Yearly Archives: 2011

Welcome to our Celebrate Freedom (& Simplicity) in Biblical Home Education Facebook Party Door Prize post! If you aren’t at the party on the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others!  Then read below to find out how to enter the drawing for this Door Prize. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 12, 2011, sorry, you missed the party. But if it’s before midnight, you may still be able to enter to win this and other Door Prizes. Scan through the recent blog posts.

Tonight, Me & My House ministries (that’s us) is giving  Growing in Christ’s Image, a $12.50 value, to one blessed attender of the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Party. 

Here’s the L.E.D. resource one blessed attender is going to win!
Keep reading for instructions to enter the drawing.

Growing in Christ’s Image
A Character Book of Remembrance

 

Add to your faith virtue, … 2 Peter 1:5

Character is the second most important thing we disciple our children in. It is something we both teach and train in – day in and day out. It isn’t the easiest thing we can teach our children. Math, Reading, HisStory are all so much easier. But after the knowledge of God and Salvation by Jesus the Christ alone, Character is the most important thing we can train our children in. We must have the Character ourselves to be consistent and diligent in teaching them. We must realize that the trials we face, even in this, are for our own maturing and growth in the image of Christ.

Our Character studies enable us to clearly identify and define the character quality, come up with practical applications that demonstrate it, and journal our progress in it. These journal forms will help you document your study into a Book of Remembrance for future reference, both as a Journal of Remembrance for yourself and in discipling others. We recommend you put them in page protectors in 3-ring binders.

But the point is not that your children have nice orderly and complete notebooks of Character information, but that it grows in their hearts, that their lives are transformed by God, and conformed to the image of His Son, Jesus. The Journals are just a tool of Remembrance of the information, illustrations, and applications we learn.

This resource contains over 25 journaling forms in 2 different formats for beginning writers (who need ruled mid-lines) and more experienced writers (who don’t). 60 pages.

This resource can be used for personalized study, (searching the dictionary, the Scriptures, and other resources for your own study,) or with character teaching resources you have.

The winner of this drawing will receive Growing in Christ’s Image. You can enter this drawing several ways. Increase your chances of winning by doing all of them! Each must be a separate comment to this post (below.)

1) Post a comment below answering: What character quality are you ready to focus on in your family?

2) “Like” and/or Comment on the Facebook Party Page post about this Door Prize. Comment below to tell us you did.

3) Subscribe to our Free monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings – and comment below to tell us you did. (You must confirm your subscription too.) If you are already a subscriber, post that in the comments below and tell us what you like best about the Newsletter. Using this link to subscribe will get you another FREE GIFT from Me & My House!

4) Invite your home educating Facebook friends to “Like” our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, – and comment below to tell us you did.

5) Encourage your friends to Subscribe to our Newsletter by posting this on your Facebook status. “Subscribe to Me & My House musings, a Free monthly email newsletter for Discipleship for Life! – http://newsletter.frommeandmyhouse.com  (Articles on Christian living, home keeping, home educating, health through nutrition, and more.)”

Winner of  Growing in Christ’s Image will be announced in a Special edition of our Newsletter, tomorrow! – as well as posted here.

If you don’t receive our FREE monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings, click here to subscribe and get another Free Gift.

If you aren’t following Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ on Facebook, click here and “Like” us. If we reach 500 “Likes” will we offer another Party Favor to EVERYONE!

Welcome to our Celebrate Freedom (& Simplicity) in Biblical Home Education Facebook Party Door Prize post! If you aren’t at the party on the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others!  Then read below to find out how to enter the drawing for this Door Prize. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 12, 2011, sorry, you missed the party. But if it’s before midnight, you may still be able to enter to win this and other Door Prizes. Scan through the recent blog posts.

Tonight, Diane Hurst of Gentle Shepherd has donated 5 sets of Farm Animal Matching Cards for FIVE blessed attenders of the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Party. Thanks so much Diane! “Like” Gentle Shepherd on Facebook.

Here’s the resource FIVE blessed attenders are going to win!
Keep reading for instructions to enter the drawing.

Memories

We all remember playing memory match, and children still love to play it. This cute set of Farm Animals has the added bonus of their names and sounds in 4 languages. Learn more than picture matching. ~ Me

 

Farm Animals Matching Cards

 

Farm Animals Matching Cards is an e-book with masters for making your own matching card set. There are two pages of matching cards–six animals on each page.

