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More Than One Way to Lapbook

I’ve been using the term Scrap-Lapbooking to describe how we make our lapbooks. Here are some terms to clarify: Scrapbooking – a method for preserving family history in the form of photographs, printed media, and memorabilia contained in decorated albums. Digital Scrapbooking – is the art of creating a digital scrapbook page using an uploaded [...]

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To Be Educated

# If I can learn my ABCs, can read 600 words per minute, and can write with perfect penmanship, but have not been shown how to communicate with the Designer of all language,
# I have not been educated.
# If I can deliver an eloquent speech and persuade you with my stunning logic, but have not been instructed in God’s wisdom,
# I have not been educated.
# If I have read Shakespeare and John Locke and can discuss their writings with keen insight, but have not read the greatest of all books—the Bible—and have no knowledge of its personal importance,
# I have not been educated.

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Homeschooling the Next Generation

I’m so proud of my girls. Let me tell you a little about them. They each think outside-the-box and have entrepreneurial attitudes. Two of them operate homeschool businesses. Belinda is the director Family Christian Academy a private Christian School and Homeschool in the Nashville TN area. Rebecca, .my second daughter and hubby Scot homeschool their five children and live in the Nashville area.

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Digital Scrapbook a Charlotte Mason Nature Sketchbook

The purpose of this post is to show you examples and explain the exciting and creative option of digital scrapbooking a Nature Sketchbook. Using this methods students not only learn science they also learn computer layout and design.

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We Can Rejoice in Weakness

I recently  listened to a powerful audio message by Nancy Leigh DeMoss on pride. You would think  struggles with sin should be enough to keep me humble. In my lifetime, I have broken every commandment. I have failed God and He has been displeased with me. I battle with sins of bitterness, complaining, impatience, and [...]

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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. See all her books and discount packages. Our Homeschool Journey We have homeschooled [...]

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Free & Entertaining US History Documentaries

We’ve been watching “America The Story of Us” documentaries on the History Channel. What better educational resource- Free and entertaining. My 10 year old stays glued though each  hour episode. Watch on the History Channel free or get the 3 DVD set at Amazon for $27.9 (less than $10 a DVD!)  9 Hours 24 Minutes [...]

29Jul2010 | | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Woven into a Tapestry of Love

Paul wrote Colossians while he was in prison in Rome. He had been there for about two and a half years, and heard the word of the Lord (Acts 19:10). Colossians 2 and 3 shows our access to the exalted Christ in heaven is immediate and direct, and  “in him,” we belong to One who [...]

27Jul2010 | | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Every Digital Scrapbook Kit $2.99

Save Up To 80% We’re having a huge Scrapbook Kit Sale. Every kit is on sale for $2.99! This is the Bible Kit (regularly $14.00) Grab it quick for $2.99. Sale ends without notice. This huge kit includes Bible backgrounds, objects, animals, people and clothing. Students can combine Bible scenes with people, animals and objects [...]

22Jul2010 | | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Refrigerator Magnet Menu Planner

Instead of meal planning charts and index cards and computer generated worksheets, etc. Try hanging meal magnets on your refrigerator! You can see all the meals we usually have at a glance and shift them around (hang high enough your toddler doesn’t mess up your week.) Step 1: Make a list of main dinner meals [...]

11Jul2010 | | admin | 13 comments | Continued
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Peek at the New Ancient History Day by Day

You asked for it.  Not only is this planner Day by day it is Step by Step! While you are waiting for us to complete it we’ve made free blank pages for you. Download sample pages and blank pages below. Each week of the Ancient History: Day by Day: Step by Step Planner is presented [...]

11Jul2010 | | admin | 10 comments | Continued
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Sodom and Gomorrah Printable Booklet

This is a squash book for the Genesis Bible Lapbook. You can download the 6 page PDF file below free. The folds are a bit tricky so I wanted to give it its own post with a video. Taken with my iPhone by my 10 year old son. I got the  inspiration for the cover [...]

9Jul2010 | | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Genesis Bible Lapbook Video & Free Printables

We are working on a Bible Lapbook to go along with the Adam to Abraham lessons. It is a scrapbook folder (a lapbook with scrapbook decorations). I made a quick video with my Iphone so you can see the progress we are making. Some of the booklets have been updated since this video. If You [...]

7Jul2010 | | admin | 4 comments | Continued
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First Fruits from Our SF Garden

We haven’t picked anything yet but we its exciting to see the tomatoes and peppers in our Square Foot garden.  Here are a few photo of starting the garden. I have to put down wire to keep out moles. Here are the scrapbook pages. Larger images are below. This is July 1st, 2010. Starting to [...]

