Journal Time
My daughter loves to write. In fact, she has already decided she is going to be an author. So it is natural that she would enjoy writing in her journal for school. Journaling has been part of her...
View ArticleJust One Paragraph? Impossible!
My daughter loves to express herself--both verbally and in written form. More often than not, assignments asking for a few sentences turn into three or four pages, as was the case with today's...
View ArticleSwitching Things Up
For quite a while now, I've been feeling a tug to move away from the "school at home" mindset to one more relaxed. We changed our curriculum up a bit, and moved our "classroom" into the living room to...
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Updated Website
A year ago, I changed the name of our homeschool from Hearts for Him Homeschool to Hearts for Him Academy. I changed our domain name and the site header but got behind on updating the site. I'm happy...
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Holy Week
This week begins Holy Week--the most important week of the year when we celebrate the death and ressurection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. It is a week filled with mixed emotions. Sadness for...
View ArticleSummertime, summertime, sum..sum..summertime!
We homeschool year round, but try to follow a six weeks on, one week off schedule. We are getting ready to finish up our six weeks after VBS, which coincides with us finishing our bible/history/geo...
View ArticleCurriculum for 2016-2017 School Year
I've never been much of a planner, but decided to try and plan out the first six weeks of the upcoming school year. We school year-round, and usually go six weeks, than a week off (or more if we want...
View ArticleThe Canadian Adventure Unit Study
Earlier this year, I got a fun unit study about Canada. When we tried to add it to our current schedule, we found we just weren't able to spend as much time on it as we wanted. When push came to...
View ArticlePlanning the Year--That Didn't Last Long!
Once again, I let myself get caught up in what others are doing. I KNOW I'm not a planner. I KNOW that we are more relaxed than many. Yet, I saw so many posts about planning and I let myself get...
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9/11 Unit Study
We started school last Tuesday (Sept. 7) but only worked on a few subjects for the five days. One of those subjects was a unit study on 9/11. Up to this point, we had only discussed that day in vague...
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