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Bundle Buying Guide- All bundles 20% off!!!!!

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In case you haven’t heard, all of our bundles are 20% off this month. Use code 20%BundlesJune Yes, even our brand-new High School bundles. With over 3 dozen to choose from, I know it can be a little bit overwhelming to decide. I’ve created this handy bundle buying guide to help you reduce decision fatigue.

Still need help? Don’t hesitate to e-mail us or reach out via Facebook or Instagram. We’re happy to help!

Need to substitute a journal or two?
You can make one or two subs. The journals should be comparably priced based on Amazon’s regular prices. Place your order and then immediately e-mail us with your order number and the journal(s) you want subbed, and we’ll take care of it from there!

Did you say High School bundles?
YES! After lots of requests, we’ve created three High School bundles- core subjects, Dyslexia/ADHD, and electives. Now you can Fun-School K-12 with bundles every year!

Happy Fun-Schooling & please, reach out if we can help!

Brand New Reading Resource (& Giveaway)

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We are so excited to share the news that the new Reading Therapy is out!!! I’ve been working on this all year to create a new workbook to help kids who are struggling to sound out words to read fluently! I’m so excited about this. Take 20 minutes a day to work with your child to master 150 wonderful words! By the end of the book your child will be writing stories, poems and letters!

This book is created for the kids who are reading words like farm and cat, but want to read words like radiant and mighty!

Do you want to be part of our research study? Let me know at Sarah@BrownIdea.com

Get the PDF now to print at home for all your kids.

This book is the bridge between Dyslexia Therapy and grade level schoolwork. It’s the book I wish I had the year I failed 3rd grade.

Are you a 2nd or 3rd grade teacher with students who are struggling to read?

I’d love to give you this workbook as a gift to use in your classroom. Tag a teacher!

Giveaway!!!

Get the PDF version of our new book for Free!!! “150 Wonderful Words – Vocabulary, Spelling & Reading”

Coupon Code: 150WonderfulWords

Get it here: https://www.funschooling.com/product-page/pdf-150-wonderful-words-vocabulary-spelling-reading

Code expires December 17, 2024

See something else you need?

Here’s a “Buy One Get One Free” offer for any of our PDFs!

Coupon Code: FunSchoolBOGO2024

Expires December 31, 2024

Big Sale! Up to 50% Off!

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Get up to 50% OFF on these amazing Thinking Tree Books! Stock up on fun, creative, and educational resources for your homeschool. Here’s what’s on sale:

1. Fun-Schooling Spelling Journal Boost your child’s spelling skills with creative, fun activities designed to engage and inspire.

2. How to Write Research Papers A comprehensive guide for students to learn how to research, organize, and write their own academic papers.

3. Homeschooling for Girls Winter A seasonally themed learning journal full of creative prompts, activities, and lessons tailored for young girls.

4. All About Money Teach your kids financial literacy with engaging exercises on saving, budgeting, and understanding money.

5. Are You a Math Genius? A fun, interactive journal packed with math puzzles and activities to challenge and delight learners.

6. Multiplication Games – 180 Days A workbook designed for daily practice with exciting games to reinforce multiplication skills.

7. A Proverb a Day Explore wisdom and life lessons through proverbs with daily activities and reflection prompts.

8. All About Sharks Dive into the fascinating world of sharks with fun facts, activities, and research challenges.

9. Transportation History Learn about the evolution of transportation with creative lessons and activities.

10. The Chef’s Fun-Schooling Journal Combine cooking and learning in this journal full of recipes, culinary challenges, basic subjects, and creative prompts.

11. All About Space Blast off into space exploration with a journal filled with science, astronomy, and fun experiments.

12. Top 30 Grammar Mistakes Master grammar with this fun and easy-to-understand guide to common language errors.

13. The Baker’s Fun-Schooling Journal Perfect for aspiring bakers, this journal mixes learning with delicious recipes and creative projects.

14. Fun-Schooling Math Mysteries Solve math mysteries with fun problem-solving activities and puzzles to sharpen critical thinking.

15. Picturing the Past Explore history with engaging activities that combine art and research.

🛒 Shop the Sale: Visit Funschooling.com or click the journal images below for the sales!

✨ Sale ends soon, so act fast! ✨

Now through December 1st!!!

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Comfort & Joy- New Brain Games!!

