Week 34 - 3rd Week of April
Items Needed: Bible
Tactile Numbers: 1, 5
Tactile Letters: Yy
Name: Write name on 1 1/2" Blank Tracing Line Worksheet with green and red dots
Books: My "X, Y, Z" Book, Sheep in a Jeep
CD: Hide 'Em in Your Heart Vol. 2 
Activities: Shallow plastic cups (0-15), small items to fill cups, puppet, bat, large ball, glue, Nature Poster (see below), Primary Lacing Beads, items to make patterns (see below), Book of the Week Activities, green and red marker
Games: Alphabet or Number Memory
Letter Y Activities, Number 15 Poster
Bible Story: Jesus Returns to Heaven – Special job Jesus gave each of us to tell others about Jesus
Scripture: Matthew 28:16-20, Acts 1:8-11
The New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes
The Beginner's Bible
My Story Bible: pg 124-125
Through the Bible Felt: pg 234
Verse: John 14:2 – In my father's house are many mansions...I go to prepare a place for you.
Steve Green - Hide 'Em in Your Heart Vol. 2 - #8
Bible Song: If You’re Happy and You Know It (Traditional)
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands (clap, clap) (Repeat 2x)
If you’re happy and you know it then your life will really show it.
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands (clap, clap)
Optional verse:
…stomp your feet…
…say amen…
…do all three…
Poem: Where Is Thumbkin? (Traditional)
Tune of: Frère Jacques (Are You Sleeping)
Where is thumbkin? (Start with hands behind back)
Where is thumbkin?
Here I am (Bring right thumb to front)
Here I am (Bring left thumb to front)
How are you today sir?
Very well, I thank you (Wiggle thumbs as if they are "talking" to each other)
Run away (Hide right hand behind back)
Run away (Hide left hand behind back)
Additional verses:
Where is pointer?
Where is tall man?
Where is ring man?
Where is pinkie?
Where is whole family?
Number: 15
Math: ABA Pattern – Introduce with beading
Letters: Yy
Y - a little bit down, a little bit down, all the way down
y - a little bit down, all the way down
Name: Write child's name on 1 1/2" Blank Tracing Line Worksheet with green and red dots as a guide.
Comprehension Questions:
What did Jesus tell the disciples to do when He left?
What did the angel promise?
Book of the Week:
Ideas:
• Book of the Week Ideas:
This book is filled with rhyming words.
Sheep Craft - #1, #2
Ideas - #1
• Jesus Returns to Heaven Preschool Bible Story Activities & Color Sheets:
- Coloring Sheet - Ascension, Jesus in the Clouds
- Story Ideas and Activities
- Jesus Ascends Craft
• Patterns with Easter candy, Easter eggs, blocks, different colored marshmallows, etc.
• Letter Y - the top is formed by making an upside down triangle without a top
• Cookie Monster Pattern Computer Game
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• Play alphabet and/or number memory. Write each letter or number twice on an index card. Cut the index cards in half for perfect memory cards.
• Fine Motor Skills:
Using shallow cups, write a number (0-15) on each cup. Have your child fill each cup with the correct number of chocolate chips, buttons, coins, candy, etc. Encourage the child to pick up each item with their thumb and index finger. Set the timer and try to put the small items into a cup in a short amount of time.
• Gross Motor Skills:
Practice batting a ball using a beach ball or other large ball. The larger the ball and bat, the greater the chance of success.
• “Is Jesus Gone?” Puppet Lesson
From Group’s Hands-On Bible Curriculum, Spring, Preschool 1997, page 118
Puppet: (Puppet crying)
Adult: ______? (Puppet’s name) What’s the matter?
Puppet: I just heard the news. Isn’t it sad?
Adult: What news? It must be really sad – you look like you’ve been crying all morning. Let me help you blow your nose so you can talk. (Get out a tissue and pretend to blow the puppet’s nose) Now that’s better.
Puppet: (Sniffing) Better? It’s not better! It’s terrible! I’m just so sad… (puppet starts to cry again.)
Adult: _______, try to stop crying so you can tell us what’s wrong. Maybe I can cheer you up.
Puppet: Well, I heard you telling the story about Jesus going back to Heaven. And I started thinking that …. (sniffs) there won’t be any more stories about Jesus.
Adult: Why not?
Puppet: Because Jesus is gone now. We can’t hear anymore stories about all of the great things He did. I really liked the story about Jesus calming the storm… and healing the little girl… and rising from the dead. But now I won’t ever hear them again.
Adult: ______, we can still hear those stories!
Puppet: (Stops sniffing) We can? How?
Adult: Maybe ______ (Child’s name) can help answer that question. (To the child) How can we hear the stories about Jesus? (Child might respond that we can read them in the Bible, talk about them in church, or hear them from our parents.) See, ________ (puppet’s name) we still have the Bible, and we have lots of grown-ups who can tell us the stories.
Puppet: (Cheering up a little) Oh, I guess I forgot about that.
Adult: Plus, we can help tell stories about Jesus too. In the story we have talked about this week, Jesus gave us a special job. Let’s ask _____ (Child’s name) what our special job is. (To child) _______ what is the special job that Jesus gave to us before He went to Heaven? (To be followers, to tell people about Jesus, to help people believe in Jesus.)
Puppet: Oh yeah! I remember that part of the story! I better get busy on that job! I want to tell lots of people about Jesus. Let’s see… I can tell my brother, and Cousin Joey, and my Mommy and Daddy, and … I better go start telling them. Good bye, friends. Thanks for cheering me up!
