Making Homeschool Fun – Friday Competitions

I was teaching conjunctions and didn’t think we should just cover the material and move on.  He has been having issues with retention.  I wanted to make it fun for him to think about what he learned during non school times. 

We decided to have a competition on Friday.  We are going to have a conjunction competition.  For every sentence he can come up with that uses a conjunction correctly, he will get $0.01.  In round two, he will get a chance to double his money.  We are going to take turns making sentences that use conjunctions until someone gets stumped.

He was so excited about this, that he wants to do this every Friday with something from that weeks lessons.

This ties in perfectly to the Dave Ramsey for Kids program we are starting.  Plus I am going to make him count and roll the pennies. 

Coupon Book with Plastic Sheet Protector Pages

I got this idea from Learning to be Frugal.  I am so thankful she shared her coupon binder.  I am not as good a sewer as she is.  I have never been good at sewing or cutting straight lines. 

To make this binder you will need:

1. Binder

2. Plastic sheet protector pages

3. Exacto Knife

4. Paper (colored or white)

5. Thread (preferably a sewing machine)

Fold the pages in half horizontally & vertically to make creases.  Cut the page horizontally along the crease but not straight across, stop in the middle and don’t cut all the way to either edge.  Insert a sheet of paper and sew along the horizontal and vertical crease line.

I probably wouldn’t use colored pages in hindsight.  If I need more pages for a particular section it will be a pain for me to add it.  I think all white pages would be more efficient and just use colored tabs.  Avery makes a 31 tab binder divider.  That would be the way to go. 

I made the title pages in Paint.net I used categories that made sense to me. 

This is just a few of my categories.

I made this book in November when I started couponing. I have saved a lot since couponing.  Our budget hasn’t decreased all that much yet, but I have a surplus in my pantry and refrigerator at the end of every week now.  We use to have a bare pantry at the end of each week and we were buying generics at Aldi.  I love Aldi for some products, but on others you can really taste the difference.

We will always coupon now to save money.

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