These picture pages can be printed out in color, on card stock. You will need to print each page two times, so there will be a double set of cards.

The cards are cut apart, and are then ready to use. You can also have them laminated, to make them more durable.

Words in four languages (English, Spanish, French, and German) for the 12 farm animals AND their sounds are listed on two charts, so the game can easily be used for foreign language practice.

Memory match games can be enjoyed by the whole family.

They are a favorite game of young and old alike.

They also are an excellent way to practice foreign language vocabulary– great to use as a supplement to any foreign language study.

There are 9 pages in this e-book.

The FIVE winners of this drawing will receive a downloadable ebook, Farm Animal Matching Cards. You can enter this drawing several ways. Increase your chances of winning by doing all of them! Each must be a separate comment to this post (below.)

1) Post a comment below answering: What is/was your toddler’s favorite learning game?

2) “Like” and/or Comment on the Facebook Party Page post about this Door Prize. Comment below to tell us you did.

3) Subscribe to our Free monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings – and comment below to tell us you did. (You must confirm your subscription too.) If you are already a subscriber, post that in the comments below and tell us what you like best about the Newsletter. Using this link to subscribe will get you another FREE GIFT from Me & My House!

4) Invite your home educating Facebook friends to “Like” our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, – and comment below to tell us you did.

5) Encourage your friends to Subscribe to our Newsletter by posting this on your Facebook status. “Subscribe to Me & My House musings, a Free monthly email newsletter for Discipleship for Life! – http://newsletter.frommeandmyhouse.com  (Articles on Christian living, home keeping, home educating, health through nutrition, and more.)”

Winners of  the Farm Animal Matching Cards will be announced in a Special edition of our Newsletter, tomorrow! – as well as posted here.

If you don’t receive our FREE monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings, click here to subscribe and get another Free Gift.

If you aren’t following Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ on Facebook, click here and “Like” us. If we reach 500 “Likes” will we offer another Party Favor to EVERYONE!

Welcome to our Celebrate Freedom (& Simplicity) in Biblical Home Education Facebook Party Door Prize post! If you aren’t at the party on the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others!  Then read below to find out how to enter the drawing for this Door Prize. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 12, 2011, sorry, you missed the party. But if it’s before midnight, you may still be able to enter to win this and other Door Prizes. Scan through the recent blog posts.

Tonight, Harvey & Laurie Bluedorn of  Trivium Pursuit have donated 2 copies of Teaching the Trivium, a $34.00 value, for two blessed attenders of the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Party. Thanks so much Bluedorns! And Thanks for coming out here to the sticks of South Central Nebraska, all those years ago, to share with our homeschool group! “Like” Homeschooling with the Trivium on Facebook.

Here’s the Book that two blessed attenders are going to win!
Keep reading for instructions to enter the drawing.

Tools of Learning

I don’t agree with a lot of Classical (Greek) education, but the Bluedorns approach is different. It is a Christian approach for teaching our children to learn and think – through a Biblical perspective. And I really like that it is a gentle approach in the early years. In our Resources & Recommendations Online Catalog on our General Home Ed Resources page. ~ Me

 

Teaching the Trivium

How can you give your children the tools they need to teach themselves? Long ago students were first taught how to learn. Today, students are taught an encyclopedia of subjects – trivia – but they are not taught the basic skills of learning: to discover, to reason, and to apply. They are not taught the Trivium.

Can you homeschool in a classical style without compromising your Christian principles? Because we are Christians, we do not want to pursue non-Christian goals. Classical Education must be sifted through the critical screen of the Scriptures to be transformed into a Biblical model.

Can you homeschool in a classical style without buckling under the burden? There is only so much time in the day. For every subject, and for every age, we have a workable plan – which leaves you free to breathe. You can continue to use other approaches to homeschooling within the framework of Classical Education.

Is homeschooling about renewing family vision? The family is at the heart of God’s plan for restoring Christian culture. Homeschooling is not alternative education. Homeschooling was here first. We want to restore Biblical order to education.

Two winners of this drawing will receive Teaching the Trivium. You can enter this drawing several ways. Increase your chances of winning by doing all of them! Each must be a separate comment to this post (below.)

