Sunday, December 19, 2010

See the Light: The Gift of Love Review and Giveaway!

See the Light: The Gift of Love tells the story of Christmas, brought to life by a beautiful chalk-art drawing.

See the Light chalk artist Gloria Kohlmann draws her interpretation of the Nativity and the story that has been told time and time again now becomes even more captivating.   

Included with the DVD are also three step-by-step art lessons: Rejoice, Away in a Manger, and Portrait of Mary.  Each is drawn by a different artist.  The first introduces creative lettering, the second is a manger scene using colored pencils, and the last is a portrait of Mary using chalk-art techniques.  Each drawing may also be brought to life with a black light, if the correct art supplies are used. 

Our whole family watched the DVD together and we enjoyed the Christmas story and art lessons that followed.  We decided to watch the lessons completely through one time before trying them out ourselves.  Our daughter is excited to get started! 



Find Out More:  You can find out more about this DVD and others in the series at the See the Light website.  The Gift of Love is only $14.99 but you can also purchase the Deluxe Bundle, which includes the DVD, a pocket black light and extreme colored pencils for $29.99.

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1. Check out the See the Light website and let me know what you would like best about the Gift of Love DVD. Leave me a comment and this will give you 1 entry.

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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Amazon: Littlest Pet Shop


Just saw this great deal on Amazon.  The Littlest Pet Shop Collector's Starter Pack is only $7.99 (originally $20.99) with FREE Shipping with Amazon Prime!  That's only $1 a pet, and you can't find that at any store!

Weekly Wrap Up #8


Since it is almost the end of December, I thought I would post a School Year Review to this point.

Preparing Hearts For His Glory: We worked up through Lesson 22 for the year and took a break back in November to focus on other studies.  So far this year in History we have covered: Creation to Noah, Life after the Flood, Egyptian Civilization, Israelites in Egypt, Greece, Babylon, Rome, birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ, and the persecution of the Christians.  In Science we have covered the Arctic Tundra, Cactus Desert, the Dinosaurs, and the Constellations.  Bible study included learning Psalms.  

Bible - Various: We started the year studying Psalms.  Once Community Bible Study started we moved to learning about the Servants of God by reading Joshua, Judges, and Ruth.  Now we are celebrating the season of Advent by reading through the Bible and going through the Jesse Tree stories. 

Math - RightStart Math Level C:  We finished up on Wednesday with Lesson 70, which was a review and practice test.  She did pretty well on the test and we are at about the half way mark so we will be stopping here until the new year.  So far this year she has learned or reviewed: Venn Diagrams, Roman Numerals, mentally adding two-digit numbers, multiplication, adding four digit numbers, subtraction, money, perimeter, and fractions. Most of what she has done this year has been review, with the exception of about the last 20 lessons.  She has been enjoying math this year more than last.

Grammar - First Language Lessons 2: Second grade in this book starts with lesson 101, and we have completed through lesson 154.  It ends with lesson 200, so we are about half way through.  So far this year she has learned or reviewed: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, types of sentences, contractions, letter writing, quotations, poem memorization, and story and picture narration.  We both really like this book since the lessons are short and quick. 

Writing - New American Cursive Wkbk 2: We started cursive over the summer and she is about 3/4 through the book.  Her writing is legible but needs correction from time to time.  I will just have her continue through the book and when she has completed it, I will periodically have her write assignments in cursive.

Latin - Various: This year she is reviewing Song School Latin, which she completed last year.  She still enjoys listening to the songs and that is helping her with her vocabulary words.  We have also added Latin's Not So Tough 2 and have just finished the alphabet, diphthong, and special consonant sounds.  We will be getting into the vocabulary next.  Lastly, we started using Visual Latin, but we have only watched a couple of the videos so no word yet on what we think.

Science - Exploring Creation with Astronomy: We started using this about a month ago so we have only finished chapter 1 and 2, but we are both enjoying this book.  We will probably continue through the book on top of the other sciences we have planned for the rest of the year.  

Music - Piano Lessons: She is currently working through Alfred's Basic Piano Library All-in-One Course Book 3.  She has about five more songs in this book until she moves to the next.  She has been taking piano lessons for about a year now and has really been enjoying them.  

I know we have more subjects but I think that gives a pretty good overview of where we are right now.  :O) 

How was your week?  Thanks for Joining Our Homeschool Reviews and for more Weekly Wrap-Up, this week I am linked up with Kris over at Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers.



Friday, December 17, 2010

Holiday Bliss - December 17


For the month of December Our Homeschool Reviews will be participating in "Holiday Bliss" hosted by Brenda at Garden of Learning.

To participate, I'll be sharing favorite holiday recipes, crafts, traditions, things we do during the month, thoughts on Christmas, pictures of our family during December, or just anything that has something to do with this blessed holiday season.

Today is the first day of dh's vacation.  He always takes (or tries to take) two weeks of vacation around Christmas.  This morning we have all be relaxing and cleaning a bit but next week we will start taking some fun one-day excursions around town to places like the zoo, Museum of Science and History, the art gallery, miniature golf, and others.  Of course we will have to run some errands and probably buy last minute gifts, but it is nice to have him home to do it all with!  :o)


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Growing Healthy Homes


Our Homeschool Reviews has been given the special 20% discount code 20TOS10, and I am offering it to my readers to purchase Nutrition 101: Choose Life! and any other products from Growing Healthy Homes!  This offer is valid from December 15 through December 31, 2010, for unlimited uses.

If you are local, you will remember Growing Healthy Homes at our Homeschool Convention.  I spoke with them briefly about their book, The Raw Food Feast, which I almost bought (and I know a couple of my friends did).  So, if you are looking for another book in their collection, now is the time to get it!

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Holiday Bliss - December 16


For the month of December Our Homeschool Reviews will be participating in "Holiday Bliss" hosted by Brenda at Garden of Learning.

To participate, I'll be sharing favorite holiday recipes, crafts, traditions, things we do during the month, thoughts on Christmas, pictures of our family during December, or just anything that has something to do with this blessed holiday season.

I posted our Christmas tree pictures yesterday for Wordless Wednesday but wanted to talk about our tradition today.  Every year, the weekend (or week) after Thanksgiving we go to the same tree lot to purchase a tree.  Our daughter loves to walk up and down the rows trying to decide which tree is the best.  

Once we get it home the decorating begins!  We lay out all the decorations and the three of us decorate the tree.  I enjoy the assortment of homemade and hand-me-down decorations, so our tree can get a little crowded with "stuff".  It may even look tacky to some but we love it!  It is fun to talk about where each decoration came from or who made it.  Then we top it with a star and place our nativity at the bottom.  




Migraines

What is strong enough to stop a mom dead in her tracks?  What can bring a woman to her knees and leave her family to fend for themselves and ignore her children?  

A migraine!  

My day started off yesterday with a small headache in the morning but by 7pm it turned into a raging migraine that I could not control.  So I went from making dinner to laying on the couch to the darkness of the bedroom, where I lay in pain for several hours.  It wasn't until after 11pm when I finally found a position that I could lay my head that wouldn't hurt.  

Thankfully I woke up with no headache this morning, so I can get some things done today, and the next 2 days, so we can be ready for a dance rehearsal tonight, dance performance tomorrow night, and family Christmas party at our house Saturday night with...um...only about 20 people!!  Oh, and I'll be making 7 loaves of bread. 

Better get out of my PJ's!  ;o)

Thrifty Thursday


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