Greetings and Blessings for the Gregorian New Year 2019!
It has been a dream of mine to expand ILA "I Love Afrika" Designs into the field of education. I have homeschooled for the last seven years and I could not have done it without accessing the many resources that are available online. Over the years, I have collected many resources and ideas that helped me teach my children in learning Math and Language Arts through sites like Pinterest and Teachers Pay Teachers. I combine what I gather from these sources with textbooks I buy locally in Trinidad which correspond to the primary school curriculum used here.
However, one thing that was always lacking for me was bringing Rastafari culture into the classroom, to keep the children familiar and interested. There are not many resources online that include Rasta images and themes from the most basic level of learning (pre-K to K) and up and this is a problem that we must fix. Jews, Christians and other people do it, so why don't Rastas?
So this is my goal moving forward from 2019 onward. Just like RastaWifeLine, Rasta Homeschool will be a blog for the homeschooling Rasta Mama or Papa, where you can find resources that will include our culture and images for the sake of the youth, to keep their minds in tuned with the livity while they learn to read, write, count and so on.
Until I obtain help with this huge overtaking, things will move a bit slow at first. I will be starting mainly with the pre-K to K levels, or about ages 4-6. But rest assured that as I am able, I will start adding worksheets for older children.
I have compiled all these resources myself which is a very very lengthy process, from drawing and uploading images to creating the worksheets to compiling them into packs - so I give thanks for those who support and purchase those packs which are not free downloads. I am grateful to my kingman Jahmaro for his help with the more complex drawings (for me) such as the images of Rasta people and so on. He has been kind enough to slot in my requests in between being a teacher himself (high school level) and working on other art projects like designing for our t-shirt brand Ancient Lionage.
So please stay tuned! I will be posting Rasta Homeschool notifications on Pinterest and Facebook as I upload my resources for you on Teachers Pay Teachers. I will give teaching and homeschooling tips here on this blog along with links to the packs which will be available at the Rasta Homeschool store
and also on my website here.
I pray that we all stay inspired and livicated (dedicated) to the youth as His Majesty would want us to be. Education was Emperor Haile Sellassie's and Empress Menen's great love, personally and for their people. The King Himself was Minister of Education for many years. As Rastafari we must always remember to live by the example of the King and Queen and we must realize that the world won't change if the youth are not taught to be, do and think better. We must keep Rastafari thriving by doing our part as parents, giving them a solid educational foundation to stand upon. Let us teach them with the theme of Rastafari, let us not keep it separate from the classroom so that everything they learn will be connected to the principles and Image of JAH Rastafari.
I look forward to serving you and HIM in 2019
Blessed Love
Ila Addis
