Spring Chickens

Today we continued with our Spring / Easter themed lessons.

In Bible we discusses two verses;

 Matthew 23:37
.....how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.

and Psalm 91:4
  He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge.

We talked about why a mother hen gathers her chicks under her wings, For warmth, protection, shelter.

We asked "How then is Jesus like the mother hen"? When we are afraid, or lonely, sad, or just need help, he will "warm" us by listening, guiding, and comforting us. We also talked about how Jesus work on the cross was a form of protection; He was protecting us from separation from God.

Now if you know my kids you will know that everything is a craft oppertunity and while this was very simple it did a good job illustrating what we talked about ( see image)

It may be difficult to tell but they first drew a cross on their paper, then added wings( Jesus)  and added a chick on the bottom with their name.  Jesus' protection and love.

This week our focus will be on the scientific method so we discussed the function of , and did an experiment with feathers. If you scroll to the bottom of the page on the following site you can check out the experiment we did.  http://www.hometrainingtools.com/eggs-and-feathers-projects-for-elementary/a/1484/

Observing a real feather , the barbs, and barbules

This is an example of the microsoft word documents I make for our science lessons.  It is a packet  that I made up  in just a few minutes. What is nice is that we will use it over and over , but I will just change out the image depending on the topic and re-print.

We also worked on Math(added division with jelly beans again to our regular book lessons), Spelling ( using shaving cream for fluffy/feathery spelling words), Reading, and Latin. Of course we had to add the Latin word for chicken, which is pullus by the way- heehee.

We wrapped up the day by painting with feathers- both ends. While most of the children enjoyed this, there was one who was not very happy with the abstract nature of our creations. 

When all was said and done though, I think we all agreed it was a nice day. 



Just a little update from yesterdays experiment- we have salt crystals!!! 

Well, that's all I have for today! Thanks for reading along!

Joanna