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Nick Ellis is the Founder and CEO of Christian Halls, an alternative option for traditional University and trade school for students. Christian Halls uses the Oxford Model of higher education which is based around conversations with a small class size and a tutor guiding the class in their work toward their degrees. Using the method of education that was standard for centuries, students engage in thought-provoking dialogues, challenge preconceptions, foster critical thinking, and intertwine intellectual, spiritual, and vocational growth (taken from the Christian Halls literature). Nick explains the vision and mission of Christian Halls and tells us about the success of it in Brazil and in models happening right now in the US! To find out more about Christian Halls, you can visit their website at https://christianhalls.org/ or visit their YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/@christianhallsinternational?si=oyqxHaqph57AO50q
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Today is a 2 for 1! Carrie Lindquist has written amazing curriculum for your early reader and explorer! Foundations Phonics is written in such a teacher/parent friendly way so that you can just pick it up and teach your child without a lot of teacher prep. Everything you need is included in the one book and in your own home! This is an engaging, hands-on curriculum that starts with a Biblical foundation and God’s character to teach your child phonics. Carrie has also written Adventures in Creation to teach children an overview of all the sciences in one school year! This curriculum is fun, engaging, and easily taught, again, with all things from your home! While this is aimed at 1st grade, it is easily adapted for younger and older so you can use this book to teach all your children at the same time. All through this curriculum you will see how Carrie weaves God’s plan for us through His wonderful creation! https://www.masterbooks.com/foundations-phonics https://www.masterbooks.com/adventures-in-creation-level-1
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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As homeschooling families we all agree that arts are an important part of our children’s education, but, what do you do when you aren’t musical or artistic? Stacy Saxon has the answer for those who want to give their children a good musical education but they aren’t musical themselves. As a homeschool mom Stacy understands what a homeschool looks like and what home educators need to teach a good foundation in music. “How To Teach Music When You’re Not Musical” is a comprehensive homeschool musical curriculum that has everything you need to teach in one book. This curriculum covers topics such as sound, orchestra, music in movies, music in video games, making your own instruments, and vocalization. To find Stacy’s book visit her website at http://www.musicisforever.net
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Discipling our families is a big job! Today Anne Butler, author of Feast of Inquiry, encourages us to prioritize the time we spend with our families leading them into the presence of God and teaching them all about Biblical truths. Join us as Anne discusses her book and how it can help you not only with leading your children and family into great discussions about the Bible, but, can also get the Word of God deep into your own heart. You can find out more about Anne on her website https://www.tablelearningresources.com/ You can find Feast of Inquiry at Feast of Inquiry: Discussion Questions to Serve Our Souls From Every New Testament Chapter https://a.co/d/a4WRyTF You can also find The Bible Project at https://youtube.com/@bibleproject?si=s3lSkSm4EZhaPOgG
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Martyn Iles is the Executive CEO of Answers in Genesis and has written “Who Am I? Solving the Identity Puzzle” in answer to the identity crises today. What is true Biblical identity and how can we pass that on to our children? Are we asking the right questions when it comes to identity and are we starting in the right place? Martyn discusses the true starting point for Biblical identity and the questions we should be asking ourselves and our children. You can find Martyn’s book at Master Books: https://www.masterbooks.com/who-am-i-solving-the-identity-puzzle
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Catch On to Cursive is a whole child, Bible based approach to cursive written in a colorful, story-driven book. Because she was a special education teacher, Carrie understands the importance of teaching cursive and the skill children receive from the exercises she has written into the curriculum. In this episode Carrie discusses the importance for children to practice cursive and handwriting and how it works toward their fluency in reading and other subject areas. To find Catch On to Cursive, go to Master Books: http://www.masterbooks.com/catch-on-to-cursive Also, keep an eye out on Master Books for Carrie Bailey’s new handwriting curriculum for younger students, Handwriting A to Zoo!
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Ken Ham is the founding CEO of Answers in Genesis, the Creation Museum, and the Ark Encounter. As one of the most in demand speakers in North America, he shares the relevance and authority of the book of Genesis and how compromise on Genesis has opened a dangerous door. Join us as he talks about climate change and a Biblical response. His new book, Climate Change for Kids…and parents too!, is a great resource for families on the Biblical response Christians should take regarding climate change. You can find his new book at Master Books: https://www.masterbooks.com/climate-change-for-kids-and-parents-too for more information on the Creation Museum you can click here: https://www.creationmuseum.org For more information on the Ark Encounter you can go to this link: https://arkencounter.com To find information on Answers in Genesis follow this link: https://answersingenesis.org/
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Revealing Arithmetic is a companion book to any math curriculum that helps to bring math concepts to life in a Biblical Worldview. As you work through basic math concepts like addition, subtraction, all the way up to factoring and multi-digit operations, you can use Revealing Arithmetic to drive home the way God is woven into the very fabric of math. Katherine talks about her motivation behind writing Revealing Arithmetic and the importance of why we, as parents, should bring Biblical Truth to math. We also talk about the companion timeline: The Big Book of Math which is a beautiful and colorful STEM timeline from creation to modern day. You can find these resources at: https://www.masterbooks.com/revealing-arithmetic Other math curriculum from Master Books, including Katherine’s curriculum, Principles of Mathematics, can be found at https://www.masterbooks.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Katherine+Hannon&p=1 You can also find her Academy High School Courses at https://www.masterbooksacademy.com/
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Christ Over Culture: Raising Kids to Stand in a Postmodern World is a must have book for Christian parents who want to raise their kids with a Biblical worldview. Andrea Crum talks about all the ideologies coming against our families and especially our children and how we can train them to stand up not only in truth but also in compassion. You can find Andrea’s book at Master Books: https://www.masterbooks.com/christ-over-culture and for more information on the Raising Christian Kids Conference you can visit Andrea’s website: https://www.genuinefamilyministries.com/raising-christian-kids-event/
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John Stamper spent 13 years teaching in the Chicago public schools. In 2021 he filed a concern with the school board over materials he was being trained to teach to his students as young as 5 years old, when they turned down his request to look into the materials and training, he followed God’s leading and resigned. In this podcast we talk with John about what is really happening behind the scenes in public schools all over the USA and what you as a parent can do. If you are interested in reading his book you can find it here: https://www.masterbooks.com/conflicted I encourage you to buy one for yourself and other copies to give to families who are thinking about homeschooling. It’s an important book with a strong message.
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