The KDI for the week is classifying-Children classify materials, actions, people and events. We will classify what is and isn't an insect and differentiate between spiders and insects and other creepy crawlies!
Table Activities- This week our table activities include a bug sensory bin, bugs and playdough, spiders in their web, bug sorting, bug coloring and activity pages, create our own paper bugs, bug dot painting and bug rubbing plates.
Small group activities- This week we will investigate bugs- looking closely at them and noting their differences and similarities, make a spider or a bug, add spiders and bugs to our journal and make a model of a spider or insect with model magic and pipe cleaners.
Large Group Activities- We will look for bugs and move like bugs.
Books of the Week- "Diary of a Worm" and "Diary of a Spider" by Doreen Cronin are our books this week.
Bible Story- This week our story takes place on Easter afternoon. The women had been to the tomb and seen the angels, Mary had seen Jesus himself. They told the disciples what they had seen! Peter and John ran to the tomb and found it empty with the grave clothes lying inside. They didn't know what to think. In John's Gospel account, he says he saw and he believed- but they didn't really understand that Jesus had to die and be raised from the dead. That afternoon, two disciples, not of the 12 apostles, were walking to a village about 7 miles west of Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about all that had happened, confused, upset, scared. A third person joined them in their walk and he asked what they were talking about. They more or less said, "Where have you been??!!" and told him all about the events that happened, Jesus arrest and crucifixion, now the news that his body was missing and some women saying they had seen angels and even Jesus himself saying he was alive again. They didn't know what to believe!
The stranger asked them questions and directed their attention to Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah and how Jesus fulfilled them. They were instructed bit by bit about every aspect of the promises made and kept. When they reached Emmaus, the man acted as if he were going to travel farther, but they invited him to take the evening meal with them. He sat with them and broke the bread and blessed it and their eyes were opened! They had been talking to Jesus all along!! After he blessed the bread, he disappeared from their sight! They said to themselves- didn't our hearts know that this was more than a traveling companion, this was the Lord! They were so excited, they ran all the way back to Jerusalem to tell the disciples that they had seen the Lord! Jesus had also appeared to Peter. The disciples were hiding in a locked room out of fear of the religious leaders and would soon see Jesus themselves!
Jesus is alive! He's risen indeed!
Have a super week!
Just a couple pictures last week- boys making a flower garden in the middle of our playground! We'll plant our raised bed soon!
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