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Dover Publishing

Save 25% on Fun & Educational Gift Books for Homeschoolers!

Dover Publications offers thousands of affordable books that will engage and entertain homeschoolers of all ages—and make great holiday gifts! High-quality coloring books foster creativity as they teach informative lessons about important events and people. Our children’s classics collect timeless stories and poems at the lowest prices available. We also publish books filled with simple science experiments, crafts projects, and much more. Plus, you’ll find hundreds of stocking stuffers for as low as $1.50 each: stickers, activities, and more holiday treats!

Coloring Books
Children’s Literature
Science for Children
Activity Books
Paper Crafts
Little Activity Books

Save 25% with Coupon Code DCHX5 — Order Now Sale Ends 12/25/2013!
Visit www.doverpublications.com.

Heirloom Audio Productions

New Henty Audio Theater Awakens Your Child’s Love of Learning, History, and Adventure!

Our children are living in a world that is increasingly bombarding them with visual imagery. And the effect of all this visual imagery (television, video games, online videos, et cetera) and all other kinds of image-based “education” and entertainment really create a world that’s highly artificial.

And this highly artificial world, quite literally . . .

Shuts Down Their Imagination!

And that’s a real problem, because, as The Wall Street Journal stated in an article titled, “The Power of Magical Thinking” . . .

“Imagination is necessary for learning about people and events we don’t directly experience, such as history or events on the other side of the world. For young kids, it allows them to ponder the future, such as what they want to do when they grow up.”

As one prominent educator put it, “. . . excessive visual stimulation is destroying the minds of our children. Unfortunately, the single greatest casualty is the child’s imagination.”

So What Can We (As Parents) Do To Protect Our Children From This Force-Fed,
Brain-Numbing Visual Onslaught?

That’s where a revolutionary form of audio learning (called audio theatre) comes in.

Audio theater—just like reading, but in a more fun, entertaining and engaging way—allows children to tap into, exercise and build their imagination by letting them create their own self-generated visual images and mental movies which . . .

Are Then Played In The Theater Of Their Mind!

To learn more about this powerful new tool, visit www.HentyAlive.com.

KJV Homeschool Mom’s Bible

Heartfelt Inspiration to Revive, Encourage, and Strengthen the Homeschooling Mom

If you’re on an airplane, you’re instructed, in an emergency, to put on your oxygen mask before helping your child. Why? If you don’t have a supply of oxygen, you won’t be able to help anyone else.

The same is true for the rest of life: you can’t give what you don’t have. As a homeschooling mom, you pour yourself out every day for the sake of your children. Yet how do you fill yourself up? Where do you get your spiritual oxygen? Now you can be filled and restored by the original Bible for homeschool moms—with a full year’s worth of encouraging daily devotions next to text of the King James Bible. These heartfelt, practical readings written by Janet Tatman, a former homeschooling mom, cover topics such as finding strength to keep motivated, avoiding burnout, staying focused and committed, navigating the needs of toddlers while educating siblings, managing schedules, delegating tasks and chores, setting boundaries, and most importantly, maintaining proper soul care while juggling educational and household responsibilities. Breathe life into your soul with these devotions so that you can successfully run the race.

Features:

  • 365 daily meditations with prayers written by Janet Tatman, a veteran homeschooling mother with more than 25 years homeschooling
  • Full text of the classic King James Version Bible
  • Foreword from Vickie Farris, author, homeschool mom, and wife of Michael Farris, founder of the Homeschool Legal Defense Association
  • Topical index
Creation Illustrated

Don’t miss out—a $12 FAMILY GIFT that LASTS ALL YEAR! OFFER EXPIRES DEC. 31, 2013. Readers call Creation Illustrated magazine, “The Christian answer to National Geographic!”

Every keepsake edition is packed with stunning photography, Biblical truths from nature, creation science, outdoor adventures, animal features, birding excursions, creation-week articles, children’s stories, nature activities, youth photo contests, and even Genesis cuisine—healthful recipes for homemakers!

To celebrate our 20th Anniversary, we rolled subscription prices back 20 years to $12! www.CreationIllustrated.com 800-360-2732

Plus homeschoolers use the educational resource guide in every issue to develop character-building lessons from each article. Many families collect all the back issues available online at: http://www.creationillustrated.com/transaction.php The material is never outdated.

Creation Illustrated is dedicated to the eternal impact of sharing a Biblical worldview and powerful life-changing lessons through God’s creation. This follows Christ’s method of teaching through parables from the things He made.

The editors and publishers are a Christian couple who homeschooled their daughter for 13 years.

Mission Statement: Our purpose is to share the wonders of God’s creation. By revealing fresh insights of His infinite wisdom, gentle touch, undeniable justice, redeeming love, and flawless design, pure truth shall bring renewed peace. Each part of this publication is offered as a reprieve from the daily rigors of life so that all can look to the future with unbridled gratitude and hope.

