Freebies

I love freebies if you can't tell and I got some great links in my email to day that I had to share.

Old Schoolhouse magazine has freebies every week.  You can find this weeks at the link.  I signed up for the free dvd for America, the Story of US.  I will be using it this fall.  She has some other interesting ones also.

 Homeschool Freebie of the day has a great freebie of a Banned golden book.  It was banned because it was considered to dangerous for the target group.  Definately need adult supervision with this one.  Sign up for your one weekly newletter that tells all the great offers this wonderful site offers everyday.   

Great Weekend

I had a great weekend How about you?  I spent Saturday participating in the Dewey Read-a-thon.  although I didn't do the entire 24 hours I did do 16 hours.  Check out my other blog to see hour by hour updates.  I had a blast.

I got something in my email that I thought others of you may be interested in especially if you want to spice up your history lessons a bit.  Head over ot Learning Through History and sign up for their free newsletter.  They will send you a FREE mini unit every month and it is always interesting.  This month's is on aviation expecially Charles Lindberg and Amerlia Earhart.  They have archives you can check out too.

Hope everyone has a great day!!

Thankful Thursday

I am thankful today for the internet.  Without the internet, we would have not been able to homeschool our children.  I am thankful for all the free resources that have been made avavilable through the internet that have enabled us to school our children and not gone completely broke.

One such resource that I just came across in my email today from Clickschooling.com's newsletter (which is a great resource in itself) was  The Literate Mother. This site gives ratings on books that your children may want to read.  They rate on sex, violence, language and adult themes. 

For alot of homeschool  freebies check out The Old Schoolhouse Magazines Freebie Directory.  There is something for everyone. 

Meet The newest member of the family!!!

My daughter has been wanting a dog for quite some time but we were not certain that she could handle the responsibility so my hubby took her to the Humane League and this is the adorable kitty that she picked out as we figure cats are a little bit less responsiblity.  We will see how she handles the cat then we will be looking at dobs probably at the end of the year.  We didn't bring her home as she hasn't been spayed yet.  We will pick her up on Tuesday.  Hannah hasn't named her yet.  She is about 3 years old and very affectionate.

My hubby will be home this weekend which will be nice.  It is lonely when he is away.

Some homeschool freebies that I came across today  are Free world U which is a free curriculm that uses flashcards to help your students remeber what they are learning.  Looks interesting what I saw of it.  

Tin Can Knitting looks like an interesting way to knit and looks perfect for teen age girls.

Hands of a Child  is offering a free lapbook package about the First Ladies.  

I received some links that are new to me for free audio books.  These are all classics.  I have found that sometimes when I have a difficult time reading a book i can listen to it and find it very enjoyable.  These are all done by volunteers so are not profession but most of them are very good. 

http://thoughtaudio.com/

http://www.ejunto.org/

http://librivox.org/

   

Stuff that was in my email today.

First of all I spent the last hour designing a button for this blog so if you would like to grab it you can find it on the left sidebar.  It was really easy once I got the hang of it.  Here is the blog that I got the instructions for the button.

Econobusters has freebies listed every Friday. Today you can sign up for a free calendar from Pillsbury, get a flash drive and a tote bag  just to name a fe of the frebies listed.   As you probably can tell by my blog I love free stuff.

Here is a free Christmas customs lap book and here is another Christmas Symbols lapbook.

This is a link to a Christmas Scripture quiz.  Test your knowledge about what Scripture really says.

Click Here for a free downloadable Advent Calendar with different activites for you and your family to do each day.

This  a Lapbook about Christmas around the world.

Learnoutloud.com offers a free audio book each month. This month is A Christmas Carol and they are also letting you download last months book on poetry for this week only.