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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.ashleypichea.com/" title="LIFE by Ashley Pichea"&gt;&lt;img align="middle" alt="LIFE by Ashley Pichea button" src="http://ashleypichea.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/LIFE-200x200-button.png" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-2633490470474053849?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/h09LF1FDF5o" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/h09LF1FDF5o/teaching-jenny-has-moved.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2012/01/teaching-jenny-has-moved.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-3156515355901074658</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-21T08:00:14.296-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Reading</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christmas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Advent</category><title>Luke 2.8-20</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Jenny has been doing a LOT of reading lately, and she’s getting pretty good at it. I decided to videotape her reading for our &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/truthtinsel" target="_blank"&gt;Truth in the Tinsel&lt;/a&gt; Advent reading yesterday without her knowing I was doing it.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;{If you can’t see the video, watch it here: &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/12/luke-2-8-20.html" target="_blank"&gt;Luke 2.8-20&lt;/a&gt;.}&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 10px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; width: 448px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 10px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:34109221-d0bb-4828-92db-4dceb7dc1dde" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div id="c478a649-f394-40f8-93c1-8789cde07d22" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5-dYNG0VwQ&amp;amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-XPoNLkjn-ZM/TvDhJFqmBNI/AAAAAAAADGA/1pLXEjMQbnE/video4ef28905b6f3%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('c478a649-f394-40f8-93c1-8789cde07d22'); 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 &lt;p align="center"&gt;David wasn’t in the mood…&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Merry Christmas from the Picheas" border="0" alt="Merry Christmas from the Picheas" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-hlouuM1vfuI/TvC8pGHesDI/AAAAAAAADFo/TGH8SFAHO_o/IMG_2577%25255B9%25255D%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="362" height="504" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;We had some help trying to get David to smile…&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Merry Christmas from the Picheas" border="0" alt="Merry Christmas from the Picheas" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-lnx_VUiVO6k/TvC8pB0zcgI/AAAAAAAADFw/vB_cyu7PzTs/From%252520iPhone%252520-%252520Sort2%25255B6%25255D%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="504" height="360" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;And we still ended up with a Grinch. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Merry Christmas from the Picheas" border="0" alt="Merry Christmas from the Picheas" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-qJH2plkbRhI/TvC8pbcP3qI/AAAAAAAADF4/WAB7koZmbBg/IMG_2568%25255B9%25255D%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="360" height="504" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h2 align="center"&gt;Merry Christmas!!&lt;/h2&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-1114334117408074125?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/DrY7xRUJp_c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/DrY7xRUJp_c/merry-christmas.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-hlouuM1vfuI/TvC8pGHesDI/AAAAAAAADFo/TGH8SFAHO_o/s72-c/IMG_2577%25255B9%25255D%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/12/merry-christmas.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-6716012578416796378</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-15T13:20:08.765-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tommy Nelson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Giveaway</category><title>Winner of The Pine Tree Parable from Tommy Nelson</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Congratulations&lt;/b&gt; to &lt;i&gt;Malisa &lt;/i&gt;who won a copy of the &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0849914809/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0849914809" target="_blank"&gt;The Pine Tree Parable&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;thanks to &lt;a href="http://tommynelson.com/"&gt;Tommy Nelson&lt;/a&gt;!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0849914809/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0849914809"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;amp;ASIN=0849914809&amp;amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;amp;WS=1&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;ServiceVersion=20070822" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=apfre101-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0849914809" width="1" height="1" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;To learn more about the &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0849914809/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0849914809" target="_blank"&gt;The Pine Tree Parable&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;, be sure to read&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/12/pine-tree-parable-book-review-giveaway.html"&gt;The Pine Tree Parable {book review}&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;---    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=1400317312&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373" width="1" height="1" /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Thanks to Tommy Nelson for providing a copy of &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0849914809/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0849914809" target="_blank"&gt;The Pine Tree Parable&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;for review and giveaway.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.ashleypichea.com/disclosure/"&gt;*A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-6716012578416796378?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/fcDSHrk4ZWk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/fcDSHrk4ZWk/winner-of-pine-tree-parable-from-tommy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/12/winner-of-pine-tree-parable-from-tommy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-5205054535078574065</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-14T08:00:01.773-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tommy Nelson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Giveaway</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Book Review</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christmas</category><title>The Pine Tree Parable {book review &amp; giveaway}</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Jenny is excited to share &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0849914809/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0849914809" target="_blank"&gt;The Pine Tree Parable&lt;/a&gt; with you today! &lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0849914809/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0849914809" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;amp;ASIN=0849914809&amp;amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;amp;WS=1&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;ServiceVersion=20070822" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; margin: 0px; border-top-style: none !important; border-left-style: none !important" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=apfre101-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0849914809" width="1" height="1" /&gt;   &lt;p&gt;When I brought the book off the shelf, she was excited to see &lt;em&gt;a fun Christmas story&lt;/em&gt; to read, and when I told her &lt;em&gt;she&lt;/em&gt; got to read it &lt;em&gt;for you&lt;/em&gt;, she was even &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; excited!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 10px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; width: 448px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 10px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:9ef1b38a-ad8c-4d7d-a818-4f2a3f35814b" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div id="26b20235-2850-4865-a4f1-ea5f3b533fc5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKml6paQZbo&amp;amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ph8sF4M_I6Y/Tue1k9Iu1XI/AAAAAAAADEw/k0A9g1CZruA/video4d42ccea07c6%25255B16%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('26b20235-2850-4865-a4f1-ea5f3b533fc5'); 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 &lt;p&gt;For the next 24 hours {until 12pm ET on 12/15}, you can enter to win a copy of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0849914809/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0849914809" target="_blank"&gt;The Pine Tree Parable&lt;/a&gt; from Tommy Nelson. Simply&lt;strong&gt; leave a comment below&lt;/strong&gt; letting us know how you &lt;em&gt;reach out to others at Christmas&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Fine Print&lt;/em&gt;: As a Tommy Mommy, I was provided a free copy of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0849914809/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0849914809" target="_blank"&gt;The Pine Tree Parable&lt;/a&gt; in exchange for my review - all opinions expressed are my own. The giveaway is open to all in the contiguous US, and a winner will be drawn from the comments on or after 12pm ET on 12/15/11 using Random.org.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.ashleypichea.com/disclosure/"&gt;*A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-5205054535078574065?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/eFEzGfBsBts" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/eFEzGfBsBts/pine-tree-parable-book-review-giveaway.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ph8sF4M_I6Y/Tue1k9Iu1XI/AAAAAAAADEw/k0A9g1CZruA/s72-c/video4d42ccea07c6%25255B16%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/12/pine-tree-parable-book-review-giveaway.