Bug Week!

 

This week we are going to focus on insects and spiders! Both our butterflies and ladybugs have gone through their metamorphosis and are adult insects. We also have plenty of spiders, ants, and other insects appearing outside and inside of our classroom, so we'll take a closer look at them!

Our KDI of the week is classifying- Children classify materials, actions, people and events. We will classify bugs as spiders, insects or others based on number of legs and body parts. We will talk about other animal classifications also!

Table Activities- This week we will have the opportunity to play with a bug sensory bin, catch spiders in webs, make impressions of bugs in playdough, sort into groups of spiders, insects and others, color bugs, create bugs, dot paint bugs and make bugs on sticky paper.

Small Group Activities- We will take a closer look at both insects and spiders, draw a spider and draw an insect, color parts of a giant bug model and make a model of an insect or spider with model magic.

Large Group Activity- Look for bugs!

Books of the Week-  "The Eensy, Weensy Spider" by Mary Ann Hoberman, "Hey, Little Ant"  by Hannah and Philip Hoose, "Diary of a Spider" by Doreen Cronin and "Are You a Grasshopper?" by Judy Allen.

Bible Story- This week we will finish our stories of just what happened on Easter Sunday! So far we have talked about the women finding the tomb empty, Jesus appearing to Mary Magdelene and Jesus walking and talking to the disciples on the road to Emmaus. Now we will hear the account of Jesus appearing to his disciples on Easter evening. 

The disciples were in a locked room, afraid of what might happen to them. Were the authorities coming to arrest them like they had arrested Jesus? As they were in the room, they were praying and Jesus appeared in their midst! He came right through the locked door. He said "Peace be with you!" He showed them his hands and side.  They were worried he might be a ghost, so he asked for something to eat to show them he was not. He invited them to touch him and see he was flesh and blood. 

As he was with them, he continued to teach them and opened the Scriptures to them, just as he had to the disciples on the way to Emmaus. He told them that he was preparing them to send them out. They were to wait for the gift of the Holy Spirit that he was going to send them first.

Jesus gently instructs and prepares his disciples, just as he instructs and prepares us through his Word! We listen and learn more every time we here his Word! We continue to learn more and be better equipped to share with others the Gospel message we have been blessed with ourselves!