Week 3 - 2nd Week of September
Items Needed: BibleSandpaper Number: 2
Sandpaper Letters: Aa
Colors: Orange, Red, Purple
Books: My Two Book
, My "A" Book
, God Gave Us You, You are So Wonderful, Who Made the World?, Is Your Mama a Llama?, Red Red Red, Big Thoughts for Little People: ABC's to Help You GrowCD: 100 Hymns & Praise Song for Kids
CD-Rom: Charlie Church Mouse Preschool
Video: Boz: B-O-Z's and 1-2-3's
Activities: Washable ink pad, magnifying glass, Peg Puzzles, foods that are orange, red, and purple, Book of the Week Activities, popsicle sticks, 3"x5" notecards, alphabet flashcards, clothing in pairs, Creation Activities (see below)
Worksheet: God Made Me Worksheet
Number 2 Poster, Letter A Activity
Bible Story: Creation Days 5, 6, 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 1-4
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: Orange, Red, Purple
Number: 2
Around and back on the railroad track. Two! Two! Two!
Letters: Aa
A - pull down, pull down, across
a - curve and down
Tune: Farmer in the Dell
A says /a/
A says /a/
Adam and the animals
A says /a/
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:
• Book of the Week Ideas:
There are many /a/ sounds in this book. Emphasize them in words like "mama" and "llama".
Talk about why each animal can't be the llama's mama.
Talk about the different sounds the animals make.
• Colors
- Notice the colors of a stop light
- Focus on the colors of creation in the Bible story
• Practice Twos - Count body parts (ears, eyes, feet, legs, hands, etc.) as the child gets dressed or during bath time
- Pair socks, shoes, gloves
• 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.
• Letter of the Week
- This is the first week that letters are introduced. Use the sandpaper letters to teach the child the proper formation of each letter. Use a consistent "saying" each time you trace the letter.
- For learning the alphabet, create lowercase and uppercase cards or use alphabet flash cards to allow the child to match the uppercase and lowercase letters together, say their name, and say the phonic sound.
- Popsicle Stick A’s: get 3 popsicle sticks and show the child how to make a big A. Either glue them together when you are done with the lesson or just attach some velcro so the child can create it over and over. Remind the child that "A" is shaped like a triangle. Show with popsicle sticks that a big A is shaped like a triangle. Create an "A" and say "A" and then move the stick down and say "triangle." Thank you Shannon for this idea!
- Big A, Little a
Write the letters "a, b, c, A, B, C" on 3"x5" cards. Lay out all six cards and have your child point to the uppercase A and lowercase a. Shuffle the cards and play again. This activity can be done with any amount of 3x5 cards labeled with letters or number or using flashcards.
- Letter of the Week Activities
Each letter is linked (under the "Items Needed" heading) to a list of ideas to reinforce the learning of that letter. Also available to print are Letter Posters. Create a letter book or individual letter crafts.
- Phonics - Remember to focus on the phonetic sound of each letter as your child is tracing the characters. Read more...
• Daily Computer Activity from Starfall.com
- 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.
- Letter Activity - Wonderful and fun way to reinforce letters and their phonetic sound.
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Big Thoughts for Little People: ABC's to Help You Grow - This a book that I HIGHLY suggest that you use throughout the curriculum to learn about Jesus as well as work on the ABC's and phonetic sounds. This is one of the few books that I have given a 5 rating.
• 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.
• God Made Me Worksheet - a wonderful worksheet to talk about how God Made Me with different body parts that are made to worship Him.
• Foods to Learn from:
Orange: Carrot sticks, orange, orange jello
Red: Strawberry, red raspberry, red apple
Purple: Grapes, grape juice
• 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:
- Creation Printables at Christian Preschool Printables - coloring sheets, games, craft projects, felt set, etc.
- Storytime and More ideas - including Creation Workbook
- DLTK Creation Activities
- Play the "Creation" adventure and use the coloring sheet on the Charlie Church Mouse Preschool Cd-Rom. Read more...
• Fine Motor Skill:
Using the Peg Puzzles, encourage your child to pick up the puzzle pieces using their thumb and index finger.
• Gross Motor Skill:
Play "Red Light, Green Light" - The "it" person stands at one end of the playing field, with the rest of the players at the other end. "It" turns their back to the others and calls out "Green light!" The players then run as fast as they can towards "it". At any time, "it" can face the players, calling out "Red light", and the others must freeze in place. If anyone fails to stop, they are out or must return to the starting line. Other variations include calling out "Yellow light" as a diversion, or where they must walk instead of run to "it". Calling Yellow Light has no consequence. The first player to reach the person who is "it" wins and becomes "it" for the next round. (Source Wikipedia)
