.

And besides continuing to homeschool this Summer,
we are also in some serious TRAINING over her:

Potty Training.

Monkey(2) has decided that he no longer wants to be held down by a humongous soggy elmo diaper….instead opting to steal his brothers Spiddy-pants to enjoy the freedom of running through the house, yard, and street at a much faster pace. And then later of course making grand unintelligible attempts at telling me (AFTER THE FACT) of all the strange things that happened on his Spiddy Adventure.

So……It’s time to get proactive here.

(perhaps before his brother catches on that the Spiddy pants are in-fact his and not a new pair I bought for Monkey to to be just like big brother.)

So most of the rest of my Summer (and Winter and Spring) will be spent running around asking, “Need to go pee pee?” “Lets go try potty!” “Time to flush,” “Bye Bye!” and of course

No no NO TOUCH Poo Poo!

I’ll be pretty busy.

But I am hoping to add a few things here and there:

First, in all the potty chaos I’m hoping that I’ll stay organized enough to participate in the Not-Back-to-School Blog Hop, there are three more weeks covering SchoolRoom, Student Photo & Day in the Life. I simply must get my act together if I’m going to accomplish this.

ten commandment lapbook

And I’m also (hoping to finish in August) a Ten Commandments Lapbook…..nothing to serious, somthing for the little ones to study and hopefully memorize them all. I’ve seen lots of amazing commandment folders and I’m excited to finally cut a file folder into the shape of tablets!
(I’m easily amused, no?)

Also, I’ll be posting more Bible Verse Printables on Totally Tots!
We’re currently on the third CD of Seeds family worship music.

Other then that I’ll be hanging out on Pinterest, and Facebook.…come stop by and say hi!

Coming up in July:

July 5, 2011 By Valerie Mcclintick 3 Comments

Thanks to our July Sponsor: Speekee~

You might remember that last month I mentioned Speekee’s new homeschool curriculum? Well it’s ready and LIVE on the site,
so now is the perfect opportunity to take advantage of the Free trial.
Here are some details:

“This is a 40-week program divided into 4-day weeks with an activity per day. Most activities are around 10-15 minutes in length and all are very easy to follow. As we are happy to reiterate, there is no need for the parent to have a knowledge of Spanish when using Speekee with their children; teacher and student learn together.”

Here are some screen shots of what you can expect:

(You can click these a couple times to see larger versions)

Needless to say I’m super excited about this!
I don’t know Spanish so I can appreciate the guidance that comes with a program like this.
Starting in September we’ll be using Speekee’s 4 day outline alongside one day of Co-op Spanish class.

And I want to say a special THANK YOU to everyone for sharing a link to
The Crafty Classroom!
Here are the Top Five referring websites:

Homeschool Creations
No Time For Flashcards
No Ordinary Moments
Totally Tots
1+1+1=1

Thanks Friends!!!

Lynn and I are working on a new bible lesson for Preschool Post,
The theme will be Responsibility with a preschool theme of Cats!
We’re placing this into our October lessons, but as always you can use them
whenever you need!

I’ll be posting more Bible Verse Printables on Totally Tots!
We’ll be starting up the third CD of Seeds family worship music.

I also plan to share a little bit about what we’ll be using for our
2011-2012 Homeschool Year…Once I finalize all my chocies that is!

So that’s what’s coming up!
Subscribe or Stay Tuned!

Coming in May:

May 2, 2011 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

Welcome to May!

First I’d like to welcome our newest sponsor: Speekee!

Speekee is an online language learning program filled with entertaining characters that teach your children Spanish! My kiddos have been enjoying learning with Speekee and we’ll have a full review later this month! If you just can’t wait for it,
you can try out Speekee FREE for two weeks here.

I’ve also got some more Homeschool Recon to share! (I hope you’re not tired of me posting the new things we’ve been doing around here). I’d like to cover Geography and Language Arts because I’m absolutely in love with our newest programs!

And alongside Language Arts I have a few Writing Prompt printables that I’m working on as well. Sissy is needing a bit more practice in the “writing” area, so I’m hoping these writing guides are going to help her develop her skills.

And to organize all our new resources,
I’ll be using the amazing new EDITABLE Homschool Planner
by Jolanthe! Stay tuned for a review of this as well!

I’ll also be guest posting at Kiboomu later in the month, and continuing my biweekly post over on Totally Tots.

Phew.

Hope I can get it all done!

Oh yeah! And I’m really hoping that I’ll make it into the
Top 25 Homeschooling Blogs

currently #39, so if you have a second to vote for me
I just might be encouraged enough to get all that done before June.
maybe.