I didn't want to post these silly stories with the Archaeology post, but they have to be told.
The day that Jonny dug the hole for the project Hannah found it and came running into the house. She said "Momma, Jonny is going to bury me." I of course said oh no he is not and she responded with yes, he is, I found the place and it is just my size. The other kids came in and said she had laid down in it and thought for sure it was just her size. Jonny took her out and told her he was just practicing digging good holes.
A few days later Jonny had filled the hole in and it was ready for the project. Stephen and Jordan came up while I was talking to one of the neighbors and asked where Ginger was, I told them I am sure she was at the neighbors and they insisted that she was not, they had called for her and she was not anywhere. They started acting weird and then they came up and said, Mom, it's ok, you can tell us... we found the grave where Jonny buried her. Without laughing I assured them that she was not buried in that 'grave' and we went off to find our dog and assure the kids she was alive and well.
So I guess the moral of the story is, if you want to draw a LOT of attention to an area, dig a hole and leave it there for kids to discover!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Archaeology
Today was a fun school day. We are using a plethora of curriculum including: Mystery of History; Creation to the Resurrection, Eagles Wings A Complete Guide to Celebrating our Messiah in the Festivals, Greenleaf Press books including Famous Men of Greece, An Activity Guide to the Old Testament Days, several books I got from Israel; including Food at the Time of the Bible, Life at the Time of Jesus and the books that we got from each place we visited, along with several library type books. (Make sure you watch the you tube videos at the bottom of the post if you have time.)
After reading the intro to quarter one and lesson one of Mystery of History, we did an activity that I based off a
project in the Activity Guide to the Old Testament Days "Dig your own Archaeological site". We still need to do a wrap up and the kids will write reports (varying with their ages and abilities, but I am excited and so I will write my report here.
We read a book "Archaeologists Dig for Clues" by Kate Duke. It took us a couple of days to read this as it was full of information and could not be read and assimilated by my younger ones in one sitting. In the back ground, Jonny was preparing the site for me. First he dug a rectangular hole that was about 2 foot by 4 foot. Then we got two different terra cotta type pots, broke them into a few pieces and Jonny buried them in sand in the hole and then covered them with a layer of dirt to make it look like the ground prior to the digging. Then Joshua went out and placed the grid using stakes and twine. Then the Archaeologist and volunteers went out to do the dig.
I first explained to them about the grid and we played a game of where is the grid and I would call out a location "A3" and they would find it or put Daniel into it.
I was amazed that I did not even have to explain much about this and Stephen new where they were immediately. Then I explained how to dig in order to preserve the integrity of the site and then they went to work. They were each so excited when they found a 'treasure'. Stephen was a little dismayed when everyone had found one or two before he found one, but then when he found one he was doubly excited. Though he cut his finger on the find.
After finding what they thought were all the pieces and cleaning them off and logging them on their grid paper the pieces went into the house so they could be reconstructed into their original shape. Or as near to that shape as we could get with a hot glue gun. (Though a few hours later I was brought a new found piece with much excitement!) We will probably read the book again and they will do some sort of report to wrap it up, but that will be tomorrow.
After reading the intro to quarter one and lesson one of Mystery of History, we did an activity that I based off a
project in the Activity Guide to the Old Testament Days "Dig your own Archaeological site". We still need to do a wrap up and the kids will write reports (varying with their ages and abilities, but I am excited and so I will write my report here.We read a book "Archaeologists Dig for Clues" by Kate Duke. It took us a couple of days to read this as it was full of information and could not be read and assimilated by my younger ones in one sitting. In the back ground, Jonny was preparing the site for me. First he dug a rectangular hole that was about 2 foot by 4 foot. Then we got two different terra cotta type pots, broke them into a few pieces and Jonny buried them in sand in the hole and then covered them with a layer of dirt to make it look like the ground prior to the digging. Then Joshua went out and placed the grid using stakes and twine. Then the Archaeologist and volunteers went out to do the dig.
I first explained to them about the grid and we played a game of where is the grid and I would call out a location "A3" and they would find it or put Daniel into it.
I was amazed that I did not even have to explain much about this and Stephen new where they were immediately. Then I explained how to dig in order to preserve the integrity of the site and then they went to work. They were each so excited when they found a 'treasure'. Stephen was a little dismayed when everyone had found one or two before he found one, but then when he found one he was doubly excited. Though he cut his finger on the find.
After finding what they thought were all the pieces and cleaning them off and logging them on their grid paper the pieces went into the house so they could be reconstructed into their original shape. Or as near to that shape as we could get with a hot glue gun. (Though a few hours later I was brought a new found piece with much excitement!) We will probably read the book again and they will do some sort of report to wrap it up, but that will be tomorrow.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Musical video clip
I am not sure how to do this but I know one of the clips form the musical video is online on you tube so I am going to put the link here and hope it works so you can go and see it. Joshua used the churches equipment to video it and I am guessing that Landon Bruce put the clip online. Jordan is in the stomp part of the clip and Stephen is over in the choir part. It's all pretty cute.
Real Family Fellowship musical - Joseph form the pits to the palace.
Real Family Fellowship musical - Joseph form the pits to the palace.
instructions for last post on newsletters
I guess I should have put a reminder on that last post on how to retrieve the newsletter.
Simply click on the link (like the word June) and it will download a pdf of the newsletter. Then you can open it and read it or look at the pictures or make a dart board or line the bottom of your hampster's cage.
Enjoy
Simply click on the link (like the word June) and it will download a pdf of the newsletter. Then you can open it and read it or look at the pictures or make a dart board or line the bottom of your hampster's cage.
Enjoy
Newsletter finally linked and online
I finally got links made so I can put the June and July newsletter online. July was graphic heavy so I had to divide it between two links.
June
July part 1
July part 2 (Includes my trip to Israel)
Shalom,
LeAnn
June
July part 1
July part 2 (Includes my trip to Israel)
Shalom,
LeAnn
Friday, August 8, 2008
Heads Covered
In Israel, one of the families that we meet and spent one day with was Ariel, Meital and their little angel, Tohar (means Purity in Hebrew). Ariel just got a promotion at work to a.... I think a Captain. I may be wrong on the rank, I do know it means he is no longer in volunteer service but he is now paid. His wife, Meital makes head coverings. They are observant and thus she must wear a covering all of the time. (Only married women must wear the coverings) Anyway she and one helper makes them and sells them in various upper end shops around Israel. They sell for 130.00 Shekels. Darrel got four of them (at a much discounted rate) for Sarah, Jordan, Hannah and myself. They are very pretty. When Hannah wears hers she says she is a princess.
While with this family on Friday in Jerusalem, at one point little Tohar reached up to her daddy and said "Abba". It was so touching. I know I must have been staring because Ariel felt he needed to explain that Abba was daddy or father in Hebrew. I have so many times heard the analogy of our heavenly father who we call Abba picking us up into His arms when we lift our arms to Him and call him Abba. So to see this little Hebrew child, named Purity, raising up her arms and calling her Abba and he picking her up in a loving embrace was a beautiful sight to see. I've pictured it before in my mind, but now I will forever see this memory when I think of this analogy. Beautiful! Have you asked your Abba to pick you up today?
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