February 26, 2010
Dust off your bowling shoes cuz WE'VE GOT GAME!
We know how to party here at Liberty Youth Academy! Our 100th day of school celebration was a huge hit with a lot of fun!! The students had a great time at Sunset Bowling Center! Everyone cheered and clapped for their classmates and had some great team spirit! Thank you to all the parents that helped organize this exciting field trip and also the parents who helped car pool the kids over! We sure have some amazing families supporting us!
Liberty Has Talent!!
We had a blast at our Valentine's day party!! The students and teachers put on a talent show! We had everything from jump roping to dancing to cool animal noises! You name it and our kids got it and this talent show has become quite a fun tradition here and Liberty Youth Academy!!
February 21, 2010
QUOTE OF THE WEEK :
Where liberty dwells, there is my country. -Benjamin Franklin
SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK:
D&C 10:28 "Verily verily I say unto you, wo be unto him that lieth to deceive because he supposeth that another lieth to deceive, for such are not exempt from the justice of God."
VIRTUE OF THE WEEK: Loyalty
In our country, there are people who are constantly trying to forgo the individual in advance of the collective, in doing so they are trying to undermine our loyalty to Country, Family and God. Our children hear those voices every day in the media etc. We at Liberty Youth Academy are trying to remind them that loyalty to the above is crucial for our continued freedom in this country, and crucial to our ability to worship God according to the dictates of our conscience!
February 13, 2010
QUOTE OF THE WEEK :
"I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."
~George Washington
~George Washington
D&C 11:7 "Seek not for riches but for wisdom; and, behold, the mysteries of God shall be unfold unto you, and then shall you be made rich. Behold, he that have eternal life is rich."
VIRTUE OF THE WEEK: Honesty
In studying History and the great men and women of the past there are certain character traits and virtues that each have. We have been introducing these virtues to the children, the people who have these virtues present and past, and reading biographical excerpts from these people's lives in order to give them examples of how to incorporate these virtues into their own lives. In observance of President's Day we've talked a lot about the fact that George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were loved and revered for many things, but they were well know, and trusted for their honesty!
In studying History and the great men and women of the past there are certain character traits and virtues that each have. We have been introducing these virtues to the children, the people who have these virtues present and past, and reading biographical excerpts from these people's lives in order to give them examples of how to incorporate these virtues into their own lives. In observance of President's Day we've talked a lot about the fact that George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were loved and revered for many things, but they were well know, and trusted for their honesty!
February 8, 2010
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and
his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward. Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr. noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt. Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later, he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates. Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more.
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and
his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward. Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr. noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt. Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later, he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates. Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more.
Quote of the week
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams
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