WONDERFULLY WACKY GREEK ALPHABET TRICKS is the super silly and super fast way! to learn to your New Testament Greek Alphabet SOUNDS and LETTER NAMES! Do you want to learn the Greek Alphabet sounds today, and have what you've learned stick in your mind? Then this is for you! The hardest part of learning Hebrew for many people, is remembering the symbols of the Alphabet. Well, this wacky system makes remembering a breeze! It is simple and fun! This is a perfect complement to the "Read Greek Today" series- but can stand alone as well.

During the Month of October our Co-op group studied the History of Puppets. By and Large most children’s programming follows the route of Sesame Street and uses puppets of one sort or another. Children love these creations and learn rapidly from them.  Through this unit we covered the history of puppets, their design, and even made a few of our own. Enjoy!

"Every habit you form is one stone laid in your character."  is the first in a series of Coloring, Copywork, History, Character and Art Books series based on James Alexander's letters to his younger brother.

Your children can create a family keepsake that they will enjoy each year in their Advent celebration.  Each page of your Advent book will be a door that opens to a scripture passage and a picture that retells the story of the Birth of Jesus.  This is a wonderful family project! 

Each issue contains a Homeschool Unit Study. The unit study for November is Thanksgiving and Christmas.

We have the following sections: Home, Cooking, Devotions, Homeschooling, Paper Dolls and Coloring Pages, Gardening, Hobbies, Friends, Charity, a continuing story each issue, Music, Flat Sydney Adventures, WAHM's, FUN! - puzzles, humor column, Ask Mrs. Beth, Poems, Readers Pictures and Stories and Fine Stationery to print.

Every subscriber is invited to join Ruby Women, a private social networking site for Ruby subscribers only! We have all kinds of fun things going on there - a stitchery BOM, a card-making challenge to send home made cards to our soldiers overseas, some contests, a tag game, plus lots of pictures, fun discussions, prayer requests... and more all the time. I'd love to see you there!

We encourage reader participation - so we hope to hear from YOU!

A fun and exciting lapbook project to help your elementary-aged children learn about storms, whirlwinds and hurricanes.  Includes a teaching guide from which answers to all the mini-book questions can be answered, as well as links to interactive weather-related websites.  The Bible study section teaches your child that God is Lord over extreme weather and why we don't have to be afraid of the storms.  

This last and final installment of the Remember Me Pockets is as wonderful as they have always been. This month long file is filled with specifically designed paper work for students who do not like traditional paper work. Fortunately For You Books offers alternative worksheets to help this holiday month be filled with learning but taking the stress out of the planned schedule. Just check the calendar to see what we are learning about that day!
Included in this file you will find some famous author's biographies (Emily Dickinson, Cornelia Funke, Rudyard Kipling) and honorable mentions (D'Lacey, Porter[Pollyanna], and Gruelle[Raggedy Ann]).
Our reporters give their last interviews of the year with people who should be remembered for their great contribution to our world or for helping us learn how poor decisions affect your life and others. Interviewed are:Marie Tussaud,
George Custer, Walt Disney, Mary Todd Lincoln, Beethoven, Ladybird Johnson, Louis Pasteur, and Tiger Woods. What a great group to have met and gleaned life's lessons from!
Monthly and week long activities are provided for National BINGO month (can we say YEAH!!)and Cookie Cutter Week.
History takes front and center place in our daily activites. National Remembrance of Pearl Harbor uses and internet based activity to learn about the timeframe of this horrific day. The loss of American lives leaves the learner with a love and respect for our military.  The Boston Tea Party is an important subject covered this month. Students have no doubt heard about modern tea parties and it is important to give a clear understanding of where in history this has happened before. We provide you with a very good lesson for students who learn best with a quick summation and a visual connection.
And if that was not enough, The Lousiana Territory Purchase was finalized in December. We have used the AT YOUR SEAT format for this file. If you haven't tried this format yet, this is a good time to put it in the day's workboxes. We are pretty sure there will be a recollection of facts at the dinner table that night by using this style of worksheet.
Alabama and Texas became ratified states in December along with many others, but these popular lapbooks are included in the Remember Me December file. Others can be purchased separately to build your collection.
Shaking Up History is a fun way to acknowledge the many other recognitions that wouldn't fit into a month's lessons. Kids like this activity as it gives a quick overview of things that happened that month.
The holidays provide an abundance of activities.  We start with Hanukkah and learn how this important Jewish holiday is celebrated.  We also have a sweet little collection of Christmas files that are included. Puzzles, gift cards, and tic tac toe complete the month.
We hope you add this month's POCKETS to your collection and that your non classical learners have benefited from these pockets. We had a blast making them and we have learned so much ourselves.
Many blessings and Happy New Year!

