DIRECTOR’S COMMENT

PETER ROGLEY

Whilst it seems we have just trations and an optional CD-ROM with colour pictures linked to the lessons. celebrated Christmas the reality is the new year is well underway. We • Government in Australia is in the process of editing and should be pray you have had a blessed available in the first half of the year. Christmas time and were able to • History of Australia has been in trial visit with family and friends. edition and a revised edition should be available by the end of the year. This is the twenty fifth year for Light Educational Ministries and Light of Life • The Elements of Music Volume 3 is in and we are thankful to the Lord for the writing stage and should be blessing and sustaining us for quarter of a available in late 2004. century. In keeping with our 25th year we have done some reorganisation of this This Issue magazine. We expect in future you will receive Light of Life in a plastic bag and In Exploring Christian Education I this has necessitated eliminating many of explore the notion of freedom in our loose flyer inserts. To accommodate educating our children. We have two this the back pages are now dedicated to articles from the Christian School Builder informing you of upcoming seminars and on Enriching Students’ Vocabulary and providing a registration form. Developing Students Interest. Being overweight is the issue of the time and I explore some aspects of this in health. In Projects the LEM Phonics Corner Evelyn tells how • The major rewrite of our grade 6–7 she’s been keeping busy since returning physical geography text The Earth from China. continues and should be available in 2– Keep educating for the Lord! 3 months.

• Let’s Teach Art Grade K has had a thorough review. It is now housed in a bright new cover, with more illus-

LIGHT O LIE 1 EBRUARY 2004 NEWS UPDATE

Phonics and an application for funding has been lodged.

We have also been working with Gabriel LEM Building Project Waine, who is pioneering Christian schools After a three month delay our project is from Lae. He has established one Christian now going before Cabinet in the ACT for school in Lae, as well as two more in the the final time. The lease documentation is highlands. Andrew Maiyan, Principal of an being prepared and we trust construction elementary school in the settlement area of could begin this first half of the year. Lae, began a school in 2003 and has been using LEM Phonics since midyear. Unfortunately, as the process drags on costs tend to rise and we are looking to the Lord to touch peoples’ hearts to www.lem.com.au support us in this project. In the year since we launched our most recent fundraising The website is currently undergoing a effort we have received gifts totalling significant upgrade, with many changes nearly $29,000. =or this we are greatly being implemented as a result of your appreciative. feedback.

Our fundraising brochure and response We have removed the introductory page slip are enclosed with the prayer that you and created a new ‘Welcome’ page, which consider the LEM Building =und for your contains more detailed links for our latest tax deductible giving in 2004. news and products, as well as brief instructions on how to navigate the site. Papua New Guinea Other changes include improved loading indicators and navigation tools, enhance- Our PNG representative, Mesia Novau, ments to the online order form, a has now trained twenty teachers in Port comprehensive update of all LEM publi- Moresby. When I was in PNG in cations, as well as minor cosmetic changes. November 2003 I met many of the We expect the updated site to be online in teachers and their Principals who were all the next few weeks. If you have any enthusiastic about teaching LEM Phonics. questions or comments, please email The Assistant Superintendent for Port [email protected]. Moresby is keen to implement LEM

LIGHT O LIE 2 EBRUARY 2004 EXPLORING CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

PETER ROGLEY

50 The Jubilee!

I noted as I was pondering about Jubilee writing an article for this edition of I want to begin this article with the Light of Life that this is the fiftieth biblical idea of jubilee, which scripture tells us came around every fifty years. I Exploring Christian Education, don’t want to pursue any theological having begun the series in August ramifications of the jubilee as there are 1991. many others who could do so far more effectively. Suffice to say here that the I began this series with the idea of writing jubilee was a time of release—of being set what I believed off the top of my head free. =reedom is a biblical concept—it without footnotes or deep research. I guess doesn’t flow from democracy! that is my preferred style. I wanted to share This freedom was a precursor to the what motivated me and the conclusions I essence of the Gospel message—that Jesus had come to in Christian education. As a came that we might be set free from the result the articles are sometimes a little burden of sin, once for all time. The joy of disjointed and often present politically that knowledge is for us who have come to incorrect ideas. My goal has been to know Him in Christ. Our struggle is over, provoke you to consider each topic having discovered the rest that is in His presented. Whether you agree with me or imputed righteousness. not is not really important—for me the issue is that we all need to think more about educational issues, their relationship What Are We to Do? to God and our need to make application of the biblical principles presented. But what does that mean to be set free, apart from feeling good and believing we It has been refreshing to regularly have are going to heaven? If we don’t know, we folk speak to me about articles, may well be left with the idea that life here particularly at CHESS seminars, and it has on this earth is a second rate existence. been encouraging that the vast majority Therefore, yearning to be taken away to have been blessed and appreciative. be with the Lord in heaven is the real

