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
Jul. 10, 2007~ Story Telling Festival in the Kootenay's of Canada ~
A couple of days ago my family and I went to the 9th Annual Kootenay Story Telling Festival. It is a neat festival. It is some local and some out of area story tellers sharing historical stories about our area or people of Canada. ( that is some how linked to our area) I got to learn history in a amazing way. Some of the story tellers dressed up the part and acted a bit. It is amazing how a story can make history come alive. That is one reason I love using whole/living books in our history curriculum.
I got to hear a story about David Thompson who was a man who was born in 1770 in England and was hired by the Hudson Bay Co. for the fur trade at the age 14. For 28 years he traveled through out the west living among the native people, trading with them, forging relationships and in return they helped him on his expeditions to map Western Canada. If you would like to read more about this very interesting man go HERE and HERE. He got to meet men like Lewis in Clark in his travels. He made the most accurate map of western Canada . The sad thing he didn't get credit till many years after his death....like any great artist.
I also got to hear about a man by the name Lt. Col Arnold Kemball. One one of the early settlers in the Kootenay's. They were lured here in the thinking that there was great orchard potential. The promoters just forgot to tell people that the land hadn't been cleared ....yet. If you want to read more about him go HERE.
Then there was a story about the Spanish Lady of 1918. It killed 50 million to 100 million . There were 50,000 deaths were in Canada alone. It effected mostly men between 20-40 yo. The Spanish Lady arrived in the Kootenay's in Cranbrook on October 31 and claimed her first victim. There were 77 deaths and more 500 effected. It got so bad that the mayor had to put curfews on the city. Canceled ALL public gatherings...even church services. If you want to know more go HERE
Those were only a few of the stories at the Story Telling Festival. I hope you liked the links.
I attended a story telling festival here in Indy before and I really enjoyed it. Yours sounds rich with history. It's amazing how people survived through so much adversity back then. Thank you for sharing the links, very nice.
OOH Mary, you have to read Woman of the Paddle Song - a biography on Charlotte Small Thompson. If you decide to read it, let me know, I'll re-read it along with you so we can live it together.
Wish we had something like that here. Storytelling sounds so cool.
I nominated you for something. There's stuff going around, you know.....come check it out.
bethanyrae
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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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.
