Homeschooling and lifelong education . . . one day at a time
During the school year, we try to begin each school day with a small and simple devotional of some kind. But with the coming of summer, we’re now more free from schedules, and sitting down for devotional time has not been happening! However, I feel strongly that it is important that my kids get scripture […]
I love to start our school day with a simple devotional but I’m struggling with how to make it memorable for my young son when he has a sister dancing around distracting him. My son is seven now, so I know he can do more than simply listen to the words of scriptures. I know […]
October is approaching, and that means it’s nearly time for LDS General Conference! In anticipation of this bi-annual gathering of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I’ve been pondering how to best prepare my two young children. At age 6-almost-7 and 2, Raisin and Strawberry are still rather young to be fully […]
Today’s freebie is something I made for my son. I’ve mentioned before that we start our day with a devotional. A few weeks ago, my husband (aka, the principal) gave Raisin an additional assignment: find out how our home is like a temple. I put all the information that we found together into an LDS […]
Many of my educational philosophies are secular, and especially on this blog, I share learning ideas that would work for people of all faiths. But it is true that I chose to homeschool initially because God asked me too! Today I’m blogging on All Done Monkey for her Parenting and Faith series. Here’s how I start […]
It’s never easy to get a my resistant child to practice speaking in a foreign language, so one thing I like to do is move Spanish-language speaking into our familiar, daily use with getting in the habit of using certain words and phrases. Learning to pray in Spanish is one way we can put that practice into our […]
To correlate with my Monday’s post, here are some posters and tracing pages for the Articles of Faith of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This collection has badges that say “I can recite ….” each article of faith. Then, it has the thirteen Articles on attractive colored paper, as well as again […]
And the Spirit shall be given unto you by the prayer of faith; and if ye receive not the Spirit ye shall not teach. Doctrine and Covenants 42:14 I do not live in a predominantly LDS community. Before I began homeschooling and associating regularly with families outside of my local church circle, I did not realize the great number […]
