UCCPA 1-2s

This week, we will begin part one of three on the creation. This week, our Bible story is God created Light and Day and Night. For our art time, we will sponge paint a sheet which is half black for night and half white for day with stars. We will also glue a paper moon and stamp a bright, shining sun with yellow paint. During our opening time, we have yellow, shining suns on sticks which we will string paint with orange using strands of yarn. Also, during our opening time, we have shapes of the moon as a crescent, half, gibbeous, and full. We will place these shapes in a box lid, coat marbles with yellow paint, and let the kids hold the lid to watch the marbles paint our moon shapes. We will then put glitter on the moon shapes, and we have a display to hang it on our wall for a couple weeks. When you have opportunity, please point out the moon at night to your child as this will reinforce what we are working on.

For circle time, we will sing "This Little Light of Mine," "Give Me Oil in My Lamp," "Itsy Bitsy Spider" (with emphasis on "our came the sun and dried up all the rain") and "Twinkle Star." We have a creation rhyme called "God Made Everything" (words below) which we will also learn. We have another nursery rhyme for this week with stick puppets as we say "Hey Diddle, Diddle the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon . . ."

For storytime this week, we have an Eric Carle story "Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me." A second story is "Goodnight Sun, Hello Moon" about a bunny family as their day goes by. As the pages are turned, the sun gets smaller and then a moon appears at the end. "Someone to Love, Story of Creation" is our last story.

GOD MADE EVERYTHING

God made the sun (hold arms in circle over head)

Up in the sky. (point up)

God made the fush (put palms together and wiggle hands back and forth)

and the birds that fly. (Place hands under arms and flap up and down)

God made the lion. ("Roar")

God made the lamb. ("Baa")

God made our world. (Hold arms out and turn in a circle)

See how happy I am? (Clap and smile)

Have a wonderful week,

Mrs. Shelly