This book is not about "school at home"--it is about something better. It is about Real Learning. 
Homeschooling pioneer Charlotte Mason wrote with great wisdom about providing young minds with a living books education. She urged teachers to present great ideas and stand back, allowing students to form relationships with the ideas. 
Elizabeth Foss carries Miss Mason's philosophy from the idealto the real. How does the busy home-educating mom balance the various needs of a houseful of children? How does she provide short lessons and free afternoons while ensuring that her children receive a thorough and well-rounded education? Exactly how does she use living books to teach history, geography, literature, and scienc? How does she incorporate nature study, the arts, and soccer practice? How does she create in her home an atmosphere of sanctity with Christ at its center, an atmosphere of love in which the whole family can grow in holiness day by day? 
How does she manage all this and still get dinner on the table? 
With passion and grace, Elizabeth Foss explores these questions and more. Real Learning is a rich and detailed examination of how to let "eduation" spill out of your home classroom into every aspect of your family life. More than a curriculum guide, it is a look at a lifestyle which aims to nourish the whole child, the whold family--heart, soul, and mind.

Real Learning: Education in the Heart of the Home

Foss, Elizabeth

By Way of the Family Press

Consider the Lilies is a 7X10 softbound, matte cover Scripture study journal that is thoughtfully written and beautifully designed. Every day of this six week study provides Scripture to get you started and notes for further Bible reading. You will find a daily devotion, some thoughts to consider as journal, and a prayer prompt to dovetail with your reading. There are beautifully designed, generous pages for writing and art journaling. Step by step, day by day, these words console and bring clarity to the hard days.Maybe this is a difficult season in your life—you’re overwhelmed by the burdens weighing you down, the crosses the He’s asked you to carry. You look heavenward and all you feel is… abandoned. This study is for you. It is full of the consolations of the Holy Spirit. Here, you will find a guidebook to what God is saying, how He is encouraging you to lament, to pour out your grief and your fears and your anger. This journal acknowledges that in this broken, fallen world we do suffer.Or maybe you’re in a sweet spot. Life is really rather good right now. You’re not feeling any particular strain. This study is for you, too. In it, you find the words you need to console a friend, to empathize with the people around you who are suffering. I promise you, they are suffering. You are daily surrounded by people who bow low under the weight of grief, often without any outward sign of dismay. This study makes you a better friend to woman next to you, to the growing child who aches, to the spouse who despairs. And it buries words into your heart so that they are there, waiting, when the rain begins to fall. Because it will fall.

Consider the Lilies

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Searching the Internet and the ability to competently use search engines are increasingly becoming an important part of children’s daily lives. Whether mobile or at home, children use search interfaces to explore personal interests, complete academic assignments, and have social interaction. However, engaging with search also means engaging with an ever-changing and evolving search landscape. There are continual software updates, multiple devices used to search (e.g., phones, tablets), an increasing use of social media, and constantly updated Internet content. For young searchers, this can require infinite adaptability or mean being hopelessly confused. This book offers a perspective centered on children’s search experiences as a whole instead of thinking of search as a process with separate and potentially problematic steps. Reading the prior literature with a child-centered view of search reveals that children have been remarkably consistent over time as searchers, displaying the same search strategies regardless of the landscape of search. However, no research has synthesized these consistent patterns in children’s search across the literature, and only recently have these patterns been uncovered as distinct search roles, or searcher types. Based on a four-year longitudinal study on children’s search experiences, this book weaves together the disparate evidence in the literature through the use of 9 search roles for children ages 7-15. The search role framework has a distinct advantage because it encourages adult stakeholders to design children’s search tools to support and educate children at their existing levels of search strength and deficit, rather than expecting children to adapt to a transient search landscape. Table of Contents: Introduction / Existing Research / University of Maryland’s Children and Internet Search Studies and the Search Role Framework / Roles of Reaction: Developing and Non-Motivated Searchers / Roles of Preference: Rule-Bound, Domain-Specific, and Visual Searchers / Roles of Proficiency” Power and Social Searchers / Conclusions / Acknowledgments / References / Author Biographies

Children's Internet Search: Using Roles to Understand Children’s Search Behavior (Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services)

Computers & Technology

Druin, Allison

Networking & Cloud Computing

Morgan & Claypool Publishers

In this beautifully designed Bible study, you will find meditations on the Scripture encountered daily at Mass throughout the Advent and Christmas seasons. For the days of the O Antiphons, their biblical roots are explored. And when there are optional Memorial Mass readings, those are thoughtfully studied, opening contemplation with the beautiful saints of the season. Throughout the book, you will find ample room to dig deep and to journal. The team of excellent writers at Take Up &amp; Read has crafted an extraordinary volume, and invite readers to enter into the beautiful practice of lectio divina with them.

