Monday, October 27, 2014

China's Reforming Churches (Review)






This review is for the book "China's Reforming Churches" edited by Bruce P. Baugus. I have to be completely honest. It has taken me months to plod through this book, and I still have not gotten to the end. I love reading books about other countries. I love reading books about missions and missionaries. I love reading about church movements. To me, though, this book was a collection of very difficult essays which are not easy for the average reader to understand. Of course, each essay has a different author, so there are different "voices" and writing styles throughout the book. Unfortunately, I just couldn't keep up.

Thank you to Cross Focused Reviews and Reformation Heritage Books for a copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Kindergarten - Day 47

Day 47 - Thursday

Prayers, pledges and Bible time - "Crossing the Jordan River"


Poetry: "Three Young Rats", "Terrence McDiddler", "Leaf for a Day"




Math:



This was a game where Bri cut out 10 frogs and used them as manipulatives to figure out the addition problems. 



Then a game called "Roll it!" "Make it!" "Expand it!"

She rolled a set of dice and came up with two numbers, which made one number (first number would be in the tens place and second number would be in the ones place). She used counters to create sets of ten and sets of one that matched up with her number. She then had to create the math sum that gave her the answer she began with. She loved this and rolled right through it!



Language Arts:





This is all of Hunter's work!

He had to color each object the color which was told to him in the workbook. He did this totally on his own. He doesn't like to color but he marked each thing with the correct color - even leaving the astronaut completely white like he was supposed to. I was so impressed!


He had to match up the birds, insects, and animals to the correct books. He waved me away when I tried to tell him how to do it.



He "colored" those with fur red, those with feathers green, and those with neither he colored blue.


 He circled the animals that run with the color blue, the animals that swim with red, and the animals that fly with green.


 He had to circle the object in the row that was missing something.


He circled all the things that were "in" something.






 Just doing a little graphing to end our school day!



 We took a walk to gather more leaves for our leaf collection and found, sadly, a dead baby snake. His belly was so pretty the kids wanted me to snap a picture.



Video of Brianna saying her Bible verse (Hebrews 13:8)


 Brianna making up a song about math:


The kids playing their new musical instruments - "jingles", as I used to call them when I was a little kid!



Saturday, October 25, 2014

The Hardest Peace (Review)


This review is for the book "The Hardest Peace" by Kara Tippetts. Kara is the author of the Mundane Faithfulness blog, which I highly recommend you begin following. Kara is a wife of a pastor and the mother of four children, and she has been battling cancer for over a year. She is completely open about her journey on her blog and on Facebook, and this book is her collection of thoughts on how to feel peace in the midst of the hardest times in your life.

I love the honesty in her words and I love how she made me think about how I go through life, even though I have nothing traumatic happening right now. At some point, I will face something traumatic in my life (more likely than not) and I hope I can remember her advice in that season. I highly recommend this book.

Thank you to Litfuse Publicity and David C Cook for a copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Kindergarten - Day 46

Day 46 - Wednesday


Prayers, pledges and Bible - "Rahab and the Spies"




Missionary story - "Apostle to the West Indies". Very fitting since we just talked about Columbus sailing to the West Indies.




Poetry: "Jack-A-Nory", "To Bed", "The Jolly Miller", "The Little Nut Tree", "Diddle Diddle Dumpling", "Twinkle Twinkle", "Very Special Candy" and "When My Feet Itch". 








Math:








 A candy corn adding game I found online a while ago. I mixed up the pieces and she had to put them in order according to the addition problems.


 I got these cute word problems from teacherspayteachers.com. She loved them!




 Meanwhile...





Language Arts:




Is this our physics lesson? Construction? Never mind, let's just play!


Hunter's work:







Beautiful weather means that while Brianna is in Kindermusik, Hunter and I get to play Frisbee!