After three years of hard word, my Schnickelfritz earned his Gold Trail Award for Ranger Kids. The presentation was made in front of the whole church. Royal Rangers is a scouting program, like Boy Scouts, but run through churches. In addition to learning to tie knots, he had to memorize scripture and hymns, learn the names of the books of the Bible, the 12 disciples, and more. Fritz has now moved up to the Discovery Rangers and is tearing through merit badges on his way to the Gold Falcon. At this level he needs to complete two Bible merits (each one is a five week study on a particular book) for each skill merit in order to advance. We've been able to incorporate the work into our homeschool. He just completed a Presidential study learning each president's terms, home state, education, vice president, political party and two major events that occurred while they were in office. He had to look up Bible verses on the topic of leadership and write a 300 word essay on his favorite president and how they displayed at least three of those leadership traits. Wow! I never assigned him anything that challenging in our history/English work before.
2 comments:
Wow, that does sound challenging. That is great that he's moving up like that. I have heard of Royal Rangers, but living in a small town in Idaho, nothing like that was ever available when my children were young.
Congratulations. That is quite an accomplishment.
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