#12-3: Holy Week on the Web

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Posted by: virginiaknowles <virginiaknowles@...>
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The Hope Chest with Virginia Knowles

Holy Week on the Web

April 2009

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Dear friends,

I mentioned in my last issue that I wouldn't be doing a regular April issue, but I realized a few days ago that I had enough Easter related links to send out a mini-issue. Feel free to pass them along to your friends. Also, if you have read at least some of the Read Reflect & Respond issue, I would love to hear your feedback on it. I can plan future issues more effectively when I know what is most helpful to you or not. (If you can't find your copy, you can clink on the issue title above to see a portion of it on my web site.)

I posted one week's worth of English lesson plans for Holy Week on our Providence co-op blog. The first day is for what we are doing in class, and the other four days are assignments for my students to complete at home. They include Scripture, fine art (Michelangelo's "Pieta" sculpture, da Vinci's "Last Supper" painting, Greek and Russian Orthodox art, etc.), poetry, and Easter music. You can find the lessons here:



·         Easter Week Classwork for Monday (Theme: Spiritual Growth and Wales)

·         Easter Week Assignment for Tuesday (Theme: Palm Sunday & Cleansing)

·         Easter Week Assignment for Wednesday (Theme: The Last Supper, Gethsemane, and the Trial before Pilate)

·         Easter Week Assignments for Thursday (Theme: The Death of Christ)

·         Easter Week Assignment for Friday (Theme: The Resurrection)

Celebrate the Resurrection! -- my compilation of Easter ideas from past Hope Chest issues

Buona Pascua! Happy Easter! -- last year's Easter issue

Is the Cross a Way of Life for You? -- my essay that I have sent out on Good Friday for many years

Easter Poetry and Art blog post from 2008 -- some of my poems, as well as Amy Carmichael's

The Web Gallery of Art has a huge collection of searchable masterpieces.   If you type in the keyword "resurrection" at the bottom of the page, you will pull up plenty!

You can also find web pages that focus on certain events during Easter week. Here is one for Paintings of Gethsemane.

Do you want to hear hymns, print out sheet music, read the stories behind them, or listen to short radio devotionals about them – all for free? Here’s the site for you! www.SongsAndHymns.org

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine is graciously offering three free e-books for Easter. The first one includes project ideas and activities, the second one is Scripture for copy work in manuscript and cursive, and the third is beautiful Easter place cards for you to print out.

·       The Real Easter Story: An In-Depth Study for the Whole Family

·       The Real Easter Story: Copywork for the Whole Family

·       Easter Place Cards

My friend Lisa Stump sent me a great link, www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/, that has free unit studies, notebooking ideas, lapbooking instructions and templates, record keeping and household forms, etc.   Since we are talking about Easter in this mini-issue, here is their page full of links: www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/holidays/easter.htm.  Lisa, a stroke survivor, wrote a lovely poem about morning glories which I posted on my blog in January. You can find it at Morning Glory & Hope After a Stroke by Lisa Stump.

My second cousin Margaret in North Carolina mentioned that her home school group, called Mason Jars after the Charlotte Mason approach to education, gets together in the park or a local church for "poetry recitations, art, nature study, Shakespeare studies, and Swedish drills." I was mystified as to what Swedish drills were. It turns out (as I half suspected) that it's P.E. class! Find out more at: www.charlottemasoneducation.com/pe.html. (There are lots of other good articles on that site, too!)

For those who didn't read that far in the Hope Chest, my 16 year old daughter Joanna will be going on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic this July. They will be doing street evangelism, a youth camp, other children's ministry, and more. Julia, who is almost 20, returns from her three month trip to Bolivia on April 10, but will be returning there in July with one of the Mission:X teams from church for almost two weeks. She has more great posts on her blog, www.JuliaKnowles.blogspot.com. If you would like more details on these trips or would like to contribute financially, just send me an e-mail!

Don't forget to sign up for your local Bible Bee! The deadline for sign up is April 30. Find out more at www.BibleBee.org.



