Week 21: Have you ever felt like a Taco?
WEEK 21: Have you ever felt like a Taco?
Mrs. Vivi sent a message to the moms this week about “falling apart.” It happens to all of us…life is busy, things get tough…but just like with messy tacos, we still love them! (We hope you like tacos!) So, it was very appropriate that when Vivi threw out her back, one of our families brought her a sign with that very message on it. Despite the injury, this was a great week and we learned A LOT! The students in the day programs worked on some great projects, while the after-school Arts Academy students had a blast.
Scroll down to see the supplemental readings for the week, galleries of our latest photos, and our current memory verse.
Viviana resting her back and showing off the gift that one of the students gave her this week.
Memory Verse #10
“But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.”
SEEDS and OAKS Programs Suggested Readings for the Week
The readings are meant to reinforce the topics covered in class last week and to have parents and other siblings be a part of what we’re learning. These readings are not required for the class, but can be a good supplement. You can try to read all or just a few of the selections. Use your discretion as to what to cover based upon the ages of your children.
HISTORY
The Last 500 Years / World History from Ancient to Modern Times
Stalin’s Soviet Union p. 72-73 / 268-269
There are some great Internet Quicklinks to access that go along with the topics from these pages.
The Story of the World
The Peace of Versailles - p. 293
The Rise of Joseph Stalin - p. 299
The First King of Egypt - p. 307
GARDEN - Pre-K and K
The wonder that a scarf can provide.
Our worship story this week was Jesus calling the twelve disciples. He called them and told them to heal the sick and cast out demons. This story took place at the Sea of Galilee, one of the places Jesus would preach and many would gather to listen. We reviewed the twelve disciples’ names and to my surprise, the girls remembered almost all of them. They did amazing calling the twelve by name!
Elena and Hallel enjoyed park time and had fun playing with the black crates. They love building stairs and sitting as tall as they can on them. Of course, with the teacher's help.
The letter for this week was the letter “Pp”. For activity time on Tuesday, the girls got to paint a pig and pollitos. They used their fingers and a utensil that made puntitos. We discovered many words we use that start with the ‘p’ sound. The girls have really tuned their ears for finding words with the sound we are currently practicing or the ones we have already discussed. On Thursday we had a special activity. The girls got to dance with scarves while listening to classical music.
They had a blast mixing and matching scarves while moving to the music's rhythm. These girls have some serious moves!
SEEDS - Grades 1-6
Worship
Our assistant Joshua coached the SEEDS through listening to sound waves through the water in the bucket.
Our new memory verse began this week and the kids are learning it so quickly. But it is one thing to memorize the verse and ANOTHER thing to put them into practice. In this passage from Luke, Jesus commands his followers to love their enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you and pray for those who mistreat you. This was an important message for us to discuss as we have all been hurt by someone and it is only the Holy Spirit that can enable us to respond in the way that Jesus modeled. Make sure you pray about this with your kids and go over the song we sent over WhatsApp so that your children can continue to sow this word in their hearts.
Science
What state of matter is the best conductor of sound? How fast does sound travel? These are the questions we explored this week as we studied the energy of sound.
Sound is a vibration. Our vocal cords vibrate when we talk or make noises. This in turn vibrates the air molecules around us which creates a moving vibration called a sound wave.
We can direct sound by talking through tubes, like paper towel rolls and we can amplify sound by using a cone shaped tube, like a megaphone.
To find out which state of matter is the best conductor of sound, we tested all three. I clanked two large metal spoons together in the air, then in a bucket of water, and finally on the table (while the students each put an ear to the bucket and the table). We discovered that sound really does travel faster through a SOLID. Native Americans used to put an ear to the ground to listen for herds of buffalo and a person can hear a train coming from many miles away by putting an ear to a railroad track.
Sound travels through the air at 760 mph. This is Mach 1. Mach 2 is twice the speed of sound. Anything faster than the speed of sound is considered supersonic. The students enjoyed hearing that when something is traveling faster than the speed of sound, you can hear a sonic boom, a loud booming sound created by overlapping sound waves.
