The Homeschool Chronicles: Day 3

Today was a little rough, to be honest. I had an issue with my son, Joey today. He was very fidgety and argumentative. It was tough getting through our lesson. Plus, it's extremely hot today and our school room is not air conditioned. We eventually made it through and our paintings came out beautifully. I must say my kiddos are so talented. We've had a lot of fun learning about creation and making it so real by painting what it may have looked like.

We started the day, as usual, with a prayer and circle time which consists of activities age appropriate for Jade all the way up to Eden. Today we tossed assorted nuts, in their shells, out onto the sidewalk (we've done something with these nuts each day). Then I had Eden and Joey stand on either side of a line in the sidewalk. All the nuts were on one side of the line. The object of the game was the person on the side with all the nuts had to pick them up with their feet and pass them to the side the other person was standing on. The person on the other side had to then pick them up or kick them back over to the other side. Easy enough.....until I made them do it with their eyes closed. I also had them pick them up with their eyes closed by hand and pass them to the other. They couldn't see where they were handing them or where they were coming from. It was fun watching them figure out ways to get them where they needed to be.

Our lesson today was on the third day of Creation. This is when God made vegetation upon the earth. We also read an interesting legend story about the third day that not only talked about the vegetation here on earth, but the vegetation found in Paradise. It sounds so beautiful. After our lesson we painted pictures of what the earth may have looked like those first days with vegetation.

This is Eden's. I like how you can really make out the trunks of the trees and how the sun shines through.