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"What?! No School Today?"
Top 10 Answers You Should NEVER Give to the Question "What?! No School Today?"

1. HOW Bible Study Overview
The Heart of Wisdom approach to Bible study is quite different than the typical half-hour-in-a-workbook approach. With our approach, as a family, you will use a chronological Bible reading plan daily, to read through the Bible each year.

2. HOW Bible Study Four Step Lessons
There are four basic steps to the Heart of Wisdom teaching approach. Studies show that this four-step method motivates students to comprehend the material better and retain the information longer.

3. HOW Bible Study Reading Plan
The reading plan consists of 360 Bible portions divided into 52 weekly readings. Each reading is listed by verse and by page number for the Narrated Bible.

4 STEPS TO BIBLE STUDY - STEPS 3 and 4
We recommend the same 4 Steps for Bible study that we use for the Unit Studies.

4 STEPS TO BIBLE STUDY Steps 1 and 2
We recommend the same 4 Steps for Bible study that we use for the Unit Studies.

4. Creating a Bible Portfolio
Instructions for creating a Bible portfolio. Your children and you will learn as you divide the notebook into the 12 eras of biblical history. Each era will focus on main events, main people, and geography.

5. Bible Study: Reference Tools
A list of the basic Bible study tools you should have on hand to use HOW Bible study approach.

A Family Guide to the Biblical Holidays
A balanced view of the holidays focusing on Christ! "In 34 years of publishing Messianic catalogs we have never seen such a creative contribution to the body of Messiah ...a balanced view of the holidays focusing on Christ!" —Manny
Brotman, Founder and President of The Messianic Jewish Movement International

A Gap in Your Agape?
Even when there’s a gap in your agape, Jesus’ love is everlasting.

A Hebrew Education Model
To build a thoroughly Christian educational system, we must begin with a thoroughly biblical definition of education. What does the Bible tell us about education?

A Homeschool Parable
A parable comparing building a home to educating a child.

Academic Requirements
Our first desire is to inspire students to become hearers and doers of God's Word, and to encourage students to search the Scriptures and apply them to everyday situations. Our second goal is to teach them a love of learning that will last a lifetime.

An Organized Thanksgiving
Here are ten tips for a fun, organized, stress-free Thanksgiving, with plenty of time to enjoy the true meaning of the holiday!

Ancient Greek vs. Biblical Education
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ (Colossians 2:8).

Ancient History: Adam to Messiah
This volume includes the seven history units listed below (H1-H7). These hyperlinked, Bible-focused unit studies will lead your students on an exciting journey to learning!

Ancient History: Adam to Messiah Magazine Reviews
Reviews from: The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, Electic Homeschool, Mary Pride, Cathy Duffy, About.com and Ignite the Fire

Just for Fun
Answer to the #1 Homeschool Question
Answer to the #1 Homeschool question.

Apple Orchard Field Trip Lesson Plan
Free lesson plan from Heart of Wisdom. Learn about plant life cycles: seeds, germination, growth, and how these relate to abiding in Christ, being grafted into God's family tree, sowing and reaping, and more.

Are Parents Qualified to Teach Their Children?

Are You Jesus?
A man in a rush misses his plane but learns a lesson.

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Balancing the Three Rs and the Bible
It’s remarkably easy to get caught up in the Three Rs (Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic). We want our children to learn in a Christian setting, and we believe that these subjects are what they must learn. But what about the Bible? Isn't that why we are homeschooling? How important are the Three Rs when establishing a Bible-based education?

Being Grateful for Your Children
In the middle of the night as a young parent wearily walks the floor with a red-faced, arched-back, tight-fisted, screaming infant who refuses to settle down, it is almost inconceivable to this dad or mom that the Bible calls this tiny bundle a gift. God calls this a reward? A reward for what? you wonder.

Believe The Word The First Time God Speaks
There are times as leaders when circumstances and the things we see and feel are contrary to the word God spoke to our heart. In those times we can choose to accept the word of God by faith, or move based on what we see and experience.

