Monday, July 21, 2014

The Build Your Bundle Homeschool Edition Sale begins TODAY!

The homeschool web world has been abuzz for weeks, and now the day of unveiling has arrived... the Build Your Bundle Homeschool Edition Sale starts TODAY!! This sale runs one week only (7/21-7/28), so check out the deals and nab yours today! We are big on Charlotte Mason education in our home so I am highlighting that one here, but check out ALL the bundles to find one that's right for you and your homeschool (links below). You can't beat these prices!

The "Build Your Bundle" - Homeschool Edition sale is going on for one week only (July 21-28)! There are so many wonderful products and amazing deals! We are highlighting the Charlotte Mason Bundle below.

Take a look at the Charlotte Mason Bundle:
Build Your Bundle - Homeschool Edition Sale: July 21-28 Save up to 92% on Popular Homeschooling Curriculum, Many from Cathy Duffy's Top 100 Picks!
$377.35 ONLY $49.00 Save: 87%
Amazing things await you in our Charlotte Mason Bundle! This bundle features a complete curriculum using the Charlotte Mason Methods for language arts, handwriting, and reading, a full geography curriculum, a plethora of resources for studying nature, artists, poetry, and a variety of "extras" just for mom! Learn all about Charlotte Mason and enjoy a special bonus (a $90 value all by itself)—the top 5 best selling G.A. Henty audio books from Jim Hodges Productions. This bundle is jam packed full of amazing resources your family will love!

Buy more & save more! Purchase 2 pre-assembled bundles and get the 3rd one 50% off! See site for details.

Checkout the items in the Charlotte Mason Bundle:

Build Your Bundle - Homeschool Edition Sale: July 21-28 Save up to 92% on Popular Homeschooling Curriculum, Many from Cathy Duffy's Top 100 Picks!

Write from History - Retail $22.95

With modern writing programs, children's weaknesses often overshadow their strengths, but with the Charlotte Mason Method of teaching your children to write all those frustrations will fly out the window. The Write from History series teaches children to write via the Charlotte Mason Method, children find writing to be easy and even fun. And when they are asked to put the various writing skills together, they do so easily and naturally.

Write from History is an easy and effective way to teach writing, supplement history, and reinforce proper handwriting.

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Sheldon's NEW Primary Language Lessons - Retail $14.95

Sheldon's New Primary Language Lessons is a beginning grammar workbook for students learning the 8 parts of speech and the fundamentals of sentence and paragraph writing. This language arts curriculum is a gentle introduction to grammar and composition for students in the elementary grades. Writing exercises are in cursive and print.

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50 States and Where to Find Them - Retail $30.00

50 States and Where to Find Them teaches children the states and capitals region by region through mapping exercises and quality literature. Children fill out a map of the region as they learn about each state. State lessons include historical information about the state and coloring pages of the state flower, state bird, and state flag. Each region wraps up with a crossword puzzle, a word search, and a bonus lesson pertaining to the region.

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The Charlotte Mason Way Explained - Retail $6.99

The Charlotte Mason Way Explained ebook consist of 30 chapters, 53 pages written by a veteran home educating mother of four, who has used the Charlotte Mason way to teach her children from preschool through high school. Practical insights of how to simply implement each of Charlotte Mason methods into today's homeschool, a reader will gain inspiration, clarity and focus on their own homeschooling journey.

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Recommended for you and found at this price only at the
Build Your Bundle - Homeschool Edition Sale
in the Premium Products Section:

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*Not included in the Charlotte Mason Bundle, available for purchase individually at 60% off.

Build Your Bundle - Homeschool Edition Sale: July 21-28 Save up to 92% on Popular Homeschooling Curriculum, Many from Cathy Duffy's Top 100 Picks!

Handwriting - Webster's Syllabary with Phonics - Retail $15.00

This first book in the Handwriting Lessons Through Literature program teaches cursive handwriting through Webster's syllabary and seventy-five phonograms. Students also learn capital letters and numbers 1-100. Included in this file are both a vertical and a slant cursive workbook, each with its own unique set of writing instructions.

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Fine Art Pages Collection 1 - Retail $14.95

This fabulous artist study program that will aid you in studying famous paintings plus information about each work and the artist.In addition to the art pages, you will also receive some practical tips and suggestions about how to utilize the Fine Art Pages and get the most out of them for both you and your students.

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Reading Lessons through Literature - Retail $25.00

Reading Lessons through Literature is a pick-up and go Orton phonogram reading program organized around the stories in The Elson Readers. Like other Orton phonogram programs, it focuses on teaching reading through spelling. First children learn the basic phonograms. Then they begin writing their spelling words, analyzing them, and reading them for practice. And finally, they begin to read stories which include the words they've learned. RLTL teaches 75 basic phonograms.

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Level 3 Old Testament Overview Part 1 - Retail $28.00

On this trail Bible students will learn about the Creation, the Promises God made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and much more. Along the path they will also learn basic Bible geography through mapping exercises.

Students will draw the timeline, identify biblical locations on a map, and recite memory verses and important facts from the Bible. Students who take this trail will be able to identify the people and places of the Bible!

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Jim Hodges Audio Books - Retail $90.00

Download the top 5 G.A. Henty Audio Books of all time! These exciting, historically accurate, uplifting stories in complete, unabridged recordings by Jim Hodges Productions will have your children begging for more! The titles include: With Lee in Virginia, In Freedom's Cause, Beric the Briton, For the Temple, and Winning His Spurs.

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Notebooking Pages: Trees & Plants - Retail $11.90

The Plants & Trees Basic Study contains 49 notebooking pages includes diagrams and pages designed to complement your child's basic study of plants and trees. Also included is Trees of North America, 344+ notebooking pages covers 43 of North America's trees. Wonderful coloring pages, choice of primary or regular lines, and a variety of layouts are included for each tree in this set.

