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Aug. 12, 2005
Today wa a more formal
school day, again. My husband read the next chapter from
Maxwell's "The Bible Story" and we learned that several people lived at
the same time of Adam and Eve. We then looked at our "Timechart
History of the World" and looked at where their lives
intersected. Dakota set up the bible section of her notebook and
we chose 2Tim 3:16 for her title page. We are going to begin with
a discussion about knowledge and where true wisdom comes from, so will
be adding verses on that topic, and seeing if we can apply it to the
stories we read.
We did the next four phonograms and that was pretty uneventful.
It is nice to see her taking her handwriting seriously. She
really seems to be enjoying the routine...or at least the extra
attention after a summer of neglect (not really, but we just had a baby
and, though Dakota loves her dearly, the baby does get a lot more
attention.)
We began math with a discussion of one of its key principles,
order. We said God is a God of order and therefore created an
orderly universe. I introduced a simple outline with "Math" as
the title, "Order" as the first heading and then a listing of things we
know of which demonstrate order: God, creation, counting, time
and seasons. Our relevant verse is, "Let all things be done
decently and in order." 1 Corinthians 14:40. The plan is to take
a closer look at each of these things over the next week or so and then
move to a more personal application. If we are created in the
image of God, and God is orderly, He must expect some sort of order
from us. We'll see what she comes up with, but I'm hoping to lead
somewhere in the direction of healthy routines, self-control and neat
living and working spaces.
We also did a little Latin (up to the letter u, now) and practiced counting to 20 in German.
In math, she made a comment I was not sure how to take. After
finishing her outline, she was confused about why we were filing it in
her math section and not bible. I could take that one of two
ways. It could be a good thing since she is already noticing that
the bible is the start of every subject. But I couldn't help but
think how much our culture has infiltrated our household when, even at
six, she wants to hold the bible in its own separate compartment,
irrelevant to other subjects. This approach should help combat
that view and give her a firm foundation to withstand the tumult of the
world when she leaves the safety of our protection.
By the way, she passed her Karate test and is now a blue belt stripe!
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Aug. 17, 2005 - Excellent!!!
BTW, that is very interesting that she said that about compartmentalizing the Bible study. It strikes me as scary, but then again God has not given us a spirit of fear. I quickly change my thinking and say, "I'm so glad God has shown us the way to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ". I love the Principle Approach for that.