Tuesday 4 September 2012

TT - Teaching Character Resource List

 Welcome to Tuesdays Treasures.  I started these posts as a way of sharing great books in honour of my friend in New Zealand who would arrive with the treasures she had unearthed at her weekly trip to the library!

There are so many wonderful books out there hiding on shelves so I invite you to blog about a book on your shelf, one you're reading or one you found at the library and add your post to Learning All the Time Favourite Resource Link Up

This week is not about any one particular book but rather a collection of resources to help teach and train our children in character.


Books to support you
  • Achieving True Success by Character First This 70-page hardbound book walks you through the process of building good character and teaches ways to practice 49 essential character qualities, including initiative, thoroughness, responsibility, forgiveness, truthfulness, obedience, and many more!
  • A Hive of Busy Bees by Effie Williams {Contents: Bee Obedient; Bee Honest; Bee Truthful; Bee Kind; Bee Polite; Bee Gentle; Bee Helpful; Bee Careful; Bee Grateful; Bee Loving; Bee Accepted; Bee Confident; Bee Content.}
  • Another Hive of Bees by Effie Williams.
  • Help me be Good a set of 29 books by Joy Berry.
  • Get Wisdom by Ruth Younts.  23 Lessons for Children about Living for Jesus.
  • Parenting with Scripture by Kara Gentsch Durbin "Parenting with Scripture" helps capture those teachable moments with children, developing within them an understanding of morality and a love of Scripture. Topically arranged, parents can receive suggestions on nearly 100 subjects, ranging from anger and complaining to sharing and worry.
  • Right Choices by Taylor / Shoemaker - Twenty-six entries discuss wrong choices, such as lying, pride, and looking at
  • The Gift of Values Vol I by Rosie Boom 
  • The Gift of Values Vol II by Rosie Boom
  • Proverbs for Parenting by Barbara Decker A topical guide for raising children from the book of Proverbs. This book arranges the proverbs into more than seventy realistic, helpful topics, such as trust in God, obedience, temper, self-control, boasting, arguing, honesty, love, friendship, happiness, faithfulness, stewardship, and complaining.
  • The Book of Virtues for Young People by William J.Bennett - Well-known works including fables, folklore, fiction, drama, and more, by such authors as Aesop, Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and Baldwin, are presented to teach virtues, including compassion, courage, honesty, friendship, and faith.
  • The Book of Virtues by William J.Bennett. Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in "The Book of Virtues,
  • Building Character Day by Day by Anne D Mather
  • The Seven Habits of Happy Kids by Sean Covey
  • The Power of True Success
  • For Instruction in Righteousness
  • 75 Books that Build Character over at No Time for Flash Cards.
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What are your favourite resources for teaching Character ?  Make sure to leave your link to your post so I can pop on over and have a read.

Blessings
Chareen

Updated 9 January 2014

Monday 3 September 2012

Charlotte Mason Companion Blog Hop Invitation

Hello Friends I'm back after a week of not feeling the best.  Still not 100% but definitely feeling better.

Today was CHEF (Christian Home Educating Families) meeting where we are slowly working our way through The Charlotte Mason Companion.
Today's topic of interest was: Chapter 39 Mother Culture.

I would like to extend an invitation to you all to join in, read this chapter and share your gems on the topic. 

I have been surfing bloggy world in search of Mother Culture inspiration and can't find any.  I have searched Pinterest too and the only information I find there is from Karen Andreola's blog Moments with Mother Culture.

This is such a rich beautiful topic and I would love to hear your thoughts.  I will be posting on Wednesday with a linky for you to join in.

Blessings
Chareen

Friday 24 August 2012

HSMJ - Meeting Olympic Athletes

In my life this week…
I have decided to tackle my weight issues and take control.  In one sense I am pleased to have had this struggle as it's given me a deeper appreciation for others who have and are struggling to loose baby weight or life in general weight.
Up until the last ten years or so I could eat anything I wanted but no more. I have gone up and down the same 10 kg for the last five years and find that really frustrating.  I have 25 kg (60 pounds) to loose and my health to regain. So beginning next week I want to add in a weight loss and exercise check to my run down.
In our homeschool this week…
  • We took a trip to Federation Square to meet Australian Olympic Athletes.
  • Started reading A Little Princess.
  • We are working on the character trait of listening in the little book: Get Wisdom.
  • Time! We spent the day learning about time and analog clocks.  What a complicated business with a little person who listens and tries to improve upon the design as you try to explain!  We will persevere.
  • We are working on place value in maths.  I found this great iPad MontessoriTech Stamp Game app I can't use and am now trying to find one that will show place value for my android.
Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share…
Finding Free Kids' eBook the No Twiddle Twaddle Way
I am inspired by…
  • Leader Boy Warrior who wrote this excellent post titled Spring is coming.  Please pop on over and be encouraged by this young homeschooler.
  • Reading Jo's post: Back to our regular scheduled program - homeschooling again! I needed this. I've had these crazy panic attacks this week about homeschooling Sir N as an only child. It's one thing to homeschool two or more children but let me tell you it's a totally different ball game raising and homeschooling an "only" child. Jo's insight and sharing of her families experience has reaffirmed my our choice. The best part is him saying he wants to be homeschooled.  Thank you Jo your heart has lifted mine!
Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…
  • Saturday
  • Sunday
  • Monday
  • Tuesday we did our trip to Kelly Sports. We also visited Granny, had a hair cut and took Miss J for a trial at a coffee shop.  I'm shocked at how low wages are for teens these days.  Pure usury.
  • Wednesday took a trip to Melbourne Federation Square to meet our Olympic Athletes.
  • Thursday make up lesson at swimming.
  • Friday We are celebrating a friends baby boys first birthday. We are also going out to dinner courtesy of my husbands work to celebrate the ROAR (Recognising Outstanding Achievement and ) award that Paul won.

My favorite thing this week was…
Meeting the Olympians of 2012 from Victoria.
Things I’m working on…
  • Contemplating our curriculum and learning outcomes for next year.  Our school year only starts in January but with all my American friends speaking about curriculum my appetite is well and truly whet.
  • Not this weekend but next is Fathers Day so I've been happily pinning ideas on Pinterest and thinking about what to do with my kids for the Daddy in this house!
In bloggy world I’m reading…
On my bedside table ...
I’m cooking…
  •  I am trying to cook healthy this week.  So far I have managed two meals out of five.
On Pinterest I found...

I’m grateful for…
  •  Friends who own books and are happy to loan them to me. I have really enjoyed the Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton.
A photo, video, link, or quote to share…
“Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett,
A Little Princess 
 Blessings

Chareen





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