12 Days of Christmas Blog Freebie - Christmas Nativity Mini-Lapbook Day 6

Download Day 6 of our Christmas Nativity Mini-Lapbook!

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12 Days of Christmas - Day 6 Kindle FREEBIE

Day 6 of our 12 Days of Christmas Mini-Lapbook download is FREE today! All 6 days are currently free, so if you've missed any, scroll down and pick them all up!

12 Days of Christmas Blog Freebie - Christmas Nativity Mini-Lapbook Day 5

Download Day 5 of our Christmas Nativity Mini-Lapbook!

(PDF version)

12 Days of Christmas - Day 5 Kindle FREEBIE

Day 5 is FREE today! (Mini-book will be free for 5 days).

12 Days of Christmas Blog Freebie - Christmas Nativity Mini-Lapbook Day 4

Over the 12 Days of Christmas (by some calendars, December 26-January 6), come to the blog each day to download one day of the Christmas Nativity Mini-Lapbook and Study Guide (PDF format).

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

12 Days of Christmas Mini-Lapbook Kindle Freebie Day 4

Great news! We are catching you up today on the 12 Days of Christmas Mini-Lapbook downloads. We had a few delays, but Days 1-4 are all FREE on Amazon Kindle today. Each download is available for 5 days, so you will have plenty of time to get them all. Download and enjoy!

12 Days of Christmas Day 1 Mini-Lapbook

Available FREE on Kindle 

December 28-January 1!

12 Days of Christmas Day 2 Mini-Lapbook

Available FREE on Kindle 

December 29-January 2!

12 Days of Christmas Day 3 Mini-Lapbook

Available FREE on Kindle 

December 29-January 2!

12 Days of Christmas Day 4 Mini-Lapbook

Available FREE on Kindle 

December 29-January 2!

12 Days of Christmas Blog Freebie - Christmas Nativity Mini-Lapbook Day 3

Over the 12 Days of Christmas (by some calendars, December 26-January 6), come to the blog each day to download one day of the Christmas Nativity Mini-Lapbook and Study Guide (PDF format).

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

12 Days of Christmas Kindle Freebies

Good news! Day 1 of our 12 Days of Christmas Kindle freebie is finally FREE on Amazon!! I realize it's 3 days after Christmas, but if you would like our free download, please check it out. It will be FREE for 5 days. Days 2-12 should be following soon!

Here is one more Kindle freebie to brighten your day!

Have a great day!

12 Days of Christmas Blog Freebie - Christmas Nativity Mini-Lapbook Day 2

Over the 12 Days of Christmas (by some calendars, December 26-January 6), come to the blog each day to download one day of the Christmas Nativity Mini-Lapbook and Study Guide (PDF format).

The Kindle exclusive freebie, the 12 Days of Christmas Mini-Lapbook, has been delayed.  Please scroll down for more information.

12 Days of Christmas Kindle Freebies

My apologies to everyone. Due to circumstances beyond our control, the Amazon Kindle freebies for "The 12 Days of Christmas Mini-Lapbook" have been delayed again. Please check back tomorrow. In the meantime, please enjoy this freebie!

12 Days of Christmas Blog Freebie - Christmas Nativity Mini-Lapbook

Over the 12 Days of Christmas (by some calendars, December 26-January 6), come to the blog each day to download one day of the Christmas Nativity Mini-Lapbook and Study Guide (PDF format).

For the Kindle exclusive freebie, the 12 Days of Christmas Mini-Lapbook, see the next post.

12 Days of Christmas - FREE Mini-Lapbook on Kindle

I hope you've all had a very Merry Christmas!

Nowadays, Christmas seems to start right after Thanksgiving (or even Hallowe'en) and end abruptly after December 25.  On the old church calendar, however, Christmas started with the day or evening of December 25, and the festivities continued until January 5 or 6, the Day of Epiphany.  Are you ready to learn more and to celebrate with us?  Download the 12 Days of Christmas Mini-Lapbook for FREE in pieces over the next 12 days!

Our first freebie is hitting a little late and will not be available for FREE until after midnight tonight, but each FREEBIE will available for 5 days, so you will have plenty of time to download them!

For a Kindle FREEBIE TODAY, click below!

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Also keep checking back to the blog for more 12 Days of Christmas FREE downloads!

All Is Calm, All Is Bright!

Merry Christmas!

Image courtesy of http://thegraphicsfairy.com.

Random Acts of Murder FREE this week!

Need some fun (and FREE) reading on your Kindle during Christmas break?

Click here or on image to download from the Kindle store.

On sale this week! Random Acts of Murder: FREE! The rest of the series is only 99¢!

Holly Anna Paladin Mysteries (4 Book Series) 

A Christmas Message from Stand to Reason

Free Kindle ebook: Hook, Line, & Sinker

Download a Free ebook on Kindle from Tyndale Publishing today!

