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March 7, 2014 | Crystal Paine

HUGE List of Free Homeschool Curriculum & Resources

This is the weekly list of Free Homeschool Curriculum and Resources compiled by Jamerrill from FreeHomeschoolDeals.com. If you aren’t a homeschooler, but you’re a parent, teacher, babysitter, or nanny, you’ll probably find at least a few useful freebies in this list. You may also want to go through the Educational Deals and Freebies from earlier this week for more.

Download these free Reward Coupons for Homeschoolers. This set includes ideas such as an all-day pajama day or a coupon good for a one hour break in the middle of the school day.

Get this Quotations from Shakespeare’s Plays copywork and check out these 9 Free Creative Writing Lessons.

Free Asian History and Geography-themed Copywork and Word Puzzles. This printable worksheet set includes history and geography copywork and word puzzles, geared towards ages 8-12.

Here is a free Quick and Easy Addition Game and free Minecraft Addition Worksheets.

With science learning in mind take a look at these free Cloud Matchbooks, free Periodic Table of Elements Notebooking Pages, and Leonardo da Vinci eBook + Free Leonardo da Vinci Architect Mini Unit.

Homeschool Giveaways is offering a free list of Noah’s Ark Printables and Craft Resources.

The Measured Mom has a neat free resource for helping your child learn sight words:The Rainbow Sight Word Game!

How to build your own homeschool curriculum

How to Build Your Own Homeschool Curriculum {without becoming a rocket scientist}

Currclick.com is offering free School & Chore Charts, Gram Slam Grammar Game ($6.95 Value!), and a free 48-page set of History Worksheets.

If students need a jolt in middle school math download this free Math Cheat Sheet. You’ll find conversions, abbreviations, simple formulas, Roman numerals, and more!

Learning activities based on the calendar can be so much fun! Living Montessori Now has an enormous list of calendar observances and activities for March 2014 to make your planning go a little smoother.

To add to Spanish studies download these free Spanish Calendar Time Printables.

Be sure to read about these helps on Adapting Homeschool Curriculum to Meet Your Child’s Needs and How to Make Interactive Maps in Your Homeschool.

Just for fun add in these free Wall-E Prinatbles and this super cute Printable Owl Craft in Blue or Pink.

Find 60+ St. Patrick’s Day Activities on Homeschool Creations

St. Patrick’s Day is next week. Here are this week’s St. Patrick’s Day freebies for your homeschool.

Frugal Art Chalk Pastels

Need art ideas? Frugal Homeschool Art: Chalk Pastels

If your little girls are into all things Princess, then surely they’d love to read about them too! 123 Homeschool 4 Me is offering a set of free princess readers in a variety of skill levels.

Get these 10 Free Kindle Books: Children’s Literature by Louisa May Alcott. In addition download free Homeschool Literary Guides.

For the Charlotte Mason style of education here are free Memory Work Made Easy Printables, free Art Question Cards- Help With Picture Study, and free Charlotte Mason and Living Books Resources.

Young learners will enjoy these free Letter of the Week Crafts, free Pirate Cutting Practice Preschool Printables, free Fairy Printables Packs, and ABC Hide and Seek Letter Find.

Working on Character? This free Character Study Lapbook is wonderful.

For faith-based learning there are free Encouraging Bible Verses on Printable Memory Cards, and a free Doxology Hymn Unit Study available.

Click here thousands of homeschool freebies!

*Don’t forget! If you are looking for additional free homeschool resources please check the huge growing list of free homeschool curriculum and resources on MoneySavingMom.com!

Jamerrill is the homeschooling mother of a large and growing family. After seasons of spending $50 or less annually to homeschool her children, she started Free Homeschool Deals in 2012 to help all families afford the homeschool life. You can follow the homeschool goodness on Pinterest and Facebook.

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Gretchen’s $48 Grocery Shopping Trip and Weekly Menu Plan

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Aldi

1 Vegetable Oil – $2.39

1 Salsa – $1.69

2 Strawberries – $1.29 each

1 Pineapple – $1.29

1 Cucumber – $0.59

1 Rice Cakes – $1.29 (I’m thinking these are going to become a staple at our house. My son loves them!)

1 Corn Chips – $0.89

2 Grapefruit – $0.29 each

1 Cauliflower – $1.69

1 Flour Tortillas – $1.19

1 Italian Dressing – $1.39

1 Old Fashioned Oats – $2.29

1 Half & Half – $1.69

3 cans Beans – $0.59 each

1 gallon Milk – $2.73

Total with tax ($1.72): $25.77

Dillons

7 Mom’s Best Cereal – $1 each (I was so thrilled about this price as this is some of our favorite cereal!)

1.2 lbs Bananas @ $0.59/lb – $0.71

1 Lettuce – $0.99

1 Kroger Cottage Cheese – $1.34

0.71 lbs Broccoli @ $1.59/lb – $1.13

1 Kroger Frozen Green Beans – $1

1 Kroger Butter – $2.50

1 Breyer’s Ice Cream – Marked down to $2.70

1 Kroger frozen Apple Juice – $1.29

1 Clabber Girl Baking Powder – $2.25

Total with tax ($1.71): $22.62

Total for all grocery items: $48.39

Menu Plan for this Week

Breakfasts

Cereal, Homemade Granola

Lunches

Cheese Quesadillas, Fruit/Veggies/Crackers, Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches, Mac & Cheese, Leftovers

