Character Education Programs: We Choose Virtues {A Giveaway!}

Character Building For KidsHow would you like to win a full homeschool character training kit from We Use Virtues?

Check out the bottom of this post to enter!

Here’s a little bit about We Choose Virtues:

Heather McMillan started We Choose Virtues out of her love for children and her desire to see them reach their personal potential. As preschool teacher and a children’s pastor, it concerned her how often she came across children whose lack of self control, honesty and perseverance was almost debilitating. How could they succeed in life without the skills that come from good character?

Many grade school teachers she knew admitted that it sometimes takes from September to winter break for their students to follow even the simplest classroom instructions. This crisis in personal character seemed to be obstructing the learning process for their entire classrooms.

As her passion continued to grow, she realized that she wanted to teach children how to change. Not just a momentary change of actions, but a more lasting change in their attitudes as well. Her observation is that children needed to be inspired by simple, positive and consistent instructions, and parents and teachers needed an effective language with which to communicate these instructions.

It was out of this necessity that Heather created the original list of virtues and their unforgettable catchphrases. She used them at home with our four children, taught them in her own Preschool classroom, introduced them to fellow teachers, parents, and professional counselors. They were enthusiastically received and the results were outstanding.

If you’re interested in winning the full homeschool kit, just fill out the information below to enter the giveaway!

There are also a couple of freebies on the We Choose Virtues site that you might guys might be interested it!

Here’s how to get them:

1. Head over to the We Choose Virtues site.

2. Click on “SHOP HOME” and then on “For Homescholers”

3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page where all of the products are listed and you’ll see two freebies: a printable sheet with memory verses, bible heroes and truths & a printable for a family character assessment.

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Avoiding Sibling Rivalry Facebook Party On April 23rd!

Avoiding Sibling Rivalry

Announcing…

The Avoiding Sibling Rivalry Facebook Party!

We will be having a Facebook party on Tuesday, April 23rd at 7pm CST (that’s 5 pm PST, 6 pm MST, and 8 pm EST) over on the Blessed Beyond a Doubt Facebook page!

Questions surrounding this topic are some of the most frequently asked questions during the parenting years. Whether you need encouragement, advice, or would love to share your parenting testimony, we know you will have fun and get lots of great input from others who have walked down the same road!

I have teamed up with 4 other awesome bloggers and the people over at We Choose Virtues to offer you guys some fabulous door prizes during the party AND a chance to win big in the giveaway (that part will be announced during the party!)

I also encourage you to follow the other Avoiding Sibling Rivalry Facebook Party cohosts:

To RSVP for the Facebook party, just enter your information in the form below:

If you’ve never participated in a Facebook party before, check out Jill’s post on How To Participate In A Facebook Party!

I can’t wait to to party with you and glean the some tips on Avoiding Sibling Rivalry!

This promotion is in no way administered, sponsored, or endorsed by, or associated with Facebook.

FREE $10 Credit For School Games & Educational Products!

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WOW! Head over to Educents before April 2nd (can you believe April is just right around the corner?!) and sign up for their newsletter and you will get a FREE $10 credit in your account to use when they officially launch the site!

Educents is a new deal of the day site focused on great deals and discounts for educators!! I am SO thrilled about this new website and I can’t wait to share with all of you the great deals that I’m sure I will find there.

Click here to sign up!

Teaching Children About The Five Senses!

Teching Children About The Five Senses | www.howtohomeschoolforfree.com

We’ve just added a new page of resources for teaching children about the five senses!

There are lots of great resources out there and the five senses is a perfect first unit study for preschool or kindergarten.

You can easily find the five senses unit study page anytime from the navigation bar above when you hover your mouse over the word “Unit Studies”.

Click here to see the unit study!

How To Save Money When Buying Homeschool Curriculum!

How to save money when buying homeschool curriculum!I have a couple of fabulous homeschooling mentors that have helped me out over the years whenever I have had questions about homeschooling or need advice on different potential curriculum options.

One of those fabulous mentors is my friend Joy Miller over at Five J’s!  If you’ve never checked out her website, I promise it will be worth your time.  🙂

Joy just put up a blog post with a TON of different strategies to save money on homeschool curriculum and it’s definitely a must-read!

Just click the button below to read it:

How To Save Money When Buying Homeschool Curriculum!

Shepherding A Child’s Heart Just $1.99 On Kindle!!

Shepherding A Child's Heart

WOW!  Right now in the Amazon Kindle Store you can get Shepherding A Child’s Heart for just $1.99!!

This book was one of the first ones we read as new parents and I thought there were so many great pieces of wisdom in it.

You do not need an Amazon Kindle in order to read these free Kindle books. You can download it to your Smartphone, PC, Mac, iPod, or iPad or read it directly from your browser in the Kindle Cloud Reader as well!

NOTE:  Amazon prices changes (sometimes drastically) throughout the day so I can make no guarantees that the price above will be the same price when you click over to Amazon.

(Thanks, Blessed Beyond A Doubt!)

Today’s FREE Educational Books for Kindle (& Kindle Apps) 2/27/13!

Here is a Round-up of several great Free Educational Books for your Amazon Kindle or Kindle Reading App!

Be sure to check out all of the CK-12 Textbooks that you can download to your Kindle or Kindle App completely free too!

And if you are looking for free cookbooks be sure to also check out our round-up of free Kindle Cookbooks!

