Watching this video is like hearing an audiobook and reading the book along with it at the same time. I found this very easy to watch and listen to, and I think this is a good way to aid retention. I have always wanted to read “The Imitation of Christ”, and this has made it a very easy task with a pleasant narration by a man with a British accent. This is just Book 1, Admonitions Profitable for the Spiritual Life. It lasts for an hour and 43 minutes.
How God Spends His Time
This is a video by Jordan A. Cook. She is 11 years old and extremely gifted. She has a very close relationship with God. She hears His voice and creates paintings and visual representations based on what He says to her.
This first video portrays God’s precious answer to her question “How do You spend Your time?”
This video shows a sidewalk sermon that she constructed called “Building”.
Her website is Reaching My World. Make sure you check out her paintings on her website and note her age beside each painting. You will be amazed!
IndoctriNation: The Religion of Humanism in Public Education
This is a clip from the movie called “IndoctriNation”. This clip shows an interview with the author, economist and publisher, Gary North.
This clip from “IndoctriNation” features an interview with Erwin Lutzer, pastor of Moody Church and Host of Running to Win. He talks about State Controlled Education.
To learn more about this movie go to the website here at IndoctriNationMovie.com.
Learn Spanish So You Can Really Speak It
These videos help you to learn practical everyday Spanish that you can speak without having to go through the trouble of conjugating verbs and all of the grammar elements that help with reading and writing Spanish but may limit your confidence when trying to speak the language. I know that when I was in Mexico, I was afraid to try to speak because I always took so long to figure out the correct tense of the verb I wanted to use. These videos show you how to say phrases that are commonly used with the verbs already conjugated for you.
I think these will be very helpful for the person who really wants to be able to speak Spanish, not just read and write it.
https://www.youtube.com/user/learnspanishvideos?feature=watch
And here’s the website where you can see even more of what he offers. Much of it is free.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Unit Study
In the same vein as living books, here is a “living” video. This is a presentation of Peter Rabbit as you have never seen it before. At least I had never seen such an enchanting version of it before!
In this video we learn some background of Beatrix Potter and the reason she wrote Peter Rabbit. We even see her pet rabbit who was the inspiration of this famous story. Then the stories of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny are told through excellent animation and voice talent and sound effects.
If you would like to extend this lesson you may follow up with a lapbook that you can get free from HomeschoolShare.com. You can get if for free here.
This lapbook includes lessons for Language Arts, Social Studies, Science and Math. There is enough information included to complete the lapbook, but you can do more research and add more to it yourself.
To extend this lesson even further, you may want to watch this video of the “The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends Complete Tales Volumes 1 and 2”. You would probably prefer to watch one segment a day, as this presentation lasts almost 4 hours! There are nine stories, I think. Some of them I have read before, but several of them are new to me.
And here is a link to the official Peter Rabbit Website where you can find “The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit” and “The Christmas Tale of Peter Rabbit” by Emma Thompson. But you will have to go to Amazon if you decide to order them, because the prices are marked in pounds on the website! You can find them on Amazon here if interested. Further Tale of Peter Rabbit
"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller
