Week 15: All Smiles!
We had some wonderful classes last week with lots of smiles and laughter. The students had some great final presentations at our Arts Academy shows last week and this week, we will close Garden, Seeds and Oaks. See below for more.
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The Garden
This week, after learning that God sent prophets and angels to announce the birth of our rescuer, Jesus, we heard about the night Jesus was born in the little town of Bethlehem. After he was born, angels appeared to some shepherds nearby and they marveled at the message. Then, they went to see if the message from the angels was true and they found the baby laying in a manger just as they were told. We practiced singing like the angels with the song Angels We Have Heard on High. The kids love to do the “glooooooo-ri-aaa” part.
Outside at the big park we had a blast doing running races, playing with the frisbee, and playing Hide-and-Seek. Inside, we worked to build the little town of Bethlehem in blocks. Kai enjoyed sitting with the Bible and telling the story with the worship basket materials. We also worked on our final project of the semester by painting a night scene, drawing some stars, and painting the body of our angel. Emmanuel said “Me encanta pintar!” and Aubrey enjoyed making different kinds of stars on her paper. We will finish our special project this week.
Finally, we enjoyed the story, The Crippled Lamb, about a little lamb named Joshua who although was born with a crippled leg, ended up being in the stable the night Jesus was born. God had a special plan for little Joshua, even though at first he was so sad because he couldn’t leave with the other lambs because of its leg. We are looking forward to a special last day together.
The Seeds Program
WORSHIP
This week, we began to study the book of Revelation and we learned that the glorified Jesus appeared to the apostle John while he was on the island of Patmos. He had special messages for the churches and we talked about what those were, but in general, He called his disciples to remain FAITHFUL! Noah P. celebrated his birthday this week with his family and a special reading of the book, Don’t Trust Fish.
SCIENCE
This week we reviewed what we learned about joints and our backbone. Then, we moved on to focus on the hands and feet to complete our overview of the human skeleton. The kids were amazed that more than half of our bones are in our hands and feet! At the end of the week, we did a special art activity with pictures of the bones in our hands and feet. The younger group had the hands and made a watercolor painting and collage with a psalm that says that we will use our hands to worship the Lord forever. The older group had the feet and did their painting and collage with the verse in Romans that says “...how beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news…”
Additionally, we built the model skeleton together so the kids could see how they would make it at home in January and checked in on our bone-in-vinegar experiment. It was impressive to see how the vinegar had stripped away the calcium that makes the bone strong. Because of this, the collagen was what was left over making the bone bendable and looking like a rubber bone! This highlighted the importance of taking care of our bones and consuming calcium and vitamin D rich foods. It also displayed what an amazing Creator we have, one who thought of everything we might need down to every bone, tissue, and cell in our body!
READINGS
Encyclopedia of the Human Body p. 20-23
History
For History, we continued talking about Emperor Constantine and some of the leaders of Rome that came after him. We also began looking at how the Roman Empire fell. While there were many reasons, we focused on some of the Germanic Tribes that invaded the empire.
TIMELINE
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The Oaks Program
Science
In Chemistry, the students learned the slight difference between molarity and molality and when molality would be more beneficial to use--in cases where temperature would be a significant factor. They also practiced calculating molarity using the virtual lab. And on Thursday, they learned about the unique characteristics of the Dead Sea-- some of which include being too salty to allow fish and wildlife to survive and also having the lowest elevation on the planet. And since humans can easily float in the Dead Sea, they did an activity to see if they could make plastic figures float in super salty water. They succeeded with one figure but were unable to get the dinosaur to float-it was too dense.
In Pre-Physics, the students learned about buoyancy. They learned that large cargo ships are able to carry extremely heavy payloads because of the design of the bottom of the ship--they are super wide and deep creating enough upward buoyant force to keep it floating. To further explore buoyancy, the students were able to test the buoyancy of different objects in a bowl of water. A little plastic bowl was able to carry about 13 coins without sinking due to the shape of its bottom. And on Thursday, the students learned about the electromagnetic spectrum, ranging from low frequency radio waves to high frequency gamma rays, and how we interact with it in the world.
END OF SEMESTER PRESENTATIONS
Memory Verse
“Therefore I urge you brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. for this is your spiritual act of worship.”