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Today we’re delighted to announce the release of our newest Brain Games, Comfort & Joy.

It’s one of my favorite books so far and I created it with Christmas and Winter in mind. This one is specifically designed to help uplift your spirits during the long days of winter, when a lot of people struggle with motivation, loneliness, and need a boost to accomplish those New Year’s Goals.

This will be a perfect gift for people on your Christmas list who are hard to shop for, give the book along with some good quality colored pencils and a fine point black 🖊️ pen or marker.

For a really special gift – get the full set for someone you love – older ladies are crazy about these books – grandmothers and aunties!!! Teens and tweens really like them too!

What Moms have said about our previous Brain Games

-“I just love these books so much. I originally bought them for me and my mom who were both experiencing brain fog (me due to pregnancy and motherhood and the unavoidable isolation/exhaustion of having a baby during a pandemic, my mom due to long COVID) and we both adore them.

Two weeks ago my newest baby tried being born two months early, and the first thing I did when throwing together my emergency hospital bag was grab a Brain Games book and my bag of pens and pencil crayons, to help keep myself calm and peaceful despite being in an anxiety-inducing situation. Luckily she has agreed to stay inside a little bit longer (I’m 32 weeks today, hoping to at least keep her cooking until the new year 🤞) but I’ve kept my bag together with Brain Games and some devotionals and books, just in case I need to grab it last minute ago. Thank you for sharing these wonderful books with us. ❤️” S.A.

– “Thank you so much for making another beautiful book. I am dyslexic and have always aspired to draw. These games really launched me into a wonderful new hobby. As an added bonus, the change in my thought patterns has also helped with anxiety.” D.K.

-“I LOVE these!!! I recently gifted one to my dad who was just diagnosed with parkinsons. He is enjoying it.
I love sitting with my family at night and while my kids color or do a puzzle, I sit and do a brain game. Never fails, one of them always comes over and asks to help me. Its created some beautiful moments with my girls.” S.R.

-“Comfort & Joy” sounds so much fun for wintertime! ❄️ My 6 yr old daughter & I love to sit down together with our Brain Games Books & enjoy calm peaceful music, coloring, learning & solving the logic puzzles. We love the art & activities they include.. her current favorite is, “Candlelight Brain Games,” while I use my Mommy workbook, “Handbook For Moms.” These books have played an instrumental part in helping my daughter with pattern recognition & training the dyslexic thought process through games & creativity! They are so enriching & true trailblazers❣️📖🙏” S.S.

-“My 10.5yr old daughter just did a few pages (of the book with the fire on it) and she said she feels as calm as when she leaves an OT appointment where she has been getting CST/myofascial work. “There’s not so much talking in my head, I feel calmer. I actually *want* to do Beast Academy (math work) now!” 💜💜 This is amazing for her with ADHD type of mind and anxiety.” L.B.

Find this delightful new journal here and check out a peek inside on our Instagram page.
Paperback coming soon

On Sale Now- Over Two Dozen Journals Marked Down!!!

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Paperback sales, Amazon sales, Core journals, Dyslexia Games singles, Bible study resources, PDFs, and single-subject journals on SALE now!!

ON SALE

Amazon sales

Remember- we never know what Amazon will put on sale or how long an Amazon sale will last. They can be a matter of hours or weeks. Order right away if you want one of these journals!!

Also on SALE

Bundles
NEW Theme Bundles- all on SALE
Theme bundles include Minecraft, Animal, Nature, Fashion, the Arts, and more!!! PDF bundles & paperback!

Paperbacks & E-Books – up to 30% off

New- Comfort & Joy!!
Hardcover $24, Paperback $5.95
Get it here

PDFs – up to 50% off

BRAND NEW!

Happy Fun-Schooling!!!

Fun-Schooling For Every Grade

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Today I’m excited to announce our “Fun-Schooling For Every Grade” blog series. This is something y’all have asked for time and time again. We are delighted to be bringing this series to you this school year.  

This will include what to expect regarding academic ability and developmental level every year. We’ll also look at common challenges in each phase and share tips. For each grade, we’ll discuss how to build a curriculum including what to expect for workload and schedule. Tips from other Fun-Schooling moms will help give you the POV of several people. The most popular journals for each grade and tips for using them will round out each post. 

