Knitting Socks Scrapbooking beaded bookmarks making earrings making chunky votives
Family Read Alouds
Kingdoms Dawn by Chuck Black
Our Curriculum
On my night stand
Bible
Reread Heart of Wisdom by Robin Sampson
7 Habits of a Healthy Home by Bill Carmichael
Learning In Spite of Labels~ Practical Teaching Tips and a Christian
Perspective of Education by Joyce
Our Father Abraham~ Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith by Marvin R.
Wilson
A Family Guide to Biblical Holidays by Robin Sampson and Linda
Pierce
Good and Angry by Scott Turnasky and Joanne Miller
Having Mary Heart in a Martha World by Joanna Weaver
A Parents Guide to The Spiritual Mentoring of Teens ~Building Your
Childs Faith Through the Adolescent Years by Joe White , Jim Weidmann
Wild Days ( a book about language arts and nature journaling) by
Rackliffe
How to Create Your Own Unit Studies by Valerie Bendt
The Power of Parents words by H. Norman Wright
How to read the Bible for all it's worth by Gordon D Fee and Douglas
Stuart
Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining, and Bad Attitudes in You and your
kids by Scott Turnasky and Joanne Miller
You Can Teach Your Child Successfully Grades 4-8 by Ruth
Beechick
A Strong Start in Language
An Easy Start in Arithmetic
A Home Start In Reading by Ruth Beechick
Any Child Can Write by Harvey S. Wiener
" This is what the Lord says: "Stand at the crossroads and look: ask for
the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you
will find rest for your souls."
Jeremiah 6:16
Oct. 13, 2006~ Explorers Co-operative Game ~
I was asked about the game my boy's and nefiew were playing in my post about Thanksgiving time and there time with the cousins. It is called "Explorers " by Co-operative Adventure Games. It took awhile to find the game online but I fianlly found it. I found it a couple of years ago in a homeschool catolog but couldn't find it again. It is a game where everyone works together as a team to accomplish the misson/ voyage. You are on different Explorer routes or Land Explorations of Famous Explorer's of the past, for example Marco Polo, Columbus, or Fransis Drake. They recommend it for ages 12 and up. My two oldest boys and their cousin who is almost 11 REALLY ENJOYED playing this as part of their school this week. It is fun to see my 1ds who has read alot about the voyages of these men and see him share with the younger two what he has read in his G.A. Henty books I really DO recommend this game. It would be great to add to studies that are talking about the Famous Explorer's.
This game is a cooperative game. That means the kids have to work together to make it to the end of the exploration. You have one reader of the log book - it's a job, but most kids want this role. There's a provisions officer, and someone in charge of the money - to pay the crew or buy more provisions, and another who rolls the die and moves the piece (the youngest player can do this easily). The goal is to leave the home port, travel in the steps of that explorer (learning as you go) and make wise decisions about provisions and crew to get safely back to your home port with 10 treasures and without losing all your money. It is an intellectual game, there's no sillyness, but my 3 boys love this game - much like they love to play risk and chess now.
And as I was saying to CanadaGirl, if you want to use it to supplement your current History/Geography lesson, you can make up your own voyages. I was reading today about Ghana and Timbuktu and I think there could be an exciting adventure through Africa - learning African History and geography - but it's not already in the game, we'd have to make up our own log book. -so it's versatile too.
Thank you for your kind words of encouragement on my blog! Ultimately I need to leave everything in the Lord's hands and rely on Him to get me through! I appreciate you stopping by my blog to "check up" on me from time to time!
Hi canada girl
Thanks .......my sons love any Board game! i have never seen or heard of this game in my country , but I will search on the internet. My sons favourite is Risk, at the moment!
Thanks
Fiffi
I knwo you've probably left for LBW's camp but I thought I would stop in and say hello! Mom copied some of your recipes and maybe we will make some sometime! Nai haryuvalyλ melwa rλ (May you have a lovely day)
First , I am a daughter of the King almighty and a
a wife to my Handsome of 17 years. A mom of 4 on the go boys 15, 13, 10, and 8. I grew up in the states but married my Canadian sweetheart and moved up north.
We live in the southern part of British Columbia , Canada on our homestead. We have homeschooled our four boys from birth and plan to go the distance till all four graduate from our homeschool. I teach with a Charlotte Mason style and use the Heart of Wisdom Approach. I love to craft! I am a beader, knitter, x-stitcher, quilter. We have been on a journey of being apart of building "The House that God Built". I have been recording our journey on my blog. Go to my links and you will find it. I know God has a lot more instore for us and we just need to follow where our Lord takes us.
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Jocelyn
First , I am a daughter of the King almighty and a
a wife to my Handsome of 17 years. A mom of 4 on the go boys 15, 13, 10, and 8. I grew up in the states but married my Canadian sweetheart and moved up north.
We live in the southern part of British Columbia , Canada on our homestead. We have homeschooled our four boys from birth and plan to go the distance till all four graduate from our homeschool. I teach with a Charlotte Mason style and use the Heart of Wisdom Approach. I love to craft! I am a beader, knitter, x-stitcher, quilter. We have been on a journey of being apart of building "The House that God Built". I have been recording our journey on my blog. Go to my links and you will find it. I know God has a lot more instore for us and we just need to follow where our Lord takes us.
