Parable of the Unmerciful Servant

We just learned about Jesus' teaching stories called the Parable of the Sower, the Parable of the Weeds the Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl and the Parable of the Wandering Sheep.

Another Parable Jesus told is called the Parable of the Unmerciful Servant.

He told his followers about a king who had servants who owed him money, and he wanted them all to pay back the money they owed.

One man owed him ten thousand bags of gold!
The king ordered that this man and his wife and children would be sold to be slaves because they owed so much.

The servant begged the king to please just give him time and he would pay back all the gold he owed.
The king felt sorry for the servant, so he told him that he didn't have to pay back any of the ten thousand bags of gold!

After the servant left the king, he found one of his own servants who owed him only a hundred silver coins, which is worth a lot less than ten thousand bags of gold.
He grabbed his own servant, choked him and yelled at him to pay back the money he owed.
The other servant begged to give him time and he would pay it all back.
But the first servant said no and had his own servant thrown in jail!

The king found out what the first servant did, and was very mad at him.
The king had let the first servant go and said he didn't have to pay back the ten thousand bags of gold,
but the first servant threw the second servant in jail for only one hundred silver coins.
So he had the first servant thrown into jail because he did not treat his other servant the same way he was treated.

Jesus told this story because he wanted us to understand that we need to forgive other people when they do something wrong,
just like he forgives us when we do something wrong.

One of Jesus' followers asked him if he should forgive someone who did something wrong to them seven times.
Jesus said not just seven times but seventy-seven times!

He didn't mean count up to seventy-seven and then that's it, he was trying to say that you should always forgive other people because God always forgives you.


(from: wikipedia - parable of the unforgiving servant)


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Jupiter - Pioneer, Voyager, Ulysses, Cassini-Huygens, New Horizons

We've learned about space exploration of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.

Next up is Jupiter!

We launched many spacecrafts to go fly by Jupiter and take close pictures.
Pioneer 10 in 1972, Pioneer 11 in 1973.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were both launched in 1977.
Ulysses was launched in 1990.
Cassini-Huygens was launced in 1997.
New Horizons was launched in 1006.

All of the spacecraft took about 2 years to get to Jupiter, and most of them continued flying on to look at other planets.


(from: wikipedia - voyager 1)


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Spanish - Counting to seventy nine

We just learned how to count to 69 in Spanish, let's keep going!

70 setenta - sounds like say-sen-tah /?/
71 setenta y uno - sounds like say-sen-tah ee oo-n-oh /?/
72 setenta y dos - sounds like say-sen-tah ee doh-ss /?/
73 setenta y tres - sounds like say-sen-tah ee t-day-ss /?/
74 setenta y cuatro - sounds like say-sen-tah ee koo-ah-t-doh /?/
75 setenta y cinco - sounds like say-sen-tah ee see-n-koh /?/
76 setenta y seis - sounds like say-sen-tah ee say-ss /?/
77 setenta y siete - sounds like say-sen-tah ee see-ay-tay /?/
78 setenta y ocho - sounds like say-sen-tah ee oh-choh /?/
79 setenta y nueve - sounds like say-sen-tah ee noo-ay-vay /?/


(from: wikipedia - Association of Spanish Language Academies)

Do you remember how to say it in French?
French - soixante-dix, soixante et onze, soixante-douze, soixante-treize, soixante-quatorze, soixante-quinze, soixante-seize, soixante dix sept, soixante dix huit, soixante dix neuf

Sulfur

We just learned about the chemical element of Oxygen.

Another chemical element is Sulfur, called "S" for short on the Periodic Table.

Sulfur is a chemical found on our planet that has many uses.

It burns very well, so the chemical on the end of a match stick is sulfur.

Sulfur is also very smelly, and smells like rotten eggs. It is the smell in skunk spray that makes it so bad!


(from: wikipedia - sulfur)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: LEDs

Blue Tang

We just learned about the Kakapo bird.

We learned before about the clownfish that everyone knows from Finding Nemo, now let's learn about what kind of fish Dory was!

Dory was a Blue Tang fish, also known as a blue surgeonfish.
It's fancy science name is paracanthurus hepatus.

The real blue tang doesn't forget things all the time, but if it is scared it can turn it's skin a little see-through (also known as transparent) to help hide from other fish that want to eat it!

(from: wikipedia - paracanthurus)



Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Kiwi

Cecum

We've learned now how food travels down your esophagus to your stomach, then through the parts of your small intestine.

After your mushed up food leaves your small intestine, it goes into part of your large intestine called the cecum.

(from: wikipedia - cecum)


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Senegal

We just learned about the country of Senegal

Senegal is a country on the north west part of Africa, right on the Atlantic Ocean.

(from: wikipedia - senegal)

The flag of senegal is a green stripe, a yellow stripe with a green star in the middle, and a red stripe.
The green, yellow and red are the Pan-African colors that are shared by many other African countries to help join the countries together as one continent.
The green stripe and star are for hope, the yellow is for arts, learning and money and the red is for the blood of the people fighting for the country.

(from: wikipedia - flag of senegal)

To eat in Senegal you might have thiéboudienne, which is fish flavored with parsley, lemon, garlic and onions, then cookied with tomato paste and vegetables and served with rice.

(from: wikipedia - senegalese cuisine)

In Senegal the people use salt wells to help get valuable salt from the ground.

(from: wikipedia - sine-saloum)


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