Week 1 - 4th Week of August
Items Needed: Bible
Sandpaper Number: 0
Colors: Black, White, Blue
Books: God Gave Us You, You are So Wonderful, Who Made the World?, Five Little Ducks
Worksheets: Objective Checklist, Building with Colors Template
CD: 100 Hymns & Praise Song for Kids
CD-Rom: Charlie Church Mouse Preschool
Video: Boz Colors and Shapes
Activities: Flashlight, blank sheets of paper & crayons, ingredients for homemade ice cream (see below), Creation Workbook, sidewalk chalk, water in a bucket, sponge, Book of the Week Activities (see below), ingredients to make cookies with black and white chocolate chips, Apple Tree Book, Creation Activities (see below), creation wheel (see below), construction paper, glue
Number 0 Poster
Bible Story: Creation Days 1-2
Scripture: Genesis 1
The New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes
The Beginner's Bible
My Story Bible: pg 8-9
Through the Bible in Felt: pg 1-2
Verse: Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Tune: “Are You Sleeping”
In the beginning, (2x)
God created (2x)
The heavens and earth (2x)
Genesis 1:1 (2x)
Bible Song: This is the Day (Traditional) - 100 Hymns & Praise Song for Kids Disc 3, #18
This is the day (echo)
That the Lord has made (echo)
I will rejoice (echo)
And be glad in it (echo)
This is the day that the Lord has made
I will rejoice and be glad in it
This is the day (echo)
That the Lord has made
Poem: Seven Days (Author unknown)
Tune: “Are You Sleeping?” or “Where is Thumbkin?”
Seven days, seven days
In a week, in a week
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Saturday, That’s a week
Colors: Black, White, Blue
Number: 0
Around, around, around you go. That’s the way to make zero!
Comprehension Questions:
Which day of creation did God create the day and night?
Which day of creation did God create sky and water?
What is your favorite activity to do during the day?
What is your favorite activity to do during the night?
What is your favorite activity to do in the water?
God created everything. God gave us day and night. Why do we need night time?
God created the sky and water. Why is water important to us?
Book for the Week: 
Ideas:
• Book of the Week Ideas:
Finger Play Actions:
Number - show the number of ducks on your fingers
Over the hills - move hand in front of you like you are going up and down over hills
Far away - move opposite hand in front of you in same motion
Quack - move hand like a duck's beak saying "quack"
After reading the book several times, sing the song doing the actions by memory.
As the book progresses, sing each verse in a "more sad" voice.
Talk about the feeling of "sadness." Show a "sad" face. Talk about things that make us sad just like the Mommy Duck in the story.
Practice counting backwards from 5 to 1 using your fingers to create a great fine motor skill activity.
Visit a local pond and feed the ducks. (Thank you, Raquel, for this idea.)
Flannelboard Printables - Print off the printables, back with flannel to create a fun way to tell the story. Directions
Duck Coloring Sheet 
Duck Craft - Color and black and white template to print off
Five Little Ducks YouTube Video
• Numbers:
- Create a number book using the Number posters. Each week color and add the appropriate number of stickers to the number poster. At the end of the curriculum, a book will be created for numbers 0-15.
- Create an Apple Tree Book throughout the year.
- Be sure to say the Number Rhyme as the child traces the sandpaper numbers. This helps the child learn the correct formation.
• Calendar Activity - Here is an activity that would be a great start to each day to reinforce numbers, days of the week, and months of the year.
• Creation Fingerplay
On Day 1 (On numbers - put corresponding fingers in the air)
God created light (close fists and then quickly open in the air and bring down to side creating arches)
On Day 2
God created the sky (wave arms in the air) and water (make waves with hands)
On Day 3
God created land (with palms facing the floor, run hands flat in front of you) and plants (place one fist inside the other and pop the one fist through the other - sign language for plant)
On Day 4
God created the sun (hold arm up in the air with fingers spread wide), moon (with opposite arm make a "c" formation with your hand in the air), and stars (with index fingers putting up alternate right and left hand moving up in the air - sign language for stars)
On Day 5
God created the fish (swim hands with palms together) and birds (join thumbs and fly hands in the air)
On Day 6
God created animals (choose your favorite animal) and people (point with thumbs at self)
On Day 7
God rested (place hands together by face as sleeping)
• Creation Wheel (Adapted from Big Book of Christian Crafts)
- Print the black and white creation wheel template on cardstock and then cut out the circle. Add a title to the empty segment. Color the pictures.
- Using construction paper, trace and cut out a second circle the same size. Cut out a “pie” segment from the second circle that is slightly smaller than one segment on the first circle. Make sure not to cut all the way into the center. Insert a brad (paper fastener) into the center of both circles with the second circle on top.
- Review the creation story by turning the top wheel to expose the pictures below.
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- Cut two circles and create your own wheel by drawing or using stickers for the 7 days of creation.
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• Creation Song (Thank you, Connie, for this idea.)
Do you Know Who Made the World?
Tune: "Mary Had a Little Lamb" or "Do You Know the Muffin Man"
Do you know who made the world,
made the world, made the world?
Do you know who made the world?
It was God who made the world.
Replace the word 'world' with other things that God created depending on the day of creation (cows, dogs, trees, etc.) Have the child suggest their own.
• Building with Colors
• Colors:
- Make cookies with black and white chocolate chips or eat Oreos
- While walking around the house, shine a flashlight on things that are “blue”
- Focus on the colors of creation in the Bible story - black (darkness), blue (water), white (clouds in the sky)
• Objective Checklist
Use the checklist to determine what your child knows
• Read and View:
Who Made the World? - Part of the Little Blessings series, this book answers the questions that children have about the creation.
• Creation Activities and Ideas:
- Creation Printables at Christian Preschool Printables - coloring sheets, games, craft projects, felt set, etc.
- Storytime and More ideas - including Creation Workbook
- DLTK Creation Activities
- Coffee Filter Earth
- Play the "Creation" adventure and use the coloring sheet on the Charlie Church Mouse Preschool Cd-Rom. Read more...
- Have the child give a thumbs up every time God says, "It is good!"
• Family Fun - Create a new family tradition of make homemade ice cream. Correlate with the "Building with Colors" activity.
- Ice Cream in a Bag - Video Directions, Directions
- Ice Cream in a Coffee Can - Directions
• Fine Motor Skill:
Write "My Family" on the bottom of a blank piece of paper. Demonstrate how to draw your family. Use simple shapes and explain what you are doing as you draw. Let your child tell you what to draw. Your child will be drawing their family periodically throughout the curriculum. This demonstration helps prepare them for this activity. Later in the week, give your child a chance to draw his/her family.
• Gross Motor Skill:
Play "Put the Fire Out" - an fun outside activity that involves sidewalk chalk, water, and a sponge
Be sure to look over the Development Guide Between Ages 3 & 4 so that you are familiar with developmental milestones for your child's age.
