Welcome to chapter 7! This chapter is filled with wonderful ideas for creating an environment for learning in your home. “… when one entire room or area is permanently dedicated to home education and other dedicated learning places are strategically located throughout the house, it speaks volumes to your children that their learning is so…
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Seasons of a Mother’s Heart ~ Chapter 2
{I’m linking up with Home with the Boys and reading Seasons of a Mother’s Heart by Sally Clarkson. If you’d like to join in, here is the original post from Erin with the details and reading schedule.} This week, the chapter we read is about changing my will. I’m using the YouVersion app on my iPad to record…
Review and Giveaway: Reader’s Digest Grammar Books
Do you ever struggle with teaching grammar to your kids? We use Spell to Write & Read and Pathway Readers as our primary English spines. These are great programs that I always highly recommend, but where do you go when you need a little extra explanation of a concept? Where do you turn when your…
7 Tools for Your Homeschool Arsenal
A review of 7 Tools for Cultivating Your Child’s Potential by Zan Tyler “First, never say never to God.” -pg. 9 That line in the second paragraph of the introduction drew me into this book. Zan goes on to describe how she told God that she’d never teach or have kids. You see, I once…
Educating the Wholehearted Child ~ Chapter 6
We’re entering section two of Educating the Wholehearted Child and reading chapter 6 this week. It is clear from Scripture that educating is at the very heart of his design for the family. pg. 95 Family was the first institution. It was set up by God even before the Fall. Throughout the Old Testament, there is…