Cc is for construction

 

This week we will be looking and listening for the hard sound of Cc as we play construction and build!

This week's KDI is problem solving- children solve problems encountered in play. Building together means cooperating and working together. Each person does their part. We will work together and problem solve together!

Table Activities- This week we will build with blocks, play in a construction sensory bin, build with junk, play with construction vehicles in moon sand, pound golf tees and screw screws with a screwdriver, color construction coloring pages, use tool cookie cutters to paint/ print and play with some water tools.

Small Group- This week in small group will include using colored popsicle sticks to follow building plans, constructing with sugar cubes, adding Cc is for construction to our journals and constructing with various materials.

Large Group- We'll use those Tonka trucks in the sandbox and the mulch, build with card board and add on to our build each day outside.

Books of the Week- "Builders and Breakers" by Steve Light, "Diggersaurs" by Michael Whaite, we will also read a poem a day from the book "Digger Dozer Dumper" by Hope Vestergaard.

Bible Story- This week we will talk about a tricky story. Isaac, Abraham's son, married Rebekah. They had twin sons, Esau and Jacob. Esau was born first, therefore he was entitled to the greater blessing as an elder son. However, God had a different plan from that of man and he wanted Jacob to get the greater blessing. Jacob's family would be continuing the line of the coming Savior. As Jacob and Esau grew up, the differences between them were great. Esau was a hunter, he traveled to bring back wild game for his father. He was bold, impetuous. In fact, he once came back from a hunt to find Jacob making pottage. He said he was so hungry he would exchange his birthright for a bowl of pottage. Jacob agreed. Of course, Esau didn't remember saying that, but the Bible records it for us in Genesis 25:29-34. 

When Isaac grew older, he became blind. He was ready to bless his sons. He told Esau to go and hunt some wild game and prepare the meat the way he liked it and he would give him the blessing. Rebekah overheard and told Jacob to go kill a sheep. She prepared it for Isaac. She had Jacob put on Esau's clothes and take the fur from the sheep and tie it to his arms and neck. Jacob took the stew to Isaac and pretended to be Esau. Isaac commented that it sounded like Jacob, but smelled and felt like Esau. He than gave Jacob the greater blessing. When Esau returned and brought his father the stew, Isaac was confused. He had already given the blessing! He gave Esau a lesser blessing and Esau was furious! 

Jacob left that night to go to Rebekah's brother Laban. On the way there he stopped for the night and had a dream of angels going up and down a ladder to heaven. God was at the top of the ladder and was with Jacob. Jacob poured oil on that rock to remember God was with him, even as he ran.

God uses people to accomplish what He wants done. Jacob did believe in God. Esau eventually did not, he turned to idolatry. What Jacob did wasn't right, he and Rebekah should have trusted that God would make it happen. He had promised. 

Sometimes we are tempted to take a shortcut to accomplish what we think God would want. Trust Him, Love Him, Proclaim Him. God is still God! He will never leave us or forsake us!

A few pics from tree week-

The kids like to "camp" in the cubbies!

Great Lego builders!

Tt is for trees.

 

This week we are looking and listening for the letter Tt and examining trees and their parts. Trees are all around us and provide many of the things we need! Let's hear it for the God created gift of trees!!

Our KDI of the week is observation- Children observe the materials and processes in their environment. We will look at the leaves of the tree, it's bark and examine the inside of a tree too!

Table Activities- Our table activities this week include a leaf sensory bin, leaf rubbings, button trees, leaf matching, creating with leaves and leaf and tree coloring pages.

Small Group- This week we will make a ripped paper tree, a nature collage and add Tt is for tree to our journal.

Large Group- We will have the opportunity to explore all the parts of trees, the branches, leaves, trunks and stumps, we will do a bark rubbing and a leaf pounding to make that chlorophyll burst out of its cells!

Books of the Week- "A Busy Year" by Leo Lionni and "Leaf Man" by Lois Ehlert.

Bible Story- This week we skip ahead many years. Noah and his family began the repopulation of the earth and people began to spread far and wide after the Tower of Babel. Abraham and his family lived in a place called Ur. (thought to be in southern Iraq today). God called Abram to be the father of his chosen people, not because Abraham was special or deserving in any way, but because God had a plan!! So God instructed Abraham to take his wife Sarah and his belongs and move away from home. Abraham also brought his nephew Lot with him because he had no children yet. 

Abraham obeyed God and moved where God lead him. Once he was there, God made a promise to him that he would be the father of many nations. Abraham was 90 years old and had no children. His wife, Sarah was 80. God promised them that they would have a child. Sarah thought that was so unbelievable that she laughed! But God kept his promise! When Abraham was 100 and Sarah was 90, they had a baby boy and his name was Isaac, which means "laughter". God's promises do come true, no matter how ridiculous they may seem.

God made Abraham the father of many nations in two ways- he was the beginning of the Hebrew people through which Jesus, the Savior, would come and he is the father of all those who stand firm to the promises of God! Those who believe in Jesus and his saving life and innocent death on the cross that paid for all our sins! We are children of Abraham and that family spans all time, people and nations! Cling fast to God's promises!!

Photos of Superhero week (including some superhero poses for our journals!)