Teaching kids at home means being able to follow the interests of your children and really dig in to the things that mean the most to your family. Ideally, the end result of all that focused learning is something worth sharing with the whole world. The folks at Crowe’s Nest Media are a homeschooling family whose passion for nature study has led them to produce some extremely high-quality educational materials for Christians and homeschoolers, one of which is Your Backyard: The Life & Journey of the Amazing Monarch Butterfly.
Your Backyard: The Life & Journey of the Amazing Monarch Butterfly is a DVD packed full of information about the Monarch butterfly, covering everything from stages of life, migration, and how to find them, raise them, and help scientists track them. An accompanying study guide for homeschoolers will be released in the spring of this year, and I’ve got a code so you can get it for free, so be sure to keep reading for a special offer!
One of my kids’ favorite things to do is catch caterpillars and watch them transform into butterflies. We’ve done it so many times, I really thought we knew a lot about the Monarch butterfly. I guess you can chalk that up to a lack of proper research, because there was a ton of stuff on this DVD that I didn’t know about Monarch butterflies.
Crowe’s Nest Media has announced that Your Backyard: The Life & Journey of the Amazing Monarch Butterfly is a semi-finalist in the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival, and it is a well-earned honor. The video is beautifully done, and I won’t be surprised when it wins.
There are several bonus features on the DVD, including how to order tags for your own Monarch adventures, bloopers (these kids are so cute!), and a wonderful testimony from Dr. Jules Poirier, a design engineer with an impressive career in aeronautics and an expert Monarch butterflies. Most importantly, he is an unabashed lover of Christ, and the Crowes are too!
This video affirms the work of God’s hand in nature as it teaches about the amazing Monarch butterfly. Though many scientists like to try, we can never separate God from the world He created. It is His, and if we don’t acknowledge that, we miss some profound truths in our studies. Your Backyard: The Life & Journey of the Amazing Monarch Butterfly furthers the aim of our own homeschool to glorify God in everything we learn, and I’m really grateful for this resource.
Buy: You can order your own copy of Your Backyard: The Life & Journey of the Amazing Monarch Butterfly from Crowe’s Nest Media for $19.95. If you order before February 3, 2012, using the code GetAlongHome, you’ll get $1 off your purchase, plus a FREE download of the Monarch study guide, scheduled to be released this spring (ARV $8.95).
Win: Crowe’s Nest Media would like to send one Get Along Home reader a free copy of Your Backyard: The Life & Journey of the Amazing Monarch Butterfly.
How to enter: Visit the Crowe’s Nest Media web store, and leave a comment telling me you did. It’s that easy!
Extra entries: For extra chances to win, you may do any or all of the following. Leave one comment here to let me know about each extra entry you complete.
- Subscribe to the Crowe’s Nest blog RSS feed or email updates.
- Stop by Crowe’s Nest Media Facebook page and leave a comment on their wall thanking them for this great giveaway.
- Follow Crowe’s Nest Media on Twitter @crowesnestmedia and let me know your twitter handle in a comment.
- For even more chances to win, visit these other participating blogs:
Spell Outloud
The Curriculum Choice
Finding Joy
Mama’s Learning Corner
The Traveling Praters
Handbook of Nature Study
Details: This giveaway is open to anyone in the US. This giveaway will be open until noon, January 30, 2012. The winner will be chosen by And the Winner Is… WordPress plugin. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to my email. If there is no response after 48 hours, I’ll have to choose another winner. Please use a valid email address in your comments so that I can contact you if you win! Please use one email address per entrant, per household, per IP address. If you cheat, I will most likely catch you, then spank you thoroughly and send you to bed. The giveaway provider (not Get Along Home) will be responsible for prize fulfillment. Good luck!
Disclosure: I received a copy of Your Backyard: The Life & Journey of the Amazing Monarch Butterfly to facilitate this review. I will also receive 10% of any sales made using the coupon code provided. I’m as objective as possible, but here’s your mom blogger grain of salt in case any of that makes you feel queasy.
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I visited via the link at the top of your post (the one at the bottom….didn’t take me there…maybe I did something wrong?) I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to win this!
Fixed it. Thanks for letting me know!
I visited the store, and now I want the other video too! These are really neat!
I visited! Love how family-oriented they seem! We’ll definitely have to try out those birdseed recipes, my 6 year old will LOVE it!
I visited! My son loves the monarchs! Thanks for the opportunity.
Visited their site! Love this!
I visited the Crowe’s Nest Media web store.
I subscribed to the Crowe’s Nest blog email updates.
I follow Crowe’s Nest Media on Twitter. @rangersbraves
visited their site; both DVD’s look great; fingers crossed
Twitter: 5ennie
January 26, 2012 at 3:58 pm
I visited their website, and was so glad – what a wonderful resource! Would love to win this giveaway – thank you.
Twitter: 5ennie
January 26, 2012 at 3:58 pm
I signed up for their email updates.
Twitter: 5ennie
January 26, 2012 at 3:58 pm
Left a message at their facebook wall:)
Twitter: 5ennie
January 26, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Following them on Twitter, my handle is 5ennie.
I checked out Crowe’s Nest and would love to win this resource to share with my four wee scientists!
I subscribed to crowe’s nest.
I visited their web store. Good Stuff!
Visted their website. I have a little boy who LOVES monarchs! Even if I don’t win, we’ll definitely be getting the video.
I subscribed to the Crowe’s Nest blog email updates.
Wrote on the Crowe’s Nest Facebook wall.
Following Crowe’s Nest on twitter. @beckymilstead
Visites the store
Now going over to FB.
Thanks for doing the drawing!
Twitter: ElElyonsFriend
January 30, 2012 at 10:46 am
Just visited your webstore.
You sure do have a testimony of God’s special provision, to enable you all to produce some very, high-quality videos for educators and parents, grandparents, and any follower of Messiah Yeshua to use, as we continue to learn more about YHVH’s amazing creation He has made. Thank you for sharing about how God has provided tools to use to turn hearts toward Him!
Shalom!