Small Space Homeschooling

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Another great article I found.  

 

Small space homeschooling

by RENEE on JUNE 6, 2012

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Written by contributor Renee Tougas of FIMBY

This past winter our family lived in a two bedroom, 750 square foot cabin in a rural river valley. Today, I am writing this post from a two bedroom Montréal city apartment where we are living for the month.

We are a North American homeschooling family of five (three kids, not littles either) and we currently live in small spaces. On purpose.

We do this, live in small spaces, so we can work and learn together at home, have grand adventures and follow our dreams.

For all the eight years we’ve been officially homeschooling we’ve never had a dedicated school room. We’ve had kitchen tables, craft tables, a couch, bookshelves and the living room floor. This is where we “do school”.

Whatever your reasons are for living in small spaces – maybe it’s a choice, maybe you feel you have no choice – there are ways to make it work.

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Giving Our Children The World

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I found this great article while searching for ways to incorporate more geographpassion still a passion for humanitarian efforts into my children.  Found at wwwsimpleshomeschool.net

Giving Our Children the World: Education Through Geography

by HEIDI on FEBRUARY 24, 2010

in METHODS & PHILOSOPHIES

globe in hands

As a child, I would sit in a chair and look at my grandfather’s world globe for what seemed like hours at a time. Feeling the bumps of mountains. Reading the names of each country. Plotting a course across the ocean.

What is it like to live there? How does it feel to swim in those waters? Would the sky look the same if I lay on my back and looked up from another continent? How long would it take to get from here to there?

As soon as I had children of my own, I knew that I wanted to impart to them this same curiosity about the wide world around us. Architecture, food, folktales and stories, history, art, music, languages, and scenery–it is all fascinating to me.

I want my children to be world travelers, even when we don’t have the ability to go far from home.

There are many simple ways to incorporate geography into daily life and education.

Read more….http://simplehomeschool.net/giving-our-children-the-world-education-through-geography/

AWESOME Homeschool Giveaway. Over $700 value

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HUGE Back 2 School Giveaway! Over $700 Value to One Winner!

 

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I am SO excited about our HUGE Back 2 School Giveaway. This is a curriculum package valued over $700! One winner takes all! I know ~ crazy! We have some great sponsors, I hope you will check them out! 

Entering is easy – scroll to the bottom and enter using the Rafflecopter. Manadatory Entry – subscribe to Homeschool Giveaways newsletter {called Giveaway Blast} – found in the upper right column. If you don’t have Facebook or Twitter – no problem! I added some easy entries for you too! The more extra entries that you do , the better your chances of winning!

The images above that have a star on them are physical products. Everything else is downloadable. You get a little instant gratification if you win, as well as some books you can flip thorough and sniff {yes, I am wierd, I love to smell books, lol}!

Sponsors & Prizes – for a complete description of each product, please visit the links of each! Many have samples available.

Hearts at Home Discount Curriculum – Mike’s Inspiration Station Art DVDs set – $79.90 Value! You get 12 art instruction DVDs, 26 art projects. We have a super sale right now on this, so even if you don’t win – you can get BOTH sets for $31.96!

Bright Ideas Press – WonderMaps – $49.95 Value! Discover how much excitement maps and geography will add to your learning experience through the amazing features of WonderMaps. Includes: 60+ maps of the world, 60+ maps of the USA, 125 historical maps – including 25 biblical maps, The complete map sets from The Mystery of History vols. I III and All American History vols. I & II

How Great Thou Art 
God & the History of Art -$49.95 Value! 
Includes Volumes I & II A Godly Perspective to ART History A great resource, this four-year curriculum features an extensive survey of art history, supplemented with over 250 lessons teaching beginning drawing, painting, use of colored markers, perspective, color theory, and so much more.

God & the History of ART DVD Series – $29.95 Value! 
In God and the History of Art, a 12-part series on DVD, Barry Stebbing journeys through the centuries offering biblical insights into the great art and artists of the ages.

New Millennium Girl Books – $41.85 Value!
Isabel Writing Bundle – Creative Writing Made Easy Workbook – Students are guided step by step in writing an adventure where both the student and her characters grow in faith towards God. Each of the 12 lessons teaches the basics of creative writing in character, setting, plot, and dialogue development. 

Isabel’s Closet-Paper Doll and Craft Book– Create your character for the story, then as a paper doll, make her closet and design her clothes. Roll play the adventures as you go!

Isabel’s Secret – chapter book about the real Isabel who lives on Angel Ridge Horse Ranch and the mysteries she solves with her best friend, Holly, and horse, Starlight.

We Choose Virtues – $69.99 Value!
FAMILY KIT-faith based – Turn your home into a place where Virtue is valued in both attitudes and actions! The 13 Parenting Cards included in this set are brand NEW and created just for families! They introduce and demonstrate 12 Virtues and our Virtue Icons, the caterpillar and butterfly and include scriptures from the NIrV Bible for every Virtue. Our coloring book featuring 6 of our Virtue Kids is included as a download.

