Atlanta is weather obsessed. Television programming is scuttled multiple times a year for our local stations to give us minute by minute weather updates for hours on end. Whether it is snow, a tornado or a hurricane, we watch the skies and our televisions carefully to be prepared for whatever happens.
Did you know it is easy to combine teaching your child the Bible and helping them learn about subjects like weather at the same time? It can be a lot of fun and increase their Bible knowledge and faith while helping them expand their intellectual knowledge. Weather is a particularly fun subject to use with this kind of learning.
Look online (Check our companion site www.teachonereachone.org) or get some books from your local library on weather and weather experiments. One of the most fun things you can do is build some basic weather tracking instruments, learn about clouds and other weather predictors and then see if your kids can predict the weather better than your local forecaster. (As we all know the chances are pretty great they can on most days!)
A trip to Monticello as a young girl led me to years of fascination with Thomas Jefferson. In the elementary education version of his life, Jefferson was a hero. A man who not only penned the Declaration of Independence, became President of the United States and greatly increased the size of our country, but also was well read, an inventor and travelled to places I dreamed of seeing. I wrote many a paper in my school years about his life.
Knitting is a great craft to teach young people. A simple knit stitch is easy to learn and the double needles make it easier to create stitches of consistent tension. If you watch for sales or yard sales, it is easy to pick up knitting needles and yarn for very little money. With or without adding a purl stitch to the knitting knowledge of the kids and teens you are teaching, they can do several service projects to help those who are homeless, do not have housing and clothing that keep them adequately warm, or a host of other things.
Over the years, I have worked for several companies. In each case, my first days and sometimes weeks of employment involved some sort of training. One of the companies went to great expense, flying us thousands of miles away and housing and feeding us for a week while we completed their training program. Why was it worth thousands of dollars to that company to train us thoroughly? Because they had learned, well-trained employees were much more effective than those who picked it up by the seat-of-their-pants or used their instincts to learn their job.