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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.

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!

Hola Speekee!

May 10, 2011 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

Today we have a special visitor!!

It’s Speekee!

Speekee is our newest sponsor,
and he has quickly become my children’s favorite T.V character.
(Elmo is so yesterday)

For the past month we have welcomed Speekee into our home not only to entertain us, but to teach us Spanish as well.

(I say US, because I am probably the only person on the earth who didn’t take Spanish in highschool, and thus can’t teach my children more then the first ten numbers and a few colors that may or may not be pronounced correctly)

So I’m learning from Speekee as we go too.

If you’ve never heard of Speekee,
take a quick second to view a sample episode:

Then come right back…..

Okay, so what do you think?

Cute right!

For some reason Speekee reminds me of E.T.
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me.
Like E.T. and Barney collided together to form a
purple alien like creature.

Whatever he is, my kids LOVE him!
Even Monkey, (who calls Speekee: “Eeeeee” )
enjoys the episodes and looks forward to them.

Here is what’s included in the online subscription:

10 EPISODES, OVER 150 MINUTES OF PURE SPANISH LEARNING
LEARN SPANISH FROM REAL SPANISH CHILDREN IN REAL SPANISH LOCATIONS
FEATURES SONGS, ANIMATION AND PUPPETS
OPTIONAL SUBTITLES IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH
FREE ACTIVITY SHEET DOWNLOADS
GREAT FUN AND EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE
CREATED BY SPECIALIST LANGUAGE TEACHERS

What I like about Speekee:

First of all, I love that it spans the gap in my children’s ages and still keeps them all equally entertained. (2yr-8yr) He is adorable and memorable and my children really listen to hear what he is saying. (And if for some reason they can’t understand him, there are captions on the screen as well)

We officially welcomed Speekee to our classroom by making welcome signs:

Then, following one of the recommend activities,
we made sock puppets to use alongside our lessons.
What fun that was!

Here are Lilly

& Gerpoke

Yeah. Gerpoke.
The boy named his puppet Gerpoke.
(Grrrrrrr-Poke)
Just like it looks.
In case you didn’t know, it’s Spanish for….well,
Gerpoke.

Anyway, we have been using our sock puppets to repeat after Speekee, and to work on new words we are learning with each lesson.
Another aspect I really appreciate is the fact that all of the videos are presented alongside corresponding worksheets and suggested activities. There is like zero planning time needed, you just log on to the video you want and you can print from the same screen as your kiddos are watching.

The worksheets have really helped to solidify what my kids are learning from the videos, and help me to know what to focus on throughout the week.

I think Speekee is a fantastic program , and so far it’s been a great fit for our family.

You can subscribe to Speekee for a monthly fee, or purchase the 10 DVD set. They even have a School license which gives you access to a two-year scheme of work! I’m secretly oogling over this and considering it as part of our budget next year.

And of course if you like to try things out before you buy them,
you can sign up for a Free Two Week Trial

I received a free online subscription to Speekee.com for my honest opinion of the product.

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