 

 

Essential Skills Advantage

Give the Gift of Reading this Christmas

Have you left your Christmas shopping to the last minute again this year? After years of promising yourself not to fall into the same habit of procrastinating like previous holiday seasons; you’ve done it again.

Thankfully Essential Skills Advantage (ESA) has your solution! Give the gift of reading without having to leave the house and avoiding the hectic mall lineups! With over 300,000 active students and educational tools you can trust, our online reading and language programs for ages 4-12 offer a fun and educational experience. The engaging activities and enjoyable rewards help motivate your kiddos each step of the way! ESA offers newly designed online programs ideal for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners. ESA programs are proven to increase engagement, foster a sense of independence, and encourage metacognition. The programs can be paired effectively with any homeschooling curriculum without interfering with your goals as the primary teacher of your child. Kids love our program and so will you! Upon completion, your children will have excellent reading and comprehension skills and you will see improvement in their focus and confidence.

Instead of the predictable toy, give them something educational and fun that will make a difference in their future. Give them the advantage they deserve. Give them the Essential Skills Advantage.

After your FREE TRIAL a membership to ESA is only $4.99/month.

Visit http://buyesa.com and start your FREE 30 day trial!

American Heritage Education Foundation

The Struggle for America’s Soul – What Americans Need to Know

For the first time, a new book from AHEF reveals the connection between the Bible & America’s philosophical origins:

The Miracle of America: The Influence of the Bible on the Founding History and Principles of the United States of America for a People of Every Belief

Studies show that Americans today are largely uneducated about the ideas that have shaped our nation. As a result, we have become more fragmented as a people and unclear about what our nation stands for.

Even fewer Americans understand or agree that America is founded on principles largely rooted in Bible-based thought. Some call ours a Christian nation, yet we have no national religion, and we uphold religious freedom. Others call it a secular society, yet we pledge “one nation under God.” This seeming contradiction is often misunderstood and misrepresented. What is the American ethic? Where does it come from?

The Miracle of America reveals how the Bible and Judeo-Christian thought are arguably the nation’s most significant root and its enduring source of strength. It includes excerpts from original documents, learning activities, and over 1,000 endnotes.

Professional educators and historians praise Miracle of America as the first systematic analysis of the relationship between American political-moral principles & Judeo-Christian ideas. It is a “must-read.” Our self-government requires that citizens understand America’s roots in order to preserve our heritage.

For more information and to order: www.miracleofamerica.net.

The American Heritage Education Foundation, Inc.

Available now from XulonPress

Smithsonian Folkways

“A one-of-a-kind Christmas album. Mitchell makes records with all the craft, awe, and nuance of the classic artists who inspired her . . .” – All Music Guide

The Sounding Joy is a spirited collection of Christmas carols drawn from Ruth Crawford Seeger’s 1953 songbook American Folk Songs for Christmas. Featuring Elizabeth Mitchell and a luminary list of her musical family, friends, and neighbors, this album celebrates the spirit of community and homespun traditions that existed in times before the commercialization of Christmas. Natalie Merchant, Aoife O’Donovan, Dan Zanes, Peggy Seeger and many others add their voices to pay tribute to a collection revered in the canon of American Music.

Songs include:

– “Mary Had a Baby”
– “Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow”
– “Christmas Day in the Morning”

Fill your home with the sounds of classic Christmas songs. Order your download or album here.

Figures in Motion

Who hasn’t thrilled to the giants that roamed the earth so many years ago? Dinosaurs—fearsome, fast carnivores, enormous herbivores, and flying lizards that resembled giant bats—have captured our imagination for centuries.

With Dinosaurs on the Move: Movable Paper Figures to Cut, Color, and Assemble, your child can have the fun of creating their own movable dinosaur action figures, and use them to facilitate drama play, supplement science projects, and initiate discussions on natural history. The book includes “dinosaur greatest hits” like Tyrannosaurus rex, Pteranodon, and Stegosaurus, as well as less familiar species such as the armadillo-like Ankylosaurus, and the fish-eating Baryonyx. The illustrations for the ten prehistoric dinosaurs are based on authentic fossils and skeletons—in both colored and color-them-in versions, to cut out into movable action figures using only crayons or colored pencils, scissors, a 1/8 inch hole punch, and fasteners. A short (evolution free) introduction includes fascinating facts about habitat, diet, length, weight, the location of fossil discoveries, and key features about each dinosaur.

Endorsed by educators and leading paleontologists, Dinosaurs on the Move follows the award-winning Famous Figures series of cut-and-color movable action-figure history books from Figures In Motion. The books are the latest from artist Cathy Diez-Luckie, homeschool mom and publisher at Figures In Motion. Trained at the Toledo Museum of Art and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, Diez-Luckie also holds a graduate degree from Stanford University.