LIGHT O LIE 3 EBRUARY 2004 focus of the Christian life. Whilst I look need to make a fresh start, leaving that forward to being with the Lord in which has gone before and moving on into eternity—indeed that is the great hope of the new things God has prepared for us. the Christian faith—the reason we have been set free must be understood as it we all, from time to time, need to determines the way we will live our lives. God has make a fresh start purposed to leave us here on earth and He has a very important reason to do so. New Beginning for a As we are concerned about our children, New Creation their futures and how we should be In Christ, we begin again, but what do we training and equipping them, it becomes begin? What is the goal and purpose of our imperative that we understand ‘what on existence here on this planet? earth we are doing here’! Before we get to the goal, however, let’s The Problem revisit the definition for education God gave me many years ago: Sin was a blight on the earth and all its Education is the unfolding of God— inhabitants, separating them forever from His character and His creation. God, their creator. The jubilee (together with many other aspects of the Old This has been invaluable to me in helping Covenant) pointed to the coming of understand the broad perspective of Christ, who has made the perfect sacrifice education. =or me the goal of education is for sin and made it possible for the effects to ‘unfold God’. of sin to be reversed. In exploring this definition it is important Whilst these Old Testament principles, to consider some theological ramifications. and indeed the law, have been fulfilled in =irstly, in whatever we do we should begin Christ, we miss something if we dismiss with God—He is the Lord and creator of them as being irrelevant. =or example, it is all things. The humanist begins with man still prudent and important to keep the and this is one of the fundamental errors Sabbath. This is not legalistic, as some ideological humanists (and also many suppose, but for our benefit—we need to Christians) make. have a day of rest! More than that, we need to be obedient to God’s law. Secondly, it is not possible for me, or Likewise, the idea of the jubilee is anyone else for that matter, to unfold God. important as we all, from time to time, We are not able to fathom Him—as Dr

LIGHT O LIE 4 EBRUARY 2004 Glen Martin has suggested—‘if we could, have all been trained to think we would be God’. =ortunately, God has independently of God. That is the essence been so gracious as to send the Holy of humanism and that is the prevailing Spirit to dwell in and be with us. Because philosophy of modern state education and, He is God He is able to unfold Himself to unfortunately, of most Christian educators us—we call this inspiration or revelation. who have been trained in humanist institutions. The key is that we understand that we are dependent on God. We come to Him as To learn to think in submission to God is Lord in an attitude of submission. Pride very hard. It is not simply adjusting a few will cause us to misinterpret God’s plan facts in our minds—it requires a total and purpose, and that distortion drives rework of our whole mode of thinking. education today. Anything less will ultimately perpetuate the existing humanist philosophy. Exploring the Challenge 3or the Children The goal of education, then, is to unfold God to our children. This does include the =reedom is the release from the penalty of activities of Christian piety: studying God’s sin and we must learn to think from this Word, developing our character in Christ, place. The majority of adults have been etc., but it also means a good deal more. corrupted in their thinking by the ‘isms’ of our day; Humanism, Marxism, Post- Remember the definition: modernism, Hedonism, etc. Our children Education is the unfolding of God— need not be thus corrupted—they do not His character and His creation. need to enter into the same dimension of corrupt thinking we have. Certainly, To a significant extent we do unfold God children have been corrupted by sin but the through our individual relationship with effect of sin in their lives can be Him. The added dimension that brings the diminished significantly by parents and faith into the educational arena is that we other adults who are able to help them are to unfold God in the teaching of every learn to think and live according to God’s subject. It is in the outworking of this that Word. Children can know and live in the will bring both ourselves and our children power and freedom of the Holy Spirit into the fullness of freedom in God. from a young age. Our task then is to The challenge to learn to think about each ensure they stay in the place of freedom subject as God does and apply this to our and don’t become ‘entangled again with a teaching and lives is one that most people yoke of bondage’ (Galatians 5:1). Such choose to ignore or set aside for a future wrong thinking is every bit as much very rainy day, because it is too hard! We bondage as anything else. It would be

LIGHT O LIE 5 EBRUARY 2004 difficult to overemphasise the importance school, a sponsorship care programme of the freedom that is ours when we learn or any number of other options. to think as God does. Too many 2. A scientist sees that forests are being Christians live in mental bondage to the wantonly destroyed and the Holy ‘beggarly elements’ of this world Spirit convicts him that we are to take (Galatians 4:9). dominion over the world and not We have been reconciled to God to be destroy it. So he seeks God to His instruments, through the church, to understand how He wants the forest manifest His will on the earth. God has He provided for us utilised and brought His kingdom to earth through the develops a plan whereby trees, a Holy Spirit and we have been called to renewable resource, can be harvested establish that kingdom on earth. Now if and renewed. we are looking for castles with a kingdom These are simple examples of the sign on them we will be disappointed, for kingdom being established.

Every area of life needs we need to do the hard work of to be approached this way that we might see the kingdom in bringing our thinking into line with the operation. The key to seeing our children expectations of scripture flow into kingdom function is to teach them freedom through the kingdom is established in our hearts obedience to God’s Word. and minds as we think and act as children There is a clear way set out for us in the of the kingdom. scripture to train and equip our children to do the work of the kingdom.

