Like, I Can’t Find My Country on MapQuest and Stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQa7brnDapA
This has been all over the local news today. It happened last week but 1) I didn’t watch the stupid Miss Teen USA Pageants and 2) I usually just don’t watch the news cause it’s pointless. So to many I guess this is old news!
Miss Teen South Carolina attempts to answer the question “Why 1/5th of Americans can’t find the US on a world map.”
She gives a really dumb answer, then goes on to talk about . . . well . . . I’m not exactly sure.
Poor thing, this will haunt her “for like eva!”
Compliment Your Husband …
… on something he does. Your words alone will lift his spirit.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Grade 1 (Term 1)
Week 1
Bible, 3 stories per week
Child’s History of the World ch 1: Creation
Leif the Lucky by D’Aulaire OR This Country of Ours chap 1
Just So Stories: Whale
Child’s Garden of Verses: a poem twice per week
Paddle to the Sea: ch. 1
Nesbit Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream
Science Bookshelf
Burgess Bird Book
The Velveteen Rabbit
Why Teach Folksongs and Hymns?
Folk songs are a large part of our collective heritage. Every culture has a tradition of passing down stories about their commonfolk. Villagers had a vigorous musical life, in which many songs in most genres were known to, and often sung by, a large proportion of the population. These songs represent their own ancestry and personal history. Nowadays, it is a rare moment when you hear a child exclaim, “Hey! I know about that song!”
Hymns are a part of our heritage of faith and teach us many things. Hymns are a form of worship – they are like prayers. They are, in essence, religious poetry set to music. The Reformer Martin Luther once held a Bible in one hand and said: “This is the Gospel.” Then, in the other hand, he held up a hymnal and said, “This is how we remember it.” As the words reach the depths of our soul, the power of hymns is truly amazing.
Music is like a tattoo on the subconscious of our children. It is often the link between facts and emotion. An education without feeling is not an education.
StoryNory
Thoughts for Today
Here is a collection of thoughts past:
April 2007
One hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much I had in my bank account or what my clothes looked like, but the world may be a different place because I was important in the life of a child. ~ Forest Witcraft
May-June 2007
The two best books for a child are a good mother’s face and life.
July-August 2007
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves. ~ Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) American inventor
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