Learning the Lord's Prayer

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart. -Frederick Denison Maurice

The Lord's prayer is something we've been spending a bit of time on lately.

We love using Kay Arthur's Teach Us to Pray for kids book

In the book, she has each line of the prayer broken into different segments.

I thought that a sensory box could help us learn the prayer and the focus of each line.  

Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name.

The theme for this line is Worship. We used an antique perfume bottle.

Your kingdom come

The theme for this line is Allegiance.

We have a sticker that says "Team Jesus" and that seemed to do the job. 

The theme for this line is submission.

This was a challenge. But in the end, we decided that we would use a beautiful and intricate button. The button is in the shape of the earth, and the design is splendid, just like heaven is described to be.

Petition and Intercession is the theme of Give us this day our daily bread.

The corn is representing trusting the Lord for our food and daily needs. 

 

Confession and Forgiveness sums up the line  And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

We decided to use a green leaf to represent growth and that God makes all things new.  

The candle brings light in a dark place and can shine light on the path to walk on. We thought that would be the best item to represent the line And do not leads us into temptation but deliver us from evil.

We used another  antique perfume bottle for the closing line of worship in the Lord's Prayer, For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. 

This has been a helpful tool to help my children meditate on the deeper meaning of the Lord's prayer.

What do you use to remember scripture?

Tuesday October 16 2012

My Lord loves me and Oh a wonder I see

A rainbow shines through my window, My Lord loves me

The morning started with this glorious sight

And then there was much singing of this song:

I cry every time I sing this song. I still hear my Dad singing this to me when I sing it.

It's World Dictionary Day! Show the Dictionary some love!

Games of Apples to Apples amidst reading, chores, math and copywork

We're listening to the Judy Blume audiobook called "Double Fudge". The book's main character is obsessed with money. So we make our own money and play several games

And then spend a gazillion hours playing Monopoly

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark too read. -Groucho Marx

Books are our main source of learning and inspiration today.

Picture Study from Children's Prayer in Art

Beethoven's life story, followed by his music

inspired by another book, we get out our Qwirkle blocks and make tricky patterns

Then we read and read and read

We eat the last watermelon from our garden and save all the seeds for next year

And then we read Dr. Suess's Many Coloured Days

We are inspired to create

My son grabs the water markers and colours in Dora ...

meanwhile eldest daughter pulls her nose from a book long enough to write a poem about her Colored Day.

Yellow is the kind of day

That makes me feel just like a monkey

Swinging all around

Peeling bananas, feeling jumpy

I added my Colored Day poem and drawing:

Some days I feel rushed 

like a siren blaring red

Like a rabbit busy hopping

Or a chicken with no head

The last line was a big hit with my son!

My six year old proudly displayed her Colored Day and poem

Sometimes I feel blue

Like a ram who lives in a shoe

I feel sad like a blushing blueberry

Time to jar the last of the drying hot peppers

And a quick walk before dinner

We needed a place to cool down from the heat

I just love these stripey pants

Rush home to make dinner and feed our new neighbours. We spend 5 hours listening to stories of tremendous travel--our new friends have travelled to 25 different countries and are only 25 and 27.

I am now wiser about toilet customs in the Far East.

A glorious day.