Archives for August 2010

$25 kroger card giveaway

August 17, 2010 By: amyswandering

Kroger is my go-to store. By combining great sales & coupons, I can always count on getting quality products for a bargain price.

Through August 21, when you buy 8 participating items from any Kroger store, you´ll receive $4 off of your purchase. Some of the great participating brands include: Cheerios, Yoplait Yogurt, Pillsbury Cookies & Biscuits, Kleenex, Huggies, Betty Crocker Brownies, Cottonelle, and Lucky Charms.

You will want to take advantage of the special Bonus Box Tops Offers and get a jumpstart on helping the participating school of your choice this year.

Some of you might have signed up in my last giveaway, but if not, all you have to do is register at www.RewardYourSchool.com. You will automatically receive 5 Bonus Box Tops just for signing up! You will also receive custom offers for Bonus Box Tops for purchasing participating products.

One of you will win a $25 Kroger card!!

Giveaway is closed – winner will be announced Monday!

Here’s how to enter:

Leave a comment telling us your favorite thing about Back-to-School time
Be sure I have a way to contact you if you win
Giveaway ends Saturday, August 21st

The Kroger Family of Stores gift card, information, and giveaway were all provided by The Kroger Family of Stores, General Mills, and Kimberly Clark through MyBlogSpark.

cindy rushton planner

August 16, 2010 By: amyswanderingcomment

Don’t miss this wonderful free Mommy Planner from Cindy Rushton. She has several great pages to help you gear up for a new school year.

my homeschool planner

August 16, 2010 By: amyswanderingcomment

I keep seeing pics of these nifty spiral bound planners that people are creating, and while I love the professional look, I just can’t lock myself into one. I want to be able to move things around or add & remove pages, so I will be sticking to a pretty binder.

I don’t want to keep track of two planners, so my homeschool plans and household notebook are all in one handy place.

These pages are going in my notebook:

ISD calendar (because my niece schools with us, we follow the school district calendar to coordinate with her siblings)
Schedule
Weekly Organizer
Dated Lesson Planner Sheets
Quarter Planner 1 for each subject
Goals for the Year
Grading Chart I don’t record grades, but my kids love that score at the top of their paper
99 Ways to say ‘Very Good’
31 Days of Praying for Your Husband
31 Biblical Virtues to Pray for Your Children
31 Days of Praying for Your Pastor
31 Days of Praying for Your Pastor’s Wife
Grocery List
Monthly Meal Planner
Monthly Lunch Menu
Monthly Bills I stick this in a page protector along with any bills for the month
Gift List can’t find what I want, so I will probably create it
Birthday Calendar
Black Friday Price Log

I will probably add to the list as the week goes on. Is there anything you put in your planner that I don’t have listed here?

back-to-school boot camp

August 16, 2010 By: amyswanderingcomment

We are starting school in a week and summer break is officially over. With a heat index near 115, I will be glad when summer is over! I am ready to get back into a routine and to update this poor neglected blog.

I am calling this week Back to School Boot Camp. I will be putting together plans for the school year and the kids will be getting the house in order (of course I will be directing helping).

Here are some plans for the week:

get kids back on school schedule (up at 8, ready for bed by 9:30)
divide books up into a loose schedule for the year
make copies
write a weekly schedule
set up a file system
create a planner
make new chore charts
come up with a list of lunch ideas

I will share my plans as I finish them. I have found so many great things while researching all of this! Because time is tight this week, I will probably do either a bunch of little posts or some long lists.

Hopefully you will find some helpful ideas!!