Benefits of Writing to Learn
Eight benefits of writing to learn for students and teachers.

Bible Crafts
Books full of Bible cutout, fold-up and other crafts using household materials. [ Visit Website ]

Just for Fun
Bible Riddle

Bible Study "Subjects"
Bible study should be the highest priority in your student's studies. The Bible is much more than just a religious study. It's literature, history, science, poetry, biographies...

Bible Study (Heart of Wisdom Approach)
The Heart of Wisdom approach to Bible study is quite different than the typical half-hour-in-a-workbook approach. With our approach, as a family, you will use a chronological Bible reading plan daily, to read through the Bible each year.

Bible Study Teaching Tools
Bible study tools for parents to use with children. Many heavily illustrated or with teaching tips. [ Visit Website ]

Bible Study Tools for Children
Highly-illustrated Bible study tools designed for elementary ages. [ Visit Website ]

Bible Work Sheets OT
Each link includes a Bible lesson with a set of coloring pages, questions, and puzzles.

Bible Worksheets NT
Each link includes coloring pages, questions, and puzzles.

Bibles
Chronological Bibles [ Visit Website ]

Bibles and Bible Study Tools
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Can the units be completed in any order?

Charlotte Mason Philosophy
The Heart of Wisdom teaching approach creates lesson plans using Charlotte Mason's methods, and teaching to the four learning styles (the Four-Step Lessons). It's a new, creative way to organize Charlotte Mason's unique methods.

Christian Fiction
Christian fiction classics, including authors such as Michael Phillips, Bodie & Brock Thoene, Frank Schaeffer, etc. Full descriptions, images, and reviews are included. [ Visit Website ]

Christian Living and Spritual Growth
Book list of classics in the spritual growth category. Includes annotations and images. [ Visit Website ]

Classical Education
In the last five years there has been a growing trend which is reflected in the availability of numerous Greek mythology and philosophy books in homeschool catalogs and curriculum fairs. I feel like the little boy who felt that he must point out the emperor's obvious lack of clothing. Well-intentioned Christians have combined classical Greek educational methods with Bible-based curricula, which is exactly the same error that the early Church committed!

Classics Grades 4-8
Dozens of books recommended reading for grades 4-8. List includes images and full descriptions. [ Visit Website ]

Classics Grades K-3
Dozens of books recommended for grades K-3. Includes images and full descriptions. Most of these are Newbery or Caldecott Award winners. [ Visit Website ]

Classics Preschool to Kindergarten
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Commentaries
Various Bible commentaries [ Visit Website ]

Contrast and Compare Organizers
Throughout the lessons you'll see several organizing activities. These are a convenient way of organizing notes and thoughts about a topic. Graphic organizers can be powerful teaching tools.

Cornucopia Kids: Children Who Have Too Much Stuff!
It's almost the gift-giving time of year. "Cornucopia kids" refers to children who have too many things and too little responsibility. Articles tell parents how to change this situation.

Correcting Written Work
You will correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, subject/verb agreement, consistent verb tense, and word usage in all writing by marking the error with a number that corresponds with a rule from Writers INC.

Craft and Activity Instructions
Craft and activity instructions for HOW lesson Step 3 activites, for Bible studies, and much more!

Creating a Portfolio
A Portfolio Notebook is simply a three-ring notebook that is used to store the student’s work for the unit, including writing assignments, artwork, small collections, letters, photos, brochures, maps, etc.

Creating a Time Line Book
In her writings, Charlotte Mason recommended preparing a handmade Time Line Book. This activity is based upon one of the major keys to motivation: the active involvement of students in their own learning. Students learn by doing, making, writing, designing, creating, and solving.

Creating a Timeline Book
In her writings, Charlotte Mason recommended preparing a handmade Timeline Book (originally called a Museum Sketch Book; sometimes called a Book of the Centuries).

Creating Reminders for Our Children
In Joshua chapter 4, God commanded His children to put up a pile of twelve stones as a reminder, specifically to prompt their children's questions!

