Your House of Education

Learning is one of the gifts of life that God has given us, not only to you because you are young and have much to learn, but also to your parents, grandparents, and other adults who continue to learn too, gaining knowledge and new skills that help them in their daily lives and in their work.
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Moussaka is a Greek casserole often made with ground beef, eggplant, and potatoes.

When you are young, because you have so much to learn, you spend a lot of time studying. This is to help you gain a good working knowledge of language arts, Science writing, and arithmetic, as well as science, social studies, and other practical life skills and the arts.
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Its much like building a housethe house of your education.

Lets get to work, men.

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You also spend time studying Gods Word, and very likely another language that you might find useful someday.

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As you know, houses arent built out of thin air.

I can make a house out of nothing!

House, be built!

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So much for that phony house!

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The house! Its gone!

It takes a lot of patience and diligence to build a house. A brick house, for example, is built one brick at a time, adding the mortar2 between each brick, and doing this over and over again until all the walls of the house are completed.

Mortar is a mixture of sand, water, and cement or lime (made from limestone) that becomes hard like stone once it dries. Mortar is used in construction to join and hold bricks and stones together.
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Your house of education has many walls, which you build one brick at a time.

SECOND LANGUAGE

SOCIAL STUDIES

ARTS AND CRAFTS

PRACTICAL LIFE SKILLS

SCIENCE

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There are no shortcuts to building your house. You just have to be consistent with your studies. If you are, then one day youll have a fine house that is well built from your years of diligence.

All done!

But some of the bricks are missing.

Yikes!

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Can we build a playground?

If you are diligent with your studies now, in the future you can learn new, exciting things, like adding enjoyable and useful additions to your homenew rooms, a balcony, or a playground. In other words, youll gain new skills that will enhance your life.

How to Build a Playground

Prepare now with a strong house of education that you will be able to enjoy throughout your life, and even add to later on!

Its ready for play!

Happy studying!
S&S links: Personal Responsibility: Learning and Study Skills-1b Authored by Evan Kallen. Illustrations by Didier Martin. Design by Stefan Merour. Published by My Wonder Studio. Copyright 2013 by The Family International