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Prayer Journal for Homeschooling

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I have a prayer journal for our family each year.

I love going back to view the answered and unanswered prayers and see our spiritual growth and blessings.

I had this lovely lilac journal lying around for just the thing. Isn’t it lovely? I bought it at Walmart (It’s a Dayspring product and I can’t find it anywhere online; must be discontinued) a while back because I thought it was so pretty. 

Here is a similar Prayer Journal that I like too. I hadn’t really thought about what I’d use it for, but God knew I would come across it and He was ready to nudge me to start this prayer journal.

Homeschool Prayer Journal

My first prayer journal entry.

It’s about my eldest because she’s the child I am most worried about this school year.

I hadn’t thought about format, but here I starred the topics where I most want to see improvement. Only God can do that and if He uses me to help do that, I am willing. I dashed off a few ways I am already planning to help her in those areas. I’m sure God has His own agenda. He always seems to, eh?

Often, I have to get out of the way.

Then I prayed right there on the page.

Prayer Journal Entry

I hope my prayer isn’t too selfish.

I need her to be independently working so I can teach the middle kids and keep the toddler interested in tot school and out of trouble.

I know I often expect too much of my eldest. She has so much responsibility. I often rely on her too much.

I also pray that I can keep on schedule and on track with planning lessons so that everything runs smoothly this year. No more winging it with three officially in school and a toddler on the loose! I have to be diligent with meal planning, lesson planning, gathering materials, library books, printing and laminating, and being cheerful about it all.

That cheerful part is the hardest, let me tell ya. My husband doesn’t like coming home to The Grouch.

I think my next prayer entry should be about me and my attitude and how it affects my family.

I hope, in the spring or early summer, I can look back over my prayers and concerns and successes and failures to see how God has moved through our homeschool, through our family. How he has pruned us to be fruitful.

We are so blessed to be able to teach the kids at home.

It’s been years and I still update my prayer journal every fall and spring and it’s such a blessing to see where God has led our family!

As a military family, we often pray for great opportunities for our family when we PCS every few years. It’s getting more and more difficult as the kids get older for them to find extracurriculars and friends. It’s like the community falls away more and more as the kids get older.

Ways I pray for our homeschool and our children:

  • academics
  • best materials for each child
  • safety
  • good attitudes
  • schedule help
  • my attitude and cheerfulness
  • good influences in friends, coaches, teachers
  • understanding and comprehension for difficult materials
  • extracurricular classes and funds
  • driving lessons
  • dual credit options
  • part time work options
  • college, trade school, vocation
  • tests and exams
  • scholarships
  • relationships with peers, teachers, parents
  • Scripture

I love that I’ve homeschooled my eldest all the way to college and the other three kids are doing great!

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How do you pray for your children?

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Morning Basket

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My daughter and I came up with this idea to organize all our morning circle time things in one place.

A BIBLE BASKET

A convenient morning basket for kids (and moms) for quiet time.

This was great when my kids were very young, and we still incorporate lots of this now that my kids are teens and tweens.

I still love beginning our day with morning circle time.

We all come together as a family on the living room sofas after breakfast for read alouds, prayer, Bible study, scripture reading, missionary stories, music, and more.

What’s in our morning basket?

Morning Basket

Bible Study

My daughter and I have read the Bible in 90 Days. On their website, they have reading schedules for kids.

We’ve done SOAP journals. (S.O.A.P. stands for Scripture, Observation, Application and Prayer.)

She did a reading plan through Hands On Bible .

I am NOT a morning person, so we often “do” Bible in the afternoon or evening if we have a busy day.

We did Leading Little Ones to God one year.

Glow in the Dark Fish is a nice book for families.

We’ve read through The Dig.

We’ve completed The Talk series about biblical sex ed.

We often read a proverb and psalm every day (there are 31 of those guys, so that works out nicely most months…)

I need to find something short (Sure, I’d love to meditate and pray for hours on end, but let’s be honest… Who has time for that?) and powerful to do for my own devotional time. I’ve been reading and praying and journaling before bedtime. Mamas have to fit it in when we can. It’s sometimes so hard, especially when dad is deployed and I’m exhausted from doing it all.

Great Kids Bibles:

Scripture Memory

Learning and memorizing scripture is so important for our future faith.

The girls loved My ABC Bible Verses and these printable cards.

We also loved Songs for Saplings and printables.

SEEDS Family Worship were also good for a while with these printables.

We have a Charlotte Mason Bible Scripture memorization box. The kids read the cards to us at dinner each night. Each prays for a missionary from missionary prayer cards.

Prayer

I love short and sweet prayer books for moms and kids.

I still love The Power of a Praying Mom and Praying Circles Around Your Children.

We had the whole set of Baby’s First Prayers. (also Nativity and Bible)

We also have a prayer cube.

My daughter made this darling little prayer wheel in AWANA last week and we will incorporate that into our Bible time.

Missionary Stories

We love reading and learning about missionaries. We love historical reading and learning about heroes of the faith.

We loved Hero Tales.

We now read through Christian Heroes missionary stories along with our chronological history reading.

Character study

I think I’m going to start stepping it up with some character traits study. While we often address character as it comes up in our Bible reading and homeschool studies, sometimes, it’s good to have a theme each week too and see how we can incorporate that into our relationships.

Homeschool Share has some great lapbooks.

These are some awesome character cards to use in all sorts of ways.

Education Cubes really engages the kids!

Music, Art, and Poetry

We often include a hymn, classical composer, or a folk song.

We love incorporating our picture study into morning circle time.

We love to read poetry that coincides with our chronological history. We also read poetry and listen to classical music with tea time.

Our circle time and basket is ever evolving as we grow and update. It’s a great resources for all ages – kids and parents!

How do you incorporate Bible study with little ones?

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