So I started writing this back in September, and am just now getting around to posting it. I guess I’ve been spending my afternoons in preschool instead of blogging. We started doing some preschool curriculum at home with Caleb this fall since he’s not enrolled in an actual preschool program. As we started, I wanted to define what we wanted it to look like in our family this year. Here’s what I came up with:
As we start preschool, I am resolved…
- to take the education and teaching of my children seriously. (Proverbs 1:1-7, 22:6, 29)
- Train a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it. (Proverbs 22:6) - Do you see a man skilled in his work?
He will serve before kings;
he will not serve before obscure men. (Proverbs 22:29)
- Train a child in the way he should go,
- to serve others and consider others more important than ourselves. We will sacrifice our school plans if it means encouraging and helping others. (Philippians 2)
- to instill the joy of learning more than the facts of academia. What good is knowing the structure of a snowflake if you never play in the snow? (Psalm 34:8, 66:5)
- Come and see what God has done, how awesome his works in man’s behalf! (Psalm 66:5)
- to address character issues before and in the midst of academic ones. (Proverbs 9:10, 6:20-23, 26:12)
- The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (Proverbs 9:10)
- to model a work ethic that doesn’t give up at the first sight of failure, but perseveres even in difficulty. (1 Cor. 10:31; Proverbs 21:5; James)
- to spend more time reading good books together than completing workbooks. (I have no specific biblical foundation here, just a desire for preschool to be more relational than task-oriented. I also believe, as a former English teacher, that story and good literature pays immeasurable dividends in the long run.)
2 comments:
This outline is invaluable -- thank you for sharing! Your intention and thoughtfulness benefits those of us who desire something similar but aren't nearly as capable at expressing it in a beautiful outline like this. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing your thoughtfulness. Any good books to recommend? I seem to think of ones for when they are older....can't come up with much for right now. Any thoughts? (whenever/if you have time to respond--no big rush!)
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