It's an entertainment for them to paint and to play with colors. For me, to watch them do it...
What a one fine art day...
Dying to Self
13 years ago
Thursday, December 2, 2010
One Fine Art Day...
We're studying Monet's Waterlily Pond, and Andrea was inspired to do the painting in her own style. I got the technique from Practical Pages. Thanks, Nadene.
It's an entertainment for them to paint and to play with colors. For me, to watch them do it...
Brandon did his own version of abstract painting and of course, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse... his favorite... LOL!
Andrea then did another painting that she learned from the art school. She called it "The City".
What a one fine art day...
It's an entertainment for them to paint and to play with colors. For me, to watch them do it...
What a one fine art day...
Monday, November 1, 2010
Cupcake Decorating Lesson
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| Learning to put the frosting |
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| Decorating the cupcake with clown head and some sugar flowers |
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| Tadaaa... here they are! |
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| Put them in the box to bring home |
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| Brandon just finished his work |
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| Showing off his "masterpiece" |
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| Can I eat it now? |
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| Enjoying the cupcake... |
Thursday, September 30, 2010
What We Have Done So Far…
The schedule is lighter now and I don’t feel overwhelmed as before. I don’t want to get too stressful on the things we haven’t accomplished and then try to push her into doing more. She’s only six and I’m very proud of what she can do right now, so I don’t want to rush her in anyway. I want her to enjoy her childhood. I want her to be free to explore, to do arts, to move and dance, to be loud when singing or laughing, and most of all… to be herself and I want her to have fun in the process.
Here are some of the works that Andrea did…
CIMT – MEP math (I had to stop this and supplement with other book to instill some concepts because it’s getting harder for her)
Maths Basics 3 from School Zone (she does 2 pages everyday, and yes, she understands the concept)
She’s happier now and have lots of time for read-alouds which is her favorite part of the school. We both are happier… LOL
Here are some of the works that Andrea did…
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| Dea doing the copywork from Scripture |
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| Copywork from Scripture |
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| Cursive handwriting |
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| Cursive handwriting (2 letters) |
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| Cursive handwriting (3 letters) |
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| Geography from the Seven Little Sisters book |
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| Artist study - Albrecht Durer |
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| Math from CIMT-MEP |
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| Math from CIMT-MEP |
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| Math Basics 3 (School Zone) |
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| Math (double-digit subtractions) |
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| Reading by herself |
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| Free drawing |
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| Drawing about God's creations |
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| Another free drawing session :) |
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| Sea creatures |
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| Swimming with the homeschool community |
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| Play swing |
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Why Homeschool?
Deu 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
Deu 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Deu 6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
Deu 6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Deu 6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
Deu 6:9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Deu 6:10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
Deu 6:11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
Deu 6:12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Deu 6:13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
Deu 6:14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
Deu 6:15 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
Deu 6:16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
Deu 6:17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Deu 6:18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers...
I got this question all the time whenever somebody asks me about what school that my kids go to. One of the many reasons why I homeschool my children is because I am serious about passing on the faith of Christ to my children, and to bring them up myself.
But many people have been led to believe that those parents who homeschool will "damage" their children.
LadyLydiaSpeaks wrote in her blog:
God gave parents the job of teaching their children. Some may not obey their training, but it is still the parents job to train them. We don't homeschool our children just because it gets good results or it works, but because we believe the Bible teaches parents to do it, and because it is best for the children. We are responsible to disciple them, which is much different than just teaching them facts.
The root of our education system came from a man name John Dewey. Who is he, anyway?
John Dewey is known as the father of Progressive Education. He wrote that teachers needed to counteract the influence of the home and the church on children, which he said produced children who were too individualistic and not socialistic enough. He put farm families under particular suspicion because their children were often rugged individuals that the state had a hard time re-educating to be socialists. He is one of the original signers of the Humanist Manifesto, which denies God, creation, the soul, the sacred, and life after death, among other things. It requires religions be "reconstituted as rapidly as experience allows" to suit the Humanist agenda. It also requires that all human associations must be controlled to conform to the humanist manifesto.
He went to the Soviet Union and wrote back glowing reports of what he saw. He admired their efforts to dismantle the traditional family and use schools to indoctrinate children to think of themselves as belonging to the state -- bragging that schools were "the ideological arm of the revolution."
He attained international influence over China, India, Russia and the United States, insisting that schools become the tools of a new socialist agenda. The National Education Association - which works out his legacy today, made John Dewey their honorary president. Education as we know it today, remains the legacy of this man who hated the traditional family and hated the church, and who passionately fought for the right to make children the property of a new socialist state which was his idea of heaven on earth.
He wrote :
"I believe that ...the teacher always is the prophet of the true god and the usherer in of the true kingdom of god. "
Why is it that the church is losing so many young people? Because the one who makes the disciples gets to keep the disciples. And the one making disciples is the one who has the children all day long, from infancy to adulthood. So who is really serious about making disciples?
Let's do the math: two hours a week on Sunday, plus family Bible hour every night - and you're up to nine hours a week of discipleship for Jesus. Compare that to forty hours a week by the school. Close to 20,000 hours of indoctrination by the time children are 18.
