Homeschoolers for Jesus

Good Morning Mommies -

We will start meeting on Monday mornings at 8-11am at the church Wherehouse. Here is our plan of action.

Circle Time:

• Prayer
• Bible Verse
• Books of the Bible
• Story
• Songs
• P.E.

March 31, 2008

• Circle Time
• God’s Autobiography – 1 John 4:8, 16
• Reading/ Writing
• Math

April 7, 2008

• Circle Time
• An Ant’s Eye View – Psalm 139:7-12, Psalm 139:1-6, Romans 8:35, 37-39
• Reading/ Writing
• Math

April 14, 2008

• Circle Time
• Get the Picture – Characters in chronological order
• Reading/ Writing
• Math

April 21, 2008

• Circle Time
• Life is a puzzle – Why did God give us instructions
• Reading/ Writing
• Math

April 28, 2008

• Circle Time
• What do you think? – Same day different story
• Reading/ Writing
• Math

May 5, 2008

• Circle Time
• God’s Wisdom or Not? – The book of Proverbs
• Reading/ Writing
• Math

May 12, 2008 - The Rouge's will be out of town. The Wherehouse is available is you want to still meet.

May 19, 2008

• Circle Time
• The Telephone Game – How the Bible has been passed down and never changed
• Reading/ Writing
• Math

May 27, 2008

• Circle Time
• Translated into many tongues – John 3:16
• Reading/ Writing
• Math

June 2, 2008

• Circle Time
• Breaking it into bite sized pieces – Books of the Bible in grouping
• Reading/ Writing
• Math

June 9, 2008

• Circle Time
• Testament Tangle – Old Testament and New Testament
• Reading/ Writing
• Math

I hope to see you there on Monday!

Homeschooling with another family

We have had such fun homeschooling with the Taylors. Kelly Jo has 10 children, all wonderful children :) We have been trying to get together at least once a week... as long as illness does not keep us apart. Here are some pictures of yesterday! They all work together so well, work gets done so quickly.









So 7 kids homeschooling together is a lot of fun. I really enjoy doing this and am excited that I have found that homeschooling is for me :)

Math help

I am searching for a new math program to use for the children for next year. I used Shiller math last year with Alex and even though I like it, I don't like that there is no student workbook for it. Teach and student work out of the same book. Not the best idea. This year I went with the program that my mother in law chose for her school, called Everyday math. This one I was really unhappy with, having the children jumping all over, not really sticking with anything long enough to understand the concept.

So I began looking, as my Kindergartener is doing workbooks from the dollar store and Alex will be done with his workbook in 3 weeks. I found the Math U See and thought it looked good. But after looking into the California State Standards, this program came no where near teaching what I need it to. I am now looking into Saxon Math. This might be the way I go and I will add in fun math games to break up all the workbook pages (I am not into busy work).

If anyone has any thoughts on this please leave me a comment. Thanks!