New Product: Countries of the World Notebooking Pages

New Product: Countries of the World Notebooking Pages

Hello!

I wanted to tell you about a new product that I just added to my Currclick store.  It is called Countries of the World Notebooking Pages.  It is similar to my Windows on the World Notebooking Pages, but without the book-specific boxes.  Countries of the World Notebooking Pages includes a notebooking pages for each sovereign nation in the world, as well as the territories and disputed locations.  There are also pages included for the seven continents. 

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Countries of the World Notebooking Pages is available for $3.00 at Crestview Heights Academy on Currclick.  If you use this link, you can get this set of notebooking pages for only $2.50 until May 27, 2012.  I am also having a 20% sale on the rest of my items until midnight tonight.

Nature Study: Bald Eagles

Nature Study: Bald Eagles

Our family LOVES bald eagles.  We once saw one on the way to church and the kids were fascinated.  Last year there was an organization that placed a camera near a bald eagle nest in Iowa.  My kids would watch it for hours, waiting for the parents to come back and feed the babies.  There is a nest in Minnesota that has a live cam this year.  You can find it by going here.

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If you want some activities to go along with your viewing, here are a few eagle items available from various publishers on Currclick:

And here are some freebies I found for us to use:

I hope you enjoy seeing the eagles as much as we have.  If you check them out, I’d love to hear what your kids thought. Smile

We Have a Winner!!!

We Have a Winner!!!

We have a winner!

Congratulations to Holly Boone who wrote comment number 15!  Holly, please contact me at crestviewheightsacademy@gmail.com and I will get those right out to you!  I hope you enjoy them.

 

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Thank you everyone for all of your wonderful comments!  I am excited to get to work on some new products.  I didn’t reply to comments individually because that would have skewed the contest, but I really do appreciate them.  Smile  If you didn’t win and are still interested in a product, I am having a sale in my store on Currclick.com until next Friday (May 11, 2012).

 

 

 

Crestview Heights Academy Buy the Store Giveaway!!

Crestview Heights Academy Buy the Store Giveaway!!

Hello!

If you get emails about my new posts you probably got one earlier with a bunch of html gibberish in it.  Sorry!  Smile  I was attempting to create a giveaway post and it just wasn’t working out.  I wanted to use a raffle widget and apparently it doesn’t like wordpress.  I didn’t realize it was going to send it out to everyone already!

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I am having my very first giveaway on my blog!  I will be giving away one “Buy the Store” from Crestview Heights Academy.  You will receive a pdf download of each item by email after the winner is chosen.  Here is what is included in “Buy the Store”:


Animal Matching Cards
Regular price: $1.50
Bundle price: $1.25

This Montessori-inspired product can be used to teach reading and Science with Montessori methods.  The cards also work great for workboxes and lapbooks.   Included are nomenclature (picture matching) cards for 88 different animals.  There are also cards so students can sort animals by various criteria, such as domestic/wild or by invertebrate/vertebrate.  An answer key is included for the sorting activities.


Animal Names Sort
Regular price: $0.60
Bundle price: $0.50

This set of cards teaches vocabulary in a hands-on way.  This set includes 35 card sets that name an animal and give the word for the male, female, and baby of each species.  A control card for each set is also included in the style of Montessori lessons so that the cards can be self correcting.  These cards also work great for games and workbox activities and make a wonderful addition to lapbooks.


Autumn Matching Cards
Regular price: $1.50
Bundle price: $0.75

This Montessori-inspired product can be used to teach reading with Montessori methods.  The cards also work great for workboxes and lapbooks.   Included are nomenclature cards for 40 different Autumn vocabulary words.  Print them on cardstock for durability.


Autumn Notebooking Pages Freebie
Regular price: $0.00
Bundle price: $0.00

This free eBook includes 38 Autumn-themed notebook pages in two styles.


