Here’s a great idea I found on Pinterest if you need to practice b,d,p & g. The original source is linked at the bottom of the illustration.
Category: Preschool-Grade 12
Printable Map Resources
Printable outline maps are always valuable to homeschool families. Here is a selection of maps to meet a variety of geographical and historical needs.
Online Map Bank – A huge selection of maps categorized by country, region empire and event. Middle to high school level.
NASA Outline Maps- A downloadable .pdf file of continents and regions. Upper elementary to high school level.
Eduplace Outline Maps – Historical and geographical maps. Primary to upper elementary level.
US Dept. of the Interior printable maps- A variety of US maps, including some with climate or other science information. Upper elementary to high school level.
National Geographic Education – A beta (test) site from National Geographic featuring customizable, printable maps. Upper elementary to high school level.
Adventist Junior Youth Bible Reading Plan
Looking for a Bible reading plan appropriate for younger children? Here is a link to the Adventist Junior Youth Bible Reading Plan. This reading plan takes four years and uses 12 different themes to organize the readings. Download the two-page .pdf file HERE.
Motivation Monday
“Children as well as parents have important duties in the home. They should be taught that they are a part of the home firm. They are fed and clothed and loved and cared for, and they should respond to these many mercies by bearing their share of the home burdens and bringing all the happiness possible into the family of which they are members.”
Ministry of Healing , 394
Hannah’s Sunshine
From the earliest dawn of intellect she had taught her son to love and reverence God and to regard himself as the Lord’s. By every familiar object surrounding him she had sought to lead his thoughts up to the Creator. When separated from her child, the faithful mother’s solicitude did not cease. Every day he was the subject of her prayers. Every year she made, with her own hands, a robe of service for him; and as she went up with her husband to worship at Shiloh, she gave the child this reminder of her love. Every fiber of the little garment had been woven with a prayer that he might be pure, noble, and true. She did not ask for her son worldly greatness, but she earnestly pleaded that he might attain that greatness which Heaven values–that he might honor God and bless his fellow men. – Patriarchs and Prophets
Hannah’s Sunshine:
1. She taught her son to love and reverence God.
2. She taught him that he belonged to God.
3. Everything in her home was to lead Samuel to thoughts of God, our Creator.
4. She prayed for him night and day that he would be pure, noble, and true.
5. She made him a coat of service as a reminder of her love.
Thanksgiving Lapbook
Thanksgiving is coming, ready or not! Thanksgiving is a very fun time to do a unit study with homeschoolers. Learn about the Pilgrims, about religious liberty, about the northeast Indians, about harvest. There are so many aspects to choose from. Here are a few ideas of books to read and ways to put together a lapbook about Thanksgiving.
Some fun reads for children are Squanto And The Miracle Of Thanksgiving, Stories of the Pilgrims, The Thanksgiving Story, If You Were at the First Thanksgiving. and If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620.
If you would like to make a Thanksgiving lapbook, you can get some very nice printable mini books from the books History Pockets, Life in Plymouth Colony and Easy Make and Learn Projects: The Pilgrims, the Mayflower and More. You can also find some things that could be used in a lap book and some fun crafts for Thanksgiving at Danielle’s Place and at Enchanted Learning.
Here are some pictures of Thanksgiving lap books by some of our very own AHE children:
You can see close ups of this lapbook by clicking here.
You can see closeups of this lapbook by clicking here.
Have preparing for Thanksgiving!
Motivation Monday
“There is an important lesson for parents and children to learn in the silence of the Scriptures in reference to the childhood and youth of Christ. He was our example in all things. In the little notice given of His childhood and youthful life is an example for parents as well as children, that the more quiet and unnoticed the period of childhood and youth is passed, and the more natural and free from artificial excitement, the more safe will it be for the children and the more favorable for the formation of a character of purity, natural simplicity, and true moral worth.”
Youth’s Instructor, Feb. 1873
The Adventist Home Educator 