A Quotation My Bro-In-Law Passed On to Me

"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."

~ D.A. Carson

Classroom Theme: Part 2

Thank you all for the great feedback about a classroom theme! Honestly, it might sound lazy, but I'm thinking it might just be more practical for me to skip trying to have a main theme for the room. Theme's are fun, but sometimes you spend more time trying to come up with a bulletin board for each month that goes with your theme and goes with what you're teaching. I think this year I'm just going to focus on having my room and its decorations reflect what we are excited about in our classes. What do we like? - reinforce it with a decoration. What are we struggling with learning? - use a bulletin board to illustrate it. What do we need to commit to memory (aka grammar rules, verses, scientific processes, etc.)? - review it with a poster or wall area dedicated to it. This makes my classroom work for me and my students, instead of me working on my classroom.

I look forward to having a great time incorporating your ideas into this year and future years. The book ideas will be excellent for Reading Emphasis Month in March and since you've passed them on to me now, I'll be prepared later.

Thanks again! Happy 4th of July, all!!