The Crayon Box Song

When I was just a little child no higher than your knee,
My mother bought a box of crayons, just for me.
I picked them up and I opened them up and I looked way down inside,
And the colors there reminded me of Jesus when He died.

O...Red is the color of the blood that He shed,
Brown is for the crown of thorns they laid upon His head.
Blue is for royalty! Within Him did dwell;
And yellow is for the Christian who's afraid to tell.

I colored and I colored 'til the crayons were all gone,
And though I am much older now, the mem'ry lingers on.
And when I see a little child with crayon box in hand,
I tell them what they mean to me and hope they'll understand.

O...Red is the color of the blood that He shed,
Brown is for the crown of thorns they laid upon His head.
Blue is for royalty! Within Him did dwell;
And yellow is for the Christian who's afraid to tell.

Afraid to tell of a Saviour who died on Calvary,
He died for lowly sinners just like you and me;
And someday soon He's coming back to be our King,
And the colors of the crayon box we will sing!

O...Red is the color of the blood that He shed,
Brown is for the crown of thorns they laid upon His head.
Blue is for royalty! Within Him did dwell;
And yellow is for the Christian who's afraid to tell.

So, don't you be a Christian, who's afraid to tell!

written by: William V. Mason

Memorials

In chapter 3, we are learning about Memorials- this based off when the Lord told Joshua to have the children of Israel to take 12 stones and put them in the middle of the Jordan River after the children of Israel crossed over as a memorial for what the Lord had done for them. It appears that the Lord allowed the river to be held up like an invisible dam and waited until the stones were in place before allowing the water to return to normal.

For our field trip we went downtown and took a look at a very large memorial right here where we live- Monument Circle. I hadn't been there in a while but we really did enjoy ourselves- the next time we will stay longer because we will be studying the Civil War in the next volume of Weaver.

Here's some pics:

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

This is soooooo true...

If you give a Homeschooling Mom a cookie, she'll want the recipe.
She will plan a complete unit study on the History of Cookies.
The family will take field trip to a farm and see where we get eggs, milk and grain.
At home they will make butter out of milk.
The children will want to start grinding their own grain.
Mom will purchase a Bosch Universal Kitchen System.
She will remember she will need a new list of cookbooks.
So, she will order "An Introduction To Whole Grain Baking w/ CD", "Desserts", "The Cooking With Children CD", and "Lunches & Snacks Cookbook" by Sue Gregg, also "Whole Foods for Kids to Cook".
Mom orders a 100 lb bag of wheat berries.
Now she will grind her own wheat grain into flour.
The children remember the farm field trip and knowing they can't possibly get a cow so they beg for a few chickens.
So, to a trip to the library to research how to build a chicken coop and to how to care for chickens.
On the way out the door Mom sees the book, "Chicken Tractor" by Andy Lee & Pat Foreman.
They stop by the Feed and Seed to pick up materials and ask where to purchase the chicks.
There the clerk tells them about egg that can be incubated.
He sells them a book on hatching eggs, eggs, and incubator.
At home Mom and the younger children set up the incubator while Dad and the older children build the chicken tractor.
Back to the library to pick up gardening books and more books on chickens.
The oldest daughter now starts a business grinding flour for the her friend's families.
While her younger sisters are selling homemade cookies to their neighbors.
The boys have started building a new chicken tractor because they want more eggs for breakfast.
That cookie that started this all, the homeschooling mom's three year old ate it.

by Sher Birmingham, wife to Bill
Successfully at Home Business, School, and Cooking

I can do all things through Christ...

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. 

The road to success is not straight.  There is a curve called Failure, a loop called Confusion,
speed bumps called Friends, red lights called Enemies, caution lights
called Family.  You will have pot holes called Jobs.  But, if you have a
spare called Determination, an engine called Perseverance, insurance called
Faith, a driver called JESUS, you will make it to place called SUCCESS!

Florida

Here are some pics of us in Florida for Spring Break. Most are of us at the Holy Land Experience.

www.holylandexperience.com

Pic of us outside the replica of a Jerusalem Gate

Kids at the Holy Land Experience

Kids with Priest before going into the Tabernacle

Boys outside the Tabernacle

Kids outside a replica of Cave the Quaram, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.

Son pretending to be Pharaoh for the day

Pesky Roman Soldiers!

Repost

I am reposting this in honor of Black History Month- actually I love this story so much I just thought it should be on my blog twice.

Grandma's Quilt

This is my first entry and I would like to dedicate it to my ~Grandmother~ I have been homeschooling my children for three years now and I enjoy every minute of it. God told me to do it and He has supplied every need with each step we take in this journey. I would like to share this story with you: For the month of February I decided we should cover Black History. I went to the library and borrowed some books as usual. I was looking for a particular book called "Sweet Sarah and the Freedom Quilt". In this story Clara has a quilt that is really a map of the Underground Railroad. Each patch represents a part of the escape route. I thought that would be pretty neat to cover since we have two quilts in the house that my 85 year old great aunt had made. I noticed next to that book was another one and I basically grabbed it because it looked like it would go along with the lesson. It stayed on my shelf for about two weeks until I took it down to read it to the children. The name of this book was "The Patchwork Quilt" as I read the book it became very interesting. I found out later it was the children's version of the book "Hidden In Plain View". The adult version talked of the secret slave codes that were hidden in quilts during slavery. The quilts were to look as if they were airing out, but it was a message to the other slaves. As I looked at the patterns, one looked strangely familiar. As I began to look further into the two books, I was very surprised to discover that pattern in the book was the pattern on one of the quilts my great aunt had made!  It is called the Dresden Wheel- it was used to alert other slaves that the one who hung it out to "air" were about to make a journey on the Underground Railroad and their help would be needed to gather extra food and supplies and a cover for them to make this journey. The Dresden Wheel was from a pattern for china made in Germany. And it also represented Dresden, Ohio- a stop on the Underground Railroad. The beautiful part of my story is that my Grandmother passed away 3 years ago on a hot day on June 15th. She had her front door and back door opened as if she were hot, but she had that Dresden Quilt over her. We believe she was letting us know that she was about to take her journey from earth to glory and she was ready to go.   Here is a website I used for info and it has many different links: http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.html