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I'm just a thirty-something gal enjoying life in the Smoky Mtns. I'm a Christian homeschool mom of three little bears and the doting wife to Tracy for almost 17 years. I'm a computer nerd (That is "nerd" not "geek". Please note the difference) and aspiring photographer. (Yes, I take tons of pics.) I work part-time as a pharmacy technician at a local grocery store. I'm studying to become a Certified Pharmacy Technician.

I am so blessed to be able to homeschool our children. Some days are challenging, but no matter what happens I know that it is worth it.

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Tuesday,April 6, 2010

RMS Titanic

This month marks the 98th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.  This Thursday the new Titanic Museum opens in Pigeon Forge.    Here are some links for a unit study on Titanic.   **Check back in the upcoming days for more links.**

Coloring Sheets


Lapbook

Books

You Wouldn’t Want to Sail on the Titanic!

Magic Tree House: Tonight on the Titanic by Mary Pope Osborne

Finding the Titanic by Robert Ballard

    • Lesson Plans -Teaching Units, Teacher’s Guides, Novel Unit Plans, Study Guides, and more

Titanic Crossing by Barbara Williams

    • Lesson Plans -Teaching Units, Teacher’s Guides, Novel Unit Plans, Study Guides, and more

SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting

    • Lesson Plans -Teaching Units, Teacher’s Guides, Novel Unit Plans, Study Guides, and more

Dear America: Voyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson White

    • Lesson PlansTeaching Units, Teacher’s Guides, Novel Unit Plans, Study Guides, and more

Movies & TV

The People

List of all people on ship- Encyclopedia Titaninca

“Unsinkable” Molly Brown

Misc

1st Class Titanic Berth 1912 – $150

2nd Class Titanic Ticket 1912 – $60

3rd Class Titanic Ticket 1912 – $35

History

Artifacts

Newspaper Articles

Pictures

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Tuesday,March 16, 2010

Free eBook: St. Patrick The World’s Greatest Missionary

CurrClick’s free eBook of the week (limited download).

St. Patrick: The World’s Greatest Missionary

St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner. I have put together a Holiday Helper just right for the busy parent. There is no preparation (except for easy, yummy soda bread), just time together to enjoy. There is a biography of Patrick that is rich and engaging, rare illustrations for study and learning, a recipe for real Irish soda bread and an essay you and your children won’t want to miss, entitled, “The Real St. Patrick”.

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Monday,March 15, 2010

Free audiobook: Pilgrim’s Progress

Christianaudio began in 2004, publishing some of the most important and well-known classics ever written; including The Imitation of Christ, The Confessions of Saint Augustine, and The Pilgrim’s Progress. Speaking of The Pilgrim’s Progress, christianaudio recently published a brand new abridged version, retold for the modern reader!

We highly recommend this version for the whole family, including teens. The narration is outstanding and one of the most enjoyably listened to books that we’ve ever produced.

In addition to this extra special free offer for our listeners, we are also offering ten of our most popular classic audiobooks for the super-low price of only $2.98 each, only until the end of this month (March 31st)!

This free download is available in MP3 & M4B formats; learn more here. You can also purchase a print version of The Pilgrim’s Progress on Amazon!

Click here to download this free audiobook! Be sure to use coupon code PROG103!   Free registration for Christian Audio is required.

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Friday,March 12, 2010

Saint Patrick’s Day Links

March 15 – Added new links from St. Aiden’s Homeschool

March 16 – Added St. Patrick’s Breastplate recording.

Added Irish Language Links

March 17 – Added Irish Music & Dancing links.


Here is a list of resources for studying Saint Patrick’s Day.  Check back often because I will be adding more links in the next few days, as well as copywork pages.

Activities & Games

Coloring Pages

History of St. Patrick & His Special Day

Language

Free Lapbooks

Lesson Plans & Unit Studies

Music & Dance

Recipes

Misc.

  • St. Patrick’s Breastplate – Librovox recording of the beautiful prayer of St. Patrick.
  • Shamrocks and Shillelaghs – a small collection of writings about Irish beliefs and customs. This free eBook  includes background information on St. Patrick, shamrocks, shillelaghs, the Blarney Stone, familiar Irish songs, as well as pages of materials that can be used in your studies. Take a trivia quiz and see how you fare.

