UCCPA 1-2s

CREATION, PART 3--God Creates Man, Woman, & Land Animals

  We will conclude our emphasis on creation this week with "God Creates a Friend for Adam" as our Bible story.  For our craft time, I have prepared personalized Creation mini books for each child to color and take home.  These books tell what God created on each day.  During our opening time, we will continue our Play-doh time with rolling pins, craft sticks, and plastic animals.  This week, I will bring a gingerbread boy mold to press into the Play-doh as we tell the story of God creating man from the dust of the ground and breathing into him His breath of life.  One of our "end of day" activities will be the "Creation Matching Game" which is a shoebox with 12 pictures of things God created.  A smaller version of the pictures is attached to 12 clothespins.  We will hand out a clothespin to each child, and he/she will match their picture to the picture on the shoebox as we talk about all the things God created.  Snack this week will be animal cookies.  On Thursday, we have a birthday boy, Keegin, and will have special treats.
  Our songs this week include "Praise Him, Praise Him All You Little Children," "I've Got the Joy," and "Old McDonald Had a Farm" (with felt board animals).  We will have our creation fingerplay of "God Made Everything."  Also, we will try a new song called "The Bullfrog Song" with pictures of each animal to add to our feltboard as they are introduced in the song (words below):

THE BULLFROG SONG

The bullfrog sang the strangest song, he sang it night and day:
Kerrunk, kerrunk, kerrunk, kerrunk was all it seemed to say.

A duck who liked to sing thought he would give the song a try:
Kerrunk, quack, quack, kerrunk, quack, quack they sang as I walked by.

The spotted cow had never heard a more delightful song.
Right then and there the spotted cow began to sing along.
The frog, the duck, the spotted cow sang out so loud and clear:
Kerrunk, quack, quack, kerrunk, moo, moo was all that I could hear.

The speckled hen, a mother hen, whose work was never done,
began to sing for she knew when you sing your work is fun.
The frog, the duck, the cow, the hen, all sang the happy song:
Kerrunk, quack, quack, moo, moo, cluck, cluck, they sang the whole day long.

  Storytime this week includes "Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Waking Up?" written by Bill Martin, Jr. and Michael Sampson is a fun, rhyming story about a kitty who should be getting ready for school, but instead she is practicing her purr, looking for her socks, chasing a little mouse, and more.  We also have a counting book called "1, 2 Buckle My Shoe" by Anna Grossnickle Hines to reinforce number recognition and counting.  "Wee Little Lamb" written by Lauren Thompson is our third story about a shy little lamb who meets a new friend.
  Another end of day activity is our "Brown Bear" books that have been completed and made into personalized books for each child.  Last week, we handed them out during our group activity, and they were so excited to see all the animals they had painted.  The most excitement came when they reached the end of the book and found their family picture.  Big smiles and exclamations of Mommy, Daddy, Brother, and Sister were so enjoyable for us.
  