Have some Christmas fun and make all kinds of precious Christmas memories with the kids! Our Christmas lapbook has study guide pages and lots of activities, crafts, games, recipes and more!! Includes

History of the Gingerbread Man (study guide)

Decorate the Gingerbread Man activity (craft)

Gingerbread Men (recipe)

The History of the Advent Calendar (study guide)

Fill out a December Calendar (activity)

Advent Calendar (activity)

What are Family Traditions (study guide)

Write about your family traditions (activity)

Doing Something Special for Someone Else (activity)

The Christmas Tree (study guide)

Unscramble the Christmas Tree Words (activity)

Make an Edible Ice Cream Christmas Tree (recipe)

Santa’s Reindeer (study guide)

Santa’s Reindeer (activity)

Recipe for Making a Special Treat for Santa’s Reindeer (activity)

And much, much more.

See sample pages for a complete Table of Contents.

51 pages!

Amazing American States and Capitals with Clever Comics Memory System

There are 50 cartoons with clever puns to teach each state and capital. No longer do you have to rely on rote memory for this seemly endless list of states and capitals. The ingenious Clever Comics Memory System is a mnemonic system which utilizes visual images along with easy-to-recall mental cues making learning easy, quick and long term. Because this system taps into many areas of the brain, it is a must for Visual-Spatial learners.

HOW TO USE: The best way to learn the states is by region. Use the cards as flash cards and memorize the states and capitals in that region. When these are memorized, move on to the sequential region until you have all of them memorized. Each card is numbered and the correct answer and spelling of each state and capital can be found on the master list.

When all of the states and capitals are learned, they are reinforced, reviewed and tested with two full colored games: 

• The State Region Game 
• To State it Simply It’s a Capital Game

While each area is being studied, there are activities in a companion workbook that reinforce them. The Amazing American States and Capitals Workbook includes: 

• I Can Name that State and Capital Game
• Spelling Counts 
• Spelling Tests on Capitals and States 
• Crossword Puzzles
• Capital and State Bingo
• Creative Writing of Silly Stories

These pages can be made into a booklet with a cover of the map containing all the cartoons. All of this makes for enjoyable and highly successful learning. The skills developed here can be used for learning lists or to spell problem words in other subjects. 

For more activities there is the Amazing American States and Capitals Coloring Book.

When God made the world He planted the flowers and the grass and the trees to make things beautiful to look upon; He swung the sun and the moon and the stars in the sky to make things bright; He put the birds in the trees to fill the air with music, and when He made the animals we believe that he intended them to be the friends of man.

Why, isn't the dog the best playmate that a boy can have? Did any one ever hear of Towser or Gyp being false friends? And the soft, dainty, cunning bit of a fluffy ball of a kitten who comes rubbing its downy sides against the tiny girl's skirts begging for a return caress, is there a play-fellow more lovable? And the squirrel who comes begging at the window for nuts; the bunny rabbit who snuggles its delicate nose, trustingly, under the little boy's chin; the horse who has been man's friend in times of trouble and of peace, bearing his burdens or scampering with him over the fields and roads in play; the cow who has sent her good milk to the babies of all time; the sheep and the goats who have given of their wool to keep us warm,—we love them all dearly.

This delightful book contains poems for all the animals listed in the Index. For each poem there are pages for Tracing and Copywork, training lines for very young learners and for the enthusiastic learner I have included Cursive Copywork Pages at the end of the book.

The truly exquisite illustrations were created by by M.T. Ross.