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    Healthy Green Smoothie Recipe

    Hello everyone! I have a yummy and healthy smoothie recipe for you today! I’ve been having fun experimenting with the Vitamix we received for Christmas. I’m not gonna lie, some things taste a little “too natural” for me, like…um…eating grass. But this one seems to work well for my … [Read More...]

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    Classical Literature Units & Homeschooling 101 Sale!

    Hi everyone! As I mentioned yesterday, for one week only everything in the Confessions store is on sale! Yep, you heard me for one week only, everything at Confessions of a Homeschooler is 30% off!   Today I’m featuring more of my Homeschooling 101 eBook & Classical Literature … [Read More...]

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    Artist, Composer, & Scientist Unit Studies

    Hi everyone! As I mentioned yesterday, for one week only everything in the Confessions store is on sale! Yep, you heard me for one week only, everything at Confessions of a Homeschooler is 30% off!   Today I’m featuring some of my unit studies. I have units to help teach students … [Read More...]

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    United States & World Geography Curriculum Sale!

    Hi everyone! As I mentioned yesterday, for one week only everything in the Confessions store is on sale! Yep, you heard me for one week only, everything at Confessions of a Homeschooler is 30% off!   Today I’m featuring both the Road Trip USA and Expedition Earth Geography … [Read More...]

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    30% off my ENTIRE STORE!!

    Hi everyone! I know you are diligently gathering curriculum for next year, so I thought I’d help you out and put my whole store on sale! Yep, you heard me for one week only, everything at Confessions of a Homeschooler is 30% off!   I’ve never really done a store wide sale … [Read More...]

MAY
23
2013

Healthy Green Smoothie Recipe

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Hello everyone! I have a yummy and healthy smoothie recipe for you today! I’ve been having fun experimenting with the Vitamix we received for Christmas. I’m not gonna lie, some things taste a little “too natural” for me, like…um…eating grass.

But this one seems to work well for my taste buds and is fairly healthy so I thought I would share it!

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup ice cubes
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 handful baby spinach leaves
  • 1 handful frozen strawberries
  • 1 handful frozen bananas
  • 1 orange or about 2 large tablespoons of orange juice concentrate

Method:
Yeah, so just dump it all into your Vitamix and turn it up to high! I’m not sure a regular blender would mix the spinach enough, but if you have a good one it’s worth a try!

And you’ll end up with something like this, don’t be afraid of the light green color. It’s just the spinach, but the taste is still nice and fruity from the oranges. And you know you’re getting some good vitamins in this smoothie too!

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Let me know what you think if you try this recipe! It does have a little spinach flavor in it, but the orange cuts it down enough in my opinion to make it easy to drink. I’ll share some more as we get better at this thing. Jason (my husband for newer readers) is obsessed with making all vegetable smoothies. But to me they taste too much like grass/dirt, so I haven’t been willing to share them yet!

But I’m working on getting one that tastes good and is worth it’s weight in veggies.

Have a good recipe to share? Make sure to leave a comment below!

 

Just a reminder, today is the LAST day of my storewide 30% off sale!

Visit the Confessions Store to see all the goodies on sale!

I hope you enjoy the discount, and as indicated, use coupon code: ILOVECOAH_30.

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This coupon is valid from May 20, 2013 – May 24, 2013.

Disclosure: I apologize to anyone who has purchased prior to today, unfortunately the sale prices are only affective for purchases made during the week of May 20 – May 24, 2013.

 

MAY
22
2013

Classical Literature Units & Homeschooling 101 Sale!

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Hi everyone! As I mentioned yesterday, for one week only everything in the Confessions store is on sale! Yep, you heard me for one week only, everything at Confessions of a Homeschooler is 30% off!   Today I’m featuring more of my Homeschooling 101 eBook & Classical Literature Unit Studies! So you’ve finally decided to homeschool…but have no clue where to get started? After thousands of emails asking for help getting started homeschooling, I thought a book that set it all out for you in a step-by-step format would a great benefit to new and current homeschoolers! Homeschooling 101 is a step by step practical guide that will help you to get started, and continue on in your homeschooling journey. It is designed to help guide you through all of the steps to getting started, choosing and gathering curriculum, creating effective lesson plans, scheduling your day, organizing your home, staying the course and more! It even includes a FREE LESSON PLANNER … [Read more...]

MAY
21
2013

Artist, Composer, & Scientist Unit Studies

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Hi everyone! As I mentioned yesterday, for one week only everything in the Confessions store is on sale! Yep, you heard me for one week only, everything at Confessions of a Homeschooler is 30% off!   Today I’m featuring some of my unit studies. I have units to help teach students about great artists, composers, and scientists.     Come along on our quest to learn about some of the world’s greatest artists with my World’s Greatest Artists Vol. 1 & World’s Greatest Artists Vol. 2! Grab some art supplies and get ready to explore, create, and learn! In this series of artist studies, we will be learning about 8 of the world’s greatest artists. We will immerse ourselves in the work of each artist so we become well familiar with their style, methods, and images. Who is this for? I designed the artist units for elementary aged students, typically K-5, but I’ve had several people say that they’ve been used for older students with … [Read more...]

MAY
20
2013

United States & World Geography Curriculum Sale!

