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Heritage Acres Homeschool
Jun. 16, 2008
Excitement
Good Morning, my dear friends, I am so pleased you dropped by on this beautiful Monday!! I tell you, there is joy in my heart today. Joy that has not resided there for a long time. We are in revival at our church, and our revival preacher is being used by the Lord in a mighty way... The Lord spoke to me about some sin in my life and I gave it to Him... I feel that this heavy weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I am able to breathe again... Thank you Jesus! I am SO excited about tonight!! He will be here through Wednesday.
Something else that excites me, but in a totally different way...
I went to the Used Homeschool Book Fair on Saturday, can you say WOOHOOO?!?!?!
Let me show you the result of my goings...
 And there are a few things that the children scooped up and have taken off with them that is not in the picture!!
I ended up spending around $30! Yes, I said $30!
 There are books for the kids, curriculum books, books for me... I would like to have emptied my little take along cart and went back through if time had permitted... it was GREAT! Mrs. Mo... I WISH you could have been there!!
There are some things that I didn't get that I will go to the new book fair to look for, but WOW, I am so tickled over what I did find!
So, I have something to use for Math, Penmanship, History, Bible, Science, Geography... if I did not buy one more thing, I think I would be covered...
 I am challenging my children through the course of the rest of the summer to finish remembering the 43 presidents. We know up till 26 already and then we know from 35-43... I started with some of the last with the first... weird I know. So along with some reading on their own and with me, and learning the presidents, we should keep our minds sharp. I LOVE school!
We are working around the house and cleaning out some rather messy spots and getting some much needed house work done today. This way, if we decide to start 'officially' counting our days at the end of the week or next month, or in September...we will be ready.
I hope you have a BLESSED day, and again, thanks for stopping by!
My Cup Runneth Over...Chas
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Jun. 13, 2008
Chores? How do you do them?
Good Morning!
I have been mulling over something for a while now. Around our house we all pitch in on chores, that has we do it... we help each other until the chore is done. Well, I have been thinking of a way to help organize things around here because it seems we can get on one thing or another and not move on... make sense?
 Well, I want all the kids to be helpers and sometimes Cameo feels like she has to do everyone's job. I don't want her to feel that way. I want everyone to see that they have a part. I am a visual learner, I feel that my kids are pretty visual as well, so I thought a chore chart would be good for us.
I bought one of those large foam boards and scored it off. I made a place for their names and the days of the week. I then made little rectangles with the job written on it and push pinned it on the board. This way, if Cameo sweeps on Monday, I can swap it and have Eli sweep on Wednesday or something like that. That way everyone is learning something new and everyone is helping. Once the day is over I will go back and reset them for the next day.
I don't know if this will work perfectly or even well, I think it will work nicely but you never know until you try it. One thing I think I need to do is go back and make some smaller squares so I can fit more under each name... 2 is hardly all we need to be helping with for the day. I just figure this can help until it becomes second nature for each of the kids to be helpers with any task.
So is there something that you do? Something that works really well for your family? If so please let me know, I might be able to implement it in with my chart.
 I want to thank you for stopping by... I appreciate each and every one of you! Have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend...
I am going to the used homeschool book fair tomorrow! WOO HOO!!!
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Apr. 21, 2008
Learning can happen anywhere...
Good Morning! As you all know we homeschool our children. And one thing I love about homeschooling is that you can learn anywhere! Friday we had accomplished a lot early and the children were wanting to do something else... so I said alright, help me gather some things together. We got some sandwiches, napkins, a camera (of course), and this and that and we were off...
 And what a lovely spot for inspiration. We had our lunch and then got out our sketch books and everyone went to drawing something God had designed in nature.
 If you notice all my children thus far are lefties, Abram had just swapped hands before I took the picture, so we are not sure what he is going to be just yet. And it was so interesting to see what the kids came up with to draw. Eli drew a large pile of brush that was gathered in the middle of the creek, Carlie drew us at the creek, Cameo drew a wildflower and Abram drew triangles  That kid with his love of triangles.
 We played, we talked about different types of rocks and butterflies we saw, we talked about the history of the creek, there used to be a mill there.
 It was a great time had by all and we hope to do it again soon. It just goes to show you, we don't have to be here at home in our desk, we can be out in God's creation learning more about Him and what He has made, because learning is a natural process if we look at things the right way!
 Have a beautiful day!
My Cup Runneth Over...Chas
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Apr. 8, 2008
Homeschooling
Mar. 10, 2008
Prayers
During our homeschool day we have a time where the children take turns and each day one of them gets to pick out a country on the map to pray for. We have prayed for many different countries lately, Denmark, China, New Zealand, Bolivia, India, Iceland... and many, many others...
One day my oldest daughter Cameo, asked, "Mom, how are we going to know if God does anything in these countries?" I replied to her, "I am not sure, but I have no doubts that He is working!"
Yesterday at church, we had a missionary from Bolivia come and speak with us. He told us how God has been working and doing mighty things in that country! My eyes filled with tears as Cameo looked over at me and remembered what we had talked about! After church was over we went and talked to Mr. Moffett. He was thrilled for our prayers and I told him just how beautifully God worked out his coming to our church. We signed up for a newsletter to keep us up to date about what is going on in Bolivia.
Here is some of the toys and money and books he brought from Bolivia.
 God is so amazing... and I am so grateful for His Amazing Love!
Have a great day!
Love,
Chas
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