~ Our Favorite Classroom

"And there was evening, and there was morning —

the fifth day."

We have spent the year exploring creation with Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day.

We have studied everything we could think of that God created with wings on the fifth day of creation.

We've studied bats.

We've studied flying reptiles.

We've studied every kind of insect...

bees,

flies,

grasshoppers,

dragonflies,

and the list goes on.

But we have been saving the best for last.

We have been waiting for the birds to return to our area so we can learn about feathers and flying and nests and eggs hatching.

And then when we know all there is to know about birds, we will end the year studying butterflies (my personal favorite).

It's been a great year looking at all the ways God filled the skies on that fifth day.

We've had a lot of fun.

But the most fun we have, is when we spend the day outside watching for all the ways God's creation points to Him.

It is, by far, our favorite classroom!

(And it's how the twins chose to spend their very special family day.)

The boys discovered this rock in the creek. Apparently "love" really is all around!

Of course there are always feats of strength and challenges of skill and bravery involved.

Next year, we're studying swimming creatures of the fifth day.

Can't wait to see where that takes us!

And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” And there was evening, and there was morning—

the fifth day.

Genesis 1:20-23