Week 13: December 6-10 - Hark, the Herald Angels Sing!
Hark, the Herald Angels Sing!
Elena’s mixed media (collage and paint ): “Angel”
In SEEDS Worship this week, we focused on a line from the carol, “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.” In the lyric--“God and sinners reconciled”--we are told that something has changed because of the arrival of the Messiah, Jesus. We talked about the fact that in the Bible, to reconcile means to end the separation, and in Isaiah, we learn that sin has separated man from God. We used drama, first in a scene with Kaylee and Mr. Jared and then with the whole group, to show what a problem sin and separation creates. But Jesus has made a way to END that separation. When he declared, “It is finished!” the separation was over! What a great reason to rejoice this season.
The Garden also continue to focus on the birth of the Messiah, as they sing, “Angels we have Heard on High.” The kids expressed the joy of this story in their beautiful artworks, as you can see in the picture above.
Our current memory verse:
““Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuel”
(which means, God with us).”
THE GARDEN
Worship time in the mornings.
“This is me as an angel looking at the shepherds and telling them about baby Jesus!”, Alicia shared as she presented her mixed media creation to her classmates. These beautiful angels provided an opportunity for the children to combine the stories we are telling during the time of worship with the collage and painting skills that they have been working on for the past couple of weeks. On Tuesday, we looked at several books by Eric Carle and noticed how he blended colors in the sky in “Papa get the Moon for me.” We then provided the children with a few shades of blue, black, and purple and challenged them to fill the paper with paint. They also began to work on the angels’ robes using bits of golden and silver paper. On Thursday, they assembled and glued their angels onto the night sky. Each one decided how they would draw the angel’s faces. Finally, they used oil pastels to draw the wings and fill their night sky with stars. We know you will love these works of art as much as we do! (Check them all out in the gallery at the end of the blog)
SEEDS
COOL DISCOVERY THIS WEEK! Elise found this puffball mushroom. Could this be edible?
It is sad to think that our animal presentations will be coming to an end soon! Every week in Science, the children watch, encourage each other to be brave, and laugh together. This week, Noah shared about the Green Tree Frog and Elisha about the Tasmanian Devil. (See pictures above) We also began our study on the last class of vertebrates: reptiles. We learned that reptiles are divided into four major orders: squamata (lizards and snakes), tuatara (tuatara), testudinata (turtles), and crocodilia (crocodiles and alligators). We began working on our reptile section in our science journals and had fun moving like snakes. Next week we will focus on turtles and crocodiles.
The mushroom was edible and delicious! Sauteed puffball in butter, thyme and rosemary.
This was quite the culinary week! Jared began by making fundraising cookies for the mission trip and finished with a mystery mushroom appetizer. Thankfully, all the cookies sold and the mushroom...well here’s what happened.
During our park time, Elise discovered the large, white mystery mushroom in the middle of the grass. Of course, our science teacher, Mrs. Vivi was eager to pick and study it. She found out that MOST LIKELY, it was an edible mushroom called the Puffball Mushroom. Mr. Jared, of course, getting excited at the possibility of cooking something else said that there was only one way to find out. So that night, it was cooked and eaten...and no one had to go to the hospital. Thumbs up for Puffball Mushrooms! Thank you Elise for your AMAZING DISCOVERY!!!!
In History, we learned that in the 1500 and 1600’s as Europe, the Middle East, and even Russia were expanding and trading on a global scale, both Japan and China were reluctant to welcome the foreigners for fear of their ideas influencing their nations. In Japan, emperors forced more on retaining their power from within, and one emperor even reduced the threat to his reign by encouraging samurai to become sumo wrestlers! In the end, both Japan and China ended up isolating themselves for many, many years.
Although many samurai became sumo wrestlers in the 1500 and 1600s, the art of samurai is still taught today. Click on the image above to watch the video about samurai archery. - Credit: Great Big Story
Glory to the newborn King!
Seeds kids practice with Mrs. Vivi
Supplemental Readings for SEEDS
The Last 500 Years
P.66 (not 67)
P.62-63 - The Ming and the Ch’ing
Guide to God’s Animals
no readings this week
Special Prayer Request! - Please continue to pray for our upcoming mission trip to Spain. Miss Ana will also be joining our family on this trip along with another youth from our church…December 27-January 8.
More photos from the Week
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