Ten String Instrument

I love this:

An elderly saint at a prayer meeting was heard to pray,

“O Lord, we will praise You;

we will praise You with an instrument of ten strings!”

 (People wondered what he meant).

“We will praise You with our eyes by looking only unto You.

We will exalt You with our ears by listening only to Your voice.

We will extol You with our two hands by working in Your service.

We will honour You with our own two feet by walking in the way of Your statutes.

We will magnify You with our tongue by bearing testimony to Your loving kindness.

We will worship You with our heart by loving only You.

We thank You for this instrument, Lord; keep it in tune.

Play upon it as You will and ring out the melodies of Your grace!

May its harmonies always express Your glory!”

Plan your work , then work your plan...

...easier said than done, especially when I have so much I want to do! 

This is what I have going on:

1. I home educate my 16 year old son who has mild aspergers
2. I want to build a portfolio of teaching I have done over the past 12 years
3. I am writing a children's book
4. I have ideas for another 6 books
5. I want to research an adult book I've been wanting to write for ages
6. I HAVE to do Grade 5 music theory in November (2012)
7. I HAVE to do Grade 6 flute by July 2013, before the music changes
8. I'm doing an IGCSE Spanish course which involves assignments to write
9. I'm doing an IGCSE Business Studies course which involves assignment writing
10. I want to build a website on Social Reform therefore I'm reading a biography about Anthony Ashley Cooper - 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885)
11. I HAVE to read Scandalous (by Don Carson) by the end of September 2012 for a book group I belong to
12. I work 4 afternoons a week

No wonder I never get anything done - I have too much going on! I have good intensions which never get completed! PRIORITISE!!

The items marked in red are urgent/important... 

The items marked in green is everything else

I'm sure if I did just half an hour a day on some of those things I'd soon get through them! So I need to:

PLAN MY WORK THEN WORK MY PLAN!

 

Teaching Spelling

Conversation about the weather...

I love this quote by Oscar Wilde


“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative”

Videos

Over the next few weeks I'm planning on making a couple of videos to help inspire people to teach their children how to spell and young children on how to do division and multiplication!

Hopefully they will encourage parents who home school! :)

my poetry blog

http://poet-re.blogspot.com/

A blog for my poetry! Feel free to follow!

2012

OK, I 'm about a week late posting this, but wanted to wish ALL readers a really happy and prosperous 2012!

To all home educators - I hope you have planned this term's lessons and are having happy times at home with your offspring :)