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Time to gear up for a new school year!
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School's a-comin'! I prefer to swim, and garden and enjoy the lazy days of summer! But school will start, and we'll need to be ready, so let's get that school room up and running!
Just getting the school room ready is enough get enthusiasm brewing. Even if you only have a little corner in the living room, or a spot at the kitchen table, use a space on the wall nearby to create a school area. Hang your school calendar, maps, plus a bulletin board—or just tape up a big piece of colored paper—so you'll have a place to display work your kids do, as well as announcements to spur interest, such as: "Field Trip to Museum, coming Sept 1st!"
I buy inexpensive bins (or gather empty cookie or cracker case boxes at the grocery store) to make my children each a "school bin" with their name on it. This bin is where they store all their books, notebook, pencil box and supplies. We can grab it and go to the table or elsewhere, having all their needed materials. We keep our bins on a shelf for easy access. I like the neatness and organization of this, rather than having books, scissors, crayons, maps . . . strewn about.
School's starting soon . . . a chance to teach and learn with your kids! Have fun with it!
Set up your school room up with these favorites:
*All Year Weather Graph
Chart the weather daily with this colorful graph!
*World Globe
Essential equipment for homeschool!
*Fabric Calendar Pocket Chart
I use this every morning in homeschool!
*Love to Learn Homeschool Handbook
What to use, how to set up your day, how to homeschool!
*National Geographic Wall Maps
Top quality National Geographic laminated wall maps make such a difference!
To a wonderful homeschool year!
Diane
P.S. If you have a reluctant student, come and read my blog: "Doesn't Want to Homeschool" for some tips on how to stir excitment for homeschool. If homeschool looks more fun than public school, you'll have an eager student!
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view | All Year Weather Graph Children can graph the daily weather with this colorful calendar set. Includes large 17" x 22" calendar, 132 colorful cardstock weather symbols, a complete set of calendar numbers, 12 monthly headers, plus a paper thermometer with red "mercury" that can slide up and down to mark each day's temperature reading. We begin homeschool by reciting the date, putting the weather symbol on the calendar, checking a real thermometer outdoors, and adjusting our paper thermometer to match it, plus keeping a graph paper chart to show each month's temperature fluctuations.
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view | See the World! Globe A world globe is a homeschool necessity! I use mine everyday as we read and study together. Since it is generally just a once-in-a-lifetime purchase, I think it is important to get a quality globe that will be beautiful to use and to look at. This 12", semi-relief globe with brass-toned base is just right!
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view | Fabric Calendar Pocket Chart This fabric calendar has 50 clear plastic pockets in which to slide colorful cards for the days of the week, date, month, and special days. A fabulous way to start the day and help orient children time-wise. Three grommets make it easy to hang. 29 1/2".
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view | Love to Learn! Homeschool Handbook 15% Off
Need homeschool help?
Diane Hopkins has been reviewing and testing homeschool products for 23 years and you can benefit from her experience. Arranged by grade, from preschool to high school, you will find a listing of best books and materials for teaching each grade plus instructions on just how to to use these resources and run the school day. Set up your school schedule, learn how to get your kids to take charge of getting their schoolwork done, and get tips on how to make your homeschool fun and meaningful. Also includes articles of encouragement, and details on how to plan out an exciting school year full of progress for your students. Reproducible forms are included.
Large, spiral-bound book introduces you to the 7 Hopkins children, and shows you how Diane taught and raised them homeschooling: the mistakes she made along with the successes. Full of family photos, personal stories, and wisdom—this volume will give you the help you need to get enthused, get organized and get going. Enjoy the delightful journey of learning together!
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view | National Geographic Laminated Maps 60% OffHuge 46" x 30" laminated wall maps are made by National Geographic. Set of 2 detailed political maps includes both a world map plus a USA map to hang on your school room wall. These are shipped rolled in a tube (not folded). Top quality!
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view | Paper Wall Maps Large wall map is handy in your school room (or dining room—that's where ours is!) You'll refer to it often while reading, studying, and planning. 52 x 34" folded paper map is produced by Rand McNally.
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view | 3 Ring Binder Map (USA & World) Laminated and 3-hole punched, this handy, colorful map of the United States has the World map on the reverse side. My children each have one of these in their notebooks for a quick reference.
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view | Big Alphabet Wall Chart You'll see your children looking up at this colorful chart often while trying to write something, just to check that they are forming their letters correctly. Tack it around the top of the wall in your schoolroom for easy reference. 9 inches high and nearly 14 feet long!
