Homeschool by Faith Journal

09/25/2025

Here's another Wooden Puzzle project for our trees🌳🌲🌴study!

Mom & Dad enjoyed this more but it was a fun bonding time too🥰
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09/25/2025

🌳Balsam Poplar Tree Craft❤️

📍Spiritual Lessons from the tree⬇️⬇️
In 2 Samuel 5:24 and 1 Chronicles 14:15, David receives instructions to wait for the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees before attacking the Philistines.

🍃This sound was the sign that God was already fighting for him and going before him to strike the enemy's camp.

💨The lesson is about discerning God's will through the signs He provides and acting in faith when He gives a clear indication of His support and presence.

🔊It emphasizes:
✅️Listening: Paying attention to the subtle signs God sends.
✅️Trust and Obedience: Acting on God's word and timing, even if the signs are unconventional, like the wind in the trees.
✅️Confidence in God's Action: Knowing that when God goes before you, you will be victorious.

09/24/2025

🌻Did you know that distraction & misbehaviors can be a lack of ⁉️

Aside from guiding our daughter to have her own 📖devotional time🙏, we started adding having this conversation cards after breakfast❣️

Starting the day with open conversation cards with kids offers multiple benefits for both child development and family relationships. This simple routine can foster stronger bonds, improve communication, and help children build important social and emotional skills.

🌻Benefits for parent-child bonding❤️
✔️Strengthens connection
✔️Reduces stress
✔️Creates lasting memories

🌻Benefits for child development❤️
✔️Improves communication skills
✔️Boosts confidence
✔️Encourages emotional intelligence ✔️Discussing how different scenarios would make them or others feel helps build empathy and emotional regulation.
✔️Promotes critical thinking and creativity

🌻Benefits for family dynamics❤️
✔️Establishes a routine of open communication
✔️Discourages screen dependence
✔️Offers a low-pressure alternative to "How was your day?": Traditional check-in questions can sometimes lead to one-word answers.

✅️Conversation cards use fun and engaging prompts that inspire more thoughtful and lively discussions, even with shy children. ❤️❤️

👉Comment or DM if interested with the specific cards we use😊

09/23/2025

Grateful and honored to have met and chatted with fellow 🇵🇭Filipino home educators in Winnipeg!🇨🇦🍁

Given the difficulty in synchronizing our schedules, we opted to host the gathering despite our weekend being packed, and it proved to be a great decision!

We then emmediately headed north.
What a week!
Thanks to Chris Zsanne for initiating this and Lav Mart for the driving and all that you do!

09/23/2025

🌳Today's project: Tree House‼️

**always dreamed of having one! For now since we're doing Trees nature study, we enjoyed assembling this cute little one🥰
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09/17/2025

resharing our experience for those looking for a simple but effective reading program.. for all ages at any stage (starting or remediation)!

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An honest note:👇👇
They claim that you can teach your child to read as early as 2.5yrs.old which he (Jim Young) the author did with his children (there's a video demo and evidence of it). Yes since I went through the program, I believe it is possible! BUT PERSONALLY I DO NOT RECOMMEND TO TEACH READING AS EARLY AS THAT.🤔

I did my research and I've found out that many research shows that delaying reading is more beneficial than good. There may be exemptions to this which I will leave to your personal conviction. For example: some kids esp.kids with older siblings sometimes can learn on their own by observing and asking questions. For my daughter, I just did 1 lesson whenever she feels like doing it repeatitively until she has mastered 1 lesson. If she feels tired, grumpy, uninterested, I will stop. She almost learned on her own by the time we reached lesson 14 (over 32).

It is best to ignite their curiosity and love for reading and learning first before actually learning to read. Also, if you read to them, you form great bonding and you can filter some words in books that may be too mature for them to learn or filter concepts that does not allign to your values. I started it because I was hoping it will help lessen her screentime since I was pregnant then and in our first winter experience ever so I did'nt have much energy and ideas to play with her. Thankfully, it did help a lot!

If you have more questions, feel free to DM me🙏🙏

Here's my Xia at 5 reading just at lesson 14👇
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09/16/2025

📌Reintroduction! (Reposting so I can pin it)

Hello!👋👋 We may not be as consistent in posting but we have loved how the Lord connected us to quiet a few families who are looking for community, support & prayers❤️❤️ We love connecting with like-minded people!

