I thought we would find a documentary on the moon to show the kids too. But when I watched a few documentaries about the moon I was conflicted about showing them to my kids. The first one I watched was a BBC documentary called Do We Really Need the Moon? You can find it on YouTube. The narrator does some awesome, simple experiments that I really liked. But her obsession with the moon, and the ideas that it rammed into earth and would wobble away from Earth weren't what I wanted to discuss with my kids this week.
After watching a few other documentaries I decided to just keep it simple and only use the phases of the moon as memory work this week. We made the fun project with oreos and talked about the moon when we saw it outside.
As a nice conclusion to my week, the sermon at church yesterday was on Isaiah 65:17
New Heavens and a New Earth
17 "Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered,nor will they come to mind.
I enjoyed the sermon on God's timing. It was refreshing to be reminded that God has a plan for Heaven and Earth. And to put all the scientific, evolutionary experiments and beliefs back into perspective. To realize that we can try to name, and research, and figure out how everything works, but ultimately God is in control and everything will happen in His time. So that was our week with the phases of the moon. Or my week with them rather. Sometimes its just not worth over complicating things for the kids.
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