Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
Proverbs 20:11
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Show & Share – November 5
Welcome to the September 24th edition of Show & Share. We look forward to enjoying what you have to share today. For Show & Share ideas and guidelines, read this post
Motivation Monday
“We are teaching lessons to the children which we wish them to copy. If we wish our children to be chaste, pure-minded, and noble, we must be so ourselves. If we are impostors, professing to be children of God, while our impatience, fretfulness, and deception stamp us children of Satan, our children will be no better than we. All efforts of parents should be to go forward to perfection of Christian character. The standard at which we aim must be high. The only means of purifying the life and character is to be like-minded with Jesus. The mind and will of God are found revealed in his word. Shall we study it? Shall we teach it to our children? The word of God! the grand rule of life, the measurement of character! Would I could place it in the hands of every father and mother in our land.”
The Review and Herald – April 14, 1885
The Best-Laid Plans…
…don’t always turn out to be the best unit studies. The topic for my 3rd grader’s unit study this month was trees & leaves. I collected stacks of library books and filled a 3 prong folder with interesting information and activities. We were going to have a good time! Although we did collect leaves and acorns, and set up two science experiments – the unit study was a dud. We both just couldn’t get into it.
You know what? In 11 years of homeschooling, this is not the first time this has happened. Nor will it be the last. Not every lesson I plan is going to result in academic fireworks. When I realized that his interest was flagging, I didn’t push the subject, I just let it go. Why force an 8yo boy to learn about trees? Because it’s written in ink on my plan book? Nah, it’s not that serious. Really, it isn’t. I’m quite sure the topic will come up again in the future. There’s so much in the world to learn about, why drag our heels in simple and compound leaves?
New homeschooling parents, I share this especially because I want you to know it is okay to fail sometimes. To have lessons that don’t work out. You are not a lousy homeschooling parent and the world will not collapse. It is really is okay. So we didn’t learn as much about tree rings as I had planned, BUT we did discover a few pecans on our tree that the squirrels missed, and which oak in our yard has the largest acorns. Best of all, we learned that time spent nature together is never wasted.
Show & Share ~ October 29
Welcome to the October 29h edition of Show & Share. We look forward to enjoying what you have to share today. For Show & Share ideas and guidelines, read this post
Motivation Monday
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
Partial Solar Eclipse on October 23rd
A partial solar eclipse viewable in most of North America will occur on Thursday, October 23rd. How much of the eclipse that you will be able to see will depend on whether you are on the western or eastern side of North America. This ScienceAtNasa video explains:
Those of you outside of North America- don’t feel left out- a total solar eclipse visible from Greenland, Iceland, Europe, North Africa, and northwestern Asia will occur on March 20, 2015.
The Adventist Home Educator 