It's that time of the summer, when all my homeschool buddies and I eat, sleep and think about curriculum and planning for the next school year.
I have prayed, planned, changed my mind and finally know what I feel will work best for our family this year.
I wanted to incorporate some teaching time for Hosanna this year as part of her school to better prepare her for motherhood or wherever God might have her teach in the future. (The Bible makes it clear that all women are to be teachers...to the women younger than they are.)
So with that in mind, I found a really fun curriculum for Gilead (and Praise will sit in too even though she has her other kindergarten school to do.) It only takes about 30 minutes a day. Hosanna is very excited to teach it though.
She will be using Heart of Dakota Little Hands to Heaven for Gilead.
It includes 2 books and music CD's (you have your choice of 2 for the Bible and devotionals.)
New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes by Kenneth Taylor
Big Thoughts for Little People
It also incorporates the Singing Bible to help your kids sing their way through the Bible.
Along with that, he will continue his little workbooks that he is already doing from the "I Can" series...
I Can Cut
I Can....Paste, Color, Trace, Draw
Gilead and Hosanna are excited to start their year and may not wait until August.
Moving on to Bible.
Since we just finished up our 6-year Bible curriculum with Student of the Word this spring, we are ready to start something new as a family. It was really awesome to read every single verse of the Bible with my children....we have seen so much fruit from it. We are not up to starting the cycle all over however. Grin.
With that in mind, we found a neat, well laid-out Bible curriculum to keep us on track that we will be starting soon as a family in the evenings when Chris is home.
It is called Foundations. We will be starting with Foundations 3 covering the New Testament.
It includes memory verses, daily reading, links to coloring pages for the younger kids on that particular Bible story and twice a week Sword Drills (races to find a verse to learn the layout of the Bible better.)
They have you illustrate the Memory Verse, write it out, act it out and do games to learn it. Effortless.
Foundations is mainly for the benefit of the younger kids who can't read since my 8 yr old and up have daily devotional times by themselves. It still is a great opportunity for us to get into deeper conversations with the tweens and teens. We're excited to use this since it's so well laid out and looks fun for the kids as well.
That's all for now. My next blog post will cover the early elementary curriculum that we will be using Kindergarten through 3rd grade.
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You said that in the Bible it said that all women must become teachers. And I agree with you that your daughters should learn your religion the best they can so they can then reciprocate their education and teach their own kids in the future. However, what if one of your daughters want to become a doctor or journalist or astronauts. Will you allow them? BTW LOVE your blog!!! It's super cute. I too have a blog, maybe check it out? http://lletmereadthis.weebly.com/
ReplyDeleteJeyRoyal...thanks for your comment. The Bible says that older women should teach younger women how to love their husbands and children and how to keep home. That is the verse I was referring to. If one of our daughters feel that God is calling them to a profession, then, yes, we would encourage them to pursue that until they had children of their own. We feel strongly that a parent should be home to raise the children especially when they are young, but preferably all the time the children are living at home. With having 3 teens at home now, it seems even more important to be available to them as they need to talk and bounce ideas off of us all the time. We are raising our girls to be good homemakers, intellectually smart, good communicators and have a servant's heart and love for God. My 14yo daughter already has 6 college credits and is writing her first novel, so we are raising well-rounded young ladies, I believe. =)
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