Becky's Bouquet

Do you see how one raindrop is shining like the sun, albeit much less radiantly? Do you see the other raindrops on the fence, hanging there without exuding the sun's rays? God created His creation to glorify Him. Every single thing that He created, He called "good." He created us different than animals by granting us our own wills. Our bodies are His creation and do glorify Him, even though our souls may choose to direct our actions and words to do the opposite. We can choose to saturate ourselves to overflowing with His Word, or we can choose to allow other things to take precedence. Am I absorbing His Light and passing it on? Or am I just hanging out seeing the Light, but neither acknowledging it nor sharing it? Am I reflecting Him, or am I over on the side just hanging out? What do you do to keep yourself saturated with The Word? What is your favorite way to share His Truth with others?

Our first year with Spell to Write and Read had me a little flustered keeping everything organized. For example, I had read one place that a student's tests should all be kept in a notebook and quizzes written on loose leaf paper. But where were we to collect original sentence drafts? And when I gave a test, hunting for little red check marks by previously missed words in the students' logs was cumbersome. And then there were the PExtra reference pages... Year two brought some brainstorming and some routines that worked so well for us, I am repeating them in this, our third year, with SWR. 1. I contained all of the paper shuffling from year one. Besides the log, each student has a one-subject spiral bound notebook that I have titled "[Student]'s SWR Everything Else Notebook." All work not done in the log goes into this book. Tests. Quizes. Original Sentences. A copy of the "Two Twins" picture that accompanies section K-1. Written enrichments.