Missions to Modern Marvels
I now officially have a teenager in the house!
I am so blessed with Wyatt though. He is an incredible help to me, and though he is a little moodier than usual, he's still one of my favorite people to be with.
Wyatt is just really enjoying MTMM. His History Student Notebook is really coming together and is creating a beautiful portfolio of the work he has done this year. It is fun to pull out his previous years' portfolios and see the progress he has made through his years of doing HOD.
I am truly amazed at how easily Wyatt seems to memorize his very lengthy passages of the Bible this year. I do have him say them for me each morning, and I think this has helped him retain the passages especially well, but it still is just really something to hear. His hymn study with Hymns for Kid's Heart has him learning many timeless hymns, as well as understanding the historical backdrop to the songs an their writers. I like to hear him singing them each morning. The Biblical Worldview study was on Hinduism this week. It is so interesting to read about dc's lives around the world living out different belief systems and see how this effects their view of the world. "Who I Am?..." does a great job of helping us understand different worldviews while also helping us be sure of our own. We have had some excellent conversations as a result of the stories of these dc's lives!:D
The Nature Journal is one of our favorite times together. Wyatt has never had a big love for drawing, but through the years of doing HOD, he has learned to enjoy it (and become better at it) more and more. This year, the Nature Journal has been the perfect close to to Hearts for Him Through Time series of HOD guides. It combines his love for the outdoors and his love for quotations with his burgeoning loves of poetry and nature as seen through God's eyes. I need to take some pictures of his nature journal sometime to show you. It makes ME want to keep one!
When I told Wyatt this was his last year of doing DITHOR, he got very quiet and pretty sad. He has loved it so much. The books HOD has chose are amazing! The discussions, the kickoffs, the final projects - are all such fun, and the Student Workbook has gotten so independent now for him he feels very successful with it. Our Godly character trait discussions have been the best though - at least from my point of view.
I really appreciate the time I get alone with Wyatt, as our dc are in multiple guides. It really helps us be able to get a little deeper and a little more personal about our discussions. We get to discuss viewpoints, mature topics, struggles, temptations, successes, beliefs, and so much more - I'm thankful for our time alone. I am also thankful for the times when we do more round table learning. This is usually toward the end of our time before lunch, and each of the boys is working on something I can sort of move between each of them to oversee. This is a fun together time too!
Hope you had a good week too!
In Christ,
Julie