tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015284056857370422024-02-18T23:50:16.128-06:00Amy KeckAmy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comBlogger368125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-81690485796866809752023-03-27T16:10:00.008-05:002023-03-28T08:06:08.348-05:00An Encounter with Pride<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWErhyCYFh4EEPnYQvb-JYa09wAAMdr8kd5OAyaKKOCVy3s7a2ItGOGu-n6UXUhq_Hsu8vgfTA2OJPW6cKVWsuwGy-9g4hABDD06MFAWhnOFNRPp_og8WJplh5U-QI-SOkG8dirkjKtv3MsnHVnZZPovZw69jzQ6B7WSOJvCxlR8hbq3vkzAOjSoZTqQ/s2048/Waterlogue-2023-03-27-16-02-10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWErhyCYFh4EEPnYQvb-JYa09wAAMdr8kd5OAyaKKOCVy3s7a2ItGOGu-n6UXUhq_Hsu8vgfTA2OJPW6cKVWsuwGy-9g4hABDD06MFAWhnOFNRPp_og8WJplh5U-QI-SOkG8dirkjKtv3MsnHVnZZPovZw69jzQ6B7WSOJvCxlR8hbq3vkzAOjSoZTqQ/w480-h640/Waterlogue-2023-03-27-16-02-10.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><pre aria-label="Block: Verse" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block has-text-align-center is-selected wp-block-verse rich-text" data-block="361da2ac-2222-438e-a582-0a29e2948ef4" data-title="Verse" data-type="core/verse" id="block-361da2ac-2222-438e-a582-0a29e2948ef4" role="document" style="-webkit-user-select: text; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 28px auto; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: auto; position: relative; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Pride was seen striding toward her<br data-rich-text-line-break="true" />This thing which always despised and ignored her<br data-rich-text-line-break="true" /><br data-rich-text-line-break="true" />"How do you do?" She spoke first<br data-rich-text-line-break="true" />Wondering if he would acknowledge her worth<br data-rich-text-line-break="true" /><br data-rich-text-line-break="true" />Knowing better than to greet him<br data-rich-text-line-break="true" />Yet, it felt quite pleasant to be seen with him<br data-rich-text-line-break="true" /><br data-rich-text-line-break="true" />He took her hand inside his<br data-rich-text-line-break="true" />She learned very quickly about taking his<br data-rich-text-line-break="true" /><br data-rich-text-line-break="true" />He began to speak disdain<br data-rich-text-line-break="true" />She began to believe she'd put to shame<br data-rich-text-line-break="true" /><br data-rich-text-line-break="true" />Trying hard to pull away<br data-rich-text-line-break="true" />Pride gripped tightly, he truly wanted to stay<br data-rich-text-line-break="true" /><br data-rich-text-line-break="true" />He's slimy and he sticks like glue<br data-rich-text-line-break="true" />It's a terrible thing to let pride touch you</pre><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); clear: both; color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">my inspiration</h3><p>Much-Afraid, of course, ought not have know better than to greet, much less to stop and talk with one of her own relatives from the Valley. But it is rather pleasant, after being snubbed and ignored for years, suddenly to be greeted as an equal. Besides this, her curiosity was awakened.</p><p>"Do you know what will happen to you, Much-Afraid, if you persist in going forward? All those fair promises he has made about bringing you into his Kingdom and making you live happily ever afterward will prove false. When he gets you up to the wild, desolate parts of the mountains, he will abandon you altogether, and you will be put to lasting shame."</p><p>Poor Much-Afraid tried to pull her hand away, for now she began to understand the meaning of his presence there and his bitter hatred of the Shepherd, but as she struggled to free her hand, he only grasped it tighter. She had to learn that once Pride is listened to, struggle as one may, it is the hardest thing in the world to throw him off.</p><p>It's a terrible thing to let Pride take you by the hand...</p><p><strong><em>Hannah Hurnard, Hinds' Feet on High Places, Chapter Five.</em></strong></p><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); clear: both; color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><div class="is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-3 wp-block-buttons" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; column-gap: 0.5em; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.75px; row-gap: 0.5em;"><div class="wp-block-button" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px 50px;"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://amzn.to/3kbg19s" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: #222222; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 1.5px; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 16px 24px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; width: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">PURCHASE THE BOOK HERE</a></div></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-44021351857305253942023-03-25T13:38:00.003-05:002023-03-28T13:41:58.407-05:00Unit No.9<p> <img alt="" class="wp-image-3434" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/16-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/16-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/16-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/16-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/16.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.75px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /></p><p><br /></p><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); clear: both; color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">activities we enjoyed </span></h3><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Reading, “Tiger Forgives”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Hunting for Orange Objects</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Hauled a Bunch of Logs to the Property</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Learning about Zacchaeus</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Pretending to be Tigers at the Park</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Going to the Dentist</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Got a Big Girl Bike</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Using Play Dough & Tiger Cookie Cutters</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Bowled with Daddy & Alissa on Spring Break</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Gluing Tiger Stripes on an Orange Tiger</li></ul></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">The Bible verse for this unit is “Forgive others, and God will forgive you.” – Luke 6:37. If you want to sing this with your child, it goes perfectly to the tune of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">If You’re Happy and You Know It.</span></p><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-10 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5034" data-id="5034" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7523-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7523-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7523-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7523-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7523-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7523.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.96875px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5039" data-id="5039" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7822-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7822-768x1025.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7822-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7822-1151x1536.jpg 1151w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7822-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7822.jpg 1535w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.96875px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure></figure><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-12 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(33.33% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.66667);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5037" data-id="5037" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7828-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7828-768x1025.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7828-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7828-1151x1536.jpg 1151w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7828-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7828.jpg 1535w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 317.96875px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 238.328125px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(33.33% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.66667);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5036" data-id="5036" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7622-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7622-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7622-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7622-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7622-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7622.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 317.96875px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 238.328125px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(33.33% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.66667);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5041" data-id="5041" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7790-1-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7790-1-768x1025.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7790-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7790-1-1151x1536.jpg 1151w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7790-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7790-1.jpg 1535w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 317.96875px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 238.328125px;" width="768" /></figure></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5038" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7824-769x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7824-769x1024.jpg 769w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7824-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7824-768x1023.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7824-1153x1536.jpg 1153w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7824-800x1066.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7824.jpg 1537w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="769" /></figure><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">books we read </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">We enjoy reading books together. One of things I like about this age is that Lyda Beth never tires of repeatedly hearing a good book. In fact, after we have read it a few times, she “reads it” to me. We enjoy the book list that came with our curriculum because the recommendations solidify the theme of each unit. Here are a few of the books that we have enjoyed during this unit.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5040" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7847-1-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7847-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7847-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7847-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7847-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7847-1.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3JMTvww" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">The Tale of the Tiger Slippers</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ZbPmrr" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Little Louie the Baby Bloomer</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3lPdaDQ" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Little Lost Tiger</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/42DEkhN" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">An Ambush of Tigers</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ngcWGh" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">It’s a Tiger</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3JKieBA" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Sleep Like a Tiger</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/40yOezd" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">The Tiger Who Came to Tea</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3np0bti" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Little Tiger</a></li></ul><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">free printables </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">If you’d like a fun way to introduce animals & colors to your child, feel free to use these adorable printables. I created them to correspond with <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">My Father’s World Curriculum | All Aboard the Animal Train</a>. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. </p><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-16 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3434" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/16-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/16-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/16-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/16-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/16.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Tiger.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">FREE PRINTABLE | THE TIGER DIAGRAM</a></figcaption></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3435" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/28-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/28-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/28-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/28-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/28.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Orange.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">FREE PRINTABLE | THE COLOR ORANGE</a></figcaption></figure></div></div><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">the curriculum we use </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Whenever I was choosing a homeschool curriculum, I leaned heavily on the guidance of my sister, Angie, at <a href="http://www.freshwanderings.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Fresh Wanderings</a>. She had already been homeschooling her children for 13 years and had tried multiple curriculums and even supplemented her own throughout the years. She strongly advised that I use <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/unique" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">My Father’s World</a> and I am so glad that I did. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“My Father’s World Christian homeschool curriculum combines the best of Charlotte Mason’s ideas, classical education, and unit studies with a biblical worldview and global focus. They have worked hard to make homeschooling as easy as possible with their God-centric curriculum mirroring the Greco-Roman classical approach of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.” You can read about their philosophy <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/about/our-philosophy" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3349" decoding="async" height="750" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png 750w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-300x300.png 300w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-150x150.png 150w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-600x600.png 600w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-500x500.png 500w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="750" /></a></figure></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-22548863986224823442023-03-18T16:25:00.005-05:002023-03-28T08:01:21.317-05:00Sorrow & Suffering<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpgi42aa0XDias5TZ7rDZqw8c3h9A7P2ANDnGYCDwuZVf3slkCrdpzjV6IbhkMuWDRcsVA8pyEQewqYhI-xqtFBbRr9yLUhT79nV6_axejZPrZ1jiyNPEQZYcKvP07SfJRqYGaSSBYnofEa7Q4X-8-I9uMbpw0l12UE6f9MWUCoGKsB2HMURd9ahkiKQ/s2048/Waterlogue-2023-03-18-10-32-59.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpgi42aa0XDias5TZ7rDZqw8c3h9A7P2ANDnGYCDwuZVf3slkCrdpzjV6IbhkMuWDRcsVA8pyEQewqYhI-xqtFBbRr9yLUhT79nV6_axejZPrZ1jiyNPEQZYcKvP07SfJRqYGaSSBYnofEa7Q4X-8-I9uMbpw0l12UE6f9MWUCoGKsB2HMURd9ahkiKQ/w480-h640/Waterlogue-2023-03-18-10-32-59.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p></p><pre class="wp-block-verse has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin-bottom: 50px; overflow: auto; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her lameness no longer filled her mind
She had walked miles without its control
He and she so lovingly entwined
Willingly submitting to her new role
Safely resting in the arms of Christ
Desiring Him to stay the whole way
Much-Afraid longed to not leave the tryst
As He willfully prepared for the day
"If I carry you up the mountain,
You will not firmly develop hinds' feet
In the end, you'll leap up the mountain
And you must trust that I will not retreat
I'm placing your hands inside my guides
Sorrow and Suffering will lead the way
You must stay real close, right by their sides
They will protect you from being the prey."
"I can't go with them. I can't. I can't.
