Habit training involves life skills and character training. Some of the books and concepts will overlap, because these subjects, like so much of life, are interconnected. Cycle 1 Character Term 1 Put Off: Complaining/Ingratitude Put On: Thankfulness Term 2 Put Off: Lying, Deceit, Dishonesty Put On: Honesty, Truthfulness Term 3 Put Off: Worry, Anxiety Put On: Faith, Thought of God … Read more
Our second-born, Kaleb, flew over the ocean to England, last week.. He’ll be gone for ten weeks, on a mission trip, serving people in Romania. Last year, he spent ten weeks serving at a parish in York, England. You’d think the parting would get easier, but I can honestly tell you: I’ve shed some tears! … Read more
Choose one or two books from the list below for whole-family or independent reading, if you’d like to cover this subject. Field, Forest and Farm by Jean-Henri Fabre This book is scheduled at a pace of one to three chapters per week from Week 1 through Week 28. You can download the pdf schedules at the … Read more
Family Read Aloud Books or Independent Reading: Nature & Animals, Form 3+ The Handbook of Nature Study: Mammals by Anna Botsford Comstock You may choose to purchase the full Handbook of Nature Study book. If you purchase the full book, you will use it over the four cycles for Forms 3, 4 and 5, but you will only … Read more
Choose one or two books from the list below for whole-family or independent reading, if you’d like to cover this subject. Tommy Smith’s Animals by Edmund Selous This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter every-other-week from Week 1 through Week 23. Tommy Smith at the Zoo by Edmund Selous This book is scheduled at … Read more
Picture Books, Form 1+ (or, whole family read aloud) The following books are not included on any of the PDF schedules here. You may want to look for these books at a public or church library or purchase used or new copies. If you like to keep careful schedules, you could schedule one picture book per week or … Read more
I’ve been dreaming of setting up a booth at TTD for a year now. Last year, Karry and I got the chance to go to the conference by ourselves. Here are some photos: With my favorite person at the whole conference. ❤️ I met Linda Lacour Hobar, the author of Mystery of History. These are fabulous history … Read more
Dear Mama, Your homeschool days do not have to feel so stressful. Are you rushing around, trying to check off the list, and always feeling like a failure? Breathe. Your days don’t have to be so hectic. Here are some tips, tricks, routines, and lots of links to resources and free, editable documents for you. … Read more
We sing hymns at STAR Homeschool Community every week. You can also sing hymns at home! In our home, we sing two hymns per day. If we sing all of these hymns over the four cycles of the STAR curriculum, our family will learn more than one hundred hymns. Little by little, it adds up! Hymns to … Read more
Picture Books, Form 1+ The following books are not included on any of the PDF schedules here. You may want to look for these books at a public or church library or purchase used or new copies. If you like to keep careful schedules, you could schedule one picture book per week or read a page or two … Read more