Cicadas Express Lapbook Review

During our nature walk one afternoon we discovered several cicada shells on our trees.

We headed to the internet to find out more and ran across this unit study/lapbook. This inexpensive resource was filled with all information that we needed to learn more about these odd creatures!

If you are new to lapbooks, have no fear. Helpful links as well as photos are included to help you understand how they are put together. The download has everything that you need to get started. Lapbook pieces, background information, as well as fun internet links for hands on fun are all at your fingertips! You can add in other resources if you want to but it's great on it's on! Great value! We enjoyed this product and will look for more of these products to enhance our unit studies.

Infinity Permanent Markers from The Write Dudes

We love to craft with markers so when we were sent two packs of Infinity Permanent Markers from The Write Dudes we could not wait to put them to use! They came at a great time! We were just starting to work on a booth for the library to enter in the local fair. These markers helped to make our project fun! They worked on a variety of surfaces. We used them on a wooden sign:

We also used them to color in the vines and leaves on our banner made from a drop cloth

My daughters are also putting them to use ona variey of paper crafts on a daily basis!

These markers are bold, bright and fit nicely in your hand. As you can see they write well on a variety of surfaces! No crafty home should be with a least on set of these markers! Give them a try today, you will not be disappointed.

The markers are sold at department stores, crafts store and online!

Autumn Leaves! Mini Science Project

This is a simple experiment with a great visual of why and how leaves change colors. I loved the fact that this product is simple to use and easy to implement. This items that you need are common household items! Just alcohol and coffee filters! Fun and educational, can't get better than that!

If you want to give it a try click here!

You can see the green climbing up the coffee filter here!

Spirituality for Kids Review

As a homeschool mom character training is an important topic that we cover daily. We talk about how we should live our lives and the way that we should treat others. Children learn by example and I try to surround them with people that feel the same way that we do. We also use character training materials to supplement every day live experiences. Some times it is hard to find character training curriculum that is easy to implement as well as engaging to my children. I was excited to give Spirituality for Kids a try.

Spirituality for Kids is broken down in to 12 weekly lessons. They follow a young boy who has been transported into a video game called The Game of Life. In the game he learns how is choice effect him as well as the other around him. the website includes a pdf workbook with activities and journal ideas to complete after each lesson. Best of all this website is free to use. It is very easy to incorporate and involves very little teacher planning. Those are important facts to this busy homeschool mom. Give this a try today and see how you and your children enjoy it.

Learning Across the USA by Kathy Hutto review Currclick Challenge

This year we are learning all about the United States. We plan to read across america, reading aloud a book set in each of the 50 states. As we finish our read aloud we research the state using these great notebooking pages. I love the fact that they print in black and white, saving on ink, and allowing the child to add their own color to the pages. This download also included a blank map that we color in as we "visit" the state. Some other neat features in this product include a travel ticket to print, bird and flag coloring pages, and a review game. This would work well to teach to a group of students or just to use in a home setting as we are.

This is our notebook with our tickets to Flordia! Daddy read a book set in GA and in Florida to us each night. It was called Defeat of the Ghost Riders: Mary McCloud Bethune (Trailblazer Books #23. One neat thing about this book was that part of it was set in our home town of Statesboro, Ga.

We look forward to using this resource as we Read Across America!

Knowledge Box Central Kit American Girl Lapbook Review and Giveaway

The girls have been attending the American girl club on Currclick.com. The club has been reading through the Kit series. We decided to wrap up our study with this awesome lapbook from Knowledge Box Central.

We are not new to lapbooking, but if you are she explains how to put the booklets together very well! A picture of the completed laabook is included for visual people like me. That takes the guess work out of where to place things. So much is covered in these templates history, copy work, character, vocabulary and much more.

We have used several Knowledge Box Central products in the past in our homeschool. This definitely will not be the last! Now the girls have a special keepsake to show others what they have learned and can look back over the material anytime they want.

Customer service at Knowledge box central is amazing. They are always quick to rely to any question that you might have. They are so kind and really have a heart for homeschool families!

Knowledge box central carries many lapbooks for the American Girl Series and well as many other topics of study. Check them out today you will not be disappointed.Customer service at Knowledge box central is amazing. They are always quick to rely to any question that you might have. They are so kind and really have a heart for homeschool families! They have given me a copy of this lapbook to give away to a lucky reader. Enter below for your chance to win! The contest to run through Sept. 12th winner will be announced Sept. 13th

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365 Days of Pinterest Day 7

Pinterest has so many fun ideas! We have tried some but I really want to try more!

We are taking the 365 DAYS OF PINTEREST Challenge from Almost Super Mom!

Today this serves double duty! We are working our way though saved items and review items in our Currclick.com account.

We volunteer for a program with our local library that requires us to type review for books. My girls have a hard time coming up with what to say at times. This great little poster serves as a great reminder! We posted in in our school room above our white board.

This colorful poster will help kids as they write book reports or work on other writing assignments. Sometimes it's hard to get started on a topic and even harder to stay on task. This is a cute way to post a visual solution to that problem! To top if off it's FREE! Can't be that! Give it a try today!