Columbus Day homeschooling crafts — map

Posted by Hallee on Oct 12, 2009 in homeschooling, Parenting, preschool activities

As I was planning today’s homeschool lesson for Scott and Johnathan, I came across this EASY and wonderful idea to talk about Columbus Day. Do this craft with common items found around the house.

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Tags: 1492, Brown watercolor paint, Christopher Columbus, Columbus, Columbus Day, Homeschool, Nina, Paint, Painting, Parenting, Pinta, Preschool activities, Santa Maria, Spain, Visual tool, Watercolor painting

Harvest Bread: a recipe for children

Posted by Hallee on Oct 12, 2009 in Breads, Hallee's Galley, Holiday fare, Parenting, Recipes

I was looking around online the other day to find something uniquely Canadian to post about Thanksgiving. Since Canadian Thanksgiving is actually a celebration of harvest and has nothing to do with pilgrims and the new world, what I found referenced over and over again was Harvest Bread.

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Tags: Baker's yeast, Baking, Bread, Breads, Canada's Thanksgiving, Food and drink, Hallee's Galley, Holiday fare, Hospitality/Recreation, Kneading, Pastry, Recipes, Thanksgiving, Yeast

Creation: Meanings, Intent, & Truth

Posted by Gregg on Oct 11, 2009 in apologetics, Christian Faith, Creation, homeschooling

How important are MEANINGS? What does it MEAN to say that something IS a thing that it plainly is NOT? There are numerous words to describe this when it happens such as: misrepresent, obfuscate, prevaricate, and LIE.

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Tags: Bigotry, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin's views on religion, Christian, Christian Faith, Creation, Creationism, Darwin, Darwinism, Darwinists, Ernst Haeckel, Ethologists, Genocide, Homeschool, Leonardo DaVinci, Lies, Methodological Naturalism, On the Origin of Species, Racism, Secular Humanism, Statue of David, The Preservation of the Favoured Races, Thomas Huxley, Vance Farrell

5 Conversations: Beauty is Only Skin Deep

Posted by Hallee on Oct 7, 2009 in Biblical womanhood, Christian Faith, converstations, Parenting, Raising girls

Conversation number 2 in a series on the topics found within the book 5 Conversations You Must Have With Your Daughter by author Vicki Courtney: Beauty is Only Skin Deep. If you have a daughter, I strongly urge you to get this book, read this book, read this book WITH your daughter. She needs this information and she needs to know what she’s facing in the world.

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Tags: Biblical womanhood, Books, Christian, Christian Faith, Conversations, Human Interest, Joan Jacobs, Love, More Beautiful You, Parenting, Raising girls, Reading, Self-image, Vicki Courtney

Creation: A Deer with a Dream of a Long Neck

Posted by Gregg on Oct 4, 2009 in apologetics, Christian Faith, Creation, homeschooling

Lamarckism, the notion of “inheritance of acquired characteristics” while utterly disproven over a century ago, continues today as the unstated philosophical basis of all Darwinian evolutionary biology. While admittedly lacking in either proof or reason, Lamarckism nevertheless excuses Darwinists from contemplating the possibility that nature espouses implications outside of Methodological Naturalism.

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Tags: August Weismann, Christian, Christian Faith, Creation, Creationism, Darwin, Darwinism, Darwinist, Darwinists, Evolution, Friedrich Leopold Weismann, Giraffe, Homeschool, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lamarckism, Modern evolutionary synthesis, Natural selection

5 Conversations: Don’t be in Such a Hurry to Grow Up

Posted by Hallee on Oct 2, 2009 in Biblical womanhood, Christian Faith, converstations, Parenting, Raising girls

Conversation number 1 in a series on the topics found within the book 5 Conversations You Must Have With Your Daughter by author Vicki Courtney: Don’t be in Such a Hurry to Grow Up. If you have a daughter, I strongly urge you to get this book, read this book, read this book WITH your daughter. She needs this information and she needs to know what she’s facing in the world.

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Tags: Biblical womanhood, Books, Christian, Christian Faith, Conversations, Films, Halloween, Human Interest, Kentucky, Love, Mountains of Kentucky, Parenting, Raising girls, Reading, Self-image, Vicki Courtney

We Can Bake It! Yes We Can!

Posted by Hallee on Oct 1, 2009 in Hallee's Galley, missions, Parenting

This would be a WONDERFUL family project – a way to give back to those who have — and are — sacrificing so much and a way to open up the door to talk about things happening in our world and our wonderful military with your children.

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Tags: Baker, Baking, Christmas, Fellowship, Food and drink, Hallee's Galley, Iraq, Knowledge, Learning, Middle East, Military, Operation Baking GALS, Parenting, Support the Troops, Susan Whetzel, Thanksgiving

got 15 minutes and a couple of bored toddlers? (aka homemade play dough)

Posted by Hallee on Sep 29, 2009 in preschool activities

Homemade Play Dough recipe with photos.

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Tags: Baking, Dough, Hallee's Galley, Homemade, Hospitality/Recreation, Kneading, Parenting, Preschool activities, Recipes, Toys

Our family’s walk is this Saturday

Posted by Hallee on Sep 28, 2009 in Christian Faith, Love, March of Dimes, Parenting

Thanks to a lot of prayer, and a lot of competent and caring nurses and doctors, and an awful lot of research into birth defects, premature births, and still-births funded by the March of Dimes, all of our children have the opportunity to live normal, healthy lives.

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Tags: Biology, Birth defects, Charity, Health, Human Interest, March of Dimes, Medicine, Parenting, premature birth, Preterm birth

Creation: Paradigm Shift -or- The Death of a Nimrod

Posted by Gregg on Sep 26, 2009 in apologetics, Christian Faith, Creation, homeschooling

How I went from a die-hard member of the church of Darwin to becoming a believer in actual science. Oh, and my understanding of actual science shored up my beliefs in the Truth of Creation as explained in the book of Genesis as well.