Lesson Pathways Blog » Deals & Steals: July 29

Piggy Bank Oh YES! It’s that time of the week again. It’s a deal lover’s delight, the bargain hunter’s paradise and the freebie queen’s source of fun. It’s DEALS & STEALS time!

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AND …. if you think this is good, be sure to join us next week, when we’ll be hosting giveaways galore as part of our Birthday Celebration!

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This week’s DEALS:

	Women’s Day Subscription – only $5.00 (normal cover price is $47.43) This magazine is written and edited for the contemporary woman in that it covers the various issues that are important to women today. Its feature articles are devoted to information on food and nutrition, health and fitness, beauty and fashion as well as the traditional values of home, family and children. The changing needs of women are also addressed with articles which focus on careers, money management, law and relationships.
	Vtech – Create-A-Story – Mickey Mouse Clubhouse $0.49 (not a typo!!! Save 98%!!!) Join Mickey and friends from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Based on the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse TV episode, “Mickey Go Seek,” the Create-A-Story provides the ultimate interactive reading experience. The Create-A-Story comes with two books, Read-A-Story and Create-A-Story and one software cartridge. Choose Read-A-Story mode to hear the “Mickey Go Seek” story and to play various learning activities. Or choose Create-A-Story for five different games that help you create a story of your own by choosing your own characters, backgrounds, objects and actions.
	Vtech – Create-A-Story – Finding Nemo $3.00 (Save 85%) Underwater adventure comes alive with the Finding Nemo Create-A-Story. This magical Disney Magic Storyteller comes with two booklets, Read-A-Story and Create-A-Story and one software cartridge. Choose Read-A-Story mode to hear a selected Nemo story and to play various Nemo learning activities. Or choose Create-A-Story for five different games that help you create a story of your own by choosing your own characters, backgrounds, objects and actions.
	Elmer’s Education KinderReady Eric Carle String Along $3.90 (74% off) Kinder-Ready is dedicated to helping your child get ready for kindergarten. Elmer’s Kinder ready series features the eye-catching artwork of Eric Carle, the popular author and illustrator of much-beloved children’s books including the Very Hungry Caterpillar. Each activity has great visuals, tons of fun and loads of learning-the perfect combination to help children get ready for kindergarten. For ages 3 and up. In the string along skill building kit you find 16 activity cards 1 lace for stringing 24 colored beads. This develops hand eye coordination as it teaches recognition of patterns and sequences.
	Magnext Dynamix Advanced Gears & Electronix $20.07 (you save 60%) Experiment with magnetic attraction and repulsion using this ingenious set of MagNext Dynamix Advanced Gears. Learn to control the way magnets move in relation to each other and metal. Take advantage of a bigger and sturdier pronged building plate upon which to design cool stuff with MagNext standard parts, and then make them spin in different ways. Build a futuristic museum of caged structures, a solar machine or any intricate contraption your imagination allows. Stack the spinning gears as you wish and build as high as you can. Press and place a MagNext sphere ball on button to keep the motor rotating and observe exciting, multi-directional action. Adjust and manipulate your designs to experience the power of magnets at work, moving your entire creation. Excellent for children 6 and up

This week’s STEALS:

Sharks Notebooking Unit
(Adobe Reader Required) Shark Week is coming and aquariums all around the U.S. are holding special shark related events. On Sunday August 1, the Discovery Channel’s “Happy Shark Week” begins with six new shark specials. Lynda Ackert has created a Shark Notebooking Unit that you can download for free! (Preview available) The Shark Notebooking Unit is 31 pages and contains a variety of colorful, fun pages for your kids to create a fantastic notebook all about sharks. In the unit you will find: 2 pages with maps, instructions and illustration on how to draw a shark, an acrostic poetry page, a newspaper page and much more.

Why? The Science Show for Kids Podcast
An informative podcast by Dr. Dave Brodbeck from Algoma University College, each episode is three to four minutes long and answers a science question like How Does Your Brain Make Your Fingers Move? or How Do Bees Make Honey?

abcteach – 5000+ free printables and worksheets
Abcteach has thousands of pages covering a variety of subjects, formats and different grade levels – worksheets, powerpoint, Pre-K, High School, ESL, Thinking Green, portfolios, flashcards – available to print for free. They also offer a custom worksheet generator to make your own documents.Membership is required to make your own documents and for access to the whole site. This could also be considered a Deal, though because becoming a member is only $3.33 a month.

State Educational Resources
Depending on what state you live in, you might find a plethora of free resources on your state’s Department of Education website. I can’t speak for all of them but here is one example: I live in Indiana and on it’s DOE website there is a page entitled Indiana Standards and Resources. On this page you can see the guidelines for what (according to the state) should be taught according to grade level and resources to use in your classroom, homeschool or otherwise.

This post was written by Shalynne A. and Christina S.

Shay lives in the cornfields of Indiana where she is a writer and happily married stay-at-home momma of two. She is relatively new to homeschooling and writes a blog called Wonderfully Chaotic.

Christina is a work-at-home-homeschooling-mom living in Detroit with her family. They just completed their 11th year of homeschooling and actively involved in the homeschooling community both online and off.