Winners Chelsea Johns and Mamamia

I am having a little trouble getting in touch with 2 of the winners from the giveaways. Chelsea Johns, the winner of the history curriculum and Mamamia, the winner of the Boz's Book of Bible Fun.

Ladies, please respond back to me, I need your addresses so I can mail you your books! I sent you messages but I'm not sure if you've received them or not. You can email me your info at either homeschoolingmygirl@yahoo.com or writer4hire88@yahoo.com

I will hold your books for you until Tuesday 8/31 at midnight. If I don't hear from you by then, I'll have to choose another winner, so please get back to me soon!

Thanks!

Colleen

Winners of the giveaways!

I want to thank everyone who entered for taking the time and coming to check out my blog. I especially thank you for subscribing. I used random.org to choose the winners and they are as follows:


For the Harcourt Brace Math textbook:

✿Heαther✿ said...

I follow your blog! mommys3lilbirds at gmail dot com

August 28, 2010 7:22 PM

For the History Alive curriculum pack:

Chelsea Johns said...

I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to have this curriculum to use with my 5, almost 6, kids! I have two in Jr High and two in elementary grade right now! We would definitely use it! Thanks for the opportunity!

August 25, 2010 9:32 PM

Last but not least, the winner of the Boz's Book of Bible Fun:

mamamia said...

this would be wonderful to do with my kiddos!

August 24, 2010 1:01 PM

 

 

I will be sending out emails to the winners. Thank you so much for entering, I wish I had enough for everyone!

Jesus and Me Boz's Big Book of Bible Fun

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THIS GIVEAWAY WILL CLOSE AT 11:59PM EST TONIGHT 8/28!

Another offer for the clean-out I am offering is a new copy of Jesus and Me Big Book of Bible Fun featuring Boz, The Green Bear Next Door. It is geared for preschool age, ages 3 and up. It is an awesome book! There are many bible stories in it and lots of fun activities to do.

If you are interested in this awesome book, please leave me a comment below. Also, if you follow my blog, give yourself 2 extra entries. (please be sure to leave a separate comment for each)

Giveaway will be open until August 28th. I will choose a winner on the 29th.

Curriculum Clean-out Give Away!

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Another item I am offering for this year's Curriculum Clean-Out is a "History Alive America's Past" curriculum package. It is made by Teacher's Curriculum Institute and I believe it is geared towards middle school age.

The package includes a hardcover student text, student workbook, 2 teacher's manuals, colored pictures called placards, and a book of transparencies for use with an over-head projector.

This package was given to me by an editor of the TCI company. Unfortunately its a little too advanced for my daughter. If you are interested, please leave me a comment below telling me so. Also, if you subscribe to my blog, please give yourself 2 extra entries! This giveaway will be open until August 28th. I will choose a winner on the 29th.

Curriculum Clean-out Give Away!

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We are very excited to be taking part in Homeschool Creations Curriculum Clean Out! This is my first time offering something and am so happy to have this to offer.

I have a Grade 2 Harcourt Brace Math Advantage Textbook. It is copywrited 1998. It is in really great shape, only a little writing smudge on the cover. It looks very thorough to me, starting with addition and subtraction reviews, and covers multiplication and division. I am doing a different math curriculum with my daughter this year, that is the only reason why we are not using it. If you are interested in this book please:

1) Leave me a comment and let me know you are interested

2) Follow my blog and give yourself 2 bonus entries!

This giveaway will be open until August 28th. I will choose a winner on the 29th.

Good luck! I will be posting more giveaways tomorrow!

First Day Fun!

Wow, I cannot believe second grade is now officially underway! I had originally intended to begin the second week of August, but it looks like August is going to be a very busy month for us between baton-twirling camp, doctor's appointments, and a possible trip to Virginia!

Kristen began her day with a name collage. This went along with the lesson in her Language Arts book that God made her special and unique! She worked very hard on it, and was very proud of the end result.

We also began a calender board. I got the idea from Carisa over at 1+1+1=1. I thought it was really cool, and Kristen loves it!

The upper left corner she practices making the date with coins that I printed out and stuck velcro-dots on.

Underneath, she writes the day of the week, the date, and then she writes the entire date. (I laminated this and we use a dry-erase marker)

Underneath that, I attached a skip-counting sheet. I found this over at homeschoolcreations.com. There, you'll find skip-counting sheets for numbers 2 on up! I really want to do this with her everyday to enforce some early multiplication skills. To the left of the Skip Counting, I attached the 2 muliplication table so she can make the connection between the skip counting and learning to multiply!

Also on our board is weather tracker, where we will be able to keep track of the weather for the entire week. She just chooses a card with the picture of the current weather outside, and attaches it on the velcro dot.

We also have a hundreds chart where we are going to chart the day of school it is and keep track. Once we reach a hundred, we'll have a little celebration. I also have a place value chart where she can record each day of school there as well.

Everything on our board is laminated and easily attaches with velcro dots.

Kristen has a passion for Ramona these days. I read the entire series to her at the beginning of the summer and she loved them! Ramona was a big favorite of mine when I was a kid, and I love that Ramona is now bringing my daughter joy.

I brought Kristen this past Friday to see the movie Beezus and Ramona and of course she loved that too. I was surprised to find Kristen deeply absorbed in reading Ramona and her Father herself today!



In the book Ramona and her Father, and also in the Beezus and Ramona movie, Ramona and her dad decide to try and draw the world's longest picture. I found a roll of drawing paper at the craft store, and today Kristen was hard at work making her own masterpiece just like Ramona.







Overall, we had a great day. We even managed to get a little time in at the park where we just brought our school books with us. I have a lot of hopes and plans for this school year, I can't wait to see how this year pans out!

TCI Social Studies

I was very fortunate yesterday to meet a wonderful woman who used to be an editor for a wonderful educational book series called TCI. They offers a wide array of teaching text books and materials and have a wonderful Social Studies Alive curriculum for elementary grades. There are different components to the Social Studies Alive program that include My Community, Regions of My Community, and My Community and Beyond. Each component comes with a student book, teacher's manual, student workbook, transparancies, music CD, colored placards that correspond with the lesson.

Because she was the editor, this woman was given her own set of the curriculum as a reference to keep on hand. Since she had this curriculum on hand for so long, and really no place to put it, she gave it to me happily after meeting with me and Kristen. She was thrilled to have it go to a homeschool family.

I am so thankful to this woman, what she did was wonderful and I will never forget her.