Books of the Bible Notebooking Pages
Regular price: $0.50
Bundle price: $0.25

These notebooking pages were designed to help students understand the Bible by giving them an overview of each book.  There is a page for each book with places to write information about the writer, title, main people, main events, and timeline.


Christmas and Winter Matching Cards
Regular price: $1.50
Bundle price: $1.00

This Montessori-inspired product can be used to teach reading with Montessori methods.  The cards also work great for workboxes and lapbooks.   Included are nomenclature cards for 60 different Christmas and winter vocabulary words.  Print them on cardstock for durability.


Christmas and Winter Notebooking Pages Freebie
Regular price: $0.00
Bundle price: $0.00

This free eBook includes 59 Christmas and Winter themed notebook pages in two styles.


Countries of the World Nomenclature
Regular price: $2.50
Bundle price: $1.25

This Montessori-inspired product can be used to teach reading with Montessori methods.  The cards also work great for workboxes and lapbooks.   Included are nomenclature cards for 30 different countries from around the world.  Print them on cardstock for durability.


Elements of Design Notebooking Pages
Regular price: $0.50
Bundle price: $0.25

These notebooking pages were designed to give students an overview of the 7 elements of design.  There is a page for each element (two pages for color) with places for students to draw, color, or write about the various components of the elements of design.


February Matching Cards
Regular price: $1.00
Bundle price: $1.00

This Montessori-inspired product can be used to teach reading with Montessori methods.  The cards also work great for workboxes and lapbooks.   Included are nomenclature cards for 74 different February vocabulary words. Cards are included for Valentine’s Day, President’s Day, Groundhog’s Day, Black History Month, and Dental Health Month.   Print them on cardstock for durability.


How the Bible Came to Us Lapbooking and Notebooking Pages
Regular price: $2.50
Bundle price: $1.25

This eBook includes a collection of lapbook pieces and notebooking pages based on the book “How the Bible Came to Us” by Meryl Doney.  This book is used in My Father’s World for Rome to Reformation.


Learning Folders
Regular price: $3.00
Bundle price: $1.50

Learning folders are part personal dictionary, part almanac, and part encyclopedia.  You can use this eBook to create a personalized learning folder that will meet the needs of each individual child.  This eBook includes a materials list, directions, and learning folder pieces for early childhood, language, math, science, social studies, arts and Bible. 


Nature Study Notebooking Pages
Regular price: $1.50
Bundle price: $1.25

Studying nature is a great activity for any age.  This eBook contains more than 300 pages to help you with your nature study. There are pages for birds, insects, animals, plants-even fossils and rocks. 


Noun Matching Cards
Regular price: $0.50
Bundle price: $0.25

Learning Grammar doesn’t need to be difficult.  This Montessori-inspired product can be used to teach beginning noun skills with Montessori methods.  The cards also work great for workboxes and lapbooks.   Included are two sets of noun matching cards.  The first set is sorted by person, place, or thing and has both word and picture cards.  The second set of cards is sorted by common and proper nouns.  An answer key is included for each of the sorting activities.


Periodic Table of the Elements
Regular price: $1.80
Bundle price: $1.50

Learning the Periodic Table of the Elements can be time consuming and boring!  I created the following activities in order to make this process hands-on and more interesting.  Included in the activities are patterns to make a complete Periodic Table of the Elements in color or black and white, a matching mat and cards for hands-on activities, and several sets of flash cards for memory and matching work.  I have also included instructions with photographs so that you can see how to assemble all of the pieces and samples of the ways that we use these activities in our home. 


Phonics with Ease Level 1
Regular price: $7.00
Bundle price: $3.50

Do you have a student who needs to learn to read but hates to write, making phonics workbooks torture for you both?  Or do you have a right-brained learner that needs a little color to help them remember?  Or maybe you just want learning phonics to be more fun?  This could be just the phonics curriculum you have been looking for! This eBook has over 300 pages of hands-on materials and games to help your student learn the short vowel words with no writing.  Levels two and three are coming soon and will cover consonant blends and digraphs and vowel teams.  

