I thought you might enjoy some “surfing” today, while you’re playing around online. I’ve got a new website: Homeschooling Bible – Practical ideas to help you use the Bible as your primary textbook, for every subject! If you’ve been hanging around my blog for long, you’ll recognize most of the posts at Homeschooling Bible — [...]
Do-It-Yourself Curriculum Planning
February 17, 2012 by 6 Comments
I want to encourage you to plan out some of your own curriculum for the coming year. There are several reasons why you make the best “curriculum planner” for your own children: God has given parents the responsibility to train and teach their own children. You know your children better than anyone else. You are [...]
What Homeschooling with the Bible Might Look Like
February 10, 2012 by 10 Comments
You know what would be awesome? Awesome would be a camera crew going into a variety of homes on an average Tuesday morning and filming what their homeschool actually looks like.We could see how their kitchens were set up, how they handled the toddlers at breakfast, how they got the knots out of all the [...]
Are You Shopping for Curriculum?
February 3, 2012 by 3 Comments
The first of February marks a new season of curriculum “shopping” among homeschoolers. For me personally, I start shopping in February because we get our tax refund soon, so I want to know how much money I should set aside for the coming school year. I also start shopping now because the gloomy days of [...]
Difficult High School Subjects
January 27, 2012 by 4 Comments
If you’ve been following along with our current year’s homeschooling plans, you know that we’re homeschooling five children, plus we have two little ones. This gives us a 10th grader, 7th grader, 6th grader, 4th grader, and 1st grader. Several of you have written to me, wondering how we get everything done in a day. [...]
The Day We Took the Christmas Tree Down
December 23, 2011 by 47 Comments
This post needs a subtitle, so we’ll call it “How to Teach Our Children about Idolatry.” If you’ve been reading my posts this last year, you’ll know that I’ve been spending a bit of time in the book of Deuteronomy. Do you ever get the feeling that something you’re learning is going to be life-altering, [...]
For the Love of Games
November 25, 2011 by 3 Comments
Our seven kids love to play games with mom and dad! We enjoy games more than worksheets in school, video-game tournaments more than television, and board games more than other family activities. As a homeschooling mom, I love how playing games together as a family provides benefits that go far beyond school time. I love [...]
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