Give me 5! Friday Newsletter, Issue 14

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Psalms of Trust

Here are the Psalms of Trust you wrote this morning.  Thank you to those that volunteered to read yours in class.  I believe that our meditations were pleasing to God and an act of worship!

Katelyn's Psalm of Trust
Lord, please help me through my bad times.
Lord, I trust that you can help me!

Zach's Psalm of Trust
O Lord, how you protect me through my hard times.
Keep watching over me Lord.
Keep your promises and I will praise you for all eternity and tell the world of Your glory.
You can make my life begin and end and I trust you in that.

Zac B's Psalm of Life
You are what keeps me strong in life when I'm sad or stressed.
Without you I would be messed. 
God, I will love you forever.

Lexi's Psalm
God, you are my rock.
I will trust you even when I think I don't have any hope left.
I will praise you all the days of my life.

Buddy's Psalm
Lord, you're my creator and my protector.  I trust you are my savior and willing to help me through school
If I could get good grades I could get a good education to get a good job so I can raise money for the needy and be a missionary.

Joshua V's Psalm
My Lord our Lord, how awesome are you for you can move mountains.
Me, I am nothing without you O Lord carying me through this unholy place.
Help me through this world of sin and death for I believe in you.
I trust you and I will praise you all of my days.

Addison's Psalm
Your are the Lord of all.
You created EVERYTHING.
You are my God!
I trust you with the plan you have for me.
I trust that you will get me through the hards tasks you have laid on me.
I will praise you all the days of my life.

Anna's Psalm of Trust
God is my shepherd and I am the sheep.
I will trust that God will never let the evil get us.
Everything bad that happens will have a plan for good.
God carries me through the bad times.
I will trust him to answer my prayers.

Emily's Psalm of Trust
God you are my best friend; you are kind, you are the stronghold of my life.
I trust you will give me hope in all I do.
You will help me during school.
You will carry me through in all I do and the result will be going to heaven.

Rachel's Psalm
God, I praise you for providing for me.
You are my strength. 
I will praise you for forever.

Madison W's Psalm
O Lord, in my times of anger and fright, I think of you.
Lord, help me to trust you.
You will always guide me. 
I trust you because you love me.
I will praise you all the days of my life.

JT's Psalm
God, you are good.

Sam's Psalm
O Lord my God, I trust you because you are the Holy One and you are the only Holy One.
Please forgive me for my sins so I can stop sinning.
Please forgive me Holy God.

Jane's Psalm of Trust
Lord, You are my creator. 
You are my stronghold in time of weakness.
I trust You to be my shield against my enemies and to be there for me in time of worry.
I will declare your name to the nations and praise You all the days of my life.

Josh B's Psalm
In sadness or happiness I will trust you.
In dark or light I will believe in you.
In madness or sanity, I will follow you. 
In good or bad, I will love you.
I always trust God.

Cody's Psalm
God you forgive us when we sin and give us another chance.
I will follow you for the rest of my life.

Madison P's Psalm
God you are awesome in times of trouble. 
You come through the darkness and make it light.
You do miracles. 
You will take me through time of trouble and encourage me.
I will praise you in your name because you helped me over and over again.
You are amazing.

Noah's Psalm
God is the Light of my world.
I trust you when enemies attack in my darkest times.
God, if you help, I will praise you all my life.

Michael's Psalm of Trust
God is our light and our father. 
God is good all the time.

The Danish Resistance Link

Here is more information about the Danish Resistance.  According to this article, 7000 of the 8000 Jews in Denmark were rescued.  

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/danish_resistance.htm

Exegesis vs. Eisegesis

Today in Bible I introduced two big words to you. They are "exegesis" and "eisegesis." Understanding these two approaches is essential in your life-long pursuit of reading and understanding God's word. Check out the link below and leave a comment. The article might be a little "over your head" or advanced. Read carefully and do your best to understand. Thank you for your patience today in class. Test days always feel longer.

http://www.gotquestions.org/exegesis-eisegesis.html

Psalm 23 - Video

Hey 5th Grade,
I hope you have been learning a lot during our Bible unit in the Psalms.  I hope one day - perhaps soon - you will be called to one of the Psalms studied in class.  My prayer is that God's word would be planted in your hearts and grow!

