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Hello,
Structure (or lack of it) can make or break a family. Today I'd like to offer my favorite products for creating a nice, happy, live-able structure in your homeschool. A routine goes a long way in producing happy children! Mealtime, bedtime and learning time is predictable and secure. If you would like to know more about how I use structure in my home, read it here.
A few tools can be lifesavers when it comes to organizing your learning hours together. I like to start school at 9 o' clock every morning with "Opening Exercises" (or Greeting-Meeting, or whatever else you'd like to term it.) It's a great way to get school started and a perfect time to teach children, as they are fresh and ready to get going. Opening Exercises starts with the pledge of allegience, and then some exercises like jumping jacks, toe-touches, and windmills to add an element of fun and get the blood moving. Next we check the weather outside and record it, mark the calendar, sing together, and say a prayer. Here are some of my favorite tools for organizing our homeschool time:
*Fabric Pocket Calendar
A fabulous starting point for the day!
*Student Planner
Give your child's daily school assignments organization and order
*Calendar Flip Chart
Keep the date and weather handy
*Homeschooling Questions and Answers
Experience can help you get a good routine going
*Wee Sing America
A rousing song is a fun way to start the homeschool day
Bonus!
I created a Mother's Planner to help you get your life and your homeschool organized. I would like to offer it to you for just 99 cents with the purchase of any 3 items from this email. Enjoy!
Homeschool, and life, goes so much better with some structure in it!
Diane
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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 | 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.
Ebook: Christian Home School Student PlannerInstructions: Just add to your shopping cart, and we will email you a link so you can view, download and print your ebook.
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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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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 | 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 | Love to Learn! Homeschool Handbook 15% OffNeed 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 | Safety Kids Up to 35% OffWhat times we live in! Without frightening children, it is vital to teach them to protect themselves. These catchy songs from Brite Music teach a powerful lesson in personal safety, and one that is not easily forgotten over the years. Sing-along CD comes with quality coloring book illustrating each song, complete with lyrics. Your child will learn his telephone number, what to do if he is lost, not to go to the restroom alone, what parts of his body are private—how to be safe in every situation.
Let the Safety Kids share their knowledge about personal safety. These great songs will teach your child to stay safe from strangers, use the buddy system and learn his telephone number.
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Are you doing all that you can to protect your child from drug abuse? The Safety Kids are the perfect group of peers to teach your child everything she needs to know to stay safe from drugs—now and in the future. The songbook contains sheet music for the 8 songs.
This CD and sing-along activity book approach head-on the problem of exposure to inappropriate material. The Safety Kids will help your child learn to protect himself from unsuitable information through these important safety rules:
-Choose your friends carefully,
-Fill your life with good things,
-If it's bad, look away and turn it off.
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view | The 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 | 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 | Inflatable Animal World Globe 60% OffFamiliarize your child with which animals live where with this inflatable globe. 12" diameter.
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view | Homeschooling Questions and Answers What do I do about a child who writes his letters backward? Should I homeschool an only child? What if my younger child is smarter than his older sibling? What if relatives don't approve? How do I convince my husband? How do I keep from getting overwhelmed? I (Diane Hopkins) am the author, and this volume is a result of 2 decades of counseling families in how to train and educate their children joyfully. Learn the answers in this volume of actual questions from parents. Photos throughout. Paperback.
Ebook: Homeschooling Questions and Answers
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view | Worksheet Extender + Wipe-Off Pen NEW!Save money on workbooks with this durable, thick plastic sleeve that is open on two sides for easy page insertion. You can even slip it over a page in a book! Wipe-off pen writes easily on the plastic and wipes right off with a damp cloth. Quality worksheet extender and one pen. Get one for each child!
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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 | The BEST 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! Comes in set of 2 neon-colored grippers.
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view | USA & World Wall Map 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" paper map is produced by Rand McNally.
USA Wall Map
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view | See the World! 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 | The Ultimate Homeschool Physical Education Game Book Here is the most complete family physical education game resource available, packed with exciting games that can be played in a backyard-sized setting with only 2 to 4 participants—perfect for the homeschool family! Each game is illustrated and presented in simple "recipe" style so you know just what equipment, age of players, objective of the game, and how to play. Includes games using basketball, football, soccer, softball, racquet and net, playground games, fitness-building games, jump rope, bowling at home, and much more—nearly 200 in all! Paperback, 190 pages, for all ages.