She trembled at their horrifying sight
Sorrow and Suffering made her pant
But eyes on the Shepherd made it alright
Help me to trust as much as I love you
I will go with whomever you choose
I will not doubt whatever you do
Shepherd, it's you that I cannot refuse</pre><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); clear: both; color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">my inspiration </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Upheld by the Shepherd’s hand and supported by his strength, she had really forgotten her lameness and had been unconscious of either tiredness or weakness. “Will you take me all the way? When I am with you I am strong and I am sure no one else but you can get me up to the High Places.” </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">He looked at her most kindly, but answered quietly, “Much-Afraid, I could do what you wish. I could carry you all the way up to the High Places myself, instead of leaving you to climb there. But if I did, you would never be able to go where I go. If you will climb to the heights this once with the companions I have chosen for you, even though it may seem a very long and in some places a very difficult journey, I promise you that you will develop hinds’ feet. That is why I have most carefully chosen for you two of the very best and strongest guides.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“They are good teachers; indeed, I have few better. As for their names, I will tell you them in your own language, and later you will learn what they are called in their own tongue. This, “said he, motioning toward the first of the silent figures, “is Sorrow. And the other is her twin sister, Suffering.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“I can’t go with them,” she gasped. “I can’t. I can’t. O my Lord Shepherd, why do you do this to me? How can I travel in their company? It is more than I can bear, You tell me that the mountain way itself is so steep and difficult that I cannot climb it alone. Then why, oh why, must you make Sorrow and Suffering my companions? Couldn’t you have given Joy and Peace to go with me, to strengthen me and encourage me and help me on the difficult way? I never thought you would do this to me!” And she burst into tears.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“Joy and Peace. Are those the companions you would choose for yourself? You remember your promise, to accept the helpers that I would give, because you believed that I would choose the very best possible guides for you. Will you still trust me, Much-Afraid? Will you go with them, or do you wish to turn back to the Valley, and to all your Fearing relatives, to Craven Fear himself?”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Much-Afraid shuddered. The choice seemed terrible. Fear she knew only too well, but Sorrow and Suffering had always seemed to her the two most terrifying things which she could encounter. How could she go with them and abandon herself to their power and control?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">She looked at him piteously, then said, “Do I wish to turn back? O Shepherd, too whom should I go? In all the world I have no one but you. Help me to follow you, even though it seems impossible. Help me to trust you as much as I long to love you.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Hannah Hurnard, Hinds’ Feet on High Places, Chapter Four.</span></span></p><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); clear: both; color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><div class="is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-3 wp-block-buttons" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; column-gap: 0.5em; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.75px; row-gap: 0.5em;"><div class="wp-block-button" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px 50px;"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://amzn.to/3kbg19s" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: #222222; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 1.5px; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 16px 24px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; width: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">PURCHASE THE BOOK HERE</a></div></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-63622708484915546462023-03-09T16:32:00.005-06:002023-03-28T08:01:11.831-05:00Start for the High Places<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_b7T9BQRmhMEfS94CTrf-5PByk6gh703pDkjUT8B6CZCssFDepbiICYiemZbHf8qaO2C7HX6p3xve0CQAkrULeVyuL7QlRgMKPBUpTyhf-7Fq8Wf7NRJEpATYzRGeHQvUJfAcbx3IiNJ6G6c7C7TR_-vrUV6SSAA3fTZcNxJEsXuNroAkXsVw3EK2Qw/s2048/Waterlogue-2023-03-09-06-58-42.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_b7T9BQRmhMEfS94CTrf-5PByk6gh703pDkjUT8B6CZCssFDepbiICYiemZbHf8qaO2C7HX6p3xve0CQAkrULeVyuL7QlRgMKPBUpTyhf-7Fq8Wf7NRJEpATYzRGeHQvUJfAcbx3IiNJ6G6c7C7TR_-vrUV6SSAA3fTZcNxJEsXuNroAkXsVw3EK2Qw/w480-h640/Waterlogue-2023-03-09-06-58-42.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p></p><pre class="wp-block-verse has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin-bottom: 50px; overflow: auto; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Love spreads a carpet of flowers
They lie beneath ones feet
Often found in the wild places
The places many don't see
They offer themselves completely
Singing beautiful songs
They're happy to love without return
And flourish where they belong
Created one, listen closely
Listen and take to heart
The fairest beauties of human soul are
Victories that ne'er depart
Many a quiet, hidden life
Life unknown by the world
Are a great delight for the king, like
Wildflowers hid from the world</pre><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); clear: both; color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">my inspiration </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“Humble yourself, and you will find that Love is spreading a carpet of flowers beneath your feet.” Much-Afraid looked at him earnestly, “I have often wondered about the wild flowers,” she said. “It doe seem strange that such unnumbered multitudes should bloom in the wild places of the earth where perhaps nobody ever sees them and the goats and the cattle can walk over them and crush them to death. They have so much beauty and sweetness to give and no one on whom to lavish it, nor who will even appreciate it.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">The look the Shepherd turned on her was very beautiful. “Nothing my Father and I have made is ever wasted,” he said quietly, “and the little wild flowers have a wonderful lesson to teach. They offer themselves so sweetly and confidently and willingly, even if it seems that there is no one to appreciate them. Just as though they sang a joyous little song to themselves, that it is so happy to love, even though one is not loved in return.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“I must tell you a great truth, Much-Afraid, which only the few understand. All the fairest beauties in the human soul, its greatest victories, and its most splendid achievements are always those which no one else knows anything about, or can only dimly guess at. Every inner response of the human heart to Love an every conquest over self-love is a new flower on the tree of Love.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“Many a quiet, ordinary, and hidden life, unknown to the world, is a veritable garden in which Love’s flowers and fruits have come to such perfection that it is a place of delight where the King of Love himself walks and rejoices with his friends. Some of my servants have indeed won great visible victories and are rightly loved and reverenced by other men, but always heir greatest victories are like the wild flowers, those which no one knows about. Learn this lesson now, down here in the valley, Much-Afraid, and when you get to the steep places of the mountains it will comfort you.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Hannah Hurnard, Hinds’ Feet on High Places, Chapter Four.</span></span></p><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); clear: both; color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><div class="is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-3 wp-block-buttons" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; column-gap: 0.5em; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.75px; row-gap: 0.5em;"><div class="wp-block-button" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px 50px;"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://amzn.to/3kbg19s" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: #222222; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 1.5px; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 16px 24px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; width: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">PURCHASE THE BOOK HERE</a></div></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-76758005750717423892023-03-07T16:34:00.004-06:002023-03-28T08:00:58.662-05:00Flight in the Night<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKeOY6-zhOa__OJ3XMVFy4gOJ8OzNdvIHHoqyy28gD1cncyN7Io253TnVBNKtu6Yxlyqs5dr14VuYcXvUMYZnVjzwFIgGPRX3aJpyNZgH0-87C0hIJ1S4ypENKdQvX7sT8dR2pW42LRo_2BVZAu0eiHRpdLGTsyBayXApvU6DEPEJlhfmy4sVfmQUROQ/s2048/Waterlogue-2023-03-07-08-14-14.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKeOY6-zhOa__OJ3XMVFy4gOJ8OzNdvIHHoqyy28gD1cncyN7Io253TnVBNKtu6Yxlyqs5dr14VuYcXvUMYZnVjzwFIgGPRX3aJpyNZgH0-87C0hIJ1S4ypENKdQvX7sT8dR2pW42LRo_2BVZAu0eiHRpdLGTsyBayXApvU6DEPEJlhfmy4sVfmQUROQ/w480-h640/Waterlogue-2023-03-07-08-14-14.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><pre class="wp-block-verse has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin-bottom: 50px; overflow: auto; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">The thorn in her heart was aching
In a manner she could scarcely bear
Would this cold pain keep her waking?
Disbelieving He's no longer there
In pursuit of her Great Longing
She slipped out of bed in the dark-night
She feared no longer belonging
A fear greater than Fears out of sight
Ceasing trembling and with great haste
Knowing deep down what she must pursue
She traveled to the trysting-place
Because she knew He could make her new
"Oh, my Great Lord, take me with you.
Please, do not knowingly leave me here.
I cannot bear life without you.
I willingly follow anywhere."</pre><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); clear: both; color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">my inspiration </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">The thorn in her heart was throbbing and aching in a manner she could scarcely bear. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Much-Afraid turned icy cold and her teeth chattered, but it was the pain in her heart which was the most awful part of her distress. It seemed to suffocate her as she lay there in bed. She sat up, shivering with cold and with the horror of the thought. She could not bear it if he had gone and left her behind… She must see for herself at once if he really had gone away and left her behind. She slipped out of bed, dressed herself as quickly as her shaking fingers would permit, and then unlocked the cottage door.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Opening the door, she went out in darkness. A hundred Craven Fears lurking in the lonely street could not have deterred her at that moment, for the pain in her heart swallowed up fear and everything else and drove her forth.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">It came to her mind that he who understood her so well, who knew all about her fears and had compassion on her, would not leave until he was quite sure that she really meant to refuse to go with him.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Much-Afraid ceased trembling and said to herself, “I will go to the trysting-place, and see if He is waiting for me there.” With scarcely a word to the watchmen she turned and hurried southward, over the field where Craven Fear had met her toward the sheep pool. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“I knew you would come, ” he said gently… “I am here,” said Much-Afraid, still kneeling at his feet, “and I will go with you anywhere.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Then the Shepherd took her by the hand and they started for the mountains.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Hannah Hurnard, Hinds’ Feet on High Places, Chapter Three.</span></span></p><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); clear: both; color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;"></span></span></p><div class="is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-3 wp-block-buttons" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; column-gap: 0.5em; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.75px; row-gap: 0.5em;"><div class="wp-block-button" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.75px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5014" decoding="async" height="1024" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7175_jpg-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7175_jpg-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7175_jpg-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7175_jpg-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7175_jpg-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7175_jpg.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: #eef1f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; margin: 25px 0px 50px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Unit 07 Thematic Focus: Friendliness, Dog, and the Color Light Blue. </p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">ALL ABOARD THE ANIMAL TRAIN</cite></blockquote><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-6 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 100%; flex-grow: 0; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-3 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: 730px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5004" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7158-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7158-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7158-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7158-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7158-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7158.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 973.328125px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 730px;" width="768" /></figure></figure></div></div><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-7 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5005" data-id="5005" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_8468-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_8468-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_8468-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_8468-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_8468-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_8468.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; 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box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure></figure><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">activities we enjoyed </h3><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Going on a hike with Daddy</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Reading, “Puppy Makes Friends”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Playing with our friends (Grace & Lainey) at the park</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Taking an impromptu road trip to Pikes Peak (Manitou Springs, CO) with Pa & Nana</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Learning the number two</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Playing with play dough & dog shaped cookie cutters</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Memorizing, “Old Mother Hubbard went to the Cupboard”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Experimenting with Blue Color Sequencing</li></ul></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">The Bible verse for this unit is “A friend is always a friend.” – Proverbs 17:17. If you want to sing this with your child, it goes perfectly to the tune of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Jesus Loves Me.</span></p><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-10 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5008" data-id="5008" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DSC02625-684x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DSC02625-684x1024.jpg 684w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DSC02625-200x300.jpg 200w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DSC02625-768x1150.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DSC02625-1026x1536.jpg 1026w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DSC02625-800x1198.