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13 Feb 2009

Uploaded our homeschool curriculums for PreK and Kindergarten

Just to help people get a general idea of our PreK and Kindergarten curriculum’s; I’ve uploaded copies for anyone to print out.

Please feel free to use them as a guide for your own curriculum and keep in mind Charlotte Mason’s philosophy about education:

“In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mothers first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.”

As she had quoted, because we have it written down doesn’t mean we have to follow it word for word and have learn to keep flexible to what the day, the month, or the season brings us.

If you would like to know more about our PreK and Kindergarten Curriculum for this year, follow the links on the sidebar.

Sunflower Faith | 2 comments | Tags: ambleside, Charlotte Mason, curriculum, Homeschooling

13 Feb 2009

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10 Blogging Commandments

I was sent a copy of this via email and as I read this, I really like how it was laid out and felt, personally, to commit my blog to these commandments.

If you would like to learn more about the blogging commandments and watch a youtube video about this, please go here.

In the meantime, here are the 10 Blogging Commandments that I pray, with the Lord’s help, to commit this blog to.

From: Ten Blogging Commandments

eauk.org/articles/blogging-ten.cfm

Based loosely on the real Ten Commandments from the Old Testament, the revamped version for guidance in online communication emerged from an event reflecting on the ethics of today’s most popular form of public comment.

The commandments are intended to cause bloggers to consider the social impact of their blogging.-From their website

1. You shall not put your blog before your integrity.

2. You shall not make an idol of your blog.

3. You shall not misuse your screen name by using your anonymity to sin.

4. Remember the Sabbath day by taking one day off a week from your blog.

5. Honour your fellow-bloggers above yourselves and do not give undue significance to their mistakes.

6. You shall not murder someone else’s honour, reputation or feelings.

7. You shall not use the web to commit or permit adultery in your mind.

8. You shall not steal another person’s content.

9. You shall not give false testimony against your fellow-blogger.

10. You shall not covet your neighbour’s blog ranking. Be content with your own content.

Blogging Relationship Commitment

from: Ten Blogging Commandments

We encourage Christians earnestly to strive for biblical truth in their blogs, since we will only be drawn closer to Christ and each other when we are open to learn from others and commit to obey the truth more fully.

We call on each other, when blogging on issues of faith or practice that divide us, to acknowledge our own failings and the possibility that we ourselves may be mistaken, avoiding personal hostility and abuse, and speaking the truth in love and gentleness.

We owe it to each other, in writing blog posts on the alleged statements of our fellow Christians, first to get directly in touch with them and to establish what they actually meant. Then to commend what we can, to weigh the proportional significance of what we think is wrong, and to be gracious about what is doubtful, expressing our thoughts with courtesy and humility.

We rejoice in the spread of the Gospel across the world and urge all Christians to commit themselves to this task, avoiding unnecessary competition and co-operating, wherever possible, in the completion of Christ’s kingdom of peace, justice and holiness, to the glory of the one God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Sunflower Faith | One comment | Tags: 10 Blogging Commandments, blog etiquette, Christian Living

13 Feb 2009

Growing Long Hair Checkup • Memes • Uncategorized

Growing Long Hair Challenge Update

Another week of growing my hair out long and so far haven’t felt the, “cut my hair short now” yet.

Don’t we all though, at one point and another while growing our hair out have that feeling?

It’s very tempting but I like the idea that was mention in a comment about buying a wig, if anything it provides a visual reminder of what we are working towards.

Meantime, in addition to buying scrunchies and safe, but cute hair clips,I invested in the following hair products to help groom and encourage my hair maintenance:

Fructis Leave in Conditioner
Pantene Beautiful Lengths Shampoo & Conditioner
Coconut Oil
For the occassional use of the flat iron, I use:
- Tresemme “Thermal Creations Heat Tamer Spray“
- Sometimes Tresemme ” Thermal Creations Straightening Gel“
- After I flat iron my hair, I use, Tresemme “No-frizz Ultra Light Shine Spray“

By even just brushing your hair each day, it encourages the spread of natural hair oils that are essential to keeping hair growing strong with as little breakage as possible and a great rule of thumb, if you don’t need to use a hair dryer or flat iron, avoid it unless absolutely necessary.

For the most part, just an encouraging brush of the hair is enough to keep it maintain.

Oh! In addition I make sure I take my daily vitamin supplements each day.

Something else I learn…don’t brush your hair while wet…

If you must use something, use a wide tooth comb. The goal is to encourage healthy hair growth and not encourage a bird’s nest. Okay…maybe not a bird’s nest, but definitely will cause a lot of breakage and split ends that makes growing hair long, difficult.

Let me know how your venture into growing your hair long is doing or if you have made the dash to the nearest hairstylist.

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