老大已經高中一年級, 聖誕月他還是必須要正常地完成作業也有補習班, 但因為我們在家教育, 所以每早晨他都還是會跟我們一起吃早餐一起禱告。我們早晨的晨光時間大約一小時左右, 這一個小時我們透過Operation World App 認識國家, 一天一個。App 會有一小段說明這個國家目前的狀況, 需要代禱的事項, 跟基本的統計還有地理位置。我們會一起簡短的為這個國家目前的需要禱告, 接著雙寶就可以先自行去玩了。雙寶在玩的時候就是我朗讀給兩個大孩子的時光, 因為是聖誕月, 我選了這本經典Classics 書名 The Story of Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke. 這本書是根據耶穌降生的時代背景寫到當時來自東方的博士們其中有一位因為在旅程中遇到的事情無法親自將禮物獻給耶穌, 但這位沒有被聖經提到的博士確實踐了聖誕最美的意義。雖然這本書是虛構, 但書的歷史背景卻是非常正確地描繪出耶穌出生當時的歷史也更啟發我們思考聖誕的意義。
我在朗讀的時候大孩子可以隨意地做些安靜的活動, 也可以繼續吃東西。這個晨光時間Morning Time 的學習份圍是我們在家教育的核心, 是我可以影響孩子們將可愛的, 可稱讚的, 有美名的想法像宴席一般呈現給孩子們的重要管道。
Amazon River 世界上流量、流域最大、支流最多的河流。全長 6436 KM, 橫跨 Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guiana, Suriname and French Guiana.
看這張地圖很清楚
Andes Mountains
世界最長的山脈 7000 KM. 觀察一下這張地圖, 它橫跨了哪幾個國家呢?
Mt.Aconcagua 6961 Meters
Angel Falls 世界最高的瀑布 3212 Feet
Drake Passage
1000 km wide connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans between Cape Horn (the southernmost point of South America) and the South Shetland Islands, situated about 100 miles (160 km) north of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Galapagos Island
Lake Titicaca
Orinoco River -Covers Venezuela and Columbia
Parana River -run through Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina 這是環境議題2021 九月的新聞
Tetrapods: Tetrapods pertain to the vertebrates having four limbs or leg-like appendages. In taxonomy, these animals belong to the superclass Tetrapoda. The superclass Tetrapoda includes the amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds. (https://www.biologyonline.com/dictionary/tetrapod)
(1) The methodological study of a phenomenon through careful observation, collecting data, experimental investigation, or theoretical explanation. (2) A systematized body of knowledge in the form of hypotheses, theories, principles, models or laws that have been conclusively drawn from observed or verifiable facts or from experimental findings gained basically from the application of the scientific method.(Source biologyonline.com/dictionary/science)
” Unfortunately, there is a lot, lot, lot to be discovered still. To reconstruct evolutionary history, we have to know how the mechanisms operate in detail, and we have only the vaguest idea of how they operate at the genetic level, how genetic change relates to development and to function. . . . I am implying that what would be discovered would be not only details, but some major principles.”
接著是Australopethecus 阿法南方古猿, 就是鼎鼎大名的露西所屬的種類。美國的自然歷史博物館 American Museum of Natural History 跟台灣台中科學博物館都看的到露西的標本, 剛挖掘到的露西遺骨只有部分零碎的骨骸, 至多也只有40%找到(47 out of 207骨頭找到), 而且這40%的骨頭也都很零碎。
我記得很清楚的一個晚上, 13歲老大Gabriel 問我” Mom, are you OK with only one side left?” 我沒有想到這個孩子貼心的在乎我的感受, 我很坦然地回答他”Daddy loves me, God loves me and I love myself, son. I will be just the same” 短短的對話, 只見他開心的微笑說”As long as you are OK.”