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DSC02625.jpg 1368w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 540.8125px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="684" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5010" data-id="5010" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7482-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7482-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7482-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7482-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7482-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7482.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 540.8125px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure></figure><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-12 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5011" data-id="5011" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7485-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7485-768x1025.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7485-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7485-1151x1536.jpg 1151w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7485-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7485.jpg 1535w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.96875px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5012" data-id="5012" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7490-1-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7490-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7490-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7490-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7490-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7490-1.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.96875px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5003" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7164_jpg-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7164_jpg-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7164_jpg-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7164_jpg-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7164_jpg-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7164_jpg.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">books we read </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">We enjoy reading books together. One of things I like about this age is that Lyda Beth never tires of repeatedly hearing a good book. In fact, after we have read it a few times, she “reads it” to me. We enjoy the book list that came with our curriculum because the recommendations solidify the theme of each unit. Here are a few of the books that we have enjoyed during this unit.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5013" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7507-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7507-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7507-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7507-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7507-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7507.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ZaIB9v" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">McDuff Moves In</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3z13g5m" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Split! Splat!</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/40ypreR" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">RRRalph</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3K0LYvb" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Some Dog!</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ncZHq2" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Where’s Spot?</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ZcakGC" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Dig!</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3K3hid1" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">What Puppies Do Best</a></li></ul><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">free printables </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">If you’d like a fun way to introduce animals & colors to your child, feel free to use these adorable printables. I created them to correspond with <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">My Father’s World Curriculum | All Aboard the Animal Train</a>. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. </p><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-16 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3430" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/15-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/15-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/15-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/15-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/15.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Dog.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">FREE PRINTABLE | THE DOG DIAGRAM</a></figcaption></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3431" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/27-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/27-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/27-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/27-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/27.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Light-Blue.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">FREE PRINTABLE | THE COLOR LIGHT BLUE</a></figcaption></figure></div></div><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">the curriculum we use </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Whenever I was choosing a homeschool curriculum, I leaned heavily on the guidance of my sister, Angie, at <a href="http://www.freshwanderings.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Fresh Wanderings</a>. She had already been homeschooling her children for 13 years and had tried multiple curriculums and even supplemented her own throughout the years. She strongly advised that I use <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/unique" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">My Father’s World</a> and I am so glad that I did. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“My Father’s World Christian homeschool curriculum combines the best of Charlotte Mason’s ideas, classical education, and unit studies with a biblical worldview and global focus. They have worked hard to make homeschooling as easy as possible with their God-centric curriculum mirroring the Greco-Roman classical approach of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.” You can read about their philosophy <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/about/our-philosophy" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3349" decoding="async" height="750" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png 750w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-300x300.png 300w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-150x150.png 150w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-600x600.png 600w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-500x500.png 500w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="750" /></a></figure></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-33703333037873684992023-03-03T16:37:00.004-06:002023-03-28T08:00:44.348-05:00Fearing Invasion<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheYmLvB8oWYW5rlexHieqmGm51pwdg-ROxI7Hx5oeeqEe9iHD0_MRtOIbxYXEDcrkgxr1C5C8t_qI8FvoewiCZsPl4JENdFsbxSTeZpdXsLxWSN2rbY2Y6xfJ-GV7fiioaRCtyqNbyV82ihSAgEDccaaQqAWx5V33C4Qto06G-Hll-W1UZg3kLga0sJw/s2048/Waterlogue-2023-03-04-07-36-38.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheYmLvB8oWYW5rlexHieqmGm51pwdg-ROxI7Hx5oeeqEe9iHD0_MRtOIbxYXEDcrkgxr1C5C8t_qI8FvoewiCZsPl4JENdFsbxSTeZpdXsLxWSN2rbY2Y6xfJ-GV7fiioaRCtyqNbyV82ihSAgEDccaaQqAWx5V33C4Qto06G-Hll-W1UZg3kLga0sJw/w480-h640/Waterlogue-2023-03-04-07-36-38.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: #eef1f2; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.75px; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; margin: 25px 0px 50px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Hinds’ Feet on High Places is a story of endurance, persistence, and reliance on God. This book has inspired millions to become sure-footed in their faith – even when facing the rockiest terrain.</p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">HANNAH HURNARD</cite></blockquote><pre class="wp-block-verse has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin-bottom: 50px; overflow: auto; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Much-afraid woke early
All her fears were gone
Love was planted deeply
Songs of joy, now her song
Thoughts of the Shepherd
Caused her glad heart to stir
Love no longer measured
Disfigurements, now blur
Knocking at the door
Old Fears hard to dismiss
Love could win the war
If Much-Afraid weren't remiss
Bound by all her Fears
The Shepherds call grew faint
Blurred by all the tears
Much-Afraid thought it too late
"Help!" cried Much-Afraid
Mrs. Valiant came in haste,
"Fears, Ye shall not invade.
You must now be replaced."</pre><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); clear: both; color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">my inspiration </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Much-Afraid woke early the next morning and all her fears were gone. Her first thought was, “Probably sometime today I am to start for the High Places with the Shepherd.” It seemed to her that ever since the seed of Love had been planted in her heart, songs of joy were welling up in her innermost being. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">The morning wore on and still He had not come, but just after midday something else came; an invasion by her terrible relatives… The whole gang talked on and on, while poor Much-Afraid sat cowering in their midst, almost too dazed to know what they were saying and suggesting. Just as they they had hoped, they were gradually bringing her to a state of bewilderment and incoherent fear. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">As she sat listening in the cottage, Much-Afraid knew with a pang of agonizing pain that the Shepherd was calling her to go with him to the mountains…. now, here she was locked insider how own cottage, beleaguered by her terrible Fears and unable to respond in any way to his call or even to give any sign of her need.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">…for suddenly she heard the voice of Mrs. Valiant, her neighbor in the cottage next door. At the sound, Much-Afraid braced herself for one last desperate bid for escape… Mrs. Valiant was not the sort of person to be the least intimidated by what she called, “a pack of idle Fears.” Thrusting her face right in through the window, she cried in a threatening voice, “Out of this house you go, this minute, every one of you. If you have not left in three seconds, I shall call the Chief Shepherd. This cottage belongs to him, and won’t you catch it if he finds you here.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Hannah Hurnard, Hinds’ Feet on High Places, Chapter Two.</span></span></p><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); clear: both; color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><div class="is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-3 wp-block-buttons" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; column-gap: 0.5em; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.75px; row-gap: 0.5em;"><div class="wp-block-button" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px 50px;"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://amzn.to/3kbg19s" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: #222222; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 1.5px; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 16px 24px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; width: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">PURCHASE THE BOOK HERE</a></div></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-78543664259788124732023-02-20T16:45:00.002-06:002023-03-28T08:00:20.703-05:00An Invitation to the High Place<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIn9MpUvcOw0L8M8YFzb5fmiOr7yLDShU8SrC8NQGAzTKn6boMX22DNoWTNLaDmGqxJLg6XCuOFyg1Gz8Z3Syu9avDVaCXpa73SNN5ClheTviDsQ59BfnbZJQBYEoBRHLfPkfGdNk7x_Ls9iZXtwsw50EuZaaK0qxjVLTua2HG6pah1GnKjNozmsQyxw/s2048/Waterlogue-2023-03-04-07-37-55.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIn9MpUvcOw0L8M8YFzb5fmiOr7yLDShU8SrC8NQGAzTKn6boMX22DNoWTNLaDmGqxJLg6XCuOFyg1Gz8Z3Syu9avDVaCXpa73SNN5ClheTviDsQ59BfnbZJQBYEoBRHLfPkfGdNk7x_Ls9iZXtwsw50EuZaaK0qxjVLTua2HG6pah1GnKjNozmsQyxw/w480-h640/Waterlogue-2023-03-04-07-37-55.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><pre class="wp-block-verse has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin-bottom: 50px; overflow: auto; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Having been, born into
The family of Fears
Much-afraid so withdrew
With trembling and tears
Countless days and most nights
Spent locked-up in her room
Dreaming of grander heights
Bid to replace the gloom
Are you willing to be changed?
The Chief Shepherd sang
I have much to offer you
In this great exchange
This seed of love is free
When planted in your heart
Fear shall in moments flee
And strength shall ne'er depart</pre><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); clear: both; color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">my inspiration </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">This is the story of how Much-afraid escaped from her Fearing relatives and went with the Shepherd to the High Places where “perfect love casteth out fear.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Most earnestly she longed to be completely delivered from these shortcomings and to be made beautiful, gracious, and strong as were so man of the Shepherd’s other workers, and above all to be made like the Chief Shepherd himself.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">There was, however, another and even greater trouble in her life. She was a member of the Family of Fearings, and her relatives were scattered all over the valley, so that she could never really escape them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“Oh, if only I could exit from this Valley of Humiliation altogether and go to the High Places, completely out of reach of all the Fearings and my other relatives.” No sooner were these words uttered when to her complete astonishment the Shepherd answered, “I have waited a long time to hear you make that suggestion, Much-afraid…. I could make make yours like hinds’ feet also, and set you upon the High Places…”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Hannah Hurnard, Hinds’ Feet on High Places, Chapter One.</span></span></p><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); clear: both; color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.75px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><div class="is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-3 wp-block-buttons" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; column-gap: 0.5em; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.75px; row-gap: 0.5em;"><div class="wp-block-button" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px 50px;"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://amzn.to/3kbg19s" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: #222222; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 1.5px; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 16px 24px !important; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; width: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">PURCHASE THE BOOK HERE</a></div></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-48229090715129499292023-02-18T16:59:00.006-06:002023-03-28T08:02:59.084-05:00ROMANS 8:31, 37-39<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhUbz4_a3kJ8_CE8upvRTkJ5cqIFCoqn_q8AvPMFnqXV_WIE9wXgkW1AyllQX3oKKJarpSoopUYBVK2zpMH3HFTdA05wAbPHoO_YThiq4QjQUnLNT_jA_3kITdLVaOij5VeWwYx023LPqMBG3RNukCsOyRHCIheO4BCzHwdSyuIuT3YfoijY2nr8AvpA/s2048/Waterlogue-2023-02-18-09-11-37.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1369" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhUbz4_a3kJ8_CE8upvRTkJ5cqIFCoqn_q8AvPMFnqXV_WIE9wXgkW1AyllQX3oKKJarpSoopUYBVK2zpMH3HFTdA05wAbPHoO_YThiq4QjQUnLNT_jA_3kITdLVaOij5VeWwYx023LPqMBG3RNukCsOyRHCIheO4BCzHwdSyuIuT3YfoijY2nr8AvpA/w428-h640/Waterlogue-2023-02-18-09-11-37.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><p></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: #eef1f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; margin: 25px 0px 50px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">If God is for us, who can be against us?… I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, no any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.</p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">ROMANS 8:31, 37-39</cite></blockquote><pre class="wp-block-verse has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 50px; overflow: auto; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Infectious fear - you shall not spread
Death and life are in His stead
Angels and demons hold no power
He watches over every hour
Infectious fear - were shall you go?