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-3026845281240315864</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-13T14:18:37.151-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Homeschool Mothers Journal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christmas</category><title>Intentional Christmas Activities</title><description>&lt;p&gt;In the chaos of the holiday seasons, we often lose sight of what we are celebrating. In order to combat the chaos and &lt;em&gt;keep Christ in Christmas&lt;/em&gt;, we have some &lt;em&gt;intentional Christmas activities&lt;/em&gt; that we’ve added to our everyday life to keep our focus on the &lt;em&gt;true Reason for the season&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/truthtinsel" target="_blank"&gt;Truth in the Tinsel&lt;/a&gt; {Advent activities}:&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We started the &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/truthtinsel" target="_blank"&gt;Truth in the Tinsel&lt;/a&gt; on the 1st, spending some time each day reading part of the Christmas story from the Bible and &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/12/truth-in-tinsel-week-one.html" target="_blank"&gt;making an ornament&lt;/a&gt; to go along with the portion of Scripture we were reading. Last weekend, we “fell behind” and instead of playing “catch up” this week, I decided to just hit on the “big” topics that we missed and merge them with the ones in the week or so we have left before our Christmas chaos begins.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="New folder1" border="0" alt="New folder1" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-BXo_l7-HYPU/TuelB_kbAhI/AAAAAAAADEA/FPeCr3JA6vI/New%252520folder1%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="404" height="304" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="New folder3" border="0" alt="New folder3" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-rLmjMxZIjaY/TuelCDzXSiI/AAAAAAAADEI/NuGTqBCpDKQ/New%252520folder3%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="404" height="304" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Christmas Countdown Chain:&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;When we were &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/handprint-turkeys-thanksgiving-place.html" target="_blank"&gt;in Michigan for Thanksgiving&lt;/a&gt;, the kids spent some time making a Christmas Countdown Chain with Grandma. Each day {or as often as we remember}, they get to take a chain off the link, giving them a visual way to see how close we are getting to Christmas.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="New folder" border="0" alt="New folder" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-V9PPZDxurYM/TuelCWSFQgI/AAAAAAAADEQ/Ph-mRuuCy20/New%252520folder%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="204" height="404" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Happy Birthday, Jesus {birthday party}:&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Each year we have a birthday party for Jesus, helping us to remember that HE is the REASON for the SEASON. Part of our birthday celebration includes “buying” Jesus a birthday present. This year, we picked out some animals from the &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-shopping-with-world-vision.html" target="_blank"&gt;World Vision Catalog&lt;/a&gt; to “give to Jesus.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Christmas Caroling:&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Our neighborhood association organized a Christmas caroling trip to the nursing home that is across the main road from our subdivision. We had a great time sharing our Christmas cheer with the residents of the nursing home as we caroled up and down the hallways and in the dining hall.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="New folder2" border="0" alt="New folder2" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-hXXWwSK3PKI/TuelCif68-I/AAAAAAAADEY/I4qkNqYv9YE/New%252520folder2%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="404" height="304" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Piano Recital:&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Jenny participated in her first piano recital, and it was a Christmas-themed recital. Her teacher is also a believer, and she chose songs for her students that reflected the true Reason for the season - Jesus. It was a wonderful time of reflection and celebration.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 10px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; width: 448px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 10px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:0fa046e0-b2fd-4bc9-bd0a-db33d0fbb5d2" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div id="bbe8afae-0a82-4020-afd6-cf0f7b14901a" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFWQ7pdPBhM" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-5J7U0XBk3Qo/TuelC01r42I/AAAAAAAADEg/5mGb0ipfVe0/videoaf5f5d226c27%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('bbe8afae-0a82-4020-afd6-cf0f7b14901a'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &amp;quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;object width=\&amp;quot;448\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;277\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;param name=\&amp;quot;movie\&amp;quot; value=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/OFWQ7pdPBhM?hl=en&amp;amp;hd=1\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/param&amp;gt;&amp;lt;embed src=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/OFWQ7pdPBhM?hl=en&amp;amp;hd=1\&amp;quot; type=\&amp;quot;application/x-shockwave-flash\&amp;quot; width=\&amp;quot;448\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;277\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/embed&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/object&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;&amp;quot;;" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="width:448px;clear:both;font-size:.8em"&gt;Jenny plays “Song of Joy”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 10px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; width: 448px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 10px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:86a46034-0b90-4dea-a8ad-82f8d4f756cc" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div id="e5161590-20e6-4c56-97d6-bcb77d3f819b" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2UQ2L_PL4M" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-F0L2RhUW9g8/TuelDHIC5cI/AAAAAAAADEo/OEsk1dXSQew/video7a03c55cdf5d%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('e5161590-20e6-4c56-97d6-bcb77d3f819b'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &amp;quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;object width=\&amp;quot;448\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;277\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;param name=\&amp;quot;movie\&amp;quot; value=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/L2UQ2L_PL4M?hl=en&amp;amp;hd=1\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/param&amp;gt;&amp;lt;embed src=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/L2UQ2L_PL4M?hl=en&amp;amp;hd=1\&amp;quot; type=\&amp;quot;application/x-shockwave-flash\&amp;quot; width=\&amp;quot;448\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;277\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/embed&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/object&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;&amp;quot;;" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="width:448px;clear:both;font-size:.8em"&gt;Jenny plays “We Three Kings”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4 align="center"&gt;How are you keeping Christ in Christmas this year?&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="left"&gt;This post is &lt;a href="http://blog.ashleypichea.com/linkup/" target="_blank"&gt;linked up&lt;/a&gt; with Homeschool Mother’s Journal, Manager Mondays, Kids in the Word, and Hip Homeschool Moms.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.ashleypichea.com/disclosure/" target="_blank"&gt;*A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-3026845281240315864?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/xeF-40Muu4U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/xeF-40Muu4U/intentional-christmas-activities.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-BXo_l7-HYPU/TuelB_kbAhI/AAAAAAAADEA/FPeCr3JA6vI/s72-c/New%252520folder1%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/12/intentional-christmas-activities.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-7226349844910382130</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-08T16:20:36.623-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tommy Nelson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Giveaway</category><title>Winner of Three Cups from Tommy Nelson</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Congratulations&lt;/b&gt; to &lt;i&gt;Caroline &lt;/i&gt;who won a copy of the &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979456304/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0979456304" target="_blank"&gt;Three Cups&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;thanks to &lt;a href="http://tommynelson.com/"&gt;Tommy Nelson&lt;/a&gt;!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979456304/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0979456304"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;amp;ASIN=0979456304&amp;amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;amp;WS=1&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;ServiceVersion=20070822" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=apfre101-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0979456304" width="1" height="1" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;To learn more about the &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979456304/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0979456304" target="_blank"&gt;Three Cups&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;, be sure to read&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/12/three-cups-book-review-24hr-giveaway.html"&gt;Three Cups {Book Review}&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;---   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=1400317312&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373" width="1" height="1" /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Thanks to Tommy Nelson for providing a copy of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979456304/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0979456304" target="_blank"&gt;Three Cups&lt;/a&gt; for review and giveaway.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.ashleypichea.com/disclosure/"&gt;*A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-7226349844910382130?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/CbQXMaDVurw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/CbQXMaDVurw/winner-of-three-cups-from-tommy-nelson.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/12/winner-of-three-cups-from-tommy-nelson.