Website for Temple Building

The kids are stoked about the Greeks still and I am so glad that MFW covers them for so long at this time. This was a great time of the year to study it (feb-mar) as the weather was crummy and we got  a lot more read aloud time indoors. I think we have read every book in our library on Greek myths!

We are also reading about the lives of David and Solomon. One interesting way in which our studies impacted our real life was when we studied the Queen of Sheba's visit to King Solomon seeking wisdom. Experts think that the Queen was likely from the northern Africa region that incorporated Egypt down to Ethiopia. Whenever we hear anything about Ethiopia, it has an impact! We are leaving for Ethiopia in a few days and we are taking with us a new knowledge that the people of Ethiopia were the recipients of God's wisdom through Solomon. Amazing.

We learned how the temple was built in silence which we thought was fascinating. No hammer or chisel was used on site out of reverance for the dwelling place of the Lord.

Click HERE for a pdf I found of the building of the temple in Jerusalem.  We looked up the verses and filled in the answers together. My kindergartener colored and my 2nd and 4th graders did the word searches and the crossword.  There are more where this one came from so we may be using these for other topics as well, like Esther coming up.