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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Wordless Wednesday
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Wordless Wednesday
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Wednesday, October 10, 2018
CashCrunch Careers ~ a TOS review
Helping your children figure out what exactly they want to do when they graduate from high school is a task. Sometimes it can be stressful especially when your child has the foggiest idea what they want to do. My youngest daughters aren’t quite sure what fields they want to go into, so I am especially happy to be able to take the CashCrunch Careers survey from CashCrunch Games.
CashCrunch Games, was founded by Paul Vasey. The company’s main goal is to help children and young adults learn to “save first, spend later”. The company has several different games that help children learn about money. Now, they have just released a new product called CashCrunch Careers. We received four subscriptions to take the survey. I used it four my four oldest daughters, Marie (21), Madison (17), Mikayla (15), and Montana (12).
Getting started was super easy. I logged onto the site and registered each of the girls with their individual email addresses and the registration code we received from the company. Once I had the surveys set up, all my kids needed to do was to log in and take the survey. The survey was short. Each of my daughters took about 15-20 minutes to complete the 75 questions. Some of the words Montana didn’t really understand there meaning so I helped her by giving examples. Once she had examples she was able to choose between the two words.
Marie says ~ I thought my survey results were very accurate. My top 5 career choices were general & operations manager, advertising and promotions manager, marketing manager, sales manager, and public relation manager. Being an entrepreneur and starting my first business on my own, I need to function as all 5 careers to successfully run it. My other maching job choices as well as my motivators & demotivators were accurrate.
Madison says ~ I took a similar job survey during my Calvin College's Entrada Scholar's program except I got the exact opposite results. Entrada's jobology accurately predicted that I prefer working alone with a set of directions and a deadline. CareerCrunch, again, told me
the opposite, that I would like to work with a team. Some of the jobs I was suggested all included the title 'manager'.
Mikayla says ~ I was able to complete my survey while on break at the gym. Signing into my survey was easy to do. I am not quite sure what I want to do when I go to college but the survey results say that I would be a good manager. I think I want to go into the Air Force as an officer, so being a manager fits that criteria.
Montana says ~ Some of the words were hard for me to understand but with my mom helping me it was easy to get the survey completed. Like my sisters, I think I want to go into the Air Force and be either a vet or something else so manager also goes with what my survey results say.
Overall, we are all happy and excited with the results of the survey. I definitely think you should check out this survey if your children need a little guidance in deciding what they want to do.
69 of my CrewMates also took the survey so be sure to click the banner below and see what they have to say.
CashCrunch Games, was founded by Paul Vasey. The company’s main goal is to help children and young adults learn to “save first, spend later”. The company has several different games that help children learn about money. Now, they have just released a new product called CashCrunch Careers. We received four subscriptions to take the survey. I used it four my four oldest daughters, Marie (21), Madison (17), Mikayla (15), and Montana (12).
Getting started was super easy. I logged onto the site and registered each of the girls with their individual email addresses and the registration code we received from the company. Once I had the surveys set up, all my kids needed to do was to log in and take the survey. The survey was short. Each of my daughters took about 15-20 minutes to complete the 75 questions. Some of the words Montana didn’t really understand there meaning so I helped her by giving examples. Once she had examples she was able to choose between the two words.
So, just what did my children think of their results?
Marie says ~ I thought my survey results were very accurate. My top 5 career choices were general & operations manager, advertising and promotions manager, marketing manager, sales manager, and public relation manager. Being an entrepreneur and starting my first business on my own, I need to function as all 5 careers to successfully run it. My other maching job choices as well as my motivators & demotivators were accurrate.
Mikayla says ~ I was able to complete my survey while on break at the gym. Signing into my survey was easy to do. I am not quite sure what I want to do when I go to college but the survey results say that I would be a good manager. I think I want to go into the Air Force as an officer, so being a manager fits that criteria.
Montana says ~ Some of the words were hard for me to understand but with my mom helping me it was easy to get the survey completed. Like my sisters, I think I want to go into the Air Force and be either a vet or something else so manager also goes with what my survey results say.
Overall, we are all happy and excited with the results of the survey. I definitely think you should check out this survey if your children need a little guidance in deciding what they want to do.
69 of my CrewMates also took the survey so be sure to click the banner below and see what they have to say.
