Lindy's Homeschool: December 2018

Sunday, December 30, 2018

Easy FREE effective "Come Follow Me" 2019

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***NEW*** High Resolution Printing!!!

FINALLY!!! The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has put together an individual and family teaching manual!

I'm trying to figure out the new "Come, Follow Me- New Testament 2019" manual, and I thought I would put my plan up here for anyone who wants to copy any of my ideas. And guess what- I have over ten years of family devotional teaching under my belt. I know what works (in my family.)

Simple. That's the main goal. Simple.

If it's not simple, you won't do it.

Also, VIDEOS. Videos are also my goal. The church has a million out there. In fact, the manual both online and physical suggest using them. I have all the video links you'll need.

I'll make this EASY & FREE for you: 1, 2, 3

1-Print out this Background on two 11x17s (more on this latter) and laminate it (clear packing tape works great) or get a poster-board.

2- Get TWO manuals. One the church will give you, and you can get a second from a distribution centre. If I can get it in the country of Vanuatu, you can get one where you live.

This first manual is for cutting out pictures.

Each week there is a beautiful 8x10 picture at the end of the section that goes along with the lesson. You are going to cut this out so you can put it on your board.

The second manual you have, you will be cutting out pictures from as well, but you can still read from it, so this will be your reading manual as well. A little bit of a hassle I know, but better to display the pictures for your family than hiding them away in a book. (Or you can print them from the online manual.)

***OR*** if you follow the instructions in this video, you can get BOTH images out of the SAME manual!!!

The picture you need is the image above the theme at the beginning of each lesson. You will have to crop off the side a bit to make it fit.

Stick those to the board, and it should now look like this:

3-Print out my awesome Theme, Daily Study, and Scripture page (11x17-more on printing latter,) cut it up and stick it on your board.

And VOILA! A devotional board both beautiful and useful.

How do you use this board? Simple!

At the beginning of each week, you just slap on the new pictures, and then read the first paragraph as a family as an introduction to the week. (Sunday would be awesome for this.)

The rest of the days, each individual can pick Daily Study Goals on your board. Read the corresponding paragraph and scriptures.

For Family Home Evening, read the last part of the lesson (I'm sure there will be dozens of blogs with "Come Follow Me" FHE plans. This is not one of them.)

*******As part of your Daily Study as a family, I suggest watching VIDEOS. We usually watch them while eating breakfast.*******

Just click on the week, and you will find the church's suggested videos!!
find it HERE)

PRINTING- For high resolution, click the "CLICK HERE" link to download. The 8.5x11s will require a little more pasting together, but it can be hard at times to print 11x17. By the way, I'm living near Australia, and I actually made all of this in the A3 paper size dimensions initially. If you want it like that, HERE is one half, and HERE is the other and HERE it is altogether. I use the 8.5x11 weekly cutouts, and print them out on my A4 paper, and it all works out still.

Come Follow Me Board-Poster Size (18x24)

CLICK HERE

Come Follow Me Board-Small Poster Size (16x20)

CLICK HERE

Come Follow Me Board 17x22

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Come follow Me Board 11x17

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Come follow Me Board 8.5x11

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"Come Follow Me" Title only:

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Week one 8.5x11 printout:

Sunday, December 2, 2018

The Forces of Summer

SCIENCE

I did it! I finally did a science club! I tell you what, when I don't have the accountability of a club, it's hard to get the ball rolling. We had a couple of kids over, but they were just at our house anyway. I can't seem to get in contact with anyone else who homeschools here.

WHY? I mean, honestly! Here I am on an island were there are tons of Australian and New Zealand and other English speaking families. This is a very "hippy" place (and usually hippies support homeschool-right?) And, although there is an international school, it costs something like $8,000 a year per child!

I get that many hippy families just send their kids to the local schools for cultural experience, but really. WHERE ARE THE HOMESCHOOLERS?!?

I'm too intimidated to just open up and invite all the Bislama speaking kids over. Maybe that's my problem.

Last time we were here, our neighbours homeschooled, but they are now going to the International School. We also met a family who lives a ways away, but I can't seem to connect with them.

Well, at least we're importing friends soon. Before Christmas, the Walshes are coming!

And, honestly, the main reason I'm sure I can't find anyone, is that it's officially SUMMER vacation! Yes, school's out in this hemisphere. I feel a little like the world's not right. Like Olaf I guess.

The homeschool Vanuatu Facebook page is dead and no one has commented on the post I made to invite people to a homeschool picnic. Oh well.

So we are doing this all by ourselves.

We learned about Forces. We talked about push, pull, seen and unseen, and then focused on Newton and gravity. We had a tug of war as part of this.

We also are continuing our bug collections.

SOCIAL STUDIES

We learned about the Seven Years War aka The French and Indian War. I spent about two hours editing The Last of the Mohicans to make it kid friendly, but my family has yet to see any but the first five minutes. Maybe soon?

MATH

Maxwell's has been complicated lately and one problem takes up one page of notes.

Hyrum's

Daniel's

LAUNGUAGE ARTS

Maxwell's-I thought I would show what it looks like before it's final draft:

Hyrum's-We finally went on a date to celebrate his finishing book five of Barton. He was so sure that meant he was at grade six reading level now. I'm not sure why, but I told him the truth of where he was at with reading levels, and that deflated him. Regretting that.

Daniel's-I've been meaning to talk about Daniel. Something interesting about him, or that I'm observing closer than my other kids, is his trouble with sequencing of letters and words. It's a very classic dyslexia thing to do, but it's so obvious at the stage that Daniel's at right now.

The word "stop" becomes tops pots or spots. He looses his place frequently and mixes around words when he doesn't have his finger immediately under it. No wonder many people thin dyslexia is a problem with the eyes. (It's NOT by the way.)

The Adventures of Digital 3s....Continued

The guard looked at us seriously and said "Hey, you guys could be the chosen ones. Come follow me. We went into a giant room that was richly decorated with crystals and stained glass windows. There were hundreds of people in that room, but they were split up into groups of three.

They were people of many types. Sun people, fire people, crystal, earth, and many more. Each group of three people had a small creature with them. Almost as though each group had a pet.

The guard told us to go up to the queen, so we did.

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The "awkward and unprepared" Myth

There are many misconceptions and biases against homeschooling, and many people really think that I've never heard them or considered them. Many people worry about the "inevitable social awkwardness" of homeschoolers or that they are "unprepared for the world." In my experience, I've found that homeschoolers tend to be as socially "normal" or "awkward" as their parents. As far as "unprepared for the world" is concerned, that depends on how they are taught, but I have seen many successes first hand. Basically, I know the ins and outs of the decision I've made, thanks.

Why I Homeschool

When I was first married, I fell in love with the kids of the Leavitts and Schafers (my sisters-in-law families.) They were...and still are...confident, leaders, innocent where they should be innocent, creative, and accepting. They were also homeschooled. I wanted my future kids to be like them, and if homeschooling was part of that equation, then I was willing to make the sacrifice. Now, after years of study, prayer, and experience, I want to homeschool for many reasons. I want my kids to be family oriented not peer oriented. I want to include the gospel in every aspect of what they are taught. I want them to think out side of the box. I don't want them to be obsessed with what is "cool." I want them to feel loved by those around them. I want them to know who they are and what they stand for before they are bombarded by outside influences. I know that many families can do this without homeschooling, but it seems a lot harder to me. Basically, I'm a control freak. I want to be in control of my children's learning and social life....homeschooling makes that easier.

Also, now that I've realized they are severely dyslexic, I think homeschool is the best place for dyslexics to learn.

And there's the statistics.

My Schedule

7:15

START OUR DAY

Daddy does scriptures

Breakfast

Devotional w/ videos

Come Follow Me

Goals/mindfulness/memorization

9:00

School Starts

Maxwell

School of Hope Online

Hyrum's 3 "R"s

IEW Grammar and Writing

Video Text Algebra

Spelling (Word Wasp)

Daniel's 3 "R"s

Writing Prompts

Rightstart Math level "G"

Spelling (Wasp)

William's 3 "R"s

All About Reading

Creative Writing

Rightstart level "D"

Abraham's 3 "R"s

Logic of English

Handwriting Without Tears

Rightstart level "B"

Activity in afternoon:

Social Studies

Science

Art

Chess

field trips

Literature Club

WAS classes

My Curriculum

For math, I do RightStart Mathematics, which is an abacus based math, Times Tales to memorize multiplication, Video Text for Algebra, and Mathantics or other supplements on youtube.

For Devotionals, I use Come Follow Me.

For Reading, I have used the Barton Reading and Spelling program, but right now I'm experimenting with All About Reading and Logic of English.

For Writing, I use Handwriting Without Tears, IEW Fix It! Grammar, and IEW Student Intensive Writing.

For History, and Science, I use The Four Year Plan (which I LOVE.) This year we are using the "Family Jubilee" book which covers Biology, Modern World History, and New Testament.