Free Curriculum

"Rosetta Stone has been the #1 foreign language curriculum among homeschoolers for a while -- next week they are unleashing a brand new curriculum, and you can WIN the *all new* Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3… FOR FREE!

This is a $219 program and the winner gets to pick from any of these 14 languages: Spanish (Spain or Latin America), English (American or British), Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Irish, Hebrew, or Russian.

This will also include a headset with microphone, and students will participate in lifelike conversations and actually produce language to advance through the program. Rosetta Stone still incorporates listening, reading and writing as well, in addition to speaking. Many homeschoolers requested grammar and vocabulary exercises, and with Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3, they're included! For parents, the new Parent Administrative Tools are integrated into the program and allow parents to easily enroll students in any of 12 predetermined lesson plans, monitor student progress, and view and print reports.

To win this most excellent program -- in the language of your choice -- copy these (blue) paragraphs and post it in (or as) your next blog post -- then to enter the contest, go to the original contest page HERE and leave a comment with the link showing where you blogged about it. And please make sure the link works to get back to the original contest page when you post it. And good luck! The winner will be picked randomly on March 26, and will be notified thru the link they left to their blog pg. And if you have more than one blog, you can post them and enter those separately for more chances to win. Yay for free stuff!"

Quirks

My friend, Wendy just started blogging recently. She tagged me to post 6 of my quirks. I think this is an attempt to get me to actually post something or to get you all to laugh at me. I am not sure which.

It was very hard to come up with 6 quirky things about myself since I am a the epitome of normal. But after hours of pondering I finally came up with these things.

1. I become extremely chatty as soon as I get into bed. This drives Bobby, and I am sure anyone who has ever spent the night with me, crazy. I can’t help it. My mind just works overtime once I lie down. I sometimes I talk until I am almost asleep and my thoughts and words become jumbled. I am positive this would crack people up if they had actually stayed awake to listen to me.

2. I hold my neck. I am not sure why. I started when I was in second grade and I do it more frequently when I am stressed or nervous. I stopped once for a few weeks when I moved to Georgia from Texas but then my mom mentioned it and I started again. I am so glad my kids have not picked up this habit.

3. I hate for people to call my kids nick names! If I wanted my son to be called Nick I would have named him Nick. His name is Nicholas. People do the same with Gabriel as well. Hearing him called Gabe makes my skin crawl!

4. I have a hard time being spontaneous. I like having a plan. If the plan changes, no problem I can adjust, but if there is no plan to begin with I can become quite irritable.

5. I cannot stand to vacuum! I will wash dishes, do laundry, cook and even do windows but I hate to vacuum. I am not sure why; it’s one of the easier domestic duties but around here Bobby does 95% of the vacuuming. I am teaching Hannah as well!

6. No one, not even Bobby, can touch my belly button! Yuck! It gives me the willies!

Okay, so now you know... I'm a freak.

I cannot think of anyone who reads my blog, that I know of who blogs but if you do feel free to consider yourself tagged. Anyone else who wants to is welcome to leave their quirkiness in the comments if you don't have a blog.

Julie