O Radiant Dawn: An Advent & Christmas Journal

Foss, Kristin

Independently published

Created especially for children, this book contains Bible stories for every mystery of the rosary. Full of interesting things to do, the journal is bursting with discussion questions, personal prayer prompts, puzzles, and coloring pages. There are also nature study pages to create a botanical rosary. Designed for children from 8-13, younger children will enjoy it, too, especially with help from older siblings or parents. Adults might enjoy studying alongside the children, using the adult version of Ponder.

Ponder for Kids

Children's Books

Religions

Whether a woman is 19 or 49, friendship with other women can enrich our lives and it can make us weep. How do we find friends who are kind and true? By becoming those friends ourselves. This beautiful book invites you to explore what God has to say about lasting friendships. A journal with ample room for reflection and beautifully designed pages of scripture, this book brings you stories of faithful friendship and reflections on the challenges inherent in forming lifelong bonds that build women up. What if we understood that true friends are God's desire for us? What if we approached friendships with the confidence that God wants us to have friends and to be friends? This 4-week devotional journal is a gift to women everywhere. It's a volume they can study alone or they can share with friends. Beginning with the comfortable, truly good friendship we find in Jesus, we consider together the challenges and the triumphs of happy, holy friendships. We study scripture, we make plans to further friendships, and we count the blessings that come with life spent in the company of good friends.

True Friend

To the people of Rome, the cultural hub of the world at the time, St. Paul wrote the most thorough articulation of the gospel. For us, the book of Romans is a study of sin and guilt and loss and rescue. It is the essential gospel. An in-depth look at the entire book of Romans, this study provides inspiration and structure to dig deeply into St. Paul’s guidebook for the early church--and for we who are the Church today. Scripture, art, journaling prompts and beautiful space to write, and even a few recipes enhance the reader's understanding of St. Paul's essential gospel letter.

Flourish

A newly revised bestseller, Rooted in Hope is a 33-day Advent and Christmas study that extends from November 30 to January first. In a look at Scriptures that tell the stories of prominent biblical figures, this study echoes and expands upon the popular Advent tradition of a Jesse tree. For each day, you'll find Scripture, a devotional essay, pages for guided lectio divina, and space to organize your days. Journaling pages and useful planning pages feature clear and elegant design, exquisite hand-drawn illustrations, and gorgeous calligraphy. A handy companion for Advent and Christmas seasons, the book will become a treasured keepsake for the woman who uses it.

Rooted in Hope

Hosanna is a Lenten devotional journal that is a deep and wide study of the Gospel of Matthew. The team at Take Up and Read delivers another gorgeous book that includes scripture, devotional essays, room to journal, and stunning art. Each weekday, readers will find a simple prompt for journaling tuned to the heart of the ancient prayer form of Lectio Divina. Weekends are reserved for rest and for hiding His word in the hearts of those who love Him. Hosanna is designed to help you reflect on all aspects of your life in light of Jesus' call to live for the Kingdom of Heaven. It’s at once gentle and challenging--a journey with one of Jesus' closest followers that will bring you into the presence of our Lord, from His birth to His resurrection.

Hosanna

If anyone knows the challenges of being a Catholic mom today, it's Faith and Family editor Danielle Bean and her coauthor Elizabeth Foss. Now they've put their combined experience into a 365 devotional designed to encourage busy women to take small steps every day to grow their faith and put it into practice. A thought-provoking quote from a saint, a prayer to focus the day, and a simple action you can take... day-by-day, step-by-step.

Small Steps for Catholic Moms: Think. Pray. Act. Every Day.

Bean, Danielle

Circle Pr

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