Time-Warp Wife – Good Wife’s Guide Paperback Book- $11.95 Value! 
Author Darlene Schacht encourages women to joyfully serve their families from a place of sacrificial love. She beautifully demonstrates how supporting our husbands and living in unity is a reflection of God’s blueprint for marriage. While doing so, The Good Wife’s Guide offers reasons for achieving a well-managed home backed by scripture and gleaned from experience. As well it provides readers with detailed cleaning and organizing schedules for practical application.

Memoria Press – States & Capitals Set – $24.95
This study guide thoroughly teaches the states and capitals of the United States. Each page includes a state map and room to write the state’s capital, nickname, abbreviation, and fun facts. By the end of this year-long course, students will be able to label all 50 states on a U.S. map (with the capitals). Thorough teaching instructions are included, and there is a teacher key available with tests. We recommend that this guide be used with Don’t Know Much About the 50 States.

Media Angels – The Ultimate Homeschool Expo Total Value – $59.97! 
Ultimate Homeschool Expo 2012 – Packed full of over 80 audio sessions from favorite homeschooling speakers such as; Jeannie Fulbright, Felice Gerwitz, Maggie Hogan, Cathy Duffy, Israel Wayne, and MANY more! This year’s theme: Homeschooling with Joy!

Homeschool Creations -$20.00 Value!
The Weekly Homeschool Planner will help you organize your school day and record your daily learning ~ year after year. Additional forms help you keep track of testing results, evaluations and special events. Each of the pdf pages in the file can be typed in, edited, and saved to your own computer every time you use it. Personalize it to fit your family! It is a homeschool planner you use year after year.

Under the Golden Apple Tree Unit Studies – $8.99 Value!
Princess Training: for the King’s Glory, is a unit study designed to encourage young girls {7-13} to glorify God through their lives and understand their role as a daughter of the King. Can be modified for younger or older girls and works great for a group study. Each lesson contains a short devotional, discussion, and activity. Included is a list of memory verses relating to each chapter. 

Armor of God Mini Unit Study: Children will love learning about the Armor of God with this interactive mini unit study that includes copywork, scipture study, discussion section,vocabulary, and activities. The study is recommended for K-3rd grade.

Also included: Shakespeare Copywork Book

Beethoven Who? Family Fun with Music – $29.99 Value!
Wish you could include music in your homeschool but you can’t read a note? Music curriculum too expensive? Marcia Washburn’s latest e-book, Beethoven Who? Family Fun with Music, makes you a pro. Learn basic music-reading along with your children. Sing and make music together. Experience classical, folk, patriotic, and sacred music your whole family will love. No expensive CDs or textbooks to buy—all of the music is free online. Non-musical moms and musicians are raving about Beethoven Who? Family Fun with Music.

Teach Me Joy Whole Store Package – $95.00 Value!
Includes: Animal Play for 2 & 3 year oldsFruit for Tender Hearts – K3-K5 (Cursive & Manuscript), Hall of Heroes – K5 – 2ndThe Joy of Handwriting (Cursive & Manuscript)!

Totally Tailored Reading $40.00 Value!
Win a 36 Week Basic Reading Package -To celebrate Totally Tailored Reading’s 5 year Anniversary, we will have our 36 Week Basic Reading Package on sale for $25(usually $40) July 23-24 only.

Home Educating Family – Well Planned Day Planner – $24.95 Value!
Organize your busy days all in one place with this beautifully-designed planner. The Well-Planned Day is a family homeschool organizer, designed especially for moms. This effective, yet easy-to-use format will ensure that each day at your home is smooth and profitable.

Super Star Speech Bundle – $69.00 Value! 
All six of the Super Star Speech e-books. The first five books help teach children correct articulation of sounds, and include teaching tips, picture cards, activities, and games. The sixth book, Language Lessons: From Listening Skills to Conversation, features 138 pages of ideas and activities to use with your child that will help to improve his or her listening skills, memory, vocabulary, grammatical skills, and conversation.

Simple Schooling – K-12 Online Subscription -$72.75 Value!
The Simple Schooling K-12 online subscription is the ULTIMATE homeschool unit study resource! This one year online subscription comes bundled with all our printable unit studies for the interactive units, the printable & interactive Forensic Science course, the printable & interactive Science of Horses course, the printable & interactive Space course, and the printable & interactive Oceans course. That in ADDITION to all every unit study on the site AND the interactive literature guides which includes the printable parent guides.


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265 Responses to “HUGE Back 2 School Giveaway! Over $700 Value to One Winner!”

 
  1. Crystal C. says:

    In this bundle, the Super Star Speech. Need that for my lil’ boy!

  2. Karina says:

    The New Millennium Girls curriculum looks perfect for my daughter!!

  3. Janice Adams says:

    WOW awsome give away !!!

  4. Brooke says:

    My favorite curriculum that has stood the test of time in our home is Math-U-See. Most of my curriculum I purchase directly from the publisher. I always check first, though, to see if someone is selling their gently used books before I buy.

  5. Kate Winans says:

    Love your giveaways!

  6. Naomi says:

    Wonder Maps

  7. Janice Adams says:

    I have bought from journey through learning and currilick

  8. Robyn Goodnight says:

    It all looks great, but probably Wondermaps!

