Unionvale HomeSchool

The Lord’s Prayer

unvlkidc — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:37:45 +0000

Today for school time I did copywork. Mom printed out the Lord’s Prayer from the web.. I worked hard to finish the whole project today. I am glad to did.

Working on my copywork

The Finished Book

*** from Mom: He was only assigned the first 2 pages but did all 10 pages today.***

Time 4 Learning D

unvlmom — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:57:35 +0000

I’ve been invited to try Time4Learning for one month in exchange for a candid review. My opinion will be entirely my own, so be sure to come back and read about my experience. Time4Learning can be used as an online homeschooling curriculum, afterschool tutorial or a summer skill builder. Find out how to write your own curriculum review for Time4Learning.

Review: Hands of a Child Notebooking Packs

unvlmom — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:36:27 +0000

If you have spent any time browsing my blog you know I love In the Hands of a Child. We love unit studies and lapbooks, although we haven’t finished the ones we are currently working on. Tonight I want to share with you a newer product from In the Hands of a Child; Notepacks. If you have older students or students that don’t necessarily like the mini books of lapbooks then notebooking is a great alternative. Instead of completing a mini book for the various activities the students write their answers on predesigned notebook pages. The same questions are asked as would be in the lapbook. We have 3 notepacks and I like the flexibility it adds to our lapbooking. Christmas Around the World is our newest notepack and with younger students I found it a great way to work on writing the vocabulary words without worrying too much about the definitions. I also used the notebooking pages as a place for me to write notes and ideas I had for adding to the unit since I already had the Lapbook project pack.

Combining the lapbooks and notebook pages into one is also another option for families and students that want a little variety. If you haven’t tried lapbooking or notebooking from now until January 31, 2011 you can download the current Hands of a Child freebies that include a lapbook project pack as well as a notebook project pack to study any of the great painters. While you are there sign up for the newsletter and download a current copy of the catalog.

Hands of a Child makes hands on learning fun for the whole family!

Rosetta Stone Giveaway at Trivium Pursuits

unvlmom — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:12:52 +0000

Now is the perfect time to give your child the gift of possibilities for the holidays with Rosetta Stone Homeschool — and you can WIN a Level 1 Homeschool program, language of your choice (valued at $249)!

Right now Rosetta Stone is having a special Holiday promotion on our Homeschool Edition program and we’d like you to help spread the word! Everyone can save up to $150 on Rosetta Stone Homeschool by visiting our website at http://www.RosettaStone.com/hsw1110.

By helping us spread the word you can win a Rosetta Stone Homeschool Edition Level 1 program, language of your choice, valued at $249.

This is a computer based curriculum and Rosetta Stone will also include a headset with microphone, and a supplementary “Audio Companion” CD so you can practice lessons in the car, on the go, or where-ever!

Students participate in life-like conversations and actually produce language to advance through the program. Rosetta Stone incorporates listening, reading, grammar, vocabulary and writing along with speaking and pronunciation lessons. For parents, the new Parent Administrative Tools are integrated into the program to allow parents to easily enroll up to ten students in any of 12 predetermined lesson plans, monitor student progress, grade completed work (the program grades the work automatically as the students progress), and you can view and print reports for transcripts. Homeschooling a lot of kids at your house? This program is designed to enroll and track up to ten students (five users on two computers) and will work for nearly all ages — from beginning readers up to college students.

To win this program, copy these paragraphs and post them in (or as) your next blog post, and/OR post about this contest on your facebook page. Then go to the original page and leave a comment saying that you’ve posted about, or have linked to, the contest. Please make sure the link works to get back to the original contest page when you post, and good luck!

And the winner is !!!!

unvlmom — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:45:46 +0000

#18

Jessica M.

January 1, 2011 at 4:20 pm (Edit)

My wish list-
Exploring Nearby Space
My State History
Flying in the Sky Airplanes
Africa
Down on the Farm
Thank you so much!

Congratulations!

We will send Hands of a Child your info so you can get your bundle!

