Week 28 - 1st Week of March

Items Needed:  Bible 
Sandpaper Numbers:  1, 2
Sandpaper Letters:  Uu
Name:  Write child's name with green and red dots as guides
Books:  My "U" Book, Duck on a Bike
CD:  The Ultimate Bible Song Collection for Kids
CD-Rom:  Charlie Church Mouse Preschool
Worksheet:  Dot-to-Dot Worksheet (1-12)
Activities:  Fishing Game, toys of various weight, groceries, Fingerpaint, Book of the Week Activities, Goldfish Crackers, long piece of yarn, scissors, picnic, plastic cup, index card, water
Letter U Activity, Number 12 Poster
  
Bible Story:  Feeding 5000 
Scripture:  Matthew 14:15-23
The New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes:  pg 146
The Beginner's Bible:  pg 357
My Story Bible:  pg 90-91
Through the Bible Felt:  pg 186

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:  B-I-B-L-E (Traditional) - The Ultimate Bible Song Collection for Kids
The B-I-B-L-E (make book with hands)
Yes, that’s the book for me (nod “yes”)
I stand alone on the Word of God (pretend to stand firm)
The B-I-B-L-E
Bible! (shout)

Poem:  I’m Inright, Outright, Upright, Downright (Traditional)
Chorus:  (gradually get faster)
I’m inright (point at self)
Outright (point out)
Upright (point up)
Downright (point down)
Happy all the time (clap 3x)
(Repeat)

Since Jesus Christ came in (point to heart)
And cleansed my heart from sin (move hands in opposite directions as to “wipe away”)
(Chorus)

Number:  12

Math:  Sort by weight

Letters:  Uu
U - cup it up
u - cup it up then down

Tune:  “Farmer in the Dell”
U says /u/
U says /u/
No one was underfed
U says /u/

Name:  Write the child's name with green (start) and red (stop) dots as a guide.

Book of the Week:
 Duck on a Bike

Ideas:
• Book of the Week Idea:
Duck is a great /u/ word.
Discuss the silliness of this book.  Decide what is real and what is pretend.
Duck Craft or Duck Coloring Page

• Sort - various plastic or metal toys
- Food items as you put groceries away
- Always have the child explain to you why they sorted the items in the chosen piles

• Doing the Impossible
Fill a plastic cup 1/4 full with water.  Ask the child to predict what will happen if you turn the cup upside down.  Demonstrate.
Fill the cup again and ask the child to predict what will happen if you place a index card (a little larger than the cup opening) over the cup and then turn the cup upside down (holding the card in place.)  Demonstrate.
Now, ask the child to predict what will happen if you turn the cup upside down with the card on the top of the cup but with your hand removed.  "Do you think it is impossible?"  Slowly remove your hand from the cup.  The water surface tension will hold the paper in place for a few seconds. 
Sometimes things look impossible to us.  But we know from our Bible verse that "nothing is impossible for God."

• Snack time:  Eat goldfish crackers
Plan a picnic.  Pretend you are going to hear Jesus speak. Tell the Bible story while eating.  (Unknown author)

• One Fish Becomes Many (Unknown author)
Lay one long piece of yarn out in a Christian fish symbol.  Tell the child that you will make smaller fish from the big fish.  Ask the child how that is possible?  Cut the length of the yarn into smaller (3") pieces.  Show how to make little fish from the large fish shape.  Explain that this week you will be hearing about Jesus making lunch for more than 5,000 people with just two fish and five loaves of bread.

• Play the “Fishes and Loaves” adventure and use the coloring sheet on the Charlie Church Mouse Preschool Cd-Rom.  Read more...

• Fishing Game
Supplies:  Dowel rod, string, and magnet
Card Stock paper, marker, scissors, contact paper, paper clips
Make a fishing pole with a dowel rod, string, and magnet.  Make fish on various colors of card stock paper with a large paper clip for the mouth.  Write individual letters or numbers on each fish.  (Best to laminate or use contact paper.) Have your child “fish” for letters or numbers.  You can also use magnetic refrigerator numbers and letters as fish.

• Do a Dot-to-Dot Worksheet with numbers 1-12

• Fine Motor Skills: 
Fingerpaint letters, numbers, and shapes 

• Gross Motor Skills:
Do a Memory Obstacle Course

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