The light and the dark

We've made some memories this week. I love memories. Never again will I get the chance to really begin introducing Canaan to God. He's heard about God and Jesus when we pray at night or over food. He's learned things at church, too. But, on Monday, August 18, I intentionally began teaching Canaan about God. We started with the very beginning, because well, that's where you should start. If you don't start at the beginning, you will eventually back pedal.

Today, we finished up our week covering the letter C, the number 1 and the Bible verse Genesis 1:1. It was such a great and successful week. Every day we had tons of fun and Canaan loved going to "school". It fulfilled my goal of having routine and structure in our day and helped eliminate some of the boredom that can come with having the day wide open and no plans. See previous post for the lesson plans of each day. We followed it pretty well with the exception of Wednesday and today. On Wednesday, we added the caterpillar project. I'll attach pictures but to go along with the artwork, we read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and talked about circles. I was super proud of Canaan for putting the cut out circles in the correct places and giving me directions on where to draw the legs for each circle. Today, instead of doing the creation project I had originally planned, we are going to put that off for later when we talk about Day 4 of creation. So the project today was in direct correlation with Day 1 of creation. The pictures will help explain it.

So, first, Canaan painted the inside of a shoebox completely black

Side note: It would definitely take less time if I did it, but that's not the point.

Then, I had him look inside the box.. What do you see? "Dark" Exactly.

 Then, I put the flashlight part of my phone (actual flashlight was dead) at the other end of the box and then asked what he saw.. "LIGHT".

It was so much fun to see his reaction. Another great resource is the Kids Bible App. They have a story on creation and it's great. It's animated and Canaan just cracks up playing with the animals on it. While I was rocking Declan, I could hear him playing with it. There is a page for when God created light and dark and I could hear Canaan turning the light on and off saying "light and dark". It was really neat to hear him acting out what he has been taught. 

 Here are a couple of other pictures from the week. What I've decided to do instead of hoarding all of his work and instead of throwing it away, is to give it to family members. I'll keep some of it at first to use as review but then it will be mailed off to loved ones. In the picture above, I wrote a description of what we did this week for family who don't have Facebook.

"School" has been a success. Now I'm working on next week's plans.