During our large group time, the kids all worked together to make a banner for a local nursing home for Valentine's Day. They drew pictures on the banner and inscribed it with Bible verses about Love. In their individual classes, the Upper Grammar kids talked about the Assyrian conquest of the Northern Kingdom. They played a guessing game to decide which Northern and Southern Kings were wicked or good. Then they had a blast making Assyrian Siege Towers out of sugar cubes. Siege towers are a war machine the Assyrians used to distract their enemies and knock down their city walls. The Lower Grammar boys were learning about the relief sculpture art form of the Assyrians. They decorated many of their building with this type of sculpture. The kids then made their own relief sculptures out of bars of soap! Downstairs, the preschoolers read "All Those Secrets of the World." It's the story of a little girl who tries to understand why her father must be away at war. She learns that things that are far away aren't really that far away after all. It's all in your perspective. To learn perspective and distance, the kids released a helium balloon. They also made watercolor landscape paintings.
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