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-108191877621130853</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-07T08:00:16.623-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tommy Nelson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Giveaway</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Book Review</category><title>Three Cups {Book Review &amp; 24hr Giveaway}</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Today, I have the opportunity to share my thoughts about &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979456304/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0979456304" target="_blank"&gt;Three Cups&lt;/a&gt; and give a copy away to one of you. Check out &lt;em&gt;my review&lt;/em&gt; of this book from Tommy Nelson and look below to find out how you might &lt;em&gt;win a copy&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979456304/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0979456304"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;amp;ASIN=0979456304&amp;amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;amp;WS=1&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;ServiceVersion=20070822" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; margin: 0px; border-top-style: none !important; border-left-style: none !important" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=apfre101-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0979456304" width="1" height="1" /&gt;   &lt;p align="center"&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;{From the Publisher}:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Teaching children how to handle money responsibly is more important than ever. &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979456304/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0979456304" target="_blank"&gt;Three Cups&lt;/a&gt; offers a simple method and an easy-to-read story with beautiful illustrations that will guide kids in the key principles of good money management. With each cup, they will learn about saving, spending, and charitable giving - and that it’s never too early to start learning these timeless and proven principles. This book:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Provides a solid foundation for the proper handling of money throughout life. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Teaching children how to make good choices between spending, saving, and giving. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Includes a “Getting Started” guide for parents to easily implement the &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979456304/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0979456304" target="_blank"&gt;Three Cups&lt;/a&gt; system in the home. &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;{My Thoughts}:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Honestly, this book was probably more meaningful to me as a mom than it was for my kids. Like the little boy in the story, Jenny is about to turn 5 {less than a month from now}, and she has become very interested in money lately. This book is one that we will definitely be sharing together over the next several months as we start talking about how to manage money and consider the option of giving her an allowance.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I would highly recommend that families read this book together when children begin to have their “own” money. It presents an excellent plan for managing money as well as showing children the benefits of saving, spending, and giving.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Would you like to win a copy of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979456304/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0979456304" target="_blank"&gt;Three Cups&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For the next 24 hours {until 12pm ET on 12/8}, you can enter to win a copy of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979456304/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0979456304" target="_blank"&gt;Three Cups&lt;/a&gt; from Tommy Nelson. Simply&lt;strong&gt; leave a comment below&lt;/strong&gt; letting us know how you teach your children about money or your favorite tip for teaching young children about money.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Fine Print&lt;/em&gt;: As a Tommy Mommy, I was provided a free copy of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979456304/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0979456304" target="_blank"&gt;Three Cups&lt;/a&gt; in exchange for my review - all opinions expressed are my own. The giveaway is open to all in the contiguous US, and a winner will be drawn from the comments on or after 12pm ET on 12/8/11 using Random.org.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.ashleypichea.com/disclosure/" target="_blank"&gt;*A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-108191877621130853?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/WT6Dk-YSjoI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/WT6Dk-YSjoI/three-cups-book-review-24hr-giveaway.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/12/three-cups-book-review-24hr-giveaway.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-6700911184141204428</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-06T12:36:41.157-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">World Vision</category><title>Christmas Shopping with the World Vision Catalog</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/pages/bloggers-sponsor-a-child?open&amp;amp;campaign=105418221"&gt;&lt;img align="left" height="600" src="http://media.worldvision.org/blog-resources/Banners/Soccer_120x600.gif" style="display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;" width="120" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
As a family, we make it a point to look beyond our own wants/need each Christmas season. We look for a way to &lt;b&gt;give Jesus a birthday present&lt;/b&gt; that has nothing to do with meeting our own desires but everything to do with &lt;i&gt;blessing others&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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One year we gave a gift of money to some &lt;i&gt;missionary friends&lt;/i&gt;. Another year we collected our loose change and gave it to the &lt;i&gt;local homeless shelter&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;This year, we’ve decided to buy some farm animals to give Jesus for His birthday. &lt;/b&gt;{&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://bible.us/Matt25.35.NASB" target="_blank"&gt;Matthew 25.35-36&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;}&lt;br /&gt;
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The &lt;i&gt;farm animals&lt;/i&gt; that we are buying are going to be given to a family in a third-world country through the &lt;i&gt;ministry of World Vision&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/pages/bloggers-sponsor-a-child?open&amp;amp;campaign=105418225"&gt;&lt;img height="95" src="http://media.worldvision.org/blog-resources/Banners/wv_logo_95x200.gif" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.&lt;br /&gt;
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Jenny &amp;amp; David are excited to “go shopping” in the &lt;a href="http://donate.worldvision.org/OA_HTML/xxwv2ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=10389" target="_blank"&gt;World Vision catalog&lt;/a&gt; to pick out some animals to buy for a family who needs our help. They have been looking through the catalog for a few weeks, and today we are going to count up the money in their piggy banks to determine how much they are &lt;i&gt;able to give&lt;/i&gt; to Jesus for His birthday.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div align="center"&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Won’t you consider what you might give Jesus for His birthday?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-6700911184141204428?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/SQUkgpcMDdE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/SQUkgpcMDdE/christmas-shopping-with-world-vision.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-shopping-with-world-vision.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-5787501003568755085</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-05T17:40:48.071-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Advent</category><title>Truth in the Tinsel - Week One</title><description>&lt;p&gt;This month, in anticipation of Christmas, we are using the &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/truthtinsel" target="_blank"&gt;Truth in the Tinsel Advent activity guide&lt;/a&gt; from Impress Your Kids.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December 1&lt;/strong&gt;: Jesus is the LIGHT of the World&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_2303" border="0" alt="IMG_2303" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Ox8451kb0UE/Tt1IbdHJHvI/AAAAAAAADDo/B5h9HwTabQg/IMG_2303%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="354" height="354" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December 2&lt;/strong&gt;: Jesus is the KING&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_2320" border="0" alt="IMG_2320" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-OASh54hrx58/Tt1IbvKdadI/AAAAAAAADDw/fhKwsrLgno4/IMG_2320%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="354" height="354" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December 3&lt;/strong&gt;: I will believe what God says {unlike Zechariah}!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_2349" border="0" alt="IMG_2349" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-FoR05o1NFWs/Tt1Ib3LhcMI/AAAAAAAADD4/NRT7ZHDx4pU/IMG_2349%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="354" height="354" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Linking up with &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://thisgalsjourney.wordpress.com/tag/manger-mondays/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Manger Mondays&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://thepelsers.com/category/homeschooling/kids-in-the-word-wednesdays/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kids in the Word Wednesday&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.ashleypichea.com/disclosure/" target="_blank"&gt;*A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-5787501003568755085?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/Vd65XSqdUOs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/Vd65XSqdUOs/truth-in-tinsel-week-one.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Ox8451kb0UE/Tt1IbdHJHvI/AAAAAAAADDo/B5h9HwTabQg/s72-c/IMG_2303%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/12/truth-in-tinsel-week-one.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-7163421287967666992</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-02T08:00:11.753-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Homeschool Mothers Journal</category><title>In our homeschool this week…</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Wait… it’s the end of the week already?? &lt;em&gt;Where’d this week go??&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-3zMx0VYLoxY/TtgEC04J4kI/AAAAAAAADC4/AQRV13dvV1E/s1600-h/IMG_2269%25255B7%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_2269" border="0" alt="IMG_2269" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-oNMIUc48dio/TtgEDBg3aoI/AAAAAAAADDA/NijOxOG-KJQ/IMG_2269_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="304" height="304" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We got lots of snow on Tuesday afternoon/evening, and while the area schools had a snow day on Wednesday, we did some math and reading worksheets. