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My New eBook: How To Succeed As An Educational Printables Business

May 24, 2013 by Jill @ Enchanted Homeschooling Mom Leave a Comment

How To Succeed As An Educational Printables Business eBook

It is with great anticipation and extreme excitement that I can finally announce that my new eBook How To Succeed As An Educational Printables Business is ready for purchase for anyone that is interested, thinking about, or currently starting up their online educational printables business. I created this eBook with the intention of helping other educational printable creators start their businesses because when I started mine there was not a product like this eBook out there anywhere for me to use and reference. Over time I inquired almost everywhere I was participating, from forums, to Facebook communities, to my communities, the only response I seemed to get was “Wow, what a great idea. When you find it let me know too.’ So, with the same enthusiasm I share with creating my printables, I set about the task of writing this eBook for the past 6 months from my personal experiences with starting my Enchanted Homeschooling Brand. In this book I discuss everything you may … [Continue reading]

E.H.M. Member’s Only Website Memorial Day Sale

May 24, 2013 by Jill @ Enchanted Homeschooling Mom Leave a Comment

It’s hard to believe that it is already Memorial Day weekend and that this school year is winding down to an end. Have you seen some of my printable curriculums, unit studies, activity packs, and more but just have not taken the leap yet to purchase a membership? In honor of Memorial Day I will be running a special sale for all new members. By using the discount code memorialdaysale at checkout you will be able to get a lifetime membership to my E.H.M. Member’s Only Website for ONLY $10.00! That means that you will have instant access to all of my current curriculums, unit studies, activity packs and more today PLUS any future printables (I currently have well over 200+) that I create (and with 2 more curriculums being released in the next few months plus tons of more unit studies and activity packs the sky is the limit!). To purchase a membership to my E.H.M. Member’s Only Website for just click the link below. Don’t forget to use the discount code memorialdaysale at … [Continue reading]

Take Lessons Summer Kick Off Sale

May 23, 2013 by Jill @ Enchanted Homeschooling Mom 2 Comments

This post is a sponsor review. For full details read my disclosures found HERE. One of the many challenges I face as a homeschooling parent is scheduling all of my children’s enrichment classes around our daily learning and lives. I am very proud to introduce you all to a new to Enchanted Homeschooling Mom company called Take Lessons. This company takes all of the stress out the equation when you are trying to find private music teachers, art instructors, and academic tutors. This company has come to our family at just the right time since my husband and I have been looking into local music lessons for our children. Let me explain a little more about Take Lessons and what they can offer your family… Take Lessons has been in business in the U.S. since 2006 and has worked with over 30,000 students nationwide. As a parent in this day and age, one of my hesitations with any organization is the safety and well-being of my children. In an effort to provide a safe learning … [Continue reading]

Hearts for Home Blog Hop #18

May 23, 2013 by Jill @ Enchanted Homeschooling Mom 2 Comments

Welcome to the Hearts for Home Blog Hop! Each week I will be co-hosting this weekly blog hop on Thursdays with the wonderful Heather from Upside Down Homeschooling. Together we hope to be able to share some wonderful links with all of our readers ranging from parenting topics to homeschooling to children’s parties. With only a few weeks left in our school year the kids are putting in some hard work in hopes that they can start their summer vacation even earlier. How many more weeks do you have left until your summer vacation? 1. Most Clicked– Genesis: Joseph in Jail (Adventures in Mommydom) 2. Water Bead Science (Gift of Curiosity) 3. Germy Germs K-1 Unit (No Doubt Learning) 4. Pressing Flowers Tips (Montessori Tidbits) 5. Why We Homeschool (The Quick Journey) 6. 15 Name Games for Preschoolers (fun-a-day!) 7. Pond Pack (3 Dinosaurs) Welcome! Please make sure to link directly to your post (not your main blog page) … [Continue reading]

Update to Printable Monthly Writing Prompt Sets

May 22, 2013 by Jill @ Enchanted Homeschooling Mom 10 Comments

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Since it is spring time and spring is the time to give everything a good cleaning, I am have revised and given a nice clean face-lift to my Printable Monthly Writing Prompts Sets. Each set contains enough writing prompts and space to complete one writing prompt each school day for that month based on what our normal number of schools days are in that month. Each prompt set has a theme related to the month, but not all of the prompts themselves are necessarily themed to the month. In my opinion, these writing prompts are perfect for grades 1st and 2nd, but maybe even K or 3rd, depending on the level of your student. Please also note that I do not have writing prompts for the months of the months of June, July, or August because those are months that we only had a few days of school or are on our summer break. My Monthly Writing Prompts, like most of my over 190+ printable creations, are available only through my E.H.M. Member’s Only Website for a one time lifetime … [Continue reading]

What Time Is It, Mr. Wolf?

