J is for Jesus

And Jerusalem, Jet Plane, and Jello!

Before splitting up into our two groups, young 5's and the writing class, each week one of the older students reads a Bible story to everyone and leads us in prayer. This has been a great practice for all our older children in reading to a group, including younger siblings, and praying outloud. Here our daughter G is reading about God's promise to Abraham that his offspring would be as numerous as the stars.


After this group devotional time, we split up into our two classes. The older children and I went downstairs for writing and the young 5's read more stories about when Jesus lived on earth. They also read about Jerusalem, and then found it on a map and globe. Our son C was impressed that a city from ancient times is still in existence today! (we have yet to go through Year 1 of Tapestry of Grace, so this was a novel concept to him!)

They arranged chairs into a jet plane shape, and "flew" to Jerusalem.



F.L.I.C. is the name that all the children gave to our co-op. We took nominations, voted the following week, and the winner was "Families Learning In Christ". Isn't that a great name?


While in Jerusalem, they wore head coverings.



Apparently they serve red jello in Jerusalem!?!!?



Meanwhile, the writers each shared their compositions from the preceeding week and learned the ins and outs of writing a topic sentence and a clincher sentence. This is a very important concept in writing which will only become more significant as they get older and write more sophisticated papers for school ~ I think they got it (I'll find out tomorrow!).