First they related the story of God telling Abram (later Abraham) to go to Canaan and obey him, and he would make Abraham father of a nation. The family line continues from Abraham to Isaac to Jacob.
Then we have the story of Jacob's sons. He had 12 sons; the youngest was Joseph. He is best known for his coat of many colors. But he also was taken away to Egypt because of his brothers' jealousy, where he eventually became very important to the pharaoh. He even warned the pharaoh about an upcoming famine and was put in charge of grain rations. Eventually his brothers were also hit by this famine and came to Egypt for grain. The family was reunited, and Joseph encouraged them all to move to Egypt, which is how the Jewish nation and the Egyptian empire came to be in the same place for a stretch of history.
The kiddoes each painted their own coat of many colors, and they all turned out very differently. They each started with the same template but came up with very different ideas of what such a special coat would look like. Goblin even drew in the man within the coat on his picture. :)
This week was strange for me, since it was more of a Bible study weekthan a typical history week. Of course, a great deal of the information we have about our history comes from religious texts, since those have been considered the most important documents to preserve. In the end, it all does come out to be a very cohesive story, and at this stage, that's what it's all about
--Little Miss Crazy
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