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Need to Get Organized? Check Out Homeschool Workboxes

I recently started using homeschool workboxes for my boys based on the ideas in Sue Patrick’s Workbox System. WOW! My children have stopped complaining about school and we are getting twice the amount of work accomplished. I love it.

This exciting organization system structures your homeschool day in bite size chunks…

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Blogging & Twitter Addictions?

Are you worried you spend too much time Twittering or blogging? Its a good thing to analyze how you spend your time.
We can turn anything into sin if it’s out of balance or if we have the wrong motivation. Shoes, make-up, food, TV, sports, pets, etc. can become addictions or idols.
Volunteer work at church [...]

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Sowing and Reaping

Timely planting and on-going care (watering, weeding, pruning, etc.) will bring forth good fruit. There’s no quick fix for training children. If we neglect them now, we can’t expect positive results later.

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About this Site

Robin Sampson is a homeschool mom and author. Her titles include The Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach, What Your Child Needs to Know When, Wisdom: An Internet-Linked Unit Study, A Family Guide to the Biblical Holidays, and Ancient History: Adam to Messiah.
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Free Lapbook: Shadrach, Meshach, & Abednego

This is actually a File Folder Game or a mini lapbook. Everything you need to make this lapbook is available to download below.
A coloring page goes on the front of the folder. Inside is a game board and two pockets. One pocket is for game pieces, the other is for Bible memory verses.

I found this game board [...]

8Nov2009 | | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Have You Sown Seed Today?

Yes, I’m blogging about sowing, again.
Seed sowing is my  my passion! I want fruit in my life and fruit in my children’s life. . I want to sow seeds and encourage others to sow seeds.
Light is sown like seed for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart. Psalm 97:11a
Those who sow in tears shall [...]

6Nov2009 | | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Breaking the Jewish Code

Stone unlocks the amazing secrets to the success of the Jewish people. Their time-honored principles help create wealth, maintain health, raise successful children, and pass on generational blessings.

4Nov2009 | | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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A Peek into Our Homeschool Day: Workboxes

We are using the Workbox System designed by Sue Patrick. I’ve modified the system to use with our family and the Heart of Wisdom Approach (Bible first/Charlotte Mason/unit study)
In the Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach I suggest families use my approach  like a recipe- adapting to their family’s taste. I think the same workes for the Workbox System.
My favorite [...]

28Oct2009 | | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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Homeschooling Develops Perseverance

I have homeschooled for over 20 years. There are days I wake up and groan at the thought of another school day, more laundry, more dishes, more floors to sweep, more noses to wipe, phonics and math problems to drill, etc

28Oct2009 | | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Producing Spritual Fruit in Our Children

Here lies the secret of parenting that will produce good spiritual fruit in our children:
The Parable of the Sower begins with the preaching of the Word, or the planting of the seed in the hearts of people. The seed is God’s Word; the different soils symbolize different types of hearts; and the varied results show [...]

19Oct2009 | | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Powerful Video Reveals the Love of Jesus in Action

Powerful video plus Free lesson plan from the “Wisdom: An Internet-Linked Unit Study.” Includes 4-Step lesson from the book PLUS memory verses, worksheets, and an excellent sermon outline by Dr Charles Stanley. 14 Pages PDF.

15Oct2009 | | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Flu Shots Break Bible Dietary Laws

If you  stay clear of pork and shellfish, as the Bible instructs, you need to know flu vaccines include: animal tissues and fluids forbidden in the Bible Lev. 11:3-8, 27, Deut. 14:4-8
Vaccines include horse blood, rabbit brain, dog kidney, monkey kidney, pig blood, and porcine (pig) protein/tissue among other things (see list below).
Not only unclean [...]

12Oct2009 | | admin | 22 comments | Continued
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Things I Must Tell The Children

If you homeschool or not our lives are fast paced and so easy to leave out important things.
We remember to give our children’s vitamins, buy them sneakers, teach them history lessons, make them practice math, set bedtimes, remind them to brush their teeth and hair, mind their manners, but do we forget the most important [...]

8Oct2009 | | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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8 Ways to Sabotage Your Homeschool

The power of a successful homeschool journey cannot be over emphasized. Every parent who home schools wants to enjoy the adventure, grow close to their children and have well rounded children at the end of it. But moms hold the power to sabotage their own homeschools and often they do not even know they are [...]

6Oct2009 | | admin | 7 comments | Continued
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Prevent Anger, Resentment, and Bitterness 70X7

“Then Peter came and said to Him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?”  Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven” (Matthew 18:21,22).
The foundation of Christianity is a based on forgiveness. As [...]

2Oct2009 | | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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The Prophetic Fall Holidays

The spring festivals clearly prophesied the first coming of Messiah; it stands to reason that the fall festivals are prophetic of His second coming. The long period between the end of the spring feasts and beginning of the fall holy days is symbolic of the long period between the formation of the church at the [...]

25Sep2009 | | admin | 7 comments | Continued
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Andy Should Have Homeschooled Opie

History is taught best through stories! Indians, Red Coats, cannons, muskets, and guns, and stuff.
In this Andy Griffith Show classic, Andy Taylor mischievously gets Opie’s curiosity up with the Gun Shot Heard Around the World. Opie and his freinds learn to like history becasue of stories.
If you don’t have time fore all three videos [...]