Present and future are His to show
No powers, no height - not even depth
Nothing compares to His loves breadth
Infectious fear - you shall not spread
With great trust I look ahead
Creation holds - not one tiny thing
That can pluck me from His wing</pre><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">my inspiration </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Have you ever thought how infectious fear can be? It spreads from one person to another more quickly and certainly than any of the fevers we know so well. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">You can refuse the spirit of fear, which never comes to us from God. Instead, open your heat wide to the Spirit of “power and love and a calm and well-balanced mind, and discipline and self-control” (2 Timothy 1:7, Amplified). Because fear is so infectious, let us, for the sake of others and ourselves, refuse it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Thank God – ! Courage is as “infectious” as discouragement. Haven’t you often felt the cheer and strength that seems to flow from a person whose mind is fixed and firm on God? I have.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">And I have been thinking of another, a greater reason for refusing the spirit of fear. When we are downhearted or fearful or weak, we are saying to everybody, “After all, the Lord can’t be absolutely trusted.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">…We have a Savior who has never once failed us. He never will fail us. He has loved and led and guarded us all these years. Look to Him now, and pray from the barren bedrock of your heart, if that is the “ground” you are standing on – “Lord, give me courage!”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Amy Carmichael, Edges of His Ways, p.148</span></span></p><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">My sweet Dad, John Kennedy, was diagnosed with ALS on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. He is braving the most devastating diagnosis that I could imagine. In prayer, he refers to this trial as “my great hurt,” and I never want to forget this.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">On Monday, February 6, 2023 (only 7 months after my dad’s diagnosis of ALS) he was told that he can contact hospice – whenever he feels ready. I don’t know what to think of these things. I am hurt, angry, confuses, and scared. I need courage to trust.</p></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-71544007190095591842023-02-12T13:50:00.005-06:002023-03-28T13:52:01.318-05:00Unit No.7<p><img alt="" class="wp-image-3426" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/14-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/14-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/14-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/14-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/14.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.75px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4982" decoding="async" height="1024" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7117_jpg-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7117_jpg-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7117_jpg-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7117_jpg-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7117_jpg-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7117_jpg.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: rgb(238, 241, 242) !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Unit 07 Thematic Focus: Politeness, Panda, and the Color Blue. </p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px !important; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">ALL ABOARD THE ANIMAL TRAIN</cite></blockquote><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-6 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 100%; flex-grow: 0; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; 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box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4984" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7114_jpg-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7114_jpg-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7114_jpg-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7114_jpg-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7114_jpg-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7114_jpg.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure></figure></div></div><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-7 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4986" data-id="4986" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7112_jpg-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7112_jpg-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7112_jpg-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7112_jpg-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7112_jpg-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7112_jpg.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4985" data-id="4985" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7113_jpg-769x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7113_jpg-769x1024.jpg 769w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7113_jpg-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7113_jpg-768x1023.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7113_jpg-1153x1536.jpg 1153w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7113_jpg-800x1066.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7113_jpg.jpg 1537w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="769" /></figure></figure><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">activities we enjoyed </h3><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Pretending to be an animal doctor</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Reading, “Panda is Polite”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Eating blue foods</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Making blue play dough </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Learning the number one</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Pretending to be pandas</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Playing a matching game</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Learning about the boy Jesus</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Baking Valentine cookies</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Making a panda mask</li></ul></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">The Bible verse for this unit is “Respect everyone.” – 1 Peter 2:17. If you want to sing this with your child, it goes perfectly to the tune of The Farmer in the Dell<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">.</span></p><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-10 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4987" data-id="4987" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7097_jpg-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7097_jpg-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7097_jpg-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7097_jpg-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7097_jpg-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7097_jpg.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4988" data-id="4988" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7103_jpg-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7103_jpg-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7103_jpg-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7103_jpg-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7103_jpg-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7103_jpg.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure></figure><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-12 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(33.33% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.66667);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4992" data-id="4992" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7071-769x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7071-769x1024.jpg 769w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7071-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7071-768x1023.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7071-1153x1536.jpg 1153w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7071-800x1066.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7071.jpg 1537w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 317.765625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 238.328125px;" width="769" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(33.33% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.66667);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4990" data-id="4990" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7105-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7105-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7105-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7105-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7105-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7105.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 317.765625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 238.328125px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(33.33% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.66667);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4991" data-id="4991" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7092-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7092-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7092-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7092-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7092-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7092.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 317.765625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 238.328125px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(33.33% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.66667);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4989" data-id="4989" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7074-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7074-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7074-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7074-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7074-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_7074.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 973.328125px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 730px;" width="768" /></figure></figure><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">books we read </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">We enjoy reading books together. One of things I like about this age is that Lyda Beth never tires of repeatedly hearing a good book. In fact, after we have read it a few times, she “reads it” to me. We enjoy the book list that came with our curriculum because the recommendations solidify the theme of each unit. Here are a few of the books that we have enjoyed during this unit.</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/40v8r9m" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">God Gave Us the World</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3lyyvkT" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3TCd2Ed" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Bears! Bears! Bears!</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3yYhZh4" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Panda Kisses</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3z15gKM" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">My Favorite Bear</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3JxSnwy" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Chu’s Day</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/40sxF87" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ncOGVI" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Little Panda</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3FG7i6z" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Bamboozled</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3LJfPJW" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Panda and Polar Bear</a></li></ul><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">free printables </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">If you’d like a fun way to introduce animals & colors to your child, feel free to use these adorable printables. I created them to correspond with <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">My Father’s World Curriculum | All Aboard the Animal Train</a>. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. </p><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-16 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3426" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/14-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/14-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/14-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/14-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/14.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Panda.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">FREE PRINTABLE | THE PANDA DIAGRAM</a></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3427" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/26-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/26-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/26-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/26-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/26.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Blue.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">FREE PRINTABLE | THE COLOR BLUE</a></figcaption></figure></div></div><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">the curriculum we use </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Whenever I was choosing a homeschool curriculum, I leaned heavily on the guidance of my sister, Angie, at <a href="http://www.freshwanderings.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Fresh Wanderings</a>. She had already been homeschooling her children for 13 years and had tried multiple curriculums and even supplemented her own throughout the years. She strongly advised that I use <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/unique" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">My Father’s World</a> and I am so glad that I did. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“My Father’s World Christian homeschool curriculum combines the best of Charlotte Mason’s ideas, classical education, and unit studies with a biblical worldview and global focus. They have worked hard to make homeschooling as easy as possible with their God-centric curriculum mirroring the Greco-Roman classical approach of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.” You can read about their philosophy <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/about/our-philosophy" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3349" decoding="async" height="750" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png 750w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-300x300.png 300w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-150x150.png 150w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-600x600.png 600w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-500x500.png 500w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="750" /></a></figure></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-45472295934231311652023-01-29T17:07:00.006-06:002023-03-28T08:02:51.555-05:00PSALM 90:12,14<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKYwsHZ0nIby_xdoTMCtzNchUs7j4iUQJQm0rDKlzCPpFBLWjOfuk1LBlKyY6pY86I2lwfS03jrafJ7NDBhMzOXI0sSNEnTHD5jMsyOVKQDU5wbJcvnr4_eYom8R4eb07tO9oQitvskCRORKIsu_qnhf26NaEOaq3j8O1fhd6rSlsk9gRzsl7lfgr8TQ/s2048/IMG_7064.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKYwsHZ0nIby_xdoTMCtzNchUs7j4iUQJQm0rDKlzCPpFBLWjOfuk1LBlKyY6pY86I2lwfS03jrafJ7NDBhMzOXI0sSNEnTHD5jMsyOVKQDU5wbJcvnr4_eYom8R4eb07tO9oQitvskCRORKIsu_qnhf26NaEOaq3j8O1fhd6rSlsk9gRzsl7lfgr8TQ/w480-h640/IMG_7064.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: #eef1f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; margin: 25px 0px 50px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Teach me to number my days aright, that I may gain a heart of wisdom. Satisfy me in the morning with your unfailing love, that I may sing for joy and be glad all my days.</p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">PSALM 90:12,14</cite></blockquote><pre class="wp-block-verse has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 50px; overflow: auto; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">A dim light shines
Beyond the murky glass between
The circumstances great and small
The ones I have not yet seen
A dim light shines
Each new morning, noonday and night
Satisfying the hopelessness
Making what appears wrong, so right
A dim light shines
I will not get stuck in the murk
I will look right past, we'll beyond
Knowing it's You, that holds my hurt
A dim light shines
Refuse to give way to what's dealt
You the Healer, Powerful God