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Notebooking Pages: Complete Birds Set - Retail $23.80

This is the entire collection of nature study birds notebooking sets! You will be amazed at all of the pages you will get in this bundle! This bundled purchase includes: All About Birds Basic Study Notebooking Pages, Birds of the World Notebooking Pages, North American Birds Notebooking Pages, and Tropical Birds Notebooking Pages.

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Notebooking Pages: Wildflowers, Weeds, and Garden Flowers - Retail $12.95

This set was created to compliment a nature study of flowers using the Handbook of Nature Study, by Anna Botsford Comstock. There are 8 designed notebooking pages for each Wildflower, Weed, & Garden Flower named in this study (over 45 plants in all!). Included are both regular-lined and primary-lined so they will work for all ages.

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NaturExplorers Fruit & Nuts - Retail $8.95

This unit will not only have you observing and examining fruits and nuts, you will learn to observe insect and animal behavior, watch for the effects of disease or weather on plants and be challenged to create meals, make models, create history reports and so much more!

Also included is a slight focus on the Fruits of the Spirit in the Bible section with additional book, music and activity ideas to follow through with Biblical character training. This is a well-rounded unit chock-full of lessons to fit every academic area!

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Words With Wings - Retail $39

Introducing Words With Wings, an exciting new poetry curriculum and contest for kids. Each monthly lesson includes the simple explanation of a fun poetry form and poetic devices, a writing prompt, examples from the Words With Wings poets, easy 'how-to' tips, and samples from famous poets.

Bible verses are woven through each lesson in a relevant way that inspires a love of language, as well an understanding of the language of His love.

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Discipleship: A Character Curriculum Using Scriptures - Retail $14.95

Discipleship: A Character Curriculum Using Scripture is a one, two or three year curriculum geared toward children who are learning to write and all the way to a high school curriculum. Each year curriculum has assignments for a 5 day week, however if you desire to take longer with this curriculum, just turn it into whatever year curriculum works for your own family!

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Because I Said So - a Biblical Study of Obedience - Retail $4.99

This is a brand new 26 page Bible study that teaches HOW and WHY we should obey through scripture and study of biblical people who struggled with the issue of obedience. Also included is a bonus hymn study on the beloved hymn, Trust and Obey. The study is perfect for family devotions, quiet time or homeschool Bible class!

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When I Survey - a Hymnological Journey to the Cross - Retail $4.99

When I Survey is a 12-day hymnological journey to the cross. Students and families will dig into the Bible and then support their learning with the study of a hymn. This study will empower you to set truth deep into the hearts of your children in a simple and easy way!

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Breakfast Stations Pack - Retail $2.99

This pack is just what every busy mom needs. You'll find 60+ days of breakfasts that your kids can make themselves in less than 3 minutes. They are healthy, fast, easy, and best of all...FRUGAL!

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How to Build a Strong Christian Home - Retail $4.99

Most of us love our families very much but we struggle in so many different ways, and sometimes we just need a little help and guidance to become the family we know the Lord wants us to become. Our families are a blessing and worth the patience, love, and time to invest in building a strong Christian home for God's glory and we can do this one step at a time.

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Build Your Bundle - Homeschool Edition Sale - Up to 92% Off!
Build Your Bundle - Homeschool Edition Sale - Up to 92% Off!
Build Your Bundle - Homeschool Edition Sale - Up to 92% Off!
Build Your Bundle - Homeschool Edition Sale - Up to 92% Off!
Build Your Bundle - Homeschool Edition Sale - Up to 92% Off!
Build Your Bundle - Homeschool Edition Sale - Up to 92% Off!

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

He Keeps My Eyes Above the Waves




Rough morning for this one, but when tempers relax and tantrums release these are the sweetest moments. I think this is precisely what we look like when we finally stop fighting and surrender to the Lord's will.






It's a new kind of busy around here as we adjust to having another tiny one in our home. Mornings are lazy, errands are few, and there are many many hours spent playing indoors (kids -- since it's been pretty rainy in Iowa the last several weeks!) and sitting on the couch snuggling & nursing the littlest (mom). It's in this quiet busyness that I am able to reflect on God's goodness and offer my constant gratitude for the helping hands of our wonderful family! (Have I ever mentioned how great it is to have our families living so close to us? Seriously. I have no idea how people do life with little ones without help! God bless you if you do it. 1000x more if you do it well.)

However, in the last few weeks before our precious baby girl arrived, tensions were mounting in even the smallest persons in our household. I think everyone could sense things were about to change... Restlessness ensued, patience wore thin, tempers flared. But God is good. In the midst of tumult, He speaks peace. Calms stirring emotions. Quiets restless hearts. And it is when we look to Him, eyes longing; strain our ears to hear His still, small voice. Then we see Him -- His piercing fixed gaze carefully watching. We hear Him -- His whispers wash over us bringing the deepest peace we'll ever know.

Mark 4:35-41 tells of this same phenomenon in the lives of the twelve disciples. It is a familiar story to most of us, but read it again today as though you've never before seen the words. Let the Holy Spirit breathe fresh life into it. 
On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side.' Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, "Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?"
Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?” And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!”
Be encouraged today that in whatever storm you are facing, you are not alone (Deuteronomy 31:6). Though is seems God is not watching, He is (Psalm 121:5). His clear vision for you cannot be clouded (Jeremiah 29:10-14). His loving words of wisdom can cut through any clamoring noise (Hebrews 4:12). His presence brings peace where there is longing (Philippians 4:6-7).



"My soul will rest in Your embrace." -Oceans, Hillsong United