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-uKR4ta7PVcY/TtgEDWtHaiI/AAAAAAAADDI/Rm42OBYJy-c/s1600-h/IMG_2279%25255B6%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_2279" border="0" alt="IMG_2279" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-a4K0pITzU7Y/TtgEDu5Q3uI/AAAAAAAADDQ/3xJVbZSM_bU/IMG_2279_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="229" height="304" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Thursday we started our &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/truthtinsel" target="_blank"&gt;Truth in the Tinsel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Advent activities&lt;/em&gt;, reading from Isaiah 9.2-7. We made &lt;em&gt;candle ornaments&lt;/em&gt; to remind us that &lt;strong&gt;Jesus is the LIGHT of the World&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-lQNOySlStZc/TtgED7t56iI/AAAAAAAADDY/2JRRk4oXNH0/s1600-h/IMG_2303%25255B6%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_2303" border="0" alt="IMG_2303" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-yMpBs3o-jzo/TtgEEN6R74I/AAAAAAAADDg/l5W1wQHnH38/IMG_2303_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="304" height="304" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;          &lt;p align="center"&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I’m linking up with the &lt;a href="http://thehomeschoolchick.com" target="_blank"&gt;Homeschool Mother’s Journal&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;---&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.ashleypichea.com/disclosure/" target="_blank"&gt;*A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-7163421287967666992?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/j6RxL84bT-k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/j6RxL84bT-k/in-our-homeschool-this-week.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-oNMIUc48dio/TtgEDBg3aoI/AAAAAAAADDA/NijOxOG-KJQ/s72-c/IMG_2269_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/12/in-our-homeschool-this-week.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-2452878528000949527</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-05T16:47:50.279-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Master Books</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Book Review</category><title>"A is for Adam" {a Master Books #TeachtheTruth review &amp; party}</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;---&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.answersingenesis.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Answers in Genesis&lt;/a&gt; is offering 25% off "A is for Adam" through 12/16 when you use the coupon code: "&lt;b&gt;A4ADM&lt;/b&gt;". {&lt;i&gt;Code is valid from start of party through 12/16.&lt;/i&gt;} &lt;b&gt;Buy your copy here&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.answersingenesis.org/PublicStore/product/A-is-for-Adam-NEW-version,6989,183.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;A is for Adam from AiG Store&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; ---&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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It’s time for another &lt;a href="http://nlpgblogs.com/2011/06/08/moms-of-master-books/" target="_blank"&gt;Moms of Master Books&lt;/a&gt; #TeachtheTruth party, and I could not be MORE excited about this month’s book!!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0890516251/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0890516251"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;amp;ASIN=0890516251&amp;amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;amp;WS=1&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;ServiceVersion=20070822" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=apfre101-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0890516251" style="border-bottom-style: none !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-top-style: none !important; margin: 0px;" width="1" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0890516251/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0890516251" target="_blank"&gt;A is for Adam&lt;/a&gt;" is a GREAT resource for families, homeschools, churches, and more… &lt;/h4&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;brilliant pictures &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;teaching prompts &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;fun rhymes &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;biblical truth &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Check out what I think about this amazing book in this video…    &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{&lt;i&gt;Can’t see the video? Watch it here: &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/12/is-for-adam-master-books-teachthetruth.html" target="_blank"&gt;“A is for Adam” review&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:e6e39468-bccf-4012-8388-68910940bbe8" style="display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; width: 448px;"&gt;&lt;div id="d1b91f70-d5ce-4a98-87dc-563ff3ec0671" style="display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plmsuAB6hjo&amp;amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img alt="" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('d1b91f70-d5ce-4a98-87dc-563ff3ec0671'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &amp;quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;object width=\&amp;quot;448\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;252\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;param name=\&amp;quot;movie\&amp;quot; value=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/plmsuAB6hjo?hl=en&amp;amp;hd=1\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/param&amp;gt;&amp;lt;embed src=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/plmsuAB6hjo?hl=en&amp;amp;hd=1\&amp;quot; type=\&amp;quot;application/x-shockwave-flash\&amp;quot; width=\&amp;quot;448\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;252\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/embed&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/object&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;&amp;quot;;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-iai1rFD2ZA8/TtfAxtmCkDI/AAAAAAAADCw/fHN-vCI85Ws/video53717cc3f265%25255B19%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; font-size: .8em; width: 448px;"&gt;"A is for Adam" - a Master Books review&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;"&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0890516251/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0890516251" target="_blank"&gt;A is for Adam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;; &lt;i&gt;God made him from dust.     &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;He wasn’t a monkey, he looked just like us.     &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Although some scientists don’t think it was so,     &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;it was God who was there, and He ought to know&lt;/i&gt;."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;---&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Join the Moms of Master Books for a GREAT #TeachtheTruth Twitter party:&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;When?        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tuesday, 12/13 at 3pm ET &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Where?&lt;/b&gt;       &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;On Twitter&lt;/i&gt; - follow &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/MasterBooks4u" target="_blank"&gt;@masterbooks4u&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/mamahall" target="_blank"&gt;@mamahall&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;How?&lt;/b&gt;       &lt;br /&gt;
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---&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;I am on the &lt;a href="http://nlpgblogs.com/2011/06/08/moms-of-master-books/" target="_blank"&gt;Mom of Master Books review team&lt;/a&gt;. I received a free copy of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0890516251/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0890516251" target="_blank"&gt;A is for Adam&lt;/a&gt; for review. All opinions expressed are my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://blog.ashleypichea.com/disclosure/" target="_blank"&gt;*A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-2452878528000949527?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/JWUjvRJL1Tc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/JWUjvRJL1Tc/is-for-adam-master-books-teachthetruth.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-iai1rFD2ZA8/TtfAxtmCkDI/AAAAAAAADCw/fHN-vCI85Ws/s72-c/video53717cc3f265%25255B19%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/12/is-for-adam-master-books-teachthetruth.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-4328390890558600162</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-30T08:00:08.091-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Homeschool</category><title>Unschooling: Educational TV</title><description>We aren’t really &lt;i&gt;unschoolers&lt;/i&gt;, but there are definitely days in our homeschool where we do &lt;i&gt;unschooling&lt;/i&gt;. Last week, we had one of those days…&lt;br /&gt;
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We were all feeling a bit under the weather {fall colds}, so I decided we’d turn on the TV. Normally that means lots of &lt;a href="http://disney.go.com/disneyjunior/mickey-mouse-clubhouse" target="_blank"&gt;Mickey Mouse Clubhouse&lt;/a&gt;, but on this particular day, I decided that we needed to be a bit more educational {read: MMC is great for toddlers/preschoolers, but not so educational for 1st graders}, so I turned on &lt;a href="http://pbskids.org/" target="_blank"&gt;PBS Kids&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img alt="IMG_1952" border="0" height="304" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-xwnbTKcjevM/TtVi39HHMnI/AAAAAAAADCo/5dbSBxw6ISs/IMG_1952%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1952" width="304" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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It’s not just enough to sit your kids in front of an educational show on the TV, though. That’s not really “school.”&lt;br /&gt;