Company ~ CashCrunch Games
Product ~ CashCrunch Careers
Format ~ online survey
Ages ~ middle school - adult
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Wordless Wednesday
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Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Wordless Wednesday
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Saturday, September 3, 2016
Weekly Wrap Up ~ Week FOUR, the end of summer
We had a pretty normal week, I like normal. Somehow my baby girl, McKenzie, turned 7! Not sure how that happened because it feels like I just had her. But she is 7,nonetheless, and overly thrilled about it.
"High standards yield high results"
~Thomas Preparatory School
That's the motto we are going with for the rest of the school year. I got it from a Facebook friend who just dropped off her 3rd homeschooled graduate to University with a $125K 4- year scholarship. Another motto of Thomas family is "We don't pay for college"! Tauleece is a wealth of information and I like reading about their family adventures. If you are in the Houston area she and her husband have founded the Homeschool Resource Network.
So, I know there will be days when my best or the girls best, is good enough, and I am okay with that, really! However, what I am not okay with is laziness and/or lack of applying oneself. Does that mean everything is checked off on the weekly schedule? NO! It means that you did your best effort every day to get your assignments done with minimal complaining and/or whining. I remember that I am training hearts within these walls of A Stable Beginning Christian Academy and if our hearts are focused in the right direction then the rest will come easy and be a breeze.
Our school week was overall uneventful, yet exciting at the same time! Marie started her first day of sophomore year on Monday. So far she loves her roommates and her classes. She has even made a few new friends. It's strange not having her home but we are all adjusting.
Mikayla started her online Tapestry of Grace Virtual Co-Op on Tuesday morning. We had a bit of technical issues on our end with our microphone going in and out but overall it was great. She has five other students in her Dialectic discussion group and they covered weeks 1&2 in year 4. This is a huge stretch for Mikayla. The amount of detail and work in history she is not quite used to at the Dialectic level, but it is a great thing for her as she prepares for high school. We are blessed to be apart of this Co-Op. I have my first teaching class in early October. I am excited and nervous at the same time.
Speaking of online classes, Madison begins Spanish next week with Homeschool Spanish Academy. She will be doing lessons twice a week via Skype with her Professora. We hope to get Profe Nora, the same Profe Marie had because she is a gem!
Mikayla, Montana, and McKenzie start Latin this month. Honestly, I have been kind of dreading starting Latin with Mikayla. Why, I don't know??? I have been through the material before but it was weighing heavily on me. On Thursday I found out that we were selected for a review that included a full semester course of Latin at Carmenta Online Latin School! Praise the Lord, this is an awesome opportunity and just what I needed. The anxiety of starting Latin immediately went away knowing that Mikayla would be enrolled in the Latin 1A course. The class runs from Sept 7- Jan 30th and uses Wheelock Latin as a text. Class meets three nights a week via Skype and starts Wednesday.
Montana and McKenzie will both continue with their perspective Latin programs from Classical Academic Press. Madison no longer studies Latin because it is not accepted at any of the Service Academies. Instead she spends the time studying vocabulary and preparing for her standardized testing.
Micah has been plugging away during his Preschool Prep time. He loves to use his binder and he already knows most of his colors! He gets blue and purple mixed up, but I think GREEN is his favorite. He loves to tell us what color shirts we are wearing. He has also started counting to 10 out of the blue. I was only teaching him to 5 but he can go to 10.
This was the last week of summer practice for Mikayla and McKenzie. I like summer practice because, well, it's summer, but trying to school around the hours is tough. In fact, I questioned my sanity of why we started school this month. I am glad we did but I look forward to school practice schedule even though we will now have no Saturday. Between both girls gym time, someone will be at the gym from 8am-4pm on Saturday. Both girls will train in the morning during the school week, and Mikayla will have one evening practice because of her TOG online class and Girl Scouts. We will be able to have family dinner most every night!
With the start of our new week next week I have decided to have focus days for each child. 5 days a week, 5 children in school. It works out perfect. At least in my mind it does, LOL. I want to have one day for each child to really focus in on what they are struggling with or a fun sensory activity or game in McKenzie and Micah's case.
Micah insists on jumping out of Gibby now. He normally lands on his feet.
That's our week. We have two more weeks left in our first 6 weeks of schooling. We also have two birthdays coming up and a weekend getaway planned. The State Fair is at the end of the month and we are all looking forward to going for the first time since we have lived here! Bacon on a stick anyone!?
How was your week?