Dinners

Chicken Rice Casserole, Steamed Broccoli, 30 Minute Rolls

Haystacks, Sliced Pineapple

Lasagna Casserole, Homemade Bread, Tossed Salad

Hamburger Vegetable Soup, Sliced Strawberries, Butterhorns

3-Bean Chili, Cornbread, Sliced Veggies

Date night

Dinner with family

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March 7, 2014 | MSM Team

Printable Coupons: Haribo, Johnson’s, Purex, Zyrtec, and more

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48-Hour Giveaway: Complete What’s in the Bible? Series (2 Winners)

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I’m excited to be doing another What’s In the Bible DVD giveaway today! They now have the entire 13-DVD series available taking you on an adventure from Genesis to Revelation!

I’m excited to be giving away the entire 13-DVD set to two readers here this week. If you missed my review from other giveaways, here it is:

At a conference a few years ago, the What’s In the Bible? folks approached me about doing a giveaway on my blog. I sort of shrugged them off because the DVDs didn’t really look like anything much but some silly cartoons.

However, I said they were welcome to send some DVDs to us to check out and, if we liked them, I’d be willing to consider a giveaway. I figured that would be the end of that since I was guessing we wouldn’t like them as they just didn’t seem like our type.

Well, we got the DVDs, we sat down and watched them, and I was proven very, very wrong. We LOVED them. (And if you’ve read here much, you know that it takes a lot for me to use all caps about something!)

Yes, they are silly and corny at times. But a lot of the time they are genuinely funny.

And it’s not the fact that they are humorous that impressed my husband and me: it’s that they have a depth to them that very few children’s Bible products we’ve seen have.

Our children have learned so many new things about Scripture and how it fits together as a whole. These DVDs have opened up conversations about many, many spiritual issues that we’ve not broached before. And God has used them in powerful ways in our children’s hearts and lives.*

So, contrary to what I ever expected, we are HUGE fans {there I go, using all caps again!} of What’s In the Bible DVDs. And I’m so excited that they are giving away three complete DVD sets today.

*Note: As with all things like this, I heartily encourage you to watch these DVDs and discuss what’s in them with your children. You might not necessarily agree with everything in the DVDs, but we’ve found that’s provided a wonderful springboard for some really deep and meaningful conversations about spiritual things with our children.

Would you like to win some What’s in the Bible DVDs? Click on the graphic below and type in your name and email address to enter to win one of these 13-DVD sets from What’s in the Bible. Two winners will be chosen and posted on Monday. This giveaway ends Sunday, March 9, at 11:59 pm, CST.

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March 7, 2014 | Crystal Paine

12 Months to a Healthier You: Week 9 Check-In

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Are you joining us for the 12 Months to a Healthier You Challenge? If so, it’s Friday and guess what that means? It’s time for our weekly check-in to post our progress.

March’s Challenge:

We’re focusing on developing the habit of drinking more water in March. I encourage you to set a simple and doable goal for drinking more water and to stick with it.

New to this challenge? Read more details on the plan for this year here.

My Water Intake Goal for March

My goal for March is to drink at least 8 glasses of water every day. I’m also hoping to keep up with January’s habit of doing exercising at least 4-5 times every week and February’s habit of eating six big salads every week.

This Week’s Progress:

I quickly realized that I don’t drink enough water! This challenge has been so good for me and I’m happy to report that I’ve hit my goal of drinking 8 glasses of water every day all but one day! I’ve also kept up with exercising and eating big salads. And I can definitely tell that being intentional about these three things are making a big difference in my life!

How Are YOU Doing?

Leave a comment telling us how you did on your exercise goals this past week. If you’re blogging about this challenge, leave the direct link to your blog post about the challenge below.

Are you on social media? You can also share your progress on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, or Twitter by using hashtag #12MonthstoaHealthierYou.

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March 7, 2014 | MSM Team

Free Ebooks: Blessings of the Cross, How to Work for Yourself, 30 Minute Meals, and more

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NOTE: The price of these ebooks is currently $0.00, but that could change at any time. Be sure to verify before checking out that it is still free.

Unless otherwise noted, these ebooks are specifically for Kindles, but you can go here to download a free application that enables you to read Kindle ebooks on your PC.

Download a free copy of Blessings of the Cross. (Thanks, Faith Gateway!)