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view | White Board-Chalkboard 40% OffA wonderful writing practice tool for children, this handy 9" x 12" board is a chalkboard on one side, white board on the other!
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view | Damp Erase Markers Wipe-off pens are used on the whiteboard and wipe right off with a damp cloth. Four pens in bright ink colors—red, black, green and blue—come in a plastic case.
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view | 4 Worksheet Extenders & Damp Erase Markers Save money on workbooks with these durable, thick plastic sleeves that are open on two sides for easy page insertion. You can even slip them over a page in a book! Wipe-off pens write easily on plastic and wipe right off with a damp cloth. Set of 4 worksheet extenders and 4 colored pens.
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Educational Placemats
Why read cereal boxes? . . . when you could be learning the planets, the periodic table, the systems of the human body or the states and their capitals? These colorful, wipe-off placemats are a favorite. Since it seems that my children spend most of their time eating, perhaps this is the right place for study! Standard placemat size: 12" x 18". Placemats feature full color front; the reverse side is the same picture outlined in black and white so your child can color or write in the information on the write-on, wipe-off surface.
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view | Jumbo Pencils (3) plus Jumbo Sharpener Chubby pencil fits little hands perfectly to reduce writer's cramp. Remember these from kindergarten? Shiny, metallic colored pencil has alphabet letters and numbers from 1 to 20 printed on it. This is what I use for my beginning writers—we love them! The sharpener is essential as they are too fat for a standard pencil sharpener.
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view | Neon Pencil Gripper An excellent pencil grip makes a world of difference in teaching your young writer to hold his pencil correctly, in helping an older child overcome a bad habit, or to prevent writer's cramp. This squishy, soft gripper works with the body's natural physiology to gently place fingers in the proper position for writing. I've tried lots of them, and this is by far the best!
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view | Calendar Flip Chart Perfect way to start your homeschool day! Flip to the correct month, date, day and select the weather. Vinyl coated pages flip on a spiral binding. Sturdy cardboard frame sits freestanding on desktop or shelf. 14" x 5".
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Musical Notebooks Teaching facts to the rhythm of music really makes them stick. I even find myself singing the "Prime Numbers" song to my teenagers when they ask me a related math question. The "Months of the Year" song is also a regular in our homeschool. At age 3, Emily could sing "Bones" by heart and it is still a favorite. Catchy, quality songs teach geography, math, science, months, days of the week, classic poetry, and more. Book contains illustrations, lyrics to the songs, activities, and suggestions for teaching units on each theme song. Plastic coated wipe-off pages allow children to write in names of planets on the illustrated "planet" page, "bones" chart, and more. Created by a homeschooling family. Spiral bound 48-page book comes with CD.
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view | Wee Sing America CD and Songbook Wee Sing America is a tribute to our nation, a collection of 60 songs about our land and our flag, war and peace, and about the people who explored, settled and built our country-songs that were created and sung by our forefathers. The songbook has the scores and words from every verse along with quotes and fascinating facts. I don't think it should be called "Wee", since the songs are inspiring for teens and adults too! We sing these songs often, especially at the beginning of our homeschool. Includes 60 minutes of song and a 64 page small, illustrated paperback songbook.
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view | Christian Home School Student Planner 15% OffThis is what I use in my homeschool to keep my children's work orderly and expectations clear. My Student Planner will help you organize your children's assignments and help them use their time wisely. Binder contains sections to store daily schoolwork assignments, so all their work is in one neat place. Information is included for pursuing and recording personal goals and educational goals, a personal finance section, and an address and phone section. Instructions written to Mom will help in setting up your homeschool, following a daily schedule, checking up on assignments, and choosing and completing educational goals. This planner is the result of years of experimenting to find what works to make our homeschool run smoothly. My children open their planners for school every morning—this is where all their work is kept and all their assignments are written down and checked off. They can direct themselves by doing their planned assignments. Each child (8 years and up) needs their own for a great school year.
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view | Ebook: Mother's Planner 50% OffMake your own Mother's Planner to help you take charge of this very vital work of being a mother! If you are a homeschooling mother, you need even more organization. Even though I use my computer for most everything, there are some times when paper and pencil is so much more effective. And it is crucial to have everything in one place, so a notebook works well. 9 page e-book includes the ready-to-copy forms plus directions to help you put together your planner. I created it out of need, and used it to steer me without too much chaos, through my childraising and homeschooling. I think you'll find this very valuable! Here's to organization and structure in your daily life and homeschool!
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view | Teacher's Tapestry Tote "To Teach is to Touch a Life Forever"! Roomy canvas tote bag zips closed at the top. 18" x 12".
