Week 22 - 4th Week of January

Items Needed:  Bible 
Sandpaper Numbers:  1, 0
Sandpaper Letters:  Pp
Name:  Sandpaper Letters in name 
Book:  My "P" Book, My Ten Book, We're Going on a Bear Hunt, The Pigeon Wants a Puppy
CD:  100 Hymns & Praise Song for Kids
Activities:  Red and Green paper to trace right and left hands on, farm animals & a barn or toy cars and a road with a bridge, Peg Puzzle, yellow, red, and green marker or highlighter
Letter P Activity, Number 10 Poster
    
Bible Story:  Jesus Heals Little Girl and Woman
Scripture:  Mark 5:21-43
The New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes:  pg 268
The Beginner's Bible:  pg 340
My Story Bible: pg 88-89

Verse:  Psalms 107:1 - Give thanks to the Lord for He is good
Tune:  “Where Is Thumbkin?”
Psalms 107, Psalms 107  (pronounce 1-oh-7)
Verse 1, Verse 1
Give thanks to the Lord, Give thanks to the Lord 
For He is good, For He is good.

Bible Song:  Deep and Wide (Traditional) - 100 Hymns & Praise Song for Kids Disc 1 #18
Deep and Wide (put arms vertically, then horizontally),
Deep and Wide
There’s a fountain (rain down with fingers)
flowing, (play piano with fingers)
deep and wide.
Repeat

Optional – leave out the specific words and say “um” instead
Deep
Deep, wide
Deep, wide, fountain
Deep, wide, fountain, flowing

Poem:  Right hand, Left hand
This is my right hand. I raise it up high.
This is my left hand, I’ll touch the sky.
Right hand, Left hand, Whirl them around.
Right hand, Left hand, Pound, Pound, Pound.
From:  500 Five Minute Games by Jackie Silberg

Number:  10

Math:  Spatial 
 Around, through
 Under, over
 Right, Left

Letter:  p
Tune:  “Farmer in the Dell”
P says /p/
P says /p/
People Praise and Pray to Jesus
P says /p/

Name:  Write the third letter of your child's name using a yellow highlighter or marker with dots

Comprehension Questions:
What is a miracle?
What is an example of a miracle?
What were the miracles in the Bible story?

Book of the Week:
  The Pigeon Wants a Puppy

Ideas:
• Book of the Week Ideas:
Allow your child to answer the questions in this book.  The book is written to draw them in to the storyline on a personal level.
There are several misconceptions in this book.  Discuss why it is not okay to water a dog only once a month.
Discuss with your child our changing wants. 
Toilet Paper Roll Pigeon Craft

• “Left to Right is the way we Read and Write!”  Author unknown
Trace and cut out left hand on green paper, right hand on red paper.  Place left hand to the left of page where you are to read or write and the red hand to the right. Teach your child to always start at the left (green hand – go), and stop at the right (red hand – stop).  

-Read numbers on an alarm clock.  Place green hand and right hand on sides of an electric clock. 
-Have your child help hold the green hand on left side or red hand on the right side of a book as you read.  Point to the words as you read.
-Tie a red ribbon around the right hand

• While learning this weeks Bible Verse Song and poem have the child echo the 2nd part

• Name activity:
Be sure to read the Learning to Write page for suggestions in making the transition to writing letters. 
  Follow this example with the third letter in your child's name.  Add the green (start) and red (stop) dots. 

• Use farm animals and a barn or toy cars and a road with bridges to demonstrate spatial words - around, through, under, over, right, left

• Fine Motor Skills:
Peg Puzzles or Small Puzzles

•  Gross Motor Skills:  Going On a Bear Hunt (Traditional) 
  Read the book We're Going on a Bear Hunt - This is a wonderful book to work on spatial relationships.  Act out as you read.
Here is a Printable Story Pattern to help with the sequence.  Glue flannel material on the back and create a wonderful flannelgraph story.
 
Here is one version to act out!  Have child repeat each line after you. 

Refrain:
We're going on a lion hunt. (march in place)
We're not afraid. (shake head ‘no’)
We're going to catch a big one! (Spread arms open wide.)
But look! (look with hands)
What's that ahead?  (Place your hand above your eyes as though you were looking far away.)

Uh-oh.
There's mud ahead!
Can't go over it. (move hand “over”)
Can't go under it. (move hand “under”)
Can't go around it. (move hand “around”)
Better go through it. (Make sloshing sounds and move hands and feet as if wading through mud.)

Refrain

Uh-oh.
There's a lake ahead.
Can't go over it. (move hand “over”)
Can't go under it. (move hand “under”)
Can't go around it. (move hand “around”)
Better swim through it. (Make swimming motions.)

Refrain

Uh-oh.
There's a gate ahead.
Can't go over it. (move hand “over”)
Can't go under it. (move hand “under”)
Can't go around it. (move hand “around”)
Better go through it. (Gesture as if you open a gate, walk through, and close it.)

Refrain

Uh-oh.
There's tall grass ahead.
Can't go over it. (move hand “over”)
Can't go under it. (move hand “under”)
Can't go around it. (move hand “around”)
We'd better crawl through it. (Crawl around, moving your hands to push the grass out of your way.)

Refrain

Uh-oh.
There's a cave ahead.
Can't go over it. (move hand “over”)
Can't go under it. (move hand “under”)
Can't go around it. (move hand “around”)
Guess we'll have to walk into it.  (Tip toe quietly.)
Look to the left.  Look to the right.
Look Up. Look Down.
I think I see some big eyes!  (Place fingers to form circles around eyes.)
I think it's a LION!  (Throw arms back and make scared faces.)
Run out of the cave!
Crawl through the grass!
Open the gate!
Swim across the lake!
Wade through the mud!
Run into the house!
Close the door!
Run up the front stairs!
Crawl under your bed!
Whew!  We made it!  (Wipe forehead.)
And we weren't afraid!  (Shake head 'No.')

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