Decorating for Fall on a Budget
Decorate your home for fall by gathering items on a nature walk with your children.

Delight-Directed Study
Would you read this page if it were titled "Basic Plumbing Concepts?" You might if you had a leak in your kitchen sink or a basement full of water! In the same way, students need to have a relevant interest in the topic they are learning.

Developing a Christian Mind
Because a Christian mind is more than a mechanical skill, such as driving a car or operating a computer, there is no simple set of steps which can be offered. There are steps to be followed, of course, like reading the Bible, praying, meditating the Word, etc. But the Christian mind is primarily the result of a deepening relationship to God in Christ by the Holy Spirit.

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To thank you for shopping at Homeschool-Books.com we are offering an exciting program that allows you to earn reward points for every dollar you spend at Homeschool-Books.com!

Education According to the Bible
What does the Bible say about eduction? Who, what, when and oow answers are found here.

Educational Freeware & Shareware

Encyclopedias Online

Excerpt from the book Writing to Learn
"Writing to Learn," by best-seller author William Zinsser, is an essential book for everyone who uses writing as a means of learning. Here is the first chapter from this book. Chapter 1: Hermes and the Periodic Table

Family Sanctuary: Restoring the Biblically Hebraic Home
God’s design for the home...has always been and will always be the same. It is perfectly clear when we return the family and home to the matrix from which it emerged in a truly biblical restoration.

Family Sanctuary: Restoring the Biblically Hebraic Home
Learn to make your home a sanctuary--a retreat to sanity in a world of madness. A respite of safety and security. Repose in loving, affirming relationships. Relief from stress and rest from labor. A refuge for spiritual renewal, growth, and development.

FAQ Categories
FAQs by Category

Feast of Tabernacles
Tabernacles is also known as the Feast of the Ingathering, Feast of the Booths, Sukkoth, Succoth, or Sukkot. It is the final and most important holiday of the year.

Feast of Weeks (also called Pentecost or Shavuot)
Pentecost not only memorializes the first giving of the Law written on tablets of stone, but it also memorializes, on the same day many years later, the giving of the Holy Spirit, when the Law of God is written in the heart of the believer.

First Priority
Samson’s father neglected the most important thing and lost his son.

First Proclamation After Plymouth
Thanksgiving proclamation by William Bradford. Bradford joined the Separatists, a Puritan religious group which was highly critical of the Church of England.

Free Educational Software or Shareware

Fun Fall Teaching Activities
What a great time of year to teach! Take a walk with a leaf identification guide, visit an apple orchard (we provide the lesson plan!), go on a hay ride, try leaf rubbings...

Goals of Education
Schools evaluate learning by testing and measuring knowledge. Paul would say that character is a better indicator of a well-taught Christian.

God's Wisdom vs. Man's Wisdom
There is very little question of the meaning and importance of intelligence, but until we have defined education and its purpose and goals in biblical terms, we will not be able to aim for a higher education standard. We must look at wisdom from a biblical perspective.

Graphic Organizers
Here you will find links to mindmapping, contrast and compare and story board graphcs. Throughout the HOW lessons you'll see several organizing activities. These are a convenient way of organizing notes and thoughts about a topic.

Guarding Your Gates
In ancient times, the city gate was the busiest place in the city. Near or just inside the gates, there were courtyards or a broadening of the street where much of the city's social, business and legal interaction took place.

H1. Adam to Abraham: An Internet-Linked Unit Study
Lead your student on a fascinating journey from Creation, through Eden and the Fall, the Flood, the Tower of Babel, Nations and Religions, Abram, and Genesis’ revelation of the Messiah.

H2. Mesopotamia: An Internet-Linked Unit Study
This unique study covers the academic requirements of ancient Mesopotamia as it focuses on Bible geography! In this unit you will study the Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian civilizations of Mesopotamia. This unit study is central to understanding the beliefs, social norms, and material traits of the Old Testament world.

