Thursday, March 25

Daily Devotion: Read 1 Thessalonians 5:9-11 and talked about grief.

Writing: Faith did an alphabet journal entry; O is for Octopus and drew a nice picture. (I forgot to previously mention we are doing this for handwriting because we finished up with the Handwriting Without Tears Workbook.)

We did not have science today because I have to pick up some supplies for the experiment. Instead we did the arts & crafts project we didn't have time for last week. The kids cut shapes out of construction paper. We hung them on pieces of yarn attached to a ice cream cover with the center cut out. Then we tied colorful ribbons on the yarn and hung it up for a kite mobile.

Geography: Colored the flag of Japan and listened to a book on tape called "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes," a true story about a 12-year-old Japanese girl who was 2-years-old when the atomic bomb was dropped and then ten years later was diagnosed and died from leukemia. While sick in the hospital a friend brought her an origami crane and told her a story about if she made 1,000 paper cranes it would please the gods and she would become well. The girl's brother hangs the cranes from the ceiling of her hospital room and over the months she is able to fold over 600 paper cranes before she dies. Her classmates from school then finish making the rest so the paper cranes can be buried with her and make a book from the letters and journal she wrote. The book passes throughout Japan and Sadako becomes well known and remembered.

Math: Did an exercise in following oral directions.

Reading: Learned some new helper words and reviewed previously learned ones. Read a new story out of the workbook.

Spelling: Unscrambled words from spelling list 3.

Later this afternoon Faith will attend her weekly gymnastics class.