Week 22 - 4th Week of January

Items Needed:  Bible 
Sandpaper Numbers:  1, 0
Sandpaper Letters:  Pp
Name:  Write the third letter in the child's name
Books:  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, farm animals and a barn or toy cars and a road with a bridge, Peg Puzzle, yellow, red, and green markers, Book of the Week Activities, Printable Story Pattern (see below), Going on a Bear Hunt, Bible story ideas (see below)
Letter P Activity, Number 10 Poster
    
Bible Story:  Jesus Heals the Little Girl
Scripture:  Mark 5:21-24, 35-42
The New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes:  pg 268
The Beginner's Bible:  pg 340
My Story Bible:  pg 88-89
Through the Bible Felt:  pg 185

Verse:  Luke 1:37 - Nothing is impossible for God.
Tune:  “London Bridges”
For nothing is impossible with God
Impossible with God
Impossible with God
For nothing is impossible with God
Luke 1:37

Bible Song:  Whisper a Prayer - 100 Hymns & Praise Song for Kids Disc 3 #30
Whisper a prayer in the morning,
Whisper a prayer at noon.
Whisper a prayer in the evening,
He will keep your heart in tune.

God answers prayer in the morning,
God answers prayer at noon.
God answers prayer in the evening.
He will keep your heart in tune.

Poem:  Right hand, Left hand (Based on a poem from:  500 Five Minute Games by Jackie Silberg)
(Have the child echo each phrase and copy your actions)

This is my right hand (This is my right hand) 
I raise it up high (I raise it up high)
This is my left hand (This is my left hand)
I’ll touch the sky (I'll touch the sky)
Right hand (Right hand)
Left hand (Left hand)
Whirl them around (Whirl them around)
Right hand (Right hand)
Left hand (Left hand)
Pound, pound, pound (Pound, pound, pound)

Number:  10

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

Letters:  Pp
P - line and bubble
p - green line and bubble (start at the green (middle) line on the tracing paper)

Name:  Write the third letter of your child's name.  Use a yellow line with green (start) and red (stop) dots as a guide.

Comprehension Questions:
What did Jarius ask Jesus to do?
What did the messenger from Jarius' house tell Jesus?
What did Jesus do?
What is a miracle?
What is an example of a miracle?
Name some of the other miracles in the Bible.

Book of the Week:
  The Pigeon Wants a Puppy

Ideas:
• The Pigeon Wants a Puppy 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 only water a dog once a month.
- Discuss with your child our changing wants. 
- Toilet Paper Roll Pigeon Craft

• Jesus Heals the Little Girl Preschool Bible Story Activities & Coloring Sheets:
- Coloring Sheets - Jarius' Daughter, She is Healed
- Jesus cares about sick people and he wants us to help sick people too.  Think of ideas that you can do to help someone who is sick (get a tissue, draw a picture, smile, make a phone call)
- Using ace bandages or bathroom tissue, wrap a family member's arm or leg.  Play doctor with a child's kit.  Discuss how God uses doctors and nurses to help us feel better.
- Write the memory verse on a tongue depressor.  Here is an example.

• “Left to Right is the way we Read and Write!”  (Author unknown)
Trace and cut out the child's left hand on green paper, right hand on red paper.  Place the green hand to the left of the page where you are going to 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 the green hand and red hand on the correct sides of a digital 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 to help the child remember (red=right)

• Name activity:
Be sure to read the Learning to Write page for suggestions in making the transition from tracing to writing letters. 
  Follow this example with the third letter in your child's name.  Write the capital letter with a yellow line and 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:
Using the Peg Puzzles, encourage your child to pick up the puzzle pieces using their thumb and index finger.

• 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 it 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.  Click for the ABCJLM version to act out!  Have child repeat each line after you. 

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