Parents say, "He left home and just fell away from his faith."
Could it be possible that he left home and realized what he was really being trained to believe all along? Perhaps he left home and his real training - his real discipleship kicked in.
I know time is hard to come by. Perhaps you say, "I would love to spend more time with my children, but how can I do it?" I don't have the answer for that. All I have is certain knowledge that if you fail to take the time with your children, if you fail to pass on your way of life to your children, there are others who will use your children to pass on their way of life.
The one who makes the disciples gets to keep them. A man cannot serve two masters, the Lord warned. Living by what John Dewey taught makes Children disciples of a New World Order.
God wisely has the best plan for children, tailor made. Each child has a parent that he can bond with and be discipled by. Who will disciple your children?
Deu 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Deu 6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
Deu 6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Deu 6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
Deu 6:9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Deu 6:10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
Deu 6:11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
Deu 6:12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Deu 6:13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
Deu 6:14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
Deu 6:15 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
Deu 6:16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
Deu 6:17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Deu 6:18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers...
I got this question all the time whenever somebody asks me about what school that my kids go to. One of the many reasons why I homeschool my children is because I am serious about passing on the faith of Christ to my children, and to bring them up myself.
But many people have been led to believe that those parents who homeschool will "damage" their children.
LadyLydiaSpeaks wrote in her blog:
God gave parents the job of teaching their children. Some may not obey their training, but it is still the parents job to train them. We don't homeschool our children just because it gets good results or it works, but because we believe the Bible teaches parents to do it, and because it is best for the children. We are responsible to disciple them, which is much different than just teaching them facts.
The root of our education system came from a man name John Dewey. Who is he, anyway?
John Dewey is known as the father of Progressive Education. He wrote that teachers needed to counteract the influence of the home and the church on children, which he said produced children who were too individualistic and not socialistic enough. He put farm families under particular suspicion because their children were often rugged individuals that the state had a hard time re-educating to be socialists. He is one of the original signers of the Humanist Manifesto, which denies God, creation, the soul, the sacred, and life after death, among other things. It requires religions be "reconstituted as rapidly as experience allows" to suit the Humanist agenda. It also requires that all human associations must be controlled to conform to the humanist manifesto.
He went to the Soviet Union and wrote back glowing reports of what he saw. He admired their efforts to dismantle the traditional family and use schools to indoctrinate children to think of themselves as belonging to the state -- bragging that schools were "the ideological arm of the revolution."
He attained international influence over China, India, Russia and the United States, insisting that schools become the tools of a new socialist agenda. The National Education Association - which works out his legacy today, made John Dewey their honorary president. Education as we know it today, remains the legacy of this man who hated the traditional family and hated the church, and who passionately fought for the right to make children the property of a new socialist state which was his idea of heaven on earth.
He wrote :
"I believe that ...the teacher always is the prophet of the true god and the usherer in of the true kingdom of god. "
Why is it that the church is losing so many young people? Because the one who makes the disciples gets to keep the disciples. And the one making disciples is the one who has the children all day long, from infancy to adulthood. So who is really serious about making disciples?
Let's do the math: two hours a week on Sunday, plus family Bible hour every night - and you're up to nine hours a week of discipleship for Jesus. Compare that to forty hours a week by the school. Close to 20,000 hours of indoctrination by the time children are 18.
Parents say, "He left home and just fell away from his faith."
Could it be possible that he left home and realized what he was really being trained to believe all along? Perhaps he left home and his real training - his real discipleship kicked in.
I know time is hard to come by. Perhaps you say, "I would love to spend more time with my children, but how can I do it?" I don't have the answer for that. All I have is certain knowledge that if you fail to take the time with your children, if you fail to pass on your way of life to your children, there are others who will use your children to pass on their way of life.
The one who makes the disciples gets to keep them. A man cannot serve two masters, the Lord warned. Living by what John Dewey taught makes Children disciples of a New World Order.
God wisely has the best plan for children, tailor made. Each child has a parent that he can bond with and be discipled by. Who will disciple your children?
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Curriculum Review
Okay, it's been a month since I started homeschool using the Ambleside Online Curriculum. To be honest, I feel overwhelmed by all the things that need to be done, but I'm so grateful for moms over the AO groups that support me and giving me advice generously.
So, taking their advice, I decided to take it slowly for Andrea. I did make some changes to Andrea’s course of study. I took away readings that are too “heavy” for her and substitute with another “lighter” but good readings. Since then, school was easier and the children enjoyed the read-aloud stories better.
