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Ready for Another Big Week???

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:16:56 +0000

Ready for another big week?

This week is another low-key week around here. I will be digging into my “to-do” list behind the scenes. There are lots of new things on the horizon around here. I am buzzing!

Changes for the radio shows!

I have been having big, big tech-problems with BTR for almost 2 months. So, this week, I am still working on moving my shows to TalkShoe. There won’t be any live shows this week. I do hope to get everything ready to roll strong the following week. It will be refreshing to SEE the chat, actually record the show, and have it all online easily! Soooo, hang tight for that. It will be well worth the move.

OH! Yes, I will still post the shows at BTR for those who enjoy that format. But, the live shows will be recorded in our rooms over at TalkShoe. Details coming ASAP!

I am also working hard to get all of the wedding photos edited and online. We had a blast! It was the most amazing and holy wedding I have ever seen! Of course, last week was the tech-problem week of the year–my Mac hard-drive crashed. UGH! I was SO upset! I hope to get everything back up and going strong this week. Stay tuned for the pics. They are sooo awesome! If you want a sneek-peek into the pics, I do have some unedited pics on my Facebook page:

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ENJOY!

One other thing that I will be doing this week is preparing for our next Talk-a-Latte Seminar. Yep! It is a week from Friday! Just stay tuned. I will have all of the details online early this week!

Well, I am going to get rolling. Get ready for a super week! Make this one great!

Love ya tons!
Cindy

NEW STUDY! Be Dependable with Cindy Rushton

CindyRushton — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:02:38 +0000

Ready for another session in our online study through “Becoming a Proverbs 31 Woman?” This week we will continue in our study through Proverbs 31 as we study what it means to BE DEPENDABLE as a godly woman. Don’t miss this one! It is going to be a super study!

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Marriage 911 Flight Plans
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See Us Online!
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http://www.CindysDesktop.com
http://www.MomtoMomRadioShow.com
http://www.Writers-Nook.com
http://www.Playmasters.info
http://www.Talk-a-Latte.com
http://www.RomanceToolbox.com
http://www.UltimateHomeschoolExpo.com

On Facebook? I am! Find me here:
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Want to hear a few past shows?
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The Dream Comes to Pass…

CindyRushton — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:55:28 +0000

Join Cindy Rushton for a few minutes mom-to-mom as she shares her heart. Want to know how to reach for that impossible dream? Want to reach toward those resolutions that are on your list year-after-year-after-year? Don’t miss this quick word heart-to-heart!

Come Meet Judge Roy Moore Friday ONLINE!

CindyRushton — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:46:40 +0000

Another big show! Join us!

Mom-to-Mom Radio Show
Friday, October 9, 2009
10AM CT

TOPIC: So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, And The Battle For Religious Freedom

Join Cindy for a bonus show this week! Yes! We welcome the Honorable Judge Roy Moore from Alabama. Don’t miss this show! In this show, Cindy will discuss with Judge Moore his story, what has been going on with our country, and what we are to do in this very important time in our history. Have questions for Judge Moore? Send them to Cindy by email: cindy@cindyrushton.com today and she will gladly ask your question. Mark your calendar today and make plans for the whole family to tune into this show. And, tell a friend!

Want to support Judge Moore in his campaign for governor of Alabama? See his website: http://www.Moore2010.com

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NEW STUDY! Be Trustworthy!

CindyRushton — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:34:32 +0000

Ready for the third session in our online study through “Becoming a Proverbs 31 Woman?” This week we will continue in our study through Proverbs 31 as we look at how to become a TRUSTWORTHY woman. Don’t miss this one! It is going to be a super study!

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Marriage 911 Flight Plans
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On Facebook? I am! Find me here:
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AND! I am on Twitter!
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Cindy’s Ezines:
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Want to hear a few past shows?
Listen to them on our website:http://www.MomtoMomRadioShow.com

NEW STUDY! Be Priceless! with Cindy Rushton

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:39:39 +0000

Ready for the second session in our online study through “Becoming a Proverbs 31 Woman?” This week we will continue in our study through Proverbs 31 as we look at how priceless you are as a godly woman. Don’t miss this one! It is going to be a super study!

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SHOW NOTES:

On Facebook? I am! Find me here:
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AND! I am on Twitter!
http://twitter.com/cindyrushton

Cindy’s Ezines:
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Want to hear a few past shows?
Listen to them on our website:http://www.MomtoMomRadioShow.com

It’s Fall! Get Outside! by Cindy Rushton

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:35:48 +0000

It is Fall! Every day, I wake up to something new and different in my yard. I expect that the next few weeks hold many precious touches straight from the hand of the Creator, just for us…AND, you can call it school!

