"Schoolhouse Rock" was one of mine and my husband's favorite educational past times. Bob Dorough, writer for "Schoolhosue Rock," was a genius when he put educational factoids to quirky music and cute cartoons. From the preamble to the Constitution, to parts of speech, multiplication facts, how electricity works, and much more, Mr. Dorough slyly disguised learning and actually made it fun! Like all good parents, we passed this educational relic on to our kids. One of our favorite songs from "Schoolhouse Rock" is without a doubt " Conjunction Junction ." Its jazzy rhythm easily gets stuck in your head for the rest of your day ( sorry in advance! ). This song teaches how conjunctions mechanically work in a sentence and what their purpose is. The conjunction 'BUT' is one that we use all the time to connect two sentences or a clause to a sentence. "I like pizza, BUT I don't like olives on it." "I want to...
"Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name." Psalm 86:11