If you need some good ideas, instructional material and prints outs Carl’s Corner is a fun site to check out.
Sites For Teachers
You’ve got to check this site out if you’re looking for instructional material for teaching. It is titled Sites For Teachers and has links all over the place.
Swan’s Dairy
Today is going to be busy. But I have a special activity to do in the afternoon. I need to make a milk run. In a family with six members alot of milk is drunk.
I have the privilege of living not too far from a dairy. This dairy sells milk the old fashioned way.
Big Dog Grammar
If someone (an older student) needs review about grammar to prepare them for writing the Big Dog Grammar website has some definitions and exercises that can help.
Hey, what are comma splices and parallel structures anyway!?
Vintage Parts of Speech
I remember learning about the parts of speech from school house rock. My kids have an assignment with all these vintage videos. There assignment is to define the part of speech and then give 5 examples.
Nouns:
Verbs:
English Websites
Here’s an English website full of links to games, lesson plans, tests and ideas called E.L. Easton English Online.or you can open it to the topics page. I found it linked from Chattanooga State Website.
Here are a bunch of links for educational sites
The Tiny Box Full of Perfume
Mrs. Charles Cowan in her devotions, Stream In The Desert, focuses on the idea that hardships are a part of God’s plan for our lives. When hard times come true Christian will pray to God. Hardships a part of God’s providence.
Strange Concept: Bless Your Enemies
Do you have enemies? Do you respect Biblical truths? The Bible says to hope and pray the best for your enemies. This is hard. And must be slowly learned through many days if you have an enemy that has done a great evil toward you. You must pray every day that Jesus would help you do this and change your attitude and desire.
Never Give In!!
God bless and protect our soldiers defending freedom!
Never give in,
never give in,
never,
never,
never,
never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty –
never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Never yield to force;
never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
–Sir Winston Churchill
October 9, 1941
Speech given at Harrow School during World War II
My prayer:
Dear Heavenly Father,
Protect all the soldiers fighting against terror.
The Adventurous Life
Do not pray for easy lives!
Pray to be stronger men.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.
Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle,
but you shall be a miracle.
–Phillips Brooks.
My sister is taking the biggest step of her life! She will be going to an east Asia country to teach English as a second language.
Linda's Thoughts 