In keeping with my plans to celebrate the liturgical year more fully in 2009, Lent has arrived. We (meaning me, not the kids) made a lenten calendar. The purple squares are the 40 days of lent while the yellow squares mark Sundays. I added pictures to our special days of the season. Easter Sunday is still blank. I can't decide what to put on it. I'm thinking a tomb of some sort, but I haven't figured it out yet. I wanted to hot glue jellybeans to the Sundays, but my hot glue sticks are MIA from the move. You can't see the special effects, but the path glitters. I'm going to write some form of Pray, Fast, Give on it too.
As part of our extra giving during the season, each day the kids will be counting our blessings and putting that amount of money in our rice bowl. The rice bowl will be returned to church on Holy Thursday. Today they counted pillows. We have somewhere between 16-25 pillows. It all depends on how well you count and how you define the term pillow. The kids decided to use their clipboards to record their counts. They then counted out the change themselves. Jonah counted pennies, but I made Anna trade up her pennies to nickels and dimes. I'm always looking for the additional school lesson :)
This is our ark. Each day of Lent during tea time we will be opening a window in the ark and discovering an animal mentioned in the bible. This $3 ark even came with a pamphlet to learn a little about the animals and a lesson relating to lent. Today's lesson was wonderful. What a deal for $3!!
Our other plans for Lent include picking a family member to receive extra prayers for the day. Today was Anna and tomorrow is Jonah's day. Works out perfectly for Mon - Sat. The biggest hit today, though, was our sacrifices. Each day the kids will have a behavior to focus on and earn jelly beans. Today their sacrifice was "no yelling or smart mouths." They earned a jelly bean for every time they used happy language and lost a jelly bean when they yelled or had smart mouths. What a wonderful day for me! They were falling over each other to be nice. Eli has never had so many books read to him or so many options for playing.
As part of our extra giving during the season, each day the kids will be counting our blessings and putting that amount of money in our rice bowl. The rice bowl will be returned to church on Holy Thursday. Today they counted pillows. We have somewhere between 16-25 pillows. It all depends on how well you count and how you define the term pillow. The kids decided to use their clipboards to record their counts. They then counted out the change themselves. Jonah counted pennies, but I made Anna trade up her pennies to nickels and dimes. I'm always looking for the additional school lesson :)
This is our ark. Each day of Lent during tea time we will be opening a window in the ark and discovering an animal mentioned in the bible. This $3 ark even came with a pamphlet to learn a little about the animals and a lesson relating to lent. Today's lesson was wonderful. What a deal for $3!!
Our other plans for Lent include picking a family member to receive extra prayers for the day. Today was Anna and tomorrow is Jonah's day. Works out perfectly for Mon - Sat. The biggest hit today, though, was our sacrifices. Each day the kids will have a behavior to focus on and earn jelly beans. Today their sacrifice was "no yelling or smart mouths." They earned a jelly bean for every time they used happy language and lost a jelly bean when they yelled or had smart mouths. What a wonderful day for me! They were falling over each other to be nice. Eli has never had so many books read to him or so many options for playing.
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