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Did You Know... Labor Day, Constitution Day,

Native American Day, and Johnny Appleseed's birthday are all coming up in September!

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and your students celebrate and learn about these special days!

So, we are featuring the following Project Packs

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• Labor Day (Grades 2 - 8)


• The United States Constitution (Grades 4 - 10)


• A Historical Look American Indians (Grades 4 - 10)


• Let's Learn about American Indians (Early Childhood)


• Johnny Appleseed: A Literature Unit(Grades K - 3)

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First Day of School Ready or Not here we come...

Tomorrow (Monday) will be the first day of school for the "new" year around here.
Cameron will be working on Jamestown with our online co-op and Hands of a Child and Math-U-See Foundations (Chapter 11 already, he is flying through it..), while Nathan will be working through his workboxes that include My Father's World Kindergarten (letter L this week), Math-U-See Introduction (we are counting unit blocks this week) Boogle Jr for L words, white board for coloring, drawing, general play fun, beading with foam beads, and cutting out leaves that he gets to color.

I have several fun activities for Cameron to pick from to go between his real work... Legos and Playmobil are his favorites as well as simply coloring anything he can get his hands on. Should be fun...

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Teacher Book Bag's Game Kits Released.

All I can say is WOW! I just received a great collection of file folder games from Teacher book Bag. This time around I went for K-1 for Cameron. There are several independent games as well as mulit player games that either the boys can play together or I can play with them. The graphics are fun, bright, and engaging. The games are simple enough but at the same time give Cameron just enough of the educational element.

Another great benefit is the game comes as either an e-book or a CD with game pieces in a kit. We have a box of miscelaneous game pieces so I really didn't need the kit so I downloaded the e-book and we are set.

There is a younger Pre-K set as well and the older versions are in the works.

I am including below the newsletter I just received complete with links to their great products.

Happy Playing and Learning.

Make it easy on yourself! We have it all laid out in manageable chunks. Just check out our full previews.It's like picking up a book that you want to be sure fits your needs. Don't forget our:

TBB Preschool File Folder Game Kits Collection One

TBB Kindergarten through First Game Kit Collection One

TBB Monthly Book Bags 2009-2010 Year's Subscription [BUNDLE]

August Monthly Book Bag Collection

TBB Cross Reference Guide 2008-2009    FREE

Teacher Book Bag Calendar 2009-2010 FREE

Teacher Book Bag Collection 2008-2009 on CD   Over 2,000 pages of curriculum activities! $15.98  Postage Free

Or

Teacher Book Bag Bundle 2008-2009

Check out our full previews. Also, keep up with our freebies at our homesite .

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Freebie Monday!

Monday is not all bad especially if it comes with freebies. Here are some homeschool and life freebies I have found to share;

1. Potty Training kit from Pampers. Especially if you have aDora or Diego fan in your house, this is a fun kit for potty training. Yes I am ordering one in hopes that we get through this journey soon!

2. Farm Notebooking Pages at Currclick.com, these are great especially if you have a Farm unit planned for the new school year.

3. Homeschool Freebie of the Day has an awesome line up this week, you will want to check it out all week.

4. Free Apron patterns and tutorials, 50 plus apron patterns and tutorials for a quick and easy project.

Hope this makes your Monday a little easier to deal with... Our Monday is too hot and humid.

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Free Sample from KidsActivityCalendar.com

Do you have a child who's starting school soon, or maybe you're planning to home school? It's never too early to give them a head start. School starts in only a few short weeks, which means you still have time to help them get prepared. To help you out, Kid's Activity Calendar is giving away a pretty nice kit of activities around the letter 'A'. This pack includes

Fun alphabet snacks that start with the letter A
Letter A coloring sheets
Letter A search worksheets
Letter A trace sheets
Letter A flash cards and
Game of out of the week idea around the letter A

You can download them for free from this page.
This is a fun sample that you can download presented by kidsactivitycalendar.com a subscription site.

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Seasons, Tree and Me : August PreK-K Book Bag FUN!

Teacher Book Bags newest set was recently released and I was asked to review 1 of the new August books.  Since Nathan is so eager for school time lately I decided to go with the PreK- K Book "Seasons, Trees, and Me".  The e-book is full of fun, colorful activities with lots of practice opportunities. August focus letters are S, T, M which is double bonus for us as we recently starting using a Kindergarten curriculum with Nathan and the first 2 letters are S and M so it blended in perfectly!

Being that it is summer and we don't spend a ton of time on school activities, I was very happy to see these activities are not only fun, easy to adapt to different learning styles, and  colorful (but can be printed in gray scale and colored by hand).

With different age levels available Teacher Books Bags is a great line for multi-age families as well as co-ops. I can see using these with our co-op Preschool class.

The E-book isn't so big that you get lost. The practice pages and activities are grouped together and match up to the table of contents making it super easy to print out what you need. There are even suggestions for classroom environments so if you are a classroom teacher rather than a homeschooler these are still a great resource.

I hope to post more reviews from this fun company soon. For now, enjoying the summer learning season of life.

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4th of July Family Fun

We hung out with our Co-Op friends at a family friendly 4th of July concert and fireworks display put on by the McMinnville Jaycees.
The boys played with some of their friends from co-op while listening to the Humlie family bands (which includes 2 of the boys' teachers). It was a great evening , clear and not too hot, perfect for fireworks late into the night.

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