Notebooking Pages NEW Mom’s Home Journal and Membership Site

Mom’s Home Journal & 1-year Membership Site

$15.95  $12.95, Save: 19% off

For a limited time, Notebooking Pages is offering Mom’s Home Journal (pdf) & 1-year Membership Site for $12.95.  The membership site is not yet available.  Once it opens (mid-July 2010), the price for both will be $15.95.

Mom’s Home Journal for ALL seasons (pdf file) helps you get a grip on all the areas of your life before they get a grip on you!  Beautiful artwork for each season breathes new life into your journal (or journals!) every three months.

Your purchase of Mom’s Home Journal also comes with a one-year membership to the Mom’s Home Journal membership site.  Each month, there will be an update to the site with new and updated forms, templates, themes, etc.  [Membership site due to open mid-July 2010.]

So what’s included in the journal? . . . so far:

• beautiful cover & spines for each season
• emergency & contact info pages
• year at-a-glance, week-at-a-glance, and other “at-a-glance” planning pages
• divider pages (could also be used as cover pages for individual journals – like a recipe book) for each season
• calendars for July 2010 – June 2011 (eight styles for each month)
• lists: shopping, gift planning, goal setting  for each season
• a variety of to-do list pages  for each season
• household forms for menu planning, housecleaning, & financial work  for each season
• pages to build and plan your routines  for each season
• a variety of journaling pages (some with “notebooking flair”)  for each season

Take a look at a full sample of our fall themed set:  Click Here 

     

Math Score Special Promotion

I’ve already posted about how pleased I was with how effective using mathscore.com has been for my guys and how much they have enjoyed using it – not only for the motivation of moving up to the next level, but also for the feeling of accomplishment after achieving mastery of certain skills.

There is a special price event going on right now at mathscore.com. When you purchase a subscription, which is normally priced at $14.95 per month, your first child will only pay the subscription price of $5.95 per month.

Use this link for mathscore.com to receive this special price. This discount will be a permanent price once you make your initial purchase.

TOS Homeschool Crew Awards and My Favorites

Well, I’ve completed my last review for the TOS Homeschool Crew. And what a year it was! I had the opportunity to try out many different kinds of curriculum – some, a great fit for our family, and others, an experiment in what does not work so well for us.

TOS Crew members voted on the different curriculum from the past year for their favorites in a long list of categories.  Here is the list with the links to those winners. You may find them helpbul in making decisions for your curriculum!

Favorite Language Arts Product : Educational Diagnostic Prescriptive Services (EDUDPS)

Favorite History Product :Bright Ideas Press (All American History and Mystery of History)

Favorite Science Product:Nature Friend Magazine

Favorite Math Product: Math Mammoth

Favorite Online Math Product: Mathletics

Favorite Handwriting Product: Zeezok Publishing (Presidential Penmanship)

Favorite Fine Arts Product (art, music, etc.): Artistic Pursuits

Favorite Pre-school Product: Time 4 Learning

Favorite Elementary Product: Critical Thinking

Favorite Upper-Grade Product: Professor in a Box

Favorite College Prep Product: Cerebellum/Standard Diviants

Favorite Special Needs Product: Super Star Speech

Favorite Health and Beauty Product: Virginia Soaps and Scents

Favorite Christian Product: Grapevine Studies

Best Resource I Didn’t Know I Needed: StudyPod

Best Homemaking Product: Sue Gregg Cookbooks

Best Customer Service: Great Software Tools

Best Online Resource: ABCteach

Best e-product: Growing Healthy Homes: Nutrition 101

Best Office and Technology Resource: Web Design for Kids (and Curious Grown-Ups)

Best Homeschool Resource:Apologia Press: The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling

Best Map Resource: Home School in the Woods

Best Book, Novel or Magazine: Sarah’s Books

Best Children’s Book: Children’s Bible Hour: Season’s of Faith Series

Best Hands-On Resource: A Journey Through Learning Lapbooks

Most Adaptable Resource: Sue Patrick Workbox System

Most Unique Resource: Lobster Network

Most Family-Oriented Product: Family Mint

Kid’s Choice: Maverick Books: Hank the Cowdog Series

All Around Crew Favorite: All About Spelling (All About Reading)

My Favorites and My Boys’ Favorites

We did not receive all of the products reviewed by the Crew, so I cannot give an opinion on some of the winners listed above. I can share with you a seconded opinion on some of these products where we agreed with the consensus.

Our favorites from the above list:

All About Spelling

Web Design for Kids DVD

Standard Deviants DVD for AP prep

Virginia Soaps and Scents

Homeschool in the Woods

Apologia Press: The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling

Our Favorites that did not make the list

Mathscore.com – For the math program, of which there were many that we reviewed, we liked and worked best with Mathscore.com. This program did not have distracting bells and whistles, but kept my guys focused on learning, practicing, and mastering the math concept on which they were working. The mastery level is 100%, so there was no question in my mind that my guys knew what were they were doing when they achieved mastery in that concept. My guys felt proud of what they had accomplished as they moved to higher levels upon achieving 100%.

I saw the most improvement in their math skills with this program than the others we reviewed this year. With other programs that had a lot of games and were fun for them to play, they got so wrapped up in winning the game or playing the game, they were not focused on the skills and they did not feel like they had learned something new. Mathscore really provided them with the feeling of having accomplished and learned something.

Visit mathscore.com to see what their homeschool version can do for your family and try a free trial.

Our favorite science resource was the Christian Kids Explore Physics book we used. This book gave a good succinct explanation of the concept with review questions and a practical experiment to “see” the concept we just finished reading. Check out this science program and others at Bright Ideas Press.

Well, that’s all for now and for the TOS Homeschool Crew reviews. I am presently working on other projects for the future, as well as homeschooling my guys and entering into the High School phase. Look here for major announcements of my current projects in the near future! I am very excited about them and hope you will be too!

I will also be completing the series I started about learning styles, now that I’ll have more time for my personal posts. So, I hope you will come back and read about these!

Talk with you soon! And, thanks for following my reviews!