Jessica's Teaching Tips
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When You
Cannot Find
Library Books...
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- First, attempt to locate the books and videos on the
suggested reading list from KONOS.
- Second, if you find some... great!!! But, if you do
not, do not despair or even think about being overwhelmed.
Just repeat to yourself the following words, "No unit is
built around ONE book. No mom has the exact same book
another mom has to teach a particular unit. No book or
lack of book will make or break a unit."
- Now after you have convinced yourself that not finding
the listed books is a mere bump in the road, you are
ready to move to Plan B. I have taught homeschool for
24 years from Plan B, because I was never supplied with
a list!!!!!
- Without your children, go to the children’s section of the library not with your book list, but with the subjects list you are covering.
- I f you are studying Obedience, look the related subjects (such as knights, knight’s armor, Medieval kings, Medieval history, Middle Ages, castles, heraldry, jousting, feudalism, etc.) up on the computer or in the card file and write down the Dewey Decimal numbers beside the subjects. These numbers tell you where those books are located. That will take you about 10 minutes.
- Or even faster, ask the children’s librarian to direct you to the shelves that have the subjects you are looking for.
- Begin pulling books and looking at them. If they look good to you, and have pictures and information that interests you, then take them home. Check out as many as you need or as many as your library card allows. You will not use them all. You only use parts of some, but this is where you obtain your knowledge to teach your children.
- You are looking for 4 kinds of books...information books, easy readers for your beginners, classic read aloud literature such as Door in the Wall, and biographies. The literature, easy readers/picture books, and biographies are located in their own separate section in the children’s section of the library. Ask if you cannot find them. Librarians love to direct and help people.
- In the KONOS Creating the Balance Video, I take you to the library and literally show you how I choose books. The camera is over my shoulder, as I pull out a book and tell you why or why not to choose it. Consider purchasing the video on your own or with a group of moms. Or attend a video seminar put on by your KONOS local rep listed on the KONOS Website.
- Remember...what every books you end up with, those are the exact books the Lord wants you to have to teach the unit. If you only have a few, too many might have been overwhelming.
- Know...that you just think you are homeschooling to teach your child! You will grow much more through homeschooling your child than your child will. Not only will you become an expert in the library, but you will learn not to be overwhelmed. You will learn that a sovereign God called you to homeschool and He will provide whatever it is you will need in His time. He is going to stretch you and shape you as you stretch and shape your child. It is agony and ecstasy!!
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