As I am equipping my children for the life God planned for them, God is equipping me for the life He planned for me.
Equip Academy
Isaiah 25:9 In that day they will say, "Surely this is our God; we trusted in Him and He saved us. This is Yahweh, we trusted in Him; let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation."
Please feel free to add a comment and let me know you've been by. Thanks ~ Sharon
I am Jeff's wife; Joshua, Anna, Abigail and Samuel's mum; a helpmeet, homemaker, home-pre-schooler, part-time Theology student... a Christian. My husband, after three years as a full-time Theology student, is in his third year working as a Pastor, and I am the part-time Children's Ministry Worker with our church family.
"A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one." ~ JRR Tolkien
I am reading The Borrowers Afield by Mary Norton to the kids after dinner.
... We've just finished reading
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling [audiobook CD]
James and the Giant Peach,The BFG, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass elevator by Roald Dahl [audiobook CD]
Clarice Bean Spells Trouble by Lauren Child [audiobook CD]
Cry of the Cat by Emily Rhodda [audiobook CD]
Anne of Avonlea by LM Montgomery [audiobook CD]
The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King by JRR Tolkein: Yes, even our 4yo listened to The Lord of the Rings!
Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Comes Back, Mary Poppins Opens the Door, Mary Poppins in the Park and Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane by P.L. Travers
The Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas (abridged by Hinkler Books)
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Most of The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories by Joan Aiken, before we decided the later stories in the collection were too dark to be suitable for our family.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Horse and His Boy, The Magician's Nephew, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair and The Last Battle by Clive Staples (CS) Lewis
The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbitt [audiobook CD]
"You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, and training them up in God's fear, and minding the house, and making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts." ~ Charles Spurgeon
Home Educator's Bookshelf
Ideaology and Pedagogy:
The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers
The Three R's by Ruth Beechick
The Well Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise
Wisdom and Eloquence by Robert Littlejohn and Charles T Evans
Teaching the Trivium by Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn
A Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levison
More Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levison
The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory
Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning by Douglas Wilson
Exploring the History and Philosophy of Christian Education by Michael J Anthony and Warren S Benson
Homeschooling With a Meek and Quiet Spirit by Teri Maxwell
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