Ee is for egg.

 

This week we are listening for and looking for the sound and shape of Ee. We will be investigating eggs and playing with egg shapes.

Our KDI of the week is fine motor skills. Children demonstrate dexterity and hand-eye coordination in using their small muscles. We will be painting with Q-tips, cracking shells, cutting paper eggs and decorating a small fake egg, all things that help us practice our fine motor skills.

Table Activities- Our table activities this week include playing with plastic eggs, playdough and egg shape cutting, building with plastic eggs and playdough, cutting paper eggs, coloring eggs, egg carton and egg shell play, eggs in slime and stamping with plastic egg halves.

Small Group Activities- This week we will explore an egg inside, decorate a fake egg, add Ee is for egg to our journal, and paint a large paper egg with a q-tip.

Large Group Activities- If we have time, we will do an egg toss and make a nest outside.

Books of the Week- "egg" by Kevin Henkes, "Chickens aren't the Only Ones" by Ruth Heller and "An Egg is Quiet" by Dianna Hutts Aston.

Bible Story- This week we begin to look at the stories of Holy Week. We will hear the story of Palm Sunday this week. On the Sunday before Jesus would die on the cross, he and his disciples were getting ready to enter into the city of Jerusalem for the last time. Jesus asked his disciples to go and get a donkey for him to ride on. He told them to tell the owners that the Lord had need of it. The disciples got the donkey for him, laid their cloaks on it's back and he rode it into Jerusalem. This was to fulfill an old testament prophecy saying their king would come to them riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. As Jesus passed through, a great crowd of people laid their cloaks down before him and cut palm branches, laying them down and waving them and shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!" Crowds were shouting, people were wondering what was going on. It was the week of the Passover, so many Jews from far and near had gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate. The Pharisees told Jesus to quiet his followers down, it was embarrassing! Jesus said if he quieted them, the very rocks would cry out!

Many of these people had seen Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead. They were following Jesus as a prophet, maybe the Messiah. But many of these same people would shout, "Crucify Him!" several days later. We don't know about the faith of the people, but we do know that Jesus was fulfilling all things to be the Savior we needed! We shout, "Hosanna!" which means save us!

Some science experiment pics along with a lot of static cling hair!

This is a poodle.

This is a turtle.