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Month: January 2010

Presidential Penmanship BJ Style Review

Posted in Homeschooling, and Reviews

Zeezok Publishing was founded in 2003 with a goal to provide quality literature and educational books for use in training the next generation.  They believe that “It is better to build children than to repair men.” Zeezok Publishing sent us the Presidential Penmanship BJ Style Complete curriculum on cd to review.  This program includes handwriting skills practice for grades 1st through senior high.  While we do not normally use a separate handwriting program, I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to easily incorporate the use of this program in our every day schooling.  Since the program is made up…

Gratituesday: Hard Working Husband

Posted in Family

D is a hard worker.  He doesn’t like to sit idley around and do nothing.  If he’s off work for too long, he starts to get antsy.  in fact, if he knows that he’s going to have a long weekend, he starts asking me what I want done.  Yep, that’s right, he asks for a honey do list!  **grin** D is also good at fixing things.  He likes to try to figure out how to do different tasks.  He enjoys the challenge of determining what is wrong and then repairing it. These things are coming in very handy this week. …

Energy: It’s Forms, Changes, & Functions Tour and Review

Posted in Homeschooling, and Reviews

It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old…or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book! You never know when I might play a wild…

"I Have a Dream" – Do You?

Posted in Holidays, and Thoughts

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. King, always active in the civil rights movement, was a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its…