In all I am, do, and will write, my aim is to hit God's mark. I will have moments of being misguided as I am not perfect, but know that I serve a God that loves me through it all.
I knew this Homeschool Memoirs “Class” was going to be a bad influence on me.
Last week’s assignment was to introduce yourself. Determined to be friendly, I set out to introduce myself to everyone INDIVIDUALLY. I did mention that I tend to bite off more than I can chew, right?
Twenty blogs later, I finally clued in. Have you ever walked into a room full of one hundred fifty people and refused to leave until you had shook the hand of all those present? That’s what I was doing.
Not good. Not good at all.
Did I learn my lesson? Oh, no. Still read them all. Just didn’t comment on all.
As I was saying, Memoirs is a bad influence on me. This week’s assignment is all about agendas and plans. My addictions. Feeding my addictions, I tell ya’.
I have been “preparing your plans for sometime”, but I am most definitely not “ready to go” as the assignment opener stated. Always planning, rarely doing. Yep, that’s me.
This week’s assignment:
Share what you’re doing this year for your homeschool agenda.
Share the different curriculum you’re using. (Include age/grade you’re using it for, how long you’ve been using it, and why you like it.)
Share a Bible verse that has encouraged or inspired during this planning-process, and how.
In the spirit of learning to chew my food before I swallow, I am only going to answer portion one in this post. But, if you are truly interested, I’ll leave a link to my future post regarding the curriculum choices after I have written them…someday.
Agenda. Don’t you just love the word agenda? It sounds so hidden behind the scene, so focused and purposeful, so....so...manipulative...
Well, my husband and I do have a homeschool agenda. Keeping me focused while exploring curriculum, the agenda is there behind the scene. With so many choices out there, having this agenda has helped eliminate many, many, many options. Options that are good, but just not for us….I encourage you to sit with your husband and come up with a similar agenda…especially if you are prone to jump on every bandwagon that comes along.
Like I do. Thus, the agenda to gently slap me back into place when I am off on a tangent.
Warning: If you are an atheist, you might want to stop reading here. The following agenda my husband and I are purposefully striving to instill in our children will surely frighten and concern you.
BIBLE
Develop a personal relationship with God.
Establish a personal habit of daily Bible reading and prayer.
Actively seek to memorize scripture passages.
Cultivate a heart for missions.
HISTORY
See God’s work in man’s lives throughout time. God’s providence.
See man’s responses to God throughout time, positive and negative.
See the results of man’s responses to God, positive and negative.
See that God can do the impossible as History shows us time and again how God can work circumstances in ways the participants could have never imagined.
GEOGRAPHY
Establish familiarity with God’s world so as not to be intimidated by ignorance if God so called one to missions in a foreign land.
MATHEMATICS
Learn to see God as a God of order, design, and consistency.
LOGIC/PHILOSOPHY/CLASSICAL RHETORIC
Develop critical thinking skills to better combat false teaching.
SCIENCE
Marvel at God’s handiwork.
See God in all the details.
Understand that God is so much bigger than our own understandings.
HEALTH
Respectfully care for the ‘temple’ God has created.
Understand our bodies are “fearfully and wonderfully made” by God.
Realize the effect the Fall had on our physical body.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Develop skills to effectively communicate God’s message to a fallen world.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Establish a means of outreach toward other cultures.
See how God interacts in other cultures.
See how God’s gospel message is universal and effective.
ARTS
Encourage beautiful expressions of worship of God.
Encourage expressive communication about God to others.
Through art history, understand how people transformed by Christ have expressed their faith and worship through various types of art through the ages.
LIFE SKILLS
Male: Lay the groundwork for being head of a single-income home.
Thank you for sharing your agenda/schedule! I am a new homeschooler so I am gleaning from all the veterans. :D
Sherry
http://lampuntomyfeetandalightuntomypath.blogspot.com/
Funny, funny, but serious too. I love reading your latest ramblings, BTW. :-)
Did you get the category thing figured out? I see a category on your sidebar now, but I don't see this HM as part of it.
You go, girl. You'll be an HTML expert soon!
Your agenda looks great!
I didn't even attempt to read everyone's post last week. Does that make me a bad classmate? I don't shake everyone's hand or even introduce myself to everyone,either.
But this is what I find myself doing today, two days before i am teaching a class to new homeschoolers. i should be going over notes and tying up loose ends.
Deer in the headlights syndrome.
~Christy
isaiah5413.blogspot.com
I like your agenda, it is very structured but allows for flexibility. I never thought to think it through the way you have.
I'll admit that I to have introduced myself and commented on many blogs both this week and last week as well. I will at times just read a blog and not comment but I don't think that I'll make it through them all. =D
LOL I know exactly what you mean about trying to read and comment on everyone's blogs. Yikes!
I really like that way you have thought through all that you're doing and focusing on God in each aspect of your schooling. Sounds like a plan for sucess!
Beautiful post, Holly. You definitely know your priorities and that is so important:-) Also, as for not having the planning done yet, go to Sprittibee's blog and check out her poem... so appropriate and you are not the only one! Heather aka Professor Mom
Ha-ha! I was thrilled to have "an agenda" as well! It makes me feel important and maybe even a little dangerous ;) See, even though you are an organized, over-achiever...we still have things in common. (And yes, yes, I totally get to call you an over-acheiver, Miss Read-and-comment-on-120-blogs.)
I really like how you are remembering to keep your priorities in order. In the end, it isn't how much we know, it's WHO we know ;) And if we miss knowing our Creator and our Savior, we've missed IT.
Capital letters are wonderful things, aren't they?
My friend in Washington sent me an email saying a horrible tragedy had just happened to a family she didn't know in her community. She told me about Rachel and Hannah and we were both SO broken hearted. Just wanted you to know that we have been praying for you family. I posted the prayer request on the fiar prayer place as well. I saw your post on apples of gold ministries website talking about your family and the tragedy that happened last June. I wondered if yours was the family I had been praying for. My Menonite neighbors down the road just had a tragedy in their family too. Her cousin just lost her one year old son from getting run over by a tractor. Please pray for them as well. I took the email of your family to them so they could pray for your family too. It's too much to bear but thankfully Jesus bore our sorrows. I read those passages in Isaiah last night and it really helped my hurting heart after hearing of all these terrible losses of little ones.
