We are excited to share our latest song The Elements of a Story Song. This little song is great for helping children to memorize what the four basic elements of a story are. We cover the plot, the theme, the characters, and the setting. It will also aide in navigating writing assignments. It has helped our daughter. She has this concept down now thanks to adding a little educational music to our school week.
We do hope that our music is effective in your home school and enjoyable to your children.
Give it a listen let us know what you think of it. And if you like it subscribe to our youtube channel. Our next song is about 75% complete!
Now here is a little story that I have to share that happened this week. It has been a while since I've talked about the girls. But if you remember, we have two girls one just turned 9 and the other is 6. The 6 year old is this little spunky, firery little thing. She's very respectful, but full of energy and has a strong will. I have seen posts about the strong willed child and pretty much how to let them have their way. Now of course the posts aren't worded that way, but the more you read them that's pretty much what is being said.
Well, our 6 year old has a strong will of which we can do nothing about. However, we can and have taught her how to obey her parents, consider God's word, and to be respectful. So if you have a strong-willed child don't buy into the idea that you can't do anything about it. God's word says: children obey your parents so that your days will be long upon the earth. It is the first commandment from God that has a promise attached. It is our job as parents to teach our little strong willed darlings how to obey, respect, and honor us and God. They are not born knowing how to do that.
ANYWAYYYYYY on to the story from this week. So I've been in a cleaning frenzy as of late. I've been throwing away A LOT of stuff that we don't need. This venture eventually found it's way into my children's bedroom where the mother load of things to throw away exists.
I walk into the room and this kid:
Full speed ahead on roller skates at the skating rink |
Had this apparatus in her hand:
Old toy hand vac with a jump rope tied to it |
It is a hand vac that they've had for about 5 years. It was part of a vacuum cleaner that they each got for one Christmas. Well the oldest sold hers in a yard sale for $3.00, and the hand vac is all that is left of the 6 year old's vacuum.
So, when I walked into the room, I quite naturally, said to her "that goes in the trash", and she QUITE NATURALLY said to me, "but this is an anchor that's keeping my bed boat in its place. And after quite naturally looking dumb founded, befuddled, and interested all at the same time I quite naturally said, "oh, o.k."
And she proceeded to anchor her boat bed to the book shelf so that she doesn't...I guess...float away in the middle of the night:
The end.
Don't you love their logic sometimes? ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by Nina! Yes...you gotta love it!
ReplyDeleteLol, Beds do make the best boats though! I spent many happy hours sailing away on my own as a child. :-)
ReplyDeleteHi Sara! Thanks for reading. Oh how I wish I'd had your or her imagination as a kid during nap time. LOL
ReplyDeleteKids have great imaginations, they are really super. Thanks for sharing this at Good Morning Mondays. Blessings
ReplyDeleteI LOVE LOVE LOVE THE SONG!!!!!! I'm pinning this. My son is working on writing and will help him, I am sure. Plus, it will help with reports!
ReplyDeleteKids are fantastic, aren't they? WE had an incident this week - and I told my hubby - you really can't get mad. He's exploring and learning. That's what it's all about!
Thanks so much for linking up this post!
How incredibly talented you are with these learning videos! My youngest is a strong willed child as well and I love that you put in here Biblically how to embrace, love and handle the strong will in them. Thanks for linking up with #SocialButterflySunday this week! Hope you will link up again this Sunday :)
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