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Month: August 2008

Our United States Lapbook

Posted in Homeschooling

Munchkin wants to do a study of the states while we are doing the study of the Presidents. The plan is to study one state and one President per week. We discussed what she wanted to learn about the different states and made this lapbook. For more information about this lapbook and to download the templates, you can go to the completed United States Lapbook post. We couldn’t find an image that we liked for the front cover, so we combined several images (in Printmaster) to create this cover. We will be learning about each state individually. Each state booklet…

Presidents Lapbook

Posted in Homeschooling

I designed this lapbook for Munchkin to be filled in throughout the year. We’ll be learning about each President. All the templates are now available for download at homeschool share. Once again, I designed the cover in my PrintMaster program. The book is a little thicker, so it doesn’t close completely. She’ll be learning about the requirements to become US President and Presidential responsibility. She’ll also be writing about states where the Presidents live and why we have a President (and not a king). She will be recording which Presidents are on the different coins and bills. In addition, we’ll…

Military Wives Prayer

Posted in Military Life

At night when I crawl into bed; My lonely pillow ‘neath my head; I close my eyes and say a prayer; “God keep him safe way over there; And make me strong so I wont cry; It’s kind of hard to be alone ; To teach the kids when there half grown; With out the strength of a fathers hand; To guide them in this troubled land; And God will you please let him know; How much we love and miss him so.” And then I feel across the bed; to where he use to lay his head. And whisper…

Trusting in God

Posted in Family, Military Life, and Thoughts

The year mark of D being away has come and gone, but still we have a few months to go before he will join us again. This means that we are considered to be in the home stretch. While this brings great relief to finally be approaching that point, it also brings along with it some trials. We hear very little from D these days. We can no longer send him care packages. We’re eagerly looking forward to his return home. All this added together makes the days, weeks, months creep by for us. In this time of waiting and…