1) Post a comment below answering: How has your view of what education is to be, Biblically, changed since you began home educating?

2) “Like” and/or Comment on the Facebook Party Page post about this Door Prize. Comment below to tell us you did.

3) Subscribe to our Free monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings – and comment below to tell us you did. (You must confirm your subscription too.) If you are already a subscriber, post that in the comments below and tell us what you like best about the Newsletter. Using this link to subscribe will get you another FREE GIFT from Me & My House!

4) Invite your home educating Facebook friends to “Like” our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, – and comment below to tell us you did.

5) Encourage your friends to Subscribe to our Newsletter by posting this on your Facebook status. “Subscribe to Me & My House musings, a Free monthly email newsletter for Discipleship for Life! – http://newsletter.frommeandmyhouse.com  (Articles on Christian living, home keeping, home educating, health through nutrition, and more.)”

The winners of  the Teaching the Trivium will be announced in a Special edition of our Newsletter, tomorrow! – as well as posted here.

If you don’t receive our FREE monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings, click here to subscribe and get another Free Gift.

If you aren’t following Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ on Facebook, click here and “Like” us. If we reach 500 “Likes” will we offer another Party Favor to EVERYONE!

Welcome to our Celebrate Freedom (& Simplicity) in Biblical Home Education Facebook Party Door Prize post! If you aren’t at the party on the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others!  Then read below to find out how to enter the drawing for this Door Prize. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 12, 2011, sorry, you missed the party. If it’s before midnight, some of the prizes can still be entered for. Scan through the recent blog posts.

Tonight, Me & My House ministries (that’s us) is giving  Freedom & Simplicity™ of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ ~ The Seminar ToGo, a $30 value, to TWO blessed attenders of the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Party. 

Here’s the L.E.D. resource TWO blessed attenders are going to win!
Keep reading for instructions to enter the drawing.

Freedom & Simplicity™ of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship ~ The Seminar ToGo

 

Real Books and Family-Friendly Natural Methods
+ Biblical Foundations and Reasoning for Excellence
= L.E.D.

Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ is a way of looking at Life and Learning, based on seeking Biblical Wisdom through Universal Principles with Unique Applications™. This multi-session (full day) Seminar presents the foundations and the vision of Biblical learning for excellence in the lifestyle of the Christian home. In our Seminars you will learn not only the Philosophy, Principles, and Practical Application of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™, but you’ll also experience Times of Refreshing, Reflection, and Renewing the Mind. Hands-on Discipleship yoU!™ exercises will help you integrate L.E.D.™ into your own life.

Freedom and Simplicity™ of L.E.D. ~ The Seminar  will equip you to teach Discipleship for Life!™

• How to educate from a Biblical Worldview
• How to teach Biblical Principles in all of Life, and every “school subject”
• How to teach multiple ages – without cloning yourself
• How to disciple your children for God’s purpose for their lives
• How to use Real Books and Natural methods for Excellence
• Hands-on application included
• Make the Biblical excellence of the Principle Approach family friendly, and the Natural learning of Charlotte Mason methods Biblically grounded, arrange them into multi-level topical studies and you’re off!

The winners of this drawing will receive the Freedom & Simplicity™ of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ ~ The Seminar ToGo. You can enter this drawing several ways. Increase your chances of winning by doing all of them! Each must be a separate comment to this post (below.)

1) The FIRST and the EIGHTH persons to comment below will win! Post a comment below answering: How do you bring cohesiveness to the path of education you teach and to your family in home education?

 

You don’t have to post these comments below to enter for this Prize,
each person only has 1 chance for this one.
But we’d love it if you took these actions anyhow. 

2) “Like” and/or Comment on the Facebook Party Page post about this Door Prize. Comment below to tell us you did.

3) Subscribe to our Free monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings – and comment below to tell us you did. (You must confirm your subscription too.) If you are already a subscriber, post that in the comments below and tell us what you like best about the Newsletter. Using this link to subscribe will get you another FREE GIFT from Me & My House!

4) Invite your home educating Facebook friends to “Like” our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, – and comment below to tell us you did.

5) Encourage your friends to Subscribe to our Newsletter by posting this on your Facebook status. “Subscribe to Me & My House musings, a Free monthly email newsletter for Discipleship for Life! – http://newsletter.frommeandmyhouse.com  (Articles on Christian living, home keeping, home educating, health through nutrition, and more.)”

