Encouraging Hearts & Homes 5.17.18

After a very dry month of April, we have been getting rain in May. I am so thankful. Our grass is way behind where it is in a normal year but with the recent rains it has started to really grow. Everything stays very busy around here as we try to work on garden, and a new fence and a few other projects; while trying to finish up school and do our normal day to day chores.

I do enjoy taking some time out to read the various posts that are linked up to Blog Hop each week. I hope you do as well.

Welcome to Encouraging Hearts & Home!

 

The Encouraging Hearts & Home Bloggers

Join your Encouraging Hearts & Home Co-Hosts each week for encouragement and support for your heart & your home. We hope to provide a space that builds each other up and lends a helping hand along the way. With all the negativity in the world, let’s shine a positive light!

Anne at Learning TableLinda at Apron Strings & Other Things

Amy at A Nest in the Rocks

***Each week, our co-hosts will each choose 10 of our favorite links, along with the most clicked link, and pin them to our Encouraging Hearts & Home Pinterest board.

The most clicked post from last week’s Blog Hop was:

“Things I Never Told You” by Beth K. Vogt – Releasing TOMORROW!

from Amy at A Nest in the Rocks

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Encouraging Hearts & Homes 5.10.18

Welcome to Encouraging Hearts & Home!

The Encouraging Hearts & Home Bloggers

Join your Encouraging Hearts & Home Co-Hosts each week for encouragement and support for your heart & your home. We hope to provide a space that builds each other up and lends a helping hand along the way. With all the negativity in the world, let’s shine a positive light!

Anne at Learning TableLinda at Apron Strings & Other Things

Amy at A Nest in the Rocks

***Each week, our co-hosts will each choose 10 of our favorite links, along with the most clicked link, and pin them to our Encouraging Hearts & Home Pinterest board.

The most clicked post from last week’s Blog Hop was:

Visit to Lincoln Memorial by Carol @ Comfort Spring

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Join us each Thursday! Link up your family-friendly blog posts and find encouragement for your heart & home!

How to Link Up

  • Use the form below to share your posts this week, and maybe you’ll discover some new ideas from all the fabulous links!
  • Please share only your family friendly posts with us!
  • Please only link up images that you have the rights to use.
  • By linking up, you agree that if your blog post is selected to be featured on any of our hosts’ blogs, we can use an image from your post with a link back to your post.

Other nice things you can do

  • Follow and/or subscribe to your host’s blog.
  • Visit a few other bloggers and show them your support. We all love getting comments, and who knows what inspiration you may find? Be sure to share the love–that’s what a blog hop is all about!
  • If you are interested in co-hosting, contact Anne at anne@mylearningtable.com

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CodeWizardsHQ ~ Review

Sometimes, I have the opportunity to review a course that I KNOW will be a hit with one of my kids. That was certainly the case for this review. Brock was able to attend a live coding classes for kids. It was a one day/one hour online course with other students and a live instructor.  CodeWizardsHQ offers classes for coding classes for kids, they also offer homeschool computer programs . The classes are scheduled at the same time each week for 12 weeks per course. They also have special one hour introductory courses which is what we reviewed.

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Encouraging Hearts & Home 5.3.18

Happy Thursday!

Welcome to Encouraging Hearts & Home!

The Encouraging Hearts & Home Bloggers

Join your Encouraging Hearts & Home Co-Hosts each week for encouragement and support for your heart & your home. We hope to provide a space that builds each other up and lends a helping hand along the way. With all the negativity in the world, let’s shine a positive light!

Anne at Learning TableLinda at Apron Strings & Other Things

Amy at A Nest in the Rocks

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Weigl Publishers ~ Review

This was our first experience with media enhanced books. We received three books from Weigl PublishersGlaciersA Lion’s World, and There Once Was a Cowpoke Who Swallowed an Ant. For the review, we received PDF’s of the books but normally you would receive a print book. Inside the book, there is a special code that when used with the corresponding website opens up the media rich aspect of the books. The media enriched books are designed to be used on tablets, whiteboards, and computers making it great to use in either a homeschool or school room type setting

Weigl Publishers Media Enhanced Books
Glaciers Earths Water

The target age for Glaciers is 3-6th graders. It is from the series “Earth’s Water” and is published under their imprint Lightbox. Eli and Rebekah enjoyed Glaciers and spent quite a bit of time going through the media-enhancements. There are even maps that are linked with Google Maps and allow the reader to see what the region looks like from on the ground. The media-enhancements were so AWESOME!! There was a video showing a glacier as it started to slide faster and faster until a piece the size of lower Manhattan broke off. It was so neat to watch it as it twisted and flipped. The kids and I sure learned a lot about Glaciers!! The book is written from the perspective of the glaciers developing over millions of years although it is really only discussed on two pages as part of a timeline.

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Both A Lion’s World (part of the “EyeDiscover” series) and There Once Was a Cowpoke Who Swallowed an Ant (a fiction title), are intended for a K-2 interest range. I had Quinton and Hannah review these two books with me. First I had them use the interacive book There Once Was a Cowpoke Who Swallowed an Ant; they enjoyed it so much they were begging to go through it again! On the website, the kids can decide whether to read dthe story themselves or have it readaloud to them. I had it read to them. 

There Once Was a Cowpoke Who Swallowed an Ant
The third book we enjoyed was A Lion’s World. This is a non-fiction book about lions. There are beautiful videos corresponding with every page in the book showing the different aspects of the life of lions.

A Lions World

The kids really have enjoyed these books and the intereactive pages that go along with them. It’s always fun to see the kids learning in fun ways and this review was just that. They were happy to tell me about the facts they were learning about glaciers and lions. The fiction book was cute and enjoyable even if they weren’t specifically learning facts. It’s nice that the kids can follow along with the text on the screen while it is being read to them, providing them with extra reading practice.

The kids have enjoyed the books so much that they’ve asked (and been able to) view them repeatedly.

This was such a fun review! I hope you will take time to read reviews from other members of the Homeschool Review Crew by clicking on the banner below.

Multimedia Digital Books {Weigl Publishers Reviews}

Blessings,

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