Our 24 Family Ways with free printable

We finished our sibling bible study and we are onto another devotional - Our 24 Family Ways by Clay Clarkson. I wanted to continued our morning bible time but didn't want to pick up Telling God's Story Book 2 until next school year. I found this complete with coloring pages which seems to be the fav right now with my kids. To go along with this bible study I made several notebook sheets. My first draft of notebook sheets included too much writing for the time I allotted for our bible study. So, I changed it and now, they are art journaling. After every reading, they draw a few things to help them remember what was read.

There is a memory verse for each week so I try to find an extra coloring sheet for the verse. They can color it while I read.

Our first week of Our 24 Family Ways - our journal page, verse coloring sheet, and the coloring sheet from the book.

Here's a view of both Kaleb's and J's journal sheets for the week. The write the memory verse in the bracket and the family way at top. They draw what they want to remember from the bible readings.

This is my completed bible journaling page for our new devotion. Notice there are only four squares for journaling through the week. I just couldn't manage five squares but I figure they can journal Friday's lesson on the back. Each day they work a lesson, the color in the number flag. If you would like a copy of my journal page as well as the others I created that required more writing, look below. I hope you enjoy these. The kids and I have - I am right beside them for this and I like how these pages are working out. See you soon.

Download Bible Journaling Pages HERE

My Brother's Keeper - new Bible study

We recently started a new Bible study in our homeschool. This Bible study is called My Brother's Keeper and it is from Not Consumed. It is available in youth and junior ages as well as digital and print editions. I had not intended to start this study so soon. I had bought it but thought it would be better to wait. But Not Consumed is doing a Sibling Challenge for the next month and this bible study was part of the challenge.

It is aimed at siblings and if you have a sibling, you will know how important the need to get along is:) I want my children to get along and see the benefits to have many siblings. This bible study is just for that.

I ordered the print edition and took the binding off for easier use. J is working through the youth program.

Kaleb is working on the junior program. They basically follow the same study but with more written work for the older kids. Kaleb is drawing his family on one of his pages.

J and her family page. Now, we just started this study and I have yet to experience peace throughout the house completely. (That will probably not happen) But I have enjoyed the lessons on how siblings are there in times of need and why God created the family.

One thing I did notice was this great note from my daughter to her family on the magnet board. So, maybe...just maybe...something's clicking:) Have an awesome day.

Links

My Brother's Keeper - bible study.

Character Training - Humility with free printable

J is in her second year of working through The Virtue Bible and she is about half way done. For each character trait, she works through her notebook pages and highlights every key verse.

J colored her word ring and we read the key verses for the lesson.

I always like for J to look up the virtue in the dictionary to explain the word in simple terms. She adds the definition to her notebook page.

She then writes ways that she can work on being humble this week in her notebook. She glues the key verses mini book in there as well.

Then, we spend the most time looking up the verses and highlighting them in the Bible. She adds a colored tab to match the verse. If you would like to download the notebook pages for the virtue of humility, link below. J's character notebook is really coming together. It will be a treasured resource for her for a long time. Have a great day.

Download Humility Notebook Printable HERE.

Links

Meaningful Mama - has a list of books for the lesson of humility as well as other lesson ideas.

Kids of Integrity - has a few free lessons and printables for humility.

Rachel Carmen - has a free printable humility coloring page.

Heart of Wisdom - has a free lesson about humility with Peter.

Character Training - Hope

J and I are still working our way through the Virtue Training Bible and this week, we learned about the virtue of hope.

At the beginning of our lesson, I always ask her what she thinks the virtue means and then I have her look it up in the dictionary. She adds the dictionary definition to her notebook page.

We talk about ways that she can exhibit the virtue of the week. Then she adds them to her notebook page.

We then take the time to look up and highlight each scripture that corresponds to hope. This may take a few days but it is well worth it. It is neat to see all of the scriptures that we have read so far with all of the different colors.

Here are her hope notebook pages and word ring. For every virtue that we have studied so far, there is a corresponding notebook set. If you would like to download the Hope Notebook pages, the link is below. Have an awesome week!

Download Hope Notebook Pages HERE.

God's Promises

As part of the new year in our homeschool, I knew that I wanted to have a Bible time with both of the kids together. I truly wanted to use Telling God's Story Book Two but I decided to save that for next school year and I found God's Promise by Sally Michael. J and I worked through God's Names by the same author for an Advent study. This is a simple Bible study that can be added to, if needed, or just taken at face value. Hard as it might be, we are just taking it at face value. I wanted something simple that we could do together since we had so much fun with out Christmas unit.

