Maridel Willer

Exciting News from TOS!

Attention writers!
Grab your pencils and get those creative juices flowing!

The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine is hosting our second Storytime Writing Contest! We have two creative fiction categories: adults (16 and up 2,500 words or less) and children (15 and below 1,500 words or less). Deadline to enter is March 16, 2009. $7.95 fee per entry.

Grand prize winners in both the adult and child categories will receive prize packages valued at over $1,000, publication in the Summer 2009 issue of TOS, and publication in our Storytime 2009 Compilation E-Book. Eleven Honorable Mentions from each category will also be included in the E-Book in addition to receiving gifts from top homeschool companies.

We look forward to reading your entries!

For a detailed list of prizes, official contest rules, to meet our judges, and to upload your story, please visit:

www.TheHomeschoolMagazine.com/Short_Story_Contest.php.

Need help teaching writing? There are over 200 writing products in the Schoolhouse Store!

We are moving right into Home “Schooling” for the Holidays this week. It is just about time to put away the regular school work and dig into some fun books and activities that build family memories and remind us all about the ultimate gift that God has given us in His son, Jesus Christ.

I ran across a free unit study from Amy Pack of Homeschool in the Woods that covers history, writing, art, and even science and math as you celebrate the season in your home. Check it out at http://www.homeschoolinthewoods.com/ChristmasLesson/.

Do you have special family traditions that you would like to share with other moms? Send your holiday ideas to Maridel @ MaridelWiller.com by November 20 to have your ideas published in this newsletter or on my website. Each submission will be entered into a contest to win a copy of my “Our Family Heritage” study guide.

You could be 1 of 15 winners for
The Quest for Thunder Mountain
on the HSB Company Porch!
You don’t want to miss out on this
great new give-away from the author of
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Here’s the contest link:
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/HSBCompanyBlog/610676/

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