As the girls chatted in the kitchen, we couldn’t help but take this lovely photo of the light coming into the window and shining on their smiling faces. A great reminder that in this world, we as believers in Jesus Christ, are called to reflect His light. In fact, this was the very lesson the Garden students learned this week in their classes, as they continued to explore the new light projector. Read more below!

SUGGESTED AT-HOME READINGS VARY PER PROGRAM. PLEASE GO TO THE SECTION OF YOUR PROGRAM TO SEE THE SELECTED PAGES.

Memory Verse

“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.”

— Galatians 4: 4-5

The Garden

This week in worship time we learned that the followers of Jesus are like the moon because the moon doesn’t produce its own light but reflects the sun’s light. God gives His light to His followers so they can share with others. We learned the song “This Little Light of Mine” and the kids enjoyed following along with the movements. After hearing the story of the little boy who shone his light by sharing his lunch with Jesus to help feed the 5,000, we wondered how we could shine our light to the world too.

During activity time, we used the light projector with the geometric shapes. We also used oil pastels and watercolors to create the next page for our creation book. We drew birds and fish with oil pastels and then painted with the watercolors. We marveled at how the watercolor paint went over the oil pastel drawings. Aubrey was excited to paint a “..tye dye ocean!” At the end of the day, we did our first gardening activity. Carolina and Emma helped us plant some beautiful flowers that will hopefully wrap around the bench outside the classroom. Aubrey and Nova made sure that they were well watered. Finally, we enjoyed making small balls and little balls for our play doh challenge as well as using coils to make circles on Thursday.

Our stories this week were: Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me and Kitten’s First Full Moon.

The Seeds Program

This week during Seeds worship, we talked about the time in between the Old and New Testaments. We talked about how much the people of Israel must have desired the coming of the promised Messiah during the 4 centuries that they waited before Jesus’ birth. Between the last writings of the Old Testament and the gospel accounts, 400 years had passed before God revealed His Son, Jesus Christ as the promised Seed. As we talk about the history of this time, it makes us even more excited to begin the books of the New Testament. We also had a wonderful time celebrating Cesare’s birthday with the book, Hats Off to Mr. Pockles!

SCIENCE

This week we made the transition from learning about the brain to learning about our senses. We described how God gave us our senses so we could learn about the world around us. God placed sense organs around our body to “catch” signals and send them to our brain: our eyes for seeing, our ears for hearing, our skin for touching, our nose for smelling, and our tongue for tasting. We will spend the next few weeks learning about our senses. The first sense we will learn about is the sense of smell.

SCIENCE Readings

Encyclopedia of the Human Body
- pgs. 12-13

History

In History, we focused on learning the order of the books of the New Testament and began giving short summaries of each book. We were visited by Phoebe (who also looked surprisingly like Olivia), the friend of the apostle Paul, who delivered his letter to the church in Rome. Arriving once again in the time machine, she told us about the scrolls that were used to communicate the letters and the difficulties of traveling long distances in the Roman world, even with the good roads the Romans were famous for.

HISTORY Readings

The Roman Empire
- pgs. 18-25

Studio Time

This week the students were able to complete their beautiful mosaics and they certainly put their fine motor skills at work! They worked carefully and intentionally while enjoying Joseph Haydn’s music in the background. We love that our classroom is now decorated with their first works of art.

The Oaks Program

Science

In both Oaks science classes, it was test week! Tuesday was spent playing the rousing review game of Verdad o Falso, and Thursday was spent taking their test. All the students did so well! They should be proud of their hard work and excellent study habits!

History

In Oaks history, we learned more about the life of Augustus Caesar specifically during the time after the death of his grand uncle Julius Caesar. Cesar Augustus needed to secure his position and power as the rightful air of his grand uncle, but he faced a lot of opposition. Eventually he found success in aligning himself with Mark Anthony, one of Julius Caesar’s proteges.