The Practics =irst, we need to do the hard work of Here are two samples of applying a bringing our thinking into line with the biblical faith to life. expectations of scripture, living in obedience to God’s Word. 1. People see many children without families and in great need. The Holy Second, we model kingdom living in all Spirit convicts them that God cares for we do so that our children, who love to children so they set about to build a copy their parents, develop the habit of programme to care for the children. It obedience to God. In this place there is may take the shape of an orphanage, a freedom—the true jubilee.

LIGHT O LIE 6 EBRUARY 2004 HOW-TO ENRICHING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARIES

BY JOHN DALE YODER

=renetic, fractious, deaf, dumb, too often we forfeit understanding something fully because of our otiosity: the and blind, young Helen Keller did dictionary is at the other end of the living not understand a word. Maybe she room, and we are in the easy chair. To did not know words existed. read much of anything and benefit from it, we must know the meanings of many Her parents did not think it just to restrain words. or punish such an underprivileged girl; hence the behavior problems. But Anne We are hopelessly attached to words. We Sullivan changed her. She thought it unjust tell each other what we need, want, are, not to restrain and punish Helen. And by hope, see, smell, feel, think, and enjoy— teaching Helen the concept of words, Anne all with words. Learning the meaning of an Sullivan transformed her. Though still deaf unfamiliar word helps us to think in a new and blind, she became a genteel genius. way about the concepts surrounding that meaning. There is even evidence that a Imagine the challenge of teaching words to man’s financial success is affected by the someone blind and deaf. What a feat of size of his vocabulary. We people of God, patience and perseverance! By sign of course, have a far greater incentive for language played into the hand, Anne enriching our vocabularies than that of taught her, word by word, a vocabulary financial gain. We have the Gospel to that helped to mold her life into something present. We have souls to win for the useful. Lord. And we want our children also to We all know that words have meanings, become able to do that effectively. That is and we take for granted that every object why we want to enrich our students’ and idea is named by a word. Your vocabularies. vocabulary must include the words of this How do you get your students interested in article for you to understand it. If there words? The way to get them interested is are some words you do not understand, to teach them. your comprehension will be affected. Thankfully, many words can be Teach them to relish perusal. Thrill their understood simply by their context. But fledgling minds with stories of children

LIGHT O LIE 7 EBRUARY 2004 from far away and from long ago. Promote healthful or heavenly; tasty, trusty, true, or the wealth of the encyclopedia. If they do triumphant; godly or guileless; genuine, not enjoy reading, somehow provide generous, ingenious or just; why settle for incentive so they learn to enjoy it. As they good? Get is a fine word in ‘get the best of’ read, their vocabularies will automatically and ‘getting ahead.’ But how about getting swell. As they find new words, they will rich because you get up early? Or getting learn them by their contexts. But what some clothes when you get to the store? about the words whose contexts do not We can get a better word than get in such clarify their meanings? situations. How about take (in the sense of ‘require’ or ‘need’)? It takes effort to weed Teach them to exploit the lexicon. Do it by out these very worn-out words and get used your example. How well I remember to replacing them with novel, piquant where my eighth grade teacher kept her words. dictionary! Any time a word was in question, out came the dictionary to That is only a sampling of tired words. conclude the discussion. Encourage your Challenge your students to avoid overusing students to dig into the dictionary on their such words in their writing. Stress the need own. Do not stoop to being an ever-ready, for fresh, vigorous, exact words that tell walking dictionary. They need to stir those the whole story. Teach them about pages themselves to learn the skill of it— thesauri; they list a host of words with and the thrill of it. shades of meaning to tell exactly what we want to tell. Teach them to circumvent enervated locutions. Weary words promote oscitancy Teach them by felicitous didactics. Use in your readers or listeners. Teach your Pathway’s vocabulary series. Have an students to replace tired, overused words occasional oral vocabulary class. Make it a with crisp, meaningful ones. Very, thing, game, much like a spelling bee. Make nice, bad, good, get, and take are fine worksheets to teach synonyms, antonyms, words, but excellence demands better ones. and homonyms. Make worksheets of When something is indeed very, see if you sentences drooping with fatigued can use a word that includes ‘very’ in its expressions, and have the students rewrite meaning. (Instead of ‘very happy,’ try them in a fresh style. Or do it on the ecstatic.) What, exactly, is the thing? If it is board, and have the students take turns nice, is it lovely, or delicious, or thrilling, coming up with something better. Expand or what? Bad is really a bad one, your students’ ability to use words by considering the alternatives: vicious, evil, having them write definitions for words. nasty, ill, ominous, dying, misbehaving, You supply the word, and have each crippled, decayed, wicked, inexpedient, student write a definition. Next, compare dangerous, and lately even excellent. What the definitions, and choose the best one. is better than good? Valid or virtuous; Then compare it with a dictionary

