Week 30 - 3rd Week of March

Items Needed:  Bible 
Sandpaper Numbers:  1, 3
Sandpaper Letters:  Vv
Name:  Write name on 1 1/2" Blank Tracing Line Worksheet with yellow lines, green and red dots
Books:  My "V" Book, Harold and the Purple Crayon, From Head to Toe
CDs:   Hide 'Em in Your Heart Vol. 1, 100 Hymns & Praise Song for Kids
Games:  Checkers, Connect Four
Activities:  Post-it notes, Play Dough, Name Collage (See below), Primary Lacing Beads, Magnetic Numbers (0-13), Magnetic Letters (Aa-Vv), two different kinds of snacks, St. Patrick's Day Activities, Bible story activities (see below), yellow, green, and red markers
Letter V Activities, Number 13 Poster
      
Bible Story:  Jesus & the Little Children 
Scripture:  Matthew 19:13-15
The New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes:  pg 150
The Beginner's Bible:  pg 409
Through the Bible Felt:  pg 208

Verse:  Matthew 19:14- Let the little children come to me. 
“Let the Little Children Come” - Steve Green – Hide 'Em in Your Heart Vol. 1 - #1

Bible Song:  Jesus Loves the Little Children (Traditional) - 100 Hymns & Praise Song for Kids Disc 2 # 22
Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red and yellow, black and white
They are precious in His sight
Jesus loves the little children of the world.

Poem:  I Use My Brain (From:  500 Five Minute Games by Jackie Silberg)
I use my brain to think, think, think (touch head)
I use my nose to smell (touch nose)
I use my eyes to blink, blink, blink (touch eyes)
I use my throat to yell (touch throat and yell on word “yell”)

I use my mouth to giggle, giggle, giggle (touch mouth)
I use my hips to bump (touch hips)
I use my toes to wiggle, wiggle, wiggle (touch toes)
And I use my legs to jump (jump)

Number:  13

Math:  AB Pattern – Introduce with beading

Letters:  Vv
V - big valley
v - little valley

Name:  Write child's name on 1 1/2" Blank Tracing Line Worksheet with yellow lines, green and red dots as guide.

Comprehension Questions:
Who wanted to see Jesus?
Who tried to stop the children from seeing Jesus?
Why do you think the men didn't want the children to see Jesus?
Why did Jesus want to see the children?

Book of the Week:
  Harold and the Purple Crayon

Ideas:
• Harold and the Purple Crayon Book of the Week Ideas:
- Have your child draw their own story with a purple crayon.  Dictate the storyline that your child creates.
- Purple Activities
- Shape Activity
- Eat purple food, wear purple clothes, and play with purple play dough.

• Jesus Loves the Little Children Preschool Bible Story Activities & Coloring Sheets:
- Coloring Sheets - Children, Children Sitting on Jesus' Lap 
- Look through magazines or catalogs to find pictures of many different children.  Cut and glue the pictures onto a piece of paper.  At the top of the piece of paper write "Jesus Loves Children".  Be sure to add a picture of your child.  Look at this picture as you sing this week's song "Jesus Loves the Little Children."  (Source Unknown)
- More Ideas at Preschool to Pre-K
- With a group of children, sing the song "Jesus Loves the Little Ones Like Me" (The Ultimate Bible Song Collection for Kids).  Using a little mirror, place the mirror in front of a different child's face each time you say the word "me".
- Using a gingerbread cookie cutter, paint cookies using a mixture of egg white and food coloring.
- Jesus Loves Me Wall Hanging - Add the child's picture to the top.
- Thumbody Loves You paper craft

• Patterns – discuss how patterns are all around us
Day, night (AB)
Eat a meal, clean off the table (AB)
Go potty, wash our hands (AB)

• Pattern - Connect Four, Checkers, or different colored post-it notes and lacing beads

• After your child is able to correctly form the 3" characters with green and red dots, place the characters on the classic manuscript paper adding the yellow line and the same green and red dots for each letter.  Start with the wider 1 1/2" Blank Tracing Line Worksheet.  Be sure to read Learning to Write to understand how to use these worksheets effectively.  Remember to continue to say the Letter Formation Chants as the child writes each letters. 

• At snack time, give two different snacks to your child and create a pattern

• St. Patrick's Day Activities - Use a shamrock to explain the Trinity - God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit

• Create a Name Collage - Either print out the child's name using the Letter Posters or draw it on poster board using bubble letters.  On each letter, glue items that begin with that letter.  For example:  Ben - B (buttons), E (egg shells), N (noodles) - Thank you Shannon for this idea

• Place three magnetic letters or numbers on the table.  Let your child look at them and say the names of each and then close their eyes.  Remove one.  Have your child figure out which letter or number is missing.

• Fine Motor Skills:
Play dough - Hide coins or small items in the play dough or putty and have your child find the item - Encourage your child to not use their thumb but to use the weaker fingers instead.

• Gross Motor Skills:
Walk like an animal - have the kids come up with ideas but here are a few to get you started. 
  From Head to Toe by Eric Carle - This is a fun book to read along with this activity  
- Bear - on all fours
- Crab - side to side
- Turtle - creep
- Snake - slither on tummy
- Ostrich - hold one ankle up
- Frog - squat and jump
- Kangaroo or bunny - hop with both feet
- Horse - gallop
- Gorilla - bend your knees

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