Flu season is in full swing in most of the country. Here’s a series of ten videos to your health or medical missionary lessons. Agatha Thrash from Uchee Pines teaches natural remedies for H1N1, including a hydrotherapy demonstration. The first two videos are shown below.
Author: Ann
Blessed to homeschool in rural east Texas. Two graduated, one to go!
Snowflake Unit Study
A snowflake unit study is a fun way to add interest to cold, dark winter days. Here are some ideas/links to get you started.
Start your snowflake learning with Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley, a self-educated farmer who became a pioneer in the field of photomicrography, photographing more than 5000 snow crystals.
TeachWithMe.com features a free snowflake alphabet printable perfect for phonics practice and word games.
Grab that bucket of melty beads and make snowflakes! Since you need only the white ones, start out with a sorting game.
Coffee filter snowflakes are always fun.
Check the bookshelves at home and the library for snow/winter themed books to cuddle up and read together. HomeschoolShare has some great book-based lapbook & notebook printables and activities to supplement your reading.
It’s always snowing on SnowDays! This site is addictively fun!
Boy’s Life shares a way to catch a snowflake and keep it forever. Older children may enjoy this more involved project.
Cal Tech has a great site that delves into the science of snowflakes and snow crystals.
How do snowflakes form? The NOAA can tell you. 
Khan Academy adds some math learning to snowflakes via video.
Start with an equilateral triangle. Follow the directions carefully and you will have created a Koch snowflake and learned about fractals all at the same time!
Wrap up your snowflake unit by learning the hymn Whiter Than Snow.
Growing With God: Curlyn’s Homeschooling Testimony
My name is Curlyn Baptiste, I’m 38 years old and I’m a single-parent homeschooling mom in NYC.
My 4-year-old daughter was with me the first two years of her life and due to financial struggles I went back into the work force and sent her to school for one year.
To my utter dismay, whenever we had morning and evening worship, there was always a fight from 
her, not wanting to hear, sing or talk about Jesus or God. That was not my only struggle, she would tell me that ” my friends say this and teacher say that” and whatever I say would not be of much value. That troubled me at lot, had heart to heart searching with God as to what I should do for her to retain His knowledge and learn to love Him more.
During the summer of 2013, while in training to better myself in canvassing on my days off from work, I was paired up with another single mom who was going through the same battle! Friends, my God is good and He comes in right on time!
We both realised that we wanted the same things for our daughters and ourselves spiritually.
We received valuable information about Sunlight Education Ministry, an SDA curriculum for homeschooling which solely uses the Bible as the foundation and main source for all the educational classes. I was amazed and was even more confirmed that’s our goal when I found out all of its materials were free!!!!!!!
In October of 2013, against the wishes of my boss and my close friends, I quit my job and began homeschooling my daughter.
Friends, I’ve seen miracles happen!
Firstly, the other parent who joined me with her 4-year-old daughter, travels every day from her county to mine so that we can teach the kids! That’s a major sacrifice on her part and she is also an excellent vegan cook and medical missionary! We are schooled daily in what God requires of us in everything we do.
Secondly, my daughter has major food allergies. She is allergic to soy and other major foods, but as I chose to also become a vegan at the same time, we started introducing her to soy products and God be praised even her allergist was dumbfounded to see the positive changes in her.
Also our source of income is canvassing, and even when I can’t see God sometimes, He still comes through when I just totally rely on Him. I must say at times watching and waiting would get the better of me and I would doubt myself and God but even then He never gives up, He opens my eyes to other options even I can’t see to meet my daily needs.
Thirdly and most importantly, we has grown so much in the knowledge and walk with God!
Everyday I’m impressed by the Holy Spirit to learn more so that I can impart more. I feel so guilty when I don’t spend enough quality time myself with God everyday. My daughter is the driving force behind my walk with Him, I’ve learned from Adventist Home that kids learn more from our examples than our words so I have to know God myself to share Him with her and that’s what motivates me everyday.
Keep us in your prayers as we follow His will for us and our children that He had loaned to us.
I’m impressed to go to mission school and also looking for a country home for us, do please lift us up as we do the same for you as we travel on this journey to Glory Land.
God bless!
Show & Share ~ January 8th, 2012
Welcome to the January 8th Edition of Show & Share. We look forward to enjoying what you have to share today. For Show & Share ideas and guidelines, read this post.
Mission Quarterly Fun
A popular unit study topic with SDA homeschoolers is Adventist missions. Enliven your study by looking through SDA mission quarterlies from as early as 1912. What an exciting way to bring church history to life!
The General Conference Archives contains nearly 100 years of past quarterlies in digital form. Click HERE to go directly to the Archives listing of available quarterlies.
Motivation Monday
“Day by day we are sowing seeds for the future harvest. We cannot be too careful of the seed we sow by our words. Often words are carelessly spoken and forgotten, but these words, for good or ill, will bring forth a harvest. Sow one unkind, harsh word, and this seed, finding soil in the minds of the hearers, will spring up to bear fruit after its kind. Sow one seed in loving, gentle, Christlike words, and it will bring you rich returns. Let us guard ourselves, lest we speak words that are not a blessing, but a curse. If we sow wheat we shall reap wheat; if we sow tares we shall reap tares; and the harvest, whether of wheat or of tares, will be sure and abundant.”
Our High Calling, 294
Happy New Year by E.G. White
“This beautiful morning of January 1, 1881, I greet the children and youth of the Instructor with a Happy New Year. The old year, 1880, with its burden of records, has passed out, and the new year, with its prospects, hopes, and labors, has come.
My dear youthful readers, will you not pause, while standing upon the very threshold of 1881, and inquire of your own hearts what has been the character of the life record that has passed up to Heaven for you? The past year’s record, be it good or evil, cannot be changed. If you feel that your past life has been almost a failure, how much reason have you for gratitude to God that your probation did not close with the old year!
Another year now opens its fair unwritten pages before you. The recording angel stands ready to write.
Your course of action will determine what shall be traced by him. You may make your future life good or evil; and this will determine for you whether the year upon which you have just entered will be to you a Happy New Year. It is in your power to make it such for yourself and for those around you. If you connect with God, you may make bright sunshine in the family circle by thoughtfulness of others’ comfort, putting away all discontent, and being cheerful, courteous, and obedient, or you may pursue a course that will bring a dark shadow upon the hearts of those who have ever loved you, watched over you, and cared for you from your earliest infancy.
Will the youth who read the Instructor ask themselves the question whether they are a blessing to their parents, or a source of anxiety and a curse? It would be a great satisfaction to them to know that you are trying to be dutiful and kind; but nothing can give them so much real happiness, this new year, as the knowledge that you have made Jesus a gift of yourselves, and that your daily prayer is, “My Father, be thou the guide of my youth.” Begin the new year, then, by giving yourselves to God, if you have not already done so; and every day you spend in his service will bring blessings to you and all connected with you.”
Excerpt from Youth’s Instructor, January 5, 1881
The remainder of the article can be found HERE
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