Word Play! Fun Activity for Summer Schooling + {Giveaway}

We have a fun little giveaway at the end . . . so stay with me . . . 

We have recently re-discovered a fun and educational activity to use throughout the summer.  Word Play! is a fun way to teach idioms and common word phrases, while enhancing your problem solving skills. . . plus, we laugh heartily when we are playing.  We have had several puzzle books over the years and have enjoyed them enough to create our own Word Play! puzzles.

Word Play! is a puzzle that teases the brain while supplying a language lesson and some fun.  Each word picture is a common phrase or word that has been written in such a way to convey it's meaning.  You must decode the puzzle by deciphering the meaning with the position of the word, number of words, letters and sizes of the words.

Ready to play?  Here is a sample Word Play! puzzle.  Take time to look at the clues in the puzzle and you will begin to see patterns that help you to solve each puzzle.  

EXAMPLE:

 1.  Famous story about the Wilder family.
ANSWER: Little House in the Big Woods

Got it?  Good!  Now, sit down with the kids and have a little fun with these Word Play! puzzles:

2.  Take this to work to tote your meal.

3.  The ultimate goal for a running back.

4.  A person that is practical and no-nonsense.

Okay, now for the giveaway.  Here is a fun little Summer Schooling Prize Pack.
The prize pack includes a Classic Games Wooden Brain Teaser puzzles, and 3 Scholastic books: Flight 29 Down, Chu Ju's House and The Secret School.

How to enter?  Complete the Word Play! puzzles above and leave your answers in the comments below.  That's it!  Entries for this prize pack will stay open until June 20, 2012 at midnight.  The winner will be chosen at random and notified via email before June 21, 2012.  

So let's have a little brain teasing Word Play! fun for Summer Schooling, shall we?

The Joyful Socks Mom     

Where We Are At? This week we are linking up at Homeschooling on the Cheap!

Visit these resources for more great homeschool fun:

• MOM ONLY! Boot Camp - Best little Homeschool Conference.  Having a Generational Heart in your homeschool.  Join Smockity Frocks and Joyful Socks Mom for a day of fellowship and fun for home educating moms!
• SHAPE Academy - SHAPE offers excellence in home education: affordable, original and fun!

 

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HOMESCHOOL Curriculum Sale!

Greetings!  I have been feverishly cleaning the shelves and making room for all the new curriculum coming in over the summer.  I would love to bless your home with some good curriculum, SO here is a listing of some great curriculum for sale.  I've tried to keep low prices, with shipping included- PRICES LISTED include postage, paid and delivered to your doorstep.

• Thanks for taking a look.  PAYPAL & MONEY ORDER ONLY, please.  I will ship all items USPS Media Mail.  Please message me with any questions on curriculum, I am happy to help!
• First come, first serve so leave comments below for the items you are interested in and I will follow-up quickly with wheather they have been claimed, or if they belong to little ole' YOU.

LANGUAGE ARTS - - - - - - - - - - >

• NEW! A BEKA LANGUAGE 2: Seatwork Workbook Publisher: A Beka Books; 3rd edition, ASIN: B000Y9TO1S $8.00 PPD

• USED - A BEKA Aesop's Fables Publisher: A Beka; 2nd edition (1995), ASIN: B00327T4RS $4.00 PPD

• USED - Shurley English Level 6 Teacher's Manual (NO JINGLE CD - NOT INCLUDED) Paperback, ASIN: B000JXUTZO $18.00 PPD SOLD

• NEW! Texas Write Source Grade 6 Teacher's Edition SET 
• Hardcover: 886 pages, Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Teacher's Edition edition (2012), ISBN-10: 0547395310, ISBN-13: 978-0547395319, ASIN: B005EMRJTE  $15.00 PPD

The Language of Literature: Texas Teacher's Edition Set $10.00 PPD

NEW! Wordskills Workbooks: Gold Level $7.00 PPD

• FOREIGN LANGUAGE - - - - - - >

• NEW! Latin for Children: Primer A - Activity Book 
• Paperback: 160 pages, Publisher: Classical Academic Press (January 1, 2005)
• Language: Latin, ISBN-10: 1600510051, ISBN-13: 978-1600510052 
• $10.00 PPD SOLD
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• MATH - - - - - - >

USED - Saxon Math 76 Textbook & Teacher's Edition 2nd Edition Set, good condition.