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Friday, August 26, 2016
Summer Vacation 2016 ~ Onslow Beach Resort
We spent a glorious week at Onslow Beach on Camp Lejeune this past week! It was a much needed vacation from all the running and busyness of life.
Initially, we were going to board our dogs, Max & Mollie but the kennel wanted $$$$. More than I was willing to pay for a week. Not to mention the fact that Max kind of went a little crazy the last time he came home from there earlier this year during travel season. So, the people at the resort were able to move us to a pet friendly Osprey that was perfect!
The house we stayed in was awesome! It was a handicap accessible unit so it had a wrap around ramp that is great for two year olds who need to run out some energy. Since it was handicap accessible it also had the stand up shower in the bathroom which was so much easier to shower the little's after spending the day in the sand.
The beach was just what we needed. Relaxing yet fun! The kids had a blast hunting ghost crabs and finding fossilized shark teeth. They actually caught a ghost crab one night and they were convinced they were bringing it home as a pet. They even went as far as researching how to take care of it. Sadly it died in captivity.
Mikayla is a shark teeth finding guru! She could spot them so easily and pluck them out of the sand. I think she found 30+ shark teeth. I found 0, LOL! One of the other guests found a huge one, the size of his palm, but we were not so lucky.
Overall, we had a relaxing week on the surf and sand and watching the last of the Summer Olympics at night. We all look forward to going back next year!
Initially, we were going to board our dogs, Max & Mollie but the kennel wanted $$$$. More than I was willing to pay for a week. Not to mention the fact that Max kind of went a little crazy the last time he came home from there earlier this year during travel season. So, the people at the resort were able to move us to a pet friendly Osprey that was perfect!
The beach was just what we needed. Relaxing yet fun! The kids had a blast hunting ghost crabs and finding fossilized shark teeth. They actually caught a ghost crab one night and they were convinced they were bringing it home as a pet. They even went as far as researching how to take care of it. Sadly it died in captivity.
Mikayla is a shark teeth finding guru! She could spot them so easily and pluck them out of the sand. I think she found 30+ shark teeth. I found 0, LOL! One of the other guests found a huge one, the size of his palm, but we were not so lucky.
Overall, we had a relaxing week on the surf and sand and watching the last of the Summer Olympics at night. We all look forward to going back next year!
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Wordless Wednesday
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
ArtAchieve: Entire Level II ~ a TOS review
It’s always a good day when we get to incorporate art into our day. However, sometimes I struggle to incorporate art into our week. I am happy to say that with ArtAchieve it’s not so much of a struggle anymore. Over the last few weeks we have been working on the Entire Level II homeschool art program from Art Achieve.
We received the Level II art lessons for this review. The entire level set includes accessto 14 unique art lessons for one years length on:
~ Swedish Dala Horse
~ Korean Wedding Duck
~ Japanese Goldfish
~ Elephant from Ghana
~ Ukranian Cat
~ German Nutcracker
~ Sir Lankan Landscape with an Elephant
~ Repeating a Pattern
~ Ukranian Rooster
~ Hiding Butterflies
~ Mexican Mask
~ Russian Fortress
~ Russain Szopka
~ Mermaid from Denmark
Each lesson is available in two different formats for your learning pleasure, either through video or Powperpoint presentation. The video lesson guides the student through the lesson with an instructor demonstrating each and every step of the project. A quick history of the lesson is also given. The Powerpoing lesson is a detailed written instructions with clear images of the project in each stage of the project. So, it is just your preference of which one you follow with your students. Also handy is the complete list of supplies needed for each and every lesson in the level. Each project gives state standards that are covered also if that is your sort of thing to keep track of.
For this review I used the art program with my older three daughters at home, Madison (15), Mikayla (13), and Montana (9). Because each of the girls had a different preference for viewing the lesson, we split up how the lesson was viewed. Madison prefers the video lesson while Mikayla and Montana preferred the Powerpoint Presentation instead.
Viewing each lesson was as easy as longing into our family account and clicking on the appropriate link for the video or Powerpoint. The girls each had a great time completed various projects during our review period. The thing that they each struggled with was filling the page with the art and not just a tiny space. Nothing to major to be worried about though.
Company ~ ArtAchieve
Product ~ Entire Level II
Price ~ $53.00 for one year's access
Ages ~ beginner to adult students
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Wordless Wednesday ~ Montana and McKenzie bridge to Juniors and Brownies
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