You do not need an Amazon Kindle in order to read these free Kindle books. You can download it to your Smartphone, PC, Mac, iPod, or iPad or read it directly from your browser in the Kindle Cloud Reader as well!

Anne series by Lisa Maud MontgomeryFEATURED BOOK SET: Get 8 of the Anne books by Lisa Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, etc.) PLUS an additional 3 books by Lisa Maud Montgomery for just 99¢!

Here are the books that are included: Anne of Green Gables (1908), Anne of Avonlea (1909), Anne of the Island (1915), Anne’s House of Dreams (1917), Rainbow Valley (1919), Rilla of Ingleside (1921), Chronicles of Avonlea (1912), Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920), The Story Girl (1911), The Golden Road (Sequel to The Story Girl, 1913), and Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)

Charlotte Mason Home SchoolingFEATURED BOOK SET: All SIX of Charlotte Mason’s Original Home Schooling Series books for just 99¢ (print list price of $58.95)!

This is Charlotte’s Original Homeschooling Series – all 6 volumes. This edition comes equipped with active table of contents. May Charlotte’s words continue to inspire all who teach “for the children’s sake.”

FYI,you can also read the whole Charlotte Mason series for free in HTML format on the Ambleside Online website!

GA Henty BooksFEATURED BOOKS: ALL of the G.A. Henty books for FREE! These have been free in Google Books for a while but are now updated to read on the Kindle or Kindle Apps.

G.A. Henty (1832-1902) was a prolific author and journalist in the 19th century. Drawing on his experience and knowledge as a war correspondent, Henty was a master of weaving history into his fictional stories about courageous young men living in difficult times marked by military conflict. His stories provide insight into some of the greatest conflicts of history while introducing the reader to characters that embodied the values of integrity, duty and virtue. While aimed at older children and teens, even adults will enjoy his writings.

NOTE:  All of the books below are FREE at the time of posting, but many times they will go back to their normal prices the next day (or even within a few hours).

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Art:

Creative Writing:

Animals:

English & Foreign Language:

Sports & Games:

History, Geography & Culture:

Math:

Technology:

Biographies:

Classic Literature:

Fiction:

 

FIVE eBooks On Homeschooling For Just $7.40!

BundleoftheWeek.com, 5 eBooks for $7.40!

I recently found out about these Bundle Of The Week eBook deals that are being offered by quality bloggers and eBook writers from across the web.

Each week there’s a different bundle available (they’ve had bundles for organizing, natural living, etc.) and this week’s bundle is for HOMESCHOOLING!

For just $7.40 you can get five different eBooks, and if you bought each of these separately it would be WAY more than $7.40. In fact, the You Can Do It Too book (with homeschooling stories from 25 families) is regularly $9.99 just for the one book!

Here are all 5 of the books you get in the bundle:

  • You Can Do It Too! compiled by Lorilee Lippincott
  • Homeschooling by the Numbers by Angie Kauffman
  • So, You Think You Wanna Homeschool? by Tiffany Manley
  • Simply Homeschool by Karen DeBeus
  • ABC’s of Eclectic Homeschool by Amber Oliver

Click here for more info and to buy the bundle!  >>

Disclosure: I always use affiliate links where they are available and the bundle of the week has an affiliate program!

One Year Subscription to Reading Eggs Just $30!!

Reading Eggs Deal on ZulilyAs you guys know from the name of the website, we do A LOT of our homeschool subjects completely free through resources online and free kindle books.

But there’s one website that we actually bought a subscription to a couple of months ago called Reading Eggs and, in my opinion, it is worth every penny!

If you’re looking for an all-inclusive program to teach phonics and sight words to your kids, or just something to add on to what you are currently using then Reading Eggs would work well for either of those.

This morning my friend Mara from Kosher On A Budget (who is also a homeschooler and knows how much I love Reading Eggs) sent me an email letting me know that right now you can get a 1 year subscription to Reading Eggs for just $29.99 on Zulily (regularly $75!)

Zulily is one of my favorite daily deal sites and I post deals from Zulily all the time over on Surviving The Stores, so I was excited to see that there was something that I could post here on How To Homeschool For Free today!

One word of caution when heading over to the Zulily website though… sometimes the deals are for lingerie and the images might not be images that you want your children viewing.  So when heading over to Zulily (or really any of the daily deal websites) you might not want your little ones sitting right next to you.

Click here to see the deal on Zulily! >>

(You’ll need to sign up first and then scroll down to see the Reading Eggs deal.)

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links because Zulily is awesome and rewards people for recommending them.  After you sign up for Zulily, be sure to click on the banner that shows how you can earn credit for referring people to Zulily too!

FREE President’s Day Printable Worksheets!

Download eight different FREE Presidents Day worksheets for the elementary grades!!



I thought I would share with everyone what we are using today to learn about the two presidents that we honor on President’s Day!

I created printable fact & famous quote sheets to go over with my oldest two (10 and 7) on Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, a fact match sheet for them to match the facts with the correct president, a quote match sheet to match the quote with the president who said it (it will just be my oldest doing this one), and some sheets to print out for copy work with a few of my favorite quotes from each of the presidents!

If you would also like some simple worksheets to go over with your kids today (or any day!) then you can download all of them when you add your email address to the How To Homeschool For Free newsletter.

It’s completely FREE and you’ll get a maximum of one email per day with the latest homeschool freebies. 🙂

Once you enter your email address, just check your email for the activation link so that you can get the printable pack!

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