More books in December

December Mini books

No Mountain too High

A story about Gladys Aylward
by Myrna Grant

Gladys had often wanted to go to China. One day she packed up her things and went to China to be a missionary. She told people about God. A Mandarin asked her to go around and make sure that the girl’s feet were not bound up. While she was going around she also told stories about Jesus. But there was a war going on and bombs fell on the town she was living in so she had to live in the mountains with all the children she was looking after. Then one day the war got so bad that she took a lot of children and went across the Yellow River to find safety. There were no boats going across the Yellow River but finally she managed to persuade a captain to take a boat with all the children across the river.

The Mayflower Secret

The Mayflower Secret
by Dave and Neta Jackson

Elizabeth was sailing on the Mayflower with her parents. One night the wife of Governor William Bradford was standing up on the deck and Elizabeth saw her. She was going to call out to her or get someone else but she didn’t and went back to her bed. In the morning the lady had disappeared. Nobody knew what had happened to her. They thought she must have fallen overboard.
When they arrived at Cape Cod everyone was settling in. All the time Elizabeth felt guilty about the death of Mrs Bradford. She thought that if she had called someone on the night she saw her, Mrs Bradford would not have fallen overboard. In the end she decides to go and tell Governor Bradford about it. He tells her that even if she had tried, she would not have been able to get Mrs Bradford away from the side because she was lonely and sad and also quite stubborn. So Elizabeth feels a lot better about it.

Kidnapped by River Rats

A Story about William and Catherine Booth
by Dave and Neta Jackson

This is about two children whose Father had died and Mother was taking them to find their Uncle. While they were trying to find him their mother died and the lady that they were staying with told them to get out. So they had to live on the streets. It was very hard for them. Once two people stole the sister. People would steal girls of her age to take overseas as slaves. Her brother went to the Salvation Army and asked for help to rescue her. When she was rescued, the brother and sister were taken to the house where Catherine Booth and her husband lived. They asked her if she knew where their uncle was because she used to have clothes made by him. She told them that he had left but that they could stay at their house. Then two of the people from the Salvation Army asked if they could adopt the two children. So they adopted them and the children were very happy.

More mini books

I have been doing more mini books this week. It is getting hard deciding what shape and colour to do them. I am really enjoying making them.

Skin, Brain and nervous system

I did a lot of reading about our skin, brain and nervous system. Last week I started on my lapbook. I have done a lot of mini books. I like thinking about different shapes to make them. Sometimes there are no photos to stick on so I draw a picture instead, sometimes I do both.

 

Nate Saint

THE FATE OF THE YELLOW WOODBEE
The story of Nate Saint
By Dave and Neta Jackson
The villages thought that the people in the airplane were dangerous and wanted to attack them. But then they realized they were trying to be friendly and wanted to make contact with them. A man from the village who had seen the people in the airplane told a lie saying that they had tried to poison him and eat him and he had only just escaped. So the rest of the villages thought that the people in the airplane would try and kill them. So they decided to go and attack them. They took almost all the people in the village and went to attack those in the airplane. Niwa, a boy from the village, knew they were good people and tried to get ahead of the villages to warn them so they could get away. But he was too late and they were all killed.

A few years later, two wives of people in the airplane came to stay with the tribe. Niwa’s sister had run away but came back with the two women. So the tribe was excited about her return and they let the two women stay. In the end almost the whole tribe accepted Jesus and were saved.

To do list

Mum made some cards with things to do on them and put magnets on the bake of them so I cane have them on the fridge. She also made a strip saying: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Weekend. I have daily things to do and then some weekly. If I don't do the weekly ones done during the week I have to do them on the weekend. It's really fun because I can see how many more things I have to do each day. I try to see how quickly I can get my daily things done. My goal is to get them finished by morning tea.

Tassle body done

I am nearly finished, it has been really hard but very fun. Once I had all the cross stitches and the small beads on it was much easier to do the long beads. Mum has to help me now because the rest of hte pattern is very complicated. I am so exited.