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Yesterday at our homeschool co-op, some moms did a puppet show. The theme for their performance? Prov. 6:6-8, our verses for this week! I see the Lord's hand all the time as little random things like this that tie our school day with real life seem to happen frequently. The girls were awed and excit...

Hi Jessi, Oh I feel for you! My sister and I (this is the 6th year for both of homeschooling) talk frequently about what a huge learning curve there is for the mother as she transverses her way through grade levels, curriculum, time-management, personality styles, and just plain teaching! This is th...

Today (week 5 of BHFHG), my daughter was trying to come up with motions to our Bible passage. She couldn't think of a motion, so she wanted to know the "sign" for it. We looked it up online, which led to her wanting to learn the whole verse in sign language, which turned into a very fun thing. Now s...

Sniz-teach (Tiffini's wonderful sister) weighing in! We are on week five and oh my goodness, what a great Monday we had! Like Tiffini said, this is nothing short of a miracle. We hang the girls' projects on the wall each week and we're already getting full, but I just can't believe the wonderful thi...

Is it dorky to thank you for thanking everyone? 'Cause I think it's neat!

We started August 13th into our sixth year of homeschooling and this is the first year I've actually liked it. If you wonder why I did it the previous five years when I didn't like it at all, it's because my husband and I both felt called by the Lord to do it, so I did it out of obedience. Believe m...

I just had to share how cool it is to see my girls so excited to learn scripture and the "Godly character trait" that goes along with it. I love that aspect and the trait we are focusing on seems to come up often in our regular lives. I shared with my sister (Tiffini) that I am continually amazed at...

There are so many things in this curriculum that I never would have thought of myself because they seem simplistic or are so different than my own educational experience. But my DDs both respond so positively to everything. For example, Carrie said to make up hand motions to go along with the weekly...

My favorite part of HOD is Bible. I am doing BHFHG with extensions and narration from PHFHG. I look forward to Bible time so much...whereas before it seemed like an afterthought, lost in the shuffle of "required" academics like Grammar and math. What I love about it is how we only spend 15 minutes o...

We didn't find "stranded" on that page either, but I just had the kids do that word anyway, especially since that was the title of the next day's reading in Science. I've used so many things over the years that have little mistakes in them here and there (which is understandable), that I didn't thin...

One thing I love about this curriculum is that it has all the subject laid out each school day, not by days of the week. So if we don't have school on a Monday, it doesn't throw us off. The spelling program that I've always used, for instance, was based on a five day week, with a test on Friday. If ...

Good morning! I am still learning the ropes around here, so to speak, and have been reading through all the helpful, encouraging messages on this board. This is my second time to post, but I just had to share my excitement! We just finished our first week, and it went so well! Every day my 11 yo DD ...

I just saw this, sis. It's so cool we both wrote about the same night!

It's Sniz again. (Andrea) Thanks so much for welcoming me! Hi Sis! I've been trying to figure out how to put my name at the end of posts and all my kids ages like you all do. I've been blogging for over a year, so I can figure this out, right? Well, our first three days went GREAT! I can't get over ...

Hi! I'm new here and have never been on a "board", so I'm just looking around, trying to see how everything works. I'm the mother of a 14 ds, a 11 dd and a 9 dd. I'm just starting my sixth year of homeschooling, although we sent our 14 yr old to public school this year. He will be a freshman. I had ...