Our KDI for the week is vocabulary-children understand and use a variety of words and phrases. There are lots of words unique to castles and kings and queens. We will be introduced to these words and see examples of them in action.
Table Activities- Table activities include cardboard castles to color, castle toy play, build a castle with blocks, make a crown, castle cookie cutters and playdough, castle coloring pages, using a trebuchet or catapult to knock castle figures over and making sand castles.
Small Group- This week we will make ourselves shields, color ourselves as king or queen, add Qq is for queen to our journal and make a castle out of cardboard and paper tube turrets.
Large Group- We will have the chance to do some pool noodle jousting and paper sword fighting out doors this week!
Books of the Week- "If you were a Kid in a Medieval Castle" by Josh Gregory, "The Queen's Hat" by Steve Antony, "In the Castle" by Anna Milbourne and Benji Davies are our books this week.
Bible Story- This week our story is the parable of the Prodigal Son. Jesus told this story to show how much God loves and forgives us and continues to seek after us even when we turn away from him.
There was once a man who had two sons. His older son worked very hard and enjoyed his life on his father's estate, farming and working the land. The younger son wanted to leave his father's home and go and see what life was like in the big city. He was miserable and with his complaining, made everyone else miserable too!
He asked his father if he could have his inheritance ahead of time, not even wanting to wait until his father died. His father gave it to him and he left. He led a wild life in the city, partying, sinning, giving in to all his lusts and temptations and before long, the money was gone!
He looked for a job just to be able to fill his belly. He was ashamed to go home, he had squandered his father's money and been ungrateful. Finally, when he had a job feeding pigs and even the husks he was feeding them looked attractive to eat, he decided to go home. He was not going to ask to be reinstated as son, but ask if he could be a servant to his father.
He began the long walk home, filthy and bedraggled and starving. When he was still a long way off, his father recognized him and began to run towards him. He caught him up in a big hug and welcomed him home!! Even when he protested and said he'd be a servant, his father insisted and gave him a robe and his ring! He instructed his servants to kill the fatted calf, they were having a party! He thought his son was dead, but he was alive and home!!
When the older son came in from working that day, he wondered what was going on. When he heard that his brother had returned and this party was for him, he was jealous and upset! Why did he get a party when he had been faithfully working all this time and had never had a celebration thrown for him? His father reassured him that he was loved and anything the father had was his, but come and celebrate with me, your brother who we thought was dead is alive and restored to us!
Sometimes we are the prodigal son and sometimes we are the older brother! We were lost in our sin and returned to God and he welcomed us with open arms! Sometimes we are the older brother who sees a habitual sinner come back and be celebrated and we think, I've been working and dedicating my life to Christ, where's my party?
May the Lord help us to love like he loves and be comforted knowing that all He has is ours through faith!
Pictures of ice cream week-
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