Drawing will be held at 5 pm Pacific Time Today!

unvlmom — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:29:04 +0000

I’m going out to run errands today and will hold the Hands of a Child drawing at 5 pm Pacific today… So as long as you get your entry in before that I’m good with it… Consider the little extension a birthday gift from me to any of my new readers.

Getting Ready for the new year and back to school

unvlmom — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:58:48 +0000

We went pretty low key for Decemeber so we are heading back to school tomorrow. New Year, new plan! Each week we will be studying 2 states and with that new letter sounds and word families. I am still working on the Math angle for now we will be doing review work to catch up so we can move on to new stuff.
Today is the last day to enter the giveaway here on the blog, see the previous post about Hands of a Child giveaway. I will be drawing the winner tomorrow afternoon.

Boggle Jr. Games

unvlmom — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:02:38 +0000

So I am planning for next week’s return to workboxes and serious school time. While I was writing up plans last night I decided to focus on word families a little more in hopes of helping Cameron with reading and inspiring fun learning for Nathan. We are starting out United States unit that will last about 25 weeks (2 states per week). I finally decide to do the states in Alphabetical order for simplicity and also to work on Alphabetical order with the boys. Alabama and Alaska will be the first 2 states. I decided we will do word families _at and _ad during the week as well. I had planned on making word family cards using Sherwin Williams paint swatch cards I picked up while dreaming on new house colors (they already had a hole punched in them for a block). I traced the word family letters onto 2 of the cards and began playing with the Boggle jr cubes. After a couple of minutes Nathan joined me and told me it would be easier if we just used the game board that comes with the blocks. So the Boggle jr. game ‘board’ is now housing –at and –ad blocks ready for next week’s lessons.. ( I picked up Boggle jr. at Goodwill and actually ended up with 2 games so each of the boys will be able to work on the word families at the same time. Might even make a game/ contest out of it)

Other than traditional Boggle jr. rules, have you played games using the cubes or the board? I would love to hear any other uses for these fun blocks and boards.

400th Unit coming soon giveaway

unvlmom — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:24:04 +0000

If you have been reading my blog for any length of time you probably know we love In the Hands of a Child. I love their project packs in both lapbooking and notebooking, mostly for the fact that I don’t have to do the research to teach the unit, everything is there for me already. I also have a Lifetime Super Membership and love getting 2 free units each month. I know I won’t use every single unit, but the variety is great and the differing levels make it possible to use some of the older graded items to add to the younger units.

To celebrate the upcoming 400th unit In the Hands of a Child is offering a giveaway to one lucky reader. One lucky reader will win a bundle pack of their choice from In the Hands of a Child.

Here’s what you need to do:

Head over the In the Hands of a Child and sign up for their newsletter (you can also download the current freebies while you are there..)

Come back and comment here that you did that. (1 entry)

Next create a wishlist of your top 5 choices and comment here with the list. (1 entry)

Drawing will be held on January 3rd. All comments must be in by January 2, 2011 .

Advent half way point.

unvlmom — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:44:14 +0000

Since I only bought one Advent calendar from Learning Palace I decided to hold it until 12 nights before Christmas so each boy will open a door tonight. UnvlDad picked the advent calendar out when we went shopping last month and picked the Knights and Dragon one (not Mom’s first choice but the boys are excited).

Last night we added another element to our Advent evenings, A Hymn of The Week from Raising Real Men, Melanie has a wonderful daily lesson to go with a Christmas Carol, this week is ”O Come All Ye Faithful“, a wonderful song. She has a classical piece of art to go with the lesson as well as all the verses in English and Latin. After our reading last night I moved us to the piano and played the song for the boys then read the lesson and showed them the picture… They weren’t as excited as I had hoped but they are only 5 and 8 so I can only hope this will set a foundation for years to come. During our reading last night Cameron actually took part in the discussion and added his only little angle to the readings from Isaiah. It opened the door to further discussion that I hope will continue tonight.