A-Z Review Week

February 11, 2013 · 1 Comment ·

Periodically I leave a gap in our verse memorization to make time for reviewing what we have learned so far (as well as to compensate for the fact that we have more than 26 weeks in a school year). This week I also took the time to explain more fully exactly what our A-Z Memory Verse System is. This has been posted as a new page at the top of our site replacing our Reading List Page which I had failed to keep updated, anyway. We do have a new hymn however, so read on and if you haven’t done so already, make sure you add your favorite hymn to our ongoing list by clicking on the Hooray For Hymns icon at the top of this page!

Hymn of the Week: “The Wonder of It All” (George Beverly Shea)

There’s the wonder of sunset at evening, the wonder as sunrise I see;
But the wonder of wonders that thrills my soul is the wonder that God loves me.

O, the wonder of it all! The wonder of it all! Just to think that God loves me.
O, the wonder of it all! The wonder of it all! Just to think that God loves me.

There’s the wonder of springtime and harvest, the sky, the stars, the sun;
But the wonder of wonders that thrills my soul is a wonder that’s only begun.

Friday’s Factoid 19 (by Titus and Joel and Nate!)

February 8, 2013 · 10 Comments ·

Saturn is the “Ivory Soap Planet” because if you put it in water it would float. We did a science experiment with different kinds of soap to see which ones would float in water. Only Ivory did because it has gas bubbles inside. Saturn is a gaseous planet and is less dense than water so it would float, too (Joel, 7 1/2).

We put another bar of Ivory soap in the microwave to see what would happen. We all made a hypothesis. I thought it might disappear, Joel said it would explode, Nate said it would melt, and Sam said it would get bubbles. Then I remembered that air expands if it gets hot so I changed my guess. Mom said that was okay (Titus, 9).

We took the soap out of the microwave and it was all puffed up like a cloud. It was bigger than the plate. It stuck to the sides of the microwave. We played with it and turned it into snow. We made a big mess. But it was soap so Mom said it was a clean mess (Nate, 5 1/2).

Q is for…

February 4, 2013 · 4 Comments ·

Okay, so Q and Z are about the only 2 letters in the alphabet that I couldn’t find an astronomy related memory verse for. In fact, I couldn’t find one for any of our creation themes the past few years so I just keep recycling this one over and over. It’s a verse worth knowing well!

This Week’s Memory Verse: Q is for…

“Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.” Psalm 119:88

Hymn of the Week: “The Love of God” (Lehman/Mays)

The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell,
It goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest hell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled and pardoned from his sin.

Oh love of God, how rich and pure! How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure, the saints’ and angels’ song.

Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill and every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry;
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, tho stretched from sky to sky.