H3. Ancient Egypt: An Internet-Linked Unit Study
It is impossible to properly understand the history of God's people without knowing something about ancient Egypt. The children of Israel were brought into Egypt and settled there for centuries before becoming an independent nation. Their removal from contact with the people of Canaan and their time of affliction prepared them for inheriting the land promised to their fathers.

H4. Ancient Israel: An Internet-Linked Unit Study
Three things must be held in common by a society in order for it to be a people: religion, education, and law. In all history, there is only one civilization that bases its religion, education, and law on Scripture—and that nation is Israel. [ Download/View File ]

H5. Ancient Greece: An Internet-Linked Unit Study
The intuitive hypotheses of the ancient Greeks foreshadowed many theories of modern science, and many of the moral ideas of pagan Greek philosophers have been incorporated into Christian moral doctrine. Christians need to be able to recognize Greek influence (Hellenism).

H6. Ancient Rome: An Internet-Linked Unit Study
The history of Rome covers a massive empire, a rich culture, a profound philosophical legacy, and a lengthy era. The New Testament era was a society influenced by Hellenistic ideas, customs, religion and language but dominated by Roman law, governmental forms, ideas of class and the military.

H7. The Messiah: An Internet-Linked Unit Study
Investigate ancient prophecies, hidden wisdom, things that people longed to know for centuries before the Messiah came to dwell on earth. You are in the privileged position of looking backward through history to see the Messiah as He was described in prophecy, as He dwelt on earth, as He is now, and as He speaks to you through His Word.

Hadassah: One Night With the King
A gripping action/adventure novel full of political intrigue and suspense, with a brand-new perspective on a historical figure you may think you already know!

Hanukkah Links
Links to lessons, crafts, stories and celebration ideas.

Hanukkah: Light in the Darkness
About Hanukkah and the disciples of Jesus. An anthology by First Fruits of Zion.

Heart of Wisdom Approach to Bible Study
List of articles and links to study tools for the HOW Bible study approach.

Heart of Wisdom Bible Study
List of articles and links for the HOW Bible study approach.

Heart of Wisdom
Heart of Wisdom Statement of Faith
Heart of Wisdom is nondenominational, functioning entirely apart from any denominational agenda. Our Statement of Faith explains our beliefs.

Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach (The)
This book will instruct you, step by step, how to give your child a Bible-focused, comprehensive education from preschool through high school; one that will train him or her to read, to study, to understand, to love to learn and, most importantly, to desire and seek true wisdom. This approach can be used for all grade levels.

Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach Overview
The Heart of Wisdom teaching approach is a combination of several teaching methods organized around a two-sided curriculum base: God's Word and God's World. This method is specifically designed for multilevel teaching. This approach includes a four-year suggested course of study designed to be repeated every four years.

Heart of Wisdom Unit Studies/ Customer Comments
Customer comments about various Heart of Wisdom unit studies.

Heart of Wisdom
Heart of Wisdom's Beginnings
Our homeschool journey began with a desire to teach our children God’s Word, as well as the necessary academics, to prepare them for life. But somewhere we took a detour...

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Heart of Wisdom's Goals

Home Schooling A Prophetic Trust
Thousands of people throughout the United States are reclaiming from the state the right to educate their own children in a pattern that has come to us from Judaism. What principles of education do we need to restore to our homes today?

Just for Fun
Homeschool Cartoons
Need a laugh? These cartoons will lighten your day.

Homeschool Help
Here you will find a list of recommended books {with descriptions, images, and excerpts) about Christian homeschooling to inform and encourage parents. These books are for both those considering homeschooling or homeschool veterans. The list includes books on how to homeschool and successful homeschool approaches. Authors include: : Robin Sampson, Valerie Bendt, Ruth Beechick, the Clarksons (Wholehearted), Cathy Duffy, Mary Pride, Diana Waring, Charlotte Mason, and many more. [ Visit Website ]

Homeschool Magazines
An annotated Internet-linked list of great homeschool magazines.