Winners of  Freedom & Simplicity™ of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ ~ The Seminar ToGo will be announced in a Special edition of our Newsletter, tomorrow! – as well as posted here.

If you don’t receive our FREE monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings, click here to subscribe and get another Free Gift.

If you aren’t following Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ on Facebook, click here and “Like” us. If we reach 500 “Likes” will we offer another Party Favor to EVERYONE!

Welcome to our Celebrate Freedom (& Simplicity) in Biblical Home Education Facebook Party Door Prize post! If you aren’t at the party on the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others!  Then read below to find out how to enter the drawing for this Door Prize. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 12, 2011, sorry, you missed the party. But if it’s before midnight, you may still be able to enter to win this and other Door Prizes. Scan through the recent blog posts.

Tonight, Hal & Melanie Young of  Raising Real Men have donated  Raising Real Men – Mom & Dad Special (book and audiobook CD), a $35 value, for one blessed attender of the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Party. Thanks so much Hal & Melanie! “Like” Raising Real Men on Facebook.

Here’s the Book and Audiobook CD that one blessed attender is going to win!
Keep reading for instructions to enter the drawing.

Discipling Young Men

Although the process of Raising Real Men is not always “fun”, reading the book was a delight. As a mother of 4 sons (and 6 daughters), I was encouraged as over and over I caught myself saying, Yes!, to both the description of the behavior and wiring of boys and the proper biblical response and direction they need.  In our Resources & Recommendations Online Catalog on our Beyond Babies page. ~ Me

 

 Raising Real Men
Mom & Dad Special – Book and Audiobook CD

 

“This is a book that every family should have…” – J. Michael Smith, Esq, President, HSLDA
A Practical Guide to Equipping the Hearts and Minds of Boys without Losing or Breaking Your Own
If this is God’s chosen gift to us, then why does it seem so hard? How can we prepare these boys to serve God when we can barely make it through the day? Isn’t there a better way?

The answer is yes.

“Just what the doctor ordered…” – Parenting columnist John Rosemond, author of Parenting by the Book

“…earthy, realistic, humorous and scriptural…” – Douglas Wilson, author of Future Men

The winner of this drawing will receive Raising Real Men – Mom & Dad Special. You can enter this drawing several ways. Increase your chances of winning by doing all of them! Each must be a separate comment to this post (below.)

1) Post a comment below answering: Who reads and who listens to audiobooks at your house? And – Do you have an ebook reader?

2) “Like” and/or Comment on the Facebook Party Page post about this Door Prize. Comment below to tell us you did.

3) Subscribe to our Free monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings – and comment below to tell us you did. (You must confirm your subscription too.) If you are already a subscriber, post that in the comments below and tell us what you like best about the Newsletter. Using this link to subscribe will get you another FREE GIFT from Me & My House!

4) Invite your home educating Facebook friends to “Like” our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, – and comment below to tell us you did.

5) Encourage your friends to Subscribe to our Newsletter by posting this on your Facebook status. “Subscribe to Me & My House musings, a Free monthly email newsletter for Discipleship for Life! – http://newsletter.frommeandmyhouse.com  (Articles on Christian living, home keeping, home educating, health through nutrition, and more.)”

Winner of  the Raising Real Men – Mom & Dad Special will be announced in a Special edition of our Newsletter, tomorrow! – as well as posted here.

If you don’t receive our FREE monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings, click here to subscribe and get another Free Gift.

If you aren’t following Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ on Facebook, click here and “Like” us. If we reach 500 “Likes” will we offer another Party Favor to EVERYONE!

Welcome to our Celebrate Freedom (& Simplicity) in Biblical Home Education Facebook Party Door Prize post! If you aren’t at the party on the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others!  Then read below to find out how to enter the drawing for this Door Prize. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 12, 2011, sorry, you missed the party. But if it’s before midnight, you may still be able to enter to win this and other Door Prizes. Scan through the recent blog posts.

Tonight, Maggie & Tyler Hogan of  Bright Ideas Press have donated WonderMaps, a $49.95 value, for one blessed attender of the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Party. Thanks so much Maggie & Tyler!  “Like” Bright Ideas Press on Facebook.

