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Back to Homeschool!
or back to a fuller schedule for those of us that don’t take the summer off.
Back to school activities, back to school sports, back to school regular bedtimes (yay!)
I know some of us head into fall kicking up our heels with glee to be back to a regular schedule and others feel like we are being dragged kicking and screaming from the lazy days of summer.
Whichever the case may be for you, it doesn’t hurt to get the season started with the chance to win some great items. Items that will hopefully bring peace and joy to your day.
Homeschooling the Simple Yet Effective Way!
First things first, what is missing from the above photo is that you can also win a digital version of Homeschool Made Simple – You can read my post about how this DVD has crystalized our homeschool mission. I know it will make a difference in your homeschool too.
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Simplicity Parenting – I have read this book several times and each time I gain something new. A friend recently reminded me of this book and thought it was perfect to include in the basket. Our lives are so overwhelming most of the time, but it doesn’t always have to be like that! Tons of practical, real life tips to help make life less chaotic.
The Door in the Wall – One of our favorite family read alouds. A sweet story about trusting God’s plan even when it’s vastly different from our own.
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Bloom Daily To Do List – This is a short and sweet git r done list. The one shown is not the exact one I have in the basket. It must be a popular item because I just ordered this! Trust me though, it’s super cute and functional as well.
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Coffee Cup – His Grace is sufficient for me – Who doesn’t want to start the day with a cup of grace? 🙂 Plus the colors are so pretty.
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Pilot G2 pens – My favorite pens for everyday use, use in my planner, pretty much anything.
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Flair pens – My favorite pens for writing in my planner, love the colors!
Using nice, colorful pens along with a planner I adore, are little ways I can add beauty and fun to mundane tasks. I hope these items are as enjoyable to you to use in your homeschool day as it was for me to pick them out. Many blessings on your new school year!
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Such wonderful goodies!
our family loves berenstain bear’s stories 🙂
We love Little House books for read alouds.
My favorite family read allowed is The Jungle Book. I loved when my dad read it to us and kids and it was so wonderful reading it to my kids (:
We have many favorite family read alouds, but Homer Price comes to mind as something we have enjoyed, and also A Christmas Carol. Thank you for offering your lovely basket of goodies!
Great giveaway Jen!
Thanks 🙂
We love to read biographies!
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander.
Stinky cheese man
we loved the Narnia books
Great basket! We love Christian Heroes: Then and Now series.
Our favorites are the Kingdom Keepers series.
Little House on the Prairie!
So glad to have found your blog! Thank you 🙂
Our favorite read aloud is Little House books or Charlotte’s Web
Tales for Catholic Boys & Girls and More Tales for Catholic Boys & Girls
Tales for Catholic Boys and Girls and More Tales for Catholic Boys and Girls.
Love these giveaways!!
We read aloud all our books!
We like to read the Chronicles of Narnia series!
We are currently enjoying The Boxcar Children series.
Right now we are enjoying The Green Ember and Swallowdale. It’s hard to pick a favorite as we usually like everything we read.
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cat in the hat
So far, The Golden Goblet, although By The Great Horn Spoon was a close second.
EB White books, ie. Charlotte’s Web. Thanks for the giveaway!
Jesus Storybook Bible
Winnie-the-Pooh at the moment 😉
Our favorite read alouds are all the Harry Potter books. We read through them and then start at the first again.
We loved the Little House books and also Understood Betsy!
How to pick a favorite? Some of our favorites are from Patricia St. John.
The children’s Bible. My daughter has had it read to her every night since she was 6 months old.
Ju ju’s house was a great read!
I have to pick just one? 🙂 We recently read “By the Great Horn Spoon!” and the boys LOVED it and I had a great time reading it to them.
The Bible first
The Cooper Kids books by Frank Peretti.
We love the Little House series for our read-alouds!
summer of the monkies
Little house series
Always looking for new family read alouds! And the coffee cup is perfect for a homeschool mama!!
We love reading Boxcar Children, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter and the Berenstein Bears. I would love to start reading Little House on the Prairie with them as well.
We like the Little House books
Our favorite read aloud is Otis the Tractor books. My kids enjoy piling up on the bed at night with me and reading these books. I’ve read them so much I don’t even look at the words on the pages because I know them by heart!?
Our favorite read aloud lately has been Old Mother West Wind by T. Burgess. I can’t wait to read A Door in the Wall one day soon. Thanks for the giveaway.
We loved reading Alice and the Looking Glass.
The Chronicles of Narnia Series is our favorite read aloud.
We love so many wonderful picture books. We are currently loving the My First Little House books!
