“When upon life’s billow you are tempest tossed, When you are discouraged thinking all is lost; Count your many blessings, name them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done!” We read this song in a book that we read for school today. It …

Today, we finished reading Race for the Record , a Trailblazer book, by Dave and Neta Jackson. We read about the struggles of missionary families getting the message of God translated into the tribal languages of the Palawanos people in the Philippines. The b…

This morning we made made an automobile lapbook for a study of automobiles. What is a lapbook? "A Lapbook is a proven method of enhancing, creating and displaying a summary of what a student is learning and has accomplished during a particular unit of s…

Today we visited "the land of the rising sun," or Nippon, as the Japanese call their country. The boys colored the flag of Japan, which has a red circle, or "rising sun" on a white background. They also worked on their Geography songs for…