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E-Loop Encouragers
I finally got my timeline wall chart on the wall today.
We put up the characters we've talked about so far. It
looks great! I must think the "big picture" way, because
this is so cool! I love it! It makes history SO visual!
Thanks for a great timeline. You can really SEE the relationship
in time the characters have with each other. I wish I had
had one of these when I was in school. I never could memorize
dates and events! I actually like history now that I've been
studying it this way with my kids! ~Bobbi in Indiana
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Since I have been representing KONOS for about 16 years now,
the "where to put the timeline in a tiny house" question
has come up many times. I have had customers put the timeline
on the ceiling of their children's rooms, on the inside of
large closet doors, on foam board and kept under the bed, on
garage doors, down a hallway and more. You may ask," Why would
these people go to all this trouble when they could just pull
out a timeline book? Well, the answer is you can't possible get
the BIG PICTURE OF HISTORY from a book. Children need to see
the timeline up there in all its glory. BC on the left, AD on
the right and JESUS right they’re in the middle. What a powerful
statement that makes to them, Jesus the dividing point in history!!
Not just Bible History but all history. When they put Daniel on
the timeline they can instantly see that it was about six hundred
years before Christ. When they put Columbus on the timeline they
can count down and SEE that it was about fifteen centuries after
Jesus came. They can see and understand history as a whole, not
just bits of unrelated dates. I LOVE THE TIMELINE!
~Phyllis Phipps
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Home Schooling Men’s
New Year’s Resolution
By Wade Hulcy
Men, it is a new year. But for our wives, it is only halftime of a long school year.
As principal of your homeschool and head coach of your team, it is time for the
halftime assessment of the game. Before you get your Knute Rockne speech revved up,
you’ll need to talk to your quarterback and glance at the scoreboard to assess how
things have gone so far. If your quarterback has her tongue hanging out and is a
little bloodied, you need to find out why. If you caught her looking in the Yellow
Pages for private schools to send the kids to, she needs immediate help.
Before the second half begins, it is wise to go over the original game plan with your
quarterback to remind both of you why you decided to homeschool in the first place.
Review the goals you had for each child in the areas of academics, spiritual, physical
and emotional growth. As you review, check off as many accomplishments as you can
think of…such as Jimmy is now reading some and has shown
some improvement during the
first semester. It is hard for our wives to see some of anything
as a victory, because
many victories are incredibly small and were won at great cost to her. But men, it is
you and I who must maintain the vision, the game plan for our teams.
As a KONOS dad, you know:
- the incredible benefits of hands-on learning
- the benefit of your entire team to be taught together,
which makes teaching so much simpler for your wife
But, homeschooling is a tough, demanding job when added to "the cooking and
the cleaning," as Felix Unger says in The Odd Couple. It is just about
impossible for most of us to pitch in and teach homeschool on a daily basis,
but we can help with the housework and some kid duties in the evenings when
we get home. For your quarterback to be at peak performance, you the coach
must be the best support possible.
As servant / leader in your family, resolve to pick three or
four out of the list below and faithfully “serve” your wife:
- Fix dinner once a week
- Take your wife on a date night once a week
- Do the dinner dishes
- Give baths and put the team to bed nightly
- Take the kids to McDonalds one night a week, while your wife has a night alone
- Help with teaching a particular subject
- Make your bed daily, but only if your wife is out of it!
- Wash, fold, and put away two loads of laundry per week
- Empty the dishwasher everyday before you leave for work
- Teach your wife the Scriptures
- Teach the Scriptures to the whole family.
When husbands and wives were asked at a marriage conference if they preferred to be loved or respected by their mates, the women whispered to each other, “What an easy question. Everyone is going to choose to be loved.” When the vote was taken all of the women chose to be loved, but every man chose to be respected. But men are strange when it comes to love…like the ol’ boy that met with his pastor and his wife for marital counseling. When his pastor prompted him to tell his wife he loved her he told the pastor, “I told her I loved her just before we got married, and I told her right then, if I ever changed my mind I’d let her know.” Men, our wives want to be loved and cherished and made to feel like they are the most important possession we have. One easy way to show them how much we love them is to come into their worlds and make their difficult, never-ending jobs just a little easier. The other way to make sure they know we love them is to tell them every day and hug and kiss them in front of the kids. Where else can the head coach kiss the quarterback in front of all of the other players?
So men, pick out some chores to do for your wives and faithfully relieve her of some of her many responsibilities. Encourage her with the successes she is having with your children. Tell her how much you love her and hug her in front of the kids. It’s that easy!!
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Patience Mini-Unit Sample
Try It!
Jessica and I just sent a Mini-Unit on Patience to the e-Newsletter at The Old
Schoolhouse Magazine. Here is a little sample of the Mini-Unit right from Volume
I of KONOS. See the entire unit at
The Old Homeschool House.com
Where else but KONOS can you turn a recipe into a science book and the
kitchen into a science lab? All the while learning the character trait of
patience as the bread rises. “Lord, I need patience and I need it now.”
- Read about yeast. How does it reproduce? Define budding.
- Explain how yeast makes bread rise. What gas does yeast give off when it grows? What gas do humans breathe in and what gas do they breathe out?
- The instructions on the yeast package tell you to add sugar in a certain amount and water of a certain temperature to the yeast. What is the purpose of the sugar? Why is the temperature of the water important?
- Perform the experiment below to test what happens when the variables of sugar, yeast, and specific water temperature are changed from what is recommended on the package.
Find a bread recipe and double it. Next, divide the dough into 8 small portions and treat each portion according to the instructions below:
Dough A: No yeast
Dough B: Normal water + normal yeast + normal sugar per-instructions
Dough C: Hotter water + normal yeast + normal sugar.
Dough D: Colder water + normal yeast + normal sugar
Dough E: Normal water + normal yeast + more sugar
Dough F: Normal water + normal yeast + less sugar
Dough G: Normal water + less yeast + normal sugar
Dough H: Normal water + more yeast + normal sugar
Be sure you label each of the 8 portions before you allow the dough to rise and bake, so you will know what happened to each portion.
- How is yeast different from mold and mildew?
- What conditions are needed to grow mold? Grow some bread mold.
- If you have any mildew in the bathroom or kitchen what can you use to kill it? Explain why vinegar and bleach would kill mildew. Why does mildew usually grow in the bathroom and kitchen?
- Define chaff, germ, bran, and endosperm. Draw the wheat grain on a sheet of paper and label the parts.
- Whole wheat flour uses all of the grain (“whole-grain”), while white flour gets rid of the germ and bran and uses only the endosperm. Research the process in the manufacturing of white flour that gets rid of the germ and the bran?
- Explain the difference in bleached and unbleached flour. Research how flour is bleached. Which flour would be healthier for you to consume and why?
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Some bread does not have yeast, yet it still rises. Look at bread recipes that do not have yeast in them, (most quick breads and muffins). What makes these breads rise? (baking soda plus buttermilk) Does the combination of these two ingredients give off a gas? Find out how these two ingredients cause dough to rise
Oh yeah, the main lesson is to bake the bread and eat it!!
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Andrea Robinson
Live Online Chat!
Andrea Robinson will be our guest speaker for the January 24th chat.
This is a great opportunity to 'talk live' with a KONOS Rep and KONOS
users to ask all your questions. Andrea is warm and funny and full of
encouragement!
Please join us Tuesday, January 24th, at 8 pm CDT.
Join Us Here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KONOS-JessicaHulcy/chat
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We pray this New Year brings you and your family health, joy,
and closeness to the Lord as you do His work and serve Him,
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Blessings on you and your family,
Wade and Jessica Hulcy
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