Our Real-Life Morning Time Demo
Our real-life morning time, captured on camera! Join me and my 5 kids (ages 3 to 13) in our simple, custom morning time.
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Easy Thanksgiving Activities for the Whole Family (for the Non-Crafty Mom)
Looking for some simple, fun Thanksgiving crafts and hands-on activity ideas for your children? Here are 4 Thanksgiving activities that are not only fun at home with the kids, but are also easy to bring on the road as you join family and friends at holiday celebrations. Get the whole family, young and old, involved
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Beginner’s Guide to Church History
For many modern protestants, church history (if they think about it at all) begins with those famous theses being nailed to a door, as if the 1500 previous years of Christianity don’t really count. If you have desired to learn more about church history or if you have longed to feel connected to the church throughout the ages, this post is for you! If you have felt overwhelmed at the thought of where to start your own studies, let alone how to pass on a delight-filled understanding of their place in church history to your children, I hope this post provides a helpful place to start.
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Thanksgiving Morning Time Plans and Resource Pack
Thanksgiving Morning Time Plans and Resource Pack. Over 12 pages of memory work and other resources to make your Thanksgiving-themed morning time a success.
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“According to the flesh”- Romans 8:1-4
What do you typically associate with walking “according to the flesh”?
Do you primarily think of external sin and temptation? Fleshly desires? Bad theology? Morally corrupt allurements? Sins that “other people” commit? How might you be thinking according to the flesh in your daily life?
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Is the Bible Good for Women? by Wendy Alsup: Book Review
In her book, Alsup communicates intelligently, logically, humbly, emphasizing throughout a robust theology of Scripture. She seeks to answer this question: Is the Bible Good for Women?
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Birds: 50+ resources for your elementary and early-middle school science and nature studies
Can you study birds with unique books and other resources? I have over 50 suggestions for your elementary and early middle school learners!
Morning Time and Memory Work Plans 2018
Want a fun peek into our morningtime and memory work routine? Want to learn about some great resources for your own morning basket? Read the post and watch the video!
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Reading Journals for Middle School and High School
Watch the video to see how you can combine multiple subjects in 1 notebook, without added worksheets, book reports, or comprehension pages! I give actual examples from elementary, middle school, and high school reading journals!
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He said/She said: a Dad’s and Mom’s Perspectives on Homeschooling
What if you asked a Dad and a Mom the same series of questions about their homeschooling? Would their perspectives be similar or different? And what do they wish they’d known before they started?
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Don’t Know Much About: Math
Don’t know much about math? It’s not too late to explore this subject in new ways as you pursue your own life-long learning as an adult!
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Multiplication and Division Facts That Stick: Book Reviews
Multiplication Facts That Stick and Division Facts That Stick provide effective tools not only to memorize the facts with rapid recall, but to understand how multiplication and division work. Book reviews and Giveaway!
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Don’t Know Much About: Literature
For adults who missed out on a literature education, here’s a guide to your own life long learning! Learn how to read deeply!
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7 Steps to an Easy Big-Picture Homeschool Plan: Simplicity, Freedom, Flexibility, and Orderly Structure
What if I told you that there was a way to incorporate freedom into homeschool planning? A way to blend flexibility and a well-ordered day? Big-Picture Planning gives me the ability to craft weekly assignment lists for the kids (and myself) without having to type out any lesson plans, write out lists of page numbers, or feel bound by dates on the calendar!
My First Reading Journal: developing the reading journal habit in our elementary students
A reading journal is a wonderful way to develop the habit of careful, engaged reading. Even our elementary-aged children can profit from developing the simple habit of keeping a reading journal! They will not be expected to write original thoughts, but they are forming the habit of reading with a pencil and paper nearby.
Sibling Relationships in Fiction: a Book List!
Over 75 books from more than 20 series in which the sibling relationships are a central, essential element to the story. #SiblingFiction
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Poem in your Pocket Day: Free Printables
Free Poetry Printables for Poem in Your Pocket Day and Every Day! Check out these great poetry ideas for your homeschool this year! You know I get excited about poetry, so National Poetry Month is a great excuse to revel in all the scintillating words I can. And carry a Poem in Your Pocket Day?!
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Acts: an Introduction
The point of Acts is not the actions and work of individuals or even the church as a whole; the point of the book is the continuing actions of God Himself as the gospel expands.
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Resurrection Sunday
“Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.”
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The Story of Good Friday
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. We also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
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