You dominate the seen and the felt</pre><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">my inspiration </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">If you would live in victory over the circumstances, great and small, that come to you each day… and if you want God’s life and power to well up from the depths of your being… then you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt. You must look steadfastly through the visible, until the invisible opens up to you.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Amy Carmichael, His Thought Said… His Father Said, p.30</span></span></p><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">My sweet Dad, John Kennedy, was diagnosed with ALS on July 19, 2022. He is braving the most devastating diagnosis that I could imagine. In prayer, he refers to this trial as “my great hurt,” and I never want to forget this.</p></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-79372456448915621292023-01-25T17:12:00.002-06:002023-03-28T08:02:39.787-05:00PSALM 42:5, 7-8<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnSKSRPJrzElvXfDp_CJ9L4hoOhvbeSaymnK3x61kIB1nOLlEQfw0nVG41Izrxi2V1PnsygsCZQKEFfxX6bPOYfaU_Fknsb8HeUI8PmyqJaT_uryTVVoPp9Y2AkIl3CZ59uKB5H-HHdtxohqpUMbzPEadLH1k3NdIqq2X42CEtNlOUPwFKsg9aYTP6Pg/s2048/IMG_6938.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1369" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnSKSRPJrzElvXfDp_CJ9L4hoOhvbeSaymnK3x61kIB1nOLlEQfw0nVG41Izrxi2V1PnsygsCZQKEFfxX6bPOYfaU_Fknsb8HeUI8PmyqJaT_uryTVVoPp9Y2AkIl3CZ59uKB5H-HHdtxohqpUMbzPEadLH1k3NdIqq2X42CEtNlOUPwFKsg9aYTP6Pg/w428-h640/IMG_6938.JPG" width="428" /></a></div><p></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: rgb(238, 241, 242) !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God…</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">…Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is within me – a prayer to the God of my life.</p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px !important; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">PSALM 42:5, 7-8</cite></blockquote><pre class="wp-block-verse has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 50px; overflow: auto; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deeper depths I shall not dive
I desire to stay on land
Where feet are warm and safe and still
Where I can sit and hold Your hand
Deeper depths I shall not dive
I want to stay close to Thee
Where we can sit and chat and sing
Where I can hear the praises ring
Deeper depths I shall not dive
I long to in comfort stay
Where clothes are cozy, safe, and warm
Where I can smell the ocean spray
- Deep calls to deep -
Deeper depths You'd have me go
You desire a buried life
Where feet are wet and tossed about
Where You grip my hand so tight
Deeper depths You'd have me go
You regulate the tide
Where roaring waves toss to and fro
Where I'm buoyed to Your side
Deeper depths You'd have me go
You will not let me drown
Where conversations are silent
Where fixed eyes of trust are found
Deeper depths You'd have me go
You sing Your song o're me
Where melodies rise to the sky
Where praises cover the sea</pre><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">my inspiration </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">The son greatly wished to make a “Song of Lovely Things” to sing to his Beloved – but he could not find singing-words. He heard the voice of his Beloved saying, “You are walking on the road where all who love Me walk. Some of them walked this way singing, and they’ve left their songs behind them. Find their songs. Sing their words. They will be your songs to me.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">But the son became full of grief, because there came a day when he could find no words to sing… And He who is love eternal whispered, “Then I, too, will approach you, silent in my love.” And the son entered into this silence, to meet the eternal Beloved there… </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">After a while there was a sound in the gentle stillness, a voice that whispered, “Even your silence is, to Me, a song of lovely things…”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;">Amy Carmichael, His Thoughts Said… His Father Said, p.30</span></span></p></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-43260748318270060462023-01-23T17:14:00.004-06:002023-03-28T08:02:32.038-05:00PROVERBS 19:20-21<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw1k9QWSeudLxMh4GVh9cfaC12a-bUguH_S5ZFe_ltsVVpaEGYy_Ya_NX90Ytb_K1l3QF2aSsbUO5JK33Nkb3H0R56Nk1E2X2lJsZYEG_LZy03XQPLW1poBBA77z7Xv0HxofPaJhMMNvHc4_d-oU9wj_sD5ShnnuowQL1NayHS3vKJFxCncRR8gSE3LQ/s2048/IMG_6856.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw1k9QWSeudLxMh4GVh9cfaC12a-bUguH_S5ZFe_ltsVVpaEGYy_Ya_NX90Ytb_K1l3QF2aSsbUO5JK33Nkb3H0R56Nk1E2X2lJsZYEG_LZy03XQPLW1poBBA77z7Xv0HxofPaJhMMNvHc4_d-oU9wj_sD5ShnnuowQL1NayHS3vKJFxCncRR8gSE3LQ/w480-h640/IMG_6856.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: #eef1f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; margin: 25px 0px 50px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.</p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">PROVERBS 19:20-21</cite></blockquote><pre class="wp-block-verse has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 50px; overflow: auto; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">A rough path lies ahead
But You already knew
the Bible says that I'd be wise
To follow closely You
Your Word is the lantern
The rugged path won't win
It's the grueling steps in between
I have to trust You in
Sometimes faith comes easy
Other times - strenuous
The hand-held lantern to the ground
Truly is arduous
'Tis not til I shrink very low
With lantern in the dirt
That I can see the path clearly
While You hold "my great hurt"
A dark path lies ahead
It's not that You're not light
You want me close - right by your side
To illuminate my sight</pre><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">my inspiration </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">I believe that, in guiding us, God deals with us as He dealt with the Israelites as He led them out of Egypt. The first crossing of the sea was made very easy. The guidance could not have been simpler: the east wind blew and divided the sea before the people had to cross. Not so much as a foot was wet, except perhaps by a wind-driven spray. Moreover, it was impossible. as it were, to disobey, since they were pursued by Pharaoh’s chariots and horsemen. (Exodus 14)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">But how difficult it was on the second occasion. The priests had to walk into the strong current of a flooded river and stand still there. What an order to scoff at, and what a site it would pose to other men! But it was not until they obeyed – without a particle of visible proof that they were doing right – and carried the ark right into the river, that the water rolled back before them. (Joshua 3)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">So it may be for us as we go with God..</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">If only the next step is clear, then the one thing to do is take it! Don’t pledge your Lord or yourself to any steps beyond what you know. You don’t see them yet.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Once when I was climbing at night, in a forest before there was a made path, I learned what was meant by the words of Psalm 119:105, “Your word is a lamp for my feet, and a light for my path.” I had only a lantern, and had to hold it very low or I would certainly have slipped on those rough rocks. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">We don’t walk spiritually by electric light, but by a hand-held lantern. And a lantern shows only the next step – not several steps ahead.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Amy Carmichael, Candles in the Dark, pp. 41,43</span></span></p><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">My sweet Dad, John Kennedy, was diagnosed with ALS on July 19, 2022. He is braving the most devastating diagnosis that I could imagine. In prayer, he refers to this trial as “my great hurt,” and I never want to forget this.</p></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-52555995343796008192023-01-16T17:19:00.003-06:002023-03-28T08:02:21.033-05:00PSALM 3:2<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04rl7f5u2eBXpTmJk81ba-dK9hpdXxzcluHjfgbR_8zgr3kiIBVl6od0E26sP50IiDswpzxoZ_KWfPa-qO8_vQpLDUg2bz5EMA-EGpJT7YodP02WsbOsOH2lX0tdU7RtU7CSIyijtP6_w5Z-3Tg1fsL_pyBJp2Z8Wn5f0ZJa0_tqj6iWuIH1W_99P1w/s2048/Waterlogue-2023-01-13-09-00-48.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04rl7f5u2eBXpTmJk81ba-dK9hpdXxzcluHjfgbR_8zgr3kiIBVl6od0E26sP50IiDswpzxoZ_KWfPa-qO8_vQpLDUg2bz5EMA-EGpJT7YodP02WsbOsOH2lX0tdU7RtU7CSIyijtP6_w5Z-3Tg1fsL_pyBJp2Z8Wn5f0ZJa0_tqj6iWuIH1W_99P1w/w480-h640/Waterlogue-2023-01-13-09-00-48.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: rgb(238, 241, 242) !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Many there be which say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.” Selah But thou, O Lord, art my helper, my Glory and the lifter of my head!</p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px !important; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">PSALM 3:2</cite></blockquote><pre class="wp-block-verse has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 50px; overflow: auto; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wearying voices heap complaints
Murmur both day and night
Constant mutters of weariness
"There is no hope in sight."
Because I am a Child of God
I need not listen in
Such is a time for studied pause
Time to let life sink in
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Selah</span>
With a pause and then wondrous praise
My voice shall rise to Thee
Train my soul to with upward gaze
Look upon Calvary
With fixed eyes, as You lift my chin
Cause my fears to desert
For thou, O Lord, art my Sovereign
Larger than "my great hurt"
</pre><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">my inspiration </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">We have all been subjected to the wearying voices which flood the very atmosphere around us, complaining, “There is no help…” These voices murmur and mutter the same words, no matter what the challenge or difficulty may be. “There is no help…” But because you and I are in God, we need not listen: “There is no help…,” They repeat. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Pause. </span>“But you, O Lord, are my helper!”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">No matter to us what the voices say. Their words bring only weariness – but with His word comes peace and strength and courage to go on. Some believe that <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">selah</span> signifies also a sudden pealing-forth of musical instruments. The <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">pause</span>, then, was for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">praise</span>. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Then let us fill all of our <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">pauses</span> with praise! Let us give all that lies within us, not to the voices of the enemy, but to pure praise, to pure loving adoration, and to worship from a grateful heart – a heart that is trained to look <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">up</span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;">Amy Carmichael, Thou Givest – They Gather, p. 18</span></span></p><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">My sweet Dad, John Kennedy, was diagnosed with ALS on July 19, 2022. He is braving the most devastating diagnosis that I could imagine. In prayer, he refers to this trial as “my great hurt,” and I never want to forget this.</p></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-20422704204915703002023-01-12T17:23:00.004-06:002023-03-28T08:02:13.564-05:00MATTHEW 10:29<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2puHU_b4lSf0pPmx7jyr-vxJxqZuoJvI-f_MDpqM7xa-ABP8YgpioHJxkFLaR7iAN_piUqAkaaeISISvbysiBkdA8yy8zBjeHYNhwV9-oxRQjSr6XPat0XjSAc5kI2uJzPTSlgPMs1ZF1_i24ynuVUv-UUzQQJ9moS1JemYNbJl1u55XTjJ1ojdYNiw/s2048/Waterlogue-2023-01-12-07-55-18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2puHU_b4lSf0pPmx7jyr-vxJxqZuoJvI-f_MDpqM7xa-ABP8YgpioHJxkFLaR7iAN_piUqAkaaeISISvbysiBkdA8yy8zBjeHYNhwV9-oxRQjSr6XPat0XjSAc5kI2uJzPTSlgPMs1ZF1_i24ynuVUv-UUzQQJ9moS1JemYNbJl1u55XTjJ1ojdYNiw/w480-h640/Waterlogue-2023-01-12-07-55-18.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: rgb(238, 241, 242) !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.</p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px !important; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">MATTHEW 10:29</cite></blockquote><pre class="wp-block-verse has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 50px; overflow: auto; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">If half a penny disappeared
Would I even care?
A sparrow falling to the ground
Never leaves His care
Insignificant, we are not
Always seen by Him
Greatly beloved and not forgot
Trust wells-up within
Father, forgive me for the days
I think meeting you
Insignificant, compared with
All I have to do</pre><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">my inspiration </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">It can even shake our faith in the truth that our Father regards with compassion even the fall of a single sparrow. To me, one of the proofs that God’s hand is behind and all throughout this marvelous Book we know as the Bible is the way it continually touches upon this very fear in us – the fear that we are so insignificant as to be forgotten… Isn’t it beautiful that there was no rebuke at all for their human weakness? And there never is a rebuke for our weaknesses either. Job 24:12 says, “The soul of the wounded calls for help, and God does not regard it as foolish.”<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;">Amy Carmichael, Thou Givest – They Gather, pp. 20-21</span></span></p></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-89689284143374726692023-01-11T07:40:00.007-06:002023-03-28T08:02:02.913-05:00ISAIAH 26:3-4<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj13TwwwZrzmkFlii9ba4n6RlkGdI1VkRkgdAv-iFcLJiy-aYJXEzGmezaQRPOF3uB3nZugYmN_E4WtILMTHDAIkDrg16kuorYxyK1TrXhWi6XPNlOZ2cpSJR1laHWiYHuiRCNjFmOZxgfuOoJiBMfx_8hU9I_ISMN8j_HVxtTdugkhJTpTDumeHtk3jg/s2048/Waterlogue-2023-01-11-15-32-54.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj13TwwwZrzmkFlii9ba4n6RlkGdI1VkRkgdAv-iFcLJiy-aYJXEzGmezaQRPOF3uB3nZugYmN_E4WtILMTHDAIkDrg16kuorYxyK1TrXhWi6XPNlOZ2cpSJR1laHWiYHuiRCNjFmOZxgfuOoJiBMfx_8hU9I_ISMN8j_HVxtTdugkhJTpTDumeHtk3jg/w480-h640/Waterlogue-2023-01-11-15-32-54.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: rgb(238, 241, 242) !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee. Trust ye in the Lord for ever, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2026&version=NIV" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"></a></p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px !important; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">ISAIAH 26:3-4</cite></blockquote><pre class="wp-block-verse has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 50px; overflow: auto; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shouldering trepidations,
Pulling me down
Suffocating nervousness,
Shortening my breath
The Invitation Arrives:
Come close, my child
Lean on me
Trust me
Place your weight of confidence,
Upon my chest
Lie alongside my bosom
Receive true peace
'Tis the way you will find strength</pre><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">my inspiration </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Trust, I have learned, means:<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;"> to lean on, to place the weight of my confidence upon</span>… And after this discovery, I’ve found many verses in the Psalms that provide great comfort when translated in this way… It is marvelous to me that God’s Spirit led the writers of these words to the same special verb, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">to lean</span>. By one simple word, He means to show us so clearly that it is never anything in us that accounts for the Lord’s goodness to us. Everything we are given is all from Him. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;">Amy Carmichael, Thou Givest – They Gather, pp. 1-2</span></span></p></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-3014546504795105412023-01-10T07:44:00.008-06:002023-03-28T08:01:51.961-05:00PSALM 32:7<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzvjwsavGyoih1kycnKQgLlysowM5nwKYThO6w-hCDsDqG8-X1jj2RFnoinkhgHN0nkjJO6wPiTA-LDaElUbg48xQHXMOHbGYXZcZj6i7wGi06ioOq3ZvlcTVPwvSomslAsuH1mCwIOeUKSSS1IYsgAtvG2JXL1q0Ves5HRT4odmfU7mnpKX5z2erlhA/s2048/Waterlogue-2023-01-10-15-41-52.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzvjwsavGyoih1kycnKQgLlysowM5nwKYThO6w-hCDsDqG8-X1jj2RFnoinkhgHN0nkjJO6wPiTA-LDaElUbg48xQHXMOHbGYXZcZj6i7wGi06ioOq3ZvlcTVPwvSomslAsuH1mCwIOeUKSSS1IYsgAtvG2JXL1q0Ves5HRT4odmfU7mnpKX5z2erlhA/w480-h640/Waterlogue-2023-01-10-15-41-52.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: rgb(238, 241, 242) !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.</p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px !important; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">PSALM 32:7</cite></blockquote><pre class="wp-block-verse has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 50px; overflow: auto; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deliver me, deliver me
Pleading both day and night
Deliver me, deliver me
Attempting with vain fight
An earnest look at Calv'ry love
Desisting my next step
His arms outstretched from up above
Proclaiming peace and rest
Post and crossbeam declare, "Come home."
