| Happy Fall, Safe Haven Family!
It’s finally feeling like Fall here. I went out without a sweater this evening and realized that sweater weather is here! I’m loving the colors of the leaves on the beautiful Ohio maple trees. I was sick for a week and missed some of the transformation, but I’m getting back out there and staring at them as hard as I can before the beauty disappears and the poor trees look like desolate, barren collections of sticks again.
So how is homeschooling going for all of you?
What good book are you reading with your kids right now? Are you taking advantage of the cooler weather and cuddling up by the fire and reading a cozy family story or an exciting adventure story to your family?
Speaking of adventure stories, are you planning to read The Green Ember to your kids this year? Or is it on the reading list for one of your kids? Head on over to Teachers Pay Teachers and grab The Green Ember Copywork Journal .
This copywork journal can be printed out so that you can keep all of your copywork for The Green Ember in one place. The selections are chosen for their advanced vocabulary, figurative language, and important parts of the story. If your child reads all of the copywork selections, they will get a review of the main parts of the story. It could be used to help with narrations to give hints of what happened next. Important themes and lessons are included in the copywork selections, too. You can let the child choose which ones to copy each day, or you can assign them. They are arranged by chapter and are chronological. There’s even a crossword puzzle to give more practice with vocabulary.
(Keep reading all the way down to the fire emojis to get a great deal on my copywork journal.)
If you don’t know what The Green Ember series is about, check this out:
“Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake them, spilling them into a cauldron of misadventures. They discover that their own story is bound up in the tumult threatening to overwhelm the wider world.
Kings fall and kingdoms totter. Tyrants ascend and terrors threaten. Betrayal beckons, and loyalty is a broken road with peril around every bend.
Where will Heather and Picket land? How will they make their stand?”
I have read this whole series. Even the in-between books. Check out this post to find out what I mean by that. This series is so good that I read it all to myself, not even with kids. You can get these books free on Kindle Unlimited. Don’t miss out on this wonderful series that has been compared to Redwall and Narnia. If you like epic adventures featuring unlikely heroic animals, you will love this series. Some good lessons are taught while your kids aren’t looking. Such as…
And if you need to be reminded of the Benefits of Copywork, check out this post.
🔥If you want a REAL bargain, order The Green Ember Copywork Journal during my Black Friday Sale Nov. 29-Dec. 2! 🔥
My whole TPT store will be 15% off for those 4 days.
Come to Safe Haven Homeschooling on Teachers Pay Teachers during the Black Friday sale and get some great deals on curriculum you can sink your teeth into.
Here’s a Freebie full of all the Fun Ways you can Homeschool in November.
And another Freebie of Wonderful books to read with your children to help them learn about Gratitude.
Gratitude.
Are you finding it hard to be grateful these days?
Times are tough for all of us. Almost everybody I know is struggling financially and emotionally. And some are struggling physically. Is God listening to our prayers? Sometimes we wonder when hard things last a long time.
I have some ideas to help you focus on the good things in your life even when it’s hard.
I have a gratitude journal that forces me to write something down each day that I’m grateful for. Sometimes it takes a while. I can always be thankful for my health (now that I have it back!) and my kids’ health and safety and my husband (He’s my default blessing I’m grateful for when I can’t think of anything else).
But there are other things like the colors of the leaves and the cooler weather that stir feelings of gratitude. And little kindnesses that people invariably do to make life a little more cheerful. And when I do hear of an answered prayer, it causes gratitude to bubble up.
Another thing I’m grateful for is hope. I have hope that it’s not always going to be like this. I really believe that the best is yet to come. I don’t believe the gloom and doom scenarios. I think we’ve already been through the gloom and doom. I believe we’re headed into something glorious! I have reasons for what I believe, so I’m not just irrationally hoping that things will turn out different than what has been foretold. We were foretold incorrect information, misinterpreted verses from the Bible, and a mistaken eschatology. For more on this, watch Johnny Enlow Unfiltered Episode 55 on Elijah Streams.
But I have to give a note of caution. Everywhere I look I see people warning us to buckle up because things are going to get a bit rocky. Like for the next 6 months. What? Haven’t we been through enough? Isn’t the election going to solve everything? From what I hear, the battle is not over quite yet. As they have told us over and over again, it’s good to stock up and stay prepared as much as possible.
God will get us through this final stretch. He does hear our prayers, and the answers have caused all of this havoc. The corruption had to be exposed. That’s what many of us prayed for. The system had to be changed. Many things are being dismantled and will have to be rebuilt from the ground up.
That will be our job when we get to the other side of all of this. You are called and chosen to rebuild the ruined cities just like in Isaiah 61:4 —
“They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations.”
So get your gratitude journal and write about the things that are coming that you can be grateful for if you’re struggling to find something to be grateful for right now.
I just so happen to have a Gratitude and Listening Prayer Journal in my TPT store. 😊
Buy it now or wait until the Black Friday Sale.
Speaking of Gratitude, do you need some ideas for ways to make Thanksgiving fun and exciting for your family? My friend, Shannon, has put together an amazing Plan for the Fam to help you celebrate Thanksgiving in a way that the whole family will enjoy. She has recipes, crafts, photo booth ideas, a fun game, and meaningful ways to help your family connect. She even shows us how to make it easier on mom so that she isn’t left with all the work.
Watch this video and this one to see what’s included in this fabulous activity book that she put together to ensure that your Thanksgiving is fun, easy, and meaningful. Here’s another video with a little more of a glimpse into the book.
You can contact Shannon Leigh B. here on Facebook and comment on this post to find out how to get your Thanksgiving Book and why you need it.
You’ll find her at The Connected Family on Facebook at this post that also gives more info. about the book. I think you’ll really like it! And your family will love the activities!
Thank you for spending this time with me today.
I pray that you and your family are kept safe through this time of transition. And that all of your needs are met in Him.
Love,
Penney Douglas, B. S. in Elem. Ed.
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"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller
