I originally wrote this article in 2011. I’m so grateful the Lord has answered my fervent prayers for my own growth!
AND …don’t miss the GIANT homeschool giveaway at the end of this post!
It’s a question I approach with extreme caution: “Where do your kids go to school?”…. [Read more…]
Christian history is one of my very favorite things to study personally, as well. I’ve made you a great, big, ENORMOUS list of Christian history books. They’re sectioned by age range, and then by historical time period. We’ve used these resources ourselves, and I highly recommend them!
I’d also be honored if you’d take a look at my youth biography, When Lightning Struck! The Story of Martin Luther. It’s perfect for middle school and high school students, and a great read aloud for 3-5th grade as well. You can download FREE resources, like a discussion guide and a 12-week unit study, and learn more about the book at the above link.…. [Read more…]
Once your kids discover the joy of retelling Bible stories with craft stick puppets, you’ll find you have an abundance of small, precious pieces of art floating around your home. Worse, the Bible story characters and props will be all mixed together. To solve that problem, my boys and I developed a file folder system to store the individual story pieces. I’ve made you a printable label for your file folder, too.
Your Bible stick puppet file folders will be important as your children will want to add characters and retell stories again and again….. [Read more…]
One of the things I love to do here at Thinking Kids is to let you know about great Christian resources I’ve found. The other day I received an email asking about our favorite Christian homeschool resources. In eight years of homeschooling, we’ve certainly found some resources worth using year after year. I’m so happy to share them with you!
We’ve tried a lot of curriculum, but there are homeschool resources we’ve stuck with from the beginning. Some, I couldn’t find a resource I loved, so I wrote our own, and some I’ve come across for our boys as they’ve entered middle and high school, and I’m thrilled….. [Read more…]
In recreating the craft for you, I thought it would be nice to add a 7 Days of Creation Printable for you, so you’d have easy to apply labels rather than having to write on each day or use a label maker like we did. You’ll find that sheet at the very bottom of this post.