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History Time Lines I like time lines. If they are simple, they can provide a magnificent framework in your child's mind on which to "hang" other information, making sense of history. Remember history the easy way—with a time line posted on your schoolroom wall! Each Time Line kit contains two sets of each card: one in full color, and one in black and white, ready to be colored to personalize your own time line, or use in suggested games. Brief historical information is ready to present to your students as each time line figure is added. You can also learn the "History in Action" rap. Each date and event has a keyword or phrase and a hand action to go with it. This action/rhyme is fun to learn and delightful to perform! Hands-on and visual, a fun approach to history!
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view | Ancient Civilizations Time Line Begins in Mesopotamia with the advent of writing and continues through the great ancient civilizations until the Fall of Rome.
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view | Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation Time Line Contains an introduction to European history from the Fall of Rome to 1600.
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view | Homeschooling by Heart When we decide to homeschool we are adding another responsibility to our already full lives. This warm and wonderful book is a Mom's road map for making it all work, a guide for mapping out life's journey and designing a homeschooling lifestyle. Includes how to slow down your pace, home organization tips to dejunk your house and simplify your life, schedules, child discipline, ideas to keep toddlers busy, tips to instill a love of learning, curriculum recommendations, teaching character virtues, and much more. There are even great reproducible charts and forms for lesson plans, budgets, chores, goals, menu planning, and more. Large sized, paperback book, 237 pages.
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view | The A to Z Guide to Home School Field Trips Looking for some field trips to add zip to your homeschool? Here's the master manual. This guidebook turns every profession and institution that you would find in your town into a field trip destination. Includes plenty of helpful background information about each place from the accountant's office to the zoo. Lots of great questions accompany each field trip so you can ask something intelligent and learn something useful. There is space to jot down a contact person and information so next time around, the groundwork is already done for you. Vocabulary words and related activities are also included. Each section even offers relevant Biblical principles relating to each profession. Paperback, 206 pages.
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view | None Dare Call It Education The large majority of all American children will receive a public school education. That means our future communities and nation will be made up of doctors, teachers, businessmen and politicians who have been trained by the public school system. This thought- provoking book has been thoroughly researched and overflows with quotes and documented information from textbooks, from the media, and from the schools themselves. None Dare Call it Education explains why our once-great public school system now graduates students who cannot read, write, or calculate. "It is must reading for all parents" says Phyllis Schafley of Eagle Forum. If you need a reason to homeschool or want to help your spouse or relatives understand, take a good look at this book. Paperback pocket book, 266 pages, adult reading.
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view | Homeschool Your Child for Free The more I use this book, the more I like it! More than 1,200 smart, effective, and practical resources for home education on the internet and beyond are within its 475 pages. Open the door to the world's biggest library and laboratory at your fingertips. I love having a good curriculum and plan from which to teach my children, but I use the Internet to provide the spice to keep learning fresh and up-to-date. This book by a homeschooling mom will take you to those safe, educationally exciting sites on the web. You'll find good literature reading lists, free educational material, preschooler reading readiness games, science projects for teens, lesson plan outlines arranged by subject, teaching tips, college information, testing, and much, much more. This volume will save you oodles of hours of searching time. Great stuff! Paperback, 477 pages.
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view | Educational Travel Ever caught yourself dreaming about traveling? I know my own children (and we parents) learned more in a several days spent vacationing in San Francisco than in a month of bookwork! This unique and daring guide gives you the practical how-to of taking your family on memorable and inexpensive vacations that will build closer family ties while giving your children that valuable real-life learning! Mom, take this book with you to read in the bathtub and start scheming and dreaming! Anything is possible!
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view | Well-Trained Mind This intensive method of home educating children is very popular because of the fabulous results—well-rounded, intelligent young people who can think and understand. This book, which becomes a well-used "bible" for many home educators, will teach you step-by-step how to give your children an academically rigorous education from preschool through high school using the classical pattern of education called the "trivium" (grammar, logic, rhetoric). The Well Trained Mind provides the teaching techniques, curriculum, and resource recommendations to instruct your child in reading, writing, history, geography, math, science, foreign language, rhetoric, logic, art, and music. Social needs are addressed too, to help you get your child involved in sports, clubs, and local homeschooling organizations. Info is included to help you prepare a high school transcript, study for the SAT test, and achieve college entrance. Teach your child with confidence and success!
