One thing i like about being a homeschool mama, is having the time to be able to follow little rabbit trails - or fly by the seat of my pants with my little ones.
i started out the year, thinking that (for bible) we could just read proverbs all year - all 31 chapters - turn around & read it again.
We just finished our first go 'round - (& the littles memorized Proverbs 15) - but i decided when we finished, that i wanted to change course for a bit. The next sermon series at church is on the book of Jonah - & as my big girls are getting older & more mature, i find i want them to be ready to get as much as they can out of church, so i decided we'd take a week & read & discuss the book of Jonah.
So, on Thursday, over to that tiny 4 chaptere'd Jonah i flipped. i have this cool bible that gives a little historical & geographical background for ignoramuses like me :) & we found our locations on our big world map & had a short discussion about those scary assyrians...
& then i read...
Jonah chapter one.
It's a pretty good story - & the last verse of the first chapter is a bit of a cliff hanger...
"But the Lord provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights."
& i slowed down & read it in my expectant voice... thinking, "they're gonna beg me for chapter 2..."
But instead...
they all laughed and said, "And then the angel asparagus's sing, 'our God is a God of second chances'???"
Thanks, veggie tales... Should be a fun week... :)
That's too funny! I love that song and Veggie Tales, but sometimes I think their skew on scripture may in turn skew the truth a little too much - give kids an inaccurate picture of what the Bible really says that will stick in their minds (since it's visual). I know, I'm being too serious. It does, however, give us the opportunity to tell them the true story, unveggie-fied. Have fun with Jonah this week.
ReplyDeletei totally agree, Marcia. Great reason why we can't leave it up to veggie tales to tell the stories... it's kinda nice to just go straight from the bible - & then let anything else be supplementary.
ReplyDeleteHA...in any case...it looks like the vegatables have been blocked on this post!...
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