Category Archives: Teaching

“It’s clean sheet day,” echoes my Mom from my memory banks. My Mom would carefully hang the sheets one by one on the clothesline located close by our rural white, shingled farmhouse. The post, which held the lines looked, liked a row of white crosses holding up their prized possessions. Mom especially loved the windContinue reading “Clean Sheet Day”

In a continuing scene from the Musical Comedy for children, FROGS, where Princess Pale Moon, a human, encounters Sir Frogmere, his sidekicks, Lord Lizzard and Sir Ignatius Iguana (a.k.a IGGY) in the meadow as she is trying to run back to the castle to retrieve her crown which she has irresponsibly forgotten. She is quiteContinue reading “Frogs II”

How sweet it is to peer at beauty It makes the windows of our souls dance in glee It even causes us to dance inside And sometimes twirl outwardly When life is too hard And we are stressed to no end An object of beauty Will bring an oil of gladness To our overwhelmed lifeContinue reading “How Sweet It IS”

Eyewitness Account Where: Gethsemane Who: Birds Lately, as I have watched birds repeatedly attempt futilely to come through the closed windows of my home, I am reminded of a story I wrote entitled “Eyewitness Account”. As Easter is upon us I thought it would be appropriate to share it with you. The following is aContinue reading “Gethsemane”

Only about 1 out of 4 people in the UK can place Bible stories in their proper order. They were asked quickfire questions with very little time to answer. Why don’t you give yourself ten minutes and see if you can place these in order and then find where they are located in the Bible?Continue reading “Bible Knowledge”

Similies about Friendship from 5th graders point of view: Friendship is like a: Cloud soft and sensitive, if you make wrong choices you might lose it, like when a storm comes Pencil, because sometimes the tip breaks off and a friendship ends Bee because it takes a lot of work to make honey / sweetnessContinue reading “By Mrs. O’s 5th grade class”

Follow up to my story “Torn and tied in Love – God’s Tapestry” under teaching When Katrina hit our area, our school among many others in our area have been touched by the outpouring of schools across the country reaching out to touch us here in Louisiana. The fifth grade classes at our school haveContinue reading “Schools helping Schools”

God’s Tapestry in Our Lives I am constantly amazed at God’s handiwork. It seems we are each a thread and are intricately woven together to glorify our Lord Jesus Christ. Often after an event happens or is in the process of happening, we can see the move of God’s hand. Just recently this has happenedContinue reading “Torn and tied in Love – God’s Tapestry”

Look what a splendid job our classes did with the socks for snowman and the tiles for coasters. See my article on “Crafts for the Classroom” for the patterns. The squatty snowmen my class did. Now the teacher in the picture, Ms. B decided to make the snowman and change the snowmen a little, quiteContinue reading “Crafts by the Children”

Several years ago a parent in my class made snowmen socks with my class. Ever since I have made them every year. Materials needed: White tube sock (Can have the red and white stripes or the Nike logo – kids love the logo, orange tic tacs, peppercorns, fabric glue and/or use low temp glue gun,Continue reading “Crafts for the classroom”