Wisdom And Righteousness

Creating a Family Schedule that Works for You: Day 1 – Developing the Vision

It's Officially Day One!!! I know - you're as ecstatic as I am.  You could barely sleep last night thinking about scheduling....am I right?  huh?....oh yeah, baby!!   No?......  You're not that excited? Oh.  Okay.  In that case, it is a good thing we are going to take this one step at a time. Imagine you are preparing to shoot an arrow.  You grasp the bow in one hand, line up the back of the arrow to the string, pull back and let go. … [Read more...]

Blog-hop and Giveaway!

Some things are just too good not to share..... Today is the first-ever CC blog hop here on Wisdom and Righteousness! Some CC Mom's out there have been gracious enough to check out the new Orchestra Lapbook and tell you what they think.  Each one is also giving away two free copies on their sites!  Check out their posts and enter the giveaways!   Fellow CC Mama over at The Adventures of Bear writes "I am delighted that Karen has created another orchestra lapbook for Cycle 1.....We … [Read more...]

Next Week…

I just wanted to write a quick note to let you know what is right around the corner!!! Monday I am going to kick off the week on Monday with our first ever blog-hop!  Some great CC Smart Mama's out there will be reviewing the new Orchestra Study Guide and Lapbook and hosting giveaways!  You can enter all of them!  Be sure to jump around their blogs and see what other ideas they offer for your school year, or just encouragement while living in the trenches of raising our kids for Christ!!! … [Read more...]

Creating a Family Schedule that Works for You: Pt. 2

You Can Do This! Imagine with me..... You arrive somewhere ten minutes early.  Since you have plenty of time, you can carefully hang the kids coats up (or patiently instruct them to do so).  You can casually walk to the event, and find a good seat where all of you can actually sit together.  Since you arrived early, you feel much more calm and patient than you usually do when you are hurried.  The kids notice it too, and they seem to also be more calm and patient (at … [Read more...]

Lapbook 1.3 Quick-Print Guide

Hi Y'all! We are fully in the rounds of school here again, and Classical Conversations starts up next Tuesday for us, so review, review, review is on our agenda.  For those of you already digging into the third 6 weeks of CC, I thought I would post the quick-print guide for Lapbook 1.3.   (I also thought I would tell you about a new giveaway coming up this week for the Orchestra Book!  Stay tuned!) If you are unable or unsure how to print double-sided (which varies with your printer),  you can … [Read more...]

Creating a Family Schedule That Works for You

It's that time of the year where resolutions are made, closets are organized and to-do lists are created.  If you live in my household, it is also the time of the year when I re-evaluate our schedule.  I posted on this topic a few months back, and I thought I would run a series that would take you one little step at a time through creating a family schedule that works for you.  I will be doing it with you! We will be developing our schedule a little each day so it should be a … [Read more...]

Lapbook 1.1 Quick-Print Guide

  A few of you commented that you would also be interested in the quick-print guide for 1.1  Here it is!  Select which guide you will use according to how fancy you want your book to be!   Lapbook 1.1 Quick-Print Guide   Very Basic, no back-to-back printing, no color paper: Single-Sided Pages on White Cardstock: 6-16 , 19-23, 27-33, 45-53  Single-Sided Pages on White Regular-weight … [Read more...]

Lapbook 1.2 Quick-print Guide

We are having our CC Community Lapbook party tomorrow and I am up late printing copies for a number of us.  I created a quick-print guide to assist me, and I thought you all could probably use it too!  I can also post the one for Lapbook 1.1 if there is interest! - let me know in the comments!  Select which guide you will use according to how fancy you want your book to be!   Lapbook 1.2 Quick-Print Guide   Very Basic, no back-to-back printing, no color … [Read more...]