With Great Joy

This post is part of a series I'm doing as a way to evaluate our school year.  I am covering each subject, describing what we did; wh...

[morning time schedule from our first week of school] Today is Mark’s day off, which means he does school with the kids, and I get to l...

This is Part 3 in an impromptu series I'm doing in response to a readers question about our schedule. Here is her question:   I ...

We just wrapped up our first day of school.  We're easing into it this year, so we aren't doing every single subject this first week...

I had an hour in a coffee shop all by myself the other day and I used it to begin a list in my journal in regards to school for next year.  ...

These (free!) printable Morning Routine Cards are cute.  I may print some of these out for the little girls! And these (free!) printable ...

Memory work ( catechism, Ten Verses cards, theme passage, sign language, Apostles Creed, review ) Mondays we worked through our catechism q...

This morning we decided to take our theme verse* and run with it. Our verse is: Romans 12:10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. ...

[Caveat: The first verse is our theme verse, so each of the kids is memorizing it. Otherwise I don't think I would have chosen it for a...

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be ...

You'd think with a degree in graphic design I could draw... somewhat-ish . I cannot. But do you know what? My kids don't care! :)...

Our Memory work box is one of my favorite homeschooling tools, and I am so very thankful to Kendra for the idea! This box holds most of wha...

Had I found this verse a few days earlier, it would have been my choice for Verse #8: The wise in heart are called discerning, and pleasan...

In all honesty, I feel a little cheaty about choosing this verse to memorize. Not that "cheaty" is a word. [In fact, spell check...

I'm not big on resolutions for the New Year. Oh, sure-- sometimes I make a list in my journal of things I'd like to accomplish or g...

"My philosophy has always been that my job, since I am NOT the Holy Spirit, is to give the children lots of hooks in their hearts so th...

There are few blogs that I check every day. Preschoolers and Peace is one of them. (Oh, I know... if you read our posts at all this is alr...

A little over a month ago, I made an '18 in 90 list'. This is a much smaller version of the 101 in 1001 that I read about on Kendra...

My favorite book for preschoolers? And parents of preschoolers? Hands down, it's My ABC Bible Verses , by Susan Hunt. We love this bo...