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- I am happily married to the man of my dreams for 11 years now. We homeschool our 3 children. We love learning and growing together while we live to grow in our relationship with our loving Savior.
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- I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation so that you may know Him better.
Ephesians 1:17
Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 11:18-19
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We're believing revival will come here soon. Lots of people from here have gone to Lakeland, and they're passing the Fire on.
You sound like my kind of person. I'm glad we've gotten in contact.
Love,
Penney
Right now I'm using Heart of Wisdom with my 4 oldest. They are 11, 12, 14 and 17. I use it loosely, as I do everything!:) You can find out more about it at heartofwisdom.com. Some people complain that the website has too much on it and they have a hard time figuring out what the curriculum is really all about, so I'll try to explain it the best I can. Another way to learn a lot about it is to buy Robin Sampson's book The Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach. That's really what the curriculum is - a teaching approach. The emphasis is to be led by the Spirit and to place the Bible at the center of your curriculum. Do it first, and really study it! She uses Charlotte Mason techniques such as narrating, copywork, lapbooks, notebooks, living books, etc. She has compiled lesson plans for Ancient History. That book is called Adam to Messiah. The whole thing starts with Genesis. She includes lots of resources to help you study the biblical accounts and to study what else was going on at the same time in so-called secular history. But we all know that History is His Story! She gives you lots of internet links you can go to so you can study further, even if you can't afford to buy all of the study books. She includes recommendations for Bible dictionaries, Bible encyclopedias, secular books about history and living books and novels.
We are wrapping up our study of Abraham. I read a novel about Abraham and Sarah to the kids. I'm going to reread the story to them straight from the Bible now so that they know what the Bible really says, and what the author added for the sake of fleshing out the story and characters.
A tool that Robin recommends that I find very helpful is the Chronological Narrated Bible. It helps to put events chronologically and adds explanation to the text all in one book. I have only bought a few of the books that she recommends in Adam to Messiah because of a limited budget. I would love to get them all. Some of them I have checked out at the library, but it's hard to use them before I have to take them back. I hate time constraints!
I'm trying to teach the same topics to my younger ones through coloring pages and such. I haven't done very well incorporating them into our lessons yet. But my 7 year old and 8 year old are reading really well now, so I might pull them in more this coming year.
They like their free time, but they might be losing some of it and have to listen in with the big kids! They might buck me at first, but they ask lots of questions about things in the Bible, so I think they'll secretly be glad that I'm making them join in. My 7 year old has been reading his Bible every night lately! I've never had one that young do that!
Robin has also compiled lesson plans for Wisdom and for several Science topics. She's planning more in the future, but she's looking for help, since she has a large family and is very busy. Recently she has had lots of health problems, too. Personally, I think what she has put together is plenty, and if we need more, we can do the same thing she did and put together our own studies. That's my opinion anyway. Some people get scared when they see that only 2 years of curriculum have been completed. But Robin gives good suggestions for the next 2 years. It could be done in a 4 year cycle and then another 4 year cycle like the Classical approach. I don't do anything in that organized a fashion!
Well, I hope I haven't talked your ear off. Let me know if you have any further questions.
Love,
Penney
The weather is fantastic isn't it! Says we'll have beautiful days today and tomorrow too, can't wait to get out and enjoy it! Hope you can get some time in the sun too!
I just saw your answer to my request, thanks very much. I'll try this tomorrow morning.
God Bless you
Ana
How is HSing for you? What curriculum do you use? I still have some time but debating what curriculum to use and would like to get your feedback.
Hope all is well!
Natalie
Thanks for all the support for the site! I appreciate all the invites you sent out, I really hope this site grows into a good resource for people.
You've been a blessing!
In Christ,
Valerie
How is the progress toward your house?
Pray for us. Rebecca is scheduled to do growth hormone(GH) testing in Portland at the end of February. Her growth curve flattened considerably over the past 9 months which is concerning and her blood test showed low GH. It would be nice to find out that she is just small and the initial GH test was taken at her low for the day.
About homeschooling...have you looked into the Heart of Wisdom (www.heartofwisdom.com) curriculum? I'm thinking of using it, but haven't had time to really look into it. I have a friend who was starting to use it, but she lives in TN and I haven't heard how it is working.
Hopefully we can see each other soon. -Clara
I love this site too, I just haven't been on it in awhile as I've been out of town in NC. I'm back now and hopefully will get caught up soon!
So, how is it with 3 kids? Wild? I'm thinking about another one but hubby too nervous. I just love kids, I can't imagine not having another one! It's nice to meet you too and hope to get more acquainted.
Natalie
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