Friday, December 25, 2020
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
CrossTimber
My kiddos have been enjoying their fun Name Bookmarks from CrossTimber. We were also sent the fun AmazingName Print Activity Sheets for one of my children. For the most part CrossTimber uses the King James Version of the Bible for their Bible translations for verses. If clarity is needed they compare other versions and adjust the wording from there. Do you have an unusual name? Don't worry they have you covered. Names have such rich and insightful meanings. CrossTimber has a wide variety of gifts on this website.
Here was my experience
At first, I found it confusing as to how to start the process of ordering the bookmarks. Once I figured out the process for making the first bookmark the rest were easy. I wish that the website was more user friendly. I was given the opportunity to get 5 bookmarks. I chose to make the bookmarks for my 5 daughters. There are options for backgrounds. The categories are:
- Symbolic
- People
- Outdoors
- Creatures
- Presidential
- Famous Authors
- Bible Verses
- Character Qualities
- Custom Text on the Front
Here are the 5 bookmarks that we got.
I love all of the quotes that came with the bookmarks. The designs and colors are vibrant.
This was for my 12-year-old daughter.
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Friday, November 13, 2020
Crazy Aarons Mixed By Me Thinking Putty Kit ~ A Timberdoodle Review
My daughter is really into making slime right now. I was super excited when I was given the opportunity to review the Mixed By Me - Holographic Thinking Putty Kit through Timberdoodle. When the kit came in the mail my daughter immediately opened the kit and got to work mixing up different putty colors. The kit comes with 5 tins of clear putty, 3 glitter concentrates, 3 sparkle effects, 6 colored pencils, 5 customizable tine labels, and 1 mixing mat with ideas for color formulas. There are 5 steps to creating your own unique putty:
- Get inspired
- Start mixing
- Twist & fold
- Create your color
- Decorate your tin
This Mixed By Me Putty Kit is intended for ages 8 and older. Your child will have so much fun creating their own putty.
Here is everything that comes in the kit.
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Boundary Stone
Economics Online Course Bundle from Boundary Stone is an online self-paced, semester long Basic Economics course. This course includes a hardback textbook titled, Basic Economics, A Natural Law Approach to Economics, Fourth Edition, a 12 month online access to the course, a 128-page PDF teacher’s guide, and access to a Budget Mini Course.
Basic Economics ~ A Natural Law Approach to Economics covers the following material:
The Framework of Economics
- Why Basic Economics
- In the Nature of Things
- Government
- Society and Morality
- Property
- Scarcity and Economy
- How We Get What We Want
- A Medium Exchange - Money
- The Age of Inflation
- The Market and Prices
- Failed Attempts To Control Prices
- Monopoly and Competition
- The Means of Production
- The Entrepreneur and Production
- The Distribution of Wealth
- International Trade
- Manorial-Feudal System
- Mercantilism
- Free Enterprise
- Corporatism
- Welfarism
- Communism
We received an email that included a downloadable link with a PDF of the teacher’s guide. The teacher’s guide included a course syllabus, an overview of the semester, lesson plans, along with answer keys and tests. This was WONDERFUL! The course was all laid out. We were also provided with an online version of the United States Constitution, and a printable PDF of the book, The Law by Frederic Bastiat. To complete this course you will need to purchase, Whatever Happened to Penny Candy by Richard Maybury. We actually already owned this book from older sibling using this book in their Economics classes.
Before we go further, lets answer the question, Why Economics? "Economics is a study of the thrifty use of scarce resources to satisfy human wants."
My daughter started by going over the Orientation Module found in the online lessons. Since I had a parent account I decided to go through the course myself. I never took an Economics course in high school or college. I was excited to learn more about how Economics worked. We both started out and got a good start and then COVID hit our house! Let's just say that I am very grateful that this course is self-paced and that Boundary Stone has graciously given us a 12 month access to the online portion of the program. It is quite ironic with all of the craziness that 2020 has brought us with shortages of toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and so many more things that we are studying Economics which covers topics such as scarcity, supply and demand, etc. We are going through a perfect time right now to be studying Economics.
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough
of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first
lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas Sowell
There are two separate budgeting projects with the Budget Mini Course that the student starts at the beginning of the semester and completes at the end of the semester.
I appreciated that the course incorporated Biblical principles of economics. Economics began in Genesis when God created Adam and Eve and commanded them to take dominion of the whole earth. This is known as the Dominion Mandate. "Work was instituted to achieve a purpose. The reality that we must work to produce things and, thus, that there will always be a cost connected to the things we what, has always been a part of the human condition." I think that most individuals would have no clue that government is ordained by God and that the structure of the government is set in the Bible.
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