This week we did several activities related to Jesus as the Bread of Life. We baked bread using the recipe in the teacher's manual (a simple recipe that has you raise the dough in a warm oven). Miss M did most of the work herself! Ingredients for baking bread: warm water, yeast, honey, flour, salt, and oil. Miss M carefully measuring out whole wheat flour. She also made a napkin holder with bread-shaped ends declaring Jesus is the Bread of Life ! Unfortunately, we haven't used it yet since I don't have any napkins right now. In history we've been reading about the French pioneers who paddled up rivers in birch bark canoes. Miss M made a canoe out of construction paper. Although Miss M has been reading at a late-2nd or early-3rd grade level for a while now, she hasn't been particularly interested in reading chapter books until this week! She picked up a copy of The Happy Hollisters by Jerry West that had been my dad's when he was a...