Homeschool Minnesota

Language Lessons for a Living Education with Kristen Pratt

Keeping children engaged in Language Arts can be a challenge! Where do you find a curriculum that covers reading, comprehension, spelling, handwriting, vocabulary, punctuation, observation, poetry, psalms, and hands-on activities to drive it all home? Enter Language Lessons for a Living Education! This curriculum has all the above in a colorful and easy to use book. The teacher prompts and appendices are invaluable and all done within one book, which also includes lesson plans and lists of easy to find household supplies to do all activities in the book. Join Kristen Pratt as she talks not only about the curriculum she wrote, but, also how she weaves scripture and Biblical Truth throughout each lesson.

Right Start Math with Kathleen Clayton

Right Start Math is a hands-on, award-winning program that uses games and minimal worksheets in the younger grades to make math a fun and engaging subject for your child. It is set up with levels rather than grades, so that your child can begin at the proper level and advance at their own pace. The goal is to help your child understand, apply, and enjoy mathematics while building a solid foundation for higher level math. You can find Right Start Math here: www.rightstartmath.com

God’s Design: Life for Beginners with Debbie Lawrence

Science can be one of the most difficult things to teach young children. God’s Design series from Debbie Lawrence is not only easy to teach but is thorough and well thought out as well as deep in content. God’s Design: Life for Beginners covers Plants, The Human Body, and Animals all in one curriculum that can be used for various ages and can also be taught alongside the same science topics for your older students! Join us as Debbie talks all about how to utilize this curriculum for your family and bring fun and learning to your science lessons! You can find God’s Design series on Master Books at: https://www.masterbooks.com/gods-design-series

Notable Lives from History with Marilyn Boyer!

Finding stories to supplement your history that are engaging, interesting, and fun as well as educational can be difficult but the “Notable Lives From History” books by Marilyn Boyer do just that. They are incredible! Join us as Marilyn talks about the stories and the series of books that can make history come alive and enjoyable to your family. You can find her series on Master Books at https://www.masterbooks.com/what-a-character-series

MÂCHÉ Book Club with Susan Prigge

We are back with another list of great books and authors for all ages! Susan is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to books and she is talking with us today about books for the whole family to enjoy. If you want some great recommendations or are just looking for some fun reading, join us! You can find all of today’s recommendations as well as past book clubs on the MÂCHÉ book list on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2RCLMLEBP73VY?ref_=wl_share

Teaching Living Math with Angela O’Dell

Math can be an intimidating subject for parents and students at any age and it can strip the joy of learning away quickly! Enter Angela O’Dell’s math program, Math: Lessons for a Living Education. For those of you looking for an engaging, colorful, Biblically-based, story-driven math curriculum, this is it. You can find Angela’s math curriculum no Master Books at https://www.masterbooks.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Angela%20O%E2%80%99Dell You can also find Angela on her podcast, Real Cool History for Kids, on Apple Podcasts and Spotify Podcasts.

Habits of a Sacred Home with Jennifer Pepito

In a world that can feel overwhelming and chaotic how do we create a home that is rooted in Christ and Biblical values for our family? What simple habits can we do right now to make home a sacred and safe place for our family to thrive and grow in their relationship with the Lord? Jennifer Pepito talks today about how we can make our homes a sacred place to seek God and to raise our family. She challenges us to change the world by changing your home one habit at a time. If you are interested in Jennifer’s book, Habits for a Sacred Home 9 Practices from History to Anchor and Restore Modern Families, you can order it here: https://www.thepeacefulpreschool.com/habitsforasacredhome To listen to Jennifer’s podcast, Restoration Home, you can go to Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Homeschool Rising: Shattering Myths, Finding Courage, and Opting Out of the School System with Christy-Faith

After more than 20 years working in education, Christy and her husband chose to walk away from a thriving business consulting on education for families wanting to find educational alternatives for their children. Seeing so many struggling with traditional education, they started to research and explore homeschooling which profoundly transformed their perspective on education. Christy began homeschooling her children and mentoring and supporting parents who have taken on homeschooling. Christy runs an online community, Thrive Homeschool Community, hosts a podcast, The Christy-Faith Show, and writing. You can find her on her website at www.christy-faith.com her podcast can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, and YouTube to buy her book “Homeschool Rising: Shattering Myths, Finding Courage, and Opting out of the School System” you can go to Amazon here: Homeschool Rising: Shattering Myths, Finding Courage, and Opting Out of the School System https://a.co/d/5VsJJjC

Foundations in Worship with Kristy Smith

Finding a good curriculum or study to do with teenagers to draw them into the Word and conversations about their faith can be a challenge! Enter the Foundations in Worship study from Master Books. Today Kristy Smith will discuss working through this deep content with her 4 teenage daughters and the fruit she has seen as a result. This book is a study for high school in hymns and can cover Bible and/or Music study as an elective with the ability to give a credit toward graduation. It incorporates not only scripture study, listening to music, great conversation starters, but, also an oral presentation component. But, above all, it is a chance to go deep into faith with our teenagers and get them into the Word in a real way. To find “Foundations in Worship” please visit this link: https://www.masterbooks.com/foundations-in-worship

Taking Care of YOU!!! With Abby Joy

As moms, wives, educators, chauffeurs, event coordinators, planners, cleaners, chefs, personal shoppers…the list goes on and on…we can get bogged down in the daily needs of others around us. How can we prioritize a healthy time away to reconnect with the Lord and be renewed so we can continue to give? Abby has the solution! Her team is planning Homeschool Mom Retreats in MN! To get information about it and to sign up please go here: https://familystylelearning.wordpress.com/retreat/? If you are interested in Abby’s YouTube channel, Family Style Learning, you can go here: https://youtube.com/@familystylelearning?si=XSIJMr5eCxRl3xdA