Our KDI for the week is Phonological Awareness- Children identify distinct sounds in spoken language. As we listen for the /q/ sound, we hear the /kw/ sound that it makes. We will work on decoding- what sounds do those letters in the word make- so what word is it? and encoding- what letters make those sounds- so how do we spell or write it? Hearing the different sounds and linking them to letters is the foundation for learning how to read!
Table Activities- Our table activities this week include sewing with yarn, magnet letters, cutting quilt pieces of paper and fabric, coloring quilt pictures and a giant quilt, gluing fabric and paper to make quilts and fabric on contact paper.
Small Group- Our small group activities include making a fabric quilt, making our name out of quilt squares, adding Qq is for quilt to our journals, putting letters together to sound out words.
Large Group- Large group activities include under the quilt (parachute) and starting to roll and crawl on tumbling mats.
Books of the Week- "llama llama red pajamas" by Anna Dewdny and "The Quilt" by Ann Jonas.
Bible Story- This week we hear the story of the Prodigal Son. Prodigal means someone who left the family. Jesus had been preaching with parables for quite some time, instructing those who came to him. Often the people who followed Jesus were the people looked down on by society, the tax collectors, prostitutes, sinners. The Pharisees, religious leaders who thought they were perfect enough to go to heaven without a Savior, were grumbling about the fact that Jesus didn't really pay attention to them or praise their good deeds. He just spent time with the sinners. In response, Jesus told several parables about things that were lost- a lost coin a woman spent all day looking for, a lost sheep, even though 99 were safely in the fold, the shepherd wouldn't rest until he found the last one and finally, the lost son.
There was a man who had two sons. The younger son was tired of living at home and the work on the family farm and he asked his father for something outrageous. He wanted his inheritance, now, without waiting until his father died. Even though his father was heartbroken by his request, he gave it. The older son stayed home and worked hard and was upset by his younger brother and put his nose to the grindstone to prove he wasn't like that.
The young son went to the big city where he spent his money freely, partying, wasteful spending and before long, the money was spent. Those who befriended him because of his wealth soon were his friends no longer and he found himself alone, abandoned and homeless. He found a job feeding pigs, he worked alone and in filth. As he worked, he thought about the family he had abandoned and came to realize that the pigs were eating better than he was. If he went home and begged his father to take him on as a servant, he would have a much better life than he had right now.
So he went. As he came down the road to his father's house a figure came running toward him. It was his father!! He had been keeping an eye on the road all this time, hoping his son would come home! The son threw himself at his father's feet begging to be taken on as a servant. His father lifts him up and swallows him up in a hug!! He calls for his robe and his ring- his lost son has returned!! He calls for the fattened calf to be butcher and neighbors invited for a party, for the son he thought was dead is alive and home!!
Meanwhile, the older son hears the ruckus and wonders what is going on. When he is told, he comes to his father, very upset- what is this?? I have worked hard for you many years, never abandoned you, always stayed faithful. I was never given a party or a sheep to share with my friends? How is this fair?? His father replied that all he had to do was asked and he would have given him anything- all that he has is his son's as well. But rejoice with me, because your brother is found and safe!!
Lost and found- One sinner at a time. Some of us have known Jesus as our Savior our whole lives it seems, some come to know Jesus through the Holy Spirit after a life full of sins we can't even imagine. Jesus loves us all!! He loves us because of who he is, not because of who we are. Rejoice over the lost who are found and ask for all the blessings that are yours because you are a child of God!
Pictures from our week of under-
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