HSMJ - A Welcome to Australa

In my life this week…

It's been an amazing week!  On Monday my sister arrived from South Africa with her family to take up permanently living in Australia.  It's so good to reconnect with her and her precious family as they get to know our wide brown land!

In our home school this week…

• It is week 5 and we are on a break!

Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share…

• Are you looking for a second language tutor who will work via Skype ? Have you seen International Homeschooling ? They currently have 17 Languages to choose from and a co-op option.  
• What You Should Know About Homeschooling Misconceptions.
• Homeschooling: How To Move From Newbie To Veteran 
• Homeschooling the Gifted Child  
• Home Schooling in High School: Planning A Course  
• For your chance to win an Educational App Bundle from Key Stage Fun pop on over and enter my Give Away.

I am inspired by…

• Ann Voskamp's post: How to Be the Parent You Want to Be: 40 Things Every Child Must Know Before They Leave Home.

Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…

• This week we are still without a vehicle as it's in for repairs we did however go to Science Works and explore their Carnival Science exhibition.
• We also went to Point Cook Homestead with our homeschool support group to start the year.

My favorite thing this week was…

• Watching Sir N play with his cousins all day!

What’s working/not working for us…

• Having a weeks holiday this week and reconnecting with family.

Questions/thoughts I have…

• What's your favourite time of day to be on Pinterest ?

Things I’m working on…

• Finding new content for my Pinterest account 
• Two product reviews.

On My Bedside Table ...

•  I have two more books that I have not started reading.
  
  • Desperateby Sally Clarkson
  • Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food by Lysa TerKeurst

In Bloggy world I’m reading…

• My Kitchen Blackboard Project over at Debbie's Homeschool Corner.
• I enjoyed Lizzie's post Blessings of Only One Child over at A Dusty Frame.
• Putting Kids on a "Screen-Time Diet" over at Edutopia.
• The Moral Evacuation of the Boy Scouts of Americaover at Kirk Cameron's blog.

I’m cooking…

•  As simply as I can because it's our week of holidays :)

On Pinterest I found...

• Homeschool Science & Nature by Michele
• Tabitha Philen (Meet Penny) who has an amazing collection of Pins!  I have spent a few days exploring and still have not gone through all her boards.  Tabitha has over 12,000 pins.  Happy pinning :)
• Melissa Taylor from Imagination Soup who has nearly 7,000 pins for you with a following of 1,301,436 and counting (yes you read that number correctly she has over a million people following her boards!)

I’m grateful for…

•  the opportunities that are available to me living in this beautiful country.

A photo, video, link, or quote to share…

God Made a Mother and You - So Farmer On!

Blessings

This post is linking to:

Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers - Weekly Wrap Up
iHomeschool - Homeschool Mothers Journal
Hammock Tracks - It's a Wrap
Homegrown Learners - Collage Friday

Photo collages made with: Photoscape a FREE photo editor

Win Squeeble Fun for your iPad

Two weeks ago I shared my latest app discovery with you: The Squeeble gang from Key Stage Fun.

I have 5 sets of these three apps to giveaway.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Meet the Squeeble Family

Squeebles Maths

Squeebles Spelling

Giveaway Terms and Conditions:

• This giveaway is offered worldwide, to anyone with Internet access.
• The give away will commence at 12:01 AM EST / 2PM Australia NSW time on Friday 8 February and be open until midnight EST /  Tuesday 12 February, 2013. Winner will be announced by Wednesday 13 February, 2013
• There are  FIVE prize packs consisting of 3 Apps each (Spelling, Times Tables and Maths Bingo).
• A gift card will be emailed to you upon your acceptance of this gift.
• These apps are for apple devices only. 
• Prize can not be exchanged for money
• No purchase necessary to win.
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• Must be 18 years of age or older at time of entry.
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• Winners will be announced in a Giveaway Post 
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Homeschool Giveaway Share

Do you like to enter giveaways ? Win free homeschooling products ? Would like to have them all in one place ? I have the solution for you it's called Homeschool Giveaway Share on Facebook.

It's as easy as pressing "Like" on the Facebook page and you will start to receive notifications on the giveaways happening around the globe, or you can visit the page each week to see what's new.

If you are not on Facebook and Twitter is your game you can find them tweeting about the giveaways.

Pop on over to Ben and Me for more information on Homeschool Giveaway Share where you will find a button for your blog as an easy reminder of where to find this weeks featured giveaways.

Last but not least if you have something to giveaway on your website / blog visit the Homeschool Giveaway Share page on Facebook click on the form to have your giveaway added.

Blessings
Chareen