Vision Day 2018

Vision Day 2018

Welcome to Vanguard!  We are excited to be having our Vision Days this year on September 13th and 14th. Please come having read Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris.

Please also do the following Inspirements from each lens to be prepared for Vision Day!

History: The blog is up and it is a lot of reading.  Get started!  I enjoyed using a magnifying glass to see the pictures better.  Try that, if you have one. If you don't have one, go buy one or borrow one. ;)


Eureka:

Bring an image of a ninja.  It should fill about 1/2 - 3/4 of a regular 8.5 X 11 paper. You can draw your own or find one online. Cut it out. Put your name on it. Bring it for the ninja chart. Here's mine.

Also, watch this video, and get excited about learning about Atoms.

I'd really like to trust atoms, but they make up everything.

One more Thing: Go to this link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11NKv__2dRxEeUPYKa_CCIrzrebgb3ut2g151QCZJS5s/edit?usp=sharing
And sign up.  

Leadership:  Read You Are Special by Max Lucado

Imaginative Arts:

Hi Vangaurdians,this is Sister Eagar

I am super excited to be your Imaginative Arts Mentor!  My brain has been so full of ideas, it's been hard to narrow them down.  We are going to be creative this year, and we are going to work in groups for almost everything.  The first Inspirement, due on VISION DAY will be individual,though.  I'm calling this project,        

"This is Me"

I want to know about you!  I think it's safe to say your friends want to know about you as well.  I want you to be creative in how you present you!  Here are some ideas.
1.  Take pictures of your room, the things you like to do, your family, etc.  Get some baby pictures, too!  Display them on a well organized poster board and come prepared to tell us all about your photos.

2.  Make a slideshow on the computer.  Add music and words to it. 

3.  Make some kind of shadowbox or trifold display that has things you have made, or things that tell about you.  Be prepared to tell us all about it.
4.  Make a YouTube type show about yourself and take some video footage that shows us some things about who you are.

The whole idea here is to tell us who you are, what you like to do outside of Vanguard life, what your hobbies are, what sports you play, where you were born, what languages you speak, what books you like, movies, music, and everything!  I want this to be an awesome display of YOU!  Above are just some ideas that I had.  Please be creative and do something that you are comfortable with!  You are unique, special, awesome, and we want to get to know you.

You will have 3-5 minutes to tell us about you.  NO MORE, NO LESS!

Time it.  Practice at home.  Make it fun.  Funny.  Interesting.

I"M SO EXCITED!

     

2018-2019 Yearly Theme

“By Divine Design,

I have a Work for Thee”

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart;
and lean not unto thine own understanding. 
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."
--- Proverbs 3:5-6

Vision Day 2018

Vision Day 2018

Welcome to Vanguard!  We will be having our Vision Days this year on September 13th and 14th. Please Come having read Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris.

2017-2018 School Year

Yearly Theme:  

"Out of the darkness and into His marvelous light"
1 Peter 2:9

Years of study:

1400 - 1850 AD

April 2017 Overview

Pillar: Citizenship

Theme: The completed vessel: Firing and glazing of life

Time Period:

Jewish History

Scripture:

"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, blessed art thou for what thou hast done; for thou hast inquired of me, and behold, as often as thou hast inquired thou hast received instruction of my Spirit. If it had not been so, thou wouldst not have come to the place where thou art at this time."

- D&C 6:14

Memorization:

"Do not rely on planning every event of your life—even every important event. Stand ready to accept the Lord’s planning and the agency of others in matters that inevitably affect you. Plan, of course, but fix your planning on personal commitments that will carry you through no matter what happens. Anchor your life to eternal principles, and act upon those principles whatever the circumstances and whatever the actions of others. Then you can await the Lord’s timing and be sure of the outcome in eternity."

-  Elder Dallin H. Oaks

March 2017 Overview

Pillar: Proper Role of Government

Theme: Entrusting ourselves to the potter: Trusting God

Time Period:

Middles Ages in the Far East

Scripture:

“Be still and know that I am God”

- D&C 101:16

Memorization:

"Without... the power of the Holy Ghost, you and I would not be able to become submissive to the will of our Heavenly Father. We would not know what his will is, except by the gift and power of the Holy Ghost. Then when we know what his will is, we must be as clay in the hands of the potter (Jer. 18:6) to permit our lives to be molded in the pattern that the Savior of mankind set for us."

- Elder Henry D. Moyle

February 2017 Overview

Pillar: Leadership

Theme: Shaping the vessel: Cleansing from the inside out

Time Period:

Scripture:

"...the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, 

but the Lord looketh on the heart."

- 1 Samuel 16:7

Memorization:

“Many people try to change themselves spiritually and they inevitably come to the same conclusion: ‘I can’t do it by myself’.  Only Jesus Christ can cleanse and change a human heart.  Only the Holy Spirit, sent by Christ to dwell in us, can guide our decision making, soften our hearts, and trigger our conscience so that we will make choices and initiate Chritlike responses.  We must never forget – we are the clay.  He is the potter!”

- Dr. Charles Stanley