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So glad that we homeschool and don't have to spend much on supplies. We just use the same stuff from last year. No one breaks our Crayons or steals our pencils in homeschool...lol We have a tradition of buy something fun and new for the school year though. For me I usually pick out a cute pack of sticky notes (you know I have a passion for STICKY NOTES!)  I blogged about my overstock of sticky notes. This year I got some Post-It Notes with a cute Pug dog on the front. The teenager decided on a folder/notebook with a Pug on the front. You would think that we have a thing for Pugs at our house  :O) Moe

OK, folks this on is going to be a long one about an AWESOME review product, get your self a cup of JAVA…lol...pun intended :O) Lets start off with a homeschool Momma funny! LOL. I kept calling TeenCoder C# Series , LOL….”TeenCoder C pound sign Series.” That got a real laugh out of my son, the proper pronunciation is TeenCoder C Sharp Series. OK, enough of the laughing here, because TeenCoder C# Series is a very serious year long educational computer course from Homeschool Programming INC . Homeschool Programming INC has won many awards including the   2013 National Indie Excellence Awards : TeenCoder: Android Programming : "Technology" Winner! TeenCoder: Game Programming : "Education K-12" Finalist!       2013 International Book Awards : TeenCoder: Game Programming : "Young Adult: Non-Fiction" finalist! "Children's Educational" finalist!         We were blessed to receive the TeenCoder year pack valued at $155.00 TeenCoder: C# Year Pack...

FREE Bible Writer curriculum Bible Based Homeschooling-On a Budget  is offering a very nice freebie for you! We are going to start using it this week. Check it out. Moe

All right thrifty coupon Mamma’s have I got a review for you! Christi The Coupon Coach  Couponing Made Simple comes in an Ebook for just $4.99 or the paperback version for $18.00.      Since I’ve been down and out physically since Sept 2012 our grocery and household items budget has just been blown out of control. With my son and husband running into stores here and there for things it’s cost us a lot. Normally I drive an hour once per month and do all our major shopping in the big city. It’s much cheaper than shopping at a Mom and Pop grocery store. I was excited when we were given the opportunity to review the  Christi The Coupon Coach book. Our son was the first one to read  Christi The Coupon Coach . Right away he began going through my coupon stash to see what we could use and how we could use them to get the best deals. I used this book as part of our business math/home economics course study for high school, I think it woul...

I feel like a brand new homeschooler since we are starting high school. Any book suggestions? Tips? Things to do or not to do? What worked for you and what did not work? How did you make a push for independence? How did you set up school work accountability? Did you work in dual credits? AP classes (where did your kids take these and the tests?), dual enrollment? College classes? Online classes? An non textbook things you did? Oh, the list seems endless! Thanks, Moe

This is an awesome freebie for teachers and homeschoolers! I am printing like crazy as we speak...lol... Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus  click there and check her out! She has got lots of goodies and some great homeschool information. This is just a sameple of one of the cover pages that you can use for your personalized school planner. LOVE IT! Tina has a cool process to making her planners, here is what you get for FREE! Step 1. Choose a Pretty Front & Back Cover Step 2. Choose Calendars/Appointment Keepers Step 3. Choose Goals and Objectives Step 4. Choose Lesson Planning Pages Step 5a. Choose Unique Forms JUST for You Step 5b. Choose MORE Unique Forms Just for You. Step 6. Personalize It Step 7. Final Step. Organize it/Shuffle Sections/Print your Tabs before you take it to be coil bound. Please go check out Tina's cool homeschool helps today. Enjoy!

  As members of The Old Schoolhouse Review Crew (TOS) we have been privileged to make a homeschool yearbook through Picaboo Yearbooks . (Pronounced PeekABoo). I'm grinning from ear to ear! I have to say that this was so much fun to make! It might make #1 in our top reviews of the TOS year! Here is the Moe disclaimer for this product. WATCH THE TUTORIAL BEFORE TRYING TO MAKE YOUR YEARBOOK! Have I ever told you that you need to read or watch the instructions for a product before using it? lol...yes I attempted to click around on the Picaboo Yearbooks website and I failed miserably. lol I have made many photo books in my time using other companies, but I‘ve never thought to make a yearbook! WOW, the endless possibilities for the homeschool family! With Picaboo Yearbooks there are autograph pages, QR CODES Add video to your printed yearbook pages, and the real plus for us homeschooler is that there is no minimum number of books to order. You can also do an eYearbook for peop...