May 21, 2013 by Jill @ Enchanted Homeschooling Mom 2 Comments

My sidekick has recently developed a big interest in telling time, which we figure is mostly for the purpose of arguing about bedtime! He also loves to play “What Time Is It, Mr. Wolf?” In the standard version of the game, “Mr. Wolf” faces a wall away from the other players, who are standing well back. The other players shout “What time is it, Mr. Wolf?” Mr. Wolf yells out “3 o’clock!” or another number, and the other players take that many steps towards him. When they get close, the wolf’s answer becomes “Dinnertime!!!” and the wolf chases the others and captures someone, who then becomes the next Mr. Wolf. We played this, but with a twist. Instead of yelling out a time, I sticky-tacked a paper clock onto the wall. When the other players yelled out “What time is it, Mr. Wolf?” I didn’t yell out a time, but instead changed the time on the clock and the players had to figure it out so they knew how many steps to count. The next time we … [Continue reading]

Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse Storybook Fun

May 20, 2013 by Jill @ Enchanted Homeschooling Mom 2 Comments

*Affiliate links were used in this post. This month it was extremely challenging for Beck, Elizabeth, and I to select just one storybook since we all love Leo Lionni’s storybooks. After some discussions we decided to do one of our favorite Leo Lionni storybooks: “Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse”. Before we started reading the story I wanted to make sure that the kids had a friend to bring to the story time. I had a Winnie the Pooh moment over an afternoon cup of coffee trying to figure out how to have the kids create a life like Alexander. Then it hit me like Tigger bouncing into a room and knocking over Winnie the Pooh! Alexander was shaped rather like a plastic Easter egg. We have tons of plastic Easter eggs in our art supply closet upstairs! So I grabbed some brown Play Doh, a brown pipe cleaner, google eyes, some pink fuzz from a pom pom, construction paper, and a plastic Easter egg. Then Beck and Elizabeth got busy creating … Here is our final version of … [Continue reading]

Winners of my Giveaway Soiree Event

May 19, 2013 by Jill @ Enchanted Homeschooling Mom 1 Comment

This post contains giveaways. For full details read my disclosures found HERE. A big THANK YOU to everyone who has continued to follow along with our homeschooling journey. Rafflecopter has randomly selected the winners for each of the over 15+ prizes. All winners have been emailed and will have 7 days to respond to claim their prize or another winner will be chosen. If you have not received an email by Monday afternoon please contact me via email only in case my email may have been caught in one of your filters. I hope that you all enjoyed this giveaway event and I look forward to providing you will even more magical learning fun as the years go by! Giveaway Soiree Items LEGO® Set a Rafflecopter giveaway Christmas Around the U.S.A. Curriculum a Rafflecopter giveaway Members Only PowerPoints by 1+1+1=1 a Rafflecopter giveaway Reading in 1st Curriculum a Rafflecopter giveaway Story Book Artist Curriculum a … [Continue reading]

2nd Grade Curriculum for 2013 – 2014 School Year

May 18, 2013 by Jill @ Enchanted Homeschooling Mom 1 Comment

*This post contains affiliate links. I wanted to share with everyone the curriculum choices for next school year that we have made for our daughter who will be entering 2nd grade. This of course is not everything that she will be completing over the course of next school year but rather my overall game plan. I will be posting more links for every month in my Behind the Scenes series as I complete my lesson plans for the year that will include unit studies and themed topics. 2nd Grade 2013 - 2014 Language Arts and Spelling: McRuffy 2nd Grade Language Arts and Spelling, 2nd Grade Dolch Words Sight Wall Pack and Dolch Noun Words Sight Wall Pack. Writing: Writing With Ease, Disney Writing Prompts (free), Draw Write Now (we will be continuing on with books 1-8). Math: A+ TutorSoft (Use coupon code "ENCHANTED" to receive 20% OFF of the lowest listed prices on all software products on this website!), Life of Fred (once a week), 2nd Grade Daily Math Book. Social … [Continue reading]

Using Yarn Lines for Gross Motor

May 17, 2013 by Jill @ Enchanted Homeschooling Mom 3 Comments

One of the fundamentals of gross motor is balance. I often hear, "We can't practice walking on a balance beam because we don't have one." Well, guess what? I don't have one either, but I make do with what I have. It is very easy to make chalk lines outside or use a curb. Most often we are inside and don't get the chance to go out during the colder months or bad weather. I make up for that by using what I have at home. Originally, I was going to do this post with masking tape . But when I checked, it was almost gone! So I pulled out some yarn instead. What you need: masking tape (or yarn) and items to step over (pom poms). Start with simply walking across the yarn string. Work on stepping one foot right in front of the other foot. The idea is to see how slow they can go. Then work on stepping on the yarn line with the feet taking longer steps. After they have repeated the task above give them a challenge. Put something on the line they have to step over. It … [Continue reading]