Course of Study
Bible:
• New Living Translation, Contemporary English Version
• Mother Stories from the Old Testament
• Mother Stories from the New Testament
Recitation:
• Scripture, Poetry, Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
Reading/Phonics/Spelling:
• Word Mastery (Florence Akin)
• McGuffey’s First Reader (William Holmes McGuffey)
Penmanship:
• Copy work from Scripture and Aesop’s Fables
• Cursive handwriting (she asked for it and did very well)
Languages:
• Bahasa Kita Bahasa Indonesia 1 (Departemen Pendidikan Nasional)
• Chinese (online course at Livemocha.com)
Math:
• CIMT-MEP Primary Year 2
Indonesian Social Studies:
• Ilmu Pengetahuan Sosial Untuk SD Kelas 1 (Dep. Pendidikan Nasional)
Citizenship:
• Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Untuk SD Kelas 1 (Dep. Pendidikan Nasional)
Geography:
• The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air (Jane Andrews)
• First Lessons in Geography (James Monteith)
World History:
• Fifty Famous Stories Retold (James Baldwin)
Natural History/Science:
• Among the Farmyard People (Clara D. Pierson)
• The Burgess Bird Book for Children Ch 1-36 (Thornton Burgess)
Poetry:
• A Child's Garden of Verses (Robert Louis Stevenson)
• Favorite Poems of Childhood (edited by Philip Smith)
Literature:
• The Aesop for Children (Milo Winter)
• The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children (Jane Andrews)
• The Sleepy Time Tales (Arthur Scott Bailey)
• Beatrix Potter’s Series (Beatrix Potter)
This is why I love homeschooling, it's individual, and I can adjust it to suit my children's learning style and capability. No homeschool is exactly the same... and that's the beauty of it.
So, taking their advice, I decided to take it slowly for Andrea. I did make some changes to Andrea’s course of study. I took away readings that are too “heavy” for her and substitute with another “lighter” but good readings. Since then, school was easier and the children enjoyed the read-aloud stories better.
Course of Study
Bible:
• New Living Translation, Contemporary English Version
• Mother Stories from the Old Testament
• Mother Stories from the New Testament
Recitation:
• Scripture, Poetry, Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
Reading/Phonics/Spelling:
• Word Mastery (Florence Akin)
• McGuffey’s First Reader (William Holmes McGuffey)
Penmanship:
• Copy work from Scripture and Aesop’s Fables
• Cursive handwriting (she asked for it and did very well)
Languages:
• Bahasa Kita Bahasa Indonesia 1 (Departemen Pendidikan Nasional)
• Chinese (online course at Livemocha.com)
Math:
• CIMT-MEP Primary Year 2
Indonesian Social Studies:
• Ilmu Pengetahuan Sosial Untuk SD Kelas 1 (Dep. Pendidikan Nasional)
Citizenship:
• Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Untuk SD Kelas 1 (Dep. Pendidikan Nasional)
Geography:
• The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air (Jane Andrews)
• First Lessons in Geography (James Monteith)
World History:
• Fifty Famous Stories Retold (James Baldwin)
Natural History/Science:
• Among the Farmyard People (Clara D. Pierson)
• The Burgess Bird Book for Children Ch 1-36 (Thornton Burgess)
Poetry:
• A Child's Garden of Verses (Robert Louis Stevenson)
• Favorite Poems of Childhood (edited by Philip Smith)
Literature:
• The Aesop for Children (Milo Winter)
• The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children (Jane Andrews)
• The Sleepy Time Tales (Arthur Scott Bailey)
• Beatrix Potter’s Series (Beatrix Potter)
This is why I love homeschooling, it's individual, and I can adjust it to suit my children's learning style and capability. No homeschool is exactly the same... and that's the beauty of it.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Family Fun Day with the Homeschool Community (August 17, 2010)
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| This small group can't wait for the fun to begin... |
Last year, our family joined in with the neighborhood, playing traditional games and had a feast dinner together as one big family… the whole neighborhood. But, this year, because of the fasting month for Moslems (and my neighbors are mostly Moslems), we didn’t do any big celebration.
So, I’m very glad that we can go with our Homeschool community to Taman Budaya at Sentul City. They have the outbound activities for children from 3 years old! 3 hours of activities and FUN...
It’s a celebration of our country’s freedom from colonization and freedom it is for our kids from their fears as they engaged in every activity that was set for them. It’s thrilling, adventurous, and fun. All of the activities have been carefully chosen so it’s very safe. It’s good to develop decision-making skill, to counter their fears, learn balance, and to solve problems.... and most of all, they enjoyed them so much.
Here are the pictures:
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| Brandon put on his silly face |
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| Andrea is excited! |
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| Putting on safety belt |
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| Brandon is walking on the wobbly bridge... |
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| Andrea is very good in this... |
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| Going down the hill... walk backwards and holding on the rope (that's me in red, following them around) |
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| Crawling... piece a cake! |
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| Spider net... figuring out where to step... |
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| Coming down... from the spider net bridge |
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| Andrea's turn... |
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| A higher spider net bridge... to the flying fox tower |
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| Brandon with his silly face again... waiting for his turn to fly down |
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| Woohoooooo! Flying down.... so much fun! Actually, this is the 2nd time... |
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| Another challenge... the Raffling Tower |
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| Andrea at the Raffling Tower |
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| Coming down from the Raffling Tower at the other end |
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| Andrea's turn... |
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| Brandon is walking on a bamboo stick |
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| Fall down... it's perfectly safe (Dad's watching from afar) |
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| Off to another challenge... oh boy! |
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| Andrea has to go through the mud... |
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| Brandon also... |
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| Then go through the tunnel made of wheels... |
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| Andrea, all clean and fresh after a shower... posed in front of a giant angklung |
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