The KDI for the week is vocabulary- Children understand and use a variety of words and phrases. Nursery rhymes provide us with vocabulary we don't usually use, like "water spout", "the clock struck one", or "fetch a pail of water". We're expanding our word knowledge and our language!
Table Activities- Table activities this week include decorating a twinkle star, catching the itsy, bitsy spider, a Hey diddle, diddle sensory bin and water play with our little teapots.
Small Group Activities- Small group activities include putting Humpty Dumpty back together and seeing what our drawings do when the rain, rain won't go away!
Large Group Activities- We'll be Jack be nimble and jump over our candlestick and act out other nursery rhymes.
Books of the Week- We'll read various nursery rhymes- some great rhymes in book form are by Jane Cabrera and Iza Trapani.
Bible Story- This week we will hear about how Jesus fed over 5000 people with just 5 small barley loaves and two dried fish. Jesus had been seeking some solitude because his cousin, John the Baptist, had been beheaded by Herod. Crowds of people still followed him and he had compassion on them and comforted them and healed them. When evening came, the people were too far from home to return to eat, so his disciples said to tell them to go and find food somewhere. Jesus gave them a faith strengthening reply- You find them something to eat! Some of the disciples balked and said that even with a years salary, they couldn't buy enough food for the crowd to have even a bite. One disciple found a young boy who had 2 fish and 5 small loaves. Jesus took the food, blessed it and began to distribute it. By the time everyone had eaten their fill, there were 12 baskets of food left over. The disciples were amazed! The people were astonished and wanted to make Jesus their "Bread King", they would never have to go hungry again!! Jesus did not come to give us bread for our physical bodies, but bread for our souls. He left them and went up into the mountains to pray in solitude.
Two incredible things come to mind for me when I read this- the first is Jesus compassion even when he is going through an incredibly rough time. I know when I am stressed, my compassion is often in short supply- Lord help me be more like you in this way!
The other is when Jesus challenges us to have faith, he provides the faith we need! He challenged his disciples to feed the crowd, Jesus himself fed the crowd! Is that how the disciples thought the problem would be solved? Probably not! He can and does do more than all we ask or imagine!
Some pics from our Valentine week-
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