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view | Mealtime Time Savers If you are like me, you invest quite a bit of each day in meal preparation. These excellent tips, projects, and charts will save you time in the kitchen! Includes reproducible master shopping lists, meal planners, recipe organization ideas, how-to instructions for taking inventory of your food storage and freezer so you actually use what you have, and more. I couldn't help thinking that these hints took me 30 years of homemaking to figure out! Spiral bound, 44 pages.
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view | Typing Instructor Deluxe We live in an age when being able to use a computer keyboard is a necessity. I like to teach my children to type while still quite young. It gives them the freedom of being able to get their thoughts down on paper long before they have the fine muscle coordination to tirelessly handwrite out a story or journal entry. Besides, they can do it! Typing Instructor is unsurpassed for teaching quality, and the format is plenty of fun. After the lesson, you can choose from 60 music selections (or silence) to type along with, and the typing practice can be chosen from hundreds of interesting magazine-type articles on all subjects. There are fun arcade games to prove your efficiency at every level. We've tried lots of programs, but this rates #1 with us!
System requirements:
Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, ME, 98, or Windows Vista
50 MB RAM or more
580 MB Hard Drive space or more
Processor should be 133 MHz or more
For Mac compatible or Spanish version, choose Typing Instructor Platinum.
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view | Typing Instructor Platinum, Mac & PC Compatible How you you improve on my favorite typing program, Typing Instructor Deluxe? By adding Spanish (along with English), plus even more fun games, plus making it MAC compatible as well as PC (Windows 7)!
Mac System Requirements:
PowerPC G4, G5 or Intel Core Duo processor; 800 MHz processor or higher
Mac OS X 10.4.6 10.5
CD-ROM Drive
580 MB Hard Drive space
Video card with 32 MB of video RAM
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view | Tapestry Teacher's Tote "To Teach is to Touch a Life Forever"! Roomy canvas tote bag zips closed at the top. I like to keep my teaching notebook, Mother's Planner, glasses, memory poems, flashcards, and other teaching helps in here so it is always handy and organized, easy to grab! 18" x 12".
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view | Choreganizers Charts, stickers, incentives, rotations—I think we've tried everything imaginable to train our children to share in the household workload. Children need to learn how to do chores long before they can read. In Choreganizers, every chore is represented by a plastic-coated, color-illustrated card. This program includes 6 chore charts, 60 chore cards, and a Chore Store where children can redeem "Dad Dollars" or "Mom Money" to spend on privileges, healthy treats, and time with Mom or Dad. I expect my children to do basic chores without any remuneration, but extra chores could qualify for earning "Mom Money" or real money. Whatever way you choose to do it, the plastic coated chore charts and chore cards will save you lots of time, effort and money. Time to get choreganized!
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view | Best Homeschool Secrets This booklet sums up what I've learned about keeping your homeschool happy and productive. Includes lots of hard-earned "how-to" advice from yours truly (Diane Hopkins). Paperback booklet.
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view | Happy Homeschooling This book is written from my heart to yours, both to help new homeschoolers get started and to help veteran homeschoolers get some fresh ideas. Nothing we offer generates more positive feedback—especially the article entitled, "The Baby is the Lesson!" Maybe it is because we all need a little help to keep going, along with some creative ideas, encouragement, and inspiration. Even though I wrote it, I go back and reread it when I wonder if homeschool is really worth the sacrifice. Topics cover social life, schedules that work, child discipline, a rotating academic plan for making sure you cover everything, the value of memorization, best books for read-aloud time, getting kids to do their schoolwork, how to make grammar fun, what to do with your toddler during homeschool time, father's role in the homeschool, dividing up the chores, preparing for college. . . and much more! Unique and essential information. Spiral-bound.
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view | Ebook: Make-Your-Own Mother's Planner Make your own Mother's Planner to help you take charge of the very vital work of being Mom! 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. Nine page e-book includes the ready-to-copy forms plus detailed directions to help you put together and use your planner to organize your life. 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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Homeschool Handbook
Your Guide to Setting Up a Homeschool, Selecting Resources, and Joyfully Educating Your Children
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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This handy "candle" will outlast a 3 day emergency. Burns liquid paraffin for over 100 hours of light. It is also odorless and smokeless, making it a great emergency light source. Keep one handy with a book of matches taped to it for your next power outage. The liquid fuel is sealed inside, with only the wick exposed. You can extinguish, and use again and again. A very safe source of light! Set of 3 100 hour candles. Our Price $14.97 Going Fast! Click here
Hi!
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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