Yep! Talk about a great way to teach science and nature study to your little ones–just get outside!

Science is SO easy to bring into our homeschools. The first thing that we implemented toward nature study in a more natural and easy manner was simply getting out of doors each day! Sound simple? It is really profound!

This was a simple idea that I gleaned from Charlotte Mason. Charlotte Mason, an educator of the late 1800’s, advocated short lessons finished early into the day just so that the children could have plenty of time out-of-doors. She felt that children needed several hours each and every day just to do the things that simply cannot be done inside—explore, climb trees and mountains, exercise, hike, run, jump rocks, watch clouds, learn about weather, collect nature (rocks, flowers, leaves…), sing, shout, paint, watch animals, hunt tracks, learn natural geography, so on! Miss Mason won my heart as she shared in her books that every opportunity should be seized to get out of doors, regardless of the time of year or the weather. She even felt that meals and tea should be taken outside as much as possible. A woman after my heart!

This time out of doors was not limited to the children, though. Charlotte recommended that the parents and teachers take a blanket outside along with a project to do (needlework, books, writing, and sketchbooks…) while the children explored around them. She wanted for this time of the day to be a leisurely time for children and adults. This time was not meant for lectures or lessons per say—the glorious answer for those of us with limited knowledge and understanding! Rather, this time was meant for the children to have access to mom as they leisurely brought back their finds or described the intricate details of what they saw outside. The focus was to be simple recognition of nature all throughout the year in all different seasons, to learn the life cycle of plants and animals informally as they go along, and to grow in appreciation and attentiveness to the tiny details of God’s creation. These ideas slowly began to teach me a different way to teach my children about nature and science. They also encouraged me to become a “student” again!

Weekly Nature Walk…

One of the first things that intrigued me was Miss Mason’s idea of having a weekly nature walk. In the PNEU (Parent’s National Education Union) schools set up by Charlotte Mason, the students were taken each week on a nature walk. I have to be honest here as I share with you that while this idea intrigued me, it also intimidated me! We have always been intensely busy people. I could not figure any way to take more time for one more thing…well, until…

I ran across a book by Anna Comstock. She writes in her book Handbook of Nature Study about what she called a field excursion (try that one for your record keeping!),

“It is a mistake to think that a half day is necessary for a field lesson, since a very efficient field trip may be made during the ten or fifteen minutes at recess.”

This was the key! There was an answer to major hindrance! In the busyness of our daily lives, I was the very one to put off nature walks and hikes because I simply did not always have a whole afternoon to devote to nature study each week. Not to mention, we live in the Southern United States where HEAT and HUMIDITY can stifle out any hope of a nature walk if you are as wimpy as I am! But, comfort of all comfort—nature walks can be just as simple or just as complex as we have time and energy for! They can take place at any time of the day and they do not have to take all day to instill the lessons that they provide. Yes, even I could do this!

The nature walk is meant to be leisurely. Again, it is not a time for lectures or lessons by the parent. Rather, it is a time for parents and children to break away from the “old-grind” to get out in God’s beautiful world. Want a peek into how this looked in our home? On a typical nature walk, we only took 20 minutes to walk down the road and collect some thing—one day we found Queen Anne’s Lace and Poison Hemlock. We brought them back home, discussing and comparing them all the way home. At home, I brought out my Handbook of Nature Studies while they were looking at the two flowers. I simply asked them to notice more carefully the differences such as the leaves on the stems…what made them look like lace from afar…the roots…and the tiny flowers, which make up the entire cluster. We read about this gorgeous “weed” and were thankful that it was brought to America from Europe!

Although this particular nature walk resulted in a lesson, lessons are not necessary. In fact, ours only resulted from our quest for more knowledge. I know I shared above about my complete ignorance in the area of nature. This is actually all for the best. It limits my lectures and my explanations while teaching the children how mom finds out what she wants to know—I look it up! You know it is really much, much better since my lack of knowledge forces me to disciple my children in how to learn as we go along!

See how easy a nature walk can be? Just get outside. Take a walk. Watch how much they learn. Well, watch how much YOU learn as well. Easy. Effective!

Nature Notebooks!

Inevitably, someone is thinking, “But, Cindy, this is a great idea, but how do we know that they are learning?” “How do we document their learning?”

What a perfect time of the year to take school outside. That is obvious. However, this is also the perfect time to begin Nature Notebooks! Not only will you have an abundance of treasures awaiting your exploration, but these are perfect days to try something fresh. Ready? Let me help…

Chances are you already have many things that could be included in a Science Notebook around your home. Look for those “goodies” that do not have their own special place and add them to your Science Notebooks. This is the perfect opportunity to develop “a place” for those “goodies” while developing a nice product for displaying all the growing knowledge of nature all while your children are keeping special memorabilia! One of the things that I like about using supplies intended for scrapbooking is that there are so many products that enable us to keep bulky materials safely inside of our notebooks. Not to mention, scrapbooking makes EVERY notebook so much cuter! And…to imagine that we call this “school!”

Want some ideas of things to include in your notebooks???

· Sketches…Don’t forget to include date, time, place, Latin name, and common name. Oh! Don’t forget to document where you found it.

· Snapshots…Don’t forget to journal about your snapshot!

· Pressed flowers, leaves, feathers, butterflies, etc.

· Glossary of terms studied…

· Artwork… (Nature art, original drawings, coloring pages…)

· Diagrams…

· Poetry…

· Information about discoveries…

· Lists of new findings…

· Handouts from trips…

· Narrations from trips, outings, hikes, nature walks, books read about nature or scientists/naturalists…

· Timeline…Mark your excursions, inventions, famous men and women, so on!

· Instruction Sheets on “How to Care for…” or “How to Collect…” etc.

· Booklets…

· Project data…

· Bible verses…

· Journal entries…

· Details from outings…

· Favorite quotes about nature…

· Reading list…

· Research…

· Reports…

· Essays…

· Science experiment logs…

· Notes from any Science study…

You can add a lot of life to your Science Notebooks with special supplies you find along the way! I have found that the little touches have made our notebooks so much more fun and in the process hooked my children.

Encourage your children to use die-cuts, frames, stencils, shapes, and edgings galore to make their notebooks fun and beautiful! My children now beg each weekend to work on our binders/scrapbooks. We have taken these simple skills into other projects for our Science studies such as creating books or booklets…making cards with pressed flowers, sketches, poetry and Scripture verses…and displaying our collections. The key is to just have fun and enjoy making your notebooks all yours! There is not a “right” way or a “wrong” way to notebook. You can enjoy! AND…what a super time to get started.

Well, what do you think?

Got “fall fever?” Ready to get outside to soak up the beauty and fresh air? This is the perfect time to make up any excuse to get outside. But, what better excuse than getting outside for a “school lesson” as we enjoy this gorgeous fall? The perfect excuse! J

Get outside! It is Fall!

Happy Homeschooling

Need more help? Don’t miss Cindy’s book, Nature Study the Easy Way! In Nature Study the Easy Way, Cindy takes you by the hand and teaches everything that we need to teach science the easy way. Best news! Nature Study the Easy Way is half off! See it listed in our Half-Off Sale! Click here to learn more.

NEW ONLINE STUDY! Becoming a Proverbs 31 Woman! (FREE!)

CindyRushton — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:14:13 +0000

Ready for a SUPER study? I have SUPER news for you!

Today we kick off our study through Cindy’s newest online class, Becoming a Proverbs 31 Woman. Mom-to-Mom Radio Show will feature this entire study FREE! Yep! You read right! COMPLETELY FREE! You can join us live AND download for free! Can’t beat that, huh?

Each week, we will cover a different topic as we study through Proverbs 31. This week join us as we dig into the study and learn about how to become VIRTUOUS. Don’t miss this one! This topic will fire you up!

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NEW STUDY! Be Virtuous! with Cindy Rushton

CindyRushton — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:07:16 +0000

Ready for a SUPER study? Today we kick off our study through Cindy’s newest online class, Becoming a Proverbs 31 Woman. Mom-to-Mom Radio Show will feature this entire study FREE! Each week, we will cover another topic as we study through Proverbs 31. This week join us as we dig into the study and learn about how to become VIRTUOUS. Don’t miss this one! This topic will fire you up!
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Get Fit and Healthy with Cindy Rushton

CindyRushton — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:27:45 +0000

Join Cindy Rushton for a super show today! Cindy has lost 58lbs since January. Want to know what she is doing? Well, join her for this show. She will share her secrets with you. Don’t miss this one!

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On Facebook? I am! Find me here:
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Want to hear a few past shows?
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