Hiding no longer sin
The bridge that helps me ne'er to roam
Protecting from within
Jesus Christ, the crucified God
Singing gently to me,
"Come home, my child. Come home, my child.
Hide thyself inside me."</pre><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">my inspiration </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">I think distractions in prayer are often because we have let ourselves wander too far from the things that matter most. And so we slip into an easily interrupted, easily distracted frame of mind. We need to live more at home. Acts 17:28 says, “In him we live and move and have our being.” This means, simply, God is our home… I know that an earnest “look” at Calvary does more to help our life of prayer than we imagine. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;">Amy Carmichael, Edges of His Ways, p. 60</span></span></p></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-72138368878756627632022-12-24T13:52:00.004-06:002023-03-28T13:53:31.604-05:00Unit No.6<p> <img alt="" class="wp-image-3420" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/13-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/13-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/13-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/13-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/13.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.75px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4788" decoding="async" height="1024" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6354-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6354-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6354-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6354-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6354-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6354-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6354-scaled.jpg 1920w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: rgb(238, 241, 242) !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Unit 06 Thematic Focus: Thankful, Squirrel, and the Color Brown. </p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px !important; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">ALL ABOARD THE ANIMAL TRAIN</cite></blockquote><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-6 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 100%; flex-grow: 0; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-3 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4789" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6384-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6384-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6384-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6384-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6384-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6384-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6384-scaled.jpg 1920w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4790" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6439-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6439-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6439-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6439-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6439-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6439-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6439-scaled.jpg 1920w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure></figure></div></div><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-7 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4795" data-id="4795" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6461-1-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6461-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6461-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6461-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6461-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6461-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6461-1-scaled.jpg 1920w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4794" data-id="4794" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6382-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6382-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6382-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6382-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6382-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6382.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure></figure><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">activities we enjoyed </h3><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Making Brown Play Dough</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Practicing Tracing</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Reading about the Rabbit and the Turtle</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Singing The Wheels on the Bus</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Learning to say, “Thank You.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Eating Chocolate Pudding</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Reading about Baby Jesus</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Doing a Musical Color Walk</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Sending a Squirrel Greeting Card</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Making Cinnamon Squirrel Ornaments</li></ul></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">The Bible verse for this unit is “We thank you, our God, and praise you” – 1 Chronicles 29:13. If you want to sing this with your child, it goes perfectly to the tune of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">London Bridges Falling Down.</span></p><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-10 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4793" data-id="4793" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6356-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6356-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6356-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6356-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6356-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6356.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4792" data-id="4792" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6342-769x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6342-769x1024.jpg 769w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6342-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6342-768x1023.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6342-1153x1536.jpg 1153w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6342-800x1066.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6342.jpg 1537w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="769" /></figure></figure><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">books we read </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">We enjoy reading books together. One of things I like about this age is that Lyda Beth never tires of repeatedly hearing a good book. In fact, after we have read it a few times, she “reads it” to me. We enjoy the book list that came with our curriculum because the recommendations solidify the theme of each unit. Here are a few of the books that we have enjoyed during this unit.</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3wVrXyW" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Nuts to You!</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3RxncVB" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Leaf Trouble</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3YkdkAT" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">One More Acorn</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Hxlv67" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Raindrop Plop!</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3JDJBi6" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Hopper’s Treetop Adventure</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3JJc2eC" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Squirrels on Skis</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3DHpcFk" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">The Busy Little Squirrel</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3HS9Ekp" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">The Very Best Bed</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/40te3l5" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Move Over, Rover!</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Y4nbuP" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">The Happy Day</a></li></ul><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">free printables </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">If you’d like a fun way to introduce animals & colors to your child, feel free to use these adorable printables. I created them to correspond with <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">My Father’s World Curriculum | All Aboard the Animal Train</a>. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. </p><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-14 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3420" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/13-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/13-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/13-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/13-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/13.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Squirrel.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">FREE PRINTABLE | THE SQUIRREL DIAGRAM</a></figcaption></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3421" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/25-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/25-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/25-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/25-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/25.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Brown.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">FREE PRINTABLE | THE COLOR BROWN</a></figcaption></figure></div></div><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">the curriculum we use </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Whenever I was choosing a homeschool curriculum, I leaned heavily on the guidance of my sister, Angie, at <a href="http://www.freshwanderings.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Fresh Wanderings</a>. She had already been homeschooling her children for 13 years and had tried multiple curriculums and even supplemented her own throughout the years. She strongly advised that I use <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/unique" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">My Father’s World</a> and I am so glad that I did. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“My Father’s World Christian homeschool curriculum combines the best of Charlotte Mason’s ideas, classical education, and unit studies with a biblical worldview and global focus. They have worked hard to make homeschooling as easy as possible with their God-centric curriculum mirroring the Greco-Roman classical approach of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.” You can read about their philosophy <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/about/our-philosophy" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3349" decoding="async" height="750" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png 750w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-300x300.png 300w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-150x150.png 150w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-600x600.png 600w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-500x500.png 500w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="750" /></a></figure></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-79301265520302886962022-12-12T08:08:00.009-06:002023-03-28T08:15:18.593-05:00JOHN 1:4<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTVA_8Lohn1AZ7HqWYdzp5C2vEeS8hqrbUWhDuP2icwBAruRtfQudaKdrUceyN9POJ1ZoUhcMoUENCqtkYr4HJ7SnI1y7RD5U1zxdN81UQ7F18YAiTxoZUjN9ZI2lR_bwKLvkgxfWzwvk0OEugNaphxpooKbZNzy2eQmogXwhrU_2Uz8SukuoFpZEUXQ/s2048/Waterlogue-2022-12-12-07-13-00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1537" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTVA_8Lohn1AZ7HqWYdzp5C2vEeS8hqrbUWhDuP2icwBAruRtfQudaKdrUceyN9POJ1ZoUhcMoUENCqtkYr4HJ7SnI1y7RD5U1zxdN81UQ7F18YAiTxoZUjN9ZI2lR_bwKLvkgxfWzwvk0OEugNaphxpooKbZNzy2eQmogXwhrU_2Uz8SukuoFpZEUXQ/w480-h640/Waterlogue-2022-12-12-07-13-00.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: #eef1f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; margin: 25px 0px 50px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.</p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN 1:4</cite></blockquote><pre class="wp-block-verse has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 50px; overflow: auto; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">The eternal Word moved in
Becoming in every way
A messy human being
No monarch would enter this way
The moment of His coming
Laid down in prickly straw
A baby born a martyr
The Gift - provided to all
The manger like Golgotha
A picture of what's to come
Christmas Day and Good Friday
Like morning and evening, one
The thunderous weight - God's glory
Descending for all to see
Mankind could now behold Him
The most precious King of kings
Wrapped up in pure, white linen
Grace permeates though the straw
Running out of the manger
And touching us one and all
Jehovah, God Almighty
The Truth - now in baby form,
Embodied in all God is
This valiant Christmas morn'</pre></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-50323038161260405942022-12-03T13:55:00.014-06:002023-03-28T14:00:20.735-05:00Unit No.5<p><br /></p><p><img alt="" class="wp-image-3416" decoding="async" height="955" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/12-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/12-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/12-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/12-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/12.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.75px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="695" /></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4431" decoding="async" height="1024" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6032-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6032-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6032-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6032-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6032-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6032-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6032-scaled.jpg 1920w" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; letter-spacing: normal;" width="768" /></figure><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: #eef1f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; margin: 25px 0px 50px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Unit 05 Thematic Focus: Sharing, Lion, and the color Green. </p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">ALL ABOARD THE ANIMAL TRAIN</cite></blockquote><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-6 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 100%; flex-grow: 0; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-3 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4435" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6183-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6183-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6183-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6183-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6183-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6183-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6183-scaled.jpg 1920w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4428" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6247-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6247-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6247-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6247-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6247-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6247-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6247-scaled.jpg 1920w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure></figure></div></div><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">activities we enjoyed </h3><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Going on a Green Scavenger Hunt</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Making Green Play Dough</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Pretending to Be Lions</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Wearing a Green Apron While Baking</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Eating Green Pickles, Peas, and Relish on Green Plate</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Making Green in the Water</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Listening to Pa Read Books</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Creating Mouse and Lion Puppets</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Riding a Green Turtle at Swim Lesson</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Snuggling with Mama</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Building Our First Snowman of the Season</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Reading the Mouse and Lion Book</li></ul></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">The Bible verse for this unit is “Be Generous and Share” – 1 Timothy 6:18. If you want to sing this with your child, it goes perfectly to the tune of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">The Farmer and the Dell.</span></p><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-8 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(33.33% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.66667);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4434" data-id="4434" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6071-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6071-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6071-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6071-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6071-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6071-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6071-scaled.jpg 1920w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 317.765625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 238.328125px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(33.33% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.66667);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4431" data-id="4431" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6032-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6032-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6032-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6032-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6032-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6032-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6032-scaled.jpg 1920w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 317.765625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 238.328125px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(33.33% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.66667);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4423" data-id="4423" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6387-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6387-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6387-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6387-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6387-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_6387.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 317.765625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 238.328125px;" width="768" /></figure></figure><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">books we read </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">We enjoy reading books together. One of things I like about this age is that Lyda Beth never tires of repeatedly hearing a good book. In fact, after we have read it a few times, she “reads it” to me. We enjoy the book list that came with our curriculum because the recommendations solidify the theme of each unit. Here are a few of the books that we have enjoyed during this unit.</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3HKaYWZ" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">We’re Going on a Lion Hunt</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3PIiPXa" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mouse and Lion</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3v6g8VQ" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Inside a Zoo in the City</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3FE1UA9" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Happy Lion</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3FE1UA9" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Put me in the Zoo</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3WydvaH" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Randy’s Dandy Lions</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3G5yoot" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Would They Love a Lion?</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3YEcxM0" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Pig Pig Meets the Lion</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3FF84QM" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">How Loud Is A Lion?</a></li></ul><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">free printables </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">If you’d like a fun way to introduce animals & colors to your child, feel free to use these adorable printables. I created them to correspond with <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">My Father’s World Curriculum | All Aboard the Animal Train</a>. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. </p><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-12 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3416" decoding="async" height="556" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/12-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/12-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/12-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/12-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/12.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="405" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Lion.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">FREE PRINTABLE | THE LION DIAGRAM</a></figcaption></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3417" decoding="async" height="1100" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/24-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/24-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/24-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/24-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/24.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="800" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Green.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">FREE PRINTABLE | THE COLOR GREEN</a></figcaption></figure></div></div><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">the curriculum we use </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Whenever I was choosing a homeschool curriculum, I leaned heavily on the guidance of my sister, Angie, at <a href="http://www.freshwanderings.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Fresh Wanderings</a>. She had already been homeschooling her children for 13 years and had tried multiple curriculums and even supplemented her own throughout the years. She strongly advised that I use <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/unique" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">My Father’s World</a> and I am so glad that I did. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“My Father’s World Christian homeschool curriculum combines the best of Charlotte Mason’s ideas, classical education, and unit studies with a biblical worldview and global focus. They have worked hard to make homeschooling as easy as possible with their God-centric curriculum mirroring the Greco-Roman classical approach of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.” You can read about their philosophy <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/about/our-philosophy" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3349" decoding="async" height="750" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png 750w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-300x300.png 300w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-150x150.png 150w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-600x600.png 600w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-500x500.png 500w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="750" /></a></figure></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-47406487797255678762022-11-06T14:02:00.001-06:002023-03-28T14:04:32.993-05:00Unit No.4<p><br /></p><p><img alt="" class="wp-image-3401" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/10-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/10-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/10-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/10-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/10.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.75px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4327" decoding="async" height="1024" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5888-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5888-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5888-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5888-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5888-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5888.jpg 1536w" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; letter-spacing: normal;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><br /></figure><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: rgb(238, 241, 242) !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Unit 04 Thematic Focus: Kindness, Cat, and the color Purple. </p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px !important; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">ALL ABOARD THE ANIMAL TRAIN</cite></blockquote><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-3 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4320" data-id="4320" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5397-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5397-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5397-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5397-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5397-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5397.