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Happy birthday, Zaemn!

My nephew Zaemn is having a birthday today! It's been quite a while since we've seen him; he lives with his mom in another state.  But we think about him often and speak of him to one another. Today we're going to eat pie in his honor…and sing "Happy Birthday" too! Happy birthday, Zaemn!  We love you and pray for you always!  And we look forward to the day when we will see you again!  Miss M always says she misses you -- you two are best buds!

ECC: Introduction weeks, Part 2

Part 1 of our first two weeks of ECC can be found here . Bible This week we started reading  Kingdom Tales  and I was immediately floored at how amazing it is! I even went so far as to message my cousin and tell her she has to get her hands on a copy by hook or by crook because I just know she's going to love it as much as I do! (She herself is an author of Christian allegory.)  The kids are enjoying it too and though they're only seven and four, they easily caught onto and understood the symbolism and message of each chapter. Geography This week in geography was a continuation of basic map skills.  We talked about how cartographers draw scale maps of large landforms and Miss M copied an outline of her hand from 1:1 scale to 1:2 scale.  She did fine, but I think this is definitely an activity better suited for older students. To facilitate our study of map symbols and keys, I pulled up our neighborhood on Google Earth and sketched out the major stre