CurrClick Contest: win an iPod Shuffle
September 23, 2009 by AmyS
CurrClick has a Cross Country Team and we need your help with our T-Shirts! Write the winning tagline for our Team Shirts & you could win an iPod Shuffle! Kids & parents are welcome to participate. Click here to find out more about the CurrClick Cross Country Team.
Send your ideas to staley@currclick.com by 5:00 p.m. CST, Thursday October 1st, with the subject line “T-Shirt Tagline”. So, be creative, have fun, and don’t forget to follow the contest rules!
Contest Rules:
- Taglines should be short and catchy and should somehow incorporate the word “homeschoolers,” “homeschooling,” or “homeschool” into the text of the tagline.
- Taglines should NOT be specific to running, but should focus on hard work and achievement. We plan to use these T-shirts for our other clubs, and sports teams, so we need to make sure your tagline is general enough to work for all sports or clubs.
- Special consideration will be given to taglines that incorporate our company name, “CurrClick.com.”
- Special consideration will be given to taglines that are inspired by or a derivation of our existing tagline, “Curriculum and Classes in a Click.”
- Submissions should be sent in an e-mail to staley@currclick.com by 5:00 p.m. CST, Thursday October 1st, 2009 with the subject line “T-shirt Tagline.”
- Please include no more than 7 taglines per e-mail submission.
- Submissions MUST include name, age, and a short bio about the entrant.
- Publishers, teachers, employees and their children are welcome to participate in this contest!
- In the unlikely event that we receive 2 identical submissions, we will choose the winner via coin flip.
Prizes and Notification:
- You will NOT be notified that we received your submission. Entries that are not chosen will not be notified.
- The owner of the winning tagline will be notified on October 10th and the ipod shuffle will be mailed on October 15th. The winner will also be mailed a t-shirt as soon as they are designed and printed!
Join Amy Bayliss and her son Gevan for a special event and giveaway!
July 13, 2009 by The Amies
Sign up for CurrClick Live’s Meet and Greet Open House Wednesday, July 15th, from 7-9 PM CST including a FREE, totally live kids activity presented by Heart of the Matter Online. Amy Bayliss and her son Gevan will be leading a Flat Stanley, pen pal activity for kids of all ages!
Teachers will be answering questions, giving presentations about their classes and “handing out” enrollment discounts!
You can register here, right now!
OPEN HOUSE SCHEDULE:
7:00-7:15- Wieck Math and Science LC: Melinda Wieck discusses the Beginning and Advanced, Live Algebra classes she’ll be offering in the fall. Melinda is a highschool Math and Science teacher.
7:15-7:30 – Bright and Blessed: Susan Bertrang is a Georgia Certified Teacher with over 10 years of teaching experience. Find out about her wide variety of fun, self-paced classes such as, “Getting to Know Shakespeare” and ‘Writing Well.”
7:30-7:45 – Lessons Worth Learning: Loretta Rhodes, homeschool Mom of 4 and a teacher of 20 years talks about her very popular live History, Geography and Literature classes and answers questions.
7:45-8:00 – Triple G Academy:Angie Marcum talks about her popular Art and Nature classes as well as her academic Saxon-based Algebra I and II classes. Mrs. Marcum is a homeschool Mom with her BS in Secondary Mathmatics.
8:00-8:15 – Become a CurrClick Live Teacher Q&A:Interested in teaching for CurrClick Live? Attend this discussion, find out more and get your questions answered. Staley Krause, one of the CurrClick/CurrClick Live founders discusses the ins and outs of teaching for CurrClick Live.
8:15-8:30 – MathTools: Patrick Martin, homeschool Dad and Math teacher and tutor, will discuss his live math lab, where he helps students with math problems they may be having, and his 1 on 1 live tutoring option.
8:30-9:00 – Heart of the Matter Online: Night time activity for kids courtesy of Amy Bayliss and her son from Heart of the Matter Online.
Earth Day Giveaway
April 6, 2009 by The Amies
The winner is Melissa of Sweet Serendipity.
Are you ready for Earth Day 2009?
Earth Day provides an excellent opportunity for us as homeschooling parents to teach our kids to take care of the wonderful world God has created for us!