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We all cuddled together in my bed and as the various shows came on {&lt;a href="http://pbskids.org/sid/" target="_blank"&gt;Sid the Science Kid&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://pbskids.org/dinosaurtrain/" target="_blank"&gt;Dinosaur Train&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://pbskids.org/superwhy/" target="_blank"&gt;Super Why&lt;/a&gt;}, &lt;b&gt;I made an intentional point to get the kids involved in what the characters were learning on the show and asked questions about the show&lt;/b&gt; when it was over.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZBEQ3E/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373&amp;amp;creativeASIN=B002ZBEQ3E"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;amp;ASIN=B002ZBEQ3E&amp;amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;amp;WS=1&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;ServiceVersion=20070822" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Click the picture above to watch Sid for FREE on Amazon.com&lt;/i&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=apfre101-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=B002ZBEQ3E&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373" style="border-bottom-style: none !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-top-style: none !important; margin: 0px;" width="1" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;One of the things we learned turned out to be quite valuable in the days to come… &lt;b&gt;we learned that we need to cover our mouths with our arms when we sneeze or cough in order to stop the spread of germs &lt;/b&gt;while watching Sid the Science Kid. &lt;i&gt;Handy advice for a family with three sickies!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061852589/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399369&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0061852589"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;amp;ASIN=0061852589&amp;amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;amp;WS=1&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;ServiceVersion=20070822" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=apfre101-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0061852589&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399369" style="border-bottom-style: none !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-top-style: none !important; margin: 0px;" width="1" /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;What educational TV have you used in your homeschool?      &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Do you ever have “&lt;i&gt;unschooling&lt;/i&gt;” days?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;---&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.ashleypichea.com/disclosure/" target="_blank"&gt;*A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-4328390890558600162?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/2UjQQoOIEjo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/2UjQQoOIEjo/unschooling-educational-tv.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-xwnbTKcjevM/TtVi39HHMnI/AAAAAAAADCo/5dbSBxw6ISs/s72-c/IMG_1952%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/unschooling-educational-tv.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-4877214577450431312</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-29T08:00:08.628-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Thanksgiving</category><title>Thankful on a Tuesday {11.29.11}</title><description>We have SO enjoyed putting leaves on &lt;b&gt;our Thankfulness Tree&lt;/b&gt; this month. The kids were quite disappointed when I told them we were done with it, in fact!&lt;br /&gt;
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Here’s a look at &lt;b&gt;our Thankfulness Tree&lt;/b&gt; throughout the month…&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Week One&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;img height="397" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-AYVCjpQeKnA/Tq8WVpfYSnI/AAAAAAAAC5w/2xgR1Fc7IB8/IMG_1746_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="300" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Week &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Two&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;img height="397" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-1kFgWqBx850/TrhZiTy8P0I/AAAAAAAAC98/SKCN6YAMWDs/IMG_1840_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="300" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Week Three&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img height="445" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-iDuTYruKo_Y/TsFt5R76ypI/AAAAAAAADAs/Kg5C113AueE/IMG_1921%25255B7%25255D.jpg" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="300" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Week Four&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;img height="397" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-6M-apErmprg/Tsq_2nVXVeI/AAAAAAAADBg/x1x-5dBfTAo/IMG_2010%25255B7%25255D.jpg" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="300" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Week Five&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;img alt="IMG_2010" border="0" height="404" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-xT5OYdTpzJY/TtQIJEmc7yI/AAAAAAAADCg/5liiQS9veRc/IMG_2010%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2010" width="304" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Thanks to all who linked up with us this month! We loved seeing all your trees grow!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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One of our family “traditions” is to have &lt;em&gt;place cards&lt;/em&gt; at each at setting for the major holiday meals {Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas}. Since Jenny has been able to write, we’ve often “volunteered” to provide the &lt;em&gt;place cards&lt;/em&gt; for these meals, and yesterday was no exception.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We used the handprints that we’d traced earlier this month for &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/thankful-on-tuesday-110111.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;our Thankfulness Tree&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; to create &lt;em&gt;Handprint Turkeys&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Handprint Turkey Place Cards" border="0" alt="Handprint Turkey Place Cards" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-nj18SYGOAag/TsrJKrpjziI/AAAAAAAADBo/pY6MMLBCPVw/IMG_2003%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="304" height="404" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Jenny and I worked together to cut out the &lt;em&gt;handprint turkeys&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Handprint Turkey Place Cards" border="0" alt="Handprint Turkey Place Cards" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-cSBjuBswqZ0/TsrJK6h5cpI/AAAAAAAADBw/bqrJ2UCO_s0/IMG_2009%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="304" height="404" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Handprint Turkey Place Cards" border="0" alt="Handprint Turkey Place Cards" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-lSR1ELOcFd8/TsrJLHcUN4I/AAAAAAAADB4/4jlKSMNSNAk/IMG_2004%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="304" height="404" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I cut out “beaks” and “wattles” and pulled the bag of googly eyes out of the kids’ craft box.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Handprint Turkey Place Cards" border="0" alt="Handprint Turkey Place Cards" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-qRab4zPwsDI/TsrJLbC3_fI/AAAAAAAADCA/AlEdW60qufg/IMG_2006%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="304" height="404" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Jenny used my “master list” to write each person’s name on a &lt;em&gt;handprint turkey&lt;/em&gt; to create the &lt;em&gt;place cards&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Handprint Turkey Place Cards" border="0" alt="Handprint Turkey Place Cards" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-pS0ROHh1uTE/TsrJLplE5iI/AAAAAAAADCI/fTn5K8yNvFo/IMG_2012%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="304" height="404" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Here’s a sample of the finished&lt;em&gt; Handprint Turkey Place Card&lt;/em&gt; - each guest’s name would go where “Happy Thanksgiving” is on this one.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Handprint Turkey Place Cards" border="0" alt="Handprint Turkey Place Cards" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-r5PDXH3-Nw4/TsrJL2mYT3I/AAAAAAAADCQ/0_zKpvUxcxM/IMG_2005%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="304" height="404" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;All 19 &lt;em&gt;Handprint Turkey Place Cards&lt;/em&gt; are finished and ready for Thanksgiving Dinner!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Handprint Turkey Place Cards" border="0" alt="Handprint Turkey Place Cards" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-nvAk18M_Jf0/TsrJMM1LM1I/AAAAAAAADCY/HDgMccTPFKo/IMG_2013%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="404" height="304" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p align="center"&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How was YOUR Thanksgiving?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did you create any special Thanksgiving crafts with YOUR kids?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thehomeschoolchick.com/about-the-homeschool-mothers-journal/"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" alt="The Homeschool Mother&amp;#39;s Journal" src="http://www.thehomeschoolchick.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/THSMJbutton.jpg" width="150" height="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-4466071402084180275?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/fGqhFWhR7os" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/fGqhFWhR7os/handprint-turkeys-thanksgiving-place.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-nj18SYGOAag/TsrJKrpjziI/AAAAAAAADBo/pY6MMLBCPVw/s72-c/IMG_2003%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/handprint-turkeys-thanksgiving-place.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-2089264630798032993</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-23T08:00:11.827-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Master Books</category><title>Big Book of History Party</title><description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://nlpgblogs.com/2011/06/08/moms-of-master-books/" target="_blank"&gt;Moms of MasterBooks Review Team&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; The Homeschool Channel are having a #TeachtheTruth Twitter Party featuring the &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/10/big-book-of-history-review.html" target="_blank"&gt;Big Book of History&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;{&lt;em&gt;See MY review of this AMAZING book here&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/10/big-book-of-history-review.html" target="_blank"&gt;Big Book of History {review}&lt;/a&gt;.}&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0890516235/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0890516235"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" title="Big Book of History" alt="Big Book of History" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/T4PghiEtpatGWwZ5q*U8h6JP-1rw1xUMcPM4E0RsaEshX5ey1q7Rsgu0bIH-q8B1CmT5zurvW7Cb3OwwArtNmCzLRn60h0Sl/BigBook_Badge.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Join the party!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Tuesday, 11/29 at 4pm ET&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Follow @masterbooks4u &amp;amp; @homeschoolchann&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Use the #TeachtheTruth hashtag on Twitter&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You could win one of 10 Copies of the &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0890516235/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0890516235" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Big Book of History&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; (panels) AND all attendees get a 20% Coupon off the Big Book of History!