Saturday morning found me and our daughter sitting in a General Session at the CHEC (Colorado) homeschool convention, listening to one of our long time favorite speakers, Little Bear (Richard Wheeler). He is a history reenactor, dressing in authentic costumes and telling the stories of God’s Providence in the lives and events of those who have gone before us.
Our family has followed Little Bear since nearly the beginning of our home ed journey. We’ve seen him in person, at many homeschool conferences and attended his Family Camp. We have audio Historical Devotionals, video reenactments, and books both by and published by Little Bear. One of our fondest memories, of course, is spending time personally with Little Bear, back in the early 90’s at the Wyoming homeschool conference, where he was the keynote speaker and we were vendors and there weren’t many people there. We went to dinner with him.
Saturday morning, before Little Bear mounted the platform, the conference hosts went through the normal announcements and preliminaries. As they introduced Little Bear, a bombshell was dropped. This would be Little Bear’s last performance. We weren’t prepared for that, and were so glad we’d gotten up early to make it to this sesson. No more Little Bear?
This got me thinking about us “first generation” homeschoolers. Are we fading away? What will the future in homeschooling look like? Has a stable, foundational legacy been passed on? Or will the next generation, like our President, prefer change? A “new” face? I still have many little ones, and will still be home educating right alongside the second gen-ers. What will that surrounding look like?
There’s been much change in home ed since we began in the early days of “legalized” home eductaion. Much of that change has been healthy growth. But some of the change is troubling. To quote Little Bear’s most quoted Scripture, Psalm 78, “I will open my mouth [saying that] which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of THE LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. … That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.”
Future generations must know the history of what God has done in times past. Learn from it. Build on it. Not reject it. Little Bear helped us to do that. Who will be the “Little Bear” to our children’s generation in home education?
Mr. Wheeler will continue to pastor his flock, but he will be greatly missed in the home education circles. “See you there or in the air”, Little Bear. We will miss, but never forget you.
Living Coram Deo - before the Face of God,
Lisa @ Me and My House
I just returned from the CHEC (Colorado) homeschool convention this weekend. I’ve got so much to share - and so little time. I hope to at least post on the end of an era real soon.
But for today I’m just letting you know that between the books I brought home from convention and the big box of books I got a couple weeks ago from some backbreaking labor (while dozens more boxes went into the trash - how sad) my library is bursting at the seams again. Which means a lot of books have got to go.
I’ve got several boxes I’ve been posting - CHEAP! - at TUAC-swap, a yahoogroup. You can join and see them there or take a chance that I’ll get them listed on my website Used Books page before they’re gone. (This list has been updated, but not everything is listed there yet. Check back regularly to see what treasures we’re parting with.)
So many books - so little time.
Living Coram Deo - before the Face of God,
Lisa @ Me and My House
Perhaps you’ve heard the quote from the past, our early years as a nation, “the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” Do you know where it came from or why?
I haven’t read this new ebook yet, but it addresses this issue.
America had tried to accommodate Islamic terrorists before. In 1797 a treaty was made with the Islamic leadership of Tripoli that stated that “the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” Of course, this was false, but to appease the Barbary pirates and their Muslim protectors, the statement was put in the treaty.
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Are you keeping up your reading in one of the most exciting family read aloud series there is? The sequel series to The Kingdom series (our favorite!) is the Knights of Arrethtrae series. The second book in the series came out 2 months ago and the next will be out soon. Order Sir Dalton NOW! so you can continue the adventure.
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2 of the companies we have partnered with for Mind Mapping software have upgrades coming up with some pretty exciting new features. Click their links to check them out. If you don’t know what Mind Mapping is, or how we use it in Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™, read our article on Learning Maps™.
iMindMap will release its new version this week! (See blog post from last week for details.)
And NovaMind will be upgrading this fall. But don’t wait until then if you want NovaMind. One plus for NovaMind is that there is a corresponding mind mapping app for iPhone/iPod Touch called iBlueSky that integrates with NovaMind.
When you purchase NovaMind now, you will receive a license key that will work for both NovaMind 4 and NovaMind 5.
This means you will not have to pay the upgrade fees and you therefore get NovaMind 5 for the price of NovaMind 4.
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Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
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9 more days until the release of iMindMap 4! On April 30, Buzan will release v4 of iMindMap. But you don’t have to wait until then. Buy version 3 today and you will get a FREE UPGRADE to version 4 when it is released.
iMindMap is the computer app we use to make our Learning Maps™ for Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™. “A Learning Map™ is an AWESOME and POWERFUL tool for learning, for gaining and retaining understanding! It is a natural with biblical principles learning because it shows relationships!”
iMindMap is my favorite computer mind mapping app. (I should know I’ve tried all of them I know about, and own 4 different “not-free” programs.) If you want to know more about Learning Maps™, read our article here and follow the links there back to posts on this blog, for even more info.