21Sep2009 | | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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Fascinating Lessons on the Feasts of Trumpets

Today is Rosh Hashanah the Bible New Year. The videos below by late Zola Levett and Perry Stone on Feast of Trumpets. I hope you take the time to enjoy these fascinating lessons!

19Sep2009 | | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Rosh Hashana Apple Honey Cake

Rosh Hashana or the Feast of Trumpets begins sundown today. It is the Bible New Year celebration.
The Spring Bible holidays tell of Jesus first coming and the fall festivals are prophetic of His second coming.
Rosh Hashana Information for Christians

Fall Feasts Overview
Rosh Hashana Overview
Feast of Trumpets in Biblical Times
Jewish Customs
Messiah in the Feast of [...]

18Sep2009 | | admin | 11 comments | Continued
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Flowers Without Roots Die

My daughter, Regina brought me a beautiful vase of flowers while I was in the hospital last month.
I brought them home and they brightened my kitchen with cheer for two weeks before they died–then they dried out, got  ugly and produced a nasty stench.
We all know cut flowers die becasue they are cut off from [...]

17Sep2009 | | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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A Better Heart

Beloved friends, I am home again after a five day hospital stay. God is doing something very special in me.

15Sep2009 | | admin | 23 comments | Continued
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Urgent Update on Robin and Heart of Wisdom

Hi all,
This is Robin’s friend, Kathleen, again to let you know that Robin is back in the hospital because of her heart.  They are running tests right now and we are waiting to hear the results.  Please pray that God would give the doctor’s wisdom and that he would strengthen Robin both physically and spiritually.
Also, [...]

11Sep2009 | | admin | 16 comments | Continued
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What Happens to a Branch Without the Vine?

If you want to produce fruit remember your job is to be the branch. The branch is a growth from the main stem or root of a plant. Various Hebrew words are translated as branch or shoot. The most common one can be defined as any sprout of vegetation (Gen. 19:25; Ezek. 16:7; Ps. 85:11).

Sometimes [...]

7Sep2009 | | admin | 4 comments | Continued
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God Has a Plan for Your Homeschool

I love teaching my children. I like reading to them, talking to them, asking questions, seeing things from their viewpoint, watching them discover.
There was I time I didn’t love homeschooling–because I was swimming in fear and worry. But the years have passed and God has proven to me that He is sufficient and [...]

7Sep2009 | | admin | 21 comments | Continued
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My Favorite Twitters

Follow Friday is a way to introduce your Twitter Followers to other Twitter Followers.
I’ve decided to keep my list on my blog instead of posting individual Tweets.

4Sep2009 | | admin | 10 comments | Continued
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Home Again, Home Again, Giggity-Gig

I am home from the hospital. Thank you dears for all your prayers and notes.

31Aug2009 | | admin | 17 comments | Continued
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Prayer Request for Robin

Hi all,
This is Robin’s friend, Kathleen, writing to let you all know that Robin was admitted to the Critical Care Unit of the hospital Monday, August 24 and needs our prayers.  She lost quite a bit of blood due which then led to serious heart problems.
She lost almost five units of blood and has been [...]

26Aug2009 | | admin | 43 comments | Continued
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My Birthday Gift From God

Today is my birthday.
Last night was Prayer Meeting at church. I couldn’t get my mind off family problems (estranged from two adult children).
I sniffled through the prayers and wiped away tears quickly before anyone raised their head from praying to catch me crying. After the service I scurried to the bathroom to fix my make [...]

20Aug2009 | | admin | 13 comments | Continued
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The Letter Writer: Paul’s Background and Torah Perspective

The vast majority of the modern day studies, teachings, and theologies developed concerning the Apostle Paul all disseminate a similar perspective: That Paul underwent a typical conversion from one religion to another, from the Law-based religion of Judaism to the Grace-based religion of Christianity.

14Aug2009 | | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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Survey Reveals American’s View of God

The ancient Greek’s viewed god as judgmental, angry, and elderly–detached from the world waiting just for someone to do something wrong. Sadly, this Greek view has permeated Western society.
According to USA Today Religion survey: Out of the  91.8% say they believe in God, a higher power or a cosmic force, they had four distinct views [...]

11Aug2009 | | admin | 7 comments | Continued
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Signs of Spiritual Abuse & Legalism

How do you tell if your church is slipping legalism or spiritual abuse? Pray for God to open your eyes and examine what you see. Do you see faith in God or dependency on church? Do you see goodness or strict compliance to church mandated convictions?

9Aug2009 | | admin | 6 comments | Continued
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Born Alive Abortions

What do some hospitals do with babies that are aborted but still alive? Throw them in the ‘dirty room.’ What happens if a nurse reports such treatment? They’re fired.

7Aug2009 | | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Intimacy with God

God created each of us with a longing for intimacy — intimacy with Him. Once we come to the realization that we were created to fellowship with our Creator we are on the right path.

5Aug2009 | | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Be Transformed from Religion to Relationship

Did you know a caterpillar has the DNA of the butterfly before it is physically transformation is seen?
When one trust Christ as Savior we have the DNA of God through the indwelling of His Holy Spirit. We have the DNA of  a child of God before the physical fruit is seen in our walk!
In this [...]

3Aug2009 | | admin | 2 comments | Continued