Day 26: Importance of Journals/Personal record keeping

Keeping a journal, diary, electronic history or other personal record of your life is not only fun (to look back on in future years) but also important for a number of reasons.  Human memory has been proven to be extremely inaccurate.  We simply do not remember events and activities with the passage of time.  Remarkably, we do retain emotions but even those need markers (pictures, music, smells) to reignite past and fading memories. 
View the following pictures and try to remember the facts associate with the images.  For example, what year was this, where did the event take place, what did you eat  who was there, what other events took place other than pictured, were there any significant events at the event, how did you arrive at the event, what did you do the week following the event?

Day 25: Race relations and how we treat others (read paragraph then watch video)

We live in the world with people who are different from us in many ways:  color of skin, some are richer or poorer than us, some look differently (larger/smaller, skinnier/fatter, some can't see or hear, etc.), many speak different languages, most have different ideas about God, etc.  Getting along and treating those who are different is fundamental to the human experience (much less what is expected of us who believe that we are ALL children of God). 
Human nature (i.e. the "natural man") causes us to treat people who are different than us... differently.  Is that right or wrong?  How should we treat others?

Assignment:  make a comment/share what you learned from this video?

Day 24: History lesson through flags

What can you learn about other countries from their flags?  Watch this video and then share some of the most interesting things you learned:

Click here for video


Assignment:  Answer the following questions:
1. What was your favorite flag? 
2. What did you learn about the country from their flag? 
3. Why are symbols (like flags) important?

Day 23: Physical Education

Time for more exercise!  Pull out your Wii, PlayStation or other entertainment console and play Just Dance (or similar aerobic game) for twenty minutes -no resting!  Have fun!

Day 22: NASA Space Exploration

Take a tour and explore the solar system (click on link below):

Planets - NASA Solar System Exploration

Assignment: 
Elementary School students:  complete at least two of the following (and write a short comment about what you learned):
Middle School students:  complete at least three of the following (and write a short comment about what you learned):
High School students:  complete at least four of the following  (and write a short comment about what you learned):
    Explore 1 planet
    Learn about 1 news event
    Learn about 1 mission to Mars
    Build your own solar system

Day 21: (Elementary School) Penmanship

Print out the workbook on this site and complete 12 of the pages.  You can earn a reward of your choice (i.e. donut, ice cream cone, Slurpee, candy, etc.) if you show your careful and neat work to your parents.



Click here to open site to print this worksheet

Day 21: Is America Racist?

Assignment:  think about your school class last year (or one of them)... write the names of some of your classmates who are from different races, religions or nationalities than you.  How were they similar to you?  How were they different than you?  What is more important:  their differences or similarities?