Puppet Space

I have that song stuck in my head! We went to a Puppet Festival sponsored by OneWayStreet over the weekend and a very talented 17 yo girl ventriloquist's puppet, Jodie, sang that song for us. She did a great job! Here are the lyrics in case you, like me, wonder what they are! I am the very model of a modern Major-General I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotepotenuse I'm very good at integral and differential calculus I know the scientific names of

This month we traveled to Africa and learned about the Mandinka people. http://www.mandinkapeople.com/ The children were fascinated by it all. We even got on our knees and they prayed for the children there to get a chance to hear about Jesus. I hope it opened their eyes to a world without God. Living in the US and especially in the Bible belt, we just take for granted that everyone believes the way we do. Here are some of the slides that I used for our lessons this month. I used information from Helpmeet in the Making my dil's blog. Her sister is a member of the IMB and is a missionary to the Mandinka. Please pray for her and the work that is being done there. I know I will and so will the children I teach.