Preamble to the Constitution

Welcome back 5th Grade!  Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. 

Here is a video that was shared with me from Mrs. J.  She thought it would help you to memorize the Preamble to the Constitution.  It's due this Friday, in case you forgot!

Give me 5! Friday Newsletter, Issue 13

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Have a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday.

Give thanks to the Lord for He is good.  His love endures forever!!!

On that note, here is your HW for the break!!!  :)

1.  Read Number the Stars
2.  Math Lesson #36, Lesson Practice and Written Practice
3.  Math Lesson #38, Lesson Practice and Written Practice
4.  AR for Sam, Anna, Emily, Rachel and Buddy
5.  Spend time giving thanks to God for His amazing blessings
6.  Spend quality time with your family and friends
7.  Eat, eat and eat!  (all healthy food of course!)

Happy Thanksgiving.  What a wonderful first third of the year!

A neat challenge: Using Narnia to share Jesus!

Using Narnia to Touch Lives

The much anticipated release of the second Narnia film, Prince Caspian, is just around the corner. While generations of believers have grown up loving the magical world of Narnia, many of the deeper spiritual overtones in the story can escape the casual observer.

Narnia author C. S. Lewis was a master at using the power of story to communicate truths that alternately wrench our heart and make our spirits soar. The world of Narnia is replete with themes and symbols that speak to longings deep within us - young and old alike. Narnia taps into the God-shaped void within each of us to search for a 'deeper magic' that pulls us into an encounter with the God of the Universe.

In the upcoming film version of Prince Caspian, Disney and Walden Media have teamed up to deliver a visually spectacular movie experience. It's not often Hollywood drops such a gift into the Christian community's collective lap. The moment is ripe with opportunity, the question is will we step up and use the opportunity to reach out into our communities and engage in serious spiritual conversations?

Prince Caspian throws the door wide open to engage those who don't understand the deeper magic of the world of Narnia and all it symbolizes. Narnian themes of living in a fallen world, sin, and redemption speak into the hurting hearts and battered lives that surround us. In an effort to assist churches' in their outreach efforts surrounding the release of Prince Caspian, a number of free tools and resources have been developed by Christian ministries. One such free resource is the Prince Caspian Youthworker Guide from the Christian ministry Interl'inc, available at http://caspian.interlinc-online.com/. Every church should seek out such resources and be aware of this golden opportunity to use the upcoming film as a springboard for deeper spiritual conversations.

Are you prepared to flesh out the deeper truths the movie brushes up against and share God's hope and truth? Doing your homework and laying the groundwork for significant spiritual conversations can reap eternal rewards. Don't let this golden opportunity slip by!

- See more at: http://www.dare2share.org/articles/using-narnia-to-touch-lives/#sthash.Ln7lx8XK.dpuf

 

Gaming Podcast

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My Little Pony Podcast

IOS Podcast

Give me 5! Friday Newsletter, Issue 12

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Narnia Series - An allegory.

Hi class!  Here is a neat article I found about the Narnia series as allegory.  I'm enjoying our unit as we discover the similarities between the gospel of Jesus and the novel.  See you tomorrow.

Recently, I was chatting with my friend Summer. She's never read C. S. Lewis's great apologetics for the Christian faith, "Mere Christianity." Nor has she read his conversion story, "Surprised by Joy," or his adult fiction, or his essays of literary criticism. But she did, years ago as a kid, read his "Chronicles of Narnia," at about the same time she read "Anne of Green Gables" and "Nancy Drew." "Now, I know these Narnias are supposed to be Christian allegory, but I never saw anything Christian about them," she told me. "Frankly, I'm not sure I see them as much more religious than Anne or Nancy."

My friend is not alone. Part of what distinguishes the Narnia series is that it can be read on so many different levels. Setting aside any religious interpretation, it's still just a heck of a good tale.

