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Color: Purple
Worksheets:  Apple Tree Number Poster, Triangle Poster, ABCJLM Purple Coloring Sheets, Paper Tree Craft, Chicka Chicka Coloring pages, God Made People Poster, Triangle Kite 
Books: Bible, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom,
Activities:  Pumpkin for carving, ABCJLM "Falloween" Ideas, pillows or leaf pile, apple stickers, foods that are purple, yarn, fabric, paint, paint brush

Objectives:

Bible Theme:  Thank You, God, for Making Me
Lesson:  People

Bible Story: Creation Day 6
Scripture: Genesis 1, 2
The Beginner's Bible for Toddlers: pg 7-17
Read and Share Toddler Bible:  pg 10-15
Through the Bible in Felt: pg 3

Verse:  Psalms 139:14 - You made me in an amazing and wonderful way.
Tune: Deep and Wide
You made me, You made me (Point up, point to self)
In an amazing, wonderful way (Wave arms in the air)
You made me, You made me
In an amazing, wonderful way

You said, in the Psalms (Point up, place hands together to form a book)
139 verse 14
You made me, You made me
In an amazing, wonderful way

Bible Song: God Made Me (Author Unknown)
Tune:  Old McDonald
I have hands because God made me, clap, clap, clap
I have hands because God made me, clap, clap, clap
With a clap, clap, here and a clap, clap there
Here a clap, there a clap, every where a clap, clap
I have hands because God made me, clap, clap, clap

Additional Verses:
I have feet because God made me, stomp, stomp, stomp
I have finger because God made me, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle
I have knees because God made me, bend, bend, bend
I have arms because God made me, reach, reach, reach

Poem:  Where is Thumbkin?  (Traditional)
Tune of: Frère Jacques (Are You Sleeping)
Where is thumbkin? (Start with hands behind back)
Where is thumbkin?
Here I am (Bring right thumb to front)
Here I am (Bring left thumb to front)
How are you today sir?
Very well, I thank you (Wiggle thumbs as if they are "talking" to each other)
Run away (Hide right hand behind back)
Run away (Hide left hand behind back)

Additional verses:
Where is pointer?
Where is tall man?
Where is ring man?
Where is pinkie?
Where is whole family?

Color:  Purple
Letters:  L-P
Numbers:  1-4
Shape:
 Triangle
Information:  First, middle, and last name
Self-care and Manners:  Undress self and name clothing

Book of the Week:

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom  Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Suggested Activities:

• Book of the Week:
- Paper Tree Craft - paper, glue
- The focus of this book is on the alphabet.  Use this book to say the letters A-P that have been learned so far in the curriculum.  Point to the letters as you say them.
- Coloring pages for letters A-P 

• Thank You, God, for Making Me Preschool Bible Story Activities & Coloring Sheets:
- Crafts:
God Made People Poster  "Thank You, God, for Making Me" Book:  With a piece of construction paper as the background, add pictures of people found in magazines and newspapers.  Try to find a mixture of men, women, children, nationalities, ages, etc.  Add the title "God Made People" and the number "6."

    "Thank You, God, for Making Me" Book:  Print the God Made People Poster.  Using the song Jesus Loves the Little Children as the main idea, color the people red, yellow, black, and white.  Add faces and yarn hair.  Draw or cut little pieces of fabric for clothing. Point to the corresponding child as you sing the song.  
   
- Ideas:
     As you look through books, talk about how God made people all different - age, size, appearance, personalities, etc.

- "God Made Me" Poem
Here are my fingers, here are my toes
Here are my knees, here is my nose
Here are my feet that help me walk around
Here is my mouth that can make sound
Here are my ears, my shoulders, my belly 
Here is my tongue that eats grape jelly
Here is my hair that is crazy you see
Here is my smile that God gave me!

- Do you Know Who Made the World? (Thank you, Connie, for this idea.)
Tune:  "Mary Had a Little Lamb" or "Do You Know the Muffin Man"
Do you know who made people,
made people, made people?
Do you know who made people?
It was God who made us.

• Self-care and Manners:
Start with the child taking off his/her pants or shorts. End with the shirt.  As you take off the various articles of clothing, be sure to name each item.

• Triangle Activities:
- Paint Triangle Triangle Poster - Color, paint, or draw on the triangle poster.  Use the color purple.
Triangle KiteTriangle Kite - Color, paint, or draw on the triangle poster.  Use the color purple.

- Triangle Song: 
Tune: The Adam's Family
Three sides (snap, snap)
Three points (snap, snap)
A triangle has, three sides, three points (snap, snap)
- Do a Shape Walk: Walk around the house or neighborhood looking for triangles.

• Purple Activities:
Purple Grapes - Color one of the ABCJLM Purple Coloring Sheets:  Purple BalloonPurple GrapesPurple Shirt    
- Eat purple food - Grapes, purple cabbage, grape popsicle, grape jelly, plums.
- Do a Color Walk: Walk around the house or neighborhood looking for the color purple.

• Number:
This week use paint and a paint brush to decorate the Number “4” Apple Tree Poster. Add four apple stickers.  Continue to count items throughout the day.

• Christian "Falloween" Ideas from ABCJLM

• Fine Motor Skill:
Carve a pumpkin making the face out of various shapes learned.  Allow your child to dig out and count the seeds. Have your child pick up the seeds using his/her thumb and index finger.

• Gross Motor Skill:
Place pillows, couch cushions or anything soft on the floor for the child to crawl over. Have fun making mountains and climbing peaks! If the weather is nice, rake a big pile of leaves.