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4324" data-id="4324" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5581-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5581-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5581-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5581-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5581-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5581.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 481.65625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 361.25px;" width="768" /></figure></figure><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">activities we enjoyed </h3><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Going on a Purple Scavenger Hunt</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Making Purple Play Dough</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Pretending to Be Kittens</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Playing inside a Purple Hippo (At The Park)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Drinking Purple Smoothies</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Finger Painting with Pudding</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Visiting Auntie’s Cats</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Reading The Three Little Kittens Poem</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Learning about Ruth & Naomi’s Kindness</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Sending Pa & Nana a Greeting Card</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Cutting Her Hair w/Scissors (without Permission or Help!!!)</li></ul></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">The Bible verse for this unit is “Be kind to everyone.” – 2 Timothy 2:24. If you want to sing this with your child, it goes perfectly to the tune of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Lou, Lou Skip to My Lou.</span></p><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-6 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(33.33% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.66667);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4322" data-id="4322" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5556-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5556-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5556-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5556-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5556-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5556.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 317.765625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 238.328125px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(33.33% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.66667);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4327" data-id="4327" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5888-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5888-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5888-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5888-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5888-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5888.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 317.765625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 238.328125px;" width="768" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(33.33% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.66667);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4321" data-id="4321" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5666-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5666-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5666-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5666-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5666-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5666.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 317.765625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 238.328125px;" width="768" /></figure></figure><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">books we read </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">We enjoy reading books together. One of things I like about this age is that Lyda Beth never tires of repeatedly hearing a good book. In fact, after we have read it a few times, she “reads it” to me. We enjoy the book list that came with our curriculum because the recommendations solidify the theme of each unit. Here are a few of the books that we have enjoyed during this unit.</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3UaDwLF" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">The Full Moon at the Napping House</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3F3ITrP" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Henry the Sailor Cat</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3XABRlI" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Hi, Cat!</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3XOf1XY" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Cap Jumped In!</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Ve7f7M" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Nini Here and There</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3XzRGZQ" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">How to be a Cat</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ELDuo9" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Scrawny Cat</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3VeUvxZ" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Cat Skidoo</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3GNl3SB" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">If you Give a Cat a Cupcake</a></li></ul><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">free printables </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">If you’d like a fun way to introduce animals & colors to your child, feel free to use these adorable printables. I created them to correspond with <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">My Father’s World Curriculum | All Aboard the Animal Train</a>. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. </p><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-10 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3401" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/10-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/10-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/10-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/10-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/10.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Cat.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">FREE PRINTABLE | THE CAT DIAGRAM</a></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3404" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/23-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/23-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/23-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/23-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/23.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Purple.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">FREE PRINTABLE | THE COLOR PURPLE</a></figcaption></figure></div></div><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">the curriculum we use </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Whenever I was choosing a homeschool curriculum, I leaned heavily on the guidance of my sister, Angie, at <a href="http://www.freshwanderings.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Fresh Wanderings</a>. She had already been homeschooling her children for 13 years and had tried multiple curriculums and even supplemented her own throughout the years. She strongly advised that I use <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/unique" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">My Father’s World</a> and I am so glad that I did. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“My Father’s World Christian homeschool curriculum combines the best of Charlotte Mason’s ideas, classical education, and unit studies with a biblical worldview and global focus. They have worked hard to make homeschooling as easy as possible with their God-centric curriculum mirroring the Greco-Roman classical approach of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.” You can read about their philosophy <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/about/our-philosophy" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3349" decoding="async" height="750" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png 750w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-300x300.png 300w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-150x150.png 150w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-600x600.png 600w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-500x500.png 500w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="750" /></a></figure></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-286782128010004242022-10-14T14:05:00.003-05:002023-03-28T14:06:23.374-05:00Unit No.3<p> </p><p><img alt="" class="wp-image-3396" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/11-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/11-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/11-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/11-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/11.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.75px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4072" decoding="async" height="1024" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/5-IMG_4090-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/5-IMG_4090-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/5-IMG_4090-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/5-IMG_4090-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/5-IMG_4090-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/5-IMG_4090-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/5-IMG_4090-scaled.jpg 1920w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: rgb(238, 241, 242) !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Unit 03 Thematic Focus: Patience, Duck, and the color Yellow. </p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px !important; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">ALL ABOARD THE ANIMAL TRAIN</cite></blockquote><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-5 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3980" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4406-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4406-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4406-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4406-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4406-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4406.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4074" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4-IMG_8173-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4-IMG_8173-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4-IMG_8173-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4-IMG_8173-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4-IMG_8173-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4-IMG_8173-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4-IMG_8173-scaled.jpg 1920w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div></div><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-8 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4066" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4772-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4772-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4772-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4772-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4772-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4772-800x1066.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4772.jpg 1808w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4073" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4785-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4785-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4785-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4785-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4785-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4785-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4785-scaled.jpg 1920w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div></div><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">activities we enjoyed </h3><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Exploring south-central Wyoming for two weeks</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Going on a yellow scavenger hunt</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Riding a yellow pony</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Eating a duck shaped sandwich</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Reading “The Fuzzy Duckling”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Pretending to be ducks</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Playing with yellow kinetic sand</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Acting out a duck poem</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Learning about Jesus going back to Heaven</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Mailing Pa & Nana a card</li></ul></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">The Bible verse for this unit is “It’s smart to be patient.” – Proverbs 14:29. If you want to sing this with your child, it goes perfectly to the tune of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">The Farmer in the Dell.</span></p><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-13 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4065" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/3-IMG_4587-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/3-IMG_4587-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/3-IMG_4587-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/3-IMG_4587-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/3-IMG_4587-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/3-IMG_4587-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/3-IMG_4587-scaled.jpg 1920w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4075" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1-IMG_4797-749x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1-IMG_4797-749x1024.jpg 749w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1-IMG_4797-219x300.jpg 219w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1-IMG_4797-768x1050.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1-IMG_4797-1123x1536.jpg 1123w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1-IMG_4797-1498x2048.jpg 1498w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1-IMG_4797-800x1094.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1-IMG_4797-scaled.jpg 1872w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="749" /></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4078" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4676-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4676-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4676-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4676-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4676-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4676-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2-IMG_4676-scaled.jpg 1920w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div></div><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-15 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-4079" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4-DSC01902-679x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4-DSC01902-679x1024.jpg 679w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4-DSC01902-199x300.jpg 199w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4-DSC01902-768x1159.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4-DSC01902-800x1207.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4-DSC01902.jpg 945w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="679" /></figure></div></div><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">books we read </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">We enjoy reading books together. One of things I like about this age is that Lyda Beth never tires of repeatedly hearing a good book. In fact, after we have read it a few times, she “reads it” to me. We enjoy the book list that came with our curriculum because the recommendations solidify the theme of each unit. Here are a few of the books that we have enjoyed during this unit.</p><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-17 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3979" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4408-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4408-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4408-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4408-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4408-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4408.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div></div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ANQuYU" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Little White Duck</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3OG3Yf3" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">In the Rain with Baby Duck</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3gFZqc9" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">One Duck Stuck</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3GQLC9e" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Ruby in Her Own Time</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3XDqrxn" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Little Quack’s Bedtime</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3UaD4gI" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">I Went Walking</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3VdHtAM" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Duck Sock Hop</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3VaJOfG" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Have You Seen My New Blue Socks?</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3VtPbq6" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Hush Little Ones</a></li></ul><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">free printables </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">If you’d like a fun way to introduce animals & colors to your child, feel free to use these adorable printables. I created them to correspond with <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">My Father’s World Curriculum | All Aboard the Animal Train</a>. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. </p><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-20 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3396" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/11-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/11-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/11-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/11-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/11.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Duck.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">FREE PRINTABLE | THE DUCK DIAGRAM</a></figcaption></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3397" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/22-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/22-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/22-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/22-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/22.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Yellow.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">FREE PRINTABLE | THE COLOR YELLOW</a></figcaption></figure></div></div><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">the curriculum we use </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Whenever I was choosing a homeschool curriculum, I leaned heavily on the guidance of my sister, Angie, at <a href="http://www.freshwanderings.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Fresh Wanderings</a>. She had already been homeschooling her children for 13 years and had tried multiple curriculums and even supplemented her own throughout the years. She strongly advised that I use <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/unique" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">My Father’s World</a> and I am so glad that I did. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“My Father’s World Christian homeschool curriculum combines the best of Charlotte Mason’s ideas, classical education, and unit studies with a biblical worldview and global focus. They have worked hard to make homeschooling as easy as possible with their God-centric curriculum mirroring the Greco-Roman classical approach of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.” You can read about their philosophy <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/about/our-philosophy" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3349" decoding="async" height="750" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png 750w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-300x300.png 300w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-150x150.png 150w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-600x600.png 600w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-500x500.png 500w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="750" /></a></figure></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-2124912005581037362022-09-23T14:06:00.003-05:002023-03-28T14:07:40.724-05:00Unit No.2<p><br /></p><p><img alt="" class="wp-image-3843" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/708F794A-1BEE-4023-A44B-ECE3AF079E30-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/708F794A-1BEE-4023-A44B-ECE3AF079E30-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/708F794A-1BEE-4023-A44B-ECE3AF079E30-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/708F794A-1BEE-4023-A44B-ECE3AF079E30-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/708F794A-1BEE-4023-A44B-ECE3AF079E30.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.75px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3926" decoding="async" height="1024" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4248_jpg-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4248_jpg-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4248_jpg-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4248_jpg-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4248_jpg-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4248_jpg.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: rgb(238, 241, 242) !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Unit 02 Thematic Focus: Obedience, Bear, and the color Black. </p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px !important; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">ALL ABOARD THE ANIMAL TRAIN</cite></blockquote><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-5 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3905" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3979-1-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3979-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3979-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3979-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3979-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3979-1.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3903" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4056_jpg-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4056_jpg-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4056_jpg-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4056_jpg-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4056_jpg-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4056_jpg.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div></div><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-8 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3908" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3985-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3985-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3985-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3985-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3985-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3985.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3913" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4065-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4065-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4065-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4065-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4065-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4065.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div></div><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">activities we enjoyed </h3><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Pretending to be Bears</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Eating Black Olives</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Learning About Obedience</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Shooting Black Arrows</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Memorizing a Poem About A Bear</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Going on a Black Scavenger Hunt</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Reading Books About Bears</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Wearing a Black Police Hat</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Watching Raisins Swim</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Visiting Black Ducks at the Park</li></ul></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">The Bible verse for this unit is “I obey your laws” – Psalm 119:55. If you want to sing this with your child, it goes perfectly to the tune of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Happy Birthday to You</span>.</p><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-12 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3904" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4037-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4037-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4037-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4037-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4037-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4037.