Happy Reading!

Flyby Review: Amy Grant's Tennessee Christmas

It just wouldn't be Christmas without some Amy Grant music playing!  I was excited to get this CD to review while getting ready for the holiday season!

The album "Tennessee Christmas" has some new songs and some old favorites.  During some of the songs, Amy waxes nostalgic and talks about Christmases she remembers and her kids being young.  I guess I'm not quite ready for the nostalgic memory-type of album, since my kids are all still home.  I don't tend to like a lot of talking in the middle of songs.  I just like straight Christmas music.  All of the songs were also pretty slow and drug out a little too much for me.  I like a peppier, more energetic sound.  All in all, this was probably my least-favorite of Amy Grant's Christmas albums.

All that said, Amy Grant is still Amy Grant, and as someone pointed out, her voice never seems to age or change.  She graces every piece with the quality we've come to know is only from Amy!  If you enjoy Christmas music with a bit of nostalgia, this album may be just what the doctor ordered!

Listen to one of the new songs, "To Be Together," a song inspired by Amy's daughter's car accident, at the following link and see if this is an album you'd like to add to your collection!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUpIwK5Bxn8     

You can purchase the album here:

http://smarturl.it/TNChristmasAlbum?IQid=flyby 

Also, as part of this project, please upload any videos you may have of you surprising loved ones for the holidays to social media.

Bloggers are free to ask their readers to post these to socials using the hashtag #TNChristmasSurprise! We’ll be making a compilation video and posting it to Amy’s socials – this specific video has not been announced yet though.
Similar to this video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lfa22gpczyqmhfy/ChristmasSurprise.MOV?dl=0
Those chosen will be part of a compilation video that Amy herself will share on her large social media outlets!

Happy listening and Merry Christmas!

   

Flyby Review: Bible Journaling Kit

If you've been reading this blog for a while, you know I love scrapbooking.  I can spend hours journaling every event and picture for my family.  So what better way to delve into my Bible study than by journaling?  I was so excited to get this Bible Journaling Kit - it was like Christmas coming early!

The kit includes:

·         4 sheets of word stickers

·         4 sheets of alphabet stickers

·         24 tab stickers

·         8 colored pencil twists

·         1 journaling pen

·         1 pouch with adjustable strap to fit Bibles of all sizes

·         1 ruled page protector mat with tracing lines

If you are like me, you won't want to write and doodle in your nice leather-bound Bible with the beautiful, thin pages (if you even have one, instead of an app!).  I really only like to underline a few things in my nice Bible.  But don't feel like you can never make notes in a Bible.  One of my greatest treasures is my grandfather's old leather-bound Bible, full of his notes, markings, and favorite verses. It gives me a chance to see what he was thinking when he was studying and what verses had the most meaning for him.  So I have a hard-cover, $6 Bible that I use for highlighting and making notes during my devotions.  It has slightly thicker pages and is by now quite colorful!  Somehow, highlighting and making notes in an app has not been quite the same for me.

This is honestly one of my favorite things I've gotten to review.  It would make a wonderful gift for the scrapbooker in your life!

I'm running a little late with this review, but you still have a few days to register for the publisher's giveaway of five Bible Journaling Kits!  Winners will be announced on December 15, 2016.  There are also FREE coloring pages to download from the webpage!  Click here:  http://bit.ly/BibleJournalingKitGiveaway

You can find the Bible Journaling Kit at these retailers:

Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/BNBibleJournaling
Amazon: http://bit.ly/BibleJournaling
Books-A-Million: http://bit.ly/BAMBibleJournaling
Christian Book Distributors: http://bit.ly/CBDBibleJournaling

Enjoy your journaling!

Merry Christmas 2016!

So here is our Christmas card for this year. Why be fake just for a good Christmas card? When you see all the perfect families on the perfect Christmas cards this year and feel like yours doesn't measure up, just remember - they are all photo-shopped!! Heck, even my "fighting" picture is photo-shopped - or at least posed! So just have fun and remember the True Reason for the Season. It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!  

Kids' Profile on Kindle - Parental Controls

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You may be thinking of taking advantage of Amazon's great Cyber Monday deals to get your child a Kindle for Christmas.  We'll be talking all month on this blog about using the Kindle for Homeschool.

First of all, what advantages does the Kindle have for children?  If you get the Kids Edition Kindle Fire (above), you get a kid-proof case, a 2-year worry-free guarantee, and a free year of Amazon FreeTime Unlimited.  You may also opt for the 8GB Kindle Fire (below) that is only $33.33 for Cyber Monday, but I would definitely recommend also getting a case to go with it.