Blessings,
Virginia Knowles

P.S. My 14 year old daughter Lydia just redesigned my blog for spring. Take a look at it via one of my recent springtime posts:  Rain Songs. I love how God's creation reflects his care for us!
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Posted by: virginiaknowles <virginiaknowles@...>

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Hope Chest with Virginia Knowles

Holy Week on the Web

April 2009

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dear friends,

I mentioned in my last issue that I wouldn't be doing a regular April issue, but I realized a few days ago that I had enough Easter related links to send out a mini-issue. Feel free to pass them along to your friends. Also, if you have read at least some of the Read Reflect & Respond issue, I would love to hear your feedback on it. I can plan future issues more effectively when I know what is most helpful to you or not. (If you can't find your copy, you can clink on the issue title above to see a portion of it on my web site.)

I posted one week's worth of English lesson plans for Holy Week on our Providence co-op blog. The first day is for what we are doing in class, and the other four days are assignments for my students to complete at home. They include Scripture, fine art (Michelangelo's "Pieta" sculpture, da Vinci's "Last Supper" painting, Greek and Russian Orthodox art, etc.), poetry, and Easter music. You can find the lessons here:

· Easter Week Classwork for Monday (Theme: Spiritual Growth and Wales)

· Easter Week Assignment for Tuesday (Theme: Palm Sunday & Cleansing)

· Easter Week Assignment for Wednesday (Theme: The Last Supper, Gethsemane, and the Trial before Pilate)

· Easter Week Assignments for Thursday (Theme: The Death of Christ)

· Easter Week Assignment for Friday (Theme: The Resurrection)

Celebrate the Resurrection! -- my compilation of Easter ideas from past Hope Chest issues

Buona Pascua! Happy Easter! -- last year's Easter issue

Is the Cross a Way of Life for You? -- my essay that I have sent out on Good Friday for many years

Easter Poetry and Art blog post from 2008 -- some of my poems, as well as Amy Carmichael's

The Web Gallery of Art has a huge collection of searchable masterpieces. If you type in the keyword "resurrection" at the bottom of the page, you will pull up plenty!

You can also find web pages that focus on certain events during Easter week. Here is one for Paintings of Gethsemane.

Do you want to hear hymns, print out sheet music, read the stories behind them, or listen to short radio devotionals about them – all for free? Here’s the site for you! http://www.SongsAndHymns.org

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine is graciously offering three free e-books for Easter. The first one includes project ideas and activities, the second one is Scripture for copy work in manuscript and cursive, and the third is beautiful Easter place cards for you to print out.

· The Real Easter Story: An In-Depth Study for the Whole Family

· The Real Easter Story: Copywork for the Whole Family

· Easter Place Cards

My friend Lisa Stump sent me a great link, http://www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/, that has free unit studies, notebooking ideas, lapbooking instructions and templates, record keeping and household forms, etc. Since we are talking about Easter in this mini-issue, here is their page full of links: http://www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/holidays/easter.htm. Lisa, a stroke survivor, wrote a lovely poem about morning glories which I posted on my blog in January. You can find it at Morning Glory & Hope After a Stroke by Lisa Stump.

My second cousin Margaret in North Carolina mentioned that her home school group, called Mason Jars after the Charlotte Mason approach to education, gets together in the park or a local church for "poetry recitations, art, nature study, Shakespeare studies, and Swedish drills." I was mystified as to what Swedish drills were. It turns out (as I half suspected) that it's P.E. class! Find out more at: http://www.charlottemasoneducation.com/pe.html. (There are lots of other good articles on that site, too!)

For those who didn't read that far in the Hope Chest, my 16 year old daughter Joanna will be going on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic this July. They will be doing street evangelism, a youth camp, other children's ministry, and more. Julia, who is almost 20, returns from her three month trip to Bolivia on April 10, but will be returning there in July with one of the Mission:X teams from church for almost two weeks. She has more great posts on her blog, http://www.JuliaKnowles.blogspot.com. If you would like more details on these trips or would like to contribute financially, just send me an e-mail!

Don't forget to sign up for your local Bible Bee! The deadline for sign up is April 30. Find out more at http://www.BibleBee.org.

Blessings,
Virginia Knowles

P.S. My 14 year old daughter Lydia just redesigned my blog for spring. Take a look at it via one of my recent springtime posts: Rain Songs. I love how God's creation reflects his care for us!

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