As members of The Old Schoolhouse Review Crew we have had the exciting opportunity to review the Physical Science program from  Science for High School . The program is called High School Physical Science In Your Home for the last several weeks in our homeschool. This course is for grades 9-12, but I think in home education you can use it with junior high aged kids if they are ready for the material. High School Physical Science In Your Home comes with a student and a teacher manual. OK, first let me tell you what my experience with science has been. To me science was reading a chapter in the science book, memorizing the bold terms/definitions, answering the chapter checkup questions, taking a weekly quiz/test. Maybe doing a science poster or short write up once in awhile. Basically rote memorization skills were practiced in my kind of science. Toss those ideas right out the window with Science For High School . Imagine a home school science curriculum actually written by a...

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/gluten-free-cheese-crackers-recipe King Arthur Flour company has some yummy recipes that are gluten free, search the site. I plan to make these next week. Moe

http://www.homeschoolcreations.net/2013/07/printable-prayer-cards-free-download/ Lots of really cool goodies over at WWW.homeschoolcreations.net Check them out!

STICKY NOTES!!! I must have them in all shapes and sizes, not to mention all colors...lol. LOL...this is just my secret stash in my school supplies, I've got sticky note pads in my car, date book, living room, media room, kitchen and dining room...lol. I asked the child what school supplies we need for the 2013-2014 school year, he says "NONE." I say "I think we need some sticky notes." (they are my weakness!!!). He yells out "With all the sticky notes we have, I think we are preparing for Sticky Note Y2K!" lol...May we just bypass my sticky note obsession and move on to the question at hand? "How on earth does the child know about Y2K?"    

A Journey Through Learning says... YOU SPOKE AND WE LISTENED!! Apologia INSTANT DOWNLOAD ONLY sale! 50% off until Monday! Use the code apologia50 at check-out. We are also planning a Back to School sale that will be announced here on Sunday! Also.......make sure you are signed up for our newsletter because we are doing a "newsletter only" freebie AGAIN for July!!!! share this on your facebook page and get a free lapbook from the $1.00 section. Would you like to earn a FREE EXPRESS lapbook? Share this post about our Apologia sale and our Back to School sale on your Facebook. Then email Nancy at nfileccia@comcast.net with the link where you shared and your choice of lapbook. http://www.ajourneythroughlearning.net/expresslapbook.html Enjoy, Moe

Long, long ago, at a home school convention far, far away we first heard of Andrew Pudewa and Institute For Excellence in Writing . Homeschooling friends that came with us to the convention attended his workshop and bought the program. I spent an entire school year hearing about how wonderful the program was, but the cost still turned me off. During the course of that school year our son had loaded several of the convention speakers sessions onto his Ipod. Our son went crazy over Andrew Pudewa! But I thought there is NO WAY I am spending that kind of money on a writing program when we have tons of notebook paper, pens and pencils right here in our own home for FREE! That was in 2009. Guess where our writing program had advanced to by May of 2013 BEFORE starting The Old Schoolhouse Review Crews review of Institute For Excellence in Writing with Teaching Writing with Structure and Style Set (TWSS) and Student Writing Intensive Level A Set (SWI)? Yes, exactly we were still at square on...

This is so  cool!  I love this idea, I do not like to program my phone or add events to program my calendar. Can't wait to try this. What do you think? Anyone know what HACK means? lol...sometimes I'm slow  :O)

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Found this fun activity on the Focus On The Family page, going to work on this once my teenager wakes up...lol...not sure when that will be...

Need I say more? I think Todd Wilson says it well. After a week of trying to sell our used textbooks I am wiped out!