I am just curious what other families are using as tools and teaching resources. I would love to find readers with a Torah perspective for our elementary aged children. A nice large print Bible for study, copywork, teaching, etc... Any families using Prepare & Pray? Shalom! - Greg & Donna
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- Posted by thehenkelclan 1 year ago. There are 8 posts. The latest reply is from irsmun.
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Hi Greg and Donna. I am not the most qualified to reply here, my wife is...but she's not here so I will say what I think she will say. :)
We have 4 children and two are school age 8 and 10. We have always homeschooled them for various reasons. Its hard to find good material but with younger children, especially elementary, you can assemble your own curriculumn easily. We normally get our textbooks from the library when they have a book sale. Ebay can get a little pricey.
But here is the bottom line. Teach your kids to read (using phonics),to write, and do math. If you just concentrated on the 3 R's your kids will be ahead of most every public school child. Most importantly, though, if they can read well, they can learn anything and mostly by themselves.
Sorry...this is really the bottom line. The above bottom line was to keep you interested. :) The Torah says to teach them always in every situation (Deut 6:7). But teach them what? A Greek education? No. Teach them Torah. Why because when you teach them truth their mindset is the same mindset as Elohim. They become smart by association.
We tried this. My wife used to spend hours trying to get them to understand things and they would struggle to get them. Now this was mostly attitude issues. You know, the "I don't want to learn today, I want to go outside instead" thing. It wasn't a mental accuity thing. But we decided to take Elohim at His word and see what happened. Now my wife spends the first hour to hour and a half doing a bible study/prayer session with them teaching them the scriptures.
What was the outcome? My kids spend only a couple of hours in school each day taking in more than they were in several hours before. And add to that, you don't want to get into a theological debate with my 8 year old! He knows the word and his authority.
A college degree won't mean anything in the kingdom. Your knowledge of Torah will. And the kicker is that Torah makes you smart on this side of the kingdom as well. Its the only book I'd recommend.
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We go through the same things with our boys 9-7-5, the whining about, "I don't want to" attitude. We try to incorporate the bible as much as we can into the attitude training and apply these things to real life. We also have 3 girls 4-2-3mos.
We often find ourselves coming to this reality when they are struggling with a subject, this is not as important as what YHVH says, and back off and gain some perspective.
I agree, if you teach them to read, write, and math, they will do very well. I would throw history into the mix. We always have used ABEKA but this is pretty regemented. We wanted this to really get a solid foundation and then maybe branch off from there into more specific training in line with YHVH. My 9 y/o already studies the Tabernacle and is well versed in the sciptures, not to quote them but at least retell them.
We have learned homeschooling basic at first K-5 and them then we can taylor to the individual. We can all clearly see strengths and weaknesses in all our children.
I am interested in other curriculums as well. We did look at My Father's World but at the last minute stayed with ABEKA.
krh
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We have three little boys (11, 10, 7) that we homeschool. We don't use a "canned" package. We piece it together.
For Math: We use Montessori concrete manipulatives to teach math concepts. All of my boys are past concrete and now work abstractly. We still use manipulatives for the lower level Geometry. My 11 year old is now heading into Algebra. We use VideoText for it. Math-U-See for advanced Geometry.
For English and grammar, we use a mix of montessori and Loyola Press. We also use Jump-In for creative writing.
For Science: We use all Apologia Science Curriculum. It is excellent. They have it from early elementary all the way through High School. My 11 year old has moved into the Middle School/Jr High school curriculum and we are using the videos from Red Wagon Tutorials to augment his General Science study.
For History: We use Mystery of History. We have to explain some parts from a Messianic / HR focus, but it ties the Bible to History. We really like this one too.
We have a variety of resources for Geography, Art, and other subjects. I hope this helps!
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Oh I'm so glad this came up again.
I receive the email from Tony Robinson of "Restoration of Torah". The weekly email includes a link to the week's Parasha. What's neat about this is that it's downloadable and includes a section for kids so that the whole family can be on the 'same page'.
Just go to their website and sign up for their newsletter.
http://www.restorationoftorah.org/
They also have a Home School Resources link for additional teaching sites and tools.
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Our children are no longer in school, but we taught them at home for 17 years. We continue to reap the blessings of that lifestyle. One resource where you might find the type of material you hope to locate, is http://heartofwisdom.com
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Hello,
I'm new here, but we've been home educating since 1996 and are still going with a little one that just started kindergarten this year.
A few of our favorite websites for helpful Torah studies are:
Heartofwisdom.com
torahschool.wordpress.com
aish.com (has great coloring pages for the Torah portions)
cohenscubs.ning.comLike everything, you must choose what is useful for your family from any website or curriculum that you choose, but we have learned that when the materials "disagree" with us, we don't throw it out. We use it to further our children's education into the "why's" of what we want them to know and understand from Scripture.
It's a form of apologetics, if you will; helping them to know what they will face when they share their faith. They will not be surprised by opposing beliefs or challenges, and prayerfully will not be led astray by "every wind of doctrine".
Blessings,
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A superbly excellent resource that's free is khanacademy.org. For math, it is the most excellent teaching material I have seen and its fun for the kids. It also covers other subjects.
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