Home School week 7 (I think)

With all of the colds we've had, our school time has been a little less constant. No one had energy for it. And that is ok! The joy of this is that it is flexible and if it doesn't happen there is no loss. Somewhere in the midst of the colds, we spent some time learning about Jesus through a story in Matthew 14. It is a familiar story to many, but a profound picture of the power of God. It is the story where Jesus feeds 5,000 people with a little boys lunch - two fish and five loaves of bread. I hope and pray that it gave Owen a bigger sense of who God is and that that GREAT BIG POWERFUL GOD loves HIM enough to send His son to die for Owen.

We read the story in this board book we have and then did some water colors on a coloring sheet. He's just started to be real purposeful about this and enjoys getting the colors just where he wants them.



Later in the week we did a craft that I found HERE.

Here are the supplies needed - it's supposed to be like the loaves and bread (pretty sure they didn't have frosting back then!)



Here is the "finished product." I used quotes because Owen didn't want the goldfish on his cracker (at first he was distressed at my adding frosting to his perfectly good graham cracker, but when I assured him it was just like the frosting used on birthday cakes he complied) and so we took them off. I can't blame him. Cheese crackers on a yummy graham cracker with frosting? No thanks!



Enjoying the true "finished product." (What you can't see is ME enjoying my finished product too with a cup of coffee. You should try it sometime! Very tasty!)