Jesus Tree

I wanted to tell you all how much the kids have enjoyed making our Jesus Tree this year.  We have been reading New Testament stories about Jesus' teaching and miracles and we put up a symbol for each story.  When we reviewed all the stories this past week the kids were able to tell about each story with detail just by looking at the symbol.  They love hearing the stories from our Children's Bible and it is so sweet when they ask, "Can we please read another one?"  The stories we read are:  The Lost Sheep, Through the Roof, Water Into Wine, Jesus Calms the Storm, The Sermon on the Mount, The Loaves and the Fishes, Walking on Water, Jesus Heals a Sick Servant, The Good Samaritan, Zacchaeus, and the Palm Sunday story.

Rodeo!

Barrel Racing with Our Stick Horses

Calf Roping

Eating Snacks from Our Saddle Bags

Enjoying the beautiful campfire.

Listening as we learn some campfire songs.

Of course, the rodeo/dress up days were a huge hit.  The kids were so cute and they really cheered on their friends as everyone took turns participating in the rodeo events.  Afterwards, we made saddle bags by crumpling up brown lunch snacks.  We added our own version of trail mix and ate around our pretend campfire.  

Scenes from Wild West Week

Just some friendly conversation while we're out ridin' the range...

Interesting vittles you've got there!

Ahh, trains!

Panning for Gold

The master of the keys.

Unique Boots

Bolo Ties

Flowering Cacti

Thought you might enjoy some random shots from center time.  Thanks for helping your kids with the boot homework.  Hope it was fun for all.

Little Cowpokes

Yee-haw!

Howdy, Folks!

Ride 'em, Cowboys!

Way Out West

Pretty Little Filly

Wow, did we have fun last week!  I thought I would start off with the posed shots of the kids wearing their finest Western duds.  An added treat for the week was the addition of the stuffed bouncy horse who makes real horse noises and sings!  The kids loved it and were very good about taking turns. Thanks so much to Anthony M.'s family for sharing this special horse with us.  (Mrs. Newton may never get the song, "I'm a Little Pony, Clippety, Clop," out of her head but anything for the kids, right?)