LIGHT O LIE 8 EBRUARY 2004 definition. Teach your children the vulgar. =ind more ideas in Appendix B of meanings of prefixes. Re-, un-, inter-, ambi-, Handbook for Creative Teaching [available im-, ante-, anti-, auto-, post-; how many from LEM]. others can you come up with? Teach them Thank God that most, if not all our about idioms, those sayings that make no students have eyes that see or ears that hear, sense taken word by word, but taken and the great majority have both. How together, help to make the language uninhibited we are in our efforts to teach colorful. Teach them what slang is— them words! Are we doing the best we can? language in the making—but that it is often cheap and undignified and sometimes Christian School Builder, January 2003

DEVELOPING STUDENT INTEREST

BY STEVEN MAST

fires their minds and makes them salivate mentally. You have one? Good! Read it! It may be reading on your mental level, or it Smiles beget smiles. Inspiration may be gems written by students of another school. But the point is, read. And begets inspiration. Interest begets read for stimulation. interest. Teachers often have precious little time for It is but the simple law of sowing and leisure reading. But you are not reading for reaping. In developing writing interest in leisure. You are reading with passion, your students, your interest and your chewing each piece carefully, hungrily — enthusiasm are the key to theirs. thinking, meditating, pondering. ‘Why does this appeal to me?’ ‘How did the author Did I hear you say, ‘But I’m not a writer. achieve his end?’ =or many teachers, How can I get enthused?’ Here, then, is reading what others have written and where we must begin, for your enthusiasm reading it with a searching, inquisitive begets theirs. mind, dredging its very depths, is Perhaps you love to read. Do you have a stimulating. It makes us overflow. And favorite book of poems, a favorite book of perhaps if we direct that overflow properly, essays, a favorite book of stories? Many it can be the stimulus for creative writing, teachers have that special literary trove that both our own and that of our students.

LIGHT O LIE 9 EBRUARY 2004 In order for your enthusiasm to strike a contraptions you never saw before, and talks chord in your student’s minds, you also a mile a minute, and shows you all you wish need to know what to expect of them. to know out of little pamphlets pulled from What are your students capable of? his amazing briefcase. He asks you questions What should they be able to about how you do things around the house accomplish? What are realistic goals to and then shows you a ‘better’ way to do pursue in producing creative writers? them. You are sitting on the edge of your What should you assign? Not knowing seat, totally amazed at what he has to say and where you are going tends to wick away show. You talk about his visit for days, and your enthusiasm, so have a definite he goes home and sits down and tells his plan. wife, ‘That was a hard day’s work. But they are excited about using my products now Set goals for your students. Make them too! I am going back next week for follow- specific. ‘This is where they are. This is up.’ He is amply rewarded. where I want to take them. And this is how I plan to do it.’ In future Too many teachers approach writing class installments of this series, perhaps we like a salesman who walks in and announces can give some age-specific tips on (to everyone’s chagrin), ‘This will cost you realistic expectations and some only $457.32 plus tax.’ He might as well suggestions for achieving them. But have stayed home. Enthusiasm comes first. interest comes first. Technique must Costs must come later. Costs mean but little follow. when enthusiasm runs high. But introduce the costs first, and enthusiasm never arrives. In order for you to inspire within your students an interest in writing, you must Begin your class by telling them about be involved. Writing class is not a something that really amazes you. It might be period to occupy the students so that a story. It might be a fact. It might even be a you can check math papers or tests. If question—one whose answer eludes you. anyone works in writing class, it is you, Whatever it is, talk about it. Get them the teacher. In writing class, you are a involved in it. Get their minds thinking. salesman. It is both privilege and duty Show them a picture or two or even three or to pass on to others the thrill within four. Ask them questions and do not always you. A good salesman does not set out stop for answers. =ew classrooms struggle to his wares on your kitchen table and keep conversation or discussion going. But then sit down with a nod and relax be sure you lead the discussion. Depending while you peruse his products. Oh, no! on the nature of your students, you might He is a bundle of energy. He pulls out even try leading the discussion fast enough bottles of this and little samples of that that they are on the brink of losing it. Be like and puts them together in the most the salesman who presents wonder after intriguing way. He uses little wonder with nearly dizzying speed. Let your

