Changed By Love

Changed By Love

Following the Lamb wherever he goes… Revelation 14:4

40 Days for Life Fall Campaign 2011

Another 40 Days for Life campaign has come to an end
— and we can look back now at lives FOREVER CHANGED.

During these 40 days, there have been …

… 508 lives saved — that we know of — because of
God’s response to your prayer!

From past campaigns, we expect the number to KEEP
GROWING, as our local campaign leaders get their final
reports in.

– Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life
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I have read the daily blog posts and prayed for the ones who are praying in front of abortion clinics and for the clients and for the clinic workers. I’m praying for an end to abortion. A confirmed number of 508 babies were saved this time. These babies and their families are precious in the sight of God. He will bless them for their decision to choose life.

God is doing amazing things in these days. Be encouraged! He is at work all over.

Even in your life.

Monet’s Bridge Over Water Lilies Craft

I found this idea on Valerie’s blog at The Crafty Classroom. It looked so neat that I had to try it. Fiona loves to paint and do all kinds of crafty things, so I asked her to do it with me.

Valerie shows you how to do it here:

http://www.thecraftyclassroom.com/CraftArtistMonet.html

Here’s how Fiona and I did it.

We looked at this picture of Monet’s Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies.



I put the masking tape on our papers. That was not really very easy. I had to cut the masking tape in half because it was too wide. Then I had to make the shape of the bridge.

Then we chose our paint colors and put them on paper plates so we could blend them. We used tempera paint instead of finger paint because that’s what we have. We used card stock like Valerie suggests.

 

Fiona said this was the best school time she ever had because it was just me and her. She loved it!

We just dabbed the paint on with our fingers. Fiona seemed a little hesitant to stick her fingers in the paint. Is this really allowed?

Mine looked like this while the tape was still on. We had to wait for the paint to dry before we took the tape off.

This is how Fiona’s looked with the tape still on.

When it dried, I took the tape off and voila! Beautiful bridge over water lilies!

I took the tape off of Fiona’s, too. It was hard to do. It took some of the paper off, too, even though we used card stock. But it still looked nice, I thought.

We hung them on the wall. I might get some cheap frames to put them in. I really like them. I’ve loved Monet’s water lilies for years, and I’m happy to finally do art work similar (in a very loose way) to his.

I’m going to get Linnea in Monet’s Garden at the library and have the younger children watch the video and read the book.

The book is written like a scrapbook that shows a trip that Linnea and her elderly friend, Mr. Bloom, take to visit Monet’s house and garden.  They see the water lilies and the Japanese bridge that Monet painted many times in his lifetime. Some art history is included in the story, too. This book is a favorite of many who love Monet’s paintings. I enjoyed it when I read it to my older kids years ago.

You can find them at Amazon.

Linnea in Monet’s Garden

Linnea in Monet’s Garden DVD

Snow!!! And a Mario Party Homeschool Review

Saturday, October 30th, we had a snowfall of about 6 inches. What a surprise when we looked out the window that morning.

Here is our holly bush covered with snow.

This is William. Anna built him and lost him in one day.

You can tell these are Douglas snowmen by their blue eyes. 😛

We did our annual candy event that we’ve called by various names. Last year we called it Freedom of Religion Day. This year we called it Candy and Homeschool Review Day with a Mario Party theme. And we all dressed up in our Mario T-shirts (the ones who had them)! So it’s a hodgepodge, thrown-together kind of occasion. But it was fun! And we reviewed lots of stuff we’ve been learning since last Oct. 30 or thereabouts.

Every year around Oct. 31st, we do a review of what we’ve learned in our homeschool, and the kids get the opportunity to earn their big bag of candy instead of begging for it.

This year, I let the little kids go first. Anna worked with Abby, and Morgan worked with Emma, asking them to identify shapes, colors, numbers, etc.

I asked the twins questions like a few addition and subtraction problems, counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s, all about the life cycle of butterflies, atmosphere, leaves changing colors, dolphins, ocean, nutrition, favorite Bible story and person, overview of Jesus’ life, other Bible people like Noah and Moses, and for Geography they had to locate where we live on the map of the USA and the world map.

They were allowed to take a piece of candy every time they answered a question correctly or talked about what they knew about a topic.

For the older kids I asked them multiplication facts, states and capitals, questions about the Bible like “what have you been reading lately”, “Who’s your favorite person in the Bible”, “What’s your favorite Bible story”, favorite Bible verse.

Then we covered Science by having each one narrate what they’ve been learning in Science.

Then we covered a lot of History.

Medieval History – Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard the Lion Heart, Archbishop of Canterbury – Thomas Becket.

Jamestown – Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, John Rolfe, Powhatan

Thanksgiving – Chief Massasoit, Pilgrim leaders, Governor Bradford, Brewster (spiritual leader).

American Revolutionary War – major events of the war, George Washington, the founding fathers and mothers (Abigail Adams), important dates.

Civil War – major generals, battles, Gettysburg (of course), weapons, the Revival – the Third Great Awakening that happened right around that time and Finney’s revivals.

Then Shawn gave us a summary of Dante’s life.

Everybody got candy when they answered questions. They didn’t get as much as kids get when they go begging, but how much candy do kids really need? Ha! Besides, we have leftover candy they can get when their bags are empty!

We then went to the computer and watched “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” and ate popcorn, then some of us listened to the first half of the Adventures in Odyssey series “The Green Ring Conspiracy”.

And now for the ultimate irony:

This is what we did the day before the big snowfall!

An agility course wearing light jackets and sweat shirts!