Our KDI of the week is geography. Children recognize and interpret features and locations in their environments. We are going to compare and contrast features in Australia and Michigan. What is the same? What is different?
Table Activities- Table activities this week include making a boomerang, water play with Australia and coral, painting rocks, playing with Australian animals, painting with cotton swabs on Australian animals, Australia coloring pages, kangaroo cookie cutter painting and pretend pavlova.
Small Group Activities- This week we will paint a cutout kangaroo in the aboriginal style, decorate an Australian instrument called the clapstick, add Kk is for kangaroo to our journal and make a coral reef sponge painting.
Large Group Activities- This week we plan on dancing to Australian music with our clapsticks and moving like Australian animals.
Books of the Week- "Over in Australia" by Marianne Berkes, "Possum Magic" by Mem Fox, and "Marsupial Sue" by John Lithgow.
Bible Story- This week we will hear about Jesus first trip to the temple as a young man. Jesus was 12 when he went with his family to Jerusalem to celebrate one of the festivals. There was probably a large contingent from Nazareth all traveling together. There were possibly cousins and other family members as part of that group. Mary and Joseph traveled and went to the temple to worship along with Jesus. Then the group packed up and headed home. On that first evening, when they were setting up camp on their return, Mary and Joseph looked for Jesus. Perhaps they assumed he was walking with his friends and would join them in the evening. But he wasn't! No one had seen him. Mary and Joseph turned around and headed back to Jerusalem. They scoured the city for three days until finally they found him in the temple. He was talking to the teachers of the law, amazing them with his questions and answers.
His parents were not amazed, they were worried and now a bit angry. Mary was frustrated! Didn't he know that they had been searching anxiously for him? Jesus reminded her that he was also the Son of God- didn't they realize he had to do his Father's business? Jesus obediently went home with them and it says he grew in wisdom and stature and favor with God and men. Our children aren't perfect like Jesus, but they do belong to God! Our responsibility is to help them to know their heavenly Father through daily conversation by reading Scripture, applying it through devotions and daily life and speaking to their Father in prayer. As you instruct them and help them know their Father, it is amazing how your own relationship with your Father will grow as well! God loves you and your children! Sit still and talk with him a while, it'll do your soul good!
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