The big advantage with using either Kindle with kids is the great PARENTAL CONTROLS.  Once you get a Kindle, whether it's a regular one or one with a kids' case, you can set up a kid's profile within your own profile. I love this option. When you set up your child's profile, you choose which games, books, etc to include on your child's profile. You can set limits on the time your child can play each day, and you can set individual limits for any-game-play, educational game play, or reading only. I have mine set up so that my 11-yo son's Kindle comes on at 7:30 am and turns off at 9:30 pm. During the day, he can read the books I have approved at any time, as long as he wants to. He has one hour of game play per day, but he has to read for 30 minutes before it will allow him to play the games. I could also set it up that he had to do a certain amount of educational app time before he could play other games. I have videos and the web browser turned off, but you can turn them on and limit their time as well. There is no email available for the child profile, and you can't get "in-app purchases" on the child's profile. That is good as far as not letting your child purchase things while using an app, but it has frustrated me a few times as well. For instance, I purchased a math-practice game that came with addition and subtraction practice, and there was an upgrade you could purchase to practice multiplication and division. I purchased the game and the upgrade, but only the addition and subtraction will work in the child profile, not the multiplication and division.

All in all, this is a great tool to use for homeschool.

There are lots of free and low-cost books and apps for the Kindle, so you can start loading them now to have it all ready for your child at Christmas.  (Disclaimer:  While some free books are wonderful, there are other times you "get what you pay for;" i.e. spelling and grammar may not have been edited as they would be in a regular, published book.  I will be alerting my readers to Freebies all month, but the only ones I have edited or checked for editing are those by Knowledge Box Central, the company for which I work.)

Here is a freebie to get you started:

Stay tuned to this blog all through December for Freebies, Giveaways, and information about Homeschooling with Kindle!

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Black Friday - Yay or Nay?

Are you a Black Friday shopper?  I did some shopping today - online, from the leather recliner in my living room, with the heat set at 70 degrees F.  I love deals, but crowds, traffic, and cold are not for me!

That being said, I do like to take advantage of the big deals.  I buy most of my household items and clothing at thrift stores, and I pay full price for almost nothing.  There are some great deals on Amazon today.  And yes, I am an affiliate, so I'm doing some advertising here, but I also want to talk about one of my favorite things, Homeschooling with a Kindle.

As anyone who has been on this blog a few times knows, I work for Knowledge Box Central.  We publish lapbooks, unit studies, etc., for homeschoolers, as well as educational materials for public school teachers.  One of my jobs is to convert our unit studies for Kindle.  People ask me all the time about how to use Kindle in your homeschool and how our products work on Kindle.  So, since we have a lull in the school year right now, and it's a GREAT time to buy a Kindle, I'm going to have a series over the next month on Homeschooling with your Kindle.  There will be resources, information, and lots of Freebies, so check back with me often, especially if you are new to the Kindle world.

If you are thinking about a Kindle for school, Christmas, or both, you need to take advantage of the Black Friday sale.  This is one of the items that is heavily discounted this weekend.  If you order today, you should have your Kindle early next week.  Then you can hang out with me online this month and fill up your Kindle (or your child's) with lots of goodies!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! 

Counter Culture - FREE on Kindle!

David Platt, the author of 

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, 

also wrote Counter Culture, 

which you can get now for FREE on Kindle.  

I highly recommend this one!

Happy Reading!

Today Only FREEBIE!

Have you ever wished you could be one of those crafty people who does things like, oh, I don't know, make your own candles out of beeswax?  Well, here's your chance.  Just in time to make some candles as gifts for the holidays!  This resource is FREE TODAY ONLY over at the 

Homeschool Freebie of the Day!

Happy Crafting!

Knowledge @ Kindle Newsletter and a FREEBIE

Election Day is over, the holiday season is approaching, and many of us are longing for some changes and a break to the routine.  Are you needing some resources to keep homeschooling fresh? One thing that my husband and I bemoan every year is that Thanksgiving - which is such an important holiday historically, religiously, and patriotically - gets lost in the shuffle between Hallowe'en and Christmas.  So I like to start earlier in November and do unit studies revolving around Thanksgiving.  This year we are doing American History, so a study of the Pilgrims coming to the New World fits perfectly.  Here are some of the resources we are using. Pilgrim Stories from Beautiful Feet Books Our America:  The Pilgrim Adventure by Susan Kilbride The American Adventure: The Mayflower Adventure by Colleen L Reece Sarah's New World: The Mayflower Adventure (Sisters in Time Book 1) - on Kindle by Colleen L Reece The Mayflower: A History From Beginning to End Hourly History FREE in the Kindle Store​​​​​​​ Thanksgiving Lapbook From Knowledge Box Central On Kindle The Mayflower Voyagers Peanuts Video Found on Amazon Video or as the  Second Feature on the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving DVD​​​​​​​ Every Kindle Lapbook and Lapbook Journal includes a coupon on the last page for the FREE PDF version so that you can print the pages! Click Here to Join Our Newsletter for News & Freebies! Share: