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ABCs flying out the window

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Now, granted. I am not a lawyer. I am not a senator and am especially not the president of a country. However, I am an American educator. I even have the credentials to prove it. Yup. I’ve been to the grand old university and learned lots of useless facts and figures. The very best training I received was on-the-job. I read everything there was in print about managing classroom behavior and educational theory…but I didn’t have a clue how to hold the interest and attention of a rowdy group of six year olds. The teacher books didn’t tell me what … Continue reading ABCs flying out the window

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Do You “Believe In” Evolution?

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I was taught in Texas public schools about the THEORY of evolution. The teaching of it included some alternate viewpoints from scientists (not religious viewpoints) that pointed out its weaknesses. For example, there is that annoying absence in the fossil record documenting the supposed evolution of one species to another. Oh, and also the fact that Darwin himself, in his introduction to Origin of Species, concluded this: “I am well aware that there is scarcely a single point discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced (proven, or explained), often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those … Continue reading Do You “Believe In” Evolution?

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Glory to the King

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My daughter is a ham.  She loves performing, especially for God.  We dance and sing at the beginning of each of our homeschool days, and it helps us put our minds in the right place — on the Lord.  (This is especially important before math!  Not for her, but for me!) A couple of weeks ago she went to the first choir rehearsal for a kids performance at church.  During the rehearsal, she asked our worship pastor if she could do a piano solo.  At this point in time, she did not have her Christmas music “nailed” yet.  But she … Continue reading Glory to the King

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Surviving Head Colds and Mixed Up Words, Socks, and Temples

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We’ve hit the middle of our third homeschooling year, and I’ve discovered a pattern about myself…. Around December I start feeling overwhelmed and begin questioning the wisdom of ME teaching anyone anything of value, especially when I can’t find my car keys, the remote, the wrapping paper, the dog or my shoes. It was in December when I was trying to help my daughter complete a science experiment with circuits. The flashlight bulb just would not light up no matter what I tried. And then my then-eight-year-old sweetly informed me that I had forgotten to connect the wires to the … Continue reading Surviving Head Colds and Mixed Up Words, Socks, and Temples

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Up on my Soap Box Again

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Here’s a curiosity: in my circle of homeschoolers, there are more former classroom teachers than there are not.   One of my homeschool friends is married to a Christian middle school principal. Why is it that some many of us in the teaching profession have chosen to stay home and be teachers to our own children?  The partial answer to that question can be found on the front page of today’s Dallas Morning News. The Dallas ISD has sent down from on high the new grading rules for the next school year.  In a nutshell, these rules proclaim that: Students who … Continue reading Up on my Soap Box Again