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view | Thomas Jefferson Education 15% OffThis thought-provoking book by Dr. Oliver DeMille, founder of the George Wythe College, has had a profound effect on how I learn and teach. Dr. DeMille believes that we have failed in educating our children in this country because we have failed to follow the pattern of education that the Founding Fathers participated in, namely the study of great classic literature (both children's literature and adult literature) under the loving, demanding hand of a "mentor," just the way intelligent Thomas Jefferson was taught. Dr. DeMille gives us reasons for studying the classics, discussion questions that help us analyze the classics, plus a comprehensive list of books that constitute "the good stuff." Newly revised with 2 new chapters and addendum, 195 pages.
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view | A Thomas Jefferson Education Home Companion Have you wondered how to apply Thomas Jefferson Education principles in your homeschool? This companion offers something new: a view of leadership education from many perspectives, from the education of our little ones to advanced adult learning. Whether you're a parent, teacher or grandparent, you will enjoy this enlightening book. Paperback, 241 pages.
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view | Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens 15% OffOliver DeMille, founder of George Wythe College, has written an excellent volume for youth and adults wanting to accomplish a successful Scholar Phase, both academically but in personal development. Includes: How to Find the Real You, The Teen-100 List, How to Study the Classics, How to Make the Most of Your Mentor, Sample Simulations and a list of online resources. A great support for any teen seeking a leadership education! Co-authored by Shanon Brooks. Paperback, 147 pages.
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view | Leadership Education, The Phases of Learning 15% OffFrom Oliver & Rachel DeMille (George Wythe College), this 303 page volume details the phases of Leadership Education (better known as a Thomas Jefferson Education). Includes a philosophy for life, two views of childhood, a recipe for success, the foundational phases, core and love of learning phase, transition to scholar phrase, a blueprint for leadership, the educational phase, the scholar phase and the depth phase. Continues with a mandate for service, the application phase, mission phase and impact phase. Ends with info on grandparenting.
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view | The Coming Aristocracy New!If you're as tired of the educational status quo as I am, you need to read The Coming Aristocracy. Oliver DeMille arms common citizens with the knowledge, insights, and motivation they need to battle exploitation by the power and money elite. This book will help you take charge of your life and make a positive difference in these trying times. Paperback, 114 pages.
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view | Bear's Guide to Earning College Degrees Nontraditionally 10% OffTalk about a change of perspective! This book dramatically altered the way I look at college degrees. The author's deeply insightful viewpoint is that a college degree is absolutely essential but that the traditional way of getting a degree (4 years on campus) is wasteful and unnecessary. He has plenty of statistics and information to back up his claim too!
The author goes on to teach you how to get that necessary degree in a myriad of nontraditional ways such as correspondence courses and on-line study, examination for credit, credit for life experience, and many more. Scholarships and financial aid are available too. Detailed listings are included of institutions you can go through to achieve your goal as well as "degree mills," scams to avoid. You can earn an accredited Bachelor's, Master's, Doctorate, law, even medical degree—faster, cheaper and more thoroughly nontraditionally.
This is the ultimate guide and will save you thousands of dollars while obtaining your degree. This book provides a wonderful alternative for the disciplined student. Highly recommended!
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view | One Year to a College Degree 45% OffCollege can be fun; it can be a social life and something to do after high school. But, if you are strictly after a degree, college can be a lengthy, expensive obstacle. This book tells the true story of one working woman's return to college to get her Bachelor's degree. You can avoid the long, costly on-campus route by heeding her advice and experience. She tells you all the mistakes she made and what to do instead. Reference guide, worksheets and resource lists are included. Paperback, 206 pages.
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Need homeschool help?
Diane Hopkins has been reviewing and testing homeschool products for over 20 years and you can benefit from her experience. In this comprehensive guidebook, each grade of school is detailed with the best-on-the-market in curriculum for your homeschool and notes added on how to use these resources! Set up your school schedule, learn how to get your kids to take charge of getting their schoolwork done, and how to make your homeschool fun and meaningful. Reproducible forms are included.
Large, spiral-bound book introduces you to the 7 Hopkins children, and shows you how she taught and raised them homeschooling: the mistakes she made along with the successes. Full of family photos, personal stories, and wisdom—this volume will give you the help you need to get enthused, get organized and get going! More details and sample pages, click here!
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I am Diane Hopkins, mother of 7 children (ages 14 to 34) whom I have had the privilege of homeschooling over the past 23 years. I'm a mom, just like you, and have those fabulous days and those not-so-good days like we all do. My hope in writing is to share experiences, and hopefully we can encourage one another in this wonderful, intense adventure of childraising--that is really what homeschooling is, after all.
Hoping to help, if I can!
Love, Diane
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