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Discount Home School Supplies is giving away a microscope!

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Join Discount Home School Supplies in celebrating SPRING!

Discount Home School Supplies is giving away one SMD-04 Microscope. We sell this microscope for $68.95 on our website.

Here is the description:

A 3D Exploration!

We're proud to introduce the latest in the My First Lab series of quality microscopes. Designed for viewing solid or three-dimensional objects rather than traditional glass slides, this scope makes it possible for students to view virtually anything. The binocular head allows comfortable viewing with both eyes (no more squinting) and the built-in light illuminates all specimens for premium viewing every time. Real glass optics provide high-quality images and battery power makes it portable for outdoor use.

Perfect for collectors and hobbyists, it allows users to explore the infinite diversity in nature, making it an ideal - and fun - educational adventure for young and old alike.

Features include:

binocular eyetubes

built-in light source

real optical glass lenses

20X magnification

portable battery power

vinyl dust cover

Requires 2 AA batteries (not included).

How can you enter this contest? It's very simple! Tell your friends via your blog, Facebook, email, or other social networking site about the Spring Shipping Special Discount Home School Supplies has from March 19-April 1. You can copy and paste the following, and once you have posted this information, you can leave a comment on my other blog at http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Tami/670229/.

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Join Discount Home School Supplies in celebrating spring with special shipping rates. The more you buy, the lower your shipping fees will be. You can read more about the special on the front page of Discount Home School Supplies' website.

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This contest is open to residents in the 50 United States. I am sorry that I cannot open the contest worldwide at this time.

The contest begins now, and I will draw the name of a winner on April 2, 2009. You can enter the contest more than once if you blog about it more than once, or if you announce it more than once.

Thank you for spreading the word!

Labels: microscope

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Spring Shipping Special at Discount Home School Supplies!

Starting today, March 19, through April 1, I am holding a spring shipping special at Discount Home School Supplies.

Order Subtotal:

0.00-24.99 - $5.75
$25.00-$49.99 - $5.00
$50.00-$74.99 - $4.00
$75.00-$99.99 - $3.00
$100.00-$124.99 - $2.00
$125.00-$149.99 - $1.00
$150.00 and up - FREE SHIPPING!

The more you order, the more you save!!!

Labels: DHSS, Spring Special

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Wordless Wednesday

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Fluffy snow

Labels: Wordless Wednesday

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Field Trip

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

A few weeks ago we went on a field trip to a large science center. I forgot my camera, but my daughter remembered to take hers. So I have a few pictures to share from that day.

Water table fun!

Bungee time!

Contortionist

You have to cooperate to play with this.

I hope you enjoyed these pictures. I am trying to blog more often.

Labels: field trips, homeschooling

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School for the youngest in the family

Here is a picture of our youngest child doing school with the rest of us.

Labels: homeschooling

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Spring Cleaning

Monday, March 9, 2009

Hello! In our area, we are having lovely spring weather, of course this is a week after a snow storm in our area. So we spent Saturday cleaning and rearranging bedrooms. For the first time in many years, we do not have a crib set up in our house. Our two youngest ones now have a set of bunkbeds in their room.

And we set up twin beds for the next two older boys in their room. This was not the original plan, but we could not fit the twin beds in the younger boys' room. So we went with plan B. And all 4 boys are quite happy with the changes.

This also spurred me on to do some decluttering, and I ended up with a van load of items to donate to a local charity. So we, hopefully, blessed someone else in the process of spring cleaning.

Next on the spring cleaning agenda is yard work. We seem to have a lot of pine cones and sticks and assorted stuff that needs to be cleaned up.

Labels: organizing; homeschool;, spring cleaning

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A Review of Famous Figures of Ancient Times by Cathy Diez-Luckie

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Recently I received a copy of Famous Figures of Ancient Times to review for author Cathy Diez-Luckie. I have homeschooled for many years using a time line to help my children remember important people in history, so I thought this would be a new way to introduce famous people from the ancient days.

These timeline figures are so much fun to create and manipulate. I appreciate the thought the author put into this book. Not only did she include color pictures you just cut out and assemble, she also included blackline drawings of the figures, so the children can color them and then assemble them. I like to give my children hands-on activities to work on while I read aloud to them, and the blackline pages, make that so easy. I will say that I enjoyed the simplicity of just cutting out one of the colored figures and assembling it. Some days you just do not have as much time as others to devote to hands-on activities.

We also like the size of the figures once they are assembled. They are large enough for the children to manipulate and handle.

I also liked that it took minimal resources to create the figures. I only needed sharp scissors, small brass fasteners and colored pencils. I used the sharpest point of my scissors to make the holes to attach the brass fasteners. I did not have a small hold punch or awl handy. And it was simple enough to punch a small hole in the paper for my children.

These are available through Figures in Motion (www.figuresinmotion.com), and they retail for $19.95. There are 20 famous figures in this book about the ancient times. And there is a brief paragraph about each person, so you do not have to do a lot of research if you are just doing an introduction to a person. They could be used with many different history programs. I highly recommend them.

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A Review of Classic Bible Storybook by Kenneth Taylor

Recently I was offered the opportunity to review a new book by Kenneth Taylor called Classic Bible Storybook. Since I have children who range in age from 2 to 18, I am always looking for additional resources to use with our in-home Bible study. Many of you know Kenneth Taylor's name from his Bible Story Book and The Living Bible. He has pleased audiences for three generations now with his writing, and this book is an excellent addition to his other works.

It was illustrated by Richard and Frances Hook. The pictures throughout this book are truly a work of art. From the moment that I opened the package, I was transported back to my memories of the art work in my first Children's Living Bible. I spent many hours of my childhood looking at those pictures.

In reading through this book, I can tell the care Mr. Taylor has taken with the details of Scripture, and he has included a few questions at the end of each story to give you a springboard for discussion. My children seem to remember Bible stories when they have had time to think and discuss the stories. And they also enjoyed retelling the stories back to me. The stories in this book are broken down into small sections, so it is easy to read and get to the meat of each story in a brief amount of time. That is an important thing for young children, especially if you have 5 boys.

I enjoyed sharing this book with my children, and I am sure that it will become a classic book that we will have on our family bookshelf for many years to come.

It is available now through many retailers, including Amazon. It is published by Tyndale, and they have kept the mark of quality from beginning to end of this book. Its retail price is $12.99. And it includes 120 classic Bible stories. The ISBN number is 978-1-4143-0769-5. This is a book that you will want to share with the children in your life.

Labels: Review

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Snow Day

Monday, March 2, 2009

Snow Day in NC...........

Labels: Snow; family

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