School - Week 25

In Creation to the Greeks this week, we finished reading about King Soloman.  While he had a great start, asking for wisdom to be a great king to his people when he could have asked God of anything, apparantly all of his wisdom didn't keep him from making a lot of mistakes that the Bible warned about in Deuteronomy 17:16...becoming too rich, having many wives, worshipping false gods.  His heart left God while he worshipped the false gods of his wives, and because of that, the kingdom of Israel would be divided.

We then started reading about the prophet, Elijah.  God had him wait around for a while before he used him to do great stuff.  The boys drew handguy versions of Elijah challenging the Baal worshippers on Mount Carmel to see how powerful each of their gods was.

Christopher finished Singapore Math 5A last week, so this week he reviewed some of the concepts he learned with math games and facts practice.

We're still working on catching up with art and the boys used their practice of drawing dragons last week to draw their own version of this scene from Revelation by Albrecht Durer.

More art...

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Gabriel's Kindergarten lesson this week was P-p-Penguin. 

His words to remember were "I show love to everyone, especially my family."  We talked about how the daddy Emporer penguin would sit with his baby egg on his feet for almost two months and not even eat so that he could keep the egg warm.  That's a lot of love, just like the love that God has for us.

This is a card that Gabriel made for his daddy.  The big blue oval is the egg on the daddy penguin's feet.

This book was a good one and opened a conversation about how we move around a lot as a military family but that the city or the house that we live in don't matter, as long as we are together as a family.  That's where home will be.

If you notice that Leah doing a lot of our school activities with us, there is a reason for it.  Well, of course she loves to do this kind of stuff, but also, we moved the two girls into the same bedroom and now nap time is a little off.  Leah hasn't taken a nap since we moved Anna into her room but she's proving that she still needs one, so we'll have to get that figured out, whether she takes a nap in my bed or in Christopher's maybe (who now has his own room).  But for now, she's totally enjoying the glueing and the painting and the coloring.

I think someone else in my town is learning about penguins also because this is all they had available at our library this week.  We have some more at home, so it turned out to still be enough penguin saturation for us.

We added the penguins to our Africa map (yes they live in south Africa!) and while you see a polar bear visiting where Antarctica would be, Chris reminded us that they do not in fact, live in Antarctica, so we took him back off after this picture was taken. 

This is what we keep in Gabriel's school box for his tactile letter drawing...salt in a tupperware.  Sometimes we get the playdoh out to shape into letters, but we use the salt every week.

This whole school year Gabriel has been counting craft sticks for each day of school.  This was the big week that Gabriel has been looking forward to for a long time...his 100th day of school!  Technically this is his 100th day of preschool, so I think we'll do something even better next year for his kindergarten year.

To celebrate this year's 100th day though, Gabriel got to count 100 of one of his favorite sweet treats...chocolate chips!

And of course, all of the kids want in on this school assignment!

Leah can count up to about twelve before she starts repeating numbers, so she thought that she should be able to do this too.

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