We moved to a mini farm about 5 years ago because I wanted my boys to experience farm life.They have learning so much caring for animals (horses, goats, chickens) and having a vegetable garden. (While I learn patience from lousy Internet connection). If you can’t move to a farm the second best thing would be [...]
The economy really hit the homeschool market hard. I had to some quick thinking to keep heart of Wisdom a float. I expanded my products to include digital scrapbook materials to gain income from another market to pay Heart of Wisdom overhead allowing me to continue to publish Christian curriculum. If you scrapbook, you’ll enjoy [...]
Let’s Make a Scrap-Lapbook: Bee Attitudes is designed to be a thematic unit with lessons focusing on the Beatitudes and the Kingdom of Heaven. Download, print, cut, learn, and share with this fun lapbook in red and yellow. Forget what you learned in Sunday school about the Beatitudes. The sermon on the Mount is not [...]
[From the Archive] The other night Precious (one of our Great Pyrenees) tore up my laundry room. She ate through a wicker basket, left a pound of sand on the floor (from the dried mud after the rain), ate a shoe, tore open a package of paper plates, ripped an Amazon packing box into nine [...]
Four Won the Lapbook: Commenters #6, #102, #122 and #133! Drawing held with Random.org. Let’s Make a Scrap-Lapbook: Hanukkah is available and on sale. You can download now and Celebrate Jesus, the Light of the World! Designed to be a thematic unit lasting the 8 days of Hanukkah. Lord willing, it will be available at [...]
How do you feel about Christmas? Do you observe it differently now compared to how you observed it when you were a child? Do you observe it at all? Did you know Christmas has pagan roots? Does that bother you? Don’t get nervous. I’m not going to tell you what you should or shouldn’t be [...]
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What’s faster than a lapbook, more fun than a book report, makes for super review and teaches computer skills while documenting learning? Digital Scrapbooking! We had fun making this Ben Franklin page this morning. More and more of our school time is watching documentaries then scrapbooking. Boys love it. The papers and most the images [...]
How to set up your library so that your reading flourishes. I got the idea of how to organize my home library from the book Little Guide To Your Well-Read Life. He first suggest diving books into unread (Library of Candidates) and read (Living Library), All our books are spread out through out the house [...]
Do science and the Bible conflict? If you were to read a science textbook from 50 or 100 years ago, you would be amazed to discover the number of things that were stated as “scientific fact,” which are now known to be wrong! God’s word is always right. Professor of Theoretical Physics at Adelaide University [...]
It took about 45 minutes for my boys and I to make this digital scrapbook page. After reading the book we brainstormed a list of facts to record. We began with a scrapbook template (starting with a template saves hours!) and the boys chose the kits and decided which papers went where. Scrapbooking to Learn [...]
Playing cards are easy and fun teacher helpers. They are cheap, require no scissors, baggies, game pieces or dice. Use regular cards (Ace to King) and make up fun math games. If your children are like mine they will enjoy the game much more and beg to play again if you avoid using the word [...]
Lapbooks (or Lap Books™) are such neat learning tools. Seems like I hear myself saying, “Ohhh let’s make a lapbook out of that!” almost daily. Anything can be made into a lapbook (a book, an idea, a Bible lesson, a documentary, a concept, literature, a movie, a biography, etc.). The lapbooking process takes a topic, [...]
From the archive. It’s that time of year again. Vampires, ghouls, ghosts and skeletons will be haunting our doorways. American retailers celebrate a 7 billion dollar a year candy, card and costume business ($1.5 billion in Canada). I was driving in Madison (outskirts of Nashville, TN) and saw two Halloween stores within a few blocks. [...]
Apples and honey are a traditional food for Rosh Hashana. This cake is one of the best I have ever made or tasted and my children really look forward to it. Its a super way to welcome Autumn with the smell of apple cake drifting through the house! Last year we made this and took [...]
In previous posts I have asked you to rethink your beliefs about knowledge and education. Now I’m asking asking you to consider another paradigm shift—to rethink scheduling. How Would Jesus Schedule? Jesus had obvious long-term goals but He practiced daily as a responder. He prayed daily and allowed the needs of the people around Him [...]
Lap books are wonderful teaching tools that encourage creativity while motivating learning. A lap book consists of a file folder that contains various types of mini booklets with images and text. The mini booklets contain bite-sized chunks of information about the different themes within the larger topic that the lap book covers. There are thousands [...]
Our 19 year old son, Anthony, graduated college this summer with honors including the Advanced Achievement award (professor voted) from Full Sail University in FL . He attended on campus and got his BS in two years. Many homeschool families have similar success stories
A peek inside the new Heart of Wisdom Store coming soon. Would love your feedback or questions in the comments. Scrap-Lap Booking What is a Scrap Lap Book? In a Lapbook a booklet is usually one color. In a Scrap-Lapbook booklets are decorated with coordinating papers and embellishments. Digital Scrapbooking to Learn Digital scrapbooking [...]
Charlotte Mason said, “Now our objective in this most important part of education is to give the children the knowledge of God.” Kill two proverbial birds with one stone by having your children practice handwriting with these FREE printable Bible verses in manuscript, cursive, or D’Nealian. Below are links to the printable the pages I [...]
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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 [...]
This brand new beautiful digital scrapbook kit is yours. Why? We want you to try out digital scrapbooking. Its fun, exciting and it motivates the kits to do school projects. Just leave a comment below this post and I will email you the download links. Not only do students get excited about learning but they [...]
Here is a sneak peek into Heart of Wisdom Scrap-Lapbook Kits each consisting of a dozen or more color coordinated templates. This is a lapbook made with Ancient Egypt Scrap-Lapbook . Each kit will include blank books templates so they can be used for any lapbook theme. You add the images , labels, and text. [...]
So much information, so little time! Wouldn’t it be great to have an external brain to hook up just like you hook up external memory to your computer? Now you can. Evernote let’s you do a ‘brain dump’ of anything you want to remember and recall easily at a later date and its FREE! Evernote [...]
Some of you are wondering why I’m not using a “Christian history” curriculum. I used several Christian history text with our first homeschool generation (our children ages range from 9 to 37). I later found out they had several flaws. Now we use a variety of sources and verify facts as we learn (as we do with all studies especially Bible). I plan on using the book as follows
Unit Study users will find this daily planner helpful. This Planner focuses on the most important part of your day: Bible time.
I started reading Rob Bell’s book “Love Wins” to see what the fuss is about. He asks great questions about who God is, the Trinity, salvation, heaven, hell & God’s desire to save. I don’t agree with his conclusions on hell.
Most of us know about the deaths of two children at the hands of their parents—seven year-old Lydia Schatz and four year-old Sean Paddock. Both families used the discipline techniques described in books by Michael and Debi Pearl, To Train Up a Child. The Pearls’ teachings are still huge in the homeschool movement and we [...]
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