Free Ebook – Among the Farmyard People
January 27, 2011 by Jennifer · Leave a Comment
Many of you are familiar with Yesterday’s Classics, the re-publisher of many excellent, classic, living books for children. Of these 225 titles many have been recommended and included in various literature-based curriculum packages for their charming content, excellent writing styles, and educational storylines that build character and teach at the same time.
Our family has personally enjoyed these classic titles for years, and has even made some copywork based on Yesterday’s Classics titles.
I’m so excited to announce that our family business has partnered with Yesterday’s Classics to bring you a free digital copy of Among the Farmyard People by Clara Dillingham Pierson (the original book that we have designed copywork to complement)!
Click here for your free copy of Among the Farmyard People, and check out the INCREDIBLE savings on classic, children’s living books that we are able to offer our friends & customers until Saturday, Feb. 05!
As an added bonus, if you decide to purchase this incredible, high quality collection of ebooks, we’ll also include Copying the Classics: Among the Farmyard People – ZB 1-A for free with your order. This copywork book includes 21 character building copywork lessons for beginning printers drawn from Among the Farmyard Children and scripture (KJV).
I’m so excited to see these classic titles moving into the new era of technology. You can literally save thousands of dollars while building a rich library for your homeschool by purchasing the entire collection of Yesterday’s Classics at a deep discount – less than $0.50 per title! You’ll never be able to beat that price!
Feel free to share this link with other homeschooling families who would like to take advantage of this amazing offer as well – we don’t want to keep this a secret!
I hope you enjoy these books as much as our family comes, and reap the joy of learning that reading great literature together creates. If you have any questions, let me know, I’m happy to help!
God bless!
NotebookingPages.com 4th Birthday Sale-a-Bration!
May 4, 2010 by Jennifer · Leave a Comment
I’m happy to announce that Bogart Family Resources is taking part in Notebookingpages.com’s 4th Birthday Sale-a-Bration! When you spend over $40 at their website before the 14th, you receive a package of free items ($60 value), including our recently released Copying the Poems: The Voice of Spring – GDI 1-A! Everything there is on sale for 50% off for a few days, and then at slightly decreasing discounts for the rest of the month! They even have some neat blank templates for using with your own copywork quotations if you like to design your own copywork lessons.
Read on for details!
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An Oldie, But a Goodie
January 26, 2010 by Jennifer · 7 Comments
If you’ve never heard of copywork (the practice of copying respected works of literature in your own hand) before, it might sound like some kind of new-fangled practice, but that couldn’t be further from the truth! Copywork was being practiced in Old Testament times by the Israelites (the kings in particular) and in Ancient Egypt as a vital part of the training of Egyptian scribes.
Our family recently watched a documentary series on DVD entitled Ancient Lives, which followed the daily lives of the tomb-makers that resided near the Valley of the Kings. Fascinating viewing, but one of the things it really drove home for me was the use of copywork in the training of scribes. To be a scribe in Ancient Egypt was to have a fairly good social standing. Most Egyptians were illiterate, so scribes were employed to write letters, decorate tombs, copy religions and legal texts, and so on.
During a scribe’s training he would copy religious documents, legal texts, satirical works, and literature that was considered ‘classic’ at the time. He would copy these works again and again and again over the course of his intensive four-year training period before being declared a scribe. Thankfully, we have a much larger array of literature to draw our copywork selections from than the Egyptians did!
Yes, copywork does have a long and illustrious history, proving that the method works! The hieroglyphics found in the pyramids and tombs of the Ancient Egyptians were written by the hands of those trained in their art through copywork. Just imagine the fruit that Christian copywork, faithfully practiced can bear in your own children! Let’s dedicate that fruit to the Lord and let the work of our hands in printing and handwriting be used to glorify His name.
Why Not Make Your Own?
January 26, 2010 by Jennifer · Leave a Comment
When our family started Bogart Family Resources, part of our vision was to help busy homeschooling moms pull out ready-to-go resources that both taught skills and helped develop Christian character in their children. We need to teach our children to print, and to write, but sometimes we’re just too busy to find copywork selections, hop onto the computer and put in the time for the prep work that comes with printing your own copywork.
As someone who makes copywork both for her own child, and for others, I can tell you – it takes time! But sometimes we do have the time we need to put together copywork selections especially designed for our own children. Their own words put on the page, favorite literature selections, or timeless poetry that they’ve come to love, there’s no end to the inspirational ideas available (I don’t think I’ll EVER be finished all of my copywork ideas.)
When you do need something customized just for your child, or have the time to prepare all of his or her copywork lessons from scratch, StartWrite software is the solution that homeschooling parents have turned to time and time again for their needs. If you use Zaner Bloser, D’Nealian, or Getty Dubay Italic in manuscript or cursive, StartWrite will most likely meet your needs if you have the time to invest in worksheet creation. It’s available both for PC’s and Mac’s and is available at a good price. Based on easy-to-use word processing software tools, it’s easy to learn how to make your own copywork worksheets.
On the other hand, if you find yourself harried and just plumb out of copywork ideas (or use a font that StartWrite doesn’t include), we hope to help you with easy, ready-to-go copywork resources as we expand our line of offerings.
Remember, if you need something you don’t see here, just let us know, and we’ll get busy!
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