LIGHT O LIE 10 EBRUARY 2004 forethought and plan serve to motivate bunch of dishes over from her baking them and develop within them a keen project and added them to his pile to interest in what you are talking about. wash. That is so disgusting!’ Then when interest is high and hands are Teacher: ‘But notice that his sleeves are waving for recognition, present the ‘costs.’ not even rolled up yet. Why is that?’ Outline the assignment and channel the interest, behind waving hands, into written Now, there are too many hands up at expression. once. ‘One at a time, we will let each share one thing we get from the picture. It might go something like this. You are Then I want everyone to sit and write out teaching fifth grade. You have a wonderful the whole story for us. Look at the picture mix of students—slow, fast, bright, dull, carefully as you write so that you get the and even a few average ones. You hold up a details right. Okay, Jerry, you be next. picture of a boy standing by a sink loaded What do you get out of that picture?’ And with dishes. He stands by himself, holding they are off. his head in his hands. (Some of you have seen this picture, surely!) But instead of Their stories likely will all reflect tears on his cheeks, his face is a picture of elements that others shared, but that is disgust. You walk around the room so that okay. That is how they learn, and it is part everyone can see the picture. Then you of learning to be creative. Group open your ‘briefcase’ and start fielding participation is contagious and yields great questions. ‘Does this boy have a problem?’ dividends of enthusiasm. No pause. ‘I remember a time when I felt As classroom salesman, remember, though, like that. Know why?’ Still no pause. One that mere enthusiasm is not enough. You hand is raised eagerly. ‘Why isn’t his sister must strive to sell usefulness too. Inspire helping him?’ No pause. Three hands are their interest in the familiar, common, and raised desperately. ‘Isn’t there something he comfortable rather than in the sensational could do about his problem?’ Now and odd. Strive for realism, even with everyone has a thought. Some are about to younger children, rather than fantasy. Strive talk before their hand is answered. ‘Okay, for vivid, accurate, and picturesque pieces Bethany, what do you think?’ rather than startling, off-beat, and unnatural Bethany: ‘I think he had to stay in and creations. Cultivate interest in the common wash dishes while the rest went out to bale experiences of life. Teach your students to hay. That’s what my brothers look like observe real life with the eyes of a writer when they have to stay in to wash dishes.’ and see beauty around them like a good artist. A creatively done but unrealistic piece Teacher: ‘Joseph, what do you think?’ of writing misses the mark of practicality Joseph: ‘I think he was washing dishes for that we need for kingdom usefulness. a long time, and then his sister brought a Christian School Builder, November 2003

LIGHT O LIE 11 EBRUARY 2004 HEALTH WORTH THE WEIGHT

BY PETER ROGLEY

It seems the great revelation for the The focus on weight seems to be more driven by appearance, and appearance—be politically correct in our society it good or bad—is in the eye of the today is that many people are beholder. overweight. CHRISTIANS CARE OR THEIR BODIES The evidence for this phenomenon is not As Christians we have a responsibility to difficult to find—just sit in the local keep our bodies in good health, and weight shopping mall and watch the people is but part of the issue. walking by! I would think many of us have seen CHECK YOUR WEIGHT current affairs programmes recently which If you are not sure how you fare in the have warned us about being overweight. weight stakes simply talk to your doctor Many and various claims are made by this and ask for the chart that tells whether researcher or that university as to what we you are skinny, OK, overweight or obese. should do, so much so that most of us can Whilst you may not agree with the various legitimately claim to be confused to the categories, it is a helpful guide. Anyway, point of advocating chocolate-coated carrot if you are not happy with the chart, simply sticks. make your own and you can be sure you The serious side of all this is that even are OK—but be careful, the doctor’s chart with all these ‘wonder diets’, we are may have been correct! increasingly unhealthy and are It seems to me that the focus on whether succumbing to degenerative diseases at one is ‘under proportioned’ or ‘over younger ages. The media do, from time to proportioned’ is not a good one. Some time, raise some good and interesting people have the dilemma that whatever points from research and frighten many they do they stay in the same category. people. Seldom do they present good

LIGHT O LIE 12 EBRUARY 2004 alternatives for us, partly because of HEALTHY LIESTYLE conflicting views and partly because few I think all of us would want to be in health professionals see a clear connection health as John wrote: between diet and health. I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul EATING DISASTERS prospers. Recently I saw a report from the New York 3 John 2 Post which made some interesting claims, which, if true, raise major concerns for No one can guarantee good health as that many of us. is in God’s sovereign hand, but we can

Great news for trial lawyers eager to shake down restaurants for processed foods act in the ‘making people obese’: Scientists now claim that a burger and fries are as same way as nicotine, heroin addictive as hard drugs.

Scientists at the Univer- and other hard drugs sity of Wisconsin say high doses of fat and sugar in fast and processed foods act the same way as nicotine, heroin and other substances live in such a manner that we will feel in becoming habit-forming, better and have more energy for life. Your Lead researcher Matthew Will said, ‘A responses to these articles have testified high-fat diet alters brain biochemistry that many have changed their lifestyle and with effects similar to those in powerful are feeling better and enjoying life more. A opiates such as morphine. number have testified to quite remarkable When lab rats had their high fat diet healings. The way to health requires revoked, they showed withdrawal symp- significant changes for most. If you are toms like those of a hophead denied a fix, addicted to fast foods, you will find the the docs found. A steady diet of slop changes the brain so much that it’s nearly change a challenge. impossible for a junk-food junkie to start eating a healthful diet, they said. If you and your family are presently quite healthy, I suggest you make changes to New York Post, Monday 14 July 2003 your diet over a time frame that you and As a society we have been conditioned to your family can agree to, even as much as consume fast foods, and for too many six months or even a year. If you are people it is their staple diet. Not only suffering a life threatening disease it would that, but as this article points out these be wise to make the change as quickly as foods are addictive beyond the point of possible. being habit forming.