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Lapbooking is one of our favorite activities for documenting our studies. Especially with our younger children, but the older ones enjoy it too. We prefer to design our own Lapbooks, to document our own studies. Lapbooks then become a creative “narration” of what the child personally learned from our studies, and the unique, creative design is part of the child’s learning process also. But just because we enjoy designing our own instead of buying prepackaged lapbook kits, doesn’t mean I don’t like to get other ideas for incorporating in our lapbooks.
Recently I read Tammy Duby’s (from Tobin’s Lab) Ultimate Lap Book™ Handbook and watched the companion DVD, Tammy Teaches Lap Books™. Have you been holding back on lapbooking? Just not sure how to begin? In Tammy’s Ultimate Handbook she teaches you a few basic folds, (the ones you will use most often,) and then gives you a lot of practical ideas for applying them. But, what makes this book ULTIMATE is that it includes not only Lap Book™ instructions and ideas, but other unique book making ideas also. Plenty of practical applications for Pizza books, Peek-a-Boo books, Stick books, and more are also included, as well as instructions for making them. Need creative ideas for studies and subjects? They’re in there. In the DVD Tammy shows you plenty of ideas put to use in real lapbooks - from a pile of kid-produced lapbooks.
I really enjoyed these resources and recommend them to anyone wanting to know more about producing their own lapbooks.
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Witherspoon School of Law & Public Policy
My latest listening project took much of the month to get through, but I’m glad I took the time to listen. Since the Witherspoon School of Law and Public Policy is not one I’ll be attending in person, I was glad to get the audios. It was 24 CD’s of interesting information for engaging our culture, covering everything from defense and our right to bear arms to church discipline, female magistrates to parental rights, biblical marriage to the “blogosphere”, Christianity and the Courts to the Electoral College, Biblical Law, Ethics, and Public Policy for Lawyers to the Emergence of Liberty in the West.
I would be really hard pressed to come up with a “favorite” session from this set. Bill Einwechter, speaking on “Christian Jurisprudence: Biblical Law, Natural Law, or Positive Law?” would be pushing for the front though. In this session Bill nails the problem of the evangelical church not applying the Bible to all areas of life. Or, perhaps it would be “Genesis and Geneva,” with Doug Phillips speaking on the history of Liberty, and the contrast between John Calvin’s and Charles Darwin’s effects on western law. Or … I really enjoyed all the sessions of this conference on audio.
I found this set to be highly informational on many topics that we all need to know, and from a biblical perspective, in order to retain our liberties. It isn’t just for budding lawyers and politicians or even businessmen. It’s topics we moms at home need to have a good biblical understanding of also.
Buy it today to help towards earning a FREE $50 Gift Certificate!
This sale offer ends April 1st, 2009.
Tammy over at Tobin’s Lab has a great Free Gift Offer for you!
When you purchase
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Hints and How To’s for Homeschooling DVD
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What else for a March Special than our HisStory resources! It builds perfectly on Freedom & Simplicity™ of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ ~ The Seminar. (You did remember to get that in February, didn’t you?)
Freedom & Simplicity™ in HisStory and PIPEline of HisStory™ remain our customer’s favorite L.E.D. Exclusives, because they do help you put into action the philosophy and principles taught in The Seminar. (See what they’re saying at the book’s links.) Freedom & Simplicity™ in HisStory is a great introduction to learning and teaching based on biblical principles, for the subject that is the backbone of our curriculum. PIPEline of HisStory™ is a common sense, super easy to use, wall timeline (that can also be made into a early learner’s book, or used as dividers in an older child’s PIPEline Journal.) The PIPEline of HisStory™ will help you put all of HisStory into the context of the advancing of God’s Kingdom and Liberty.
For the month of March you can get both of these popular resources for even less! And even add our third HisStory resource, PIPEline™ Book of Remembrance, for half of its sale price. The PIPEline™ Book of Remembrance is a timeline in a book, (based on the PIPEline of HisStory™,) that you and your older students create as you study.
See our Blessings! Just for You! page to get the details of the sale and order these fantastic resources. You can also get a Complimentary Sampler (the first few pages) of Freedom & Simplicity™ in HisStory, during the month of March, just for giving our free newsletter a try. Be sure to let your friends know. They won’t want to miss out on this deal either.
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