History
One of the most difficult things about teaching through the events of World War I is how difficult the situations were that surrounded the Great War and even the difficulties surrounding the consequences that occurred after the war. While the Treaty of Versailles helped bring an end to the war, it also set the stage for other problems to occur. We saw this week how unlike the “man of peace” we learned about last week through the example of Mahatma Gandhi, a “man of war” emerged from the ravages of WWI. Joseph Stalin changed history as he emerged as the leader of the new Soviet Union. Much violence and trouble came out of his leadership. But we focused on developing our portrait techniques by listening to events from Stalin’s life as we drew. The kids did an amazing job looking at the details of their subject as they sketched. This will be our third portrait of the year and already, we are seeing such progress in their work.
Studio
If making tiny dots with markers wasn’t enough, this week the kids had quite the fine-motor challenge as we introduced the art of weaving. Weaving involves making a fabric by lacing threads together in a pattern. Before we began our woven bookmark project, we looked at different pictures of people weaving around the world and throughout history. I explained to the kids that although our looms are different from the ones we saw in the pictures, we can make some very fun creations using these simple cardboard looms. You can even make your own at home by cutting a piece from any cardboard box. If you are interested, you can check out this simple video on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQHf8TlYC50)
The first step was to make the weft which runs vertically on the loom. They chose their color and began to work so that their looms and wefts were ready for Friday. Once we arrived on Friday, the kids were excited to get their own needles and begin to work horizontally on the weft. The kids worked in an up and down pattern until getting to the edge and then pulled the string and went back to the other side following the pattern. This second part is called the warp. When they ran out of the string, they could choose if they wanted to switch colors or continue with a different color. We will continue to work on the bookmarks this week..
OAKS - 7+
Worship/Studio
Taking notes in “comic form” during Science class.
We were able to do a lot this week in our time of Worship/Studio. We call it that because we have been recording more episodes for our podcast and in order to do that, we spend time reading the stories from our book “A Young Person’s Guide to Knowing God” and asking how the truths of Scripture that are found in each book relate to our own lives. We have been seeing God answering our prayers for our friend Esteban. His surgery went very well and the doctors are anticipating that he will be home much sooner than previously thought. We are so grateful!
Remember to save the date for our FAMILY DAY AND MORE event. And don’t stop sharing Esteban’s “Go Fund Me” page with your family and friends:
https://gofund.me/6c787548
History
One of the most difficult things about teaching through the events of World War I is how difficult the situations were that surrounded the Great War and even the difficulties surrounding the consequences that occurred after the war. While the Treaty of Versailles helped bring an end to the war, it also set the stage for other problems to occur. We saw this week how unlike the “man of peace” we learned about last week through the example of Mahatma Gandhi, a “man of war” emerged from the ravages of WWI. Joseph Stalin changed history as he emerged as the leader of the new Soviet Union. Much violence and trouble came out of his leadership. But we focused on developing our portrait techniques by listening to events from Stalin’s life as we drew. The kids did an amazing job looking at the details of their subject as they sketched. This will be our third portrait of the year and already, we are seeing such progress in their work.
Science
After learning about the different types of energy, we will begin zooming in at different forms of energy. We began looking at sound energy. We learned that sound is a vibration that travels through matter. I used dominoes to illustrate that sound moves from one molecule to another like one domino hits another domino. We also discussed that unlike light that travels in a straight line, sound travels in a three-dimensional way. This is why a megaphone or even cupping our hands around our mouth when we are calling someone helps us to “catch” the sound redirect it. On Thursday, Mr. Jared took over for me as I stayed home with my injured back. He read outloud to the students about the states of matter and how they can conduct sound. As they listened and discussed which state of matter was a better conductor of sound, Mr. Jared challenged them to draw different images to explain what they had just heard. They ended up having some creative and even comic-looking creations. I enjoyed seeing what they made when I saw pictures of their work..
Arts Academy
Both of our Drama Clubs met this week, with Drama Club Jr. learning how to use a prop (scarf) to help them get creative with their bodies and project their voices. The cast of Charlotte’s Web continued their full read-through, this time reading the parts they’ve been assigned. And finally in Art Club, we worked on the exercise of drawing from memory verses from observation.