We are a filipino adventist christian family in Manitoba, Canada. We came here with faith in God and His plans. He then confirmed what he has been working in our hearts in the last few years before migrating --that is to take full responsibility of our children's education and train them in the way of the Lord.

❤️We follow a home education style called "true education".🙏

💭What is true education⁉️
"True education involves the harmonious development of the physical, mental, and spiritual powers to prepare individuals for service in this life and the life to come. It encompasses more than just a course of study, requiring the development of individuality and the ability to think and do. The ultimate goal of true education is to restore the divine image in humanity and reflect God's character, with the foundational principles of God's law and love serving as the guiding principles."

🤔Key Aspects of True Education‼️
🌻Holistic Development
🌻Character Building
🌻Practical Skills
🌻Spiritual Insight
🌻God's Method

🤔The Goal and Outcome⁉️
🌻Reflecting the Creator
🌻Service
🌻Balancing the Powers

We love nature journaling, crafting, lapbooking, libraries, singing hymns & (selected) songs of praise, conversations, cuddles, & adventures! Homeschooling for us --to put simply is living life together in harmony with God's plan.

We love the verse in Deuteronomy 6:7, "And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up"

We are currently in a remote area --kind of a next stage in our journey which will be very different from the last 3 years in the city but we look forward to having more peace & quiet to be connected above and with each other (family & online).

It is our hope to be a blessing online, so was this page created. Later on, after all the overwhelming choices of resources and with the unique style we follow, we had to create our own printables (digital downloads) which we offer in our etsy shop⬇️⬇️
🟧https://blessedplansprints.etsy.com

We will also be sharing 📚books & resources that we use & love with affiliate links at no cost to you❗️

If you are anything like us, follow along our journey and connect with us‼️👋👋

09/11/2025

📦THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX‼️
(alphabet, number, shape, food.. 78pgs)

✅️Teaching children to "think outside the box" is crucial for fostering creativity, enhancing problem-solving skills, improving adaptability, and preparing them for an increasingly complex future.
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09/11/2025

🌟1st Nature Journal entry in our new Adventure Journal (from last Sunday's playground play & nature observation)‼️

🍂Today's tree study & craft is for
🌳PEACHLEAF WILLOW 🌳
..imagine a tree's reaction to a insects's egg in it's leaf is to grow a fruit to cover the egg and protect the tree's nutrients at the same time? Does it not remind you of God cursing the earth when Adam and Eve sinned? Instead of destroying them, He protected them. They we're not allowed to eat at the tree of life and libe in the garden of Eden anymore, but in God's mercy, He clothed them properly and gave them work that they may not be idle and think of sinning more.

What an illustration! Indeed nature is God's second book! His creation is designed as an object lesson of His creative power!

(In the evening when daddy lav is home, we decided to go to the same spot again. More play for the kids and more trees to find for the next study for mommy😊)

💌PDF Download of the Adventure Journal is available here⬇️
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09/10/2025

❣️3in1 learning‼️

👩‍🍳Today's Cooking Time is Math in the Kitchen for Xia too (our 3rd grader)!
🍵Learning different measurements using little Zem's sensory play (rice & pasta)😊

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05/26/2025

Sharing one spring nature journal entry😊

The truth is, she likes me less and even refused to think whenever I have to ask for reflection but I keep asking questions to guide her until something sparks her imagination or she's reminded of something similar.

Nature is "God's second book," a way to understand God's creation as a reflection of His character and a source of spiritual learning, complementing the Bible.

Our nature study alligns with the concepts of TYPOLOGY & PHOTOTHEOLOGY.

Typology is the study and interpretation of types and symbols, originally especially in the Bible.

Phototheology, coined by Pastor Ivor Myers is a method of Bible study that utilizes images to interpret scriptures and engage with the Holy Spirit. It involves creating mental images and using them as a framework for understanding biblical themes and passages.

It's a beautiful day today. May you find Him in your walk today😊 Have a blessed day!

Digital Copy of our Blessed Nature Journal is available here⬇️⬇️⬇️
https://blessedplansprints.etsy.com