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.ashleypichea.com/disclosure/" target="_blank"&gt;*A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-2089264630798032993?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/SeS2TuKsBw0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/SeS2TuKsBw0/big-book-of-history-party.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/big-book-of-history-party.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-6407824793069797902</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-22T08:00:09.171-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Thanksgiving</category><title>Thankful on a Tuesday {11.22.11}</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Psalm 118:1 “Give &lt;i&gt;thanks&lt;/i&gt; to the Lord, for He is good.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;---&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;It’s time for a &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/thankful-on-tuesday-110111.html"&gt;Thankfulness Tree&lt;/a&gt; update!!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;img alt="IMG_2010" border="0" height="504" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-6M-apErmprg/Tsq_2nVXVeI/AAAAAAAADBg/x1x-5dBfTAo/IMG_2010%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2010" width="379" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;What we were thankful for this week:&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Janna&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Allie&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Great-Grandma O’Connor&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Aunt Holly&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;cousins&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Aunt Keyla&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;sun&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;clouds&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sky&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sarah&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;house&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: center;"&gt;What were YOU thankful for this week?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;---&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Each Tuesday during November, I’ll update you on what we were &lt;i&gt;thankful&lt;/i&gt; for the past week, and show you a picture of our &lt;i&gt;Thankfulness Tree&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;b&gt;Want to join the fun?&lt;/b&gt; Create your own &lt;i&gt;Thankfulness Tree&lt;/i&gt; and share it with us in the linky below!!  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-6407824793069797902?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/Sqhj7y9NbrM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/Sqhj7y9NbrM/thankful-on-tuesday-112211.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-6M-apErmprg/Tsq_2nVXVeI/AAAAAAAADBg/x1x-5dBfTAo/s72-c/IMG_2010%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/thankful-on-tuesday-112211.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-6100094377662715578</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-21T09:11:42.707-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tommy Nelson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Giveaway</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Book Review</category><title>Winner of Heaven is For Real for Kids from Tommy Nelson</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Congratulations&lt;/b&gt; to &lt;i&gt;Stephanie &lt;/i&gt;who won a copy of the &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140031870X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373&amp;amp;creativeASIN=140031870X" target="_blank"&gt;Heaven is For Real for Kids&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;thanks to &lt;a href="http://tommynelson.com/"&gt;Tommy Nelson&lt;/a&gt;!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140031870X/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373&amp;amp;creativeASIN=140031870X" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;amp;ASIN=140031870X&amp;amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;amp;WS=1&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;ServiceVersion=20070822" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=apfre101-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=140031870X&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373" width="1" height="1" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To learn more about&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;the &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140031870X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373&amp;amp;creativeASIN=140031870X" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Heaven is For Real for Kids&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;, be sure to read&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/heaven-is-for-real-for-kids-review.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Heaven is For Real for Kids {review &amp;amp; giveaway}&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;---&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=1400317312&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373" width="1" height="1" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Thanks to Tommy Nelson for providing a copy of this book for review and giveaway.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.ashleypichea.com/disclosure/"&gt;*A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-6100094377662715578?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/bfiMg-ozftQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/bfiMg-ozftQ/congratulations-to-stephanie-who-won.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/congratulations-to-stephanie-who-won.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-1194881734218873980</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-18T08:00:14.939-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Homeschool Mothers Journal</category><title>In our homeschool this week… {11.18.11}</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I’m starting to figure out that getting three “solid” days of homeschooling in each week is a “good week” for us. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays seem to work the best for “solid” days of homeschool. Now, that doesn’t mean we don’t “do school” or “learn” the other four days of the week. Those just seem to be the best days to do worksheets and “formal” school time.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This week, we’ve had lots of “snuggle” time, watching “educational” TV {including fun videos on the &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/whats-in-bible.html" target="_blank"&gt;What’s in the Bible?&lt;/a&gt; blog} while cuddling together in Mommy &amp;amp; Daddy’s bed. A few colds have affected our energy levels this week, but we’re all on the mend now.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="snuggling with Mommy" border="0" alt="snuggling with Mommy" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-owIel5rCMw0/TsWI92ue2PI/AAAAAAAADA8/n1WaqcMDrKQ/IMG_1952%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="304" height="304" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/whats-in-bible.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="What&amp;#39;s in the Bible?" border="0" alt="What&amp;#39;s in the Bible?" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-u7_Le9M87bQ/TsWI-I_In-I/AAAAAAAADBE/LpTjBTQAFbY/IMG_1948%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="304" height="304" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In other news… &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--&amp;gt; &lt;/strong&gt;Jenny finished &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/learning-books-of-new-testament.html" target="_blank"&gt;her AWANA book&lt;/a&gt; this week!! It has been such a blessing to be able to work with her this fall on &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/learning-books-of-new-testament.html" target="_blank"&gt;memorizing God’s Word&lt;/a&gt; and watching her hide in her heart. She has such a great memory {I think she might be even better with memorization than I was at her age}, and I love listening to her recall the verses she’s learned as she recites them each week. After Thanksgiving break, she’ll work on reviewing all her verses that she’s learned this fall.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--&amp;gt; &lt;/strong&gt;We’re getting close to &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/in-our-homeschool-this-week-110411.html" target="_blank"&gt;Jenny’s first piano recital&lt;/a&gt;!! She has started learning her Christmas music {she is actually reading music now!!} and is working on getting it ready for the recital on December 11th.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--&amp;gt; &lt;/strong&gt;Last Saturday morning, I made some changes to our office/school room. Jenny’s desk was replaced with a “big kid” desk {the one I used as a homeschool student 20+ years ago}. It’s been a good transition for both of us!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Before&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="Jenny&amp;#39;s Little Desk" border="0" alt="Jenny&amp;#39;s Little Desk" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-WaF7j9E1tno/TsWI-GiZxBI/AAAAAAAADBM/XJK-NQrD7TQ/IMG_1877%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="229" height="304" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;After&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="Jenny&amp;#39;s Big Desk" border="0" alt="Jenny&amp;#39;s Big Desk" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/--utt9MMxr20/TsWI-dWuNjI/AAAAAAAADBU/EpURelvouLE/IMG_1923%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="229" height="304" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thehomeschoolchick.com/about-the-homeschool-mothers-journal/"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" alt="The Homeschool Mother&amp;#39;s Journal" src="http://www.thehomeschoolchick.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/THSMJbutton.jpg" width="150" height="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-1194881734218873980?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/biCBR8CEgG4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/biCBR8CEgG4/in-our-homeschool-this-week-111811.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-owIel5rCMw0/TsWI92ue2PI/AAAAAAAADA8/n1WaqcMDrKQ/s72-c/IMG_1952%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/in-our-homeschool-this-week-111811.