China Unit Study

We are beginning our unit on China. Below are the books we will use through out this study. There will be more added as we go through this study.

China-The Land by Bobbie Kalman
China-The People by Bobbie Kalman
The Great Wall by Elizabeth Mann
Count Your Way through China by Jim Haskins
A is for Asia by Cynthia Chin Lee
The Children of China by Matti A. Pitkanen
Children of the World:China

This morning we watched a movie titled Mysteries of Asia: Secrets of the Great Wall. This was a very good movie. The children learned how and why the Great Wall was built. They also learned that many lives were lost during that time as well.

We will be learning all about the Chinese culture, people, homes and just everyday life. This comes at a great time for us. Next month we will be having a missionary family who will be going to China.

I will post any websites I find useful for the study. Some of the stuff we have has come from our curriculum My Father's World.

One website all about China we have really enjoyed looking at is China Pictures. There is a lot of information on there. Just be aware of some of the advertisements.

Resurrection Week

This week is very special to us Christians. So what better way to teach our children the real meaning of Easter than to spend a week on it. Each day we are doing something related to what the Bible says about this week.

Today we talked about Palm Sunday and Jesus coming into Jerusalem. We read some verses in the Bible that mentioned the palm tree. I looked up in our concordance palm. There are 19 listed in our concordance, those are just from the Old Testament. Each child took turns looking up the verses.

We then headed to the dictionary
Palm-1. any of a family of mostly tropical trees, shrubs, or vines usually with a tall unbranched stem topped by a crown of large leaves. 2. a symbol of victory.

That was very interesting to the children. Andrew put it together...a symbol of victory means Jesus was victorious over our sins. Put in terms he understood!!

We then read in the Bible about Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. Luke 19:28-44 We talked about how the triumphal entry fulfilled Bible prophecy.

Prophecy Fulfilled
Psalm 8:2 Matthew 21:15-16
Zech. 9:9a Matthew 21:8-10
Zech. 9:9b John 12:12-13
Zech. 9:9f Matthew 21:6-9

Our vocabulary and spelling words for this week are:
Angel, Arimathea, Council, Earthquake, Emmaus, Galilee, Jerusalem, John, Magdalene, Mary, Mountain, Peter, Pilate, Priest, Resurrection, Risen, Robe, Room, Sabbath, Sepulchre, Skull, Stone, Sunrise, Temple, Thomas.

We are also doing a bunch of fun activities for this week also. Every year we make Resurrection Cookies, i will post the recipe at another time. This year I found this really neat cake to make. Today we had fun looking up the verses and coming up with ingredients.

~ Scripture Cake Ingredients ~
Judges 5:25 - (1/2 cup butter or margarine)
Jeremiah 6:20 - (1 cup sugar)
Isaiah 10:14 - (3 eggs, separated)
Exodus 16:31 - (1 tbsp honey)
1 Kings 4:22 : - (2 cups sifted flour)
Leviticus 2:13 - (1/2 tsp salt)
1 Corinthians 5:6 - (2 tsp baking powder)
1 Kings 10:10 - (3/4 tsp ground cinnamon)
1 Kings 10:10 - (1/4 tsp EACH cloves, allspice and nutmeg)
Judges 4:19 - (1/3 cup milk)
Genesis 43:11 - (1/2 cup chopped blanched almonds or pistachios)
1 Samuel 30:12 - (1/2 cup chopped dried figs)
1 Samuel 30:12 - (1/2 cup chopped seeded raisins)

Cake Recipe Directions:

Cream butter. Add sugar gradually, beating until light. Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition. Beat in honey. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with the milk and beat only until smooth. Stir in nuts and fruits.

Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites and pour into a loaf pan (9x5x3) lined on the bottom with wax paper.

Bake in preheated moderate oven (350 F) for 1 hour, or until done.

Cool cake in the pan for 5 minutes. Turn cake out on a rack and peel off paper. Turn cake right side up to cool.