We began our day with our circle time which I think sounds so young for Eden, but we include activities for everyone to do and she really enjoys the time. We pray and learn a poem. We do some fun games. Then we throw in some times tables and some challenging mental math problems. Well, I thought they were challenging. Despite Eden's resistance to math, she's a wiz at it and she buzzes through the questions I recite to her. She doesn't work any of them out on paper. It's amazing how much she retains with math. Joey does the same thing. Obviously his questions are geared for a 4th grader, but he just answers in a snap. They don't need to be too challenging I guess. They're really just used to keep their mind sharp.
Our main lesson today was on Creation Day 4. This is the day God gave the earth the sun and the moon. One to rule the day and one to rule the night and to separate the light from the darkness. We read a story after we read the Bible verse which comes from a Legends of the Bible book. The story that goes with this part of Creation is really quite cute. It basically states that when God originally created the sun and the moon they were given equal power. The moon speaks to God stating that with so many things God created there was one more powerful than the other. For example, water is more powerful than fire because water can quench fires. The moon gives a couple other examples of this in his speech. The moon then states to God that He created the sun and the moon and it would only be fitting that one was greater than the other. This makes God angry because God can see that the moon wishes to be the more powerful one and he punishes the moon making it's power 1/6 of the sun's. Then the moon is sorrowful and begs God for mercy, so to speak, and God provides that mercy by stating that in the future world the moon's power will be restored full strength. Instead of simply being thankful the moon decides to inquire what the sun's power will be in the future world. This angers God again because the moon obviously is still worried about power, so God commands that the sun's strength in the future world will be increased 7 fold. The story goes on to explain in more detail how the sun travels and the angels that accompany it through its journey etc. It also states that at the beginning of each journey the sun and the moon beseech God to relieve them of their duties because they no longer can bear witnessing the sins of man. The story goes on to talk about why the sun continually becomes weaker as time goes by etc. It's a really beautiful tragic sort of story and we all liked it very much. So today we did a painting showing the pale moon and the stars in the night sky. They turned out really neat and we really had a lot of fun today.
Eden's painting.
Joey's painting
My painting
Jade's painting. She used two colors today.
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