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Homeschool In The Woods Review

Homeschool In The Woods

The New Testament Activity-Pak 

We were recently given the opportunity to review a Lap book by Homeschool in the Woods. “What is a lap book?” you ask. A lap book is, for a simple definition, an educational project that is put together on a file folder. It is much more than that, though; read on and you will find out the benefits of adding these projects to your homeschooling day.  

Homeschool in the Woods (HSITW) was started in 2002 by the Pak family. How fitting the name, right? They have been homeschooling for many years and, like many of us, struggled to find just the right curriculum for a specific subject. Their subject was history. Amy Pak discovered that the “idea of timelines as a great visual resource to pull the whole idea of history together…made sense and gave a concrete foundation for fitting all the topics into place.” The Pak family studied history “through living books, drama, writing, etc.” Using this experience and research, they have created and now offer history timelines and activity paks that are both fun & educational. You can read more about the Pak family here. 

For our review, we received the lap book “The New Testament”. This pak contains 15 activities & 2 bonus activities for you and your children to do while studying the New Testament. You will follow Jesus’ life from “birth to death and life again” & complete the following activities along the way:

•  The Lineage from David to Jesus
• Triptych of the Birth of Jesus Christ
• Miracle of Jesus
• The Beatitudes Pie Book
• Fruit of the Spirit
• The Parables of Jesus
• The Last Supper
• The Crucifixion
• The Ascension
• Pentecost
• The Resurrection
• Prophesies Fulfilled
• The Twelve Disciples
• Paul's Missionary Journeys
• Postcards from Paul
• "The New Testament News"
• The Armor of God

You will have so much fun putting this together with your kids. It comes as an e-file or CD and you can print off the sections that you choose when you are ready. All of the projects are well designed and exciting, but the one we had the most fun with is The New Testament News. It’s like a newspaper and the student gets to be the reporter. My daughter thought this was “cool”. There are “article” titles given and then the students are encouraged to write the article. For example, one of the articles is titled “Herd of swine jump to their death”. There are also ads with titles and the student can draw a picture or add more words. An example is “Armor of God Military Supplies”, it reads “Guaranteed to Quench Fiery Darts of the Enemy”. It’s cute, imaginative, and fun. Students can be as creative as they want to be. And because you can print it out when you want to, you can print as many as you want to.

I have to say that, though we have looked at lapbooks and contemplated purchasing a few, we have never put any together. They seemed intimidating, for whatever reason. But HSITW (the Pak family) has given detailed instructions and provided all the necessary graphics and such for each activity. You do have to gather basic supplies: printer/ink, paper, glue, scissors, etc. Everything else is right there with the click of your mouse. Lap books, or at least HSITW’s lap books, really aren’t as threatening as I once thought.

We did like all of the activities in this lap book. They are all fun, and educational. The postcards from Paul are really fun, too. You even get a mailbox to put them in. There is just so much. You can look at the completed projects here. I highly recommend getting this for you and your family. You will all have fun while learning about important scriptural lessons.

The download is just $18.95

The CD is just a $1 more at $19.95.

They are both very affordable.

You can read more reviews from other Crew members here.