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Thanksgiving Planners For Everyone

Holiday Planning Book  –Make your own holiday planner with a little help from Ocean Spray –just choose the sections and topics that you want to include in your ebook and click “create”.

YumSugar Thanksgiving Planner  –Basic 1-page planner.

Free Thanksgiving Menu And Planner  –Thanksgiving shopping list and recipes from Leanne Ely, 7pages.

    –Includes 3 different menus, tips and activities for younger and older children. Compliments of  www.MenuPlanningCentral.com. 

Free Thanksgiving Planner –Nice little 8 page planner in notebook format. Ebook includes blank calendar; pages for the menu, guest list, seating arrangement, notes and ideas; recipe cards and shopping list. Some of the pages can be used as Thanksgiving notebooking pages.

How To Dance Through Thanksgiving  –This extensive, 27-page report from Common Sense Living contains: tips for starting early, a housekeeping plan, shopping lists, menu planning, checklists, recipes and more.

Thrifty Thanksgiving Ebook  –Tips and ideas from Money Management International for a frugal Thanksgiving; including planning, decorating, traveling, stretching your Thanksgiving dinner, leftovers, traditions and much more.

Thanksgiving E-Cookbooks

Martha Stewart Thanksgiving Hotline Recipes Cookbook  -Collection of 30 recipes from Martha Stewart, Emeril Lagasse, Nigella Lawson, Jean-George Vongerichten, Mario Batali and many more. Download the full ebook or individual chapters.

Thanksgiving With Diabetes Cookbook –17 delicious low-carbohydrate Thanksgiving recipes from DiabetesDaily.com. You must create an account (free) to download ebook.

Healthy Thanksgiving Recipe Ebook –Sign up with Quality Health and download this little ebook of 21 healthy variations of Thanksgiving recipes.

Taste Of Home Thanksgiving Cookbook –Free digital edition of Taste Of Home’s October/November 2009 Complete Thanksgiving Cookbook edition. Very large file –44.4MB. More past issues available.

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: Cooking, free e-books, holidays, organizing, printable forms, recipes, Thanksgiving, time management

Homeschool Freebie of the Day has a great line-up of holiday freebies this week.

Monday, November 16: The Christmas Cookie Plates Project (pdf ebook) – This excellent ebook by Sheri Graham contains complete instructions on how to make over 30 cookie plates PLUS recipes, shopping lists, planning forms, and more! The "Cookie Plates Project" begins right after Thanksgiving, so you will want to make sure to save it, then print it out so you are ready to start!

Tuesday, November 17: How to Avoid the "Embarrassed Parent" Syndrome this Holiday Season (mp3 audio) -In this concise audio seminar, Cindy Carrier shares some practical training strategies and tips that can help make your holiday season more peaceful as you deal with parties, over-indulgence, selfishness, and more. Great tips and training suggestions!

Wednesday, November 18: Joyful Momma’s Guide to Christmas Gingerbread & Other Holiday Treats (pdf ebook) -This little ebook is all about Gingerbread and other Christmas treats, including instructions and patterns for making a gingerbread house, some great recipes for Gingerbread, Venetians, Turkish Delight and some favorite hot beverages your family will enjoy around the holidays.

Thursday, November 19: Let’s Sing About Thanksgiving (mps audio & pdf lesson guide) -A vintage Thanksgiving-themed music lesson from back in the day when rural schools got their music lessons over the radio. Learn some simple songs about Thanksgiving, and hear a short story about the Pilgrims. PLUS: An extra classic Thanksgiving Audio program for your listening pleasure!

Friday, November 20: Making the Holidays Family Friendly (pdf ebook) -Penny Raine brings us this excellent guide to planning holiday times for your family so they are nurturing, memorable celebrations instead of unrealistic, high-stress occasions. Don’t miss this!

Blessings,

Denese

For even more free educational resources, please check my educational freebies tag archive and my Free Homeschooling Page.

Tags: cookies, Cooking, education freebies, free audio, free e-books, holidays, recipes

“The Mother’s Heart Magazine is dedicated to serving and encouraging mothers in the many facets of staying at home and raising a family. It deals with practical and heart issues of moms – and dads. There are columns on child raising, husband and wife relationships, herbal healthcare, and adoption. Regular features include crafts, educational helps, trusting God for family planning, infertility and scheduling. Plus Kym shares many of her household forms created to make life easier: children’s measurement forms, library form, chore charts, homeschooling and more.”

The Mother’s Heart online magazine is published 6 times a year by Mark and Kym Wright; subscriptions are free.

Related posts you may be interested in:

Free Online Magazine For The Ladies

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: children, encouragement, free magazines

Should Christians send their children to public schools?

“Learn about how the public school system began, and by whom. What was the original intent of this system? As a Christian parent, can you confidently make the decision to place your child in the public school environment day after day, year after year?
What is being taught there?
What is the national drop-out rate?
Is God being honored . . . respected . . . lifted up?

Become informed, forearmed, and forewarned about placing your child in the public school system when you read . . .
Are Public Schools an Option for Christian Kids? By d’Escoto, Harper, Marcum, and Suarez”

This ebook is free from The Old Schoolhouse Magazine but I don’t know how long it will be available, so download it while you can.

Additional reading:

Underground History of American Education –written by John Taylor Gatto, a former New York State Teacher Of The Year. Read free online.

