Continuing my thougths on wisdom!

I talked in my last blog the importance of wisdom. Again, simply put, wisdom is the ability to take the things you know and apply them. That is a great way to understand wisdom. We can teach our children so many things everyday of their lives but... if we do not teach them wisdom then we have taught them nothing that they can apply in their lives. If our children cannot take what they have learned and apply it, then we have done an injustice. You can teach your children about God's word, and if they never act on the wisdom of God to apply it to their lives and receive what the Lord has for them, then... we have not completed the training.

The Bible tells us that Jesus has been made unto us wisdom! He is the Wisdom of the ages, the spoken word of God that became flesh, and has become the absolute in our lives. When we realize and believe that it is He that brings to pass those absolutes then we release His wisdom working on our behalf in a very special and powerful way. First and foremost we must again remember that the Bible tells us that "the fear of the Lord, which means to HATE ALL EVIL, is the beginning of wisdom!" In that our children can learn to apply wisdom by simply walking away from evil! It's one thing to know that stealing is wrong But it is wisdom to know it is wrong and walk away from doing it!

I watched 2 movies this last evening in order to do reviews on them for families. These two were in the genre for young adults. "They were so awful!" Watching something that goes against God's word and His character goes against the grain of what I believe in and stand for and I very much dislike it! I actually HATE the evil that is set before me such as; murder, sex, swearing, bitterness, hate, debauchery, and the more! Right here is a great place to start teaching your children wisdom! Don't put evil before them letting it get in their eyes, their ears, their hearts! Then don't just tell them no you can't but, teach them "why" your are telling me this and why you want them to do what you are saying! Show them what's wrong, what is evil and tell them how one should not follow it! Keep these movies and TV stuff that supports things contrary to God's word and Jesus off! Keep them away from what is ungodly and goes against His word and ways in every area of their lives! Teach your children to hate evil and not allow it to grace their lives in anyway! Then wisdom will begin to work highly in their lives and "He" Jesus will do great things for them in honor of their faithfulness and obedience to His word! God Bless!

Charles Spurgeon said,

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is wisdom."

love,
Pastor Kim

"Short-Cut Math"

This is a wonderful book aimed at grades 4-8.

The greatest advantage of home schooling is the freedom to use whatever method, products, and books that will do the job and do it in such a way that your child will gain knowledge and feel successful at the same time.

I first discovered this book with one student in our Christian school who could not - no matter how hard he tried - get math concepts in his head. He was in the 9th grade and was functioning on a 4th grade level in math at the time. I gave him a copy of the book and promised him that if he would read it and just do one section at a time he would be amazed. I even told him that there were sections he wouldn't need at all. This encouraged him as it wasn't "another book he had to read".

He took the book and "went after it". It wasn't very long until he was getting better grades and he told me he had read certain parts of the book. That's the beauty of it. He went to the area that was hard for him and he was successful at it because he tried it. He found confidence to go after knowledge because he found hope that he could obtain it through something so simple and very inexpensive!

Success is contagious. Others soon wanted it to become better at math. It became a competitive thing to see who could do more in their heads or faster on paper than the others. Competition is not necessarily bad. It worked in a Christian school and it certainly can work for your Home School and your students will have fun with it! Making math fun is important! This was definitely a win-win situation.

Trudi

Don't Forget Your Home Economics

Home Economics Can Count for some of your Home School Required HOURS!


Be sure to include Home Economics in your Homes Schools! I am a graduate from the School of Home Economics and have a BS degree in Foods and Nutrition from Ohio State University. One of the last courses I took in college could have some good ideas for home schooling your children and have fun at the same time. It was Home Management and the responsibilities of managing a home were broken down into various areas such as fulfilling the management tasks of being a: cook, waitress, housecleaner, laundress, child care etc. Can you image getting a college degree to teach how to manage your home? Well, it's true! Ohio State University has the classes to prove it. These are really old fashioned terms but describe what you do as a mother and manager of a home. Teach your child how to sort laundry and look for stains and how to use a washer and dryer without overloading it with clothes or soap. It can be lots of fun teaching by example and they will see it differently and you might find that you will have help with your laundry. This also will give them credit towards that Home Ec class. Switch the various tasks around and one week you might show them how to plan a weeks worth of meals and them have them help grocery shop for those meals. Get creative in your teaching. I'll be blogging with ideas for your Home Economics class and include Food and Nutrition ideas for your Home School. Keep in touch and remember; "Who knows how to run a house better than you mom?"

Jane

We're Excited About "KICKS Home School Academy"

Hey moms and dads,

Today I was thinking about how excited I am about this new outreach of our ministry. KICKS Home School Academy is a heart's desire, its a dream, and it is so exciting to see it coming forth. I see it coming together so nicely. I love homeschooling. My son has such fruit in his life from it and, I was able to enjoy him daily! Now with all my other adopted children I can offer them the same blessing. Pastor Rick already works with them every morning in school! That's the blessing about having a Home School. You can start it before they reach your typical age and teach them ahead and let them go for it!

When my son was in second grade in the public school system I was called in for a teacher's conference. His teacher proceeded to tell me how far advanced he was and that he was completing his work "to soon". "He is beating all the rest of his class," she said. I asked her to please give him more work. She said, "I already do and I can't give him anymore because he will be to far ahead of all my other students." I wanted to shout, "Let him!" But, that wasn't the answer. Well, in Home School you can have your kids move forward in whatever subjects they can, stay with the ones they need to, and work on the ones they need to pace at their own speed. Now today? Well, I have 3 two year olds that "already" know their ABC's. They can read 'EVERY' letter upper and lower case! They know the sound of each letter! They can recognize their letters isolated! Even one of them can spell their name now. How exciting to see the Lord bring them forth with such academic advancements! That's homeschooling for ya!

Pastor Rick was talking with a 'teacher of 30 years'. She said in all her years of teaching in public schools she had never seen any children under three capable to do what they are doing, especially three of them from different genetic lines. (since they are adopted). Her statement, "You must be doing something to make it fun for them! They must love learning!"

So you have it... That's our goal for you and your kids. Learning is fun! Make it exciting and interesting. Fun and creative. Make your Home School academically excellent and challenging enough to keep interest and equipped with advanced achievements, or just great achievements, but, make it fun and exciting!

Our desire with the Academy is to help you get some creative ideas and encouragement to help make your Home School fun and equip you with academic ideas that will enhance your children and cause them to achieve higher with excellence because learning has become such fun and is then a great character building tool!

God bless you in your Home School!
"raising faith filled kids thru the word of God"

Pastor Kim