Thank You, Lord for the Children's Museum!

We recently finished chapter 2 of Volume 3 about Espionage. In the Bible we were covering Joshua when he sent the spies to Jericho. Thankfully, at about the time of our study, the Indianapolis Children's Museum opened a new exhibit on Spying. We had a really good time and it was perfect for the lesson.

Some places we went had nothing to do with the lesson, we just went for the fun of it. I took the kids down to the Egyptian section and found out when I got home that we would be covering Egypt again along with Hieroglyphics! I know it was the Lord that sent us that way. I did buy some papyrus paper for the kids to see and color on. I didn't realize how long it took to make that kind of paper.

My favorite was when we learning about navigation & maps-not my hot topic. I prayed and prayed and it appeared that God did not hear me ( notice I said appeared). Well, I was to tell my children what a sextant was and how to use it-HUH?!?!?  I knew the museum had a planetarium with a show about star navigation, so off we went. To my pleasant surprise there was an exhibit about you guessed it- Navigation and Maps!!! Prayer Answered. Everything that was in our curriculum for the chapter, was right before my eyes, for each child at their grade level- that would be pre-school thru 6th grade.  At the very end of the exhibit to my amazement was a Sextant!!! It was neat and there was a computer next to it to show the kids what to do and how to operate it.

Here's the website: http://www.childrensmuseum.org/

Here's some pics:

First ones are of the MAPS exhibit with the sextant

 

 

Pic of my 4 year old writing something in his spying notebook-what it is- I have no idea, but it must have been important! Funny!

My oldest son looks like he ran into an unexpected visitor!

My Middle son next to an Egyptian Tomb with Hieroglyphics.

Two of my kids in the Pyramid