The KDI of the week is predicting- Children predict what they expect will happen. What do you think will happen when we mix yellow and blue, red and yellow, green and blue?
Table Activities- Table activities this week include watercolor painting, playing with color paddles, mixing blue and yellow playdough, making color telescopes with different colored cellophane on the ends, water wash with washable markers, mixing clay colors, using little mice to mix paint and food coloring mixing.
Small Group Activities- This week our small group activities include mixing colors inside a ziploc with shaving cream, watercolor painting, adding Pp is for painting to our journal and painting with primary colors, black and white paint.
Large Group Activities- Playing "Mother, May I?" with color recognition, watercolor mixing in the water play table.
Books of the Week- "Little Blue and Little Yellow" by Leo Lionni, "Cat's Colors" by Jane Cabrera and "Mouse Paint" by Ellen Stoll Walsh.
Bible Story- This week we move way ahead in time. The Israelites have had their long journey to the promised land with Moses, 40 extra years of wandering because of their lack of faith. They have settled in and the time of the judges is where we will land. God gave Israel judges to keep them where and how he wanted them to be. He wanted them to be different than the people around them. Many of those people worshipped idols, not the one true God. The judges spoke to the people and told them what God desired. Some of the judges were good and some not so good, but each had a part in God's plan for his people. Our story this week is about the beginning of the last judge's life. We are learning about Samuel. There was a woman named Hannah, who was married and very much wanted a child. Her husband had another wife who had children and she wanted to have a child also. Each year her family went to the tabernacle to worship and while she was there she prayed desperately for a child. She said if she was given a child, she would give it back to the Lord! The priest whose name was Eli saw her praying and asked what was wrong. She told him that she wanted a child. Eli told her that the next year she would have a baby and she did! She named that little boy Samuel which means "God has heard". She and Samuel stayed home from the tabernacle until Samuel was about 5 years old. Then she and Samuel came to the tabernacle and went to Eli. She asked Eli if he remembered her. This was the little boy that God had blessed her with and she was keeping her promise to give him back to the Lord. Samuel lived at the temple with Eli and helped him take care of the special place where the Lord was worshipped. Once a year, Hannah came and visited Samuel and brought him a new coat. Samuel lived his life dedicated to the Lord.
It would be hard for us to give up our child, but they really belong to God even if they live with us! May God help us to remember that these are His children we are raising and we pray that they stay his children their whole lives through!
Sorry, no pictures this week! We had a lot of active learning!
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