Our KDI of the week is predicting- children predict what they expect will happen. As we mix colors, we will always try to guess what color the two or three will make. We can test to see if our prediction is correct.
Table Activities- This week our table activities include painting with watercolors, experimenting with color paddles, mixing food coloring in water, little blue and little yellow playdough mixing, coloring with crayons and markers, colored cellophane on paper tubes to make different colors, mouse painting and painting with tempera paints.
Small Group- This week we will have the opportunity to mix little blue and little yellow in a baggie of shaving cream, watercolor paint, add Pp is for painting to our journals and paint and mix primary colors.
Large Group- We will paint with chalk outside, mix food coloring and water outside, look at the colors of light dispersed by a prism and paint outside with tempera.
Books of the Week- "Little Blue and Little Yellow" by Leo Lionni, "Mouse Paint" by Ellen Stohl Walsh and "Cat's Colors" by Jane Cabrera.
Bible Story- This week our Bible story takes place long after the Israelites are settled in their new home. They have been ruled by judges who receive their instructions right from God. One of the final judges they will have is named Samuel. This is his story. Samuel's mother's name was Hannah. She was married to a man named Elkanah. Elkanah had two wives. The other wife had children, but God had not given Hannah a child, yet. The family made their yearly pilgrimage to the tabernacle (the worship tent that they carried with them in the desert).
While they were at the tabernacle, Hannah was pleading with God in prayer to give her a child. She was crying and weeping. She promised that if God blessed her with a child, she would give the child back to God. The priest, Eli, asked her what was wrong and she explained to him. He comforted her and told her that she would have a baby before this time next year.
Eli was correct! She had a little boy and named him Samuel. Hannah stayed home with Samuel for 5 years and then she took him to the tabernacle with her. She reminded Eli who she was and gave Samuel into his care. Samuel lived at the tabernacle and worked with Eli. Eventually, Samuel was made the last judge of Israel and serve the Lord his whole life long!
We are given our children as gifts from God. How do we give them back to Him? You can't drop them off at church to live in the back room! But we trust that God will use them in the best way for them. Sometimes it might mean putting off something in our own lives to raise our children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Giving up sleeping in on a Sunday to make sure our children get to church and Sunday school, sharing God's word with them in devotion and prayer. God gives us these precious gifts and it is our responsibility to do our best to teach them about Him and what He's done for them! Even as little as they are, they can serve God and they will follow your example!
A few pics from our short week-
