Home Educators Yearbook

Before the year ends, here’s one way to have a record of your Homeschool year :

1. Buy a small-medium photo album
2. Check there are plain cards slightly smaller than the sleeve in each sleeve. This keeps pages firm, esp if no photos.
3. Grab a camera and do some catch-up photo-taking. Capture people and places on film or disk.
4. Front-Title page – express yourself creatively. Name – Year - Title

DOUBLE PAGES (may need more than one pair)

1. “Class” pictures – gather up photos of friends and family you see a lot of throughout the year.
2. Clubs + Classes – list or photos of who you do your co-op lessons with, go cycling, play music or sport …with. Reduce certificates to fit.
3. Pictures, sketches, or list of special ‘field trips’ and outings eg. Ball, Zoo, Swimsafe …
4. Favourites – colours, places, music, quotes, sayings, … for yourself and your friends.
5. Academics – big learnings for the year, projects, lapbooks, countries studied … Reduce pages to fit. The size of your photo album will determine if you have a page for each month.

Those with scrapbooking tendencies could frilly it up. You could buy several albums at a time – a different colour for each child? Each year? Make it your own.

And enjoy the memories you’ve been creating all year.

- Johanna Whittaker, 2007

Hello fellow Kiwi bloggers,

Would you like to join a Kiwi Home Educators blog ring?
Your blog doesn’t have to be about homeschooling (exclusively).
But live in or be from New Zealand - and have home educated.

www.ringsurf.com/ring/nr96/ - view - Kiwi Home Educators - just new

www.ringsurf.com/netring?action=addform&ring=nr96 - sign up

The best code to copy and paste for the blog badge on your sidebar is: (picture is of Tarore)
* * In your widget title, put “Blog Ring“.

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if that doesn’t work with picture etc, then try:

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could add on:

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This is my journey at present, struggling with the institutional church and its emphases on worship bands, programmes, and busyness with no relational connection going on.

If you’re satisfied with how you do church, then you may not want to read the following. If you’re used to going to church most Sundays, these articles could challenge life on Sundays …

http://www.megashiftministries.org/html/mainA.html - We Call It Total Transformation
scroll down to: ‘Eight Offers You Can’t Refuse’  and  ‘Six Gottas, Four Oughttas’

http://www.openchurch.com/user/The%20Concept.pdf - 15pg - Open Church - tired of being a pew-sitter? What happened in 313AD?
What can you do about it? bottom p 12 and on [idea ties in with homeschooling]

http://www.restorationfoundation.org/6_122.htm - Back to the Burning Bush

http://www.restorationfoundation.org/issues.htm - hebraic roots

http://www.intotruth.org/apostasy/cell-church6.htm - house churches

interesting stuff …

There’s plenty more - blogs like:

http://prodigal.typepad.com/prodigal_kiwi/

http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/

Mummy Monday
- to young children, home educating mothers

Tummy Tuesday
- recipes, healthy food

Weblinks Wednesday
links for anything that interests me - homeschool, migraines, creativity 
- or maybe Wordless Wednesday? - a picture or photo

Thoughtful Thursday
- a question, a ponder …

Fellowship Friday
- friendships, organic church …

I do not promise to post every day every week, but I thought this could put a structure on my thinking and posting.

See you soon,
Johanna
www.lapbooking.wordpress.com
www.lapbooking.tumblr.com

DH - www.2Restore.wordpress.com
chn - www.kiwikids.tumblr.com

We often ‘practice hospitality’ according to Romans 12.

But what about Luke 10 - and accepting the hospitality of others? I think I’ll allow myself the privilege of allowing others to bless-by-giving for a while.

Besides, in people’s own homes, one listens and learns more about their hopes and fears - and I can bless them in their home. Physically, eye-to-eye, speak out a Blessing to/for them.

May God Bless you and your household,