Now about our school day today -
We got a later start just because D was picking out some fun Lego bricks on the Lego website (spending the last little bit of his designated "spend" Cmas $). So it was just before 11 a.m. when we began.
I had D work on his math page first. He had to complete only one today since he had begged for an additional one yesterday that would have been today's first page. :o) It was another graph that used rectangles to represent kids who liked various types of fish. He did well!
While D completed his math page, I worked with K. Her Bible today was about King Hezekiah who obeyed God and had men destroy the idols/statues the people were worshipping. To go along with her story, she was to make a "crown" and then wear it to act out the story we had read.
By this time, D was done with his math and begged to complete her project with her. To eliminate fights, I had them each decorate their own crown. K used lots of stickers and D chose to draw Pac*Man & squiggles on his. He also asked for more paper to make the front of the crown...all by himself complete with colored jewels. I thought he did a great job on the additions in the front!
D modeling his crown with a very serious expression:
When it was time to act out the story, K didn't want to wear her crown. (I think she's in the midst of the terrible 3's!) She ran away and had a fit when I tried to take her picture acting out the story.
D acted out the story and ended up hitting his arm on the colored gate accidentally. :o( Ouch!
Finally after making the crowns & acting out the Bible story for K's school time, it was time to complete the rest of D's schoolwork. His Bible story today was about Thomas not believing Jesus had risen from the dead until he saw HIM and saw the scars on His hands. We talked briefly how we believe in Jesus even though we haven't seen Him in person like the disciples & especially Thomas that we read about today. We also talked about the scars in His hands...Jesus died for me, D, K, C, YOU! It was interesting to talk about this today during our school time, because earlier this morning I had read a few verses in John 10 and the end of verse 10 stuck out to me, "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." Jesus came to earth to die for our sins & rose again so that we can LIVE eternally with Him. He did it for those who were around him then, he did it for us, even though we can't see Him or talk with Him like the disciples did. I'm so glad I get to share these conversations with my kids...D knows Jesus and my prayer is for K & C to know Him & invite Him into their lives when they're old enough to understand what He did for them.
To go along with the story, D was to paint one side of his hand, press it on paper and then press the other side of the paper on it to make a "print" of his hands so he'd end up with two. He did NOT want to get paint all over his hand, so I did it with my hand. I ended up not putting enough paint on, so I then decided we'll just trace one of his hands, he'll use a paintbrush to paint inside the hand (thick paint) and then press the other half of paper on it. This worked. K actually wanted to do this to - she chose to use pink for her project.
The last step of the project was to add red paint to the hands to show where the nail scars were that Thomas saw.
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