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Mary, that is such a great idea about the digital book with added entries from your blog! I hadn't thought of adding in my own commentary---I don't know what I was thinking. I think that will be another thing I'd like to add in for sure---how our week went, things that touched our hearts from the le...

Thank you for sharing the amazing pictures. What a great adventure for your dh!

Mary, that's just so precious!! That's something to treasure forever--how wonderful that you had the chance to capture the moment with your camera!

Thanks for sharing with us.

Too cute! I know that made you feel so good about how much they're learning---too bad though for the person on the show---they could have used some help from the HOD kids!!

Wow, that looks like a great idea!

I can't wait to see the samples of Preparing. I've already started to gather some of the read-alouds I have on hand together for future use. I'll join in on the happy dance!

Thanks for the encouragement! I've spent the last hour scribbling ideas down from the first six units. I see so many things that deserve to go in our book. I may have to pick-and-choose from the things I've listed. I don't think they'll all fit on 2 pages! There's just such a treasure trove of lesso...

I've been trying to figure out some way to reinforce the things we've learned from each unit of Beyond that we're working through. Today I think I might have figured out just a way to do that. I'd like to do a scrapbook (12" X12" pages) of our year in Beyond. Each unit would be a 2-page layout featu...

Carrie, Thanks so much for your description of the books used for journaling! I wasn't sure of the differences in the two I asked of, but now that makes it much clearer to me. It's so funny...I found a list of Jim Arnosky's books somewhere on Amazon, and printed it off. I wanted to see how you felt ...

Cute pictures! You have a beautiful view from your yard too!

I am so glad someone asked this question! I can't draw either, and so it's hard for me to teach my 7 y/o dgs how too. I thought about letting him take art lessons, but haven't done that yet. I really need help with art!! I am thrilled that the subject of nature journals came up too, as I was just go...

I know these are not included for the Beyond program, as they are part of LHGHG. When I realized we'd be starting in BLHFHG and would be passing up some of the things I would have enjoyed from Little Hearts, I decided to add them right in. I already had quite a few of the Burgess animal stories book...

Candice, I know you are so relieved to find the lost CD! I've had to do the same thing before and just ask the Lord to show me where to look. Sometimes it seems we just need our eyes opened a little more to see what's already there. God is good!

How wonderful that you will be able to move your Mom there with you! Mine lives so far away, but I keep in touch with her daily, and I'm always sharing some little nugget of our daily journey with Beyond. I agree about DITHOR. I'm looking at it too and brainstorming how I'd like to work with it. I'm...

I just want to give a big thumbs up for this book. We love it! I chose it as our first read-aloud biography for storytime. Well, actually the library didn't have "Squanto", so since I did find "Benjamin" we decided to go ahead and try it. This has been the sweetest story, and it's really a blessing ...