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Joyful Steward Student Planner Combo Set - $6.95 ($21.00 Value)

Each is a 36 Week Planner

Included in the Primary Level:

• Weekly Copywork / Memory Work
• Weekly Student Checklist
• Weekly Obedient Checklist
• Book of the Week
• Trait of the Week
• Weekly Calendar

Included in the Intermediate Level Planners:

• Weekly Copywork / Memory Verse
• Weekly Subject Checklist
• Weekly Chore Checklist
• Book Assignments
• Character & Life Skills
• Weekly Calendar

Extra Pages:

• Several Assignment Pages to Choose From
• Book Log

The Joyful Steward Student Planners Combo Set is our best selling product and I've recieved so many personal emails thanking me for this product. I'm so happy to hear so many of you love using these planners in your homeschool. I want to give others the opportunity to purchase these planners at a discount and hope you will find as much joy in using them as so many other homeschool families have.

Medieval World Combo - $8.95 ($26.00 Value)

This combo set includes:

• Famous People and Events of the Middle Ages Notebooking Pages
  
• Daily Life in the Medieval World Notebooking Pages
  
• The Vikings Notebooking Pages
  

All sets includes cover pages, basic and primary-lined pages and lots of additional templates for further study. You will also receive a bonus timeline with cover page/ This set has 800 pages to choose which means you will not have to go searching for additional resources to finish a great notebook.

My goal always is to offer homeschooling parents the best quality products at the lowest prices around. I appreciate your continued support and pray you all have a wonderful week with your kiddos!

Freebie - Ruth & Naomi - Bible Notebooking Pages

This file has an activity for primary age children and comprehension questions for older students. Also included are 15 notebooking pages in both primary and basic-lines.

Ruth and Naomi Worksheet & Notebooking Pages

Ruth and Naomi Activity and Notebooking Pages - Primary

Ruth and Naomi Notebooking Pages - Basic

The Book of Ruth Copywork Notebooks available for only $4.00 for the complete set. The notebooks also include memorization cards and pockets that could be added to a lapbook. A great compliment to these notebooking pages and activities.

Freebie - Samuel - Bible Notebooking Pages

Samuel puzzle and 10 notebooking pages

Primary and Basic-lined pages included

Freebie - Antarctic Penguin Puzzle and Penguin Cards

I made these up while we were reading Mr. Popper's Penguins.

Antarctic Penguins Puzzle

Antarctic Penguin Cards

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Completed State Notebooks

Here are my two youngest kids completed state notebooks. They finished these about 2 months ago.

This first one is my 12 year old daughter's.

This one belongs to my 9 year old son.

Click here to purchase your own set of these notebooking pages. They are available individually or as a complete set of all 50 states.

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Freebie - Trumpeter Swan Notebooking Pages

Notebooking pages that would be great while studying The Trumpet of the Swan, by E. B. White. Available in both basic and primary-lines.

Trumpeter Swan Notebook - Primary

Trumpeter Swan Notebook - Basic

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Freebie - Five Week Menu Planner

A few years ago I attended a homeschool conference and one of the workshops I attended had a homeschool mom that spoke about menu planning. She talked about how she would plan 5 weeks of menus, which made her shopping much easier. Her family had the same things for breakfast and lunch every week. Meaning, Monday was always the same thing, etc. She would plan themes for each dinner; crock pot, pasta, BBQ, casserole, ethnic, etc. We use this plan and it works wonderfully. I've created pages to help in putting together this plan.

5 Week Menu Planner - No Color

5 Week Menu Planner - Color

Our New School Room

We are considering having desks made but going to put that off for a while.  The old folding desks have worked great for many years.

Paper storage

Small storage and built-in bookshelves above

We are having desks made that are just about finished for each of the dormer windows.  I'll probably replace this pic once those are finished.

Built in shelves and storage

Built-in storage in between the dormer windows

Storage closed 

Two white boards with built-in shelves surrounding

Both white boards are also murphy beds.  We left one bedroom out when we rebuilt the house and this is where our oldest stays when she is home.  It's great because she can bring a friend along.

Freebie - Monthly Calendars

Colorful calendars for each month of the year.

Blank Calendars

Fire Pics and the Resurrection

I've had a few people ask to see pictures of our new house.  I'm happy to show them but I thought I'd add some of the day of the fire first.  

The day our house burned down I was 2 hours away in Las Vegas Christmas shopping with my oldest daughter.  When I heard about the house, we were having lunch with my sisters and mom, thankfully.   I actually never got to one store that day and my sister drove us home. 

When I first got there I thought my house looked pretty good from the outside and had no idea what to except throughout the remainder of the day. Our house was insulated with straw bales and it burned very slow - about 12 hours.  The firefighters finally knocked down the exterior walls because they said it would have smoldered for weeks.  Basically, the entire roof burned off the house and all the exterior walls were knocked down.  There was also an enormous amount of water damage.  The wind had also been blowing terribly bad that day from the north and the south side of the house was burnt very badly.  

My neighbor took lots of pictures that day and now I'm really glad he did.  He waited until our new house was finished before he gave them to us and again I'm really glad he waited.  By the way, our house burned down December 10, 2007.

 

The blue room above was our school room :(

If you look closely at the pic above you will see a large book case just to the left of the palm tree.  This is where we housed all the books we had collected throughout the years.  It was 9 feet tall and 16 feet long and busting at the seams with books.  The next day when I saw the books I thought some looked okay, but they were swollen with water and others were melted to the selves.  Oh.... I really miss all our books!  That was by far the biggest lose for me.  I still cry when I think about it too much.  So, of course I try not to :)

Okay, now for the good part! :)  Our new house was completed enough for us to move in on November 8, 2008.  We were the general contractors so we were very involved each and every day.  It was a ton of work but we were afraid if we weren't in charge it would not have been completed in a timely manner.   Our last house took 14 months to build and this house, which is slightly bigger took about 6 months from start date to finish.

We built our new house on the same foundation, however we redesigned the house and had to put in new footings and move the plumbing around.  We are absolutely thrilled with the house and look forward to making lots of wonderful memories here with our children and future grandchildren.

The house was completely framed with windows in in about 5 weeks.  

I'll have to add some pics of the inside another time.  I've got a little cleaning to do first :)  My daughter just moved out of her dorm for the summer and everything she owns is spread out throughout our house :)

E-Notebooking

Electronic Notebooking

Update 4/28/12: I will be adding a tutorial for making electronic notebooking in the coming weeks.

My 2 youngest children have enjoyed traditional notebooking and lapbooking very much.  However, my 10 year old son does tire of writing and will often ask if I will write some of his narration for him.  I have done this on occasion in the past but now that he is older I often (but not always) will allow him type out his narrations.  The end result is a beautiful e-notebooking page that he can still be very proud of.  Here are a couple examples of what he has created.

The typing program we used is called Dance Mat Typing which is free from the BBC school website.

My 12 year old daughter is also enjoying e-notebooking.  Here is a sample of one of her pages.

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