Easter Unit Study

easter unit study
  The week between Palm Sunday and Easter, or any time near Easter, is a perfect time for a unit study. You can create your own unit study using the last week of Jesus’ life as a template, or you can use the one I have created for you. Each day, you will read Scripture
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Hey Mama Monday: Mama, He Has This Under Control!

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Hey Mama, Today will take care of itself. And we have a lot of say about the memories our kids are going to have of this particular day with us. TODAY. Will it be sad memories? Stressed-out memories? Furrowed-brow memories? A Mama who loved them but was always down? Or . . . even in
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Igniting Wonder with Unit Studies

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  Nothing adds wonder to homeschooling quite like a unit study. Well, and some yummy goodies, of course. Unit studies can serve as a terrific remedy for an exciting curriculum that’s suddenly turned tired. Here’s a few ways they can ignite wonder in your homeschool.   Enjoy Freedom with Unit Studies If you’re not familiar
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Families Across the World Now Homeschooling Due to School Closures

Parents around the globe are being forced into a paradigm shift regarding their children’s education because of the COVID-19 outbreak. Numbers are increasing daily, but current estimates are that over 1.2 billion children are now learning from home, with more than 120 countries closing their schools nationwide for anywhere from a currently projected few weeks
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Spring Fever – The Homeschool Way

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  I know I am not alone in wishing a winter a satisfying goodbye. It’s not that winter here in the Midwest has been very violent this year…it’s just been maudlin and unpredictable. And wet. Very wet. I am more than anxious for the first bloom of spring. The sunny breezy days and the increase
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Comparison Games

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  Are you a victim of the social media entrapment? This entrapment boasts of perfection. It snares the innocent-minded mother and binds her with feelings of inferiority. Our friends’ perfect lives are plastered all over social media. Envy creeps in, and before long disdain fills our lives. A friend posts a calming picture of their
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We Can’t Afford to Homeschool, But…

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  If I had a quarter for every time I’ve said or heard, “I wish we could homeschool, but we can’t afford it,” affordability for our family wouldn’t be an issue. That phrase, whether in reference to curriculum or living on one income, is one of the most common responses to the “we can’t homeschool”
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Hey Mama Monday: His Hand is On You, Mama!

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Hey Mama, You have freedom to love, freedom to make choices—good or bad—and freedom to pray. Freedom to read God’s word openly and as often as you want. Freedom to hide Bible verses in your heart (and your kids’ hearts). Freedom to discipline your children in love, to build their character, to mold them into
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