LIGHT O LIE 13 EBRUARY 2004 ACHIEVING GOOD HEALTH OVERWEIGHT? What are the changes that will make this To return to our overweight problem in difference? the nation—its major cause is eating the wrong foods. Try beginning to eliminate Things to remove from your diet. the wrong things from your diet and 1. Animal products replacing them with the recommendations 2. White flour above and see what happens. In the vast 3. White sugar majority of cases you will lose weight. Thousands have already tried and can 4. Salt testify to the effectiveness of this eating 5. Alcohol, and all drugs. regime. Not only is this good for weight Things to include in your diet: control, but it also helps prevent disease 1. =ruit and increases your energy and sense of wellbeing. 2. Vegetables 3. Some unrefined grains If this seems too good to be true—be an Aussie and give it a go. Here’s the plan for 4. Water you—try it for 3 weeks. Try to eat up to 70–80% raw food. Have fruit or juice for breakfast, salad for Extras you will find very helpful in your lunch and either salad or steamed, even new diet are vegetable juices and food stir fried vegetables (don’t use oil) for supplements such as green barley. dinner. Drink mainly water and eat as much of the above as you want. The foods recommended above are the foods God created for us. When we eat After three weeks, let me know how you the foods God has given us, our bodies are doing! =or those of you who are (which were designed by God) recognise spiritual, it’s just like a 21 day fast, except these as foods and they are put to work you can eat as much as you want. providing nutrition for our bodies. Many If you are serious about your health, we of the things we eat are not foods and our have an excellent range of resources that body does not recognise them as food. will help you bring health and vitality to Thus our body, faithful to God’s design, your family—and we would be pleased to tries to eliminate these things to prevent talk with you. them causing damage or even death. Email us at [email protected]. Remember, too, it is important to exercise to keep your body in shape.

LIGHT O LIE 14 EBRUARY 2004 Light Educational Ministries

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Sounds Serious: An Emergency

Australian teacher and author Anne Elcock was concerned that children know how emergency services operate and how they can be accessed in Australia. This book does that for your children. Simple text with full colour illustrations. $9.95

LIGHT O LIE 16 EBRUARY 2004 Rod and Staff To complete the Grade 9 and 10 Building Christian English course, Communicating Effectively: Book One has now been released. This book covers the Mechanics of NEWS Writing, Listening and Speaking Skills, Sentence Grammar, Outlines and Bible Reference Books, a Glossary of Usage, Writing an Argumentative Essay, Substantives, Paragraphs, Verbs, Sentence Effectiveness, Modifiers, Poetry, Connecting Words, Interjections, Idioms, Letters and Short Compositions and Reviews. BOOK

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THE LITTLE DUKE The Little Duke tells the story of Richard the =earless. Written from a Christian world view by the 19th century author Charlotte Yonge. Hard cover $26.00

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THE PEARL MAIDEN =rom H Rider Haggard, the author of King Solomon’s Mines, comes the classic adventure of NEWS Miriam, a young Christian living in the first century Roman Empire. A wonderful story of faith. $17.65

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=or this edition of LEM Phonics School in Adelaide, promoting and using it at their own school and the surrounding Corner I thought you may like to Christian schools. Margaret has been hear some of what I am doing now instrumental in creating the Intermediate that I am back in Australia. Course, and it was invaluable to discuss and review it with her. Upon my return I visited with most of our LEM Phonics Registered Instructors to Not content to stay in one place, I had a have a better picture of what is going on few hours with Margaret Pond in around Australia. Newcastle while we were on our family holiday, and then in December I travelled =irst I travelled to Melbourne, where I to Queensland where I spent a very spent valuable time with Marilyn profitable time with Greg O’Keefe. Bradbury and Di Hooper. Marilyn is powering on with LEM Phonics and is Greg is now leaving his teaching position making good contacts in the Catholic to take on full time LEM Phonics activity, school system. Di has had involvement doing conferences and promotions across with speech pathologists, who are urging Australia and abroad. We look forward to their schools to take on LEM Phonics. seeing the effects of such a move. =ollowing a death in the family she will In general I am extremely happy with the be taking a break from conducting progress and effort that our Registered conferences for a time. Instructors are making — it has been =rom Melbourne I flew on to Adelaide particularly encouraging to see that more and (after discovering my driver’s licence schools have been taking on LEM Phonics. had expired!) had a great visit with the SA The new Intermediate Course has been Registered Instructors. Chris Joy and I created to bridge the gap between the spent some time looking over the new Introductory and Advanced Courses. We Intermediate Course, and then I had a found that many participants in the quick catch up with Michelle Ochse. Advanced Course were not well-versed in Margaret Cameron and Jacqui Munro are the rules, and a certain amount of working busily with Sunrise Christian ‘catching up’ had to be done before they