The Narnia series has always been my favorite read aloud.
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The Lord of the Rings is an ultimo favorite read aloud. We have also really enjoyed the Christmas Carol and the Wizard of OZ. But it’s so hard to say because there are so many great ones! Wonderful giveaway!
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Oh, so hard to choose a favorite! We loved the Ralph Moody series!
My boys love Where the Red Fern Grows. It is our go to read aloud.
Ive been enjoying the Magic Treehouse series for read a loud time. Thank you for this drawing.
the Bible!
I love this giveaway! It’s like it was made for me, these are all things I would choose for myself. 🙂 Oddly enough, our favorite family read aloud to date was a children’s version of Corrie Ten-Boom’s book, The Hiding Place. All ages loved it and they would beg me to read “just one more chapter”!
Mary Poppins our favorite right now.
We don’t really have a favorite family read a loud but my daughter enjoys doing something with her hands while I read to her.
My boys enjoyed Mr Popper’s Penguins. 🙂
Our favorite read-aloud is House on Pooh Corner. I’ve never laughed so hard at a book in my life!
Kingdom Tales has been our favorite.
My oldest whose 5 loves anything related to the Bible for read aloud. My youngest whose 3 prefers anything goofy or silly to read.
We are enjoying reading Tom Sawyer out loud right now.
I love reading most any book!
We enjoy reading James Herriot’s stories.
Right now the kids really like to have poems read aloud!
We like reading The Giving Tree. Thanks for the chance to win!!
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Favorite read aloud? Too many but probably the Children’s Story Bible, Narnia, 39 Clues, Boxcar Children, and now we are reading Rush Revere.
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Our fave family book is Charlotte’s Web! Thanks for this giveaway! 🙂
So far Once Upon A Time Saints and maybe Mary Poppins or Stuart Little.
It’s a toss up between the Narnia Series or the YWAM books about missionaries.
I was going to say the Little House on the Prairie but my top favorite is a Dr. Seuss book, Are You My Mother? lol
So far The Tales of Despereaux .
I can’t pick a favorite! We read a lot of books together. My 4-year-old loves me to read him the Magic Tree House books.
We like the Little House on The Prarie series
Our favorite all time read aloud is Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes. Even though my son is 12, our family still loves this book. Last year we began homeschooling and discovered Charlotte Mason. We enriched our co-op history of the Civil War through WWII with many living books. Your Peace for Mom’s basket give away would be a great addition to our homeschool as we are studying the Middle Ages and The Door in the Wall is one of the books we plan to read. Also, Homeschool Made Simple looks awesome.
Mine are littles so our favorite is Little Blue Truck
Tough to pick a fave read-aloud but the Little House books are always fun!
Great items!!
Our favorite is a little princess
Love You Forever
At the moment our favorite is the Little House series
We loved the Little House on the Prairie books to read out loud.
Winnie the Pooh has been our favorite read aloud so far!
What a delightful give-away!! You always think of the best things!
Our favorite family read aloud is “Lord of The Rings” by JRR Tolkien.
Our favorite is “Lord of The Rings” by JRR Tolkien
We really enjoy reading the Chronicles of Narnia aloud!
It’s hard to say what our favorite read aloud is beings as we have a wide age range, but probably our all time favorite is James Herriot’s Treasury for Children.
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The Jungle Book
Nice giveaway! We like Where The Red Fern Grows, and the Shiloh series also.
We love the Moody Family series by Sarah Maxwell. We have read through them at least once a year for the past few years!
We love My Father’s Dragon and Charlotte’s Web!
One would be The Hobbit
We are currently enjoying The Secret Garden as a read aloud, but we’ve also enjoyed the Narnia series, Little House series, and many more.
The Chronicles of Narnia
We’ve had lots. I remember particularly enjoying the Secret Garden. We are currently reading the Elevator Ghost.
My kids loved the Narnia series.
Our current favorite book is Lion King!
The Hobbit
We loved the Viking Quest Series!
At the moment we are liking The Magic Tree House
We loved the Little House on the Prairie series.
We read a Bible story book together often… and many many children’s books!
I love to start my homeschool morning with a cup of coffee. A new pretty mug would be nice. 🙂
Our favorite read aloud is the Bible. For books we have enjoyed Betsy, Tacy & Tib, Cappyboppy, The Hobbit and God’s Smuggler.
Our favorite read aloud is Junie B. Jones
We are enjoying the Redwall series.
The Bible or any of the Little House books.
Little House in the Big Woods.
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Awesome giveaway!!
