Journal Entry

A student's journal entry:

This is me and my husband.

Hopefully she has the gift of prophecy.

Finally

After five months of looking like this:

I was inspired to change my bulletin board.

We wrote sentences to fill in the blanks: _______ is big, but ________ is little.

My favorite: A person is little, but a country is big.

Didn't quite follow the example and has NO idea of how to write it, but quite an advanced thought for a six-year-old.

Another "theorem"

Of course he should be learning about the similarity of triangles, but at least he's thinking about math!

Raxalpe

Last weekend we headed up to Rax for our second church retreat.

We woke up to this view in the morning:

I loved the light streaming through the windows.

We saw this in the evening:

And I even got to try Melissensaft.

(It's a real thing! Melisse is a type of lemon grass. The juice was ok...but I had to try it!)

Colors

These are the flowers Lindsay brought to her own birthday party to thank us for hosting.

Unnecessary...but sweet.

Professor Maxi

Max loves to really understand what goes on behind the formulas and algorithms we use in Geometry. He figured out a "Position Change" formula to find the fourth point of a parallelogram if given 3 points.

We've been waiting

For Jerry Jacoby!

This year we put a marker on the first day that Jerry would come for Spiritual Emphasis Week.

See...he really does have a blue guitar.