School This Week

This week we finished up chapter 1 and started chapter 2 in Weaver Volume 1. It took a few more school days than it is "supposed to", but we have certainly been enjoying ourselves! 

We began making a topographical map of the United States of America-- I got to put my VERY rudimentary map drawing skills to work for this one!

We talked about how Christians are to be a light to the world, a city on a hill. I showed them how putting a candle up high in the room makes the whole room light up, whereas putting it down on the floor makes almost no difference in the darkness.

They made a picture of a light bulb using foil for the filament.

They also made crosses to remind us of heaven.

 The Bible first lesson in Chapter 2 is about the Tower of Babel again. We discussed how the people chose not to obey God, and instead wanted to make a name for themselves. We also talked about how, historically, ziggurats were used as places of worship. So, we went on a trip to see a number of different places of worship! Mainly Christian churches, but we also threw in a synagogue and observed the fact that there were crosses visible on nearly every church, but not at all on the synagogue. We first took them to see a number of more ornate and grand structures in one of the neighbouring communities, so that we would be able to discuss the historic architecture and design, and then we came back to our area, where the churches are far newer and compared the ornamentation of the older churches to the newer churches.

Apparently this "looks like heaven" to our children.

Greek Orthodox church

Jewish synagogue