Heart

Homeschool Journey: Educating our Hearts

I mentioned in my last post that during the year of waiting, the Lord tutored, instructed, and prepared me (and that process has continued).  I was led to resources, principles, and tools that gave me a vision for what should be our overarching focus and goal.   The main resource that I was led to was...
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The Arts for the Heart: Nature

The whole world is full of unworked joy mines. Everywhere we go we find all sorts of happiness-producing material, if we only know how to extract it.” -Orison Swett Marsden   Some of the greatest joy mines are in the arts. The arts help to teach and mold our hearts so we are better able...
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The Arts for the Heart: Music

The whole world is full of unworked joy mines. Everywhere we go we find all sorts of happiness-producing material, if we only know how to extract it.” -Orison Swett Marsden Continuing on with the series of posts about the arts and our hearts. Next up is Music.   By music, I don’t just mean any...
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The Arts for the Heart: Poetry

The whole world is full of unworked joy mines. Everywhere we go we find all sorts of happiness-producing material, if we only know how to extract it.” -Orison Swett Marsden   Continuing on with the series of posts about the arts and our hearts. Next up is Poetry.   “The soldier fights for his native...
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The Arts for the Heart: Art

The whole world is full of unworked joy mines. Everywhere we go we find all sorts of happiness-producing material, if we only know how to extract it.” -Orison Swett Marsden   Continuing on with the series of posts about the arts and our hearts. Next up is Art.   “You must look at pictures studiously, earnestly,...
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The Arts for the Heart: Story

The whole world is full of unworked joy mines. Everywhere we go we find all sorts of happiness-producing material, if we only know how to extract it.” -Orison Swett Marsden   Continuing on with the series of posts about the arts and our hearts. Last but not least is Story.   “The normal [child] demands a...
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Lead by Example

One of my favorite parts about homeschooling is that I get to learn right along side my kids.  My love of learning has grown even deeper over the past couple years and I just can’t seem to get enough.  Sometimes I feel like I’ll never have enough time in this life to be able to...
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Notebooking: Digesting, Extracting Joy, and Collecting Gems

Notebooking provides a way for digesting what we are learning, collecting gems, and extracting joy.  My notebook is quickly becoming a priceless treasure to me.  And I hope my kids’ notebooks become invaluable to them as well.  What is notebooking? Notebooking is for extracting joy and collecting gems. “I see notebooking as a way to...
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Anschaaung: Sense Impressions

I wrote up this post a couple months ago but forgot to publish it… so here you go.  🙂   A few weeks ago, we watched Mr. Smith Goes to Washington because we have been learning a lot about the founding of our nation and government.  I may have seen this movie as a kid, but...
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Röena Studio Show: Week Eight

We had our eighth Röena Studio Show last night.  Jershon and I went on a trip at the beginning of the month so this show was our only one for our Month Three rotation topics.  Our topics were The British Isles, 1700’s Independence, and Rocks.  This show was all focused on The British Isles.  We...
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Röena Studio Show: Week Seven

Last night we had our Röena Studio Show #7.  This show had bits of Spain, Oceans, and 1700’s Independence.       The first performance was a mini play by the children.  They wanted to act out a couple of scenes from Don Quixote.     The second performance was Evelyn telling the story called Freedom Bird....
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Röena Studio Show: Week Six

Last night we had our Röena Studio Show #6. The main rotation topic that we did for this one was the ocean. We also had a little bit of pilgrims thrown in as well. We set up a little backdrop with a blue blanket draped over the back of some chairs. This represented ocean and...
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Röena Studio Show: Week Five

Last night was our fifth Röena Studio show!  We have moved on to month two in the rotation so the topics that we spent time learning about this past week were the pilgrims and the Netherlands.         First, Evelyn and Roxanne performed a dance that they made up called Dance of the Pilgrims...
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Röena Studio Show: Week Four

Last night we had our fourth Röena Studio Show.  The main topic for this past week was India but we also jumped around to other rotation topics for month one as well.  This one was more like dinner and a show because we made some Indian food, based on a recipe from our Belle Ame...
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Röena Studio Show: Week Three

Tonight we had our third Röena Studio Show.  We learned about Asian countries this past week so that was the theme of our show.  We dressed up in our Filipino costumes that we used in our Philippines Unit a few years ago.  Jershon and the boys also wore the Barong shirts that his parents gave...
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Raise and Relief

For our Relief Society lesson today we discussed Camille N. Johnson’s talk from this last General Conference, Jesus Christ is Relief.  These are a couple of the quotes that really stood out to me…   “Covenant keepers are blessed with the Savior’s relief. Consider this example in the Book of Mormon: The people of Alma...
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Röena Studio Show: Week Two

Yesterday evening we had our second Röena Studio Show.  This past week we focused our studies mostly on Scandinavia but other topics from the month one of the rotation were sprinkled in as well.  Like last week, our show was based on the things that we learned from our Belle Ame At Home classes.  The...
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Röena Studio Show: Week One

If you read my last post about Röena Studio then you may be wondering what we will be doing to make our school into more of a studio.  In our studio, I want to bring more of the senses into our learning.  This is something that I love to do already, as evidenced by some...
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