Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.

“A right delayed is a right denied”

For many years I ran a preschool from my home, and then I formally taught kindergarten for 3 years at our church school. I love planning lessons around themes, unit studies, decorating up my classroom around a particular theme etc.
Fast forward several years, and as a homeschooling mom of [...]

Some New Christmas Traditions For Us (and maybe you too!)

We began enjoying the Back To The Bible radio broadcast of the Twelve Voices of Christmas this week. Each of the 12 key character from the Bible stories relating to Christ’s birth give their perspective in a dramatic presentation that will bring to life the amazing events surrounding the birth of our Savior! It has [...]

Keeping Christ In Christmas With The Jesse Tree

We have done many different things over the years to try to keep the true meaning of Christmas the focus in our home. We even went two years of only celebrating Hanukkah to try to get the commercialization and ungodly rituals out of our celebrations. Last year we went back to celebrating a traditional Christmas [...]

Bible Lessons Made Easy

Once upon a time there was a mom who couldn’t find
a Bible curriculum that she liked.
She tried many.
One was too easy.
One was too hard.
And then she find one that was just right.
I just haven’t been able to find a Bible curriculum that I really loved. So I came up with my own idea and [...]

Reason #101 Why I Love Homeschooling

You can take your school anywhere!
Happy Wordless Wednesday!

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Can I Do This?

“I don’t know how you do it”
“I could never home school my kids”
“My kids wouldn’t learn anything from me”
Almost every time I share that I home school, I usually hear one of the above statements. I usually smile and say something like “Home schooling isn’t always easy but it is what God has [...]

Lesson Planning Simplified

This is so easy, I almost feel like I am cheating. I had to keep rechecking this method because it is working so darn good!
I know that it may be a little late in the home school season to share a method on planning, since all you real teaching moms had your lessons planned months [...]

Free Character Notebooking Pages!

I love Notebooking Pages and use many of them in my home schooling. I recently purchased the  Character Study notebooking pages and have really enjoyed them!.  We will be using them while studying the  49 Character Qualities this year and then I plan on making these into laminated, bound booklets for my children to keep, [...]

Why Do We Homeschool?

Every now and then it is good to evaluate that question: why do we home school our children?
Is it to give our children an excellent education, far superior to public schools? Is it so that we can shelter them from outside influences? Is it so that we can teach them at their own pace, and [...]

Keeping The Master Copy Safe

You have no idea how hard it was to come up with title for this post! Anyway…
As a home schooling mom, I find myself making lots of copies. Nothing will throw my homeschool day off more than when we don’t have the copies we need for something or are spending time finding where a certain [...]

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