Memories Made of Paper.

 School is fun this year.

Well, I'm not sure that Violet would agree,

but I think so.

We're taking trips all around the world,

learning about different countries.

I use the "My Father's World" curriculum,

and they nicely tie together the subjects for learning.

While studying Mexico,

we learned about deserts in our science class,

a brief history of Mexico,

and the lifestyles of the people there,

as well as how to pray for missionaries there.

When we moved on to South America,

our science included rain forests,

as well as a study of rivers, like the great Amazon.

The story of Nate Saint, and the other missionaries 

who were murdered on the beaches of the Amazon

was included in our Bible lesson.

Our central verse and theme for the year is John 3:16.

We had a fun time using a book we have

that has pictures and information about little children all over the world,

to use as samples for the paper chain people we made for our wall.

 We ended up using the whole day (after getting math, grammar, and spelling done)

just to read that book

and draw our people;

but it was a fun school day,

a rare time to really delve into what we were interested in learning.

 Violet studied the people before she created hers,

trying to get them just right according to the book.

 I'm glad she enjoys doing crafts like this with me.

Our people,

along with the colorful flowers that we made when studying Mexico

helped to dress up our school wall.

A really useful item we made this year

involved a small "decorate-it-yourself" flip calender I got on sale in the summer.

I imagine that they'll be going on sale again soon,

and I hope to pick up another for next year.

Craft stores usually have them.

 They come with just about everything you need to decorate the pages.

Instead of making a calender,

we used the colorful papers to cover the calender blocks,

 and while Violet decorated the cover,

 I typed up the verses she is supposed to memorize

to fit the pages,

trying to use fun colors

and accentuate key words

to hopefully make them easier to learn.

After gluing the verses onto the pages in the order she would have to learn them,

I let her choose stickers and such

to decorate them however she chose.

Some of her choices are kind of funny,...

but I wanted to let her be creative.

 I have to admit,

I couldn't help laughing when I saw the page

decorated with ties.

 Maybe she thinks this verse is meant for men,

perhaps because her dad is such a hard worker.

I hope to find another of these for our verse flip chart next year.

It's nice to say,

"Go through your verse book and say each of the ones 

you have learned two times each,"

and the verses are always neatly altogether.

We're going into our final week of studying Germany,

and the suggestion was to try building a castle of some sort

since Germany has some pretty nice ones.

That sure sounds like fun project material, 

but since we were both sick in the beginning of the week,

we just read a book about them.

Besides going out and gathering fieldstones,

do you have any "castle" ideas?

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