4Jul2010 | | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Our Bible Timeline Wall

We hung this Bible Timeline on the wall in our dining room (aka school room). Thenmarked the 12 Bible eras with index cards. Then I hung the Bible of the Bible Wall Chart- above the timeline and attached strings from to the Bible stories to show where the story can be found in the Bible.

3Jul2010 | | admin | 4 comments | Continued
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Are You Choosing Junk or Nutrition in Your Homeschool?

God  uniquely programmed the foods He made for us with a variety of nutrients that your body needs to flourish.  Every day, scientists are discovering carcinogens and toxins that the Standard American Diet (SAD) releases into our bodies. The more we learn about nutrition, we learn we should eat the way God planned. Recent research [...]

2Jul2010 | | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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Heart of Wisdom Changes

New home page, new community and new groups.

1Jul2010 | | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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My Christian Fiction Recommendations

It is time for summer reading. Whoowoo,  another excuse to read! (I homeschool so I can have an excuse to buy more books). Here are my selection of  the best Christian  fiction books I’ve read in the last few months (listed in order I read them, most recent first). A few are water stained from [...]

26Jun2010 | | admin | 9 comments | Continued
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Free Printables for Bible Lapbook: Noah’s Ark

More free printable for the Genesis Lapbook! Booklet#7 is the “Noah’s Ark Accordion Booklet” and #8 is the “The Flood Question Wheel”. Links to the previous six books also included.

20Jun2010 | | admin | 5 comments | Continued
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Learn 10 Commandments in 5 Minutes

Do your children know the Ten Commandments? Do you? According to Kelton Research and 10 Commandments Commission only 14% can accurately name all Ten Commandments. No, 80 percent of 1,000 respondents could name the burger’s primary ingredient — two all-beef patties — but less than six in 10 knew the commandment “thou shalt not kill.” [...]

19Jun2010 | | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Homeschool Mom Now Lives in Heaven

Fran, a 35 year old homeschool mom died Wednesday morning. She found out she had breast cancer November 2, 2005.

Her blog “Welcome to the World of Cancer” documents her journey through the world of cancer.

Her last post was written May 16 . She was too weak to write again.

18Jun2010 | | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Free Bible Lapbook Game: Cain and Abel

This is a Giveaway! Leave a comment below and download this free Bible Lapbook game (also called file folder game)! Instructions and game cards are included in the 4 page PDF file with a copywork Bible verse page.

17Jun2010 | | admin | 18 comments | Continued
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Bible Lapbook: Free Printables

I’m creating a Bible Lapbook to go along with the  Adam to Abraham lessons. It is a Genesis scrapbook folder (a lapbook with scrapbook decorations). The first set of booklets are ready to download at the bottom of this page. I’m working on the remaining booklets now, watch this blog for more booklets. (Subscribe to [...]

13Jun2010 | | admin | 15 comments | Continued
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Biblioholism Test

I have a theory that most homeschoolers are book addicts that became homeschoolers to justify their habit. Biblioholism: n. [BIBLIO + HOLISM] book, of books: the habitual longing to purchase, read, store, admire and consume books in excess. I am a Queen Biblioholic. Are you an addict too? Take this test to find out.

11Jun2010 | | admin | 4 comments | Continued
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What God Commands Us to Teach Our Children

Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie [...]

11Jun2010 | | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Things My Doctor Didn’t tell Me

The American medical system is among the best care the world for treating accidents, but ranks with the lowest  in the world for treatment of disease. We have higher rates of infant mortality, diabetes, heart disease, and other ills than many other developed countries. This week I received several test results from my primary care [...]

10Jun2010 | | admin | 9 comments | Continued
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Hundreds of Free Lapbooks and Unit Studies

There is no one more qualified to write homeschool curricula than a homeschool mom. Homeschool Share (HSS) is a on-line cooperative effort of several homeschooling moms to provide free but quality literature-based unit studies and resources. Homeschool Share offers hundreds and hundreds homeschool lapbooks, unit studies and notebooking pages for FREE. These resources go beautifully [...]

3Jun2010 | | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Feeling Alone in Church

We moved to Tennessee three years ago and started attending a local church. The people are sweet. kind, and loving. But after three years I still feel like I don’t really know anyone. I taught Sunday school, children’s church, VBS, camp, etc. I got to know some of the other workers but …I still felt [...]

1Jun2010 | | admin | 40 comments | Continued
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How to Extend Your Homeschool with iTunes U Free

Most of you know there is a ton of valuable information available through podcast (I listen to  Bible studies, sermons, nutrition, writing, organic gardening, etc. daily ) But are you aware  the free information from iTunes U? iTunes U is a specialized area of the Apple iTunes store that allows Higher Education institutions to make [...]

