My FAVORITE Homeschooling Curriculum for FREE!!!

Several years back, I used Teaching With God's Heart for the World with my kids. It is a full year history-based unit study curriculum with a focus on missions and how God prepared the world for the spread of the gospel. I was SO impressed by this curriculum and how it really changed our lives. The first week is academics-free and total focused on teaching our children how to pray and have a personal prayer life. Then halfway through the year, you have another academic-free week focused on intercessory prayer. I am sure that it helped that we were studying this while missionaries on a foreign field. We were so interested in everything about missions and read all 22 YWAM missionary biographies during our study.

I just found out, via Passionate Homemaking, that Ann Dunagan, the author, is making this curriculum available for FREE right now via downloads from their site. You have to at least check it out! You can download whatever you want to use, they have divided it up in to sections for easy download and use. Ann is also going to be going through it with her younger children this year and will be sharing about it on her new blog Mission-Minded LIFE.

Please, please, please don't miss out on this great opportunity to share God's heart for the world with your children through their daily curriculum! At least look at it and see if you might be interested in using it. It will change your lives as a family and give you a heart for the world!

For more great homsechooling ideas and encouragement, visit the Carnival of Homeschooling hosted this week by The Nerd Family.

Library books galore!

I don't know about you, but whenever we start a new unit I visit the library (or my husband does like this time) and get LOTS of books on the topics we are studying. This month we are studying Ancient Rome and Rocks & Minerals, Earthquakes and Volcanoes. There are DVDs, videos, activity books, fiction books, and non-fiction books. Hopefully , these will last for 3-4 weeks. And that cute crate? Found that at a yard sale a few months back for $4.00!!

We are using Learning Adventures "A World of Adventure" this year and I LOVE it! It is laid out day-by-day and covers everything except math (for that I use Math-U-See). During this unit we are also studying and listening to Handel's Messiah. That has been really great, too. There are plenty of hands-on activities like cooking, science experiments, etc. It also includes Spelling, Grammar, Writing, Vocabulary, History, Science and more! I am very pleased with this curriculum.

And BTW, this doesn't include all the personal reading library books that we have out right now. Good thing our library lets you check out as many books as you want:-)!