My first grader has assumed the role of “teacher” for her three-year-old sister this year. If anyone would ever ask her, “Who died and made you in charge,” she is the kind who would answer innocently, “Me.” She is a firstborn even though she is second. My real firstborn must have not gotten the memo.

I bought new schoolbooks for the three school-aged children, but I neglected to buy anything new for our preschooler. So my new teaching assistant created some activities for our three-year-old: match the shapes, complete the patterns, math problems, trace the letters, and Bible memory work.

She wrote down Genesis 1:1 for her to memorize and then on the following page wrote this “Bible story book” synopsis of Genesis 1 – 2. Note the last two sentences:

Genesis