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Review: English Grammar Taught with Help from Stanford

This book is one I wish I had had for my daughter when she was trying to learn. Stanford is a cute green blob that teaches the different parts of speech in a fun way for kids to learn. It shows how powerful words can be and then goes into what a sentence is to where words come from and …Continue reading →

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Review: West to Oregon with Ollie Ox!

Loved Ollie from the very start. He is very sweet, kind, loves his family and even when things got tough he kept on going. This story begins in Hannibal, Missouri when Ollie’s family, Mr. & Mrs. Tyler; their son Johnny and his dog Max head for Oregon. You will love the pictures throughout the book. This book will be enjoyed …Continue reading →

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A bully, an icy creek, and a big giveaway from Elisha Press

Elisha Press, a publisher of Christian novels particularly suitable for homeschool families, is launching a new title this week. Julie: The Redemption Of The Backyard Bully is an all-new spinoff on The Reunion by Rachael McIntire. Both books are recommended as read-aloud material for the whole family. Solo readers of Julie should be twelve or older. Fans of The Reunion …Continue reading →

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Special Give Away!

The My Memories.com is giving a very special give away to EVERYONE between now and October 26. I have been enjoying a new program to do all of my scrapbooking. Between NOW and October 26th you may get a full running program for FREE!! Please copy and paste the following code in the promo code are. It must look exactly …Continue reading →

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MyMemories.com Review

I am so excited about this review!!! I have recently been working on scrapbooking some of our families memories. You say you don’t have time to do that, well, I thought so too until I used MyMemories Suite! Let me tell you it is cheaper, less time consuming, less messier, and you can do so much more with it. Today …Continue reading →

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The Shepherd of the Hills

The Shepherd of the Hills invited us to the grounds to do a review for them. Before going, our awesome coordinator for the day, Traci, heard the story of our son, Milton, and planned an extra special day for us. So some of the events we did were added to make it extra special for our family but we had …Continue reading →

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Review on The Great Passion Play – Eureka Springs, AR

Our family was invited to spend the day at The Great Passion Play on  Saturday June 15, 2013. The sun was shinning and we were very excited!! The drive from Springfield is very winding but beautiful during this time of the year. You will find the closer you get to The Great Passion Play area signs up guiding you in. …Continue reading →

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Lesson Library Review

The Lesson Library is a terrific site for homeschoolers. This is run by a family that is dedicated to help out others. When we first learned about this site they were charging $40/year in US money and they were going to give MATCH members a discount and only charge $2/yr in US money. We felt that they were really under …Continue reading →

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HomeSchool Minder Review

HomeSchool Minder is an awesome way to track your school calendar, assignments, and grades all at once. Some programs have the same type of thing but the one thing I like about this one is it is easy to set up and you don’t have to look all over the place to set it up, it is all right in …Continue reading →

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The Reunion a novel written by Rachael McIntire (Review)

I really enjoyed this book, because of how it told the story of two different girls. It’s like being told two stories at the same time! It’s hard for me to pick my favorite part in the book, but if I had to choose I think it would have to be when Rebekah found the baby outside the door. I …Continue reading →

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Language & Literacy Pre-K Teacher’s Guide – Review

The Language & Literacy Pre-K Teacher’s Guide is a wonderful resource that has different activities to do with the Handwriting Without Tears hands on merchandise. Fun ways to learn their alphabet, hear the sounds and say it, printing concepts, comprehension, writing and more. These are wonderful additions that have been added to help make the child not to get bored …Continue reading →

Numbers & Math Pre-K Teacher’s Guide – Review

The Numbers & Math Pre-K Teacher’s Guide is a wonderful resource that has different activities to do with the Handwriting Without Tears hands on merchandise. Fun ways to learn to count, add, subtract, geometry, patterns, measurement, time and more. These are wonderful additions that have been added to help make the child not to get bored and tired of the …Continue reading →

Capital Letter Cards – Review

The Capital Letter Cards are a wonderful large size, laminated card stock on one side you will find a letter and on the back side it has activities to go along with each letter. You can use the wood pieces that you can buy through Handwriting Without Tears to teach them each letter or each card can be used with …Continue reading →

I Know My Numbers Booklets – Review

I Know My Numbers booklets are great little books like the “I Can Read” books. There is 1 – 10 in the set. It will teach them their numbers by seeing the number and a picture to go with the number. After going through the books with them take them to the next level and learn the shapes, patterns and …Continue reading →

My Book! – Review

My Book is a book all about the body. This is a great book to use with your child to help them learn the parts of their body. They will learn how to draw some of their face parts and other things about themselves. This is also a fun “I Can Read Book”. Take each thing step by step but …Continue reading →

Stamp & See Screen – Review

The Stamp & See Screen is a wonderful set to take with you to the hospital, car trips or something fun to do that will also teach as a game. It comes in a handy carry case with everything inside. Inside is one of those nifty draw screens that the kids love to draw pictures on and then erase it. …Continue reading →

Roll-A-Dough Letters – Review

Roll-A-Dough Letters comes with a tub of playdough a holder for the letters and then laminated letters with pictures of each letter. In the right hand corner of each letter is a picture of what the letter begins with. Have the child to draw each letter with their finger starting at the smiley face and down. Then take the playdough …Continue reading →

A B C Touch & Flip Cards – Review

The A B C Touch & Flip Cards are fun and very helpful to teach special need children their letters! One side you will find a capital letter on the top left side. Mix them up and let them match the cards up into a puzzle form. each card connects to each other until all the alphabet is all together. …Continue reading →

Creation Expo free ticket contest

Join us for the ULTIMATE Creation Expo! You will find lots of information, helps to guide your children in the creation learning, and encouragement from fellow homeschool moms. You will hear from speakers like. Dr. Jay Wile Dr. Thomas Sharp Kim Jones Tom DeRosa Paleontologist Joe Taylor Felice Gerwitz Sharon Jeffus and more You have a chance of winning a …Continue reading →

Free Ticket Contest to Creation Expo!

My good friend, Felice Gerwitz is getting ready to kick off her 2012 Creation Expo. She has given me two free ticket passes to the even to give to two winners. These will be randomly drawn but you must answer 2 questions to be entered into the drawing. 1. How many children is there in the Crider family? 2. Who …Continue reading →