Class Update 10/2

Here is a very brief update on yesterday. I went to a funeral after TC.

However, I wanted to touch base before I left. I returned all of the class feedback and my grading sheet to the students who presented last week. Their presentations were FANTASTIC! The students did a tremendous job presenting thier topics. I could tell they worked hard preparing. Yesterday all of the class had the opportunity to read the visual aids from last week. I am looking forward to the next set of presentations!

We watched the amazing DVD by Louie Giglio called Indescribable. He used images from space to describe the incredible, amazing beauty in God's vast creation. Some of the statistics he shared blew my mind. It's incomprehensible how enormous the universe is in size. AMAZING! Toward the end of the video, there was a picture of Christ on the cross. I realized later that this picture might have bothered some of the younger kids. I didn't pick up on that in class, but I wanted to make you aware from one parent to another. Louie Giglio's point was that God is soooo incredibly HUGE, and yet loved us enough to send his son for us. Overall, I think the children were amazed by the video and the pulsating star! (Ask them if a pulsating star makes a sound!) Or, ask them if our solar system were the size of a quarter, how large is the Milky Way galaxy?! (The size of North America) Or, ask them how long it would take to count all of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy if they counted one star every second?! (2,500 years!) Ask them what a sombrero galaxy or spiral galaxy looks like. They are beautiful, and God has now granted us the technology to be able to view their beauty out in space. Amazing!

Next week, we will discuss and perform activities regarding our second planet, Venus. This chapter is the reading assignment this week.

Last night, the funeral our family attended closed with the great hymn How Great Thou Art. As we sang the first verse, I thought about all that we are learning in class. It's a blessing to be studying and learning about God's creation with your children.
"Oh Lord my God!
Who I in awesome wonder
Consider all the worlds thy hands have made
I see the stars
I hear the rolling thunder
Thy power throughout the universe displayed.
Then sings my soul
My Savior God to thee;
How great thou art,
How great thou art!
Then sings my soul
My Savior God to thee;
How great thou art,
How great thou art!