On a mini vacation of sorts {HSMJ}

 In my life this week…

• I have been spoiled.  There is no other way to say it I have!  One of Paul's work collegues needed a house sitter.  I am currently living in the Brisbane Ranges.  My view is of the national park and the sound of silence is supreme.  It's amazing! The only down side is that internet access is almost zero so this blog will be a littlle quiet for the next two weeks.
• I really want to try and make this Faux Stained Glass Mosaic Luminary
• Please pray for Debra over at Footprints in the Butter her Mom passed away this week :'( Yesterday, I was THAT Mom

In our home school this week…

• We finalised Nathaniel's flag design for Boys Brigade.
• We have continued most of our current history read alouds and have started reading Mountain Born.

Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…

• Fox Hill
• Two families have come out to visit us here.

My favourite thing this week was…

• Seeing Jane bless Nathaniel with a pocket watch. She has gone to the USA to visit some families there.  She purchased two pocket watches and set hers to Aussie time and Nathaniel's to USA time.  That way they could both know what the time is where the other is.

 Things I’m working on…

• Forming a good routine.  Nathaniel and I are struggling to find our rhythm this year.  I'm hoping that our time away at the farm and away from distraction will help us both to find a good workable rhythm together.

 On the WWW I’m reading…

• Wow was my first thought when I read this article.  Rescuing Children from S** Slavery they have an official website here: Operation Underground Railroad
• I was deeply saddened to read this article this week about the land of my birth All whites now finally excluded from the South African job market
• So pleased for Tyson and Ashley that all their girls are now home Tyson and Ashley Gardner Take Home Two Sets of Identical Twin Girls
• I love reading Erin's daybook posts.

 I’m cooking…

• Nothing new at the moment.  I am however re-reading the Trim Healthy Mama book and rediscovering it's treasures.  I am determined this year to regain health and my waistline ...

 A photo, video, link, or quote to share…

Blessings
Chareen

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This Week
Last week we completed this fish in the sea pictured inspired by The Golden Fish by Paul Klee.  We used The Usborne ART Treasury on page 28-31.

Featured This Week

Wow so many wonderful things shared in last weeks Virtual Fridge link up it was difficult to choose which ones to feature.  This week there are two that caught my eye.

Love this tutorial over at Mothers Messy Madness - Easy Spring Plants.

I love Crystal's super easy science / art tutorials over at the Science Kiddo.  Here is one for Rainbow Paper.


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Blessings
Chareen

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Designing a flag

Last month Nathaniel started attending Boys Brigade. The theme for this term is flags and they were given an assignment to design a flag for their group.  Each boy is to draw and colour a design and then submit it for consideration.  The winning flag will be used by the group for the next four years.

This has been a great opportunity to learn about colour and what each one represents upon a flag.  Nathaniel spent ages on this design.  Yesterday he finalised it and we printed and traced the elements he had chosen.  It's taken two days of colouring but it is finished.

Design Elements used and their meanings 
(Nathaniel dictated this)

• Center - A CIRCLE. This represents God because a circle has no start and no end and God has no start and no end.  It is WHITE because that means purity, bravery and strength.
• Boys Brigade emblem which represents Hebrews 6:19 "Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast" (stedfast is spelt without an a because that was the spelling in the bible used when the emblem was designed.)
• Top Left - RED meaning to lead courageously and symbolizes the blood of Jesus and courage.
• Top Right - YELLOW meaning justice. The crown means two things the kingship of Jesus and the crown from the Victorian State flag.
• Bottom Left - The stars from the Australian flag in the shape of the Southern Cross and navigation. Stars were used in the old days to navigate, so stars are also there to help us remember to navigate our lives through Jesus.  BLUE means freedom and to worship God and also means peace.
• Bottom Right - BLACK means determination and defeating ones enemy, in this case meaning to defeat Satan.

We've enjoyed our journey in learning about flags and the different elements and what they mean in flag heraldry. I've especially enjoyed seeing his creativity in this assignment.

Blessings
Chareen
PS Did you know that the scouting movement was born out of Boys Brigade ?

Some resources we used

• Symbolic Use of Colors in Flags 
•  Download Boys Brigade logos
• Object Motto and emblem of Boys Brigade
• Flags of Australia.
• Flags of Australia: state flag of Victoria free pritnables and activities page.