This week we read about God fulfilling His promises to Abraham of land and a great nation. The kids were amazed that God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son Isaac and were relieved when God revealed another way.
The kids made shepherds crooks. A couple wanted to wrap theirs like candy canes. We used blue painters tape and yellow markers which made the project less painful than the recommended paint.
We learned that Abraham's son, Isaac grew up and had twin sons - Esau and Jacob. God chose Jacob to carry out His plan. Even though he wasn't perfect, God used him. We read about Jacob and his mother tricking his father into receiving the special blessing.
We learned Jacob had 12 sons. The older brothers sold Joseph, the favorite son, into slavery in Egypt. The brothers brought back his special coat of many colors and told the father that Joseph must've died. When famine struck, the brothers had to go to Egypt for food and happened to unknowingly run across their brother.
The kids drew a picture of Joseph and wrote about his story. I love the drawings!
We learned that Egypt had prepared for the famine by stocking up and were known for their bread.
We followed the recipe to make Egyptian Pastries. The kids kneaded the dough and rolled it out into long strips. Next, they wrapped it around to make the pastry.
We glazed the top with honey.
The kids didn't love it as much as I thought they would. It was very honey tasting.
After the cooking, the kids had an impromptu playtime in the warm, end of summer rain. Hey, no thunder... no lightning... They had a blast and it kept them busy (without any bickering) for awhile! Win! Win!
We are still experiencing a painful day 4 writing our narrations. It has definitely been an adjustment with the amount of writing in Preparing. I ask questions and they do well answering them, but seems so difficult getting them to get it written onto the paper. I'm hoping that it continues to get easier as we keep going through the program.
We took a break to visit an Airshow near Virginia Beach. With a hubby in aviation, we rarely miss a show that's nearby. The kids enjoyed watching the Blue Angels fly!
Resurrection to Reformation - Unit 6
The first question this week was, "Why are we learning about Muslims?" I explained it is history and it's good to know. This week he learned the Byzantine Empire was conquered by the Muslim Invaders. He read about Mohammed's visions that led to the writing of the Koran. He learned that Islam acknowledges Jesus as a profit, but not the son of God. Islam spread quickly when Mohammed changed his peaceful teachings to teaching by conversion with the sword. They soon began conquering land around them. He learned that Jihad is a Muslims religious duty to spread the territory by war if needed.
We are still loving these notebooking pages for history. I just have to make sure he uses the erasable pens I bought him so that it is dark enough and I can read his work clearly. Still working on penmanship... I know it is hard to read.
He wrote scriptures, wrapped them in aluminum foil, stuffed them into our bread loaf dough, and baked 5 loaves of bread.
The loaves rose beautifully - we didn't use the recipe in the book. We made homemade Rosemary Garlic bread to have with our spaghetti dinner that evening!
The other kids loved helping to find the hidden treasures that revealed the true identity of God with the verses he had written. We talked about how Christ is the son of God and the head of the church. He is the bread of life and the only path to eternity in heaven.
I'd recommend folding them a little bigger as we cut through a couple and even thought we lost one for a bit!
This week he read The Winters Tale in Shakespeare studies. He says he likes Shakespeare even if the stories are a bit odd.
We made the switch to Apologias General Science and fully discontinued using the science as written in the guide.
The spiral notebooking pages that go with the Apologia General Science textbook are awesome and seem much more to his level!
The module experiment supplies that come prepackaged are amazing and made making this plaster impression of a shell easy!
I am so glad we made the switch. With that being said, for a younger child I think the written Science is suffice but, our 8th grader needed a bit more substance. I chose to take him back to Res to Ref because he lacked a formal study of the Bible and I wanted him not to feel overwhelmed with the upper guides.
Hope you had a great week too!
Until next week!
See you then!
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