Week 6 - Overlap Week of September/October
Items Needed: Bible
Color: Green
Worksheets: Apple Tree Number Book, Square Poster, ABCJLM Green Coloring Sheets, Animal Coloring Sheets
Books: Good Night, Gorilla
CDs: 100 Hymns & Praise Songs for Kids
Activities: Play Dough, apple stickers, foods that are green, animal sticker or pictures, animal crackers, balloon, string
Bible Theme: God Made the Animals
Lesson: Zoo Animals
Bible Story: Creation Day 6
Scripture: Genesis 1
The Beginner's Bible for Toddlers: pg 7-12
Through the Bible in Felt: pg 3
Verse: I Thessalonians 2:13 - Give thanks to God.
Tune: It's Raining
Give thanks to God
Give thanks to God
I Thessalonians 2:13
Give thanks to God
Bible Song: Praise Him (Traditional) - 100 Hymns & Praise Songs for Kids Disc 3 #3
Praise Him, praise Him,
All you little children,
God is love, God is love.
Praise Him, praise Him,
All you little children,
God is love, God is love.
Add optional verses:
Love Him...
Know Him...
Serve Him...
Crown Him...
Poem: The Itsy, Bitsy Spider (Traditional)
The itsy, bitsy spider, climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
So the itsy, bitsy spider went up the spout again
Color: Green
Letters: H-K
Numbers: 1-3
Shape: Square
Information: First, Last Name
Self-care and Manners: Place Dirty Clothes in the Laundry
Book of the Week: 
Ideas:
• Book of the Week Ideas:
- Eat animal crackers while reading the story.
- Visit a zoo or local safari.
- While reading the book, spend extra time looking at the illustrations. Go back later and name the animals. Ask several higher level questions: Why? What do you think? How?
- Book Activities from DLTK - The majority of these ideas are above a 2-Year level but some may be modified.
- Coloring Sheets for each animal in the book.
• God Made the Animals Preschool Bible Story Activities & Coloring Sheets:
- Crafts:
My Creation Book: With a piece of construction paper as the background, add stickers or pictures of zoo animals. May also glue on animal crackers. Add the number "6" to the page.
Baby Zoo Animals - Together play this computer game which names a zoo animal for each letter of the alphabet. Pressing any key continues this activity.
- Creation Fingerplay
On Day 1 (On numbers - put corresponding fingers in the air)
God created light (close fists and then quickly open in the air and bring down to side creating arches)
On Day 2
God created the sky (wave arms in the air) and water (make waves with hands)
On Day 3
God created land (with palms facing the floor, run hands flat in front of you) and plants (place one fist inside the other and pop the one fist through the other - sign language for plant)
On Day 4
God created the sun (hold arm up in the air with fingers spread wide), moon (with opposite arm make a "c" formation with your hand in the air), and stars (with index fingers putting up alternate right and left hand moving up in the air - sign language for stars)
On Day 5
God created the fish (swim hands with palms together) and birds (join thumbs and fly hands in the air)
On Day 6
God created animals (choose your favorite animal) and people (point with thumbs at self)
- 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 zoo animals,
made zoo animals, made zoo animals?
Do you know who made zoo animals?
It was God who made them.
• Self-care and Manners:
Putting clothes in the laundry hamper or basket is an easy chore for 2-year-old children. Help the child make this part of their daily routine.
• Square Activities:
- Square Song - sing while doing the craft
Tune: Are You Sleeping?
Four straight sides, four straight sides
The same length, the same length
Join them together, Join them together
Squares have strength, squares have strength
- Do a Shape Walk: Walk around the house or neighborhood looking for square.
• Green Activities:
- Eat green food - Apples, grapes, broccoli, green beans, lettuce, celery, zucchini, asparagus, avocados, peas, cucumber, kiwi, honeydew, spinach, limes
- Do a Color Walk: Walk around the house or neighborhood looking for green.
• Number:
Using the Apple Tree Number Book, add apple stickers and color the appropriate apple tree. Continue to count items throughout the day.
• Fine Motor Skill:
Play with Play Dough
• Gross Motor Skill:
Tie a string to the end of a balloon and then to a higher place. Practice jumping up to hit a balloon.
