Our KDI for the week is Part-Whole Relationships- Children combine and separate quantities of objects. What does share half mean? We will introduce the concept of fractions in various concrete ways this week.
Table Activities- This week our table activities include making pizza, cutting shapes in pieces, cutting real and pretend fruits and vegetables, cutting along lines and using other math manipulatives.
Small Group Activities- This week we will cut shapes in half and quarters, add Ff is for fractions to our journal and put together a whole shape using fractions.
Large Group Activities- We'll do some fruit ninja workouts and divide ourselves in half and quarters.
Books of the Week- "Eating Fractions" by Bruce McMillan and "Full House: An Invitation to Fractions" by Dayle Ann Dodds are our books this week.
Bible Story- This week our story is about another of Jesus' miracles- the great catch of fish. Jesus had begun to call his disciples and four of those disciples were fishermen. They fished on the Sea of Galilee for their living. It seems that they often fished overnight and sold their catch in the morning.
One day as Jesus was preaching on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, the fishermen were there cleaning and checking their nets after a night of fishing. Jesus asked Simon Peter if he could get in his boat and push out a little from shore so that the crowds could hear him. After he finished teaching, he asked Simon and Andrew to go out to deeper water and let down their nets. Simon told him that they had fished all night and hadn't caught anything, but if you say so, Jesus, we'll do it.
Simon let down his nets and they became so full of fish that the boat began to sink! He called to shore for help and his fishing partners, John and James, came to help! Both boats were so filled with fish they began to sink! Simon fell to his knees and confessed that he was a great sinner and did not belong in Jesus presence!
Jesus told him not to be afraid, but follow him to catch men, not fish! They went back to shore, abandoned everything and followed Jesus.
How amazing!! And how humbling! We too are sinners, unworthy to stand before the Lord, but he tells us to come anyway and tell others about me! If God can love me, surely he loves you too!
Are we ready to leave our old life behind like Peter, James, John and Andrew did? The new life that God provides will be awesome! Come and follow Him!
