Three units ago, we did some fun science projects with leaves. And what I love most from MFW is how they integrate Bible values in it, in science particularly! The topic of this lesson is: “I will live and grow in Jesus.”

I picked a leaf from some trees, one from each kind and let them dry. In a few days ahead, we observed that those leaves went shrink. We learnt that if a leaf leaves its tree, it will shrink-shrink-shrink. That’s going to be happened when we don’t live in Jesus, the Tree of life.

here’s a sunday school song to remind your child:
Read your Bible, pray every day, pray every day
Read your Bible, pray every day
And you’ll grow grow grow

And you’ll grow grow grow 2x

Read your Bible, pray every day
And you’ll grow grow grow

and now change the lyrics:

Neglect your Bible, forget to pray, forget to pray
Neglect your Bible, forget to pray
And you’ll shrink shrink shrink

And you’ll shrink shrink shrink 2x

Neglect your Bible, forget to pray
And you’ll shrink shrink shrink

We had our lesson under a young rambutan tree. Rambutan is a tropical plant, its fruit has hairy skin, and vary in color, from burgundy, orange to lemon green.

Then, we made a book. Book of Leaves. Joel picked leaves by himself. Carefully (with little help from me) he traced the outline. After that, he colored inside the leaf outline and I helped him write down the name of each tree on the paper. There was a tree I don’t even know its name, shame on me - and I proudly call my self Indonesian, LOL. We call it Pohon Depan Rumah (front yard tree). Seemed that I have to get a set of indonesian plants encyclopedia when it’s possible.

And, this is our book. Nice, eh?