Week 12: November News
Week 12: November News
Between the elections and heavy rains, there has been a lot of news this month. But here at the Well, we had the good news of welcoming a new student: Amanda C. to the Seeds program! While, this week’s elections caused us to meet only one day this week, we still made the most of the time we had with puppets, soccer and more fun science experiments.
Scroll down to see More photos, suggested readings and the memory work
Jonah has a great time with his puppet play.
THE GARDEN
This week our theme was “Jesus is the Good Shepherd.” We told the story of how Jesus calls himself the good shepherd and pledges to give his life for the sheep. The shepherd knows His sheep by name and they know His voice. We can trust that He will always take good care of us and protect us wherever we go. In the park, we played the sheep and shepherd game. The children had to pretend they were sheep and make sheep sounds until the child who was the shepherd could find them. Back inside, we took the opportunity to review the sounds of the letters we have learned so far: (S, M, L, A, N, T, U, D) We played a game to see if they could recall which letter made each sound. We introduced puppets to activity time and had a great time playing in the puppet theater.
This week:
Letter: “O” is for octopus
Theme: “Even the octopus praises the Lord”
SEEDS
This week we reviewed the properties of water that we have learned so far: polarity, adhesion, and cohesion. Then we learned a new property of water: capillary action. This is the ability that water has to move against the force of gravity in tight spaces. We see this in our body in our veins and tear ducts. We can especially appreciate this as a plant superpower demonstrated by how the roots are able to absorb water and bring it up and around the plant. I showed them a celery stick that had been dipped in water with blue food coloring so they could see how the blue food colored water had moved up and around the plant. Then, we set up a fun demonstration called “walking water.” We put food coloring in cups and then placed strips of paper towels connecting the cups. We could quickly see how the liquid was absorbed and traveled upward. The kids were excited as they noticed that the colors we prepared were the primary colors and they predicted that the colors would mix in the cup to make secondary colors. We were so excited to see the colors form in the empty cups in between. Enjoy the pictures and show your children what the cups looked like an hour after the program finished.
In our History class, we used Jenga blocks to imagine the Hebrews building with the bricks that Pharaoh commanded they make in the book of Exodus. The Egyptian civilization during the Middle Kingdom was heavily developed by the contribution of the Hebrew slaves that we read about in Exodus. We also began looking ahead in the story at the plagues that would disrupt the highly developed period of the Middle Kingdom.
ReadingS for THE Week
BIBLE: Exodus 3-6:9
DK Illustrated Bible
pp. 68-71
World History / Ancient History
Pp.42-43 / pp.32-33
OAKS - Middle and High School
This shortened week in biology, the students learned more about creation according to Genesis 1 & 2 and how evolution is not a logical theory for how the world was made. They also got to share about a creature that fascinates them and why that creature is so amazing. Some of the creatures shared were brown squirrels, spiders, tiger lilies, and humans.
The Oaks also helped the Seeds organization a pickup soccer game in the parking lot. This was a lot of fun for those who were playing and those cheering on the sidelines.
ReadingS for This Week
HS FULL DAY - See Weekly Plan Book
BIBLE: Exodus 3-6:9
DK Illustrated Bible
pp. 68-71
World History / Ancient History
Pp.42-43 / pp.32-33
Streams of Civilization
pp. Pp.66-67 - Challenges to Egypt’s Religions (stop before Egypt and the Ten Plagues)
Memorizing the Ten Commandments
You must not have any other gods but Me
You must not make an idol or an image of anything in heaven, earth, or sea
You must not use the name of the Lord in vain.
Remember to observe the Sabbath Day, and keep it holy.
You must honor your father and your mother, so you may live long in the land
You must not murder.
