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Apr. 21, 2009

Week 29, April 13-17, 2009

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We continued on with Ephesians this week, finishing up chapter 3 and going through chapter 5.  We discussed unity among Christians and living as representatives of Christ.

Our Starting Strong lesson was about choosing to do what is right but unpopular versus following along in the crowd.  The scenario is an unpopular girl at school that no one wants to be friends with.  One girl, though, feels compelled to reach out to her, but worries what her friends will think.  Our study came from Luke 1: 26-38, the story of Mary carrying the Christ child and doing what she knew was right.  We discussed situations where doing the right thing might make us unpopular or might lead us to sacrifice a great deal.

We continued reading about the middle years of WWII, during the wars on both the Pacific front against Japan and on the European front with Germany.  We also read about entertaining the troops and how women were managing on the home front, taking over jobs that their husbands and sons previously held. 

For K's read aloud, we finished up The Winged Watchman.  A very touching ending and a very good book overall.  We also began Thimble Summer for K's reader and A's read aloud.  This is the same author of Gone Away Lake so we already were familiar with the style.  This book seems very different though.  A finished up Frindle for her reader.  I am impressed that she understood just about all of the story.  She is really getting much better.

Our poetry reading was written by Sonia Sanchez and was called "To PJ (2 years old who sed write a poem for me in Portland, Oregon)".  We had a nice discussion about dialect and when and why it is used in literature.

Nothing unusual for L this week.  She is cruising.

More next week!

A.H.
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