Tag: "library"
4 Tips for Affordable Homeschooling
If you are a homeschooling parent looking for ways to save some money, you may find these four tips from Habeebee Homeschooling extremely useful! Many people have asked us on Habeebee Homeschooing, about how much we spend on a monthly bases for homeschooling. They are surprised to find out that we spend VERY little mashaAllah! [...]
Raising Kids to Love Reading
Reading is a skill a child should get used to and enjoy, because he or she will be engaging in it for the rest of life. It’s a means to learning, a tool and pastime far too often overlooked. Sharing My Love of Reading with the Next Generation I have always had a love for [...]
Free Summer Reading Programs for 2011 – Free Prizes, Reading Lists & More!
We absolutely LOVE Summer Reading Programs! Every year since 2004, we’ve been updating our lists here of all the Summer Reading Programs nationwide for everyone to join in the educational fun with the incentive of cool prizes on top of all this great family time and content consumed! So, far only 1 program already started, [...]
Top 10 Ways The Library Can Help You and Your Business
I just found this old article I wrote back in 2005 when I was sharing how the library helped me start my new business. Since I’m moving once again to a new state and town, I just read it and thought it had some classic memories advise that may help us all. 1. Establish Yourself [...]
Hurricane Katrina – lessons to learn
Hurricane Katrina is truly a tragic natural disaster! Although are girls are all under 5 years old, there’s many lessons to learn: 1. Geography: We started learning from the Rookie Read-About Geography series just the day before Hurricane Katrina. Great books! Check them out right now! 2. Science. How and where hurricanes form, weather differences [...]
Recommendations for Beginning Readers
So, everyone rants and raves about the Bob Books, by Bobby Lynn Maslen , but the girls and I are not taking too well to them. So, through trail and error…here’s what we came up with as our recommended starting points for Beginning Readers. Please share your opinions and recommendations in the comments section below…we’re [...]
It’s a Girl-Thang!
As I absolutely love blogging…I had to find a whole new voice, direction, and focus for us, as we make our “official” first-year’s journey through homeschooling here in the state of Ohio. ..Toledo to be more specific. As I see huge difference in my raising girls than I would if I had boys…this changed our [...]
Toledo has the Best Summer Reading Program!
Toledo Public Library has the best Summer Reading Program. Since we’re 2 weeks behind from our vacation, we’re quickly catching up on lost tracked-time. We constantly read…even during vacation, but I didn’t think of tracking the hours, books and their authors. Nonetheless, we finished 5 hours each for the week and got our coupon sheet [...]
Library Movies and DVDs
Should public libraries charge for the rental of movies and DVDs? Check out the debate: Libraries increase DVDs stacks, add fees for movie watchers. Now are some people just chosing to be cheap…and not renting elsewhere, taking away from the public’s right to free educational and entertaining resources of those who can NOT afford the [...]
