Young Folks Bible - Robinson Curriculum!

If you have the Robinson Curriculum then you know there is a children's bible included that I finally bound today.  I really, really like this bible and how well it turned out so I thought I'd share!  Now before you ask how you print and bind a book you can look here and here.  Really it's not that hard once you've done the first one...though I have to admit that this one was bigger than most of the ones of
I've done before.  I printed over 5 days so I wasn't overwhelmed with lots of pages to do in one day.  I did 100 a day which was really doable ...for me anyways!  I know this sounds corny but after printing this I feel a real connection to the past...a la' William Tyndale.

Homemade Vitamin C Face Towlettes

image by BellaSugar

I love my Vit C towlettes for my face but...holy cow are they expensive! So I knew I could find a way to make these....

Barking Starfishs' Vitamin C Towlettes

Ingredients

•  Bounty Napkins  or 12  3×3 inch cotton cloths or facecloths
• Warm water enough to cover and soak the napkins or cloths to make them damp
• 3 tbsp. warmed organic virgin coconut oil so that it is liquid
• 1 t. Planet Ultra Dishwashing Liquid - This is better than baby shampoo and hypo-allergenic
• 3 drops tea tree  (antibacterial aka mold inhibitor) 
• 8 drops of Lavender or Rose essential oils 
• 1/8 t. or less Vitamin C powder   (ascorbic acid)  you can sometimes find this at drugstores and natural food stores or online at amazon...or....you can get a pill grinder and make it out of vit. c tablets

Place napkins in either an old baby wipes dispenser or use a gallon ziplock bag.  Put the rest of the ingredients in and walla!

*** Common sense....be careful near your eyes and if a rash occurs, stop using it!

Need To Cut Down On Your Grocery Bill...and Menu Plan??

I found this great website from a gal who won Dave Ramsey's contest of eliminating debt.  It's menu planning and it takes whats on sale and uses recipes that are...wait for it...actually good!  and...IT'S ONLY $5.00 a month...it's a total steal at this price!!  Click on the pics to find out more :)

http://groceryshrink.com/menus

Amanda Bennett's Crunchy Cookies SALE!! $3.00 ONE DAY ONLY!!

Amanda Bennett is running a ONE DAY only sale on Crunchy Cookies!  Here's your chance to get this fun unit study and use it on your tablet OR your computer :)  Click on the pic above and use the code CookieDay when you check out to get the discount!

Cactus Hotel Unit Study

We did this a couple of months ago when we were on vacay but here's the list of studies we did

Social Studies - Hotels, community, Life & Death, Age


Geography - Sonoran Desert
                     Arizona

Art - Watercolor, shadows, use of color to depict twilight, storms etc.  color pallet when  depicting the death of the saguaro (browns)

LA - Italics (first page)

Vocab:  Saguaro
              Skitters
              Paloverde Tree
              Jackrabbit

Math:  Measurement, Weight (tons), 2000 (counting),

Science:  Desert - Specifically Sonoran Desert
                Animals - Pack Rat, Spotted Ground Squirrel (chipmunk), Jackrabbit, coyote, gila woodpecker, elf owl, mice, lizards, snakes, foxes, bats (fruit).
                Plants:  Paloverde Tree
                             Saguaro
                Life Cycle of Plants
                Habitats (biomes)
             

Activities:  Watched Reading Rainbow - Cactus Hotel!  This was so much fun for the kids since it was the book and we WERE in the Sonoran Desert...and the cactus were in bloom!

             

Summer Fun! or Almost FREE Curriculum!

It's that time of year when:

1. You're kids are starting to get bored because you're not schoolin' year 'round or
2. You're looking for FREE or nearly free curriculum for the next year

I've got you covered with two really great options.  First you'll notice that my left sidebar has lots of curriculum listed and included in that is a section on free curriculum.  But let's say you want lesson plans and free curriculum???

Easy Peasy All In One Homeschool   which is Charlotte Mason influenced.  This has everything you'll need to homeschool your kids to 8th grade and now the owner is starting on highschool.  This is a missionary family so please consider donating to help them!  If you have a tablet ....this curriculum rocks!

or

for ONLY $15.95  Everything Homeschool  which is more unit study and delight directed influenced.   Here's a free sample of the weekly lesson plans  Here's the free stuff off Everything Homeschool.  Here's some summer fun and here's their magazine blog  Homeschool Fun with stuff that's fun to do in summer or...whenever!

Both are fabulous resources for summer or you're whole school year!  They both have lesson plans and free forms for tracking with probably Everything Homeschool having quite a bit more in that category.

Summer Projects For Boys!

Need something fun for the boys (or girls...but I have boys)???

100 Awesome Engineering Projects for Kids