Homeschool Guest - Getting Started With Notebooking

I love Wednesday because it means I get to have another Homeschool Guest here!  So far, six guests have shared their homeschools and hearts with you.

This blog is a place where I LEARN daily.  That is the biggest blessing in blogging... the friendships I make and ideas I glean.   

 Today's Homeschool Guest is Jimmie... she is the homeschool notebooking expert and I'm so happy she will share an introduction to notebooking with you today!  

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Using Five In A Row - With a Printable Planning Page

* I am very thankful to today's Homeschool Guest, Jen.  The curriculum she is writing about is near and dear to my heart:  Five in a Row.   We have rowed many books over the past few years and thoroughly enjoyed each and every one of them.  I KNOW you will find Jen's post informative and helpful.  Don't miss her printable at the end, either!

 

Five in a Row {FIAR} is, hands down, my favorite homeschool resource.  I love being able to introduce great literature to my children.  I think it helps my children develop a taste for good books at a young age and stay away from some of the mindless “twaddle” available.  The FIAR curriculum guide is a gentle, but very thorough way to introduce a broad range of different subjects to your children.

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Choose Wisely

Today's post is written by a dear, dear friend of mine.  She has graduated two children from her homeschool and has two more on the way!  I first met Denise at a homeschool literature fair, and then God placed her in my path again at our homeschool co-op.  Denise is a tender spirit whose gifts are that of mercy and encouragement.   I KNOW you will enjoy her post today.

Choose Wisely: Teaching our children to choose a life of faith

By Denise Leak

“You must choose, but choose wisely. For as the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you.”

(Indiana Jones, The Last Crusade)

How do we teach our children to choose wisely?  In a predominantly secular, faithless, selfish world where self-sufficiency and ‘follow your heart’ mentalities reign, teaching our children to choose wisely seems to be a daunting task.  However, we know that this is our most important calling and we must teach our children to know truth, seek wisdom and choose wisely the path of life.

 

Devotion time this morning and I am with our two boys reading about obedience. From Character Sketches, Volume 1, we read about the Wood Duck.  

I am deeply moved by the spiritual lessons from this study in nature.  

God’s design for life.

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