Our KDI of the week is Art- Children express and represent what they feel, think, imagine and observe through two and three dimensional art. We will be making decorations, decorating objects and getting ready to celebrate Christmas!
Table Activities- This week table activities include making an ornament suncatcher, Christmas playdough, decorating giant gingerbread people, Christmas themed dot painting, decorating wooden ornaments, stamping Christmas lights, invite-to-create Christmas trees, Christmas clay mats and a wrapping paper and ribbon cutting bin.
Small Group Activities- This week we will make a beaded candy cane to hang on our tree, pinecone or snowman ornaments, adding Dd is for decorate to our journals, and decorating our own little Christmas tree.
Large Group Activities- Decorating each other, decorating our fence outside, dancing with ornaments and tinsel.
Books of the Week - "Mooseltoe" by Margie Palatini and "Mortimer's Christmas Manger" by Karma Wilson.
Bible Story- Our Bible Story this week is The Angels appear to the Shepherds. On the hills outside Bethlehem, shepherds were out with their flocks of sheep and goats in the middle of the night. This wasn't necessarily normal, it may have been lambing season, so the shepherds were extra protective of their flocks. Shepherds could have been men, boys and girls, we don't know exactly who was out there. An angel, just one, appeared to the shepherds and they were terrified! Usually an angel means judgement, but not this one! The angel told the shepherds not to be afraid because they have great news of great joy! Their Savior has been born!! The angel told the shepherds to look for a baby lying in a manger! Then suddenly 1000's or 1,000,000's of angels appears praising God and saying "Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth to mankind, on whom his favor rests!" I always imagine it this way- the dark of night is like a curtain on a stage. One angel peeks out of the curtain to give the audience a message and then the curtain opens and you see the whole choir singing at the top of their lungs! I can't imagine how the shepherds felt!! As soon as the angels left, the shepherds said to each other, "Let's go and see this child" So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph and the baby! We don't know how long they stayed, but we do know that when they left, they told everyone they saw what had happened to them that night! They couldn't keep quiet about it! We have seen the same thing and your children will present it to you on Thursday, December 16th!! We can't wait!!
Some pics from our healthy eating week-
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