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-7338556007212559520</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-17T08:13:50.113-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tommy Nelson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Giveaway</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Book Review</category><title>Heaven is For Real for Kids {Review &amp; Giveaway}</title><description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am SO excited to share &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140031870X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373&amp;amp;creativeASIN=140031870X" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Heaven is For Real for Kids&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; with you today! What an incredible resource to teach your kids about heaven!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140031870X/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373&amp;amp;creativeASIN=140031870X"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;amp;ASIN=140031870X&amp;amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;amp;WS=1&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;ServiceVersion=20070822" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; margin: 0px; border-top-style: none !important; border-left-style: none !important" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=apfre101-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=140031870X&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373" width="1" height="1" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;---&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;{From the Publisher}: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140031870X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373&amp;amp;creativeASIN=140031870X" target="_blank"&gt;Heaven is for real&lt;/a&gt;, and you are going to like it!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Colton Burpo came back from his trip to heaven with a very important message: Jesus really, really loves children. In effort to reach even more families with this eternally significant story, this runaway bestseller is now told from Colton—kid to kids! Children will receive the same comfort and assurance that so many adults have received from the trade book.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Beautifully illustrated, under Colton's direction, this book is uniquely written from a child for a child. Colton tells of his experiences in first person and comments on things that will be important to kids. A letter to parents is included to guide them in talking to their children about heaven. Scripture along with Q&amp;amp;A section with answers from the Bible are also included in the book.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check out this excerpt from &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140031870X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373&amp;amp;creativeASIN=140031870X" target="_blank"&gt;Heaven is For Real for Kids&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a style="margin: 12px auto 6px; display: block; font: 14px helvetica,arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: underline; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none" title="View Heaven is for Real for Kids on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/63762254"&gt;Heaven is for Real for Kids&lt;/a&gt;&lt;iframe id="doc_82769" class="scribd_iframe_embed" height="600" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/63762254/content?start_page=1&amp;amp;view_mode=list" frameborder="0" width="100%" scrolling="no" data-aspect-ratio="data-aspect-ratio" data-auto-height="true"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;{My Thoughts}:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you can’t see the video below, please click here to watch it: &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/heaven-is-for-real-for-kids-review.html" target="_blank"&gt;Heaven is For Real for Kids {review &amp;amp; giveaway}&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 10px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; width: 448px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 10px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:a424bced-6e3d-44ed-8d57-d905b2e281df" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div id="84bfa5ea-4324-41be-b518-ee5e832d5639" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgkTN5XwQE&amp;amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-MooB497o5ws/TsQdK9dK7oI/AAAAAAAADA0/TVe0ApZVa8I/video527e43837bfe%25255B14%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('84bfa5ea-4324-41be-b518-ee5e832d5639'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &amp;quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;object width=\&amp;quot;448\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;252\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;param name=\&amp;quot;movie\&amp;quot; value=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/PQgkTN5XwQE?hl=en&amp;amp;hd=1\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/param&amp;gt;&amp;lt;embed src=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/PQgkTN5XwQE?hl=en&amp;amp;hd=1\&amp;quot; type=\&amp;quot;application/x-shockwave-flash\&amp;quot; width=\&amp;quot;448\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;252\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/embed&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/object&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;&amp;quot;;" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="width:448px;clear:both;font-size:.8em"&gt;Heaven is For Real for Kids&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Enter to win a copy of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140031870X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373&amp;amp;creativeASIN=140031870X" target="_blank"&gt;Heaven is For Real For Kids&lt;/a&gt; from Teaching Jenny &amp;amp; Tommy Nelson!!&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;MANDATORY ENTRY -&lt;/b&gt; Answer &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; of the following questions in the comments below {please include an email contact in your response}:       &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;What are YOU most looking forward to in heaven? &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What your kids most looking forward to in heaven? &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;OPTIONAL ENTRIES&lt;/b&gt; {leave a separate comment for each “task” you complete}:       &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Share this giveaway on &lt;a href="http://facebook.com/ashleypichea"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; and/or &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/apichea"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;: “Enter to win Heaven is For Real for Kids from @TommyNelson &amp;amp; @apichea. http://bit.ly/vOjizv” &lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Fine Print: Winner will be chosen by Random.org on or after 12:01am ET, 11/21/11. Winner will be contacted via email. Winner must have a mailing address in the contiguous US. Tommy Nelson provided copies for review and giveaway, however, all opinions expressed are my own.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;---&lt;/i&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.ashleypichea.com/disclosure/"&gt;*A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-7338556007212559520?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/VTbfbxTXug8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/VTbfbxTXug8/heaven-is-for-real-for-kids-review.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-MooB497o5ws/TsQdK9dK7oI/AAAAAAAADA0/TVe0ApZVa8I/s72-c/video527e43837bfe%25255B14%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/heaven-is-for-real-for-kids-review.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-2072100716619869916</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-16T08:00:05.692-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Book Review</category><title>What’s in the Bible?</title><description>&lt;h4 style="text-align: center;"&gt;Help your kids learn the Bible in a fun way with the &lt;a href="http://zfer.us/UB0K6" target="_blank"&gt;Buck Denver DVD Collection&lt;/a&gt;!!&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;The Fine Print&lt;/i&gt;: I am an affiliate of &lt;a href="http://zfer.us/UB0K6" target="_blank"&gt;What’s in the Bible?&lt;/a&gt;, and as such, I make a commission on all sales through my links {at no additional cost to you}. I truly believe that &lt;a href="http://zfer.us/UB0K6" target="_blank"&gt;these DVDs&lt;/a&gt; are phenomenal, and all opinions expressed in this post are my own. I am so excited to watch &lt;a href="http://zfer.us/UB0K6" target="_blank"&gt;these DVDs&lt;/a&gt; with my kids and share them with others!!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://blog.ashleypichea.com/disclosure/" target="_blank"&gt;*A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-2072100716619869916?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/rs5GH1HxEec" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/rs5GH1HxEec/whats-in-bible.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/whats-in-bible.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-5700228397053946204</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-15T08:00:12.734-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Thanksgiving</category><title>Thankful on a Tuesday {11.15.11}</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Psalm 118:1 “Give &lt;i&gt;thanks&lt;/i&gt; to the Lord, for He is good.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;---&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;It’s time for a &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/thankful-on-tuesday-110111.html"&gt;Thankfulness Tree&lt;/a&gt; update!!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;img alt="Thankfulness Tree" border="0" height="504" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-iDuTYruKo_Y/TsFt5R76ypI/AAAAAAAADAs/Kg5C113AueE/IMG_1921%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Thankfulness Tree" width="337" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;What we were thankful for this week:&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;grass &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Grandpa Eubank &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;trash can &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Grandpa Pichea &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Uncle Shane &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;TV &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Uncle Brent &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Great-Grandpa Cary &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: center;"&gt;What were YOU thankful for this week?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: center;"&gt;---&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Each Tuesday during November, I’ll update you on what we were &lt;i&gt;thankful&lt;/i&gt; for the past week, and show you a picture of our &lt;i&gt;Thankfulness Tree&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;b&gt;Want to join the fun?&lt;/b&gt; Create your own &lt;i&gt;Thankfulness Tree&lt;/i&gt; and share it with us in the linky below!!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-5700228397053946204?