  9. Sheryl says:

    I purchase most of my things from Christianbook.com

  10. Jennifer S. says:

    My favorite curriculum is My Father’s World. I order from their website.

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Please support and THANK the BSA for taking a stand

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Boy Scouts of America is constantly getting bullied about their policy and I applaud them for standing strong!

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July 18, 2012

Dear Sheila, Yesterday, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) reaffirmed its longstanding policy of protecting youth by not allowing homosexuals to serve as volunteer leaders.
According to OneNewsNow, an 11-member special committee, formed discretely by top Scout leaders in 2010, “came to the conclusion that this policy is absolutely the best policy for the Boy Scouts,” the organization’s national spokesman, Deron Smith, told The Associated Press.
The Boy Scouts have been bullied relentlessly by homosexual activist groups since 2000, when the Supreme Court ruled the organization could set its own rules regarding leadership.

The Boy Scout Oath
“On my honor, I will do my best To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; To help other people at all times; To keep myselfphysically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.”

This week, homosexual activists say they will deliver a petition to BSA headquarters in Irving, Texas, condemning the Boy Scouts for Youth Protection Training policies specifically designed to protect young boys from men who are sexually attracted to males.
I think we can top that! Will you join me by letting the BSA know you support them? And…by forwarding this to your family and friends and encouraging them to take action too!
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Send your letter of support directly to the Boy Scouts of America national office now! Let the BSA know you agree with their policy of keeping “morally straight.”

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Check this Awesome Child Training Bible

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My friends were all purchasing this on one of my local Facebook homeschool groups. Since I had a lot going on last week, I didn't pay much attention until one of my closer friends posted pictures of hers. WOW! I so should have ordered one. They are only $9 so I'm definitely going to get one. This could be so helpful. Instead of forcing the kids to listen to me lecture them on what their proper behavior should be, I can let the scripture guide them.

 

It's available at http://www.childtrainingbible.com.

 

A letter to my children about marriage (from Generationcedar.com)

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A Letter to My Children About Marriage

Dear Children,

Should the Lord give you the good gift of a husband or wife, and I hope He does, there are a few things I want you to know.  Things that you may not hear from anyone else, and certainly not on TV or other media.  Sadly, your church may not even tell you.

Marriage, sweet little people, is not for the purpose of your happiness.  Happy as I want you to be and hope you will be, you must yet understand that marriage is God’s design and His purposes must be pursued in order for you to be truly happy.  His end is holiness and He will use all things in a life devoted to Him to fulfill that end.

To my girls:

Marry a man whose first pursuit is Christ.  After that, he is not hard to please.  Admire him, cheer him on and show gratitude, and he will fall over himself trying to please you.  Smile often, speak well of him always, and do whatever necessary to try and maintain a pleasant mood about you so that it transfers to your home, making it a place where he and your children love to be.

You’ll have bad days of course, crying days even, and that’s when you go to your bedroom, kneel on the floor and beg the Lord to carry you.  Then get up, get a fresh perspective (crayons will come off the wall), and try again.  Above all else, make a home.

To my boys:

Marry a woman whose first pursuit is Christ.  After that, she may be hard to please ;-)   only if you don’t know “the secret”.  What is that?  I’m glad you asked.  The secret to pleasing your wife is to make her feel safe and treasured.  You may have to move out of your comfort zone to do this at times.  She won’t always readily translate the oil change to love, though it means that.  But let me give you a “secret question”–a question you need to ask her often.  It’s not just in the asking, though.  Be sure to focus your eyes on hers, maybe even touch her shoulder or face, and then ask:  “What’s on your mind these days? “  And then be ready to listen.  She will perceive this as your protection over the matters of her heart.  Tenderness, listening, protection.  That’s what she wants.

To you all:

If your wife or husband does something really stupid, forgive.  If they do it again, forgive again.  Forgiveness must be the propelling force in your lives each day. Dwell on the strengths, push out thoughts of their weaknesses.  Take every thought captive–choose to love.

Here’s that part you are not going to hear often:

If you find yourself “not happy”, having lost attraction, disinterested, etc., you are not permitted to even think about a divorce.  If you find yourselves arguing more and more, don’t think for a minute that “the children will be better off out of this”, because they won’t.

The vows you took on your wedding day were not suggestions.  They were covenant vows, before a Holy God, family and friends, to stay with this person the rest of your life, even if you don’t feel like it.  You swore a solemn oath and if you can’t live up to it, don’t get married.  Decide up front that your marriage is irrevocable.  There is far more motivation for getting along if your “marriage house” has no door.

Do not share intimate thoughts or feelings with anyone of the opposite sex.  Do not find yourself alone for any length of time with such either.

Divorce is not a “private option”.  It will affect multiple families for many generations.  When you “separate what God has joined” you permanently injure far more than just yourself.

Guard your marriage as fiercely as you would guard your own life.  Treat your spouse as an extension of your flesh, just as God sees you.  Treat your spouse like other family members.  You know, “you gotta love ‘em, they’re the only family you’ve got”.

I want you to be happy, I surely do.  But I will pray for you to be holy.

 

 

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