Homeschooling for 3

Has the new school year started with gusto at your house? Or guesses? “I guess we’ll use this curriculum. I guess we’ll start on Monday. I guess we’ll use this folder, and I guess we could try unit studies this year.” Does any of this sound familiar? Time for a change? Get ready to plan a year of enthusiastic homeschool learning with consistent input from the Lord! Take the guesswork out of your planning, systematically organizing your homeschool this year with the E-Book: The New School Year: Planning Your Course and Letting the Lord Determine Your Steps The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine offers The New School Year . . . FREE! Now’s a good time—get your free E-Book!

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If you're looking for some light, but entertaining reading then you've come to the right place. Mr. Philip Done does an excellent job of describing the trials and titillations of educating third graders in the public forum.  Being a school teacher definitely is not for the faint of heart (or stomach!) The author has done an excellent job of evoking word pictures to make you laugh and begin your memories of being a third grader again. I had forgotten about the "invisible" balls that we would toss back and forth at recess. And his vivid portrayal of a third grade boy stirs memories of why I despised them so much when I was in the third grade -- arm farts, bad, bad jokes about bodily functions and the need to stick things up their nose during lunchtime, just to name a few.  And to think we grow up to marry these "interesting" boys later on in life -- go figure! One thing that I really enjoyed about the book is its layout. For example, the chapters are

Raising healthy and athletic kids can be challenging in this age of computers, television and video games. Coupled with busy extracurricular activities, daily exercise is easily lost in the mix. So, what's the answer? Make sure that you kids get a dose of Fit Factor each day. What is Fit Factor? It's a DVD concept hosted by two accomplished young people, Lizzy (15 years old) and Dean (12 old). The exercises are broken into ten minute segments which makes it great for my family of homeschoolers. Although my girls are in dance class and do go outside to play, with winter coming there's not a lot of formal exercise going on at home. We've tried my yoga DVDs, but the adult formats can be a bit much for their attention span and my patience.  Yoga's supposed to be relaxing and not peppered with: "Move over." "Give Jade more space."  "Move over and give Alaya more space" "Michael stop climbing on me!" While breakfast is bei

Hi everyone. The Old Schoolhouse is a offering this free ebook as a source of encouragement to homeschooling families. Written by a veteran homeschooler it addresses "curriculum confusion", self-doubt and the myriad of other emotions most of us go through each school year. I don't know how long it's going to be available, so you should grab it as soon as possible. Here's the link: The New School Year ( http://www.thehomeschoolmagazine.com/TOSEBookSellSheets/The-New-School-Year/index_TheNewSchoolYear.htm )

Who would have thought that an innocent looking little package would cause such an uproar in my household?  I opened it up and was immediately enchanted by this simple, yet elegant solution for my many book reading endeavors. But then I went and got the children's opinions -- boy was that a mistake! ----------------------------- At first glance it looks like a small hard-covered book. When you open it up there are two areas where you can store pencils, pens and other small items. There are two wire page holders attached which fold easily into the casing. You simply open the wire holders and add your book of choice. Now the really cool thing about the Study Pod is that it can hold books of all sizes. I experimented with oversized books (i.e., 100 Lessons to Reading), cookbooks, paperback books (i.e., children's books, adult mysteries, etc.)  and the Study Pod had no problem handling the varying page sizes and page counts. And it easily stood up with the smaller books even

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We can help raise money for the abandoned and abused children abroad by doing what we do best -- shopping! (smile) By doing our shopping at www.shoponlineforchildren.com . Each purchase will provide money for this charity to rescue these children and place them with adoptive families from around the world. I've included the original information below: A couple days back we announced that we would soon be sharing with you an opportunity to help with a special charity project. Well, today is the day we would like to start involving our Social Media Science family. Don't worry, we're not asking you to buy anything from us. In fact, we'd like to give you something AND as you use this gift you will be helping to save the lives of children who desperately need your assistance, all at the same time. Pretty cool, huh? We've partnered with a company called Dubli and a non-profit organization called www.ReecesRainbow.com to help raise money for abandoned and abused Ch