Our favorite family read alouds are the YWAM Christian Heros. We love the missionary stories!!
our copy of above book is falling apart! I told my hubby I need a new copy :). I think Winnie the Zpooh or Charlotte’s Web would be at the very top of our list!
My children and I have enjoyed reading the Guardians of Childhood books by William Joyce. They are filled with such imagination and beautiful words!
We have had a number of favorites, but top of the list has to be Outlaws of Ravenhurst.
Our favorite books are the Old Disney and Golden Books !
We love The Clever Carpenter and Farmer Boy
Our CURRENT favorite read-aloud is The Lord of the Rings series. ( We are reading The Two Towers right now). So hard to pick just one!! 🙂
Charlotte’s Web , cat in the hat ,
Little Red Hen and On the day you were born are favorites.
I’m not sure that we have a favorite but the little guys and I just finished Understood Betsy.
We don’t have a favorite but we just finished Understood Betsy.
We love reading the Soup books by Robert Newton Peck.
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There’s Jake and The Pirates books and June B. Great giveaway chance. Thank you.
Carol L
I don’t see my comment so I’ll try again. Jake and The Pirates and June B. Thanks for the giveaway chance.
Carol L
Bible time
Favorite? Impossible to choose just one…
We’ve had the most fun reading Black Sand: Scavengers of the Carbon Waste.
We are currently reading and thoroughly enjoying The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
My son loves to read any of the Hank the Cow Dog books to us; he uses different voices for each character, which makes then especially funny.
Our favorite family read-aloud is our Bible/devotional time, but we also love Narnia and Little House revisits!
The bible
Our favorite family read aloud (so far) is Charlotte’s Web!
The Littles
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Rasmus & Vagabond (by the author of Pippi Longstocking) has been our favorite read-aloud as a family. Even my husband enjoyed it.
the chronicles of narnia
simplicity parenting is on my want to read list!!
The unabridged original Swiss Family Robinson is our current pick!
We love Detectives in Togas & The Mystery of the Roman Ransom and The Little House books. We have read them over and over.
fave read aloud so far- Narnia!!
Charlotte’s Web and Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Our current favorite is The Wind In the Willows.
Children’s Book of Virtues or the regular Book of Virtues!
“Twas The Night Before Christmas”. Thanks for the great giveaway.
Marilyn
We’re currently reading Little house on the prairie.
Little House on the Prairie series 🙂
I am hoping that Farmer Boy becomes one of my sons’ favorites . . . I love all the Little House books and since they are boys – a good place to s tart.
We love to read missionary stories.
We’ve had a lot of family read alouds that have been fun – The Wind in the Willows was a hoot!
We love so many, but our current favorite is Little House in the Big Woods. 🙂 I love the feeling of stepping back in time as we read. We also just finished the first book in a fun mystery series called Too Smart Jones.
Thanks for hosting this great giveaway! My family LOVES to read the Bible and Cooper Kids adventure series by Frank Peretti aloud as a family.
Thanks for the great giveaway! My family LOVES the Bible and Cooper Kids adventure series by Frank Peretti.
My kids are looking forward to us starting The Chronicles of Narnia books in a few weeks.
Anything Dr Seuss
Anything from Usborne books is our favorite read a loud. 🙂
The Boxcar Children books and the Bible. Thank you so much for the opportunity to win this amazing prize basket!
My youngest daughter…any of the Breyer horse series or Magic Tree House books.
Love all the items in the basket. We’ve read the Harry Potter series, the Osbourne series 365, and now we’re reading Green Ember which you recently recommended. Excellent book choice! TG ask for all of the great advice.
Our favorite read aloud is Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories!
Our mother daughter devotional!!
Our favorite family read-aloud is The Chronicles of Narnia.
So far, Pippi Longstocking has been our favorite read-aloud.
Black Beauty is a favorite of ours.
Scriptures
Right now, the favorite read-aloud is early Bible stories. We brew some tea, get out cookies and have a few stories together.
My favorite family read aloud has always been Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
We love Harry Potter!
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That is a hard question! I would have to say the Miss Piggle-Wiggle series is our favourite to read aloud. 🙂
There are so many wonderful books that I don’t think I could choose a single one. Right now, I am reading my girls The Twinkle Tales by L. Frank Baum and my husband is reading them Magic by the Lake.
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Anything Dr. Suess
Our favorite is the Children’s Bible, and Tickle Monster.
We finished up Mr. Popper’s Penguins this summer and really enjoyed it.
Anything we can sit together & enjoy 🙂
Some of our recent read-aloud favorites are the “Little House” series by Laura Ingalls Wilder and the “Rush Revere…” series by Rush Limbaugh.
Right now we are enjoying the “Little House” series.