UCCPA 1-2s

THE GOOD SHEPHERD

  This week, our lesson theme is "The Good Shepherd" and how he leaves the flock to search for the lost sheep.  We plan to decorate a sheep stick puppet with cotton balls and "Psalm 100:3--I am God's little Lamb" written on the stick.  We have five paper plates decorated with sheep who are happy, excited, blue, angry, and sad.  During circle time, we plan to turn the plates face down and allow the children to pick a sheep and say "Jesus loves child's name when he/she is feeling ________."  Afterward, we will sing "If you're happy and you know it," "Praise Him," and "ABC Song."  We will also sing "For the Beauty of the Earth" with a "Jesus Songs" picture book that plays the melody and has a large picture of Jesus carrying a lamb on His shoulders.  Snack time will include vanilla wafers.
  During opening time, we are starting to prepare for Valentine's Day and will paint a heart using heart sponges on half of the heart.  Then, a teacher will fold the painted area together and then unfold the heart to show symmetry, which is fun for the kids to see.  These hearts will be the insert of our special Valentine cards we are making.
  Before lunch time, we have a group activity, and this week we will hand out eight different colored felt hearts to the children.  We will say a rhyme as follows:
  "Use your eyes, use your eyes.
    You can look and see.
    If you have a big color heart.
    Please give it to me."
The children will look at their color heart to see if we called their color or not.
  Storytime this week includes "Over in the Meadow" by Olive A. Wadsworth, a fun counting rhyme with lots of animals.  Our second book is "I Love You as Big as the World" about Big Bear and Little Bear's special love for each other that stretches high up the mountains, far away to the stars, and down deep to the bottom of the sea--big enough to fill the whole world.

Have a blessed week,
Mrs. Shelly