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Tuesday,March 9, 2010

Free eBook – Master Writer – Quotation Copybooks – Authors

Free eBook of the day from CurrClick (for a limited time)

Master Writer – Quotation Copybooks – Authors – Westvon Publishing | CurrClick.

If you want your children to have beautiful handwriting, then they need to practice! However, so many handwriting copybooks offer boring, worn-out sayings that do not interest most children today! How about combining your children’s interests and studies into their handwriting drills to make them fun and exciting? Master Writer Copybooks are just the answer!

Like our Happy Scribe Copybooks, these books are interesting and exciting. For an older child, these books reflect the great thoughts of famous and important people like Presidents, Authors, Saints, Artists, Philosophers and more. Great to work into your historical studies and use as conversation starters… these are some of mankind’s greatest thinkers and now you’ll be able to help tuck away these profound quotations into the hearts and minds of your own children through handwriting practice.

Each copybook has twenty sayings, presented in three different common handwriting fonts: Classic Block Printing, D’Nealian Italic and Cursive. We have based these exercises on twenty day blocks, representing four weeks of five days, for one month of exercises. There are basic alphabets and number pages for extra drill pages as well as a blank page to print for your own exercises, if you so please.

Each quotation is printed once dark, and room for practice. On the second page, it’s printed dotted and grayed with room to practice. It’s a proven fact, that when presented with several blank lines to practice on, student’s work tends to degrade quickly. However, when there is another faint reminder quote line, they will see much more consistent results in the quality of their handwriting.

This copybook is entitled Authors

It contains quotations from some of the most famous authors!

Each book is over 130 pages long, with 3 different type faces, practice alphabet pages and blank pages. too!

Print the sheets you need NOW, for as many children as you have. Keep everyone on the same sayings yet at different levels of handwriting ability. You can even combine a sort of unit study to the books… discuss the quotation with your children! !

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I ♥ Faces: “Jump For Joy!”

The theme for this week’s challenge at

i heart faces is “Jump For Joy!.”

This is a photo I took of my daughter on her 11th birthday.

Be sure to check out more photos of “Jump For Joy!” here.

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Monday,March 8, 2010

Free eBook: Nature Study ~ Birds ~ Notebooking Pages

CurrClick’s Free eBook of the Week:

Nature Study – Birds – Notebooking Pages

This set of 50 notebooking pages will compliment any study of birds. These pages will work nicely as narration pages or copywork practice pages. The illustrations are black and white and could be colored in to add more beauty to these already lovely pages. Included in this set are 2 title pages, one for narration and the other for copywork, as well as basic and primary lined pages.

Download it free this week only.

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Saturday,March 6, 2010

Pizza Hut BOOK IT!

It is time to sign up for the FREE BOOK IT! materials for the 20010-11 BOOK IT! Program for grades K-6.

Orders are taken on an individual homeschool family basis only. Homeschool group orders are no longer accepted. Each family must submit their own individual request.

Deadline: The 2010 enrollment deadline is June 30, however, we will continue to accept enrollment requests on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last

Click Here to Complete the Homeschool Enrollment Form

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Thursday,March 4, 2010

Great Deal from Downhill Publishing

I cannot tell you how excited I was to find this! I am always hunting the internet searching for copywork papers, and worksheet generators and clip art …etc.  This package has it all!!  I can’t imagine what a time saver this is going to be for our school.   Test out the software right from your webbrowser.

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Monday,March 1, 2010

Unredeemed

**It seems the Youtube powers that be deleted the other video I linked to, so here is another one. (although I liked the other one better.) **

May this song minister to you…

Unredeemed by Selah

The cruelest world
The coldest heart
The deepest wound
The endless dark
The lonely ache
The burning tears
The bitter nights
The wasted years

Life breaks and falls apart
But we know these are
Places where grace is soon to be so amazing
It may be unfulfilled
It may be unrestored
But when anything that’s shattered is laid before the Lord
Just watch and see
It will not be unredeemed

For every choice that led to shame
And all the love that never came
For every vow that someone broke
And every lie that gave up hope
We live in the shadow of the fall
But the cross says these are all
Places where grace is soon to be so amazing
It may be unfulfilled
It may be unrestored
But when anything that’s shattered is laid before the Lord
Just watch and see
It will not be unredeemed

Places where grace is soon to be so amazing
It may be unfulfilled
It may be unrestored
But you never know the miracle the Father has in store
Just watch and see
It will not be
Just watch and see
It will not be unredeemed

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