Each day consists of reading the lesson, reading the Bible verses, and maybe a simple project or activity. One thing you do for each lesson is write the lesson verses on a notecard and decorate it as a gift. So, we started our gift ring of Bible verses.

For Kaleb, since he is still an early writer, I made notecards that are traceable for each lesson. He decorates the other side as a present.

Sometimes, the lesson calls for a definition of a word. I made cards for each of the words that needed a definition. J is working on her cards - I love that smile!

Here's a picture of the first two lessons of God's Promise. It includes a small book, our Promise definition card and our gift verses. Not too bad for a new study. I am currently creating a file for this book for download - but not finished it yet....soon. If you would like what I have, I can send it to you. Please let me know.

I definitely like having a set time for both my kids to sit down together and learn about the Bible. This book may be somewhat over my Kaleb's head but he seems to enjoy the lessons anyway. I am glad we started this and hope to continue have Bible time together next school year.

Character Training - Honesty with free printable

We are still working through the Virtue Training Bible and this week's virtue was honesty.

J worked on the notebook pages for honesty - coloring the title pages and the verse ring.

She looked up honesty in the dictionary and wrote the definition in her notebook.

She then looked up each verse and highlighted it in the correct color, adding the color flags to mark her Bible.

Her finished notebook pages and verse ring. If you would like a copy of these to add to your notebook, link is below. Hope these help. Have a great week.

Download Honesty Notebook Pages HERE.

Advent Study - God's Names

Last year, I gave J a choice of advent bible studies. I asked her if she wanted to learn about the Genealogy of Jesus, God's Names, or a simple Christmas devotional. She chose God's names.  Because of computer issues, I wasn't able to share what we did during the holiday season but I wanted to post this in case your family would like to learn about God's Names during the next advent season or any other time. It is not just for advent!

The first reading of the book talks about just how many names God has. It is amazing how many  names he has. The book suggested that J discover how many names she has - she came up with 11.

For every  name of God, we tried to come up with an ornament. Since this was the first lesson on how many names J had, she made a crystal J (borax experiment). This was easy to do with great results. It just takes a few days to dry.

Also, she colored each name for her poster and a mini ornament for the window display.

Here is her ornament for Elhohim. She made a coffee filter world and placed it in her hand.

Here is her Yahweh ornament - burning bush and her name for the poster.

The beginning of her poster. Each day, she added each name she learned. It was full by the time we finished.

Another ornament. Many times, I would ask her what she would like to make for the tree to represent the name and she would come up with some great ones. Here's a fish.

A magnifying glass ornament.

Our window display - God's names. She colored a new one each day. I love how this turned out. Our tree was also a success. I wish I would have taken a picture of it. We learned so much from this book - it definitely doesn't have to be an advent study. Have a great day.

Character Training - Holiness

A part of J's Bible program is character training and our resource is the Virtue Training Bible. J's new virtue this week was holiness.

Each week, she adds to her virtue notebook. Here, she is cutting out the pieces of the notebook pages that I have created.

She colored the word ring and added it to her ring. She likes to color the words. We read through the key verses on holiness.

J looks up the verses and highlights them throughout the bible, adding a color tag to each verse.

This is a photo of her notebook and the tabs. She is definitely filling it up. Once we place a tab at the bottom, we start all over at the top.

A photo of her completed notebook pages. If you would like to download the Virtue notebook pages for holiness, click the link below. Enjoy your day.

Download Holiness Notebook Pages HERE.

Character Training - Gospel

J is working through the Virtue Training Bible as part of her fourth grade curriculum. We are half way through (approximately). With each new character, she adds to her Virtue notebook. This week was to learn about the importance of the gospel.

She starts her study by coloring her gospel word ring. She adds it to her ever growing ring of character virtues.

She looked up the word gospel in the dictionary and adds the definition to her notebook. We also take the time to read through our scripture mini book and discussed ways she can share the gospel with her friends.

J then highlighted the key verses in her bible. She loves this part. Our only problem has been to line up the tabs with the heading. Since we have started this Bible study, J is now highlighting other verses that she reads daily. I love it:)

Here is a picture of the notebook printables that I have created to go-along with the virtue of gospel. We add to her notebook with each virtue. If you would like to download a copy of my gospel notebook printables, link below. Have an awesome day.

Download Gospel Notebook Printable HERE.