The theme this year is The Green Generation
Let your kids share their thoughts on recycling by participating in CurrClick.com’s Green Generation Cartoon Caption Contest
CurrClick.com is giving a $25.00 Gift Certificate here at Heart of the Matter Online
Simply go to www.CurrClick.com and choose your favorite title(s) up to $25. Then, leave a comment sharing the title(s). Don’t forget to leave a direct link to the title so others can check it out your pick. Comments will be closed on Thursday, April 9th at 10:00pm EST and the winner will be notified by email.
Review: Evan Moor’s Take it to your Seat series
My favorite new homeschooling tool is Learning Center Activities. To create centers within my home I simply place hands-on activities in an area of our home for my children to go to as a transitional activity, or during their free time, if they choose. Although they are many wonderful hands-on manipulatives that can be purchased, many of which I’ve reviewed for Heart of the Matter, one of my new favorite finds is Evan-Moor’s Take it to your Seat series, available as both a standard book or ebook. Using this series you can create your own hands-on activity centers inexpensively. Although they are obviously created for classroom use, they work perfectly in our homeschool and are simple to make and are a great way to review, reinforce or introduce skills. We’ve even taken them with us to restaurants and are a great way to pass the time anytime you find yourself waiting.
Literacy Centers: Take it to your Seat Grades K-1
Includes everything you need to create 12 centers that cover beginning reading skills practice. All of the activities can be done on a table or on the floor and allow students to self-check if desired. Step-by-step illustrated instructions for creating a bag center and instructions for using each center are also included and are easy to understand. Each center activity also includes a coordinating worksheet.
Activities included in this center:
Find the pairs of matching lower case letters & words
Read the color & place the paint brushes in the correct jar
Positional words: Read the word on the sorting mat and select an appropriate picture.
Rhyming Puzzles: Name the picture you see and find three other pictures that rhyme.
Word Families: Sort Kangaroo joeys into the correct mother Kangaroo’s pouch.
Following Directions: Using illustrated cards follow the instructions to create simple drawings
Alphabet order: Adhere lower case letters to a giraffe in order
Categorization: Sort pictures into groups
Real and Make Believe: Sort pictures into groups of things that are real and things that are not.
Make a word using beginning and ending sounds
Rebus Story
Word Family Puzzles: Read a word card and put it on the correct mat. Then flip cards and arrange puzzle.
Take it to your Seat: Phonics Centers level B
Included are instructions and cut-outs for creating 13 envelope center activities using 9 x 12 envelopes. All of the activities can be done at a desk or on the floor. Activities are included for: visual discrimination, rhyming words, word families, matching upper and lower case letters, listening for initial consonant sounds, listening for final consonant sounds, listening for initial and final consonant sounds, and short vowels.
Both series are available standard book or ebook form. Available for purchase from Currclick or from Evan Moor.
Attention ebook users: If you use the ebook version make sure that you glue the backs onto your manipulatives before using if you want your child to be able to self-check, otherwise you won’t have the color coding on the back of the cards.
Karin Katherine is a proud stay-at-home mother of four who feels blessed to be the mother of 5 year old fraternal twin boys and two daughters, ages three and 10 months. You are invited to follow her homeschooling adventures at www.PassportAcademy.com and her adventures as a mother, wife, homemaker, decorator and organizer at www.MommyMattersBlog.com
Review: Little Kids Draw
January 18, 2009 by Karin
Little Kids Draw by Teacher’s Friend Publications is a wonderful little book for preschool parents to help develop beginning drawing and writing skills. This easy to follow packet provides fine motor skill practice through through a series of worksheet activities including: tracing lines and simple shapes, coloring and adding details to a picture, and following 6-step instructions to draw objects on their own. This artistically challenged mama was even able to draw an elephant from one of the worksheets—-to the amazement and pleasure of her children!
Appropriate for preschoolers- 2nd graders. Click here to preview the first few pages.
Available from Scholastic or Currclick for $6.99
Karin Katherine is a proud stay-at-home mother of four who feels blessed to be the mother of 5 year old fraternal twin boys and two daughters, ages three and 10 months. You are invited to follow her homeschooling adventures at www.PassportAcademy.com and her adventures as a mother, wife, homemaker, decorator and organizer at www.MommyMattersBlog.com
