Author: Ann

Blessed to homeschool in rural east Texas. Two graduated, one to go!

Motivation Monday

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“It is essential for parents to find useful employment for their children, which will involve the bearing of responsibilities as their age and strength will permit. The children should be given something to do that will not only keep them busy, but interest them. The active hands and brains must be employed from the earliest years. If parents neglect to turn their children’s energies into useful channels, they do them great injury; for Satan is ready to find them something to do.”

Special Testimonies on Education, 37, 38

Fun Freebie ~ Squirrel Grid Game

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Source: prekinders.com via Ann on Pinterest

This Squirrel Grid printable was a hit at my house last Fall! Grab a few acorns and nuts and you have the foundation for lots of fun math activities.  Click on the image above or the link to find this squirrel grid and other fun themed math grids.

Motivation Monday

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“The Mother a Teacher—Does not mother remember that she herself had to learn in jots and tittles before she could be helpful? It is a wrong to children to refuse to teach them little by little. Keep these children with you. Let them ask questions, and in patience answer them. Give your little children something to do; and let them have the happiness of supposing they help you. There must be no repulsing of your children when trying to do proper things. If they make mistakes, if accidents happen, and things break, do not blame. Their whole future life depends upon the education you give them in their childhood years. Teach them that all their faculties of body and mind were given them to use, and that all are the Lord’s, pledged to his service. To some of these children the Lord gives an early intimation of his will. Parents and teachers, begin to teach the children to cultivate their God-given qualities.”

Special Testimonies on Church Schools, pg 11

Great Resource ~ Acorn Math Ideas

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Young children love  to collect acorns when playing outdoors and while on nature walks.   Here are some ideas on how to use those ‘treasures’ as  a fun seasonal math manipulative.

Click on the image or the links above to read the ideas.

Motivation Monday

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“The Christian parent should never lose the sense that he is one of God’s little children, and that he is to cultivate a courteous, compassionate disposition, because he is an educator. He is to represent Jesus to his children. In his dealing with them, there is to be seen no impetuosity, and neither is there to be seen the cold, icy dignity that freezes love in the heart. He is to be so kind, so tender, that the hearts of the children will be softened and subdued, prepared to receive the love and grace of Christ. No harsh words are to be spoken by a Christian to any one, old or young. Such words are prompted by the enemy….”

 

Letter 203, September 14, 1903, “To Those in Positions of Responsibility in Nashville Publishing House.”

Fun Freebie ~ Printable Outline Maps from Around the World

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Here’s my favorite resource for printable outline maps from around the world.  Click on the image or the links below to find physical and political maps of the continents.

Source: eduplace.com via Ann on Pinterest

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Fun Freebie ~ Printable Maps of the US

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Need a printable map of the US?  Here are some nice ones in color, B/W, labeled or blank – courtesy of mrprintables.com .   Click on the image or the links above for these fun freebies.