A big focus for us at Thinking Tree is letting kids be kids. You’ll see a lot of room for play, nature, and wonder in these plans. We want kids to have plenty of time to explore the things they love and soak up their childhood. 

Remember– This blog series will be based on the average level for the grade/age. The bell curve is extremely important to remember throughout this series. Some children will fall outside of this average. We’ve chosen to homeschool for a reason- so we can customize our children’s education to their unique academic level and needs.

Students can go up or down several grade levels from these suggestions as needed. Virtually all our materials can be used by kids from reading age to teens (and adults!) For non-readers and early readers, we have level A-1 materials. Each student’s education is customized by choosing academically appropriate materials. 

How do I know what grade my homeschooler is in?

The general guideline is- age in the fall minus 5 = grade. For example, my son is 12 this fall. 12-5=7
If he were in the school system, he’d be in 7th grade. 

Sounds great, what’s the plan?

By far the top age we’re asked about it High School so we’re starting at High School and working our way down from there. Here’s the schedule for this series-

October ‘23- High School- College/ Advanced Academics Path
November ‘23- High School– Career/ Calling Path for those who will not need college
December ‘23-  Middle School– emphasizing choosing a major (and why it’s ok if they change it!)
January ‘24- 6th grade 
February ‘24- 5th grade
March ‘24- 4th grade– with an emphasis on the fact it’s often a step-up academically and in terms of independence 
April ‘24- 3rd grade
May ‘24- 2nd grade– with a focus on fostering more independence 
June ‘24- 1st grade
July ‘24-  Kindergarten
August ‘24-  Preschool

Eager to learn about a specific grade now?
Check out the grade-by-grade video series we did in 2022 in our Facebook group-

Concerned about gaps in your child’s education? Check out this post.

About the Author- Amanda Osenga is a Fun-Schooling mom in Columbus Ohio. She is also the social media manager and Virtual Assistant for Thinking Tree. Her family combines Thinking Tree books with the Charlotte Mason method using books from Ambleside Online and Wildwood Curriculum. In her free time, Amanda is an avid reader and loves to be outdoors.

Minecraft Month is Here | Save on All of Your Favorite Journals!

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“Homeschooling with Minecraft seems too good to be true.” – We hear this from kids time and time again. It is our delight to offer Fun-Schooling journals tapping into kids love of Minecraft while covering all the major school subjects!

This month, we’ve put our most popular Minecraft paperbacks and all Minecraft PDFs on sale!!

You’ll find journals for beginners all the way through teens with this sale. Even a couple journals Moms love!

30% off– Paperbacks

50% off- PDFs

Our monthly theme sales last all month long. Take a peek at our upcoming themes for info on what’s coming soon. And make sure to vote for what you want to see on sale on the Facebook group.

Back to School Shopping–$10, $15, $20 Sale!

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This great sale has been extended until August 15th! Something for littles all the way through teens…and some beautiful journals for Mom School, too!

$10 Sale Journals

$15 Sale Journals

$20 Sale Journals

Please note that we request for Amazon to mark down journals to a specific price for a certain length of time but they don’t always get marked down/ stay marked down the whole time. If there’s something you really want, make sure to grab it soon!

Celebrating Science & Technology

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The Fun-Schooling theme for July is Science & Technology! Keep an eye out for sales on your favorite Fun-Schooling science journals!

Our 7 Subject Science Portfolio – Minecraft & The Real World is one of our best sellers, and covers Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Meteorology, Physics, Technology and Zoology! Here is a review from Amazon:

“This is one of our favorite fun schooling journals! This is an all in one science portfolio which means your student will study various topics in science and compile a portfolio of all of their best work. This includes a section on botany, chemistry, geology, meteorology, physics, technology, and zoology. Once you’ve chosen your books that you’re going to read there are pages for summarizing your reading time, copy work, designing your science topic in Minecraft world, notetaking and illustration prompts, documentary reviews, diagrams, science experiments and observations, comic strip pages, vocabulary building prompts, Real world versus Minecraft world, coloring, geography and history, biography studies, audiobook time, nature study and drawing, biography studies, audio book summaries, AND occupation studies! What more can I ask for in a Science Funschooling Journal! I’m getting one for every child! Over 250 pages to show your research.”

Shop for physical Fun-Schooling science journals on Amazon here. Find a list of all of our themes for 2023 here. Some science PDFs that are discounted right now: