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Contests

We hope you enjoy our contests and great prizes. If you have a suggestion for a new contest, please feel free to email us.

Box Tops Contest

We're renewing our efforts to raise funds for our trips (our current balance is $1,315) by starting a new contest. A friend recently donated many homeschooling books, videos, and software to me as contest prizes, so I'm giving them away in our new Box Tops contest.

In order to enter this contest, you need to send at least one of these collection sheets with Box Tops taped or glued into each of the 25 squares. In the box where it asks for your name, please print your name and email address clearly. If I don't have your email address, I won't be able to notify you when you win! (You don't need to fill out the grade/teacher's name lines.)

Each completed collection sheet will be counted as one entry in our contest. The more you collect and mail in, the more chances you'll have to win! I'll keep drawing names periodically to award prizes until they're all given away. People who have previously sent Box Tops to me will automatically be entered in the contest with five entries.

All I ask in return is for winners to pay shipping charges. I'll calculate Media Mail postage for each item (usually around $3 or so), and the cost of a box if I don't have any used boxes left, and will tell you the cost of postage when I'm ready to ship.

We've raised close to $80 since we started fundraising with Box Tops, and hope to at least double that during this contest. (Our best fundraiser remains our website's Google ads, but every fundraising project helps!)

So start mailing in those completed collection sheets to Carolina Homeschooler, PO Box 1421, Lancaster, SC 29721, and I'll start giving away these prizes while we build our trip fund!

Contest Deadline: Ongoing until all prizes are given away.

What Worked, What Didn't (Contest)

Are you still using the same homeschool resources you started with at the beginning of the school year? If not, don't feel alone. Homeschooling is a learning process, and not everything will work as planned. For the benefit of new homeschoolers and veterans who are planning for next year, please share what worked for you and what didn't, and why.

Each person who posts their advice in the What Worked, What Didn't thread in our Homeschooling Day-by-Day forum will have a chance to win their choice of the prizes listed below. I'll keep drawing names until all prizes are given away.

Contest Deadline: Anyone who posted by 4.24.08 will receive a prize.

Prize List

Our selection of prizes has grown due to recent donation of a kind and generous friend. Most of these come from her. I'll post more resources as they become available. Enjoy! :)

Elementary

--The Complete Book of American Facts & Games (Grades 3-5)

--Famous Men of Greece, includes Study Guide (Greenleaf, Grades 2-7)

--Science Scope Design-A-Study by Kathryn Stout (Grades K-12)

--Tests & Answer Key to The Story of the World Vol. 3

Middle School

--What Your 6th Grader Needs to Know (Core Knowledge Series)

--Famous Men of Greece, includes Study Guide (Greenleaf, Grades 2-7)

--Editor in Chief: Grammar Disasters and Punctuation Faux Pas (Level B2, Grades 6-8)

--Science Scope Design-A-Study by Kathryn Stout (Grades K-12)

--History Through Art: Ancient Greece (Zane Publishing CD, probably for 6-12th grades)

--History Through Art: The Middle Ages (Zane Publishing CD, probably for 6-12th grades)

--History Through Art: Romanticism (Zane Publishing CD, probably for 6-12th grades)

--History Through Art: The Renaissance (Zane Publishing CD, probably for 6-12th grades)

--History Through Art: The Enlightenment (Zane Publishing CD, probably for 6-12th grades)

--History Through Art: Native American and Colonial Art (Zane Publishing CD, probably for 6-12th grades)

--History Through Art: The Pre-Modern Era (Zane Publishing CD, probably for 6-12th grades)

--History Through Art: The Baroque (Zane Publishing CD, probably for 6-12th grades)

--History Through Art: The Twentieth Century (Zane Publishing CD, probably for 6-12th grades)

The Usborne Illustrated World History: The Greeks

--Freedom: A History of US by Joy Hakim

High School

--How to Ace Calculus (A Streetwise Guide)

--How to Ace the Rest of Calculus (A Streetwise Guide)

--Calculus: from Graphical, Numerical, and Symbolic Points of View

--Calculus Made Easy

--501 Reading Comprehension Questions

--Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day

--Basic Economics, by Clarence B. Carson

--Backgrounds to World Literature (Classics for Christians, Vol. 1)

--Masterpieces from World Literature (Classics for Christians, Vol. 2)

--Exploring Creation With Physics, includes Solutions and Tests (Apologia)

--American Government (high school text)

--Welcome to the Wonderful World of Geography: Student Activity Workbook (Runkle)

--Science Scope Design-A-Study by Kathryn Stout (Grades K-12)

--Math-U-See Advanced Mathematics Tests & Word Problems

--Elements of Writing: Fourth Course (Kinneavy & Warriner), student & teacher's edition

--Early American History: Native Americans to the Fourty-Niners, Tapes 1 & 2, Lessons 1-10 (The Teaching Company SuperStar Teachers VHS high school series)

--Early American History: Native Americans to the Fourty-Niners, Tapes 5 & 6, Lessons 21-30 (The Teaching Company SuperStar Teachers VHS high school series)

--Study Workbook for the Teaching Company's Early American History series above (I'll ship this with one of the sets above, whoever asks for it first)