Monday, July 30, 2012
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Teaching appreciation for people.
Handwritten cards are SO much sweeter for friends! This was drawn by Joy.
Also, got to attend my Great Aunt Margie's 80th birthday today - her home was blown away in the tornado that hit Pleasant Grove last year. She since has a new home on her property and we are thankful to still have her!
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
People Worth Knowing - C.S. Lewis
In my search for something to teach my kids today - Joy is asking to learn now!!!! I decided upon the writer of the NARNIA books - C.S. Lewis! So Joy has to know which ones have movies made about them: book 2 - The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, book 4 - Prince Caspian, and book 5 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Also, Joy had to know if he was dead - I said "Yes, but he was a Christian." To which she responded, "So we'll see him up in Heaven!" I said he wrote a lot of Christian books, the Narnia books for example. Then she began to connect the dots as we've told her before that Aslan is the King like God, the White Witch is like the devil, and even the children become kings and queens like we are princesses and princes because we are children of the King of Kings! Everyone doesn't BELIEVE in Narnia, but those who know it is there BELIEVE - just like HEAVEN! Also, we learned something new today in the front of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, he writes a dedication to his god daughter Lucy (I'm sure that is where he got her character!) Here is the amazing writer and Christian thinker himself, the world would have missed out without him :) Shannon has successfully read The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe to Joy but we need to continue reading these wonderful stories to our children. As for now, we will watch the movie of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader!
Amelia Earhart disappeared!
Most people know this already, but when Google announced yesterday would have been her 115th birthday - I decided to teach Joy about her since she didn't nap because she's the oldest and getting to big for naps :( She remembered everything I told her, and recapped our whole conversation to her little brother yesterday afternoon! Fascinating life of a woman who didn't have the perfect life nor lots of time nor money to pursue her dream, but if you LOVE something you will MAKE time for it! We have learned her as the first woman to fly a plane across the ocean and she set many other world records - see her list below. But more importantly she believed anything a man could do, a woman could do too! The mystery of her disappearance on her last flight (an attempt to fly around the whole earth) is what makes her story so interesting - did she crash and die or survive on an island? The waters around Howland Island where she was supposedly headed are around 17,000 - 18,000 ft deep! If the plane went down there, it is no wonder we never saw nor heard from her again! Here's her website: http://www.ameliaearhart.com/about/bio.html
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
People Worth Knowing - Billy Graham
Since I've been teaching the kids some important women that loved God, I decided I should teach them about a godly man - Billy Graham. His life speaks for itself - watch this video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5mpd13hsXs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5mpd13hsXs
Sunday, July 8, 2012
People Worth Knowing - Anne Frank
In presenting her story to my kids, I explained that she was a Jew, like the in the Bible, one of God's people. The Nazis, who didn't love God, hated the Jews. Her family was in hiding for 2 years before someone told where they were hiding. Her family was sent to concentration camps and all died there except her father Otto who lived to tell their story and had her diary published. There may be some persecution coming for Christians like this one day. Help us be brave against the evil of this world, stand up for the truth and all things good, and the Lord will be with us always!
People Worth Knowing - Helen Keller
(1880 - 1968) Simply amazing, this Alabama woman did not let her disabilities of deafness and blindness (due to scarlet fever as a child) stop her from living her life! With the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, she read Braille in Greek, Latin, French, German, and English! And became an outspoken activist/writer for those with disabilites. There is even a school named after her - Helen Keller School of Alabama. She once said "I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God."
Learning artists and their works - Claude Monet
He's well known for his paintings of this Water Lily Pond, Water Lilies, and Haystacks. He would paint them over and over at different times of the day studying the lighting. He is known for his use of color, something green in his painting might have all different colors in it up close.
Learning artists and their works - Edgar Degas
So I've been showing this little collection of famous artist books to my kids for a couple months now. They have really caught on to a few key ideas and images per artist. We make it a game, if they can guess the artist faster than their sibling they get to hold that book. Whoever has the most books at the end of my review wins! Since my husband Shannon was an art major in college and I was an art minor, we've always had a love of art. I think because in art we are creating, like the Creator! I don't expect my kids to be experts but they enjoy sitting and thumbing through these books - this makes me happy! This first one I will share is Degas - they know him simply as the man who painted many picture of ballerinas!
Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches!
Did you know you could make your own ice cream sandwiches? We personally think these taste better than the ones you buy in the freezer section, AND they are far more fun!
Saturday, July 7, 2012
VeggieTales is Art Too!
Since I posted a pic for Joy, this one is for my Sam. He loves to sing in his bed at night, in the morning, and sometimes in the middle of the night! When he gets a tune in his head, he will sing it over and over and OVER! It can be annoying but I can rest assured he has LEARNED something :) He is only 4 and sometimes scared of the dark, he loves to sing "God is Bigger Than the Boogie Man." Hope he likes this!
www.veggietales.com
Teaching about Art
Since Norman Rockwell is one of the first few artists I've started teaching my kids about, I posted this one for my oldest daughter Joy, at 6 yrs. old she already looks at herself in the mirror trying to see her beauty - which is SO obvious because she's beautiful. But the world tells her that to look beautiful she must wear certain clothes, fancy jewelry, and be thin. Praying for her to always KNOW how special she is inside and out! To quote Veggie Tales "God made you special and He loves you very much!"
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