Here’s the Resource one blessed attender is going to win!
Keep reading for instructions to enter the drawing.

 

Where in the World?

Do you know where what happened happened? Geography needs to be taught integrated with HisStory, and that’s just what this NEW map software was designed to do. I am really excited to dig into this. I love the idea of the layers. You’ll be hearing more from me on this soon! ~ Me 

 WonderMaps

 

 WonderMaps is a customizable collection of over 350 different maps. With nearly endless possibilities, WonderMaps makes it easy to regularly integrate map study into a variety of lessons and make the most of every learning opportunity.

WonderMaps is designed with easy-to-use layers that allow you to enjoy great customizable features with just a click. Select:

• historical or modern-day maps

• outline, reference, political, or topographical maps

• black-and-white or color maps

• features including:  names, borders, rivers, cities, physical features, and graticules

WonderMaps includes:

• 60+ maps of the world

• 60+ maps of the USA

• 125+ historical maps, including 25 biblical maps

• The complete map sets from The Mystery of History Vols. I–III and All American History Vols. I & II

The winner of this drawing will receive WonderMaps (software download). You can enter this drawing several ways. Increase your chances of winning by doing all of them! Each must be a separate comment to this post (below.)

1) Post a comment below answering: Where in the World would you like to travel to?

2) “Like” and/or Comment on the Facebook Party Page post about this Door Prize. Comment below to tell us you did.

3) Subscribe to our Free monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings – and comment below to tell us you did. (You must confirm your subscription too.) If you are already a subscriber, post that in the comments below and tell us what you like best about the Newsletter. Using this link to subscribe will get you another FREE GIFT from Me & My House!

4) Invite your home educating Facebook friends to “Like” our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, – and comment below to tell us you did.

5) Encourage your friends to Subscribe to our Newsletter by posting this on your Facebook status. “Subscribe to Me & My House musings, a Free monthly email newsletter for Discipleship for Life! – http://newsletter.frommeandmyhouse.com  (Articles on Christian living, home keeping, home educating, health through nutrition, and more.)”

Winner of  WonderMaps will be announced in a Special edition of our Newsletter, tomorrow! – as well as posted here.

If you don’t receive our FREE monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings, click here to subscribe and get another Free Gift.

If you aren’t following Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ on Facebook, click here and “Like” us. If we reach 500 “Likes” will we offer another Party Favor to EVERYONE!

Welcome to our Celebrate Freedom (& Simplicity) in Biblical Home Education Facebook Party Door Prize post! If you aren’t at the party on the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others!  Then read below to find out how to enter the drawing for this Door Prize. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 12, 2011, sorry, you missed the party. But if it’s before midnight, you may still be able to enter to win this and other Door Prizes. Scan through the recent blog posts.

Tonight, Me & My House ministries (that’s us) is giving It’s About Time ~ Freedom & Simplicity™ Timelines, a $5 value, to SEVEN blessed attenders of the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Party. 

Here’s the L.E.D. resource SEVEN blessed attenders are going to win!
Keep reading for instructions to enter the drawing.

It’s About Time ~ Freedom & Simplicity™ Timelines

 

HisStory is about Time. It’s about God working throughout time, to reveal His plan. Time shapes each event on earth into what it is. Being able to place events, ideas and lives into their correct time brings much understanding to His (God’s) Story. A timeline is a tool that helps us place those happenings.

In addition to great reasons for utilizing a timeline in your studies, there are many types of timelines, and ways you can design a timeline. In this Guidebook, I share both with you. But most of all I share with you how we have come to Freedom & Simplicity™ with Timelines. There are so many choices out there (and I show you several.) But what can be done in Simplicity, and what is going to bring the Freedom of understanding into our studies? That is the main question we answer in this Freedom & Simplicity™ Learning Guide. What tools are going to be the most effective and easiest to use for the task at hand, understanding the flow of all of HisStory? And how to we make them and use them?

In It’s About Time, we look at 13 different types of timelines, and directions for making and using them, and provide you with several options for timeline figures—many of them free!

