This is a book that helps children understand that we should be thankful for what we have – even if it’s not as much as others have or the same as others have.
A good lesson for all of us to learn this Thanksgiving season and all year long.
Turkey Cookies – Not Made from Turkey! – Easy to Make, Nothing to Bake
We are planning to make these tomorrow!
What fun!
Even the older kids still like to make these – and eat them.
All you need to make them is:
Fudge Stripe Cookies
Bon Bons
Chocolate chips
Candy Corn
How to put them together:
1. We melt the chocolate chips to use as glue. We glue the bon bons (the body of the turkey) to the Fudge Stripe cookies with the stripes going up and down so they look like feathers.
2. Then we glue the candy corn to the front of the bon bon to look like the head of the turkey.
3. Then we use toothpicks to dot eyes on the top of the candy corn with the melted chocolate chips.
4. Then we set them up together to make it look like we have a whole flock of turkeys!
Very easy to make and they taste delicious. No baking necessary!
Holy Given: Iris Ministries
This is my favorite ministry. I love Iris Ministries and Heidi Baker. They are in Mozambique, and they take children off the streets and provide for their physical needs and teach them about Jesus and lead them into a personal relationship with Him. They have intense, intimate times of worship, and the children get to know Jesus for themselves. They operate in power and signs and wonders. They are all about the LOVE OF JESUS.
Stop Common Core State Standards
This video shows how Common Core State Standards hurt the schools, teachers, students and ultimately homeschoolers. It talks about its origins and who wrote and funded the standards. You may be surprised to discover that these standards were not written by educators and were not initiated by states but by private groups. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent over a million dollars to help create and propagate the standards. Companies such as Microsoft will more than recover the money they’ve invested through software, technology, and curriculum that this new education paradigm requires.
Here’s the 2nd video in the series.
Here’s the 3rd video.
Here’s the 4th video.
Here’s the 5th video.
The Imitation Of Christ by Thomas a Kempis
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.
"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