New! In Package Saxon Math 2 Flashcards $3.00 PPD each - 3 Sets available.

Horizons Math Level 6 Teacher's Manual $5.00 PPD - Has much shelf ware, still in usable condition.

If you are interested in purchasing any of the above items, please leave a comment below, listing the title that you are interested in purchasing.  I will respond and let you know if the item is still available.  If an item is listed as "Sale Pending", go ahead and still leave me a comment, the item may become available.

Thanks for taking a peak - If you know someone who would benefit from these homeschool resources, be sure to pass it on.

Happy Homeschooling!

The Joyful Socks Mom  

How-To Help Kids to Embrace Biblical Gender Roles

This is one of those areas of teaching our children that we fall into many of the traditional values and methods . . . embracing biblical gender roles.  We are dedicated to helping our children to embrace who God made them to be.  He has made us both male and female, different, yet equal in His love for us. Teaching our children to embrace what God created them to be in Christ is essential, the next step is to help them understand the differences in responsibility and dominion that God has given us as men and women.

"Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves  unto one another in the fear of God." Ephesians 5:20 - 21 (NKJV)

We have been dedicated recently to not only teaching our children how to embrace their specific gender roles, but also to teach them how to relate to one another in those gender roles.  God judges our heart in every duty we undertake.  We must realize it is not just enough, as a lady, to bake a big batch of cookies, wear poofy-sleeved dresses, sip tea and where a skirt, play with dolls and put a "GIRLS ONLY" sign on our lives.  We need to help our children to cultivate a godly attitude when serving and helping the opposite gender, that means boys and girls.  God judges the heart, not the deed.

There is nothing particularly new, or even creative about some of the methods we are using in teaching our children about gender roles.  The girls learn to sew, crochet, latch-hook, bake and organize a home.  The boy camps out with dad, learns to whittle and work in the wood-shop.  The girls learn to be meek and gentle, chaste keepers of the home (P.S.  Mom, has not even got that one down . . . yet).  The boy, learns to work, while being a provider, strong and courageous, ready to lead.  That is just where the training begins, though.  Now it is time to "step-up our game".  How do we teach our children to have a Christ-like heart for serving and helping the opposite gender?

1.  Use gender specific curriculum to help your child cultivate their talents within their given gender role.  Then encourage them to see when they have similarities and why they have them.  A little girl who builds a fort alongside her brother will be far more likely learn that, as women, we can support the vision of our husbands by working with him, not just shutting ourselves in a cookie baking, "sweet-tea", powered-sugar pink lady world!

{We have been thoroughly enjoying this audio cd from Vision Forum.  Especially the Squeaker who struggles with the "girly" side of femininity.}

2.  Help your child understand differences in our responsibilities as male and female.  God put differences there for a reason too.  Children should have a sense of pride in being a girl or boy, without going to the extreme.

3.  Cultivate gender roles within the home as a way for helping children to learn to be good husbands and wives in the future.  The more that parents project their own biblical gender roles in a consistent manner, the more the children will learn to appreciate their own gender roles, and emulate what they see at home.

4.  Help your children view their siblings in the light of God's Word and as a God-given relationship that will help them train up for later life.


5.  Encourage them in seeing the vision that God has for the family and that He uses each member to accomplish His Will.  That makes everyone's God-given role important!

{Here are the kids before a tea party that the Bug hosted}

Enjoy, with your kids, the beauty that can be seen in each and every blessing and talent that comes from God, and give thanks that He has made us all to be who we are in Christ.  

The Joyful Socks Mom     

Visit these resources for more great resources:

• Bright Ideas Press - Chronilogical and Biblical History!  The Mystery of History will never  cease to amaze you!
• Vision Forum - Discipleship and Education for Christian Families.

Don't Forget to Register Today!
MOM ONLY! Boot Camp - Best little Homeschool Conference.  Having a Generational Heart in your homeschool.  Join Smockity Frocks and Joyful Socks Mom for a day of fellowship and fun for home educating moms!