Parting the Sea, Trees, Bees, Byes, and Sickies

Tough week at our house. Monday was Grammy's last day with us (boo!) and yet we accomplished a lot of our lesson and some memory-making art, too!

Our Bible story was about Moses parting the Red Sea to save God's people. This story is full of energy and anticipation. We read the story from the MFW guide and then Sugar reads it from her Bible reader. She narrates the story back, summarizes it into one sentence, writes that sentence in her best hand and with attention to punctuation, and then illustrates the story ...

At lunch I read from Vos's Story Bible ... the same story as our lesson ... and we "wonder" about the story, the people, the place, the time, the weather, the animals, the emotions, etc.  The Child's Story Bible is my favorite reading Bible. Love it.

We had a short reading lesson ... a fill-in-the-blank worksheet on what we read in The Red Sea. Not Sugar's favorite part of the day. She much prefers math and science, this one. She's her father's daughter. :)

Our Proverb this week builds on the one we started last week ... I revel in watching the girls memorize the words, recite the verse, learn the meaning, and walk it in their lives.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart

and lean not on your own understanding;

in all your ways acknowledge him,

and he will make your path straight.

Proverbs 3:5-6

Speaking of math ... she is loving Singapore. Miquon has prepared her well for the more structured approach of Singapore and she begs to do lesson after lesson in her math. I have to remember to reign her in to make sure that she is really conceptualizing the material.

We had so much fun making family trees, in the spirit of learning about Abraham and his descendants. We thought about using tempura for the trunk and mixing colors for leaves, but then decided it would take.too.long to dry before we could add names, so we opted for Sugar's favorite medium ... tissue paper. 

They cut out colorful leaves and wrote our family's names ... for the sake of privacy I leave the end result to your imagination ... but they are SO darling.

Later that afternoon, before the dreaded drive to the airport, we made beeswax candles. They smell delicious, it was an easy craft, and they burn beautifully. Bugs had fwoot and protected his beloved marmles.

Then, we headed for the airport, cried Grammy goodbye, and woke up the next day with the stomach flu.

To a healthy, productive new week ...

Because of Him.