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Homeschool Share is excited to announce our
annual Back to School Blast (a curriculum drive in the form of a contest)!
We will start
accepting submissions on Thursday, May 1st.
Early submissions
qualify for an extra prize category (see #1).
Submission
deadline is Tuesday, July 1st at 11:59 p.m.
Prize winners will be announced and new material will be released on (or before)
Monday, July 21st. We are hoping for an earlier release this year so that
you will have more time to plan for the upcoming school year.
We realize that we have posted a lot of information. Before you print, grab
a cup of tea, and read, please understand the following:
1. All book titles must be approved by
HSS staff.
2. Any and all images that you use for your creations must be copyright
free. If you need help finding copyright free images, please
contact us.
3. We reserve the right to revise and rewrite (or ask you to do the
same).
4. Anything submitted to Homeschool Share must be new (not something
you've already made and posted on another website or even on your
personal blog).
Units and lapbooks submitted to Homeschool Share should not be submitted to
other websites.
5. You need to read over the HSS Submission Guide.
Be sure to support our generous 2008 Blast sponsors!
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us advertise this contest! If you post an advertisement for our Blast Contest on your blog during the month of April or May, your name will go in a drawing for a T-shirt from Homeschool Boutique! You get to choose the size/color for the T-shirt.
After you post your blurb on your blog,
please
e-mail us with your name and your blog so we can add you to the drawing.
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Here are two different buttons
you can use on your blog or website, if desired:
A huge thanks to Valerie from Lapbook Lessons as well as Jolanthe Erb for helping with the creation of the HSS buttons.
Prize Categories
1. Early Bird Submissions
For each entry you get in BEFORE June 1st, your name will go into a
hat for a drawing for one of the following prizes:
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Winner #1- first choice of four
books from our prize closet and a Homeschool Share
Tote Bag! Winner #2- $15 Hands of a Child Gift Certificate Winner #3- $10 Currclick Gift Certificate Winner #4- 1 year subscription to The Old Schoolhouse Magazine ($29.95 value) |
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2. First Time Unit Study Writers
We added this new category to encourage some of you to put your fears to the side
and take the plunge! You can write a unit study!
All our
first time submitters will be put in a drawing for the following prize package~
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$10 Currclick Gift Certificate |
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3. Homeschool Share's Most Wanted
We all have things we want done today. Well, we (the ladies
who humbly serve you here at Homeschool Share) have lists of things we wanted
done yesterday! We've each chosen our MOST WANTED items for Homeschool Share. Choose something off the list and help us to
stay
sane and maybe you'll win a great prize package!
| Prize Package: $10 Currclick Gift Certificate $50 Amazon gift certificate Choice of Activity Pak by Homeschool in the Woods ($20 value) 1 year subscription to The Old Schoolhouse Magazine ($29.95 value) |
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4. Units with Unique Geography Lessons
Location, Location. We'd love to add some unit studies that take place in
countries and states that we don't currently have unit studies for. You
can check out our Geography Index and
contact us with your title to find out if the book you are considering would qualify.
This category includes
any level or category unit study. You could even write a multi-book theme
unit based on a country.
| Prize Package $10 Currclick Gift Certificate $15 Hands of a Child Gift Certificate $30 Usborne Books Gift Certificate 1- Goody Pack from China (see photo) donated by Jimmie includes artwork, money, postcards, stickers, etc. |
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5. Animal Studies with Lapbooks
Submit research (paraphrased ~ in your own words) and a lapbook
minimum of 10 minit books you've created to go with the research.
Check out our current
Animal Studies to help you understand what we
are looking for. Here are some suggestions of animals we'd
love to have studies/lapbooks for: elephants, hippos, giraffes, ducks,
animals in winter, nocturnal animals, seashore animals, ants, and monkeys. The winner will receive the following
fabulous package:
| Tobin's Lab Animal Lapbook Pack ~ Rainforest Papers Pack Animal Print Standard File Folders Animal Sticker ID Guides Animals with Backbones Unit Study from Evan Moor Animals without Backbones Unit Study from Evan Moor PLUS $10 Currclick Gift Certificate |
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6. Chapter Book Unit Studies
If you're brave enough and have enough energy to write a chapter book unit,
you just might win some fantastic prizes!
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Prize Package $10 Currclick Gift Certificate $15 Hands of a Child Gift Certificate $25 Notebooking Pages Gift Certificate 1 year subscription to The Old Schoolhouse Magazine (Digital Edition - $16.95 value) 1 fabulous Time Travelers Unit from Homeschool in the Woods ~ your choice! ($30 value) |
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7. Lapbooks!
This category is for any lapbook submission (with the
exception of preschool and animal studies since they have their own categories).
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Prize Package |
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8. All Things Preschool
Anything made specifically for preschoolers including file folder games,
Level A Units, preschool lapbooks, and resources
to go with Homeschool Share or Before Five in a Row.
| Prize Package $10 Currclick Gift Certificate $15 Hands of a Child Gift Certificate Picture Perfect Childhood by Cay Gibson ($22 value) A B Seas Alphabet Fishing Game by Discovery Toys ($20 value) |
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9. Notebooking Pages
Create a set of notebooking pages (at least 12) to go with one of our current
Level B or C unit studies at Homeschool Share.
Here are some ideas of pages we'd like to see added to the site:
Study a State
Study an Animal
Famous Missionaries
Famous Artists
Famous Composers
Famous Inventors
Habitats
Newton's Laws
Animal Report Forms (you can choose 12 different
animals)
Animal Copywork Pages (again, you can choose 12
different animals)
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10. Grand Prize Drawing Everyone who submits something to HSS during the contest, will have a chance to win the following prize package (drum roll, please...) $25 Notebooking Pages Gift Certificate $25 Currclick Gift Certificate $25 Hands of a Child Gift Certificate 1 year subscription to The Old Schoolhouse Magazine ($29.95 value) Breezy Tulip's "The Library" painting! (see sketch on the right ; final painting has yet to be completed) |
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Bonus Drawings!!!
If you submit a unit or resource that doesn't fit in to the guidelines of one of
the categories above, you will still be eligible for the Grand Prize Drawing as
well as bonus book drawings! After all the other
prizes have been awarded, we will draw for FOUR MORE WINNERS!
Each winner will get to pick five books from our prize closet.
If you have any questions, please
contact us, and we will be happy to assist you!
Happy unit-study writing and resource creating; we
hope you have a blast preparing your submissions!
Ami, Celia, and Wende
Please note: Only one prize package per person; if you win an Early Bird Prize, you will still be eligible to
win one prize package). Only one Early Bird Prize per person. Each
name will only qualify for the Grand Prize Drawing one time.
Materials and information on this website belong to the
original composers. It may be used for your own personal and school use.
Material may not be used for resale.
© 2005-07 HSS
