Yy is for you!

 

Yy is for you! We learn about ourselves, what do we look like, how many hands, feet, ears, eyes, noses? Is our hair long, short, curly straight? What is the same and different about us and others?

Our KDI of the week is self-identity- Children have a positive self identity. We will learn about what makes us special and what we have in common with others. Most of all, we will learn and re-learn how much Jesus loves us!

Table Activities- This week our table activities include making a mirror with foil, looking at our fingerprints, coloring with people shaped crayons,  sticky paper faces, dressing foam people, playdough mat people, potato heads and making our names with stamps and stickers.

Small Group- Making our faces and our bodies are part of small group this week, along with making a cookie self :)

Large Group- The Mirror Dance, moving our body parts, chalk outlines outside and doing the Hokey Pokey are part of our large group plans this week.

Books of the Week- "One World, One Day" by Barbara Kerley, "Unlovable" by Dan Yaccarino, "I Don't Want to be a Frog" by Dev Petty.

Bible Story- This week we hear the story of Thomas. On Easter evening, Jesus appeared to the disciples in a locked room. They were afraid and confused. He appeared and said "Peace be with you". The disciples were scared, they thought he must be a ghost! He showed them that he was flesh and blood, he even ate in front of them to show them he was not a ghost. He encouraged them not to doubt, but believe. Thomas was not with them. We don't know why. His name means "twin", maybe he was warning his twin brother that he may be in danger. When Thomas returned, the disciples told him what had happened and he refused to believe them. He stubbornly said, "Unless I put my fingers in the holes in Jesus' hands and my hand in his side, I will not believe." The next Sunday, the disciples were in the locked room and Jesus appeared again. He went right to Thomas- put your fingers in the holes and your hand in my side, stop doubting and believe!! Thomas fell to his knees and confessed, "My Lord and My God!". Jesus told him he was blessed because he had seen and had believed, but how blessed those are who have not seen and still believe. That is us- we haven't seen Jesus with our own eyes, but we believe! We believe that He is our Lord and our God! We can also let others see Jesus through us! 

May we know we are blessed to believe without seeing, but know that one day we will see Jesus with our own eyes and we can confess with Thomas, "My Lord and My God!"

A few pics from insect/bug week-