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3907" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_8018-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_8018-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_8018-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_8018-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_8018-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_8018.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div></div><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-15 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3900" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4047-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4047-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4047-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4047-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4047-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4047.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3921" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4045-1-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4045-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4045-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4045-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4045-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4045-1.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div></div><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-17 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3925" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4141_jpg-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4141_jpg-768x1025.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4141_jpg-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4141_jpg-1151x1536.jpg 1151w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4141_jpg-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4141_jpg.jpg 1535w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div></div><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">books we read </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">We enjoy reading books together. One of things I like about this age is that Lyda Beth never tires of repeatedly hearing a good book. In fact, after we have read it a few times, she “reads it” to me. We enjoy the book list that came with our curriculum because the recommendations solidify the theme of each unit. Here are a few of the books that we have enjoyed during this unit.</p><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-20 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3912" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4057-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4057-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4057-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4057-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4057-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4057.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3906" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3976-769x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3976-769x1024.jpg 769w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3976-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3976-768x1023.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3976-1153x1536.jpg 1153w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3976-800x1066.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3976.jpg 1537w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="769" /></figure></div></div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Ul2U1G" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Corduroy</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3VvLPCX" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Bear has a Story to Tell</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3XH1VMa" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Kite Day</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3F7zQpR" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Summer in the Forest</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3F7zVtF" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Bearymore</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3VaKd1G" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Blueberries for Sal</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3GV4sw2" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">You Can Do It Sam</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3GUyoIH" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Brown Bear, Brown Bear</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3FgTT5v" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">The Biggest Bear</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ig4vs3" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">On the Night You Were Born</a></li></ul><figure class="is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-21 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); 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box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 317.765625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 238.328125px;" width="769" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(33.33% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.66667);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3929" data-id="3929" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4268-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4268-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4268-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4268-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4268-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4268.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 317.765625px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 238.328125px;" width="768" /></figure></figure><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">free printables </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">If you’d like a fun way to introduce animals & colors to your child, feel free to use these adorable printables. I created them to correspond with <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">My Father’s World Curriculum | All Aboard the Animal Train</a>. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. </p><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-25 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3843" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/708F794A-1BEE-4023-A44B-ECE3AF079E30-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/708F794A-1BEE-4023-A44B-ECE3AF079E30-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/708F794A-1BEE-4023-A44B-ECE3AF079E30-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/708F794A-1BEE-4023-A44B-ECE3AF079E30-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/708F794A-1BEE-4023-A44B-ECE3AF079E30.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;"><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2EEC68E8-7E26-4A26-96D6-D396A7DB7750.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">FREE PRINTABLE | THE BEAR DIAGRAM</a></span></figcaption></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3391" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/21-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/21-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/21-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/21-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/21.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Black.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">FREE PRINTABLE | THE COLOR BLACK</a></figcaption></figure></div></div><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">the curriculum we use </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Whenever I was choosing a homeschool curriculum, I leaned heavily on the guidance of my sister, Angie, at <a href="http://www.freshwanderings.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Fresh Wanderings</a>. She had already been homeschooling her children for 13 years and had tried multiple curriculums and even supplemented her own throughout the years. She strongly advised that I use <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/unique" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">My Father’s World</a> and I am so glad that I did. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“My Father’s World Christian homeschool curriculum combines the best of Charlotte Mason’s ideas, classical education, and unit studies with a biblical worldview and global focus. They have worked hard to make homeschooling as easy as possible with their God-centric curriculum mirroring the Greco-Roman classical approach of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.” You can read about their philosophy <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/about/our-philosophy" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3349" decoding="async" height="750" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png 750w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-300x300.png 300w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-150x150.png 150w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-600x600.png 600w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-500x500.png 500w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="750" /></a></figure></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-1449036364599850152022-09-21T08:15:00.004-05:002023-03-28T08:19:53.294-05:00PSALM 145:17<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLivmMiVtSflFioF-DDjaLDAHOriCQs5vZfQckmv2SEVUA_1yDc617nCXCvW4S5FsnMPPQoh4pfFgrEiMI7bOj3TYMactLW8x4AzDvEsEzMz3cKIBVHOEZSHAAzRz8XsISIAXTt5KTsPtwfjMfz1NwFFLZeTZrrPFHjnwOmB0CGaly63Xqzc_ij3qWA/s2048/IMG_5604.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLivmMiVtSflFioF-DDjaLDAHOriCQs5vZfQckmv2SEVUA_1yDc617nCXCvW4S5FsnMPPQoh4pfFgrEiMI7bOj3TYMactLW8x4AzDvEsEzMz3cKIBVHOEZSHAAzRz8XsISIAXTt5KTsPtwfjMfz1NwFFLZeTZrrPFHjnwOmB0CGaly63Xqzc_ij3qWA/w480-h640/IMG_5604.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: rgb(238, 241, 242) !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is righteous in all his ways and faithful in all he does.</p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px !important; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">PSALM 145:17</cite></blockquote><pre class="wp-block-verse has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 50px; overflow: auto; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">By God's plan, Abraham
Was chosen of the Lord
To be the start and help impart
Salvation to the world
By God's plan, a covenant
Established through his seed
The Righteous One, Redeemer
Providing for our need
By God's plan, 'tis Jesus Christ
The perfect Son of God
Fulfilling the great promise
Of God, the Faithful One
Jehovah, God Almighty
The one who ne'er relents
His faithfulness forever
Poured out on the remnant</pre><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">my inspiration </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">From all the people of the earth, God chose one man, Abraham, and promised that his descendants would become a great nation and bless the entire world (Genesis 12:1-5). God’s faithfulness to His chosen people through multiplying generations remains a constant thread in Israel’s history. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">– Bible Study Fellowship, Kingdom Divided, Lesson 1.</span></p></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601528405685737042.post-71114451421824130102022-09-02T14:08:00.003-05:002023-03-28T14:09:25.790-05:00Unit No.1<p><br /></p><p><img alt="" class="wp-image-3348" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/8-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/8-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/8-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/8-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/8.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.75px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /></p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: #777777; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.75px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3711" decoding="async" height="1024" sizes="(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3846-1-769x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3846-1-769x1024.jpg 769w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3846-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3846-1-768x1023.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3846-1-1153x1536.jpg 1153w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3846-1-800x1066.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3846-1.jpg 1537w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="769" /></figure><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: rgb(238, 241, 242) !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 3.25rem; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 25px !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Unit 01 Thematic Focus: Love, Rabbit, and the color Red. </p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 12px !important; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">ALL ABOARD THE ANIMAL TRAIN</cite></blockquote><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-5 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3684" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3809-769x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3809-769x1024.jpg 769w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3809-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3809-768x1023.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3809-1153x1536.jpg 1153w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3809-800x1066.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3809.jpg 1537w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="769" /></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3655" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3749-1-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3749-1-768x1025.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3749-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3749-1-1151x1536.jpg 1151w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3749-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3749-1.jpg 1535w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div></div><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-8 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3832" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3882-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3882-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3882-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3882-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3882-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3882.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3680" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3707_jpg-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3707_jpg-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3707_jpg-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3707_jpg-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3707_jpg-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3707_jpg.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div></div><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">activities we enjoyed </h3><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Making a Felt Rabbit</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Telling Each other, “I Love You!”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Eating Red Foods</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Learning Jesus Died and Rose Again</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Baking an Apple Pie for Daddy</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Going on a Red Scavenger Hunt</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Making Red Play Dough </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Pretending to be Rabbits</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Visiting Rabbits at our Local Farm Supply Store</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Finger Painting with Red Pudding</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Reading Books About Rabbits</li></ul></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">The Bible verse for this unit is “Love God and love each other” – 1 John 4:21. If you want to sing this with your child, it goes perfectly to the tune of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">London Bridges Falling Down</span>.</p><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-12 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3679" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3801-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3801-768x1025.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3801-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3801-1151x1536.jpg 1151w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3801-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3801.jpg 1535w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3685" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3808-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3808-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3808-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3808-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3808-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3808.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div></div><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-15 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3678" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3797-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3797-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3797-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3797-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3797-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3797.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3838" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3930-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3930-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3930-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3930-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3930-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3930-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_3930.jpg 1672w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div></div><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-18 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3834" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3877-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3877-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3877-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3877-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3877-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3877.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3833" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3891-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3891-768x1025.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3891-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3891-1151x1536.jpg 1151w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3891-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3891.jpg 1535w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div></div><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">books we read </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">We enjoy reading books together. One of things I like about this age is that Lyda Beth never tires of repeatedly hearing a good book. In fact, after we have read it a few times, she “reads it” to me. We enjoy the book list that came with our curriculum because the recommendations solidify the theme of each unit. Here are a few of the books that we have enjoyed during this unit.</p><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-21 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3712" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3843-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3843-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3843-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3843-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3843-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3843.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3713" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3848-768x1024.jpg" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3848-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3848-225x300.jpg 225w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3848-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3848-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3848.jpg 1536w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="768" /></figure></div></div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3XBSHk4" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3XAnKg5" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Hushabye Lily</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3F2Egxd" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Blue Rabbit and Friends</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vutsyn" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Peter Rabbit | 5 MInute Stories</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3XzSTjQ" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Moonlight</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3OItj8j" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">If You Plant a Seed</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3UebG1l" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3VtQvJA" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Forever Friends</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3VzNVC2" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">The Little Blue Rabbit</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vb104F" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Little Bunny’s Sleepless Night</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3gAUnK9" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Quiet Bunny</a></li></ul><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">free printables </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">If you’d like a fun way to introduce animals & colors to your child, feel free to use these adorable printables. I created them to correspond with <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">My Father’s World Curriculum | All Aboard the Animal Train</a>. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. </p><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-24 wp-block-columns" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 2em; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin-bottom: 1.75em; row-gap: 2em;"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3348" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/8-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/8-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/8-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/8-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/8.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;"><a data-id="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Rabbit.pdf" data-type="URL" href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Rabbit.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">FREE PRINTABLE | THE RABBIT DIAGRAM</a></span></figcaption></figure></div><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3351" decoding="async" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/20-745x1024.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/20-745x1024.png 745w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/20-218x300.png 218w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/20-768x1056.png 768w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/20.png 800w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="745" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Red.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">FREE PRINTABLE | THE COLOR RED</a></figcaption></figure></div></div><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid none; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 32px auto; width: 146px;" /><h3 class="script" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-family: "Harper Script", serif; font-size: 72px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">the curriculum we use </h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">Whenever I was choosing a homeschool curriculum, I leaned heavily on the guidance of my sister, Angie, at <a href="http://www.freshwanderings.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Fresh Wanderings</a>. She had already been homeschooling her children for 13 years and had tried multiple curriculums and even supplemented her own throughout the years. She strongly advised that I use <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/unique" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">My Father’s World</a> and I am so glad that I did. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;">“My Father’s World Christian homeschool curriculum combines the best of Charlotte Mason’s ideas, classical education, and unit studies with a biblical worldview and global focus. They have worked hard to make homeschooling as easy as possible with their God-centric curriculum mirroring the Greco-Roman classical approach of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.” You can read about their philosophy <a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/about/our-philosophy" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.mfwbooks.com/item/91051/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bca578; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3349" decoding="async" height="750" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png" srcset="http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train.png 750w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-300x300.png 300w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-150x150.png 150w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-600x600.png 600w, http://amykeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/all-aboard-the-animal-train-500x500.png 500w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="750" /></a></figure></div>Amy Keckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110640572961434586noreply@blogger.com