Wisdom Booklet 20~History Resource

Today we looked at Ancient Greece maps.

We then did a Geography Study on modern day Greece. Geoscribe goes perfect with the Wisdom Booklets because it is a designed to go with any curriculum so this is what I like to grab when we are doing a Geography study.We then fill out the information using our Encyclopedias.

I also like to use Operation world to see the prayer challenges of that country.I want my children to have a Christian world view and a heart for other people around the world.So instead of filling in the brief history on our notebook page they copy some of the challenges of prayer for that country.

Daniels project for today was to make Greece's flag.

We then made a cookie map of Greece.At least we attempted to lol

Wisdom Booklet 20~History Resource

My plan for every Wednesday is to always begin a resource and do just the Wisdom Booklet lesson orally.This allows me to get the family to church on time which is an important goal especially after studying punctuality in the last Wisdom Booklet lol. Each student who can read takes turns reading a paragraph from the WB.So today that is what we did for school.

Since my mineral kits ordered did not come in I am going to jump to the History resource and come back to the part1 of the science resource.That is what I love about the Wisdom Booklets it is a tool that is so flexible!

I enjoyed the lesson for today as always.My hubby is reading to the kids about Ezra PM Bible devotions so this resource ended up being God's perfect timing.I am enjoying studying the history of the Pharisees and Sadducess.It has been a good time to remind my children the dangers of religion which is not our goal but a relationship with Christ.Also to be wise concerning the traditions of men verses the word of God.

I love the spring board the Wisdom Booklet left for us to jump into the study of Ancient Greece."Every where Alexander went,he took the Hellenistic (Greek) culture with him."So off we go tomorrow to study Ancient Greece and how God's people responded to the culture and how that culture still plagues God's people today!

Excite & cause interest! Above is my Ancient Greece poster which put up to get them curious about our Ancient Greece study.I will also place a few living books with lots of pictures of Greece on the school table to start the curiosity of learning.

Next to it is my VOM poster to remind me to pray for the persecuted.

Wisdom Booklet 20~Science 2 Insects

Here are some samples of what we did today.

Evolution Stumpers: Ancient Insects (such as ants, praying mantises , houseflies, and termites) have been preserved in petrified tree sap and dated by scientist at 40-100 million years old.These insects are basically unchanged from their present day counterparts.Why didn't they develop into more complex forms? Or could it be true that creatures do reproduce "each after their own kind as the Bible states.

Wisdom Booklet 20~Science 2 Insects

~*Science Resource 2*~
How Do Termites Illustrate the" Righteousness" of the scribes and Pharisees?
For our Wisdom Booklet lesson we studied termites.We then compared them as an analogy to a Pharisee.The kids enjoyed this study.Learning interesting facts about termites and challenged spiritually as we looked at the analogy. We completed the Resource yesterday and completed the projects today.
I decided to do an insect study as one of the recommended WB projects.Here is how we did it.

• Jr.high students choose a research project from the BJU Biology book then a way to present it .Dominic decided on a mini book on major orders of insects while Joe decided on characteristics of insects doing a scrapbook to learn page.
• upper elementary students I used Considering God's Creation and did lesson 13 on insects so they ended up doing worksheets (notebooking)
• Prek-2nd we made a model of a moth & butterfly then compared them. Then I had them draw a bug to see what they learned and Angelo remembered insects has 6 legs, etc.Job drew his butterfly sideways which I thought was cute.

Daddy came home from work just when we finished up our projects so each child gave a report using their co mpleted work.Daddy enjoys hearing the children's reports and being apart of what they are learning.

Wisdom Booklet 20~Medicine Resource

How the worst plague in history confirmed the value of keeping every law of God.

I enjoyed this study.We studied history by studying the "Black Plague" and looked at the conditions that lead to the spread of this disease along with other plagues in history including those listed in the Bible.

We then looked at Bible Leviticus 11:29-47 and looked at how the Jewish community was not greatly affected by this plague because they followed God's laws given in the Bible.

After we covered history we then used the BJU Biology book to study contagious diseases and how they are passed from person to person for health class.

The kids then did a short writing assignments of what they learned.The older kids learned to use the Scrapbook Max 2.0 and made scrapbook to learn pages. Daniel did copy work from the Wisdom Booklet and drew a picture copying it off of a picture I printed from the internet.Here is what they did....

Wisdom Booklet 20~Insights Through Investigation

We looked at the Greek language learning about the Greek Superlative while comparing it to how communication has progressed through time.

We looked at the words in our verse and how in the Greek a superlative was used.



The kids then each gave a report on Samuel Morse to their Dad.I enjoyed each of their reports and enjoyed learning how this Samuel Morse gave God the glory sending Numbers 23:23 as the first message.

Wsdom Booklet 20

Wisdom Booklet 20

Major Concept: Little compromises bring great consequences

Verse: Mathew 5:19-20 Whosoever therefore shall break one of the least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven...

Character Focus: Virtue = The moral excellence and purity of spirit that radiate from my life as obey God's Word

Theme song: More About Jesus

Everything we study in this Wisdom Booklet filters through the above.