Our KDI for the week is shapes- Children identify, name and describe shapes. We will use shapes to make different vehicles, name what shapes we see in vehicles and as we take our drive around town, look for shapes everywhere.
Table Activities- Our table activities this week include invite to create vehicles out of shapes, boat play, coloring a pirate ship, making vehicle tracks with paint, having a car wash, playing with all our classroom vehicles, making train cars with a train track prompt, vehicle coloring pages, driving cars on shape roads and making tracks by following our cars with a marker.
Small Group Activities- In small group this week we will make a glider, paint a vehicle, add Tt is for transportation to our journal and sort transportation by land, sea and air.
Large Group Activities- We will fly our gliders, color on cardboard cars or trains, bring our inside vehicles outside and play with some large shapes.
Books of the Week- "And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street" by Dr. Seuss and "City Shapes" by Diana Murray.
Bible Story- This week we hear the story of Joseph. Jacob had run to his Uncle Laban's after tricking his father and stealing the blessing from his brother Esau. While he was there, he was tricked into marrying two women- sisters Leah and Rachel. Rachel was his favorite and the two sons he had with her were also his favorite children. He had more that 12 children. Tricking and favoritism continue to bring problems and sorrow to Jacob and his family.
His son Joseph was obviously his favorite. Joseph had some dreams in which the other members of his family were bowing down to him as if he was their ruler. His 10 older brothers were angered by these dreams. They mocked Joseph and ostracized him. His father kept making it obvious that Joseph was his favorite by gifting him a beautiful, multi-color coat, possibly an overseer coat, which put him in charge of his older brothers. Jacob also make Joseph the reporter on whether his brothers were working or not.
One day Jacob sent Joseph out to check on his brothers. He was wearing his multi-color coat and they could see him coming from a distance. They grumbled amongst themselves and then came up with a plan to kill him. Rueben, the oldest, didn't want that to happen, so he made a different suggestion. When Joseph came closer, they grabbed him, took off his coat and through him in a pit. They ripped up his coat and dipped it in blood from goat or sheep they had killed. Then, when passing merchants came by, they sold Joseph off into slavery to a caravan headed to Egypt.
They then returned to their father with the bloodied, ripped coat and told the story of Joseph having been attacked and killed by a wild animal, since all they found was his coat. Jacob mourned for Joseph for a long time.
What a story!! Anger, jealousy, attempted murder, human trafficking, lies! And we think the world is awful today!! It is awful and it has always been! God is still here for us though, no matter what mess we make of it. In Joseph's story we see God using bad for good. We see Joseph solidly believing in God, standing up for his faith, no matter the cost. He broke the cycle that began with Isaac and Esau and Jacob, the deception and favoritism. He was faithful to God and God blessed him, even though he was enslaved and imprisoned. God blesses us, even when we think things aren't going well, we are safely in His Hand!
Pictures from our apple week-
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