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Switched-On Schoolhouse Series: Let’s Talk About Projects
I write the Switched-On Schoolhouse Series twice a month to share our family’s experience using this software based curriculum in our home.
I think a preconception of software curriculum is that it can’t be all encompassing, because how does a student do things like projects, when all their work is done on a computer?
That is a presumption I had before we started using Switched-On Schoolhouse, when in actuality not everything is done on the computer. Switched-On Schoolhouse, liberates the student from a textbook, notebooks and pencils, but school work and study take place in other environments as well.
For instance in Amber’s FACS course, she is currently working on a
Joseph Christiano’s Bloodtype Diet by Joseph Christiano
It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old…or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book!
You never know when I might play a wild card on you!
and the book:
Joseph Christiano’s Bloodtype Diet:
Book Giveaway – My Lost Daughter by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
My Lost Daughter
Lily is a judge in Ventura County, CA, a crusader to help those who can’t help themselves. A sensational murder trial of a woman who tortured and killed her beautiful two-year old son makes her hungry to see justice done – until her own child throws her for a loop. Her daughter, Shana, months away from graduating from Stanford Law School, is on the verge of dropping out.
Book Giveaway for Young Girls
Yesterday I shared some books from Abrams Books for Young Readers that were geared towards autumn and back to school. Today I’m going to share a few from Abrams that are cute and educational for young girls (well boys might enjoy them too, but the content is more for girls!).
Dotty – It’s the first day of school – gulp. Ida brings her nice new lunch box……and Dotty.
Children’s Books for Fall
There is something about the crisp air and the sounds of leaves crunching under your feet, that makes you look forward to snuggling with your kids inside with a good book when the weather gets too nasty to go outside.
Abrams Books for Young Readers has a few titles that fit into the autumn season and the stories and pictures will be enjoyed by your children. (Check in tomorrow and I’ll share a few more!)
This book captures the many ways children are cherished all year round. For autumn the visual of raking the leaves into piles and jumping right in, is so cute!
Sleeping by the Book
Advice to New Parents by the Authors of Heading Home with Your Newborn
Pediatricians, moms and authors, Laura A. Jana, MD, FAAP and Jennifer Shu, MD, FAAP offer a wealth of “parent-tested, pediatrician-approved” advice in Heading Home With Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality, Second Edition (American Academy of Pediatrics, September 2010). Available on the American Academy of Pediatrics official Web site for parents, HealthyChildren.org. Also available in bookstores nationwide.
The following are excerpts to help you navigate those first crucial weeks of parenthood and caring for a newborn:
PediaCare Medicine Giveaway
Statistics show that preschool-aged children have around nine colds per year, Kindergarteners can have 12 colds per year and adolescents have about seven colds per year. Are you ever confused about what cold/flu medicines are safe for your children?
The trusted brand for children, PediaCare, has just launched an expanded line of safe and effective medicines. Available with and without acetaminophen — for children and infants — the medicines address most sick-child situations: cough, cold, allergy, flu, congestion, fever and pain.
Product offerings, in
George Foreman Evolve Grill Review
When people were looking for a healthier way to cook, George Foreman revolutionized the market with his electric grills. with aesthetic designs and the functionality to cook all kinds of meals and snacks, this is a small appliance you will want to leave out on your counter top. They’re quality build and relatively inexpensive for what you’re getting, it something a kitchen shouldn’t be without.
The Evolve Grill is one of the newest in the George Foreman grill line up. The faux stainless steel finish is contemporary enough to fit in with most modern kitchens. The front panel is where you power the appliance on/off, set your temperature and your timer.
It has a variety of plates that
Red Robin Cookbook Giveaway
Right now, Red Robin is looking for gourmet burger recipes from kids for its 5th annual Kids’ Cook-Off. Kids ages six to 12 are encouraged to create and submit their gourmet burger recipe entries online at www.RedRobinKidsCookOff.com until Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010, for the chance to be named the next Kids’ Cook-Off grand-prize winner.
Ten finalists will receive
Rock ‘N Learn Phonics Volumes 1 & 2 Giveaway
A couple of weeks ago I received a set of DVDs to review from Rock ‘N Learn. Phonics Volumes I & II. With these DVDs children learn the rules of phonics and word families by engaging in the songs presented by the animated rock band on the DVD.
Putting rules and sounds to song and rhyme is a good way for students to practice and retain these building blocks of reading. that is actually how Amber learned to read in her Kindergarten class. The program they used wasn’t nearly as hip, catchy or as animated as Rock ‘N Learn though!
Tammy Litke is a Dallas blogger, blogging since 2008. She loves to watch movies, play video games, spend time in the kitchen, and travel. Between recipes and reviews you’ll find many helpful and some just plain funny posts on her blog. Welcome, pull up a chair and stay for a while!