Clean Up! Clean Up! Everybody, everywhere!

 

This week we are talking about cleaning up! Cleaning up the garbage we see on a walk, in our classroom, in our playground, at our home. We are talking about clean up efforts when there is an oil spill. We are looking at recycling or reusing. We're cleaning up!

The KDI for the week is ecology- Children understand the importance of taking care of their environment. We take care of the trash we make and make sure it goes in the proper place. We are stewards or caretakers of the world God gave us! He entrusted Adam and Eve with this job even in a perfect Garden of Eden. We have this job too. We don't worship the earth, but we do our best to care for it!

Table Activities- Table activities in this short week include cleaning up an oil spill (made with cocoa and vegetable oil), garbage truck clay mats, washing toys, sorting recycling and reusing items for art.

Small Group- This week our small group activities are making recycled paper and cutting and sorting trash and recycling.

Large Group- This week we will take a walk in the field and around our playground to pick up trash.

Books of the Week- "I Stink" by Kate and Jim McMullen and "Oil Spill" by Melvin Berger.

Bible Story- This week we travel time as we go from Joseph and his family living in Egypt as the heroes who saved them through a famine to the time when the Pharaoh ruling doesn't know about Joseph. He only sees a group of Israelites living in prime Egyptian real estate and having healthy, large families who could rise up and revolt and take over his country. He decides to clamp down on these foreigners! He enslaves them and forces them to work. He instructs his midwives to drown the male babies of the Israelite women when they assist them in giving birth. One Israelite mother named Jochabed keeps her pregnancy a secret. She gives birth and hides her little boy in her closet. When he is about three months old, he is getting too big to be hidden. She makes a basket-boat and places him inside. She is counting on the tender heart of an Egyptian princess. She sets the basket afloat in the Nile with her daughter, Miriam, closely watching. The little basket floats close to an Egyptian princess taking a bath and she hears the baby crying. She sends one of her maids out to see what is in the basket and instantly wants to keep the baby! Miriam is there and asks if she would like her to fetch someone who could nurse and take care of the baby for her. The princess says yes, and Miriam goes and gets her mother! The princess names the baby Moses, which means drawn from the water. Moses is taken care of by his own mother for the first five years of his life. He learns about what it means to be an Israelite and his religion and background. He then is taken to the Egyptian palace where he is raised as a prince of Egypt and learns all about the Egyptian religion and political system. God is preparing him for the job he is going to be calling him to do!

Here are a few pictures from our reptile week-