Included are the following:

Colored Word Family Pages

Colored Rime Word Family Cards

Blue Vowel Word Family Cards

Photo Cards

Picture Dictionary

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Phonics with Ease Level 1 BINGO
Regular price: $0.00
Bundle price: $0.00

This is a stand-alone BINGO game to help your student review short vowel words and word families.  It is designed to coordinate with Phonics with Ease Level 1, found in the Crestview Heights Academy Currclick store.


Star Spangled Banner Matching Cards
Regular price: $0.50
Bundle price: $0.25

Oh, Say Can You See!  This collection of matching cards can be used to help your student memorize the Star Spangled Banner.  Included are two types of matching lyrics cards, a control card, a memory sheet, and a worksheet/assessment/notebooking page. 


States and Capitals Matching Cards
Regular price: $1.00
Bundle price: $0.25

This collection of matching cards can be used to create several hands-on activities for learning the states, their capitals, and their postal abbreviations.  Included are all 150 cards in four different sizes, as well as three pocket patterns to use for lapbooks or file folder games. 


The Calendar in Spanish Freebie
Regular price: $0.00
Bundle price: $0.00

This free eBook includes notebooking pages, puzzles, and games to help students learn the days, weeks, and months in Spanish.


The Card Box Chore System
Regular price: $3.00
Bundle price: $2.00

Are chores an issue in your home?  Would you like a system that lets your child be more independent in doing chores as well as a system that grows with your child?  The Chore Box System may be just what you are looking for!

The Chore Box System is based on the cleaning and organizing system for adults, Sidetracked Home Executives (S.H.E.), but is especially created just for kids.

Included are:

Materials list

Detailed irections to set up and use the system

Example photos

Two sets of chore cards: 32 with pictures for non-readers and 44 text-only cards for older children

Divider cards for days of the week, months, and the numbers 1-31

Extra blank cards


This is My City
Regular price: $4.00
Bundle price: $2.00

Let’s study our own back yard!  This eBook includes a huge collection of lapbook pieces and notebooking pages that cover everything from geography, to government, to history-and it’s all about the city you live in.  Learn about the people and events that made your city what it is today.  Discover all that your city has to offer.  Make history, government, and geography personal so your child can relate it to what he or she sees every day. 


Tools Nomenclature
Regular price: $1.50
Bundle price: $0.75

This Montessori-inspired product can be used to teach reading with Montessori methods.  The cards also work great for workboxes and lapbooks.   Included are nomenclature cards for 20 different household tools.  Print them on cardstock for durability.


U.S. Presidents Nomenclature and Picture Matching Cards
Regular price: $1.50
Bundle price: $0.75

This Montessori-inspired product can be used to teach Social Studies with Montessori methods.  The cards also work great for workboxes and lapbooks.   Included are nomenclature (picture matching) cards for all 44 U.S. Presidents.  There are also cards so students can sort the Presidents by various criteria, such as era of service or which died in office.  An answer key is included for the sorting activities.


Verb Matching Cards
Regular price: $0.50
Bundle price: $0.25

Learning Grammar doesn’t need to be difficult.  This Montessori-inspired product can be used to teach beginning verb skills with Montessori methods.  The cards also work great for workboxes and lapbooks.   Included are two sets of verb matching cards.  One set is for regular verbs and the other is for irregular verbs.  The cards are sorted into past, present, and future tense.  An answer key is included for each of the sorting activities.


Window on the World Notebooking Pages
Regular price: $1.00
Bundle price: $0.50

Window on the World is a fantastic book that helps children get an understanding of what God is doing all around the world.  These notebooking pages were created to reinforce students’ learning as they use this book.  There is a page dedicated to each country or people group listed in the book. 

