Week 2 - Overlap Week of August /September
Items Needed: BibleSandpaper Number: 1
Colors: Brown, Green, Yellow
Books: My One Book, God Gave Us You, You are So Wonderful, Who Made the World?, Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
CD: 100 Hymns & Praise Song for Kids
CD-Rom: Charlie Church Mouse Preschool
Activities: Sidewalk Chalk, ball for kicking, foods that are brown, green, and yellow, washable ink pad, magnifying glass,
Number 1 Poster
Bible Story: Creation Days 4-7
Scripture: Genesis 1-2
The New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes
The Beginner's Bible
My Story Bible: pg 8-9
Through the Bible 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: Brown, Green, Yellow
Number: 1
Straight down and then you’re done. That’s the way to make a one!
Comprehension Questions:
Which day of creation did God create fish and the birds?
Which day of creation did God create animals and people?
What did God do on the 7th day? Do you get tired and need to rest?
Who made the birds and the fish?
What is your favorite color of bird?
What is your favorite color of fish?
What is your favorite animal?
Review what God made each day of the week. (Day 1 - Light, Day 2 - Sky & Water, Day 3 - Land and Plants, Day 4 - Sun, Moon, & Stars, Day 5 - Fish & Birds, Day 6 - Animals & Man, Day 7 - God Rested)
Book of the Week: 
Ideas:
• Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Book of the Week Ideas:
- How to Teach Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? - suggested activities during and after reading the story
- Take a Sound Hike - although this activity is geared toward older children, there are many suggestions that can be done with 3-year-olds
• Creation Preschool Bible Story Activities & Color Sheets:
- Coloring Sheets: Gen 1:1, Days 1-5, Day 6, Daily Pages
- Activities: Creation, Flashcards, DLTK Ideas, Creation Book, Creation Blocks,
- Crafts: Minibook, Coffee Filter Earth
- Play the "Creation" adventure and use the coloring sheet on the Charlie Church Mouse Preschool Cd-Rom. Read more...
- As you read the story, have the child give a thumbs up every time God says, "It is good!"
- Snack ideas for each day of creation
- God Made Me Worksheet - a wonderful worksheet to talk about how God Made Me with different body parts that are made to worship Him.
- Using a washable ink pad, create fingerprints of several people in your family. Using a magnifying glass, compare the different fingerprints. Discuss how God made each person unique and wonderfully made.
- Read: 
Who Made the World? - Part of the Little Blessings series, this book answers some questions that children have about creation.
- Read: 
- Read: 
• 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 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.
• 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.
• Always have the child point with their finger and count at the same time
• Colors
- Foods to learn from:
Green: Green beans, green grapes
Yellow: Bananas, American cheese
Brown: Brownie, chocolate pudding, graham crackers
- Focus on the colors of creation in the Bible story - brown (tree), green (grass, leaves), yellow (sun)
• Read 
• Fine Motor Skill:
Draw What I Draw - With sidewalk chalk, have your child copy what you draw and then reverse. Remember to start with simple lines and then progress to simple shapes. Use colored chalk that corresponds with the colors in this lesson - brown, green, and yellow.
• Gross Motor Skill:
Kicking - practice kicking a ball. Start with a large ball and progress to a small one. Set up a goal and take turns being goalie.
