My Week in Review/THMJ/Weekly Wrap-up July 24/25

How is July almost over already?  The days are just flying by!

How has your week been?

We got to see Austin Dillon's #3 car at our local Walmart.  How cool is that?

We also went out for miniature golf with some good friends

Kiddo #4 and I even got some mom/daughter bowling time in.  Gotta love the Kids Bowl Free program!  :-)

And there's been the kids at Taekwondo and Kickboxing and for those of you in 4-H, you understand the frenzy of this time of year with getting projects and posters ready for the fair.  Much going on!  What happened to the lazy, hazy days of summer?  lol.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.  God bless!

Linking up today with:  My Week in Review,  Homeschool Mother's Journal, Weekly Wrap-Up, Show-Off Friday, Learn and Link and It's a Wrap, Friendship Friday and Friday Connection and Family Fun Friday and T.G.I.F. Linky Party and Let's Homeschool High School and This Week and Collage Friday

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TOS Review- Home School in the Woods

Today I am reviewing Project Passport World History Study: Ancient Egypt from Home School in the Woods.



Have you heard of this company?  Amy Pak has created a myriad of hands-on project packs, activities, and lapbooks on many different historical topics.  Her materials truly make learning fun. How can they not be?  The Project Passports are filled to the brim with projects that include writing, crafts, cooking, drawing and more.

There is so much included in this study that it can be overwhelming at first, but Amy thought of that and has an entire "travel itinerary" ready for you.  Yes, travel itinerary!  Think travel, my friend.  You will be preparing your child's passport for the journey of a lifetime that includes timelines, making period clothing, "visiting" historical cities, writing a newspaper and so much more.  You will definitely need 8-12 weeks to thoroughly cover all of the activities and materials in the unit.  There are 25 stops or lessons in the unit, but as with all homeschooling, the beauty of it is that you can choose to do as many or as few "stops" that suit your family.

What did some of the Stops include?  The first stop was trip preparation--making your passport, learning important travel tips and creating a map for your journey.  Other Stops have the student learning all about trade, agriculture, science, everyday life, medicine, education and so much more.

Stop 5 was a favorite here because we recently visited a museum where we saw real Egyptian mummies and artifacts, so this stop about pyramids, mummies and sarcophagi was so timely!

Be sure to stock up on cardstock, colored pencils, glue sticks and paint.  As you prepare your Stops, you will see what is needed so you can make the necessary purchases.  Trust me, it is very well worth it.  We are looking forward to continuing this study far into the school year.  We want to delve so much more into it.  To see the Scope and Sequence of this study, click here.

If your kids are hands-on learners, they will love this unit study and the others like it.  My colleagues reviewed some of the other Project Passport titles that include the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Reformation and ones on Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome will be added soon.

When material is experienced in such a manner (utilizing all of the senses), real learning will be taking place and your child will truly delight in the process.  I know mine did.  If they are learning and they are interested, stimulated, and above all, happy, we can truly say that we are doing our job as homeschool parents.

Kudos, Home School in the Woods!

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Try a New Recipe Tuesday- July 21

There was a tie for the most viewed post from last week's hop.  The two posts were:

Unbelievable Cookies from Phyllis Sather

and

Italian Stuffed Zucchini from Kingdom Academy Homeschool

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Try a New Recipe Tuesday- July 14

There was a two-way tie for the most viewed post from last week's hop.  They were:

Drunken Coffee Cookies and Cream Ice Cream from Frugal Southern Living

and

Cereal Crusted French Toast from Honest and Truly

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My Week in Review #42

My post is linked up in the first spot below.  Our week was filled with all things 4th of July, Taekwondo, home repairs, bowling and more...Come take a look.  :-)

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My Week in Review/THMJ/Weekly Wrap-up July 3/10

Wow, June is gone and July is halfway over.  Cannot believe how the time is flying.

Lots going on here.  Kiddos have been very helpful in getting projects done around the house.  They helped me lay floor down in the kitchen.  Doesn't it look nice?  We worked hard.  They have also helped hubby paint all of their rooms.

They have also all enjoyed their Taekwondo or kickboxing each week.  Here is Kiddo #4 looking quite dangerous!

and her brothers seeming like they, too, know how to fly:

Kiddos have enjoyed bowling each week with their friends

We also had a wonderful July 4th celebration with family and dear friends that included sparklers!  :-)

In the collage below, you can see the special cake I ordered for the occasion, one of the decorations I made, Kiddo #4 picking the first cucumber of the season and Kiddo #1 hard at work getting the food all cooked on the BBQ.  :-)

My parents threw a great BBQ and a fun time was had by all.

It is "crunch-time" for our 4-H projects and they are working hard to get them done

Much to do, always, lol!  Isn't that the way it always is?

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  Keep cool and God bless!  :-)

Linking up today with:  My Week in Review,  Homeschool Mother's Journal, Weekly Wrap-Up, Show-Off Friday, Learn and Link and It's a Wrap, Friendship Friday and Friday Connection and Family Fun Friday and T.G.I.F. Linky Party and Let's Homeschool High School and This Week and Collage Friday

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TOS Review- Prasso Ministries

Today I am reviewing the Teen Prasso Teacher's Manual and Homework Manual from Prasso Ministries, a company that prides itself on teaching Christians to use the Bible in their daily lives.

Any Christian parent can tell you that it is a challenge to find material that will encourage their teens on their faith journey.  The word 'Prasso' grabbed my attention immediately.  It is a Greek word meaning "to repeatedly, continually and habitually practice."  How appropriate for a Bible study!

The Student(Homework) Journal includes six 20-minute lessons a week for the teen to work on independently.

Each lesson consists of an introduction, the reading and writing of Scripture verses and answering questions.  In some lessons, they are prompted to delve a bit more into researching a topic.  The lessons covered are as follows:

• God your Heavenly Father
• God's Love
• Why doesn't 1+2 add up in my life?
• It's an all-out War
• The Enemy's Lies and where they lead
• Pressure
• Anger
• Forgiveness
• Two Brothers Pride and Selfishness
• Refocus
• Prasso, putting it all together
• The Journey
• Eternal Eyeglasses

The Teacher's Manual contains instructions for the group discussion leaders.  It explains the leader's role and gives specifics on how to prepare each week.  Each lesson also contains a scripted fictional story that demonstrates and cements the principles of the lesson for the teens.

There are also prompts and tips included to help facilitate discussions with different personality types in a group. The lessons correspond exactly with those in the student manual, but have slightly different titles. They are:

• The Right Beginning
• The Map
• The Bridge
• The Storms
• The Enemy
• Full Testimony
• Two Opposing Fears
• Anger
• Forgiveness
• Pride
• Refocus
• Prasso
• Eternal Eyeglasses

Kiddos 1 and 2 used the Student/Homework Journal independently.  We would then come together to discuss what they had learned or questions they may have had about a particular topic.  When I asked them, for the purposes of this review, what they liked most about the program, they both were in agreement-- the 'Message Goals' were very important and are so needed for teens (and us all, for that matter) in today's world.  They are:

• God's Word is the standard by which we should live, not the world's.
• The reality and nature of Spiritual Warfare (yes, it is real and it is taking place.  We should not live in fear, but should be prepared)
• The difference between 'fear of God' and 'fear of man.'
• The dangers of the sins of pride and selfishness
• There is a choice-- train the will to serve God or oneself.

Pretty powerful, is it not?  As parents, we need to give our teens all of the spiritual strength (putting on the armor of God) we possibly can.  This program is a good tool to do just that.

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