i was looking up the areas of study for Kindergarten and i wanted to share what i found and ask, once again for input. i know that i have many friends who homeschool, or who have are teachers, I really do want your input (whatever it may be) to help me as I am exploring the world of homeschooling. i am new to this. There are a couple homeschool groups that i'm connected to, since my kids are still preschool aged I'm just trying to learn from others.
this is what I found reguarding areas of study for Kindergarten:
Social Studies
-meanings of holidays, traditions, and customs
-understanding and appreciating other cultures
-individual's roles in family, home, school and community
-relationship of the individual to the group
-work and jobs
-safety rules and symbols
-basic human needs
-self-respect and self-awareess
-awareness of others
-location of home and school
-diagram of home and school
Science
-observation of everyday, familiar things
-common animals and plants
-interrelationships of animals and plants
-classification of living things
-farm animals
-care of pets
-like and unlike plants
-indoor plants
-the sun: our principal source of energy
-weather and seasons
-light
-temperature
-colors
-senses
-earth, moon, stars, planets
-simple measurements
-beginning experimentation
Language Arts
-phonics
-Choral reading
-listening to literature, music and poetry
-nursery rhymes, fairy tales, fables
-social listening
-constructing visual images while listening
-oral communication skills
-role play
-following and giving directions
-paraphrasing and summarizing
-organizing ideas
-experience stories
-relating events and experiences using complete sentences
-listening for correct speech habits and word usage
-beginning writing process
-manuscript handwriting
Health and Safety
- personal hygiene
-good eating habits
-good grooming
-care of teeth
-major body parts
-physical fitness
-safety to and from school
Mathematics
-Simple counting to 20
-one to one relationship
-concept of more, less than and same
-sequence of events
-correspondence of quantities
-ordinal-cardinal relationship
-number-numeral relationship
-recognition of basic sets
-meaning of addition and subtraction
-introduction to number line
-estimation
-elementary geometry (shapes)
-calendar and clock
-denominations of money
-basic problem-solving strategies
-basic chart and graph concepts
So this is what I found, ANY INPUT IS WANTED! after reading this I'm thinking that we have already started kindergarten.
Also, for those of you who have homeschooled how do you track your time?
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
I never knew when I was a child...
...that there are homeless children.
And now that I am an adult sometimes I forget that there are homeless children.
A group of us got to go feed some of the homeless men and women of Knoxville today and while we were there we saw some children, some children who were the same ages and sizes as our own children...and I must say that sometimes the homeless population slips my mind as I live, worship, and interact here in the Johnson Bible College community.
I re-realized today how firmly I believe that God created us to live life in community. That He made us to live with the people around us and interact with them and care for them. That if we don't do life together there will be no dicipleship, no stewardship, and no growth. That we will become a people who are dead, who are blind to the lost around us, who are blind to the needs of those who have less than we do. I was reminded that Jesus never went to the the exclusively religious venues to serve the people who already believed in Him, he went to hang out with the tax collectors and the prostitutes and the people who really needed Him. I guess what I am saying is that I think that we as a church, collectively, should be more than willing - I would even say we should be honored - to sit with the homeless and share a little love with them. That those children should know that even thogh their earthly father is gone, there is a heavenly one who loves them and would never leave. That there is a man from down the road who goes to this church, and he wants nothing more than to hear about your day and give you something to eat. That even though their earthly mother is gone, there is a woman here on this earth who would love nothing more than to give them a hug and some warm food. That is what we should be about as a church...we should be out on the streets serving the least of these to the glory of our God; not so that they will praise us, but so that they will be pointed in some way to God.
This is one of the reasons I am excited about The Summit church's new impact center...this is going to be a place from which we can reach the lost in our community. A place where we won't be hidden behind closed doors one day a week as a group of religious people taking part in something uninviting and intimidating to the lost, but where we can worship together and change our community throughout the week. Where anyone who wants to enter, even if they just need some hot coffee and a place out of the cold, will be welcome. I want to do life with the lost, not as one of them, not living the same way they do, but living beside them so that they will see Jesus in me, so that they will see love on my face, so that they will know who I believe in. That is what I want and pray for each member of the Summit. That is what I want and pray for myself.
And now that I am an adult sometimes I forget that there are homeless children.
A group of us got to go feed some of the homeless men and women of Knoxville today and while we were there we saw some children, some children who were the same ages and sizes as our own children...and I must say that sometimes the homeless population slips my mind as I live, worship, and interact here in the Johnson Bible College community.
I re-realized today how firmly I believe that God created us to live life in community. That He made us to live with the people around us and interact with them and care for them. That if we don't do life together there will be no dicipleship, no stewardship, and no growth. That we will become a people who are dead, who are blind to the lost around us, who are blind to the needs of those who have less than we do. I was reminded that Jesus never went to the the exclusively religious venues to serve the people who already believed in Him, he went to hang out with the tax collectors and the prostitutes and the people who really needed Him. I guess what I am saying is that I think that we as a church, collectively, should be more than willing - I would even say we should be honored - to sit with the homeless and share a little love with them. That those children should know that even thogh their earthly father is gone, there is a heavenly one who loves them and would never leave. That there is a man from down the road who goes to this church, and he wants nothing more than to hear about your day and give you something to eat. That even though their earthly mother is gone, there is a woman here on this earth who would love nothing more than to give them a hug and some warm food. That is what we should be about as a church...we should be out on the streets serving the least of these to the glory of our God; not so that they will praise us, but so that they will be pointed in some way to God.
This is one of the reasons I am excited about The Summit church's new impact center...this is going to be a place from which we can reach the lost in our community. A place where we won't be hidden behind closed doors one day a week as a group of religious people taking part in something uninviting and intimidating to the lost, but where we can worship together and change our community throughout the week. Where anyone who wants to enter, even if they just need some hot coffee and a place out of the cold, will be welcome. I want to do life with the lost, not as one of them, not living the same way they do, but living beside them so that they will see Jesus in me, so that they will see love on my face, so that they will know who I believe in. That is what I want and pray for each member of the Summit. That is what I want and pray for myself.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
"We cry freedom from the chains that bind your children Lord,
Freedom from the chains that bind our praise to You,
Freedom from the lies of the enemy."
Seems like lately it has been easier to believe the lies of the enemy:
You are all alone...
You aren't any good...
You'll never finish school...
You can't do this, you don't have the strength...
Why are you even here...
You think that God loves you? Why would He let you go through all of this...
He has forgotten all about you...
Your wife and kids would be better off it you weren't around...
Even if you do finish school, you'll never become any kind of tool that He would want to use...
Sometimes I think that I need to remember some of the True promises of God:
"I will never leave you or forsake you." Joshua 1:5
"I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you." Psalm 32:8
"I will sustain you and I will rescue you." Isaiah 46:4
"I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." Isaiah 41:10
"I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go." Genesis 28:15
"I have engraved you on the palms of my hands." Isaiah 49:16
"I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people." Leviticus 26:12
"Commit your works unto the Lord, and your thoughts will be established." Proverbs 16:3
"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty." Psalm 91:1
"I am the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth...those who hope in Me will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." Isaiah 40: 28, 31
"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know" Jeremiah 33:3
"I am with you, I am mighty to save. I will take great delight in you. I will quiet you with my love. I will rejoice over you with singing." Zephaniah 3:17
"I am your hiding place, I will protect you from trouble and surround you with songs of deliverance. I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you." Psalm 32:7-8
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you...plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
Freedom from the chains that bind our praise to You,
Freedom from the lies of the enemy."
Seems like lately it has been easier to believe the lies of the enemy:
You are all alone...
You aren't any good...
You'll never finish school...
You can't do this, you don't have the strength...
Why are you even here...
You think that God loves you? Why would He let you go through all of this...
He has forgotten all about you...
Your wife and kids would be better off it you weren't around...
Even if you do finish school, you'll never become any kind of tool that He would want to use...
Sometimes I think that I need to remember some of the True promises of God:
"I will never leave you or forsake you." Joshua 1:5
"I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you." Psalm 32:8
"I will sustain you and I will rescue you." Isaiah 46:4
"I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." Isaiah 41:10
"I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go." Genesis 28:15
"I have engraved you on the palms of my hands." Isaiah 49:16
"I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people." Leviticus 26:12
"Commit your works unto the Lord, and your thoughts will be established." Proverbs 16:3
"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty." Psalm 91:1
"I am the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth...those who hope in Me will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." Isaiah 40: 28, 31
"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know" Jeremiah 33:3
"I am with you, I am mighty to save. I will take great delight in you. I will quiet you with my love. I will rejoice over you with singing." Zephaniah 3:17
"I am your hiding place, I will protect you from trouble and surround you with songs of deliverance. I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you." Psalm 32:7-8
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you...plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Finally
I finally got the password for this thing reset so I can get back on here again!
Updates to come soon!
Updates to come soon!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
STRESS!!!
So...I had an exam that I had to take on Wednesday and I wasn't able to study at all because of the whole Kristin going to the hospital thing. So I took the test anyway, and I just know that i didn't do very well on it! But I had the chance to talk to the professor tonight, and he was really encouraging! He basically told me not to stress about it. That there is built in extra credit in his course work, so as long as I do all of my work my exam grade should go up automatically. Talk about a huge sigh of relief! He also said that I am a good student, and if my exam was super bad and I needed something to bring it up that he would work with me and come up with something.
So thanks for praying! Kristin is doing well, and the baby is in good shape (If it would only turn around and get in the right position!).
Well, I am going to go relax now for a little while before bed. Busy day tomorrow and busy weekend.
Thanks,
Joshua
So thanks for praying! Kristin is doing well, and the baby is in good shape (If it would only turn around and get in the right position!).
Well, I am going to go relax now for a little while before bed. Busy day tomorrow and busy weekend.
Thanks,
Joshua
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