This Freedom & Simplicity™ guide covers:

• The Purpose and Framework of Timelines
• The Pictorial Framework Timeline
• Timeline Figures
• The Timeline in a Book
• Journal (Notebook) Timeline Pages
• Timeline on a Board
• Timeline in a Box
• Other Timeline Formats
• Beyond the Timeline – the P.I.P.E. Book of Remembrance Journal

The SEVEN winners of this drawing will receive It’s About Time ~ Freedom & Simplicity™ Timelines. You can enter this drawing several ways. Increase your chances of winning by doing all of them! Each must be a separate comment to this post (below.)

1) Post a comment below answering: Do you have a Timeline? What kind?

2) “Like” and/or Comment on the Facebook Party Page post about this Door Prize. Comment below to tell us you did.

3) Subscribe to our Free monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings – and comment below to tell us you did. (You must confirm your subscription too.) If you are already a subscriber, post that in the comments below and tell us what you like best about the Newsletter. Using this link to subscribe will get you another FREE GIFT from Me & My House!

4) Invite your home educating Facebook friends to “Like” our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, – and comment below to tell us you did.

5) Encourage your friends to Subscribe to our Newsletter by posting this on your Facebook status. “Subscribe to Me & My House musings, a Free monthly email newsletter for Discipleship for Life! – http://newsletter.frommeandmyhouse.com  (Articles on Christian living, home keeping, home educating, health through nutrition, and more.)”

Winners of  It’s About Time ~ Freedom & Simplicity™ Timelines will be announced in a Special edition of our Newsletter, tomorrow! – as well as posted here.

If you don’t receive our FREE monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings, click here to subscribe and get another Free Gift.

If you aren’t following Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ on Facebook, click here and “Like” us. If we reach 500 “Likes” will we offer another Party Favor to EVERYONE!

Welcome to our Celebrate Freedom (& Simplicity) in Biblical Home Education Facebook Party Door Prize post! If you aren’t at the party on the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others!  Then read below to find out how to enter the drawing for this Door Prize. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 12, 2011, sorry, you missed the party. But if it’s before midnight, you may still be able to enter to win this and other Door Prizes. Scan through the recent blog posts.

Tonight,  Harvey & Laurie Bluedorn of Trivium Pursuit have donated TWO copies of  The Fallacy Detective, a $22 value each, for TWO blessed attenders of the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Party. Thanks so much Harvey & Laurie! “Like” The Fallacy Detective on Facebook.

Here’s the Book TWO blessed attenders are going to win!
Keep reading for instructions to enter the drawing.

 

Exercise

Many times the only thing people dislike more than exercises their bodies is exercising their brains. It’s hard work. But the more you do it the easier it becomes. And the Christian Logic books from Trivium Pursuit help make it painless – perhaps even fun. ~ Me  

The Fallacy Detective

What is a fallacy? A fallacy is an error in logic – a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking.

These are fallacies:

“A cloud is 90% water. A watermelon is 90% water. Therefore, since a plane can fly through a cloud, a plane can fly through a watermelon.”

“This new book, The Fallacy Detective, must do a good job teaching logic. It has been on the bestseller list for months.”

We wrote this book to meet the needs of Christian parents who want a do-able text for introducing logic and critical thinking to their children.

• Fun to use – not dry like a math textbook.
• Self-teaching – not intimidating, starts students with skills they can use right away.
• Each lesson has exercises for students, with an answer key at the back.
• Covers logical fallacies and propaganda techniques. We divided the most common fallacies and propaganda techniques into thirty-eight lessons. We explain how you can spot fallacies, and we give exercises to stretch your abilities for detecting fallacies.
• Geared for ages twelve and older – we suggest using The Fallacy Detective before advancing onto more difficult logic programs.
• Includes The Fallacy Detective Game, giving you and your friends an entertaining way to spot and make up your own examples of fallacies.
• Christian view of logic. Many critical thinking texts introduce political correctness. This book does not.
• Can be used before or after The Thinking Toolbox
• Cartoons to illustrate the logical fallacies discussed, including Peanuts, Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes, and several original cartoons

This book is for fallacy detectives. We’ve designed this book to be a handy-dandy text for learning to spot the errors in thinking that you meet everyday on the street, in the newspaper, or on television – or errors you make yourself.

 

The winners of this drawing will receive The Fallacy Detective. You can enter this drawing several ways. Increase your chances of winning by doing all of them! Each must be a separate comment to this post (below.)

1) Post a comment below answering: What kinds of fallacies in reasoning can you recognize?

