Ii is for ice cream!

 

This week we are listening and looking for the short and long sound of the letter Ii and having fun eating, playing and creating with ice cream!

Our KDI of the week is phonological awareness- Children identify distinct sounds in spoken language. We will pick apart words and see the sounds each letter is making to make the word. This is great practice to do at home too- listen for the sounds in /dog/, how many sounds do you hear? What are the sounds? What letters make those sounds? 

Table Activities- This week we will have a dramatic play ice cream parlor, plastic scoops for counting and pattern making, ice cream cone printing, invite to create ice cream cones or sundaes, ice cream coloring pictures and pretend ice cream to scoop and decorate.

Small Group- During small group we will make ice cream with an ice cream ball, count ice cream scoops, add Ii is for ice cream to our journal and use puffy paint to create some ice cream cone paintings. 

Large Group- We will play pass the ice cream with a paper cone and take our pretend ice cream outside to play with on Thursday along with our ice cream trucks.

Books of the Week- "Gorilla Loves Vanilla" by Chae Strathie and "Groovy Joe Ice Cream and Dinosauts" by Eric Litwin.

Bible Story- This week we will be learning from one of Jesus parables. Jesus often told parables or stories to teach his disciples and us a lesson. They are often referred to as an earthly story with a heavenly meaning. Our story this week is called the Good Samaritan. In Jesus day, Jews and Samaritans did not get along well. Samaritans were looked down on by the Jews as not being true worshippers because they didn't come to the temple to worship and they were of mixed ancestry. So that made having the Samaritan as the hero in this parable striking.

Jesus told this story to a young man who asked what he must do to inherit eternal life. The man said he had loved God with all his heart, soul and mind. When he said that he had loved his neighbor as himself, he asked Jesus who his neighbor was. Jesus answered with the parable of the Good Samaritan. 

There was once a man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho when he was attacked by robbers. They took everything, and stripped him of his clothing, beat him and left him half dead.  Along came a priest walking on the same road, when he saw the man, he crossed the road and passed by on the other side. A Levite, temple worker, saw the man and did the same. Then a Samaritan came by, he stopped, cleaned his wounds, put him on his own donkey and took him to an inn to take care of him. He paid the innkeeper to continue to care for him even after he left and said he would stop back at the inn on his return journey to see if he needed more. 

Jesus asked the man who the neighbor was to the man who was beaten. He replied, the Samaritan, who had mercy on him. Jesus told him to go and do likewise. The same is his message to us- have mercy on people, even if they are not like you or seem to be against you. Love as God loved you. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. While we were still his enemies, Christ loved us enough to give his life for us. We may not have to bandage wounds physically, but words of love and support heal. Praying for all of us as we strive to live and love like Christ because of His great love for us!

Pics from Numbers week-