Week 5 - 5th Week of September
Items Needed: Bible
Sandpaper Numbers:
Sandpaper Letters: Xx, Letters in last name
Book: The Berenstain Bears and the Truth
CD: Hide Em In Your Heart, Vol 1
Worksheets: Xx, Visual Perception Worksheets, cutting worksheets, Angled Line Characters #1
Activities: Scarf or handkerchief, toy to hide, Children's Safety Scissors, large soft ball or beach ball, glue, cardboard wreath, toys to move spatially
Letter X Activity
Character Trait: Honest
Definition: Telling the whole truth
Opposite: Lying, deceitful
Big Thoughts for Little People: Letter L
Bible Story: Ananias and Sapphira (Opposites)
Scripture: Acts 4:32 – 5:11
The New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes
The Beginner's Bible
My Story Bible:
Verse: Psalm 34:13 - Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies.
Bible Song: “Keep Your Tongue from Evil” – Steve Green – Hide Them in Your Heart Vol. 1
Information: Last Name – Tracing Sandpaper Letters
Math: Spatial - High, Low Up, Down Above/below Near, Far
Letter: Xx
Criss-cross
Ideas:
• Letter & Number Ideas:
Weeks 5-9 focus on "angled-line letters".
Start by creating the letters with short and long popsicle stickers or legos and writing on yellow lines with green and red dots.
Use the Angled Line Characters #1 worksheet to show the progression of the letters and numbers
• My Young Child Character Education Story - read online for free or print. Be sure to do the discussion and activities for each book.
Cory Learns About Honesty
Cory Learns to Tell the Truth
• Spatial
- Raise scares or handkerchief
- Hide a toy and try to find it with clues of “higher, lower, near, etc.”
- Check out this Spatial Concept website for suggestions and pictures
• Read 
• Take a Nature Walk - Walk around the neighbor collecting different items from nature. Back at home, create a cardboard wreath (frozen pizza board works best) and glue items on. Allow to dry. Thank you Shannon for this idea.
• Teaching True vs. Not True - Great family activities from Value Parenting (Reprinted with Permission)
Ask, "Do you know the difference between something that's true and something that's not true? Let's see if you do. I'll say something and you say, 'True' or 'Not true.'" Start with simple physical facts and move toward things relating to behavior, for example:
- The sky is green. (Kids say, "Not true.")
- (Point at foot) This is my foot. (Kids say, "True.")
- Ants are bigger than elephants.
- We see with our eyes.
- We hear with our nose.
- Milk comes from chickens.
- Take a cookie out of a jar and eat it. Then say, "I didn't eat the cookie."
- Drop a toy on the couch. Then say, "Yes, I left my toy on the couch."
Then say, "You really can tell the difference between true and not true, can't you? Do you know what it's called when someone says something that's not true? It's called a lie."
Now: "I'll say some more things and you say, 'Truth' if it's true and 'Lie' if it's not true."
- Pick up a dollar on the floor. Then say, "I didn't find a dollar."
- Give a bit of food to someone else. Then say, "No, I didn't eat all my food. I gave some of it to."
(Use more illustrations appropriate to your child or children.)
Then ask, "Why is telling the truth better than telling a lie?" (So that everyone knows what really happened; so the wrong person won't get blamed; so we can learn to do better, etc.)
• Fine Motor Skill:
Draw various lines or print the cutting worksheets onto heavy paper (cardstock). Using safety scissors, have your child cut along with lines. Draw thicker lines if needed. Check out Teaching How to Use Scissors for ideas.
• Gross Motor Skill:
Have your child stand opposite you with about seven feet separating you. Before throwing a large soft ball or beach ball toward you child, say "up", "down", "low", "high", or "catch". Depending on what you say, throw the ball in relationship to the child's body and have them bat the ball away. If you say "catch", throw the ball toward the child and have them catch it. This requires another level of thinking. At first, have your child show you where the ball will be. As they improve, give them less time before the ball is thrown.
• Visual Perception Skill:
Worksheets
• Worksheets are listed as items needed for the 4 Year Old Curriculum. Check out the Learning to Write page to understand how to use these worksheets effectively.
