Our KDI for the week is Emotions- Children recognize, label and regulate their feelings. Faces on Jack-o-lanterns give us practice in labeling our feelings and getting to make faces on paper pumpkins give us the choice to match our feelings to the pumpkins.
Table Activities- The table activities for the week include pounding golf tees into pumpkins, pumpkin slime, a pumpkin sensory bin, creating paper pumpkins, pumpkin playdough, bead pumpkins and pumpkin and water play.
Small Group- We will investigate pumpkins, add Pp is for pumpkin to our journal and go trick or treating classroom to classroom.
On Thursday, we are going to go trick or treating from classroom to classroom. If you are not able to attend on Thursday, we will take the few that can't and go trick or treating with them. You can dress up in your Halloween costume either Wednesday or Thursday. We will be having Pumpkin themed fun all week long, so no one will miss out on everything!
Large Group- We will be doing some pumpkin bowling, pumpkin bucket toss and pumpkin dancing!
Books of the Week- "Pumpkin Heads!" by Wendell Minor, "Spookley the Square Pumpkin" by Joe Troiano and "Pumpkin, Pumpkin" by Jeanne Titherington.
Bible Story- This week we jump way ahead, the Israelites have been in the promised land for some time, even though it took forty years to get there because of their lack of faith and disobedience. God has been ruling them through judges who tell the people exactly what God wants. They don't listen and many troubles have come to them as a people because of their disobedience. Our story today is about the last judge, Samuel. Samuel's mother was a God-fearing woman named Hannah. Hannah had no children for a long time and it made her very sad. Each year, she and her husband would go to the tabernacle (church) and worship God. They would bring offerings and she would beg God for a child. One year, she was sobbing and distressed and the priest came to her to find out what was going on. The priest's name was Eli. When Hannah told Eli her troubles, he assured her that God had heard her prayers and at this time next year, she would have a baby. Eli was right and Hannah had a baby that next year! For the next 5 years, Hannah stayed home, raising her son, Samuel. During Samuel's 5th year, Hannah went with him to the tabernacle again and gave him into God's service. From now on, Samuel would live at the tabernacle with Eli and learn to be a priest and servant in God's house. Hannah would come visit him every year and bring him a new coat to replace the one he had grown out of. Can you imagine?? Begging God year after year for a child and then, when they are 5, sending them to live away from you? That's what Hannah did and she loved Samuel so much. Even though we don't send our children away from us, it is so important to keep in mind that they are God's children, not just ours! WE have a responsibility to raise them for service in His kingdom and to stand for what is right in a world filled with what is wrong. Only by being in the Word of God daily can we have the strength to raise up men and women for God!! They have battles to fight that we know nothing about in the future! Make sure they know who their creator is and what he did to save them!!
God be with us as we try to meet this task!
Have a super week!
Just a couple photos from this week!
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