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Month: January 2009

Frugal Friday: More Homeschool Freebies

Posted in Homeschooling, and Thrifty Ideas

Scholastic currently has a free unit study on the Underground Railroad. Scholastic is also having their dollar days sale for teachers right now. Homeschoolers are included in this sale. You just need to sign up for an account and have that account verified. I placed the order and then called to have my account verified. I received my books yesterday. What a great deal!! Rose Charts if offering free printable versions of some of their wonderful Bible charts. You will be asked to sign up for their email list. They will then send you a link for 9 free charts.…

Spell Quizzer Giveaway!

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Are you tired of repeatedly going over the same spelling words wiith your students or your child? If you’d like a break from that important but often tedious task, you might want to try Spell Quizzer, the “spelling software for mastering spelling words fast!” Freely Educate has ten licenses to the SpellQuizzer software to give away! Value: $29.95 each. The license allows you to download Spell Quizzer onto your computer. Although only one computer may download the software, multiple users may use the program. Deadline: Sunday, January 25th, midnight CST ( as in, 11:59pm)

Busy, Busy, Busy…

Posted in Family, Military Life, and Thoughts

Life has started to get busy now that the new year has begun. We found out in December that we wouldn’t be staying here like we originally thought. It looked like we were headed to California. Hmmm…. Since I was still recovering from surgery, my mind started to make to do lists like crazy. I’m finally off of restriction although I still need to be cautious not to over do things. Is that possible with an upcoming move? Thankfully, we do have a few months before the cross country trek. One problem is that we never fully moved into this…

BFS #117 – Say It In Signs

Posted in Fun

Memory Verse: Genesis 1:14 (King James Version) And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years. Intro: This week the other Teachers and I want to shake things up a bit! We wanted for everyone to have some fun and have an assignment that would be easy and enjoyable too. This is a creative blogging assignment but hopefully it will offer help to some newer bloggers still trying to learn “how” to add pictures to…

BFS #116 – Now You’re Playing with Power

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Memory Verse: Genesis 7:24 The water held power over the earth for 150 days. Introduction: The only witnesses to the Flood are Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives – 8 people. And then there’s the animals, 2 of every unclean animal and 7 pairs of every clean animal. When Noah and his family emerged from the ark, they offered sacrifices and praised the Lord for preserving them. Assignment: What kind of catastrophe have you lived through? Weather? Fire? Car crash? Did you feel the oppression of the power of the disaster, or the protection of the Power…