Monthly Archives: July 2009

Integrated Topical Studies

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This post has been sitting in my drafts for over a month – sorry!

Many times I’m asked what our studies look like. Want to take a peek?

20th Century study – PIPEline link: Me and My House – Focus: The Gates of Hell Will Not Prevail

Term 1 – Turn of the Century

Weekly Themes:

1. Christianity Attacked from Without

  • Topics: Boxer Rebellion, China, Jonathan Goforth

2. Progress!

  • Topics: Wright Brothers, Titanic, Panama Canal
  • Optional activity: 1915 World’s Fair

3. Christianity Attacked from Within

  • Topics: Liberalism, Social Gospel

4. Progressivism in Government

  • Topics: Progressive Presidents, TR, Progressive Amendments

5. Progressivism in Education and the Arts

  • Topics: John Dewey, Modern-Abstract Art/Picasso

6. Progress?

  • Topic: World War I

Science topics throughout term: Aerodynamics, Canal locks, Yellow Fever/Malaria

Artists throughout: Illustrators – N.C. Wyeth, Beatrix Potter

Literature throughout (choice): Beatrix Potter, Freckles, Anne of Green Gables, Hans Brinker, Frances Hodgeson Burnett

Booklists for another day – or another section. Watch our HisStory Resources & Recommendations for book links for the “Me & My House” PIPEline link.

Prayer Project – Focused List

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One of our Family Prayer Projects is our Focused Prayer List of those we pray for regularly. We have a schedule to help us remember to pray for various people and areas of need. We’ve used both a simple page in my Redeeming the Time Journal and a more elaborate Lapbook format for this project.

Sundays we pray for our own pastor and church leaders.

Mondays we pray for other Ministries and Missionaries.

Tuesdays we pray for Government Leaders.

Wednesdays we pray for social and civil issues.

Thursdays we pray for friends and neighbors.

Fridays we pray for extended family.

Saturdays we pray for the salvation of the unsaved.

We pray for immediate family daily.

We have a list of the specific people and issues for each day. Generally, each of us chooses 1 or 2 or more of the people on the list and prays for them during our family prayer time. Sometimes more than one person will pray for the same one. Sometimes mom needs to “take up the slack” to make sure all of them are prayed for.

The goal is to pray specifically for these things, for their current situations and needs. This means we need to be attentive throughout the week to the needs of each of our prayer focuses.

This is just one of the ways we teach our children to pray. Read more of our ways here.