I wanted so bad last week to have some of you ladies to leave me a couple of ideas for the next few weeks assignments. I didn't get a single one~ I was so surprised not to get any at all. So, here I go with this weeks assignment. I'm very open to any ideas you all have and would love to hear from you. Feel free to leave a comment about one or email me with anything you have. Maybe you just need someone to bounce an idea off of, I'm very open to that too.
This week's assignment is The Three R's -- Reduce, Recycle, and Re-use. I thought since today is Earth Day and this month is Arbor Day that we all could share ideas or tips that we use for recycling, reducing or re-using items in our home. Do you recycle at all? Does it just seem nearly impossible to recycle? Trying to catch every piece of trash that goes into the garbage is a hard one for me too. I have a friend who is very diligent with it and so are her children! It amazed me to see how they re-spect nature and use the Three R's in their home. I challenge you all to write about your ventures with recycling, reducing, and re-using your trash and take a pledge to at least try to use some of the tips that you read about on this assignment. Don't forget to add your favorite scripture for this assignment.
Here's mine:
My family and I are not diligent enough about the Three R's but we should be more conserving. Things that we do to try to be more advantageous about are these:
We try to save on fuel by not going anywhere we absolutely do not have to. That means making one trip count the most and doing several things in that trip.
We re-use most plastic that we purchase; i.e., water bottles or drink bottles get filled with water. We rarely have cans to throw out since we don't buy soft drinks or canned vegetables.
We do recycle paper and glass products instead of throwing them into the dump.
We did decide to join the Arbor Day foundation, for $15/year and received 10 trees that we have planted to take the place of some trees we had to cut down because they were rotting.
Our Pledge
We are going to start composting our trash and use it to fertilize our garden that we plant for food that we can preserve to use later on.
Like I said we have lots of room for improvement but we are going in the right direction. I can't wait to read all of your ideas and your pledges.
and you are probably doing things you don't even realize are having a positive impact. Thanks again for sponsoring this. I wish I had some ideas for you but I can't think of any right now. Maybe you could do something about how we end the school year or something like that?
This was a fun assignment! Great idea!
Ok, an idea for an assignment....what about sharing something unique to our area. Could be anything...share pictures of a normal view from your house that others might not have, tell about an historical place near you or a story about your town or area, if you live overseas..share about that country, things people might not know,etc. Especially with the change of seasons there are probably some pretty sights near us these days!
I can't imagine life without recycling now.. last year my local town decided to stop taking recyclables - and we had to cart it farther away and that was even more work! but I have no choice.. I have to recycle.
My post is up! This was a good assignment - I had a little fun with it, but I did make a pledge too. :grin:
I like the idea of assignments that would let us showcase scenery or historical sites etc that are local for each of us. Sort of an online postcard? That would be fun.
Wish I could be more specific with this suggestion, but assignments that relate to homeschooling - for instance: best field trips, co-ops, best and worst experiences...
Great assignment! I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's ideas for this. It sounds like you do quite a bit. I'm going to try to compost this year too.
Hi Nancy,
I must have missed your request for ideas. I'll have to think up some. Bob brought home a bunch of little trees from Earth day at his work! I love this...
bethanyrae
I made a little change with my Friends List. It's on the left side and to open it just click on the word "Friends" and it pops out! Neat, huh! To close it click on it again! Thank you
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Seven Steps to Raising Godly Children
Principle - Impart God's word on your children and live in a way that you are their greatest example of what a Christ-abiding parent should be.
Pattern - Teach your children a pattern of prayer; when to pray, how to pray, and why prayer is important.
Persistence - Don't ever give up...teach your children to always have faith and not to give up when things get hard.
Participation - Our children crave our attention! The way our children see us is the way they'll see God in thier lives.
Praise - Encourage children, praise them when they do something right and help them when they have a hard time.
Prayer - Teach your children to pray and then to TRUST God for the outcome.
Priority - Make God the Head and Heart of your home and let them live with God's desire coming first in your lives.
