Name: Great Homeschool Conventions (Columbus)
Start: 2025-04-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Location: Columbus, OH

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This topic has 5 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 14 years, 5 months ago by thehauserfamily.

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October 11, 2010 at 12:56 pm
nerakr
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Ds6.5 and I will be finishing The Children’s Book of Virtues next week and I’m not ready to start the BOV for Young People. I’ve decided to do combine ideas from Homeschool Helper and Homeschool Share with the Help Me be Good series by Joy Wilt Berry, some Jane Belk Moncure books, and other picture books. Since I’ve read on several posts that Attention and Obedience are the most important traits, I’ll start with those. Here’s what I’ve come up with for Attention.
Week 1: Dictionary definition; Read and discuss 1 Samuel 3 and do the activities from Homeschool Helper
Week 2: Joy Berry-Let’s Talk about Being Forgetful
Week 3: Play the character development game from Homeschool Share. Focus on the attentiveness components.
How does this look? Do I need to add more? Any picture book suggestions?
Thanks,
Karen
ETA: I’ll be covering these traits:
Obedience (need picture book)
Compassion (The Giving Tree; Wilfrid Gordon Macdonald Partridge)
Confidence (need picture books)
Contentment (need picture books)
Cooperation (need picture book)
Courage (need picture book; not ready for The Courage of Sarah Noble)
Diligence (need picture book)
Forgiveness
Generosity
Honesty
Humility
Patience
Perseverance
Respect
Tactfulness
Thankfulness
Cheerfulness
Helpfulness
Kindness (will be using The Elves and the Shoemaker and maybe The Giving Tree again)
Stewardship
Dependability
I have the Beautiful Feet booklist but some of the books are hard to find.
October 11, 2010 at 9:41 pm
missceegee
Participant
Off the top of my head…
The Hedge of Thorns (illustrated version by Lamplighter) is great for obedience
The Beggar’s Blessing for Generosity
Polite Moments by Gary Maldaner is a great resource, too.
October 12, 2010 at 3:53 pm
thehauserfamily
Member
Do you have link for the character development game from Homeschool Share? I have never seen it there. thanks
October 12, 2010 at 5:49 pm
nerakr
Participant
It’s actually called Who’s Who or something like that. Here’s the link:
http://files.homeschoolshare.com/docs54478/character/attentiveness/who_who.pdf
October 12, 2010 at 6:29 pm
laurap
Participant
when we talk about obedience at house we play a game similar to Simon says. I have even used this idea when we are cleaning together to make it fun. I might say, Mommy says carry all the books up to the school room, after they have mastered one thing at a time I begin giving 2 and 3 step directions….this helps with attention. Although we play as a game they do understand it is what would be expected even if we were NOT playing. I think the cooperation just seems more fun on their end if we call it a ‘game.
With my older son (11 now but we did start this at about 7 or 8) If I cannot find a book that I really LOVED to teach a specific character trait. Then we would discuss and look up scripture. I then ask him to write a short story that shows this quality. Now that my next 2 children are 3 and 4.5 I read the stories to them that he writes and he is very proud of that which encourages him to reallly think when writing.
Laura
October 13, 2010 at 6:54 am
thehauserfamily
Member
Ohh yes I have seen that. Thanks