Our KDI for the week is reflection- children reflect on their experiences. We will create with yarn and listen to a great book called "Extra Yarn" each day. As we see what the main character in the book creates with yarn, we can reflect on our own creations and creativity.
Table Activities- This week children will have the opportunity to cut yarn, wrap yarn around chair legs, make popsicle stick characters with yarn, make yarn faces on contact paper, color "Extra Yarn" coloring pages, sew on plastic canvas, wrap yarn around sticks, cut and glue yarn around paper tubes to create and make their own magical box for yarn.
Small Group Activities- This week we will work on a two day process art project, day one we will glue yarn to watercolor paper, day two we will paint with watercolor in the spaces left by the yarn, we will add Yy is for yarn to our journal and paint with yarn.
Large Group Activities- We will follow a yarn trail and cut yarn for bird's nests outside.
Books of the Week- "Extra Yarn" by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen and "Charlie Needs a Cloak" by Tomie de Paola are our books this week.
Bible Story- We are beginning our Holy Week stories. This week we are hearing the story of Palm Sunday. It was time for the celebration of the Passover. Jesus had just come to Bethany and brought Lazarus back to life. He and his disciples were on their way to Jerusalem and the temple to have their celebration of Passover. On the way into Jerusalem, Jesus told two of his disciples to go ahead of him to get a donkey and her colt. They told the owners that Jesus had need of them and he let them take them. The disciples placed their cloaks on the donkey so that Jesus could ride them into Jerusalem. As they walked, people placed their cloaks on the road and cut palm branches to wave. They cheered Jesus on, calling out, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!" Children, men, and women all praised Jesus!
The Pharisees were upset and told his disciples to tell them to make the people quiet down. Jesus replied that if they were quiet, the very rocks would cry out!
The people recognized Jesus as a savior, but not necessarily the kind of Savior that he was- the Savior to save them from their sins and the punishment they deserved because of them. Jesus wasn't there to save them from the Roman government or from poverty by being their "Bread King", but to save them from themselves!
So many in this world think of Jesus as a good role model or teacher or prophet, but He is so much more than that- He is God's Son, our Savior. We are so far from God in our sin and unbelief! It is through Him and Him alone that we can be with God. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life- No one comes to the Father except through Him.
This crowd would change their shouts in less than a week. May we through faith trust and confess Jesus our whole lives!
