This site contains affiliate links that benefit my family if you purchase through them. Read my full disclosure here.This site contains affiliate links that benefit my family if you purchase through them. Read my full disclosure here.We come back from a three-week trip out west last weekend so we’re just settling back into school. We enjoyed our vacation visiting family…
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Bigger Hearts for His Glory- Unit 5
We had another great week with Heart of Dakota Bigger Hearts for His Glory. We continued learning about early settlements in the New World. We learned about Plymouth colony, Miles Standish, and Squanto. As we were reading about the diseases that affected the white man and the Indians, we learned about germs in science. We did an experiment where Kevin…
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Best Read-Aloud Adventure Books for Boys
We love a good read aloud here. We spent six years in West Africa with limited electricity in the evenings and often with our laptop battery shot from the intense heat so anything computer related was definitely out. Reading aloud in the evenings was one way we made memories and grew close as a family during those times. We loved reading about
Children of the Highest
….And you will be “children of the Highest.” I’ve read these words countless times, but never has it registered before what Jesus is saying we should do here to be children of the Highest. We need to love when love is undeserving. Do good to those who are not doing good to us. Give what is not expected, more than is…
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Our First Four Weeks with Bigger Hearts for His Glory
We’ve really been enjoying Bigger Hearts for His Glory this year. We’ve finished a little over four weeks so far. We’ve enjoyed reading about Columbus, Henry Hudson, Captain John Smith, and Pocahontas. For story time we read Ben and Me. I was worried that some of the language was a bit hard for my seven-year old, but he kept assuring me…
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My Review of Cheerful Cursive
A lot of schools have phased out cursive as something that isn’t important in this digital age. Learning cursive has many advantages, though. Knowing how to read cursive is essential if you want to read what others have written in cursive. Learning how to form the letters helps with fine motor skills and can aid children who are having difficulty with…
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