Our KDI for the week is Geography- Children recognize and interpret features and locations in their environment. We will talk about what makes someplace a jungle?
Table Activities- This week we will have the opportunity to create animals out of animal print paper, create a jungle with playdough, craft sticks, leaves, etc., explore a jungle habitat, color some jungle pictures, explore the layers of the rain forest and play with jungle animals.
Small Group Activities- We will be making a rainstick, coloring and cutting a paper plate snake and adding Jj is for jungle to our journals.
Large Group Activities- This week we will move along to the song "Animal Action", toss a dice to do an animal movement and make some jungle noise to guess what the animal is!
Books of the Week- Our books this week are "The Umbrella" by Jan Brett and "Welcome to the Green House" by Jane Yolen.
Bible Story- Our Bible story this week is Jesus' first recorded miracle. Jesus has grown up in Nazareth, become known as the carpenter's son. His cousin John has begun to preach repentance and Jesus comes to him to be baptized in the Jordan River. He then begins his public ministry and people begin to follow him. He is attending the wedding of friends or family in Cana. His mother is also at the wedding, as are some of his followers. Weddings in Bible times lasted for days, people traveled long distances by foot to get there, so it wasn't a quick wedding ceremony and reception. Food and clothing and lodging were all provided for days or a week. Usually the best food and wine were served at the beginning, with resources dwindling as the time went by. At this wedding, they ran out of wine before the party was over. This was a huge embarrassment to the family! Mary approached Jesus, knowing he could do something, and told him there was no more wine. Jesus told her the time was not yet right. Mary told the servants to do whatever Jesus told them to. Jesus later approached the servants and told them to fill up the huge water jugs. Once they had done that, he told them to scoop some out and present what they had scooped to the master of the feast. He tasted it and went to speak to the groom- usually the best was served first and the lower quality wine towards the end, but you have saved the best for last!!
No one but the servants and Jesus followers knew what had happened. Jesus had changed the water into wine!
Sometimes it seems like we save prayer for the really big things- a friend gets cancer, a job is lost. But Jesus wants us to come to him in prayer for everything! He saved his friends from embarrassment by providing wine, and not just any wine- the BEST wine! He will give us what is best for us and he tells us to ask- for anything that we need!
May we continue to talk to the Lord in prayer all the time, every day for needs big and small and to thank him for all he does for us!!
AM Class- I forgot to send your safety googles home with you! You can take them home on Tuesday!
NO CLASS MONDAY, JANUARY 17th FOR MLK, Jr. DAY! We'll see you Tuesday!
Not as many pictures this week with all our experimenting! Grown up assistance required for some activities!
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