Nonetheless, a deeply Christian vision shapes Narnia. The most unmistakably Christian trope in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"-- Lewis's famous novel about four British children who find themselves in a magical land called Narnia where they meet witches and fauns and a wonderful lion called Aslan--is Aslan's death and resurrection. In order to save one of the children from death at the hands of the evil White Witch, Aslan allows himself to be killed upon a great Stone Table. The "crucifiers" mock him, just as Jesus was mocked: "Why, he's only a great cat after all!"; "Poor Puss! Poor Pussy.... How many mice have you caught today, Cat?" These jeers, of course, recall the soldiers' cry to Jesus:

If you are king of the Jews, save yourself!

The resurrected Aslan then reappears to Lucy and Susan. The girls, of course, are taken aback--Susan fears that she is seeing a ghost. But Lucy realizes this is no specter: "Oh, you're real, you're real! Oh, Aslan!" she cries. And Aslan explains that while the White Witch's magic is powerful, there is a deeper, truer, more powerful magic at work--and now that an innocent and willing victim was killed in the intended victim's place, "Death itself would start working backward."

That phrase is about as concise a summary of the Gospel message as one could hope for. Yet the story of Aslan is so engrossing in itself that readers understandably don't always make the connection. Pauline Baynes, who illustrated the first edition of The Chronicles, says she wept while creating the illustration for this scene--but she didn't realize until later that Aslan's death mirrored Christ's suffering on the cross.

The entire Chronicles follow biblical contours. If in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" we have a retelling of Christ's suffering, death, and resurrection, the subsequent Narnia stories tell about the children's adventures in Narnia--their adventures, that is, during the time between Aslan's redemption of Narnia, and his final victory. This is, from the Christian viewpoint, the very same in-between time in which we are living now.

http://www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/Movies/Narnia/Whats-Christian-About-Narnia.aspx

Psalms of Praise

Here's a video of a song by Chris Tomlin.  I thought it was a good tie in to our class (aka worship time!) today.

Give me 5! Friday Newsletter, Issue 11

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Too sick to blog. Sorry.

Hi 5th grade,

I couldn't sleep because I knew you were all expecting me to post on the blog.  I'm too sick.  I'm going to bed after dinner.  Have a great day with Mr. Woods tomorrow.  Challenge him to a game of Scrabble!  See you on Wednesday, hopefully.

Computer Lab Open after school on Wednesday

For the groups that want to work on their podcast projects, the computer lab will be open after school on Wednesday.  It might be a good time to do editing on your projects before you export the final project to mp3 format.

Thank you to Mrs. Jekabsons for making this happen.

Recipe: Hong Kong Style Tea

Hope you enjoyed the tea today.  Here is the recipe. 

I have a set up these cups at home.  We bought the set from our favorite greasy noodle shop!  I'm home sick.  :(

Makes 10 servings.

Ingredients:
- 10 cups of water
- 16 black tea bags
- 1 can evaporated milk
- 1 cup of sugar

Method:
Pour 10 cups of water in a pot.  Place 16 tea bags into the water and bring to a boil.  Boil for 45 to 60 minutes. 

Then, remove the tea bags.  With a fine strainer, strain the tea until all leaves are removed.  Try to remove as much of the leaves as possible as to ensure your tea is "smooth." 

While still hot, pour in 1 cup of sugar and 1 can of evaporated milk.  Stir till sugar is dissolved. 

Serve either hot or on ice.

I am the Resurrection and the Life - John 11

Here is the Bible dramatiztion we listened to this morning for devotions.  Understanding the context of Jesus "I Am" statements gives Jesus' claims so much more meaning and significance. 

Give me 5! Friday Newsletter, Issue 10

Sorry this is so late.  Just realized I forgot to post it from last week. 



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October AR Challenge Final Results!

Congratulations to all of you for your participation in the October AR challenge!

Some statistics related to your reading this month

Tests Taken:  77
Tests Passed:  70
Points Earned:  508.3
Words Read:  3,470,654
Top Readers:  Noah (854,722 words read), JT (853,714 words read)

Final Standings

Champions Tournament:

1.  Team Teachers  (148.2 pts.)
2.  Team JT  (133.8 pts.)
3.  Team Corners  (110.1 points)

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"Best of the Rest" Tournament

4.  Team Messy Desk  (39.3 points)
5.  Team Same Name  (38.4 points)
6.  Team Sam Row Right  (28.1 points)
7.  Team Same Row Left  (10.4 points)