2) “Like” and/or Comment on the Facebook Party Page post about this Door Prize. Comment below to tell us you did.

3) Subscribe to our Free monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings – and comment below to tell us you did. (You must confirm your subscription too.) If you are already a subscriber, post that in the comments below and tell us what you like best about the Newsletter. Using this link to subscribe will get you another FREE GIFT from Me & My House!

4) Invite your home educating Facebook friends to “Like” our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, – and comment below to tell us you did.

5) Encourage your friends to Subscribe to our Newsletter by posting this on your Facebook status. “Subscribe to Me & My House musings, a Free monthly email newsletter for Discipleship for Life! – http://newsletter.frommeandmyhouse.com  (Articles on Christian living, home keeping, home educating, health through nutrition, and more.)”

Two winners of  The Fallacy Detective will be announced in a Special edition of our Newsletter, tomorrow! – as well as posted here.

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Welcome to our Celebrate Freedom (& Simplicity) in Biblical Home Education Facebook Party Door Prize post! If you aren’t at the party on the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others!  Then read below to find out how to enter the drawing for this Door Prize. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 12, 2011, sorry, you missed the party. But if it’s before midnight, you may still be able to enter to win this and other Door Prizes. Scan through the recent blog posts.

Tonight, Jeannie Fulbright of  Jeannie Fulbright.com has donated Exploring Creation with Astronomy AND the NEW Astronomy Junior Notebooking Journal, a $39 + $25 value, for one blessed attender of the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Party. Thanks so much Jeannie! “Like” Jeannie Fulbright Science on Facebook. 

Here are the Resources one blessed attender is going to win!
Keep reading for instructions to enter the drawing.

 

The Heavens Declare

I haven’t gotten to review this book yet, but have enjoyed getting to know the author through publishing lists we’re on together and Facebook. Being Biblically based (and published by Apologia) and CM methods it should be a good fit for those using L.E.D. In our Resource & Recommendations Online Catalog on our Creation: Design-Space page  ~ Me 

 

 Exploring Creation with Astronomy
AND the NEW – Astronomy Junior Notebooking Journal

 

A journey through space that you’ll never forget. Your child will learn more about space than other children their age, and will be able to hold their own in conversations with knowledgeable adults.

One of my favorite things about this book is the conversational style in which it is written. It reads more like a mutual discussion about astronomy, rather than a science textbook. Very in-depth information is conveyed, but with words and expressions to which a child can relate. This doesn’t mean it is dumbed down, for the course itself has enough information to qualify for a high school astronomy course.

Another thing I love about Exploring Creation with Astronomy is that each child essentially makes his own astronomy book utilizing notebooking activities and assignments. These assignments are designed to replace workbooks, which do not draw from the child’s heart and mind what was learned. Creating a notebook page truly draws the most out of the child. There is a saying, “Tell me, and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.” Notebooking is the act of involving the child in his learning.

The winner of this drawing will receive Exploring Creation with Astronomy AND the NEW Astronomy Junior Notebooking Journal. You can enter this drawing several ways. Increase your chances of winning by doing all of them! Each must be a separate comment to this post (below.)

1) Post a comment below answering: Do you utilize personal Notebook making in your home education?

2) “Like” and/or Comment on the Facebook Party Page post about this Door Prize. Comment below to tell us you did.

3) Subscribe to our Free monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings – and comment below to tell us you did. (You must confirm your subscription too.) If you are already a subscriber, post that in the comments below and tell us what you like best about the Newsletter. Using this link to subscribe will get you another FREE GIFT from Me & My House!

4) Invite your home educating Facebook friends to “Like” our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, – and comment below to tell us you did.

5) Encourage your friends to Subscribe to our Newsletter by posting this on your Facebook status. “Subscribe to Me & My House musings, a Free monthly email newsletter for Discipleship for Life! – http://newsletter.frommeandmyhouse.com  (Articles on Christian living, home keeping, home educating, health through nutrition, and more.)”

Winner of  the Exploring Creation with Astronomy AND the NEW Astronomy Junior Notebooking Journal will be announced in a Special edition of our Newsletter, tomorrow! – as well as posted here.

If you don’t receive our FREE monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings, click here to subscribe and get another Free Gift.

