This Post is from The Old Schoolhouse Magazine:

Have you caught the bug? If not, we invite you to!

This is no mealy bug or biting mosquito! It's the queen bee of a well-planned and "buzzing" homeschooling lifestyle: helping you to outline lesson plans, schedule activities, plan menus and shopping lists, stay within budget, inventory important household items, maintain school records, and much more.

We've caught this bug in the Schoolhouse Store, and you can catch it too. It's the organizing bug!

And it's spreading and swarming with organizing help and 27 amazing free gifts worth over $190!

From now until August 5, when you purchase The 2010 Schoolhouse Planner, you will receive 27 fabulous E-Books absolutely FREE--to help you plan fun, hands-on learning all through the homeschool year!

From now until midnight on August 5, you'll receive . . .

All 12 2008 Schoolhouse Planner modules and
our WeE-book™ Insect Bundle!

And there's more! Through August 15, you'll also receive . . .

All 12 2009 Schoolhouse Planner modules! In this un-bee-lievable package of gifts, you'll instantly download all 24 supplementary Planner modules designed to complement the 2008 and 2009 Schoolhouse Planners. These planner modules are mini unit studies centered on high-interest topics complete with an array of enjoyable activity pages, informational write-ups, engaging links, copywork pages, and more. Plus, the twelve 2009 modules have integrated high school content and the addition of lapbooking for your younger learners.

Hurry! At midnight on August 5, the 12 2008 Schoolhouse Planner modules and the WeE-book™ Insect Bundle are gone! At midnight on August 15, the 12 2009 Schoolhouse Planner modules are gone too!

Organize Your Home and School, Plus Stay Informed All Year Long!

The Old Schoolhouse has paired their one-year print subscription with the Schoolhouse Planner to provide you with the ultimate in organization and encouragement. U.S., Canadian, and other international residents can purchase these bundles for only $44--that's a savings of $20!

But Hurry! Only 250 of each bundle is available and many have sold.

International residents have their own special bundle! A one-year print subscription and the Schoolhouse Planner are only $54.00. This is a savings of over $30!

Canadian residents can enjoy a TOS Encouragement Bundle for only $44! Save $20 and get a one-year print subscription and the Schoolhouse Planner! )

photo credit: Andrew Stawarz

When Tim and I made the decision over 20 years ago to homeschool our children, my first task was to read everything I could find about homeschooling.  With my children's future in my hands, I wanted to learn, learn, learn so I could offer them the best education and family life that I could by God's grace.  (Another day, I will share with you the books that I read that gave me direction.)  When Lane was 12 and Nathan was 10, Robert was 6, Sara was 4, and Jonathan was 2, we were living in SC and I had the chance to go to a homeschool workshop convention at Bob Jones University.  It was not often that I took a day away from the children to go somewhere by myself, but with the help of my husband, I was able to go. At this workshop, I got so many great ideas and was so encouraged by the 100's of other homeschooling families there.  There were individual classes on homeschooling like "Teaching with Live Animals", "Learning History through Reading Classics Aloud", "Multi-level Teaching". These were practical classes that helped me immensely.

Those days of needing to travel to a homeschool convention are over.

I just got an email from my friend, Cindy Rushton.  Cindy is excited to offer her newest edition of the Ultimate Homeschool Expo.  You see, the amazing thing about the Ultimate Homeschool Expo is that everything is ONLINE so it is more than a convention--it is a homeschool resource library.  If you are a new homeschooler or if you have years of homeschooing under your belt, you will find loads of ideas and encouragement from the top notch guests that Cindy has on the Ultimate Hmeschool Expo lineup

With every online event that Cindy plans, she builds a private Membership Site that includes everything in one place. There are audios from all of the sessions (and more from the bonus gifts that her speakers give to us), ebooks, complete unit study guides, articles,  notebooking pages you can print, cookbooks, and more....!  I can't believe all of the things that we receive for only $39.95.  You are likely to be able to save on your next year's curriculum and supplements through the ideas you get and the included homeschooling materials.

Anyway, back to the reason that I am sharing with you...

Cindy just sent me permission to give you a sampler of one of her free gifts that is included on the Membership Site. I am so excited to give it to you! It is a audio and ebook set that she actually sells on her website, but she is giving away on the Membership Site. Here is the link:

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