What a week! This week has felt a lot like a whirlwind with regular classes, preparing for Parade of Nations, observations, and 3 hours of master’s class a night! Therefore this posting will be shorter than normal, but I promise to post more for the next week. The Lord has truly been my strong hold and mighty tower during this week. He has blessed me with the strength and endurance as well as a peace.
Russian Shutters. Doesn’t necessarily sound like a topic for Bible… but that is what we have just started to finish off our Bible study for 4th grade as we prepare for Parade of nations. When I visited Russia on two of my medical mission trips, I was struck by the beautiful shutters that you could see on many of the shacks in the small villages. These shutters would be incredibly detailed and brightly painted. Appearance was clearly important. Often it appears more important than even necessities. Therefore we have made shutters for our windows in the classroom and are diving deeper into 1 Samuel 16:7 (But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”). The students are loving the connections and really thinking about even how in their life they worry too much about appearances!
Oobleck is a wonderful discovery! Both a suspension (not a mixture or a solution) and a dilatants (not a solid or a liquid), it makes for a lot of fun! As we have been studying states of matter and mixtures and solutions, it was the perfect time to explore and investigate! If you have never made Oobleck you really should (1 cup water to 1.5/2 cups cornstarch (a little green food coloring if you would like (off the Dr. Seuss book))! The students loved watching it act as a liquid (dip a finger in, pour it, hold it your hand, etc.), but also punch it, slap it, squish it in a ball and it acts like a solid until you stop applying pressure! So much fun and really helping them conceptualize it! The APPEARANCE is also misleading and causes a student to have to think and look closer revising their initial hypothesis! 
Prayer Requests:- Finishing Strong! A lot of this craziness will slow for at least a little bit at the end of this week. But I would greatly appreciate the prayers for the strength to finish strong!
- Parade of Nations and International Dinner: This Friday it will be both the Parade of Nations (every class presents on a country (that we have been working on for almost 2 months!!!)) and Friday night it is international dinner ( families come and share their culture, food, and customs with each other)! These are a wonderful way to draw the school closer together!
- The Lord has an incredible plan for all of us… as the school goes through lots of changes, please pray for a peace and guidance to help us all follow the path the Lord has for us!Firsts:
- First Graduate school presentation! The Lord is blessing me in many ways and tonight I gave my first graduate school presentation. I cannot even begin to express how the rigorous academic of GCC have incredibly blessed me in preparation for so much! I have turned in almost all of my assignments and have been doing well, glory to the Lord!
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