First quarter down and man, have we learned a ton. We’ve really dug into some neat stuff with all the readings in Genesis. Victor Journey Through the Bible has been great for chapter by chapter summary. We loved the activity for Abraham’s descendants putting the names on an index card and their relationship to the 12 sons or Tribes of Israel. It was such a great visual tool. I was amazed today by my 10YO DD at the amount of bible knowledge she has. She has a better grasp of bible history as well as an understanding of spiritual things than many adults. Did I mention how proud we are to be able to say all the books of the old Testament. We are now learning The 10 commandments. I found this really neat flip chart at www.livingwaters.com to memorize them, so instead of taking 10 weeks it only took 10 minutes. We have also been using a card game I found on Amazon called Moses knows the 10 commandments. It’s really great because it gives a situation and the kiddies have to say what commandment is being broken. We talked about how it’s one thing to know what’s right and wrong but a whole different thing to be able to apply it to our lives. One day as we were reviewing our past verses, little J said she wanted to try, So she did and quoted 2 Timothy 3:16. It was perfect! We watched the movie Jacob, from The Bible Collection. I really liked it because it portrayed him in a much kinder way than how I read him. The kiddies were drawn in as well and we all seem to have a better understanding of why he could’ve done the things he did.

We finished up our Egyptian costumes in time for Hallelujah night.

They really got some attention and we were able to share with others what we’ve been doing and learning In CTG.

J was just plain cute.

DD and R have had fun with writing in Hieroglyphics. They made cartouches, which made great bookmarks. We were going to make our own Rosetta Stone but never got around to it. DD made a Birthday card for Papa. She wrote “Happy Birthday” first Egyptian style, then in Spanish, finally in English. So I figured that was close enough.

Yesterday the kiddies made Egyptian clay pots…

well…and a Larry Jedi shepherd…

Anyway, we're still in Egypt.