Our KDI for the week is comprehension- children understand language. Placement or "where" words and phrases are so important to understand and practice- put this upside down, that is inside out, look for it underneath, etc. It's great to get grocery pick up, but take your kid to the grocery store once in a while and give them directions- take the box under the blue box, grab the bottle next to the red one. At home, give them directions to put things away! Clean up and put things above, underneath, next to, on top of, etc.
Table Activities- This week our table activities include coloring on upside down tables, putting rubber bands on upside down chairs, stacking upside down cups, upside down beading, orbeez on upside down suction cups, sensory bottles to turn upside down, drawing and coloring Silly Sally pictures and water play.
Small Group Activities- This week we will draw upside down, make a picture of yourself upside down, add Uu is for upside down to our journals and make Stellaluna upside down.
Large Group Activities- We will see what we can turn upside down outside!
Books of the Week- "Stellaluna" by Janell Cannon, "Silly Sally" by Audrey Wood and "Round Trip" by Ann Jonas are our books this week.
Bible Story- This week we hear the account of Jesus raising his friend Lazarus from the dead. Jesus and his disciples were teaching probably in Galilee when they received word that their friend Lazarus, in Bethany, was sick. He was the brother of Mary and Martha who often had Jesus and his disciples as guests.
Jesus commented to his disciples that this sickness would not end in death. They waited two days to begin the journey to see Lazarus. Jesus told the disciples that Lazarus had fallen asleep, but they were going to wake him up. The disciples didn't understand, so he told them plainly that Lazarus had died. By the time they reached Bethany, Lazarus had been dead and buried for 4 days.
Martha came out and said to Jesus that if he had been there, Lazarus would not have died, but she knew that God would give him whatever he asked. She confessed her faith in the resurrection, she knew she would see him again! Jesus gave comfort to both Martha and Mary. He himself wept. Maybe he cried because of the faith of Lazarus' sisters, maybe because this wasn't how it was intended to be! He then asked for the stone to be rolled away from the tomb. Those around him protested, saying the body would smell!
Jesus called, "Lazarus, come out!" And he did- still wrapped in grave clothes, but alive! Jesus raised a man who had been dead four days! This really got his enemies worried. Now they were more determined than ever to see him dead! In the coming weeks, we'll see how this was God's plan all along.
Jesus has power over sin, death and the devil and through him, we have that too!
Some pics from egg week-
