The Rainbow Will Come

Our move online this past week was many things; challenging, rewarding, exciting, boring, tricky, interesting, creative, silly, lonely, hilarious, and so much more! 

Understanding our situation, especially as a 6 and 7 year old, is pretty challenging. Our students have been incredibly flexible and adaptable, but have felt the stresses in different capacities. 

At our last Google meet of the week, we enjoyed a beautiful book, Share Your Rainbow. After a storm, a rainbow often appears. Life right now can feel a little stormy, but rainbows are out there, you just have to look. A rainbow is a symbol of hope.

This beautiful picture book features colourful rainbow illustrations from 18 artists and offeres a hopeful perspective. These challenging times will end and we will have family gatherings, birthday celebrations, and time together with friends and family soon. 

After reading the book, to finish off our week of at-home learning, students were invited to paint, draw, and colour rainbows! 

This "storm" will end. Hope is out there, you just have to look for it. Until this "storm" ends, we'll be making our own rainbows and choosing joy whenever we can!

Joyful Noise & Quiet Surprises

Joyful Noise

This week our room was filled with joyful noise! We welcomed several fresh baby chicks into the world!

The kids were absolutely in awe. We had waited and waited for 21 days, carefully monitoring the temperature and humidity in our incubator. Our eggs had actually become new life! What began as an egg has grown into new life! Isn't God AMAZING?

While some students spent time taking in the new life inside our incubator and brooder box, others tackled the illustrations for a rhyming booklet called "5 Little Chicks". The chicks in our illustrations are made from torn construction paper. The creative juices were flowing!

We made a visual to represent the lifecycle of a chick! But we're stumped ... what came first, the chicken or the egg?

What was extra special to see were the differences between the chicks! Some were yellow, others black, others brown with beautiful blond stripes. God made them all special and unique, just like He made us!

It has been an AMAZING few weeks filled with loads of valuable science and language arts lessons. More importantly, however, are the lessons we have learned about new life, respect, patience, and compassion. God's work is truly amazing! Thank you, God, for blessing us with this experience! We are in truly in awe of your amazing work and beautiful creations!

Quiet Surprises

The children have spent the past two weeks preparing a few very special surprises for Mother's Day! We have many wonderful people caring for us, but we are especially blessed to have our moms in our lives. Spoiler alert: If you haven't opened your child's gift yet, be sure to do that first!

We each took a beautiful photo and then painted a fancy frame!

Aren't these spectacular?!?

We put together very special cards for our lovely ladies, too. We worked for DAYS to get our ideas just right. Several pages of sweet and funny thoughts and pictures fill these little treasure books. Here are a few creative gems from the pages of the students' cards. 

May God bless you and your families this Mother's Day weekend!