Trinity Middle School Drug Education: September 2011

Welcome!

Welcome! Life is a journey everyone takes. There are unseen, misleading and dangerous obstacles that can get us off the safest road. We all can use road signs and "driving instructors" to help us avoid being hijacked, sidetracked, or broken down!

This blog is designed to provide Trinity students and their parents "road maps" that can enable our students to stay on the safest and smoothest road for their journey.

Daily in Drug Education class we will be discussing information obtained from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Most specifically we will be using the "Mind Over Matter" curriculum. You will find this same information through the Drug Education Resources link on the sidebar.

Parents may follow along with the daily classroom topics by reading this blog. By checking the NIDA website parents will be able to electronically view the same information that the students will be seeing in brochure form. It is our hope that this will facilitate even more discussion between parent and child!

Contact information: sfaulkner@trinitywildcats.com

Parents: we urge you to peruse any drug education website to ascertain it's age-level appropriateness for your child before allowing full access.

Bible Verse for this year: "Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil." Hebrews 5: 13 - 14

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Tuesday:
Learned and discussed school policies about drug use

Wednesday:
We discussed the bible verse of the day. "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." Romans 12:2 (ESV)
We then learned about the major areas of the brain, their functions, and what they control. By having a basic understanding of this, we can make better decisions based on the harmful effects we learn that drugs can have on these crucial areas. You might ask your daughter if she experienced the hormone adrenaline today!

Monday, September 26, 2011

Basic introduction to Drug Education for the next two weeks. We spent time going over the scriptures that you will find on the sidebar. Scriptures that apply to our everyday life and drug use and abuse.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

WELCOME to the 7th grade drug education site. I hope you will find this information helpful! Please pray for me as I seek to present to your child words of God's wisdom concerning drug use. Also, that I will be able to answer the questions that they might have in an appropriate way for their understanding.