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I'm very happy to present to you my church's most

I'm very happy to present to you my church's most recent project, @thepilgrimjournalph.

The Pilgrim Journal is an undated planner with weekly catechism lessons and a classic Bible reading plan. It is designed with the Christian pilgrim in mind. Perhaps the most unique feature is the inclusion of Dr Rowland Ward's booklet, Learning the Christian Faith: The Shorter Catechism for Today. These lessons appear at the start of each week, along with a weekly checklist of daily Bible reading passages from Robert Murray M'Cheyne's Bible reading calendar. The journal begins on the Lord's Day every week and dedicates half a page for sermon notes or Sunday reflections. The deliberate spotlight that this journal places on the Lord's Day is meant to signal to us the need to start and to order our days along the lines of God's purpose of rest-driven work in Christ. It is hoped that this weekly rhythm will make it's way into your life and living.

Proceeds from each journal will go directly to my church's #fundraising efforts, Pilgrim Community Church, a confessional Reformed church in the Presbyterian tradition based in Quezon City, Philippines. You can learn more about the project or the journal over at thepilgrimjournalph.com

When you place your orders now, you can get the journal at ₱100 off! This promo ends on May 15, 2021. Please message me if you have any questions or concerns. I'd be glad to assist you.

Do give @thepilgrimjournalph a follow and please help me spread the news. Thank you!

#thepilgrimjournalph
#reformedchurchph

I'm excited to share with you my latest project, a

I'm excited to share with you my latest project, another living book about Filipino life!

From the author of many tales for children comes a story about Filipino twins, Ramon and Rita, children of a poor rice farmer along the shore of Manila Bay. In The Filipino Twins, Lucy Fitch Perkins weaves a wonderful story chronicling how a family struggles to survive during tough times.

It took a while to clean the images from archive.org. But it's so good to see a neat copy which I had printed when I finished editing the manuscript. The text formatting will be more spacious than the original for ease of reading. But the contents remain untouched, except for a few annotations on pronounciations, which is clearly not needed for a Filipino audience.

More news about this soon, including hardcopies of Fil & Filippa. Would you be interested in this book? Let me know in the comments!

P.S. This is not the final print yet. It's a personal copy that I had printed so I could proof-read it. There won't be an annoying black line on the left side on the final copy. 😂

#pilgrimpaideiapress

The upside of a summer break is being able to do a

The upside of a summer break is being able to do all the planning and preparation (and reading!) before all the commotion (or actual homeschool) happens. Thankfully, I was able to make some copywork pages, create a few covers, and had them bound to keep them all in one place. Then I won't have to worry about required written work because I can open up a page or two of these notebooks after a reading et voilà! Another thing that I've finally gotten around to doing is the big gridded math notebook, which is not available anywhere locally. I've made two sizes for two of my students. The Large grid is also good for some special needs kids who need a little more space when writing.

The good news is that I've made all of these available for download at my webstore: Catechism Copywork (Shorter Catechism 1-20 in print or cursive), Aesop's Copywork (follows the AOY1 curriculum), Gridded Math Notebooks (Large and Medium for K-2 students). I also have a Trial and Triumph church history copywork based on the AOY1 and Y2 curriculum available. And you can get all of these for FREE until April 21st. Most of it will remain FREE anyway.

There are a few more printables down the line. I wonder, do you have any requests for K-2? I'll see if it is in line with what I'm trying to do.

#pilgrimpaideia
#rccprintables
#freehomeschoolprintables
#amblesideonline

This is my second time to homeschool a Kindergarte

This is my second time to homeschool a Kindergarten student, and both of my children could not be more different from one another. My son is what IEW's Andrew Pudewa would classify as a boy who would rather make forts all day.

Homeschool is now integrated in our home life. So a lot of the materials here are actually overlaps with the books that I’ll be using together with his sister, an incoming second grade student.

Aside from Winnie the Pooh and Just So stories, you may think that Beowulf might be an odd choice for a Kindergartener. But my son loves the heroic feats in this book. Also I can’t help but note that many writers, such as J. R. R. Tolkien, have been greatly inspired by this legendary tale. I really do think that Beowulf should be part of a young boy’s library at some point. Did I mention that we love Michael Morpurgo’s retellings? So we’ll be reading his books for Arthur and Sir Gawain, because my boy wants to learn more about knights and kings! And of course, it points to the Greatest Story Ever Told, which could be summed up as "kill the dragon, save the girl," according to Doug Wilson. This is the boy edition of the curriculum, and I personally think that that should factor in the planning. Because boys are built differently than girls.

Another thing I’ve learned about doing Kindergarten twice now is that you don’t need to take on a full-blown history curriculum just yet. You can begin in First Grade, and it won’t really make that much difference. What you can do instead is to read myths and various stories from history. They not only provide literary wonder, but they also build moral imagination. And if you grow up with a good Bible in hand and a lot of wonderful stories in between, you will find that there is really no need for a character curriculum after all.

You can find my Kindergarten curriculum picks over at my blog, if you like.

"Modern science has... rent asunder what the class

"Modern science has... rent asunder what the classical imagination brought together: the physical world and the semiotic world, the world of nature and the world of culture, have been split apart from each other, such that what was once considered knowledge—indeed the highest form of knowledge, the contemplation of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful—is now appropriated as no more than private belief or personal preference."

—Stephen R. Turley, Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness & Beauty

#classicaleducation #classicalhomeschooling #classicalchristianeducation
#truthgoodnessbeautyph

My husband preached on the Psalms again yesterday

My husband preached on the Psalms again yesterday as part of his ongoing series on the 119th Psalm. He mentioned #eucatastrophe according to how J. R. R. Tolkien defined it, "The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending; or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous 'turn' (for there is no true end to any fairy-tale): this joy, which is one of the things which fairy-stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially 'escapist,' nor 'fugitive.' In its fairy-tale—or otherworld—setting, it is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur. It does not deny the existence of dyscatastrophe, of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance; it denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat and in so far is evangelium, giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief." (On Fairy-Stories)

The pandemania has left us all in a state of disarray. Like the Psalmist we cry, "For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke," but thankfully he ends with, "yet I have not forgotten your statutes." (Psalm 119:83, ESV) Christians have a sure hope and foundation because we know and trust that it will be okay in the end. In the final analysis, God will make all things good again. In a sense, that is how I comfort my children whenever we read uncomfortable stories or learn about the dismal state of our country and of the world. They have learned to chime with a forward-looking invocation, "In the end, the good always wins." One day, the Good will triumph over evil.

Time and again, we read about legends, sagas, myths and different tales—they may not all be real, but the stories are true. Because every good story echoes the One True Story of redemption. Jesus entered our sin-sick world and the Father laid upon Him the iniquities of us all. And when we place our faith in His Son who saves, we can find and enjoy life-giving rest and eternal hope. Hope is the currency of the Christian faith.

#thestoriesaretrue

I've been eyeing these biographies for quite a whi

I've been eyeing these biographies for quite a while now in order to add a little something into our #morningbasket (or #scholereads in our home), particularly Jeanne Bendick's book on Archimedes. Actually, almost all of her books in the #livinghistorylibrary is in my wishlist. So when @livingbookbarn was holding a sale in the past week, I jumped into the opportunity to get a hold of these wonderful books! They get extra brownie points on the well-packaged delivery too! I'm a huge biopic fan (on top of true crime and British period dramas), so there is no doubt I will enjoy these alongside my children. I am looking forward to a deep dive (or, depending on what she can handle) into Greek civilization with my Year 2 student; just as classical educator Laura Berquist said, "This will not be the only book you will use to study the contributions of the Greek people, but it will be an important and enjoyable one."

If you're looking to find tasteful reads, @readaloudrevival has a long list of bios for children. In fact, I have a list of book lists (one of which is RAR) for children up in my blog, if you're interested. But I'm curious to know, what are some of your favorite biographies for kids in your own home?

#ourlivinglearning
#pilgrimpaideia
#livingbooksph

It took me about a year to do the next five lesson

It took me about a year to do the next five lessons of my free printable, My First Catechism Book. I created this resource specifically for the littlest members of God’s covenant family. It is primarily designed for children ages 2-4 years old. It is also special needs friendly.

You can use it to learn the first 15 catechism lessons, that is Q/A 1-15 of the 1840 Children’s Catechism using traceable answers (which is optional, of course) with matching activities (coloring activity, singing, memory verses, etc.) at the end of each lesson to bring truth home!

You can download this for FREE at my website: http://raisingcovenantchildren.com/product/my-first-catechism-book-q-a-1-15/

You can also listen to some catechism tunes to help with memory together with related songs in a Spotify playlist that I've created for parents and teachers over here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6L36i4lvkKp2jGC1AsGtp5?si=fiwIjTsNQiOUvRFjPfKpsg

I always enjoy seeing how these resources are being used in your home, school or church! Please feel free to tag me @raisingcovenantchildren or use the hashtag #MyFirstCatechismBook when you post.

I promise to make more in the weeks to come!

I received the third installment of @robynchuar's

I received the third installment of @robynchuar's series of story books on empathy. Her books address good sportmanship, friendship, and the latest one is all about inclusion. This topic can get very tricky especially when you think about intersectionality. But on the surface, this book nails the head on introducing disabilities to children. This theme is close to my heart because our family had to face this reality ourselves with the advent of a special needs diagnosis a number of years ago. So I read 'When My Friend Smiles' to both of my children, and it garnered a mixed feeling of joy and sadness. On the one hand, it was a wonderful opportunity to learn about our similarities in spite of our differences. But there is also a sense of familiarity with the difficulties presented because it's a part of the life that we know. Nevertheless, I heartily commend this new beautiful book to families of all shapes and sizes in order to help educate about the realities of down syndrome, cerebral palsy, autism and deafness. It's opened up uncomfortable questions and conversations that I want to be having with my children. I'm glad that we have more of these locally published materials to cultivate awareness. Over time I've learned that some people are just clueless about special needs and talking about the issues actually help curb ignorance. You can scroll to the end of this post to see other Filipino books with similar themes.

At the end of our reading, my daughter said, "It didn't have someone with dyslexia." It's true. So I told her that, "Maybe you can share your own story about dyslexia some day."

Our homeschooling journey speaks about God's abiding faithfulness in spite of our learning challenges. We continue to wonder at how he formed us uniquely to reflect his image. It once again reminds me of that account in the Gospels when the disciples asked Jesus, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents that he was born blind?" Jesus replied, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him." God intends to display his glory through disabilities! Because he can. And he will.

We don't have an Easter basket, but we do have a b

We don't have an Easter basket, but we do have a bunny toolbox! Thanks to @woakph_ for sending this over many weeks ago! The children and I had a lot of fun putting it all together.

It was a good experience for the kids to handle a hammer for the first time. I don't even remember when was the last time I ever worked with one! I must admit that I felt a little queasy once they were pounding on some nails. But I guess a bit of discomfort makes some room for growth, eh?

Do visit @woakph_ to see what KIDpenter kits they have to offer for children and families.

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