Week 35

Another week down my friends.  I've also made the decision to finish the school year at the end of the month.  The girls have worked hard this year, and made some awesome gains academically, so I'd like to give them a full month off { 4 weeks } before we begin Dec 31st for the new year.

A recent sample of Chloe's History.  From The Mystery of History.

One of the books that Hannah is currently reading; reading very well I might add too.

A sample Maths lesson from Hannah.

Phebe and Hannah are now up to lesson 143 for their grade 2 book.  Chloe is up to 151 for her grade 3 book.  Their books have 170 lessons each.  We won't get to EVERY lesson, but they'll have had a pretty good go at most of them by the end of the month.

Phebe has started a new reading book.

Chloe started reading this:

Let's talk Science.  We are now finished in the Science department. No more bookwork required.  No more supplemental reading either.

This was an EXCELLENT book to read this year.  I am really looking forward to the next one in the series when school resumes.

Chloe also worked on another essay this week.  Then we had a go at making a craft to go with it.  I thought I'd keep all that separate for show and tell on a different post though.  Keep an eye out for our Pig Essay and Craft.  :o)

In the mean time here's a piece of clipart:

What's New at TpT

 

I've been a little busy adding the odd thing or two in the TpT department, but I haven't really done any show and tell on the new additions.  So today I just want to do a quick show and tell with some of them.

 

Now that the girls are getting older they need to write a little smaller, and a little bit more, so I did up a book 2.  It is considerably updated from book 1.  I added new clipart, and a new format.  This gave us more room to write more words.

 

At 88 pages of printables - it makes for quite a good sized file.

 This time I doubled the file and made 2 worksheets for each multiple phonogram sound.  One for boys and one for girls.  This one shows the little girl detective.

 



 

And in the same style I did up a Word Family packet as well.  90 pages of printables.  That's 45 word families.  I am happy to ADD to this packet if you have a word family that you'd like me to add.

 

 

This one shows the little boy detective.

 

 

Years, and years, and years ago when I first started getting serious about making printables with the view to selling them I decided that I would have to tackle it head on, and the hard way.  I would have to make my own clipart.  Yep, I did this before I realised and came to companies that I could buy commercial use clipart from at a reasonable price.

 

 

So this week I took 26 cliparts and put them in an alphabetical listing in a word document and put a price tag on them.

 

 

I also dug up a book that I did in 2005 and popped that in my TpT store too.  ( I also dug up a number of other files that I thought would work well if I re-tweaked them with new formats/cliparts. )

 

 

And I did some serious work on my 5 x tables packet.

 

 

Thank you for letting me share what I've been doing.

 

I still have quite a list of things that I want to work on, but yeah, I just need to find the motivation, and the time.

 

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Clipart Art and a Friends Giveaway

 

Today I just wanted to share with you where I get my clipart from.

 

In the good old days, like last year and before, I used to either make my own clipart or visit Arthurs website for his free NON-commercial clipart.

 

Arthurs Clipart

 

These days I've started buying clipart from:

 

 

 

and

 

 

 

I highly recommend both these commercial clipart sites.

I've got quite a few sets from each company now and I can't wait to get more.  I love both their styles.  They are also both very good value for money too.

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And while I've got you here, I just want to share with you that one of my friends is having a giveaway~!!

I'm donating my Thanksgiving Pack for the winner.
 

Jump over and check it out.

 

See you there~!!

 

 



Memory Link Up and Character Freebie

Well, this week I really struggled to find the motivation for scripture learning.  I still managed to read some of my verses and even hand copy the first 10 verses out for fun though.

Psalm 103

1 Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

² Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
³ Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
⁴ Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
⁵ Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
⁶ The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
⁷ He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
⁸ The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

 This week I am adding:

⁹ He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
¹⁰ He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

For this weeks character freebie we have:  Benevolence.

How often do we practice true benevolence?  Genuine good will to other people?  Questions I ask myself.

Just click the worksheet.  :o)

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Memory Link Up and Character Freebie

During the week I discovered another blog - Rivers of Water - also committing Psalm 103 to memory.  They are a few verses ahead of me, so I thought that I might jump a little and catch up so that I can run along side of them.

We are now up to week 5 and are currently here:

Psalm 103

1 Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

² Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
³ Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
⁴ Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

 Now this week I am going to add 4 more verses.

⁵ Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
⁶ The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
⁷ He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
⁸ The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

I hope I can pull it off.

 And for this weeks Character Freebie we have Availability.

Just click the picture for the worksheets.

Thanks for visiting.