Our KDI for the week is experimenting- Children experiment to test their ideas. We will make guesses or hypotheses and then test to see if our idea was correct.
Table activities- Table activities for the week include mixing colors, magnets, mixing oil and water, seeing what effect different solutions have on colors and ice (salt water, sugar water, warm water, cold water), investigating using magnifying glasses, using geoboards and rubber bands to make shapes, dissecting fruits and vegetables and cup building.
Small Group Activities- This week we will practice using the scientific method as we do some experiments with milk, food coloring and Dawn soap, a water-filled ziploc bag and sharpened pencils, and lava lamps. We will also add Ee is for experiments to our journal.
Large Group Activities- Hopefully the weather will warm up to let us get outside and experiment with energy transfer and bouncing balls, frozen Orbeez and painting snow.
Books of the Week- "Rosie Revere, Engineer" by Andrea Beaty and "What Is a Scientist?" by Barbara Lehn are our books this week.
Bible Story- This week our story is about Jesus as a 12 year old boy. When Jesus was 12, he and his family went from Nazareth to the temple in Jerusalem. They went every year for the Festival of the Passover and this year Jesus was old enough to go with them. They went with family and friends, traveling as a group to Jerusalem. Often they would set up camp as a group and would visit with one another, like camping in a large group. After the festival, Mary and Joseph began the long trip back to Nazareth, but they didn't realize Jesus had stayed behind. When they didn't see him when they set up camp for the evening, they began to worry. They returned to Jerusalem the next day and spent three days wandering through the city. looking for Jesus. On the third day, they were in the temple when they overheard Jesus talking to the teachers and scribes. He was asking and answering questions and those who were talking to him were amazed at his knowledge!
Mary and Joseph were also astonished, but they were also worried. Mary said to him- Why have you treated us this way? Don't you know that your father and I were worried sick about you?
Jesus replied, "Didn't you realize I had to be in my Father's house?" He knew who he was. They knew too! They had forgotten that while he was their son, he was also God's Son and had work to do here on earth.
Jesus went with them and continued to be obedient to them and his Heavenly Father.
Sometimes we look at this incident and it seems sinful, but it wasn't. The Bible says Jesus was without sin and he was. He had to obey his Father God, even before his earthly parents. He wasn't disobeying them, he was obeying God.
Mary treasured all these things up and kept them in her heart. How hard her job was! Hard to be a mom, but mother to the Son of God! Thank goodness Jesus was her Savior too!
We are trying Scholastic once again, hopefully things will go better in 2022 for them!
And a reminder that there is no school on Monday, January 17th for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!
Some pictures from Ice Week!
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