• Aug. 29, 2008
Loving God and Serving Others
It was time for me to plan for our next 6 weeks of school so John and I decided to do something different this go round. We call it our Loving God and Serving Others School. We are taking out EVERY subject except the bare basics of math and alternating spelling and grammar. Then we are spending the rest of our time getting to know God and each other better and doing for others.
Our subjects are
Bible- We are all doing this together (except John). I’m using a lot of things from the DLTK website and I’m doing it on a preschool level for Isaac and Jazmine. We make a craft or color a page then read out of the Beginners Bible and talk about the lesson. Taylor likes to do preschool stuff so she sits with us and does the crafts also. When that’s done, the little ones go play and Taylor and I sit with her NLT Bible and she reads the lesson from the Bible. Then we can discuss it a little more in depth.
Copywork- This comes from the Bible or from the friendship book Taylor is reading. The purpose is purely to work on her handwriting while writing something meaningful. If we have writing elsewhere in the day, I leave this off.
Discipleship Training- This includes any character or values resources that I find. (I’m looking for more good, free resources if you know of any.) Right now she is going through the How to be a Good Friend book that I downloaded from the Homeschool Freebie of the Day website. Like I said, I’m still on the hunt for more good things in this category
Love One Another- The purpose of this “subject” is to get to know my kids better. We might play a game, use a good conversation starter, just find out what they are interested in, etc.
Devotion and Worship- We usually do this after supper with John. We use either Gather Round the Dinner Fable or Leading Little Ones to God. Taylor likes the Dinner Fable one better, but Isaac gets more out of the other one. John leads this. (praise God!)
Serving Others- This is how we end each school day. Taylor gets to pick who she wants to bless and how she wants to do it. So far she has made something special using her craft box for one of her friends in the neighborhood and made a card for another friend who had surgery. We will also be going to a festival close by soon to pass out water and share God’s love. This is by far her favorite subject!
Then of course we have math, grammar, spelling, and typing (when I remember to have her do it).
I'm still looking for good ways to incorporate Isaac and Jazmine. Please leave me a comment if you have any ideas.
I really hope that we will grow much closer to God and each other during these next 6 weeks. The we will regroup and see what God has in store for us next!
Comments
• Aug. 29, 2008
Here are some links..
Posted by chelelew
I was reading your blog entry and thought you might be interested in these links for your character training for the kiddos.
http://www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/character_studies.htm
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/character_lapbook.php
http://www.lapbooklessons.com/ (membership is FREE, but you do have to register to be a member in order to access the freebies)
I know these are lapbooks, and I'm not sure if you are familiar with lapbooks or not, but you could do this as a 'notebook' thing instead of a lapbook.
Hope this helps and have fun this school year!!!
• Sep. 3, 2008
Sounds great
Posted by jbird1898
that sounds wonderful. Let me know how it goes. BTW I have started blogging again in case you are interested.lol
• Sep. 12, 2008
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Posted by kristenph
I've thought of doing something like you're doing before. Well, not exactly, your idea is much better :-) But I thought about dropping everything but the basics and work on Bible and character traits.
We are really enjoying TOG. We have never been in a co-op before and it's been a good experience for us. I really love the hands-on. I've been too lazy, frustrated, etc. in the past to get to the hands-on projects that I wanted to do. We did some, but now that my kids are a little older it's much less work for me and more rewarding for them. The no-bake cookie dough was yummy. It was like peanut butter balls if you've had those. We're working on a tabernacle model now and we're all having a great time!
