Christian Light Education (Publications)

We have made another change.We are continuing the Language Art using Rod & Staff but are doing the rest of the subjects using Christian Light Education! I wish I would heard about this curriculum years ago :O) We still are devoted to the Wisdom Booklets & sit together as a family at night with Daddy leading the WB.

  Homeschoolers can school everywhere. My oldest now in 11th grade on the couch doing his CLE history while getting groomed by our cat. He is enjoying the CLE so much he researched more on his own!!

 My son Joe in 10th grade this year doing Rod & Staff English in his bed . I love the Bible is used in all learning. He is marking notes in his Bible.

 Angelo now in 4rth grade doing his CLE Science. He was to choose a fruit we normally don't eat & research the country in which the fruit was made. So he choose mangos & Indonesia. We also prayed & learned some of the prayer challenges using Windows of the World.We were amazed at how large the seed is of the mango fruit.

 We made a notebook page classifying the fruits cutting out from a grocery ad.

 Homeschoolers can even learn on a horses back. Angelina in dressage camp all this week. She did a report on her favorite horse Gypsy Vanners. Here she is with her pony Sonador.

Rod and Staff English grade 2

 We are doing Rod and Staff Language Arts English & Spelling. We love it! Job is just learning to read so we are doing his lessons orally. Just because he can't read & write that does not mean his mind can not learn and advance until those skills catch up.
 I love how Rod & Staff is Christ centered every lesson is related to the Bible in some way. I purchased notebooking blank sheets from Currclick and use them for the Rod & Staff lessons. I only had Job copy two of the sentence. I use highlighter sticky notes to highlight what i want him to copy to avoid writing in the textbook that I plan to use again. What a money saver for large families :O) An advance student can copy all the answers on their page.
  This lesson was on Noah's ark. I happened to have Noah's Ark stickers in my sticker drawer so that is what we used but normally they just draw a picture in the empty drawing box. His English notebook will be a nice Bible notebook too when all done at the end of the year. he is so happy to be doing school this year :O)

Sight & Sound / Amish in Lancaster, PA

New School year..new changes !!!

Well it has been way to long since I blogged!!! We are making some changes in our homeschool. Some things will always be apart of our fabric of life like the Wisdom Booklets & the McGuffey Eclectic Readers.
  Seasons in life can sometime cause you to make changes. I have always done mainly unit studies for our WB projects.The kids wanted for this year to have subjects they can work on independently so we are going to try to use the workbox / worknotebook method while using Rod & Staff plus Christian Light Publications for their studies. So I have replaced doing the WB projects with curriculum.We of course will sit as a family every moring doing the WB together as our read aloud /Bible time.

 This will cause my blog to change as we will continue to discuss what we are learning in the WB but no more WB projects instead what we are learning in the R&S / CLP.  http://www.rodandstaffbooks.com/
 We did last year try My Fathers World at the end of the year. Having Titus really made me in need of a curriculum that lays out our lesson plans instead of preparing for everyone which I enjoy but seasons change. I did not like MFW but it is a curriculum worth looking into as each homeschooling family has their own recipe of their school and what works for them. One of the requirements for our family is the curriculum must have Christ as the center (not an add on study) or it challenges character like the McGuffey readers. This is what lead us to Rod & Staff and Christian Light Publications.
  We began school already.We have a few weeks in so its time to start blogging :O) Last year Titus was born and well my time was spent more with a new born so less blogging. I would so much rather cuddle a newborn little lamb than blogging and I still enjoy him daily along with my other children.

Our 2012-2013 school year curriculim choices:

• Wisdom Booklets for Bible & Read Aloud time as a family for everyone

Highschool

• Apologia Highschool Sciences
• BJU  DVD Algebra 1 course
• Christian Light Publications Highscool History
• Christian Light Publications Highscool Literature
• McGuffey reader
• Rod & Staff English

Jr High

• Apologia Jr. High -General Science
• Rod & Staff grade 8 history
• Rod & Staff English
• Rod & Staff Spelling
• McGuffey reader
• Teaching Textbooks Math

Elementary

• Rod & Staff Science
• Rod & Staff history
• Rod & Staff English
• Rod & Staff Spelling
• Rod & Staff Reading
• Teaching Textbook Math
• Christ Centered Curriculim

Well thats the game plan for now. We are finishing up this week with My Fathers World . Our R&S plus CLP materials should be in next week to begin so I am looking forward to begin blogging on our new path the Lords taking His sheep & lambs. I love how Rod & Staff goes with my Father's sheep.

WEC week 5 fall semester

WB31 Insights Through Invest. & football

Today we completed Insights though Investigations. We did not get a chance to do the project today the baby was fussy because of something that I ate that made him gassy so we will complete the project section tomorrow.So the older students did more independent work while I worked with the younger students. Flexibility is an important characteristic of a homeschool mom since anything can happen in our school days but we still must finish our job for the day :O)

  My oldest son plays for the highschool football team.We really like our school district.The only reason we homeschool is because we are called to raise soilders of the cross. Back to football, Dominic is #83 this year. He has been practicing all summer.Football begins in June and ends the 1rst week of November. He practices 5 days a week and sometime has 2 games in a week.Varsity plays on Friday nights & Jr. Varsity plays on Saturday mornings. Football is such a team sport and a great place to learn character under the right coach. One day maybe the Lord will use him with the sport he loves. Even being a little league coach it is an awesome opportunity in reaching out to the community and making a difference in kids lives that may be on the street.
  The month of October is breast cancer awareness so the cheerleaders did a fund raiser to purchase the football players a breast cancer shirt to wear to the games. He is not a fan of pink (reason for the face) but in honor of breast cancer & remembering our Aunt Mary who died to breast cancer he will wear "pink".
 We love and miss Aunt Mary and praise the Lord that through cancer she came to know our Lord and Savior. So one day we look forward to seeing her again.
 

WB 31 Theme Song~Sweet Hour of Prayer

Well we are finally getting back to the Wisdom Booklets.We have been doing school but not the WB.So I am sooo happy to be back digging in the word of God using the Wisdom Booklets as our tool. So today we did the Theme Song worksheet.We also used 101 More Hymns Stories for the hymn background. I really love using books so we pull out our Hymn Stories whenever possible.
   Our theme song for WB 31 is Sweet Hour of Prayer which is a hymn I love. Angelina is learning it on the piano and her piano teacher had her write the notes for the hymn.I had the kids each read a verse then we discussed what it meant.Of course the title of the song is perfect with put WB major concept, sweet hour of prayer.
  Prayer is always a challenge for me.When I do pray its usually when my children are sleeping etc. so they don't see me pray to often at home. I need to allow them to see me pray and hear me pray more often.This is something the Lord has spoken to me on as I look at prayer in this WB. Not only to be an example to my children but to spend sweet fellowship with Him in prayer.
   When I looked over the kids Theme Song worksheet I loved what Daniel wrote (age 10), " Prayer is the key to heaven and you should pray every day." His understanding of the key to the throne room is prayer brought a smile to my face today.I pray he will be like the Daniel of the ancient of days a be a praying man.