Our KDI of the week is Measuring and Comparing- children measure to describe, compare and order things. We will be looking at the tallest animal and the shortest, the biggest and the smallest.
Table Activities- Our table activities this week include animal pattern blocks, zoo animals and playdough, animal puzzles, painting with zoo animal cookie cutters, an ISpy animal sheet, zoo scene with stickers and building zoos for our plastic animals with blocks and popsicle sticks.
Small Group Activities- This week we will "sew" cages for our animals, paint an animal from a picture and add "Zz is for zoo" to our journals.
Large Group Activities- We will dance and move to the song "Animal Actions" and make a pretend zoo outside.
Books for the Week- "Goodnight, Gorilla" by Peggy Rathman, "Put Me in the Zoo" by Robert Lopshire and "Going to the Zoo" by Tom Paxton.
Bible Story- This week our Bible Story is about the Peter and Jesus and applies to the rest of us! The disciples had seen Jesus and knew he was alive. They weren't sure what their role was now. Peter, Andrew, James and John had gone back to fishing, their original occupation. One morning, while they were fishing, they saw a man on the shore. He called out to them and asked them how the fishing had been. When they replied that they hadn't caught anything, he told them to put their nets on the other side of their boats. When they did that and their nets immediately filled with fish, John knew at once who that man was- Jesus! Peter didn't even wait for the boat to get back to shore, he jumped out and swam back. When they reached the shore, Jesus had started a fire and there were some fish and some bread cooking on it. He asked for some of the fish they had caught also and cooked them and they all sat and ate breakfast.
Before Jesus had been arrested, he had told Peter that he would deny that he knew Jesus. Peter boldly proclaimed that he would do no such thing!! However, when Jesus was in the high priest's house, Peter was waiting in the courtyard to see what would happen. When people approached him and said that he was Jesus' disciple, he denied it. Three times! The third time, vehemently, even swearing that he didn't know Jesus. The rooster crowed, fulfilling Jesus prophecy that before the rooster would crow twice, Peter would deny him three times. At that point, Jesus is being led to another place and Peter sees him. Jesus looks right at Peter and Peter runs and weeps bitterly. He still loves Jesus and is ashamed of his actions. Now we see Jesus sharing forgiveness with Peter and reinstating him.
After breakfast, Jesus asked Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter replies, "Yes, Lord, I love you." Jesus tells Peter, "Feed my lambs." Jesus asks Peter again and Peter replies the same again and Jesus tells him to take care of his sheep. Jesus asks a third time and Peter replies vehemently- "Lord, you know that I love you!" Jesus tells him to feed his lambs and also tells him that the time is coming when Peter will also be killed because of his faith in Jesus- someone will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go. Peter was martyred for his faith in Jesus eventually.
There are times when we act like we don't know Jesus, but he will always know and love us, even if we walk away. He died for us, so that we might live for him!
Have a super week!
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