Week 8 - 3rd Week of October
Items Needed: Bible
Sandpaper Numbers: 4
Sandpaper Letters: Ee
Name: Two set of the letters in your child's name to match
Shape: Ovals, Hearts
Activity: Children's Safety Scissors, 6 wide base containers, red/yellow/blue paint, paint brushes and paper, heart-shaped cookie cutter
Book: My "e" Book, My Four Book
CD: 100 Hymns & Praise Song for Kids
Snack Food: Oval Ritz, Cookie dough, lunchmeat, or bread
Letter E Activity, Number 4 Poster
Bible Story: Noah’s Ark – Flood
Scripture: Genesis 8-9
The New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes
The Beginner's Bible
My Story Bible: pg 10-11
Verse: John 14:15 - If you love me, you will obey what I command.
Song: Tune: “Hot Cross Buns”
If you love me,
If you love me,
You will obey
what I command
John 14:15
John 14:15
You will obey
what I command
Bible Song: Trust and Obey (Traditional) - 100 Hymns & Praise Song for Kids Disc 3 #19
Trust and obey. (march in place and then salute)
For there's no other way (cross arms in front of body)
to be happy in Jesus. (move fingers to make happy smile at mouth)
But to trust and obey. (march in place and then salute)
Poem: It’s Raining (Traditional)
It’s raining, it’s pouring
The old man is snoring
He went to bed with a bump on this head
And he couldn’t get up in the morning.
Shape: Oval, heart
Number: 4
Down and over and down some more. That’s the way to make a four!
Letter: e – Draw a line across and then make a “c” around it
Tune: Farmer in the Dell
E says /e/
E says /e/
Encourage everyone to believe
E says /e/
Name: Match letters in your child's name - Write your child’s name on a piece of paper – have them find matching letters to place beneath each letter
Comprehension Questions: What kind of animals were on the ark?
How would you have gotten all of the animals on the ark?
What is your favorite animal that God put on the ark?
Do storms scare you? Do you think Noah, his family, and the animals were scared during the rain?
What did God promise Noah? What is a promise?
Book of the Week:
Ideas:
• Book of the Week Ideas:
Show your child how to sew on a button.
Talk about the emotions that Corduroy feels through out the book. Discuss times that your child felt that same way.
Play "Find the Button" - Hide a large button and have your child look for it.
Corduroy Story Extension - Although this activity is geared toward older children, there are many suggestions that can be done with 3-year-olds
Coloring Page
Color Bear Matching Game
• Notice numbers on an electric clock
– Let child know that they can get up from quiet time at ____, eat lunch at ___, etc.
– Ask you child to tell you the numbers on the clock
• Ovals – Eggs and plastic Easter Eggs, Oval Ritz crackers
• Hearts – Use heart cookie cutter to cut out sandwiches, lunch meat, cookies, etc.
• Create Your Own Rainbow
Items Needed - 6 wide base containers, red/yellow/blue paint, paint brushes and paper
Using the three colors along with mixtures of them, the six colors of the rainbow will be produced (combining indigo and violet)
Mix red and yellow = orange
blue and yellow = green
red and blue = purple
Paint arches of the different colors.
• Noah's Ark Ideas:
Bible Story Sundays - crafts
Monkey See Monkey Do - Noah's Ark Lapbook
• Read 
The Berenstain Bears Go to Sunday School (www.christianbook.com) or Amazon
• Fine Motor Skills:
Using safety scissors, have your child cut along a thick line drawn on heavy paper (cardstock) - When cutting, remind the child that their dominant hand does the cutting while the other hand moves the paper. Watch that the elbows do not point out while cutting. Check out Teaching How to Use Scissors for ideas.
• Gross Motor Skill:
Do a Memory Obstacle Course - Use shapes
