Blog, High School, Using HomeschoolingTorah, Using the Bible in Every Subject
We are often asked if Homeschooling Torah includes high school subjects. When looking at the website, it can appear that teaching most of your students together means that advanced students will not be challenged or might even be left out. We have carefully checked...
Blog, Our Philosophy & Methods, Using the Bible in Every Subject
As I’ve studied the Scriptures, I’ve noted that the book of Deuteronomy seems to suggest specific methods for not only what and why we should teach our children, but how we should teach them. I’ve also noticed that each chapter or group of chapters...
Blog, Teaching Multiple Ages
Please note that this post contains links to books and resources that will pay me a small commission if you click on the links. I truly only recommend things that I use and love… I am having a hard time believing how quickly this summer is going. We have had...
Blog, Marriage, Time Management
I received an excellent reader question lately, and she gave permission for me to share it with you: I am a homeschooling mom of 8. Our oldest child is 18 and no longer at home, but the others are 10, 8, 8, 6, 4 (with Asperger’s), 2, and newborn. 1. How do you...
Blog, Teaching the Subjects
As we’re preparing to launch our new world history curriculum (Daniel’s Statue: Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome), I’ve been really pondering what we homeschoolers should do about teaching pagan mythology to our children. Should we teach about Greek...
History, Using the Bible in Every Subject
Many curriculum use the Bible to teach from Creation until the Roman Empire. The problem comes when we must then teach the rest of time, from the Roman Empire to modern times. There are so many things to teach our children that it becomes difficult to know which...
Blog, Free Teacher Training, Teaching Multiple Ages
One of the toughest things about homeschooling is managing multiple ages at once. Since I believe that my job as a mother is to be with my children while they’re learning (see Deuteronomy 6:7 and Proverbs 29:15), I have to figure out how to be with seven...
Blog, Our Philosophy & Methods
Today, we’re continuing on with our discussion from chapter 3 of Juggling Life’s Responsibilities. “According to Jeremiah 17:9, we should not trust our own judgment. Why not?” Let me give you a little background to this discussion. In my...
Blog, Our Philosophy & Methods
As we continue our Bible study from my Juggling Life’s Responsibilities, we see this question: “According to Psalm 111:10, where does wisdom begin?” “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good...
Blog, Our Philosophy & Methods
We’re deep into the history of Rome here in our homeschool, currently studying the ceasars before Nero, during the spread of the gospel and the lives of the apostles. It’s really fascinating stuff! 🙂 We recently studied about some of the temples...
Blog, Our Philosophy & Methods
As I mentioned in an earlier post on homeschooling goals, many times we homeschoolers are guilty of being sluggish in our thinking, too quickly adopting goals as our own when we haven’t compared them against Scripture. Often we make goals by reading popular...
Blog, Our Philosophy & Methods
If you’ve been thinking about homeschooling for any length of time, you’ve seen books and articles that recommend that you make goals for your children’s education. I remember when my oldest son was just a few years old. My husband and I heard this same advice, and we...
Blog, Our Philosophy & Methods
Today we’re going to continue our look at the two books, The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory, and The Seven Laws of the Teacher by Howard Hendricks. The second “law” we’re going to consider is “The Law of the Learner.”...
Blog, Free Teacher Training, Parenting
When I was in high school, I had the privilege of taking a “how to teach” class from one of our school’s elementary teachers. I took the class because I was considering majoring in elementary education in college, so I wanted to see if I would like...