If you aren’t following Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ on Facebook, click here and “Like” us. If we reach 500 “Likes” will we offer another Party Favor to EVERYONE!

Welcome to our Celebrate Freedom (& Simplicity) in Biblical Home Education Facebook Party Door Prize post! If you aren’t at the party on the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others!  Then read below to find out how to enter the drawing for this Door Prize. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 12, 2011, sorry, you missed the party. But if it’s before midnight, you may still be able to enter to win this and other Door Prizes. Scan through the recent blog posts.

Tonight, Me & My House ministries (that’s us) is giving a  Freedom & Simplicity™ in Handwriting Combo , a $20 value, to one blessed attender of the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Party. 

Here’s the L.E.D. resource one blessed attender is going to win!
Keep reading for instructions to enter the drawing.

Freedom & Simplicity™ in Handwriting Combo
Includes: Freedom & Simplicity™ in Handwriting,
Bonus Handwriting Journal Pages,
and Freedom & Simplicity™ in Handwriting ~ Practice Pages.

 

A Biblical way to teach Handwriting? Really? Really! God and His Word are the Source of All we learn – even Handwriting. Not only does this book give complete instruction for learning Handwriting, both Manuscript and Cursive, it also teaches you the Biblical foundations for Handwriting.

Learning and Teaching Handwriting Biblically doesn’t mean you just use Scriptures for your Copywork. This L.E.D. Freedom & Simplicity™ Guide will help you find the Biblical foundation, principles and rudiments of Handwriting and even lead you through the application with instruction in both Manuscript and Cursive. Find Freedom & Simplicity™ in why we teach it, what we teach, and how we teach it!

From the introduction:“Who would have ever thought that there is a principled way to teach Handwriting? Not I. Oh, I know that everything comes from God, and should be taught based upon this, but I never thought I would delve into what principled teaching of Handwriting looks like. Perhaps you haven’t either. Then this study is for you. This guide does not cover the broader details relating to writing and English in general, only as applied to Handwriting.”

The ONLY book you need to teach ALL ages – includes the foundations of Handwriting, and instruction in Manuscript and Cursive.

Freedom & Simplicity™ in Handwriting ~ Practice Pages

Copywork pertaining to our current studies is our general method of practicing handwriting, but sometimes extra, focused practice is needed for some children. These Practice Pages fill that need. Plenty of practice, (along with reminders to observe the Rudiments,) in 2 sizes of manuscript and 1 of cursive, for the alphabet and sentences using every letter of the alphabet. Suggestions for use for a full year for all your students using Freedom & Simplicity™ in Handwriting, or any other italic handwriting program.

This is not meant to be a handwriting “curriculum” but rather fun, extra, basic practice, for those that have already learned letter formation and just need a little extra work on the Rudiments. Use it alongside Freedom & Simplicity™ in Handwriting (or other italic program) and Copywork, as needed. The introduction gives you suggestions for use.

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The winner of this drawing will receive the Freedom & Simplicity™ in Handwriting Combo. You can enter this drawing several ways. Increase your chances of winning by doing all of them! Each must be a separate comment to this post (below.)

1) Post a comment below answering: Do you teach cursive handwriting? When do you start it?

2) “Like” and/or Comment on the Facebook Party Page post about this Door Prize. Comment below to tell us you did.

3) Subscribe to our Free monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings – and comment below to tell us you did. (You must confirm your subscription too.) If you are already a subscriber, post that in the comments below and tell us what you like best about the Newsletter. Using this link to subscribe will get you another FREE GIFT from Me & My House!

4) Invite your home educating Facebook friends to “Like” our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, – and comment below to tell us you did.

5) Encourage your friends to Subscribe to our Newsletter by posting this on your Facebook status. “Subscribe to Me & My House musings, a Free monthly email newsletter for Discipleship for Life! – http://newsletter.frommeandmyhouse.com  (Articles on Christian living, home keeping, home educating, health through nutrition, and more.)”

Winner of  the Freedom & Simplicity™ Handwriting Combo will be announced in a Special edition of our Newsletter, tomorrow! – as well as posted here.

If you don’t receive our FREE monthly email newsletter, Me & My House musings, click here to subscribe and get another Free Gift.

If you aren’t following Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ on Facebook, click here and “Like” us. If we reach 500 “Likes” will we offer another Party Favor to EVERYONE!