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Hi everyone! As I mentioned yesterday, for one week only everything in the Confessions store is on sale! Yep, you heard me for one week only, everything at Confessions of a Homeschooler is 30% off!   Today I’m featuring both the Road Trip USA and Expedition Earth Geography Curriculum. Come along with us on an exciting journey learning about the U.S.A! From the signing of the Declaration of Independence, to the wild west, you’ll uncover all the secrets this Nation has to offer! Within this curriculum you’ll discover the sights and sounds of all 50 states, including state symbols, U.S. Presidents, famous people, landmarks, historical events, and much more! –>Click here to download a sample<– For you history buffs, this is a great introduction for young learners! You will start out learning about the Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary War. Then you’ll move south to learn more about the Civil War and Underground … [Read more...]

MAY
19
2013

30% off my ENTIRE STORE!!

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Hi everyone! I know you are diligently gathering curriculum for next year, so I thought I’d help you out and put my whole store on sale! Yep, you heard me for one week only, everything at Confessions of a Homeschooler is 30% off!   I’ve never really done a store wide sale before, so I hope it blesses you all in your hunt for curriculum!   NEW!! Homeschool Lesson Planners! Along with my sale, I’m releasing 3 new homeschool lesson planners! I will have giveaways coming up for each of them in the following weeks, but wanted you to be able to get a discount on them this week as well! Click below to see my new homeschool lesson planners!     I’m also going to be featuring my curriculum this week for anyone new to Confessions to help answer some frequently asked questions regarding each one. Today I’m featuring both the Letter of the Week and K4 Kindergarten Curriculum. The Letter of the Week is a full 26 week preschool … [Read more...]

MAY
16
2013

Easy Crockpot Pork Chops Recipe

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(Image source: getcrocked.com) Hi everyone! Today I have a super yummy crockpot pork chop recipe for you! This one seriously doesn’t get any easier, and it was definitely a crowd pleaser for everyone at the Confessions household. And that is quite impressive since there is usually one person who isn’t thrilled with dinner. So let’s get on to dinner shall we? Ingredients: 4-6 bone in pork chops depending on your family size. 1 small can cream of mushroom soup (Can use cream of chicken as well) 1 can filled with water or milk depending on how creamy you like your gravy. Method: Combine the soup with the milk or water in a bowl. Pour a bit of the soup into the bottom of your crockpot, then add a layer of pork chops (frozen or thawed is fine. Mine are usually frozen because I don't plan ahead very well!) Pour more soup over that first layer, then add another layer of pork chops, another layer of soup, and another layer of pork chops. Finish your layers … [Read more...]

MAY
15
2013

Physical Education Curriculum Forum

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Hi everyone! Welcome to today’s homeschool curriculum forum where we’re talking all about physical education!   I’ve received quite a few questions about how we are liking Family Time Fitness. And I have to say that we still love it! I did a more formal review and giveaway for Family Time Fitness back in October, you can read it here. If you aren’t familiar with Family Time Fitness, they are a physical education program. They provide daily lesson plans as well as video tutorials if you need them. Most lessons can be completed with very little preparation. Although they do give daily lessons, we typically do it 2-3 times per week time allowing. I really love their focus on physical education, and even get reminder emails sent to my inbox to encourage me to continue on with our lessons. How are we doing? The kids are STILL loving the activities, and I like that they’re super easy to do without a lot of prep work on my time. I simply print my lesson … [Read more...]

MAY
14
2013

Homeschool Foreign Language Curriculum Forum

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Hi all! Today we’re talking about our favorite foreign language programs in the homeschool curriculum forum series! For younger students my favorite program is PowerSpeak. It is an online program with fun games and activities that help foster general vocabulary and sentence structure. My only issue with this is price and the lack of levels available. Currently they only offer elementary level 1 and 2, then the next one up is Jr. High which I thought would be too difficult for my 4th grader. Pros: Fun and independent curriculum. No experience necessary to begin. Cons: Fairly expensive, especially if you have multiple students. Limited in levels available. Only 5 languages available My next choice is Rosetta Stone. We tried to use this initially when Strawberry Shortcake was in 2nd grade and it just didn’t go well. The curriculum moved way too fast for her, and it assumed a certain level of maturity to infer differences in verb tenses and sentence … [Read more...]

MAY
13
2013

Homeschool Vocabulary Curriculum Forum

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Good morning all! Welcome to another homeschool curriculum forum. Today we’ll be discussing vocabulary curriculum! This upcoming year will be the first year I’m introducing a more formal vocabulary program into our homeschool. Up until now we’ve just been reviewing words that come with our spelling program and in our Abeka readers. However this year we’re going to be working through Wordly Wise workbooks just to include a little more vocabulary focused work. I’ve heard fairly good reviews for Wordly Wise products. However I’ve also been cautioned that they are a secular curriculum so some of the terms used might not be appropriate if you prefer Christian materials. Pros: Fairly inexpensive workbooks. Students work independently. Cons: Secular curriculum. TBD as we progress through it!   One other vocabulary curriculum I’ve had my eye on and planned to use this year, but haven’t been great at it are the Vocabulary Cartoons. It is a book … [Read more...]

MAY
12
2013

Scientist & Inventor Unit Studies

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Welcome to my new series of unit studies! This series is all about famous Scientists & Inventors! As usual each study includes fun hands-on activities to go along with the unit to help students remember what they’ve learned, and also provide them with a fun reference too to review and recall each person they’ve learned about. --> Click here to get the Scientist & Inventors Mega Pack! <-- Each of my scientist & inventor unit studies contains educational lessons, activities and a fun lap book that your students will work on as they progress through the study. The lessons also include book reports, vocabulary, character traits of these important figures, and critical thinking skills. I currently have 7 studies in this series. These studies are geared towards grades Kindergarten-4th, but can probably be adapted for older students as well.   This study uses the scientists and inventors series by Mike Venezia, but students are welcome to use any … [Read more...]