The Blessing of Home Education

One of the glories of home education is finding curriculum that works best for your students! I am thankful for the opportunities to get to explore the many options available. Recently I discovered this Primer for beginner readers. I LOVE it! I have had several students who have struggled with learning to read and this is a very helpful tool for those students and one busy mama! It explains each lesson plan with specific detail so all you as the teacher have to do, is teach!






Lydia and Abigail both proudly display their cursive handwriting! Abigail is just learning to read these words while Lydia is reviewing and making great leaps of growth in her reading! Lydia recently read two whole verses out of 1 Samuel chapter 8! We are so proud of them!
Below, Julia shows off a flower she made during science. We use the Apologia curriculum for science and it is filled with all kinds of fun projects for the students to do. We enjoy these as they help solidify and bring to life the lessons they have learned. This is just a sample of what we do each day. I am blessed to be able to keep my children home and teach them the fundamentals so they will be prepared for life as adults! It is so rewarding to look at these munchkins and know that you are the one who taught them to read so that they can, in turn, learn ANYTHING! I love to watch their minds grow each and every day. And I especially love to know that they are learning things that will honor God as we get to focus on character building as well as "the three R's"!




10 comments:

  1. Great job girls! Lydia was so pleased to share her verse reading news to me last night in Bible class. I LOVE hearing young readers! Keep up the good work! Hugs, Mrs. Potvin

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  2. Great job to all three girls!! They are growing up so quickly. I too enjoy hearing young readers as they first discover reading what a delight.. : ).

    In Christ,
    Mr. Rick Potvin
    Pr. 3:5-6

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  3. We use Apologia science too and I remember making that flower. ;)

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  4. This is excellent, as we have an "almost" 2 year old Lydia. Thank you for sharing I will be sure and check into it.

    Kevin Jandt

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  5. Great reference and thank you for sharing. We have an "almost" two year old Lydia and this is very helpful.

    Kevin Jandt

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  6. Great Job! Pretty amazing cursive for that young! I think I'm about at that stage.;-)

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  7. For many years now I have had the privilege of using the Alpha Phonics book to teach Brianna as well as other children and even an adult how to read. I am thrilled to know you enjoy this book. We have a wonderful privilege afforded to us to teach our children at home. Thank you for sharing the fun of learning.

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  8. We use both of those and love them!!!

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  9. We really appreciated using the Alpha-Phonics for our children thru the years also! It even has a CD to use in the computer, if you can still buy it....we found it to be very helpful. D. Poole~Spokane

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