Quick Post today

So very quickly a note on Soccer from Saturday. Eden's team won their game 3-2 and Eden did great! She got to play quite a bit and she took a bit of a beating. She was sore afterwards.

Joey's game went well even though they lost 5-1. Joey played defense the entire game and by the end he really seemed to get what he was doing. We talked about it in the car on the way home and it was cool to actually feel like I understood the sport and was able to give him some pointers. A real bonding moment!!!

So today Jager was sick, but we did school anyway. I thought we'd have to miss out on a lot, but really I only had to cut circle time down a bit. Today's lesson began with an apology letter written by Eve herself concerning the events that took place in the garden between her and the serpent those many years ago. She explained her side of things. It was neat to see the story brought to life for the kids on a scroll I made to look really old. Then we did a drawing that depicted Adam and Eve leaving the garden after being banished. A little sad, but it was a neat way to picture what they were leaving behind and walking into. The land outside the garden so barren and dry. The pictures turned out great.

We then moved on to discuss the first murder. I was certain this would be a hard subject for Joey. I knew Eden would get it, but as soon as I mentioned Cain and Able Joey was actually the one who said "Isn't Cain the one who killed his brother Abel?" I assumed he learned it at church, but come to find out he actually learned it himself while reading his Bible on his own, which he does often without prompting. We discussed quite a bit about why God accepted Abel's offering to God and not Cain's. Abel's offering came from his heart and from his hard work of raising his flock. Cain offered fruit which God gave freely in the garden. Cain's offering was really just Cain giving back to God what God had given him. Not really a sacrifice. Then we moved on to the murder and discussed why Cain murdered his brother. We discussed the idea that Cain may still have thought of things as they were in paradise. After all Abel was not only the first murder, but the first true death. Until then they couldn't understand fully what that meant. Cain's anger overtook him and he took his brother's life without realizing that he'd never come back. God punished Cain severely and Cain did not really speak to and know God after that. The kids and I agreed that no punishment is worse than not having that ability or want to speak to God.

That pretty much concluded our day because of Jager not feeling well we decided that would be enough. Tomorrow's lesson is going to be really neat. I'll post about it once we are done and hopefully Jag will feel better so I can get some pictures of our work. The kids have done some fantastic drawings and their handwriting gets better everyday.

I guess that wasn't a quick post after all :-)