Homeschooling
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2013-2014 School Year, Here We Come
Today is the first day of our year of home school. We thought we’d share a little about the excitement we have for this year. Last night, the kids were getting ready. Enjoy this short video where they tell you what they are looking forward to. Then, this morning, we got the teacher involved and asked her what she’s looking forward to. Here are some pictures of the kids, all ready to go into the house and start day #1 of the school year. Lord, I pray your blessings on my precious children as they begin another school year. Help their hearts to be drawn closer to you by the…
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Homeschool Idea: Daddy Challenge Chair
Our homeschool begins today, with Mary Carol in 1st grade and Turner beginning Kindergarten. They are both really excited, and Leah (as always) has done a tremendous job getting ready for the year to begin. One of the struggles I had last year was staying “in the loop” with what the kids were learning. So, I came up with an idea for this year’s school that I’m really excited about. The Daddy Challenge Chair! Here is what I did. I took the kids with me to a flea market and bought a little stool for next-to-nothing. (To make this a “Pinterest-y” post, I’m including before and after pictures!) Here is…
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Home Education: A Biblical Perspective
Recently, we asked our readers for some suggested topics. This is the 8th and final post of these suggestions in the month of July. Thank you for the suggestions, and I hope to do this again. Erin suggested that we write about the Biblical perspective of home education. As many of you know, we homeschool our children. Next Monday, Mary Carol will start first grade, and Turner will start Kindergarten (although we “homeschooled” him last year, too. We just called it “Mommy preschool.”) The decision we made to do this was after countless hours of prayer, conversations, and thought. We know there are drawbacks, and one of our goals is to…
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Resources for Family Devotionals
Recently, we asked our readers for ideas on what they would like us to write about. We got a lot of good suggestions, and we are writing about 8 of them in July. (This is the 3rd post.) One of the suggestions, from “Mashflash16,” was for some help with family devotional ideas. The comment stated that their family devotionals were always praying, singing songs, and reading Scripture, but they wanted other ideas. Before giving some suggestions, let me commend this family. The main thing about family devotionals is to do them! We do not have one every single night, but we strive to have about 2 per week. Honestly, we…
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Three Special Interviews
Yesterday was our last day of homeschool for the 2011-2012 school year. For memory’s sake, I decided to interview our two students and their lovely teacher. Enjoy!
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Sing those Verses!
Recently, we have been making a strong effort with our kids to memorize Scripture. The best way we have found is to put little melodies to those verses. In our car, we have been playing some of the Hannah’s Hundred CDs for quite some time. If you are not familiar with these CDs, they are a collection of 100 verses per CD sung by our friends: Glenn, Cindy, Caleb, and Hannah Colley. We currently have two of the CDs and you would be amazed how many of those little songs our kids know, and how many they walk around the house singing. If you are interested in these resources, here’s…
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A Family Video for You to Enjoy
Here are some pictures of our trip to Parsons this week. We had a great time in both the meeting and in taking the kids to some fun and educational places. Enjoy! Spring 2012 West Tennessee Trip from Adam Faughn on Vimeo.
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Bible Review Time (by Leah)
NOTE: Today’s post is from Leah. This is her first post on our blog, but I really hope it is not her last!!! Her post deals with our homeschool, but the tips she will give will help any parents, especially of smaller children. Even if you do not homeschool, read this post. She gives some help for all parents at the end. Thanks to Leah for a great post…but even more for being a wonderful wife! ————————– I’m probably not the only mom with young children who wonders what to do with all of the cute little take-home sheets from the kids’ Bible School classes at church. Just a few…
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Fall Break Family Day … A Wonderful Day!
This week is our kids’ Fall Break from home school. Leah and I planned a huge day for them on Thursday, and we had an absolute blast. We began the day by going to a local farm that has a pumpkin patch. It’s a little drive, but I would highly, highly recommend Lannom Farms. Not only did the kids have tons of stuff to do, but the people were extremely friendly and informative. It took us about 30 minutes to drive there, but it was worth it!!! After a morning at the farm, we headed to Providence Mall. At Target, we shopped and bought a new outfit that each of…
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Children’s Project: Bible Time Line
One of our favorite things about homeschooling our children is that we include the Bible in their curriculum. More accurately, the Bible is the foundation for their curriculum, with all other subjects feeding into their knowledge of God and His Word. Thus, there are many projects and lessons that help our children learn more about–and appreciate more deeply–the Bible. One of those is their Bible timeline. Obviously, we could just buy a pre-made timeline and hang it on the wall. The kids would learn some, but there is something to be said for having them be part of the process of making the timeline in order to learn the chronology…