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/MxnazlhIDdE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/MxnazlhIDdE/thankful-on-tuesday-111511.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-iDuTYruKo_Y/TsFt5R76ypI/AAAAAAAADAs/Kg5C113AueE/s72-c/IMG_1921%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/thankful-on-tuesday-111511.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-8048786260218823472</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-14T11:49:47.767-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tommy Nelson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Giveaway</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Book Review</category><title>Winner of 100 Read &amp; Sing Devotions from Tommy Nelson</title><description>&lt;b&gt;Congratulations&lt;/b&gt; to &lt;i&gt;Amy &lt;/i&gt;who won a copy of the &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400317169/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1400317169" target="_blank"&gt;100 Read &amp;amp; Sing Devotions&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;thanks to &lt;a href="http://tommynelson.com/"&gt;Tommy Nelson&lt;/a&gt;!!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400317169/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1400317169" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="100 Read &amp;amp; Sing Devotions" border="0" height="304" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-o5kSK5OJ-Zg/Trrwx66Io8I/AAAAAAAAC-8/0TRa_Ul8nXk/1400317169%25255B1%25255D%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="100 Read &amp;amp; Sing Devotions" width="242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=apfre101-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=1400317169&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373" width="1" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;To learn more about the &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400317169/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1400317169" target="_blank"&gt;100 Read &amp;amp; Sing Devotions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;, be sure to read&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/100-read-sing-devotions-100devos.html" target="_blank"&gt;100 Read &amp;amp; Sing Devotions {review}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=1400317312&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373" width="1" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Thanks to Tommy Nelson for providing a copy of &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/100-read-sing-devotions-100devos.html" target="_blank"&gt;100 Read &amp;amp; Sing Devotions&lt;/a&gt; for review and giveaway.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.ashleypichea.com/disclosure/"&gt;*A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-8048786260218823472?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/azXCPQvOa7g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/azXCPQvOa7g/winner-of-100-read-sing-devotions-from.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-o5kSK5OJ-Zg/Trrwx66Io8I/AAAAAAAAC-8/0TRa_Ul8nXk/s72-c/1400317169%25255B1%25255D%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/winner-of-100-read-sing-devotions-from.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-1984460576026358245</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-11T11:52:51.766-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Homeschool Mothers Journal</category><title>In our homeschool this week… {11.11.11}</title><description>We started off this week strong, but ended up “forgetting” to do school in the middle of the week. We’re back at it this morning, though.&lt;br /&gt;
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At the end of last week, I printed off a “color by letter” turkey I’d &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/apichea/" target="_blank"&gt;found on Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;, and Jenny got right to work.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img alt="IMG_1802" border="0" height="504" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-o7t_DHDu2aE/Tr1K42HwjvI/AAAAAAAAC_M/HJNc7RNYxmE/IMG_1802%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1802" width="379" /&gt;&lt;img alt="IMG_1803" border="0" height="504" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-RKpppwKhcpM/Tr1K4ydfQNI/AAAAAAAAC_U/_FR5A-LgLKE/IMG_1803%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1803" width="379" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Saturday is “Game Day” at our house… we’re big University of Michigan football fans, and the kids like to get in on the action {for about five minutes until they get bored}.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img alt="IMG_1808" border="0" height="504" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-aVL3xCulC40/Tr1K5ADbPUI/AAAAAAAAC_c/fdOLxJyuc8o/IMG_1808%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1808" width="379" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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One of Jenny’s favorite things to do is to find things in her Bible. Once she finds whatever she was looking for, she often tries to read the verses that she is looking up. Here she was reading about Daniel’s interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar’s dreams.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img alt="IMG_1818" border="0" height="504" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-8FeMkmgH55g/Tr1K5cCVKAI/AAAAAAAAC_k/AeQ1fbJ5GeA/IMG_1818%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1818" width="379" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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David likes to be like his big sister, so he can often be found mimicking her actions. Sunday afternoon, he pulled out her piano books and began to “play” the songs.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img alt="IMG_1815" border="0" height="504" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-YqvSw4nqlLA/Tr1K5iOJVJI/AAAAAAAAC_s/XnTxoQyB2c0/IMG_1815%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1815" width="379" /&gt;&lt;img alt="IMG_1819" border="0" height="504" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-6IXNWZoazcg/Tr1K52UaXGI/AAAAAAAAC_0/gfApBtWsUMs/IMG_1819%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1819" width="379" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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We’ve loved adding to &lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/thankful-on-tuesday-110811.html" target="_blank"&gt;our Thankfulness Tree&lt;/a&gt; each day… it’s getting full of leaves!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img alt="IMG_1840" border="0" height="504" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-wbW15ZBW6dg/Tr1K54vWMII/AAAAAAAAC_8/CEz2DvsvvYI/IMG_1840%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1840" width="379" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Did you see the post this week about Jenny &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/learning-books-of-new-testament.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;learning the Books of the New Testament&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;She did SO well!!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Jenny &amp;amp; David are truly best friends, and it is such a blessing to be their Mommy! Last night I found them cuddled together in “Daddy’s chair” as they watched some cartoons before supper.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img alt="IMG_1876" border="0" height="504" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Jv4Z8YAdZe4/Tr1K6FOo4NI/AAAAAAAADAE/Nq8BwclauEM/IMG_1876%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1876" width="379" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Jenny is a budding artist, as I mentioned last week. Any chance to draw, color, or create, and she is all over it! Here she is drawing a picture of Creation to go along with our devotion that we had just read together.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img alt="IMG_1877" border="0" height="504" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-SUNMH7RQ4Us/Tr1K6fVMJ6I/AAAAAAAADAM/jufBsAWUYpo/IMG_1877%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1877" width="379" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Though our homeschool may not be as “scheduled” as I think it should be, it works well for us in our season of life, and Jenny is soaking up all the new information like a sponge. I love her love for learning, and I love seeing the “light come on” when she “gets” new concepts!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Have you entered the &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/100-read-sing-devotions-100devos.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;100 Read &amp;amp; Sing Devotions giveaway&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; yet??&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I’m linking up with the &lt;a href="http://www.thehomeschoolchick.com/about-the-homeschool-mothers-journal/" target="_blank"&gt;Homeschool Mother’s Journal&lt;/a&gt; today.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6594134488403970003-1984460576026358245?l=pkidshs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~4/9tkpP2sZGbE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachingJenny/~3/9tkpP2sZGbE/in-our-homeschool-this-week-111111.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ashley Pichea)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-o7t_DHDu2aE/Tr1K42HwjvI/AAAAAAAAC_M/HJNc7RNYxmE/s72-c/IMG_1802%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://pkidshs.blogspot.com/2011/11/in-our-homeschool-this-week-111111.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594134488403970003.post-4383052066456353894</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-10T09:46:36.521-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tommy Nelson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Giveaway</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Book Review</category><title>100 Read &amp; Sing Devotions #100Devos</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400317169/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=apfre101-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399373&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1400317169" target="_blank"&gt;100 Read &amp;amp; Sing Devotions&lt;/a&gt; helps kids get in the habit of daily devotions with praise, prayer and scripture - kids can read, sing and learn while they spend time with God!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Tell me the reference of the Bible verse in the devotion I read. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tell me the title of the devotional I read. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Fine Print: Winner will be chosen by Random.org on or after 12:01am ET, 11/14/11. Winner will be contacted via email. Winner must have a mailing address in the contiguous US. Tommy Nelson provided copies for review and giveaway, however, all opinions expressed are my own.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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