Articles

The following is a list of articles written by our staff here at Christian Cottage Schools. These articles have been published in our newsletter, the Round Up. This publication is available to our enrolled CCS Families on a bi-monthly basis.

Please feel free to browse through our articles, we hope they will be beneficial to you. If you would like to use one of the articles for your support group or newsletter, please feel free to do so, we only ask that you give us credit. Thanks!

Articles from our Newsletters
by Teri Spray, nationally-known speaker and educator and director of education for Christian Cottage; Mike Spray- President and CEO of Christian Cottage Schools, Inc.; and Meredith Motley, daughter of Mike and Teri, and office manager for Christian Cottage.

Categories:

1. Homeschool How To's
2. Encouraging Words
3. Family & Fun
4. Dynamite Dads
5. Best Books
6. Faithbuilders
7. Meredith's Corner

Homeschool How To's by Teri Spray

• Why Should I Home Educate my Children?
• Memory Book Pages
• Math: How to Use a Hundred Chart
• Writing: Fun with Footnotes
• Writing: How to Write an Excellent Essay
• Readiness: Ready or Not, Here we Come!
• Classic Education: How to Teach Using Real Books
• Encouragement: Harried Homeschooler
• Family: In-Home Homeschool Helpers
• Scheduling: Teri's Time Management Tips
• Teaching: I Wish I Could Do a Unit Study!
• The Star Spangled Banner
• Scheduling: My Schedule in Focus
• Scheduling: Fun For your First Day Back to School
• Simply Successful Schooling Strategy
• Giftedness: Fears and Frustrations (also Suggestions for Guiding an Exceptionally Bright Child
• Levels of Learning

Encouraging Words by Teri Spray

• Encouragement: A Reason to Continue
• Blessed to Be a Blessing
• Scheduling: How to Keep Peace on Earth without Losing Good Will Toward Men
• Encouragement: Life After Home School
• Encouragement: Keeping the Home Fires Alive
• Encouragement: Home School Heroes
• Behavior: Reflections on Parenting
• Encouragement: Home School Milk and Honey
• Encouragement: Precious Moments
• Encouragement: Impact vs. Importance
• Encouragment: Myth-takes and Myth-Understandings
• Readiness: 10 Reasons I Homeschool Middle School
• Your Best Year Now
• God as our Dream Giver
• Teri's Tales - the Colorado Home School Pioneer Story
• The Cup of Your Soul

Family & Fun by Teri Spray

• God's Love Lifted Me
• Learning Loving and Living Together
• Family: The Integrated Family
• Marriage by the Maker
• The Blessing of a Junior High Bridge
• Confessions of a Messie Minded Mom
• Readiness: The Testing of a Twelve Year Old
• Encouragement: Let's Make a Memory
• 'Tween 12 and 21
• Motherhood: The Value of a God-fearing Woman
• Scheduling: Home School during the Holidays
• A Walk Through A Spirit-Filled Home School Day
• Finding the Focus
• Four Pillars of Family Friendships

Dynamite Dads by Mike Spray

• Duty, Honor, Family
• Encouragement: Hidden Treasures

 

Best Books by Teri Spray

• Accelerated Distance Learning
• Dads: Wild at Heart
• Scheduling: The Ministry of Margin

 

Faithbuilders by Mike and Teri Spray

• Confession of a Child of God
• Parent's Blessing
• Discovering Daily
• Walking from Victim to Victory
• How Shall We Pray?
• Prophetic Poem-Live in Peace, Not Fear
• Four Killer Questions
• Our Roads Less Traveled
• Prayer Changes Things!
• Comfort Creatures
• Overcoming Evil with Good
• Rules of Engagement - How to Fight so Everyone Wins
• Prayers to Our Family, and Stop, Drop and Roll
• Bible Time

 

Meredith's Corner by Meredith Motley

• It's Fun to Find Out!
• Behavior: To Train up a Child
• Readiness: "Mommy, Tell me about Jesus!"
• The Price of Children - fun and encouraging for parents