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Educating the Wholehearted Child

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By Amanda Pelser

My copy of Educating the Wholehearted Child arrived yesterday.  I’m so excited to dig into it! Sally Clarkson is giving away three free copies on her blog.  Go enter to win one!

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Memory Verse – Matthew 6:20

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By Amanda Pelser

Jonathan LOVES watching himself on video. I decided to try video taping him reciting his memory verse. I’ve done this in the past, but he was little and it was more of a home video type thing. The intent here was to help him learn to recite his verse as clearly as possible… and be…

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Counting Down: The End of Preschool

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By Amanda Pelser

We only have three more days left in our preschool curriculum.  Yes, only 3 more.  Jonathan picked up the pace on me again this past week and we’ve been reading and doing extra workbook pages.  So, Friday is now our last day of preschool.  {*sniff, sniff*} What a great year it has been with Sonlight…

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Homeschool Mother’s Journal – June 24

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By Amanda Pelser

The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book

In our homeschool this week we… finished a couple more books from our Sonlight P 4/5 curriculum including The Milly-Molly-Mandy Story Book, A Treasury of Mother Goose,  New Toes for Tia, and The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book.  Jonathan wanted me to read and read and read some more this week. made a wordless book that tells…

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Jonathan’s First Story

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By Amanda Pelser

A Street Story Once upon a time, there was a fire engine and a fireman putting out a fire.  Then the steamroller made the road flat.  Then the van and the man were driving back home.  The bulldozer was coming to push the dirt off the road.  The excavator got to get dirt in a…

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