To enter, please leave a comment telling me what subject or theme you would like to see in a hands-on project from Crestview Heights Academy.  I am hoping to get some good ideas for things to make!  Smile

You can get a second entry by doing any of the following:

  • posting to facebook or twitter with a link to the giveaway
  • emailing a friend about the giveaway
  • or “liking” Crestview Heights Academy on facebook

and then leave me a comment telling which one you did

You may have two entries into the contest.  If there are more than two comments from the same user I will delete the extras before choosing a winner. 

Comments will be closed at midnight Central Time on May 3 and a winner will be chosen using random.org on May 4th.

Homeschool Convention Printable Worksheets Freebie

Homeschool Convention Printable Worksheets Freebie

Hello!

I’m sorry I’ve been quiet recently.  Things have been SO busy around here!

I am headed to my homeschool convention this weekend.  I can’t wait!  I have gone to a convention every  year since we first began  homeschooling.  I enjoy learning new things, looking at all of the wonderful products, and talking to other homeschooling parents.  Usually by this time of year I am tired, the kids are tired, and it is hard to keep pushing through schoolwork.  The convention always reminds me WHY we are doing this and gets me back on track again.

I have a freebie today to help you keep organized during the convention.  Check out Homeschool Convention Worksheets on Currclick.com.

Breaking Yearly Goals Into Smaller Goals

Breaking Yearly Goals Into Smaller Goals

This is another post in a series on planning for your homeschool.  If you missed any of the other posts, you can find them by clicking on the “planning” tab on the menu bar.

This is one of my favorite times of year.  It’s beginning to get warmer, the kids can play outside, the trees are budding-and the brown UPS truck starts making regular visits to our home! Boxes of books are gleefully opened (by the kids, course! Smile)  So what next?

The first thing I do whenever I get a school box is to check the contents against the packing slip and then mark each item off on my curriculum tracking form.  When all of the items have arrived I sort it by child and subject.  Then I use the curriculum as well as our homeschooling vision and goals to set me yearly, semester, and monthly goals for the school year.

The following form is a place to record all of the goals for the year for each subject and child:

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Next, I take the yearly goals and move them onto my semester goal sheet.  I divide the goals into either semester one or two.  Sometimes this means that I divide the goal into two pieces and we do part in each semester.  Some goals will only be covered in one semester or the other.

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Finally, I take the semester goals and record them on my monthly form.  Then I divide the semester goal into manageable monthly goals.  Once again, some goals will be divided evenly among the months and some goals will only be covered in certain months.

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After I have created the goals and divided them by month, I work on dividing the resources by the week.  For some resources we do one chapter a week.  For others I need to divide chapters or pages by how many we need to cover per week in order to complete the resource.  For other subjects I just write down the them for the week.  You can see how I do  this in the example below as well as download the form to use yourself.

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Next time I am going to talk about Homeschool Tracker and how I use it in our homeschool for planning and recording.

Something Big is Coming to Homeschooling!

Something Big is Coming to Homeschooling!

Something Big is Coming to Homeschooling!  If you haven’t already, you need to follow this link to check it out and sign up to receive updates.  This is from the magazine that I am on the review team for and, let me tell you, you are NOT going to want to miss this!

Our Curriculum 2012-2013

Our Curriculum 2012-2013

I received the last package of our homeschool curriculum and supplies this week.  I just LOVE getting all of our new books.  Smile  I know that many people will be doing this closer to August, but since I have everything right here I thought I would show you what we are planning to use next year:

Overall Curriculum:

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Bible and Character:

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Boo:

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Language Arts:

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Buddy:

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Historical Fiction and Nonfiction Readers

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Historical Biographies for: Christopher Columbus, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Boone,

John Smith, John Wesley, William Tyndale, William Penn, George Washington, Meriwether Lewis, and John Adams

Independent Reading List

Math:

Buddy:

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Boo:

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Social Studies:

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Canada Study:

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Shakespeare:

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Literature:

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Family Reading:

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Poetry:

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Picture Study:

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Art:

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Science:

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Health:

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Nutrition

Lifeskills:

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Nature Study:

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