Ee is for egg.

 This week we are listening and looking for the letter Ee and learning and experiencing things having to do with eggs!

Our KDI of the week is observing- Children observe the materials and processes in their environment. We will be taking a close look at the materials that make up an egg and the process from growing in an egg to being a live bird or snake or turtle or frog, anything that comes from an egg and thinking about what does and what doesn't come from an egg.

Table Activities- Table activities this week include playing with plastic eggs and playdough, making eggs out of playdough, painting a paper egg with watercolor paints, exploring with plastic eggs, using scissors to cut paper eggs in half, coloring pictures of egg layers, painting with plastic eggs and stacking plastic eggs.

Small Group Activities- Egg explore- each child will get a chicken egg to crack and explore what's outside and inside (this could get messy ;), decorating an egg shaker to take home, adding Ee for egg to our journals and making a mosaic out of eggshells- if you use any eggs between now and Thursday- I would welcome your shells- I know I should have asked earlier!!

Large Group Activities- Egg on spoon relay, dancing with an egg, egg toss and an egg hunt outside.

Books of the Week-  "Chickens Aren't the Only Ones" by Ruth Heller and "An Egg is Quiet" by Dianna Hutts Aston.

Bible Story- This week our story is about Jesus healing 10 men who had the horrible disease of leprosy. These ten men had heard about Jesus and his ability to heal people miraculously. They knew he was in the area and when he came close, they cried out to him for mercy. When he saw them, he told them to go show themselves to the priest. As they went, they saw that they were healed. Out of the ten, only one man turned back and went to thank Jesus. The Bible mentions that he was a Samaritan. Samaritans and Jews did not like each other in Jesus' time, but leprosy had brought these men together. The other men took Jesus' healing for granted and never turned around to say thank you. Jesus didn't take away the healing from the others, but he did ask the man who returned, "Weren't there 10 men? Where are the other 9?" Remembering to say thank you is something we ingrain into our children. When someone gives our child something, we say, "What do you say?" I pray that we remember to say thank you to a God who gives everything we need and remember to thank him for each and every miraculous day of grace we receive!

Have an eggs-citing week!!