Courageous Kids do Greek Mythology... With a little help from Olaf...

November began our two month break from ECC, and we jumped headlong into Greek Mythology. First thing I realized was thankful for was MFW lesson plans after making a months worth of my own! But it's truly been a blast and I am amazed at how much they have learned. I haven't spent a large focused amount of time on this sort of literature study before with my girls. We read many different myths and practiced our summarizing and writing skills. I found and excellent pre-made unit on Teachers Pay Teachers that we used as the base for our study :

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Greek-Mythology-Interactive-Notebook-Unit-Myths-Foldables-and-Projects-1204771

I don't think this month would have gone near as smoothly without all the preparation done by this amazing teacher! ill post some pictures of our finished projects shortly!


In other November happenings our new Wednesday night program for elementary kids at the church has taken off with flying colors for God's glory! We have created The Courageous Kids from scratch, and set out with pretty much a prayer at the beginning of the school year. We start most nights off with 30 min of basic martial arts training by one fabulous father who has his black belt in multiple disciplines.  I think one of the best parts is he's a guy you would never "expect" to be a  multiple black belt holder. I am pretty sure he took his share of bullying and teasing in school and the kids recognize it and respond even more because of it. The picture below Was from a night he was teaching the an African style and the kids were focusing on footwork. After our martial arts time we move into a bible lesson and the kids have an opportunity to earn stripes for their belts through scripture memory. The last 30 min is usually spent on praise songs. The goal is for the group to sing with the praise band in Worship.

Percy Jackson and Greek myths  took over some of Hulk's math lessons. He built a sea serpent while Yang went with Clarice over Polyphemus' cook pot....

The kids finished up their co-op Science with posters advertising different minerals....

We also to a field trip to INK in Gainesville. They played Nate Saint in the plane and in general had a good time playing in all the different areas....

We also took a day off to help decorate the church for Christmas. We had to do pre-Thanksgiving because its a big job and we had a BIG event the next weekend... This is our set for our children's worship series entitled "Unfrozen".