LIGHT O LIE 19 EBRUARY 2004 LEM PHONICS CORNER could begin learning how to train teachers. I don’t know why it is that the most useful language to me is also the hardest one in the The Intermediate Course can be done by world to learn, but in spite of slow progress correspondence, so it is a ‘first of its kind’ I am enjoying it and can only hope that the in many ways. The course reviews the exercise will help to prevent Altzheimer’s! Introductory work but focuses mainly on gaining a deeper understanding of rules Being back in Canberra finds me taking up and their application. It can be taken by the responsibility of being a hands on anyone who has completed an Grandma in greater measure. I’m using this Introductory Course and it means the opportunity to teach my oldest grandchild Advanced Course can now focus more some phonics—LEM variety of course! strongly on how to instruct teachers. Next time I will share some of my experience with you in the hope that it may At the time of publication I will be in help some of you in your own teaching of Victoria to trial the new format for our the phonics programme. Advanced Course. What about the future? I hope I can delegate One of my delights since returning to other people to do most of the conferences Australia has been the ability to speak with from now on. many parents who have been teaching their children LEM Phonics. I have been There are so many projects which are in my encouraged to hear their positive reports mind, such as developing a phonics about their children’s progress and to see dictionary especially for ESL students, how the good news is being spread around writing an adult programme for mother- to more and more homeschoolers. tongue students, and creating more supplementary material to support the basic After working in China for two years, the phonics programme we already have. But ESL programme has also become an interest time limits me. close to my heart. There are so many people here and across the ocean wanting to learn God has blessed my life richly and He will English. So, in between everything else, I am direct the future. I just desire to be a willing working on an adult ESL course which vessel. should have potential for use around the God bless you all, globe.

One of my hobbies now is learning Chinese—for my own enjoment and the possibility of needing it again—but also for the insight it gives me as to what is involved in learning a second language as an adult.

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c e s s CHESS Seminars h Children are welcome at all CHESS Christian Home Education seminars, but they must be quiet and Seminar and Show accountable to their parents at all times. 2004 Programme 01 GEELONG, VIC Date =riday 5 March 9:00 Registration Venue Waurn Ponds Community 9:30 =uture of Home Education Church, 48 Waurnvale Dr Peter =rogley Highton (off Princes Hwy) 10:30 Morning Break Cost Single/=amily: $25/$40 Earlybird (by 13 =eb): $15/$25 11:00 Elective sessions for remainder Send to Craig and Jane of day: Stuart-McDougall Curriculum Summary PO Box 2070 Peter =rogley Grovedale Vic 3216 Teaching Geography Phone (03) 5241 5154 John Angelico 12:00 Lunch 02 GLENROWAN, VIC 2:00 Curriculum Summary Date Monday 8 March John Angelico Venue Glenrowan Recreation Preparation for Tertiary Reserve Hall, Daniel’s Lane Education (off Woolshed rd), Glenrowan Peter =rogley Cost Single/=amily: $25/$40 Earlybird (by 16 =eb):$15/$25 3:00 Keeping Organised at Home John Angelico Send to Kerryn Moore Lot 1, Greta West Rd LEM Phonics Glenrowan Vic 3675 Peter =rogley Phone (03) 5766 2351 4:00 Book Browse and Buy 5:00 Close Minor adjustments may be made to the programme on the day

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03 TOWNSVILLE, QLD 06 HOBART, TAS Date Thursday 20 May Date Saturday 19 June Venue John Calvin Presbyterian Venue Salvation Army Hall Church, Carthew St, Kirwan Blackman’s Bay Cost Single/=amily: $25/$40 Cost Single/=amily: $25/$40 Earlybird (by 29 Apr):$15/$25 Earlybird (by 29 May):$15/$25 Send to Phil and Alison Peachey Send to Lorraine Ward PO Box 1570 7 Jessica Ct, Howden Tas 7054 Thuringowa Central Qld 4817 Phone (03) 6267 2359 Phone (07) 4750 3423 07 ADELAIDE, SA 04 BRISBANE, QLD Date Saturday 3 July Date Saturday 22 May Venue Sunrise Christian School Venue Presbyterian Church, 176 95 Wattle St, =ullarton Waller Rd, Brown’s Plains Cost Single/=amily: $25/$40 Cost Single/=amily: $25/$40 Earlybird (by 12 Jun):$15/$25 Earlybird (by 3 May):$15/$25 Send to Michael and Sue Whitrow Send to Richard Wilson PO Box 123, Belair SA 5052 16 Cassatt Pl Phone (08) 8278 7300 Ellen Grove Qld 4078 08 PERTH, WA Phone (07) 3271 4119 ah Date Saturday 4 September (07) 3372 1400 bh Venue Presbyterian Church, 32 Bull Creek Dr, Bull Creek 05 MELBOURNE, VIC Cost Single/=amily: $25/$40 Date Monday 14 June Earlybird (by 14 Aug):$15/$25 Venue TBA Send to Rod and Leanne Ellis Cost Single/=amily: $25/$40 246 Duckpond Rd Earlybird (by 24 May):$15/$25 Wellard WA 6170 Send to Kingsley Educational Pty Ltd PO Box 310 09 SYDNEY, NSW Mt Waverley MDC Vic 3149 Date Saturday 2 October Phone (03) 9544 8792 Venue Condell Park Christian School =ax (03) 9544 2328 29 Lancelot St, Condell Park Email [email protected] Cost Single/=amily: $25/$40 Earlybird (by 11 Sep):$15/$25

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Send to Leanne Glen 6 Blackwattle Grove Narellan Vale NSW 2567 Enquiries LEM, (02) 6259 3944