Deliberate Dumbing Down of America (free pdf) –by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, former Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Dept. of Education.

Legally Stupid: Thousands are functionally illiterate 

The Blumenfeld Education Letter –the basis of Samuel L. Blumenfeld’s book “The Whole Language/OBE Fraud”.

NEA General Counsel: It is not because we care about children

NEA strays from education agenda

14 Percent of U.S. Adults Can’t Read

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

Proverbs 22:6

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: American history, education freebies, free e-books, illiteracy

Green Thumb Family -Family and children’s gardening ideas, videos and projects.

Grow a Vegetable in a Bottle

The Great Plant Escape –interactive, unlock the amazing mysteries of plant life with Detective LePlant and his partners, Bud and Sprout.

The Adventures of Herman –the autobiography of Squirmin’ Herman the worm.

Composting with Willie the Worm

Start a pond or bog garden –create mini-ponds and a mini-bog garden. Teachers notes, curriculum and activity sheets.

The Butterfly Website: Butterfly Gardening

Related Posts:

A Gardening Conversation And Some Free Online Resources For Gardening With Children

Buy a Can of Campbell’s Soup and Get Free Tomato Seeds

Homeschool/Education Freebies: Flowers and Wildflowers

Neat Links: Nature and Spring

 

Happy gardening,

Denese

Tags: children, education freebies, gardening, hands-on activities, nature

Gratitude Notebooking Pages – set of 27 notebooking pages, each page includes a scripture relating to gratitude. Free this week from CurrClick.

The Attitude of Gratitude Lapbook – from Homeschool Helper, for grades 1-6.

Gratitude Journals – “Instead of having kids write "about" their day or weekend, have them write 5 things that they were grateful for during that time.” From Teachers.Net, lower grades.

How to Teach Small Children Gratitude with Art – make a a “gratitude” art display.

Teaching Children to be Grateful – a good article for parents with ideas on teaching your children gratitude.

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: children, education freebies, virtues

Hymns of the Christian Church -A collection of classic Christian hymns spanning the centuries. Some hymns are read and others are sung -download one or all, from Librivox.

New Hope Music -over 500 original Scripture-based songs and hymns. Midi-files, mp3 files, sheet music, guitar chords and much more.

The Open Hymnal Project -a free, public domain, downloadable database of Christian hymns, spiritual songs, and prelude/postlude music.

Hymnary.org -hymnals, tunes, bibliographical information, and full scores of many hymns.

Denese

Tags: free audio, hymns, Worship

Reading Comprehension

Pockets of Time for Tonight on the Titanic -A reading comprehension activity e-book for the Magic Treehouse book “Tonight on the Titanic”. Free for the month of April from Fortunately For You Books.

Writing

Pet Friends Happy Scribe Copybook -Your little scribes will learn about pets while improving their handwriting. April’s freebie from Westvon Publishing.

Learn Hebrew

Read Hebrew Today Level 2 -revolutionary reading method to learn Hebrew. Learn to read two syllable Hebrew words within minutes. Free weekly product from CurrClick -check their freebie section for more free products.

The Resurrection

Homeschool Radio Shows has two audio stories for us this week about the Resurrection of Jesus.

The Passion, Death & Resurrection
-A great dramatic interpretation of the scriptural story of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ, originally broadcast on Family Theatre on April 17, 1957.

The Son of Man -the story of the crucifixion and resurrection — told entirely using KJV Scripture readings from all four of the Gospels. This is an episode of the CBS Radio Workshop from April 21, 1957.

Denese

Tags: education freebies, free audio, Language Arts

Did you miss all the free "time management" resources that Homeschool Freebie of the Day had last week?

Homeschool Freebies This Week: More Time Management Resources

The Erskines are on Spring Break and won’t be posting any new freebies this week -so they have kept all of last week’s time management resources available.

New freebies will return next week.

Related Posts:

• Homeschool and Household Time Management and Planning Freebies

Denese

Tags: education freebies, free e-books, time management

Bad Ladybugs

Do you have ladybug problems? In your house?

Here in Tennessee we have an imported menace -the Asian  Lady Beetle. They swarm into your house in the winter time and are so numerous that I know people who vacuum them out of their house every day! They bite too!

There may be a way to get rid of them -catnip!

Catnip To The Rescue

There is a  substance in catnip called "nepetalactone" that repels mosquitoes, flies and other bugs. According to recent Agriculture Research Service research, "nepetalactone"  also repels the Asian  Lady Beetle.

Venable: Nothing ladylike about ‘em

Catnip Compounds Curb Asian Lady Beetles

Grow Catnip Now: Keep Asian Lady Beetles Outside Next Fall

More About Catnip

Chemical and Engineering News: Catnip

A Modern Herbal, by Mrs. M. Grieve: Catmint (Catnip)

Catnip Repels Mosquitoes More Effectively Than DEET -ScienceDaily Aug. 28, 2001

Farmers’ Almanac Spotlight on Herbs Video: Catnip -Learn some practical uses for the herb Catnip.

Home remedy for colic: Catnip/Fennel Tea

Related Posts:

• Home Remedies/Folk Medicine
• Free Resources For Learning About Herbs

Now all I need is something to repel the cats from the catnip…they eat it all before it gets big enough to harvest!

Denese

Tags: herbs, News