1Jun2010 | | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Days of Creation Lesson Plan

This lesson plan from AnwersinGenesis.org gives an excellent yet simple method of teaching the order of the 6 days of creation so children (and adults too) will remember them.

1Jun2010 | | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Audio Bible for iPhone & iTouch

I have come a long way baby! I used to listen to audio Bible on cassette tapes then went to CDs then to MP3 and now I use an iPhone app. I love it.

28May2010 | | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Loving Summer Homeschool

Summer homeschooling is so much easier. Both my boys got though all their school work in half the time today! Because all the  other children in our neighborhood were out of school waiting to play.

25May2010 | | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Top 20 Advantages to Homeschooling

Your kids never tell you that you’re a lot dumber than their teacher. If you can’t find matching socks for your child first thing in the morning, who cares? Cleaning out the refrigerator can double as chemistry lab. Your kids have good reason to think they might get spanked in school, but no reason to [...]

25May2010 | | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Why Did Media Ignore Nashville Flood?

I was in Nashville the week of the catastrophic Nashville Flood but my friends and family weren’t aware there was a problem. Why? Because most Media Ignored it. The  down-pouring rain flooded the Nashville lifting the Cumberland River 13 feet above flood stage, causing an estimated $1 billion in damage, and killing more than 30 [...]

21May2010 | | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Refreshing Theological Fire Hydrant

A few years ago I immersed myself in lectures by Dr. C. Baxter Kruger of Perichoresis Ministries—one of the best contemporary theologians of this century. His lectures were like  the refreshing, invigorating  spray of a fire hydrant. The cleansing waters helped set me free from dry, parched legalism.  I recently began listening to them for [...]

20May2010 | | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Dancing with the Trinity, Unity, & Humility

Before the creation of the world, there existed the eternal dance of the Trinity. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit have always enjoyed a beautiful, responsive dance of love in perfect harmony. “The great dance is about abundant life—love, passion, joy, fellowship, and creativity. It is the fellowship of the relationship of the Father, Son, [...]

18May2010 | | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Heart of Wisdom Communities

Have you visited these message boards? Each forum includes information, posts, discussions, videos links and more.

12May2010 | | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Which Foods to Buy: Organic Cheat-Sheet

The Environmental Working Group’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides identifies 12 fruits and vegetables with the highest levels of pesticide residues and the 15 with the lowest levels.

I made this cheat sheet card to carry in my purse. Click image to download the PDF printable card (three size cards on one page). Choose a card size to laminate and carry to the grocery store.

7May2010 | | admin | 4 comments | Continued
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5 Steps to Successful Forgiveness

Unforgiveness is toxic. It can consume us. It causes suffering, health problems, bitterness, chronic anger, resentment, rage, and a miserable attitude. Studies show that such emotions can lead to an increased risk of heart attack, joint pain, headaches, high blood pressure and a depressed immune system.

6May2010 | | admin | 5 comments | Continued
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We Survived the Nashville Flood

We are stuck in Nashville. We live in Shelbyville (1.5 hour from Nashville). I was visiting my daughter on Friday with plans to go home Saturday morning via Highway 24. At the last minute we decided to go to a community play at 2:00 and then go home. The flood water started. We went back [...]

3May2010 | | admin | 15 comments | Continued
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Go to the Ant Lesson Plan

Last Sunday at children’s church I taught about ants, based on on Proverbs 6:6. Here is my lesson plan, based on Heart of Wisdom 4-step plan:

28Apr2010 | | admin | 14 comments | Continued
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Top 12 Health Benefits of Green Smoothies

Isn’t it amazing that Americans worry more about the gas we put in our cars than the food we put in our bodies? I’ve been getting healthy with a very simple health plan: I eat God’s food instead of man’s food. You can read Dr. Axe’s Healing Food Plan here. I’ve lost eight pounds in [...]

27Apr2010 | | admin | 9 comments | Continued
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Free Book, Free Magazine & More!

WOW! Free ebook, free magazine, free Bible study, free journal and more. The Hebraic Christian Global Community mission is to facilitate the move of God to restore the Hebraic foundations of the Christian faith to all believers. They offer this fascinating information free. If you’re just beginning your search for the Hebraic foundations of your [...]

26Apr2010 | | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Free Printable Folger’s Coffee Can Labels

I have been saving Folgers coffee containers for years. These plastic resealable containers are durable and have a handy indent for a handle. Download these free printable labels easy to peel and apply.

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