Learn more at www.FiguresInMotion.com.

Mendocino Chocolate Company

Merry Christmas from the Mendocino Chocolate Company

The holidays cause us to reflect on things for which we’re thankful, including living in this country which allows us the freedom to own a small business and share our handmade chocolates with you. If you get the chance to visit the picturesque Mendocino Coast, please stop in our stores in Fort Bragg and Mendocino to say hello. Until then, enjoy perusing our website for incredible gifts. This is the perfect place to shop for family members, colleagues, business associates, clients, friends and of course, yourself.

Holiday and Traditional Truffles come in more than 30 flavors and are hand-decorated just like our Holiday and Traditional Originals (nuts/chews). Our butter-crunch Toffees come in five varieties. There’s more! Mendocino Fudge can be ordered in several sizes, but the “Fudge in a Crate” is a great deal. Since some like it sweet and some like it salty, we’ve added Salted Giant Sea Turtles to our repertoire. Mendocino Bundt Cakes come in Luscious Lemon and Kahlua Chocolate all year, but we also offer Pumpkin Streusel, Black Forest, Ginger Stout, Orange Cranberry and Amaretto during the holidays. These and many other seasonal and year-round confections are available online.

And may we take a moment to wish you and yours a wonderful Christmas, filled with many special moments and plenty of delicious chocolate. May your new year be filled with joy, happiness and chocolates!

Confection-ate-ly ~ Richard and Julie Keaton, our 6 Angels and the Mendocino Chocolate Company staff

Home Grown Books

Give your child reading material that is as rich as his imagination with Home Grown Books! Our book sets are made for beginning readers, ages 3-6. These beautiful books will build your child’s vocabulary, strengthen important reading habits, and foster his confidence as a reader—all while engaging his imagination!

Home Grown Books began in a homeschool collective in NYC. Kyla Ryman, reading specialist within the homeschool collective, founded Home Grown Books after years of having difficulty finding high quality early reader books outside of schools. As an advocate of organic learning for young children, Kyla knew that beginning readers would be more successful when they were engaged with the reading material. Home Grown Books was the solution: a company dedicated to creating early reading content that is visually stimulating, respects the intelligence of young learners, and still engages Mom and Dad.

We are committed to keeping our eco-footprint as small as possible for your family and for the planet we share. We use wind power, recycled paper, and no-VOC vegetable inks to print our books. You can take comfort in knowing that our products are always safe for your family and never harmful to the environment.

Home Grown Books make wonderful gifts for the beginning reader in your life, and we are happy to offer a special for The Old Schoolhouse® readers! Spend $30 or more and get 15% off your entire order with code “oldschoolhouse” through the end of December. Shop now at www.homegrownbooksnyc.com!

Lamplighter

Tully wants more than anything to make his teacher smile. But no one knows that Miss Ravenstow is trying to escape the pain from her past. No one, that is, except Todd the mailman, who holds in his hands something far more valuable than a special delivery.

This Christmas inspire your family with a very special Christmas story . . . a story that makes love real, that brings hope home, and that points us all to the Light of the World.

Lamplighter Theatre presents The Candle in the Window. From now on, you may just look at those around you in a whole different light.

 

 

 

More than Alive

Silk Scarves
Our 100% silk scarves are purchased directly from a family in Laos. Our scarves have been crafted by community artisans, many of whom are using their incomes to pay their way through college. Because we are buying directly from the weavers, we can pass the savings on to you. Don’t be fooled by other websites selling similar scarves for $40 and up! Our direct purchase power allows for handmade, high quality at affordable prices. Our deliciously soft and elegant scarves are available in 3 styles: Loose Weave, Open Weave and Raw Silk. Reg. $35 each, Dec. 10-12 only, get 50% off. Now $17.50! Use code 72MTA50

Plant Power Salve
Plant Power Salve is a soothing DOUBLE strength infusion of dried and fresh comfrey, plantain, calendula, and echinacea leaf in a base of olive oil, beeswax and tea tree essential oil. Apply a thin layer over the irritated skin as often as needed. Great for chapped lips and skin, minor scrapes, bruises, bumps, and stings. Safe for humans and pets. Perfect small gift or stocking-stuffer. Reg. $14 each, Dec. 10-12 only, get 50% off. Now $7.00! Use code 72MTA50

Hair Sticks
Show off your beautiful hair with a hair stick accent. These ornamented sticks hold your hair in a bun while adding a playful attitude to your outfit. Great for dressing down or dressing up. Perfect for young and older girls alike. Reg. $10 each, Dec. 10-12 only, get 50% off. Now $5 each Use code 72MTA50

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it. - Proverbs 22:6
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