CHESS Book displays Level 1 Seminars Book displays provide an opportunity for The LEM Phonics Introductory Seminar is ‘hands-on’ browsing of LEM’s books and designed to equip teachers and parents to resources. Unfortunately Kingsley will not effectively teach the LEM Phonics be attending the book displays. programme to their children. Successful participants will be awarded with a Level 1 LAUNCESTON, TAS (Introductory) Certificate in LEM Phonics. Date Thursday 17 June 11 am – 3 pm 10 MELBOURNE, VIC Venue Seabrook Christian School, Instructor Marilyn Bradbury Waring Street, Ravenswood Dates Sat 13 Mar 9 am – 4 pm (ex Ravenswood High) Sat 20 Mar 9 am – 4 pm Cost =ree Tue 23 Mar 4 pm – 6 pm Enquiries Alison Blackberry Tue 30 Mar 4 pm – 6 pm 305 =rankford Rd Tue 20 Apr 4 pm – 6 pm Exeter Tas 7275 Tue 27 Apr 4 pm – 6 pm Phone (03) 6394 4936 or Venue Great Ryrie School, Heathmont 0408 173 450 Cost $330 per person including the LEM Phonics Manual and SWAN HILL, VIC Word List K; deposit of $50 Date Thursday 1 July per person required with 2–5 pm registration Venue Presbyterian Church Hall, Meals Morning and afternoon tea Swan Hill provided but please BYO lunch Cost =ree Reg. by 8 March 2004 Enquiries Martin and Kalene De Pyle Send to Marilyn Bradbury 9 Mortoo St 3 Ramsay Court Swan Hill Vic 3585 Sunbury Vic 3429 Phone (03) 5032 9074 Phone (03) 9740 6562 Email [email protected]

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11 BRISBANE, QLD 12 WESTERN SYDNEY, NSW Instructor Greg O’Keefe Instructor Lindy Bonham

Dates Sat 13 Mar 8.30 am – 5.30 pm Dates =ri 26 Mar 8.45 am – 3.00 pm Sat 20 Mar 8.30 am – 5.30 pm Sat 27 Mar 8.45 am – 3.00 pm Sat 27 Mar 8.30 am – 5.30 pm =ri 2 Apr 8.45 am – 3.00 pm Sat 3 Apr 8.45 am – 3.00 pm Venue TBA Venue Coverdale Christian School Cost $385 per person including the Regent St, Riverstone LEM Phonics Seminar Pack (Manual, Phonogram Cards, Cost $330 per person including the Word List K and tests); LEM Phonics Manual, Word deposit of $50 per person List K, and stationery; deposit required with registration of $60 per person required with registration Meals Tea/coffee/biscuits provided, meals are the responsibility of Meals Morning and afternoon tea participants will be supplied, meals are the responsibility of Reg. by 27 =ebruary 2004 participants Send to Ark Educational Consultancy Other Child-minding is available on ‘Ardlui’, c/- PO request Greenmount via Toowoomba Qld 4359 Reg. by 19 March 2004

Phone (07) 4697 1411 Send to Lindy Bonham Locked Bag 777 Email [email protected] Riverstone NSW 2765

Phone (02) 9627 4144

=ax (02) 9627 4637

Email [email protected]

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Name

Address

Phone Email

I AM REGISTERING OR: CHESS Seminars LEM Phonics Seminars Tick the box of the seminar Please note the information required for each you wish to attend and return seminar, tick the box and return to the address listed to the address listed in the in the event calendar event calendar 10 Melbourne Cheques payable to CHESS Cheques payable to Marilyn Bradbury for all seminars Do you already have the LEM Phonics Manual 01 Geelong and Word List K? yes no 02 Glenrowan 11 Brisbane 03 Townsville Cheques payable to Ark Educational Consultancy 04 Brisbane Do you already have the materials in the LEM 05 Melbourne Phonics Seminar Pack? yes no

06 Hobart 12 Sydney 07 Adelaide Cheques payable to Coverdale Christian School 08 Perth Do you already have the materials in the LEM 09 Sydney Phonics Seminar Pack? yes no

LIGHT O LIE 25 EBRUARY 2004 LEM PHONICS VIDEOS Ever tried to rewind a teacher?

With the LEM Phonics Training Videos, learning the Introductory Course is as easy as pushing buttons on the remote control.

The set of 4 videos gives schools the opportunity to train many teachers simultaneously with incredible cost savings when compared to sending individuals to seminars.

Home schooling parents will benefit as they can review sections Training Videos (School use) $1095 for greater clarity and move through Training Videos (Personal use) $549 the course at their own pace. LEM Phonics Complete Kit (includes videos) $599*

LEM Phonics Complete Kit Includes the LEM Phonics Manual, Phonogram Cards, all 10 Workbooks, Word List books K–3, laminated Circle Letter Grid, Spelling Scale, Readers for Word List K and 1, two halfsize exercise books and the complete set of LEM Phonics Training Videos. Total Value $805.75 for only $599*

* Individual customers only. Not available for schools.

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