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Why Are Christians Keeping Passover?

Jesus shared the Passover meal with his apostles saying, “I have been very eager to eat this Passover meal with you before my suffering begins. For I tell you now that I won’t eat this meal again until its meaning is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.” (Luke 22:15-16)

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Unleavened Bread Recipes and Freebie

This week begins the (Lev 23:6, Exodus 12:15-17).During this week-long feast, nothing with leaven (yeast) in it may be eaten. Leaven is the symbol of all that is unclean and evil and therefore must scrupulously be removed from all houses before the Passover feast. Free Download!

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A Christ-Focused Passover Seder

This is a photo of our Passover plate. It has a prominent place of display in a glass cabinet in our living room.I believe it is the one item in our home that the children will remember the most. It is my favorite holiday. Passover is April 7-14 this year. The Passover meal is called [...]

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WOW! World’s First Flying Penguins

Filmmaker and writer Terry Jones discovered a colony of penguins which are unlike any other penguins in the world. Ostensibly filmed for a documentary, the video shows a colony of Adélie penguins suddenly taking to the skies as the astonished presenter, Terry Jones, looks on. The TV spot was filmed on King George’s Island, 1,000 [...]

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What People Think About Homeschooling Meme

“What People Think I Do / What I Really Do” is a series of visual charts depicting a range of preconceptions associated with a particular field of occupation or expertise. The original instance of the series was uploaded by artist Garnet Hertz via his Facebook page on February 2nd, 2012. Now its all over the [...]

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Free Printable Bible Worksheets

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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Heart of Wisdom Split in Two!

Our newsletter that is. Heart of Wisdom is splitting our newsletter into two lists. You can get one or both: HOW Newsletter: Once every two months product announcements, spiritual and homeschool encouragement Scrapbook/Lapbook Newsletter: Twice a month product announcements and teaching ideas. CHOOSE YOUR FREE SUBSCRIPTION: http://tinyurl.com/how-subscribe

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Delight Directed Homeschooling: Farm Science

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 [...]

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My Etsy Shop

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 [...]

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Win the Bee Attitudes (Beatitudes) Lapbook!

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 [...]

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Think on These Things

[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 [...]

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Win this Hanukkah Lapbook!

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 [...]

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12 Things I Like and Don’t Like About Christmas

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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30% Off Lapbook & Scrapbook Coupon

Save 30% Coupon! Type in “homeschool30″ in the coupon box on checkout. See Scrapbook Kits and Lapbook Kits at http://homeschool-books.com/

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Earn Free Scrapbook / Lapbook Kits

Earn FREE scrapbook kitsor Scrap-Lap book kitsbut creating scrapbook layouts or sharing images of completed lapbooks. Creative Team Call. Email your application by sending the information listed below.

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Faster than a Lapbook, More Fun than a Book Report!

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 [...]

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Steps to Organizing Your Home Library

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 [...]

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Do Science and the Bible Conflict?

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 [...]

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One Hour School Project & Free Columbus Day Clip Art

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 [...]

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Ways to Teach Math with Playing Cards

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 [...]

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3 Step-by-Step Lap Booking Methods

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, [...]

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Should Christians Observe Halloween? Boo Humbug!

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. [...]

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Rosh Hashana Apple and Honey Cake

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 [...]

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Seven Reasons Lap Booking Works

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 [...]

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15 Key Facts About Homeschooled Kids in College

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

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Scrapbooking to Learn Slide Shows

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 [...]

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Free Handwriting Bible Verses

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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Heart of Wisdom Back to School Newsletter

Did you receive the Heart of Wisdom Back to School Newsletter? If you did not get this newsletter in your email you need to join the mailing list Click here to read the Heart of Wisdom Back to School Newsletter

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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 [...]

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NEW: Free Digital Scrapbook Kit

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 [...]