Ff is for fish.

 

This week we are looking and listening for the Ff sound and learning about fish!

Our KDI for the week is ecology- Children understand the importance of taking care of their environment. We will be talking about cleaning up garbage and not littering and cleaning up our oceans.

Table Activities- Table activities this week include fish printing, fish in the water table, cleaning up an "oil" spill, playdoh rainbow fish, dot painting ocean creatures, color sorting goldfish, rainbow fish coloring pages and painting fish.

Small Group Activities- This week our small group activities include coloring a foil fish, observing a fish and identifying its body parts, adding Ff is for fish to our journal and using our senses with fish.

Large Group Activities- This week we have under the sea yoga, singing "Baby Shark", pretending to fish outside and playing sharks and minnows.

Jesus Time- This week our story again jumps ahead several generations. We are learning about a young Israelite girl who was taken into slavery. She became the slave of a Syrian army commander named Naaman. Naaman was a great commander, but his career was ended because he had leprosy. The young girl told Naaman's wife that he should go to the prophet in Israel. Naaman's king sent a letter to the king of Israel with a great deal of money asking that Naaman be cured of his leprosy. The king was upset, he didn't know how to cure him and thought this was a plot to declare war on Israel. When the prophet Elisha heard about it, he sent word to the king to have Naaman come to him. Naaman went to Elisha's house with chariots and gifts, asking to be cured. Elisha sent his servant out to Naaman with the message to wash in the Jordan River seven times. Naaman was furious, here he was an army commander, and the prophet doesn't even come out to see him personally and then he tells him to wash in the filthy Jordan River when they have sparkling clean rivers in Syria! He refused to do what he was told. Some of his servants were bold enough to point out to Naaman how ridiculous he was being. If the prophet had told you to do some huge, difficult thing, would you have done it? Just go and wash and see! So, Naaman did. When he rose out of the water the seventh time, his skin was pink and as fresh as a baby's. He had been cured. He went back to Elisha's house and offered him gifts, which Elisha refused. He directed Naaman to who had really cured him, the one true God of Israel! Naaman worshipped that one true God with thanks! Even when we are in a terrible situation, we can still point to God, just like the little girl in our story did! God uses simple things to bring us to faith, a baby in a manger, a Savior crucified like a common criminal, people like us, we are all part of God's story of salvation!!

Books of the Week- "Rainbow Fish" by Marcus Pfister, "Swimmy" by Leo Lionni, and "Oil Spill!" by Melvin Berger.

Here are the lyrics to the songs we have been learning for Christmas- 

God loves me dearly, gives me salvation, God loves me dearly, loves even me.

Chorus:

Therefore I'll say again, God loves me dearly, God loves me dearly, loves even me.

He sent forth Jesus, that true Redeemer, He sent forth Jesus and set me free.

Chorus

Jesus, my Savior, Himself did offer; Jesus, my Savior, paid all I owed.

Chorus

In a little stable, far across the sea Was a little Baby Just like you and me.

Not a bed or cradle, not a pillow deep, but a lowly manger was his place to sleep.

Shepherds stood around him, Angels watched with care, For this Babe was JESUS, lying, smiling there.

Oh, I love this Jesus, Who was little then, For I know he loves me, Little though I am.

We also learned one this week about David and Goliath-

Only a boy named David, only a little sling, 

Only a boy named David, but he could play and sing,

Only a boy named David, only a bubbling brook,

Only a boy named David, but five little stones he took.

And one little stone went into the sling and the sling went round and round.

And one little stone went into the sling and the sling went round and round.

And round, and round, and round, and round, and round, and round, and round.

And one little stone went up in the air ---

And the giant came tumbling down.

Some pictures from our week about balls-