Our KDI for the week is ecology- children understand the importance of taking care of their environment. We will clean up an "oil spill" and garbage out of our water and reading a book about the oil spill of the Exxon Valdez.
Table Activities- Our table activities this week include water play, foil fish, cleaning up an oil spill, fish stamp painting, sea shell investigate, fish/ocean coloring pages, fishing and fish necklaces
Small Group Activities- This week in small group we will make an ocean in a bottle with water and mineral oil, paint a seashell, add Oo is for ocean to our journal and make some permanent sand castles.
Large Group Activities- This week in large group we will dance to surfing songs, stretch like ocean creatures, sing "Baby Shark" and the finger play "Five Little Fishies".
Books of the Week- "Oil Spill!" by Melvin Berger, and "Somewhere in the Ocean" by T. J. Marsh and Jennifer Ward.
Bible Story- This week's Bible story is our last story in the Old Testament. Next week we will start learning about what happened to prepare for Jesus' birth! This week's story is Daniel in the Lion's Den. The story of Daniel takes place when the kingdom of Israel has been defeated and Israel's people taken captive and off to different lands. Daniel is taken as a young man and becomes an advisor to the king of Babylon-Nebuchadnezzer. Babylon is then defeated by the Medes and Persians and Daniel remains in the government of the new ruler, King Darius. Daniel is not a young man anymore, but an elderly man of 80! Many of King Darius' advisors are jealous of Daniel and the good advice he gives to the king and they want to find a way to get rid of him. They know how the laws of the Medes and the Persians work- once a law is written and signed by the king, it cannot be changed. They also know Daniel's habit, he continues to be faithful to the one true God of Israel and several times each day, faces Jerusalem and prays towards the temple.
They encourage King Darius to sign a law stating that for an entire month, no one was to worship any other god but him. If they dared to worship someone else, they would be thrown in a den of hungry lions! King Darius agreed! He didn't know the trap that had been set for his favorite advisor. Sure enough, the other advisors caught Daniel praying and told the king. The king was frantic, how could he save his friend? As sundown came, Daniel was placed in the den of lions. The King could not eat or sleep, he was so worried! As soon as the sun was up, he went out to the den to see how Daniel fared! He called to Daniel, "Was your God able to save you?" and Daniel replied, "May the king live forever! My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, Your Majesty.”
How amazing!! Then the king had the advisors who had wanted to get rid of Daniel thrown into the lions' den. They were quickly devoured. And King Darius made a decree that all must revere the God of Daniel.
Daniel knew that either way, he was in God's Almighty and Loving hands. When things on this earth feel like a lion is ready to devour us, remember Daniel and God's goodness to him and his everlasting goodness to us!
Some pictures of tablet and white board artists-
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