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Amazing Virgin Coconut Oil Secrets

Some time back, my sweet, health-conscious friend, Dolores, told me about the benefits of coconut oil. I bought a jar and put in on my shelf until I had time to find recipes to use it in. Then when my boys and I were sick (Maybe strep throat) and I looked up natural cures on [...]

66 Love Letters by Larry Crabb

6May12 • admin • 1 comment

I am reading Larry Crabb’s magnum opus, 66 Love Letters: A Conversation with God That Invites You into His Story. So far I really like it. Crabb that takes you through each book of the Bible giving his opinion as to what message he believes God is trying to get across in each book. It is written as a [...]

Rethinking How & Why You Read the Bible

6May12 • admin • 10 comments

I encourage homeschoolers to have a daily Bible time and to try to read the Bible through in a year or two. But this is not the goal. The Pharisees read the Bible daily and memorized large portions it, but when the Lamb of God stood right in front of them they didn’t recognize Him. [...]

Why Are Christians Keeping Passover?

7Apr12 • admin • 3 comments

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)

Unleavened Bread Recipes and Freebie

6Apr12 • admin • 10 comments

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!

A Christ-Focused Passover Seder

5Apr12 • admin • 10 comments

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 [...]

WOW! World’s First Flying Penguins

1Apr12 • admin • 6 comments

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 [...]

What People Think About Homeschooling Meme

8Mar12 • admin • 2 comments

“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 [...]

Free Printable Bible Worksheets

20Feb12 • admin • 1 comment

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 [...]

Heart of Wisdom Split in Two!

16Feb12 • admin • 1 comment

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

I Desire to Do Good, But…

4Feb12 • admin • 0 comments

I make hundreds of little decisions a day, and many times I get them wrong. These are the things I don’t want exposed – things I prefer never to admit. But I must be open about how I have failed, because only then can God forgive me, cleanse me and use me. The words in [...]

Living Loved and Dancing with the Trinity

3Feb12 • admin • 6 comments

I spent years steeped in shame, seeking acceptance in religion. See My Story Masked to Truefaced. The audio teachings below opened my eyes, freed me from shame, and allowed me to accept merciful God’s grace and love. Theologian Baxter Kruger has been teaching on the “Dancing Trinity” (Perichoresis) topic for years. A friend sent him [...]

Delight Directed Homeschooling: Farm Science

27Jan12 • admin • 1 comment

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 [...]

3 Free Christian Fiction Kindle eBooks

24Jan12 • admin • 1 comment

I have not read any of these yet so I don’t know if they are worth your time. But they are free and marked Christian fiction genre so I’ll check them out and share. Free Kindle ebooks are usually free for a limited time so get them now. Prices change without notice, so older posts [...]

My Etsy Shop

14Jan12 • admin • 2 comments

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 [...]

3 Free Kindle Books on Organizing and Decluttering

1Jan12 • admin • 2 comments

Free at time of posting, prices may change at any time. Organize for a Fresh Start: Embrace Your Next Chapter in Life eBook Organize for a Fresh Start will teach readers step-by-step how to reorganize so they can hold on to what they need, let go of what they don’t, and welcome new things that [...]

Win the Bee Attitudes (Beatitudes) Lapbook!

29Dec11 • admin • 79 comments

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 [...]

Think on These Things

29Dec11 • admin • 13 comments

[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 [...]

Win this Hanukkah Lapbook!

18Dec11 • admin • 164 comments

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 [...]

12 Things I Like and Don’t Like About Christmas

12Dec11 • admin • 82 comments

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 [...]

30% Off Lapbook & Scrapbook Coupon

1Dec11 • admin • 0 comments

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

3 Free Books by Wayne Jacobsen

28Nov11 • admin • 7 comments

Free Life Changing Books by Wayne Jacobsen from LifeStream.org publishers of The Shack

Earn Free Scrapbook / Lapbook Kits

16Nov11 • admin • 0 comments

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.

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

15Nov11 • admin • 3 comments

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 [...]

Tribute to My Hero on Veteran’s Day

11Nov11 • admin • 8 comments

These a few pages from a scrapbook I made as a tribute to my husband. Ronnie served as a Medic in the Army in the Vietnam War. He received his first purple Heart and Bronze Star for receiving a bullet in the shoulder while untangling a man during live gunfire from a barbwire fence. He [...]

Free Downloads

14Oct11 • admin • 7 comments

There are hundreds of free printables for Bible study, homeschooling, and home organization spread across five different Heart of Wisdom blogs. I put them all here to make them easy to find. BE PATIENT–it take a minute for the thumbnails to load. You should see 50+ thumbnail images linked to freebies. If not click [...]

Steps to Organizing Your Home Library

13Oct11 • admin • 8 comments

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?

13Oct11 • admin • 4 comments

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 [...]

One Hour School Project & Free Columbus Day Clip Art

11Oct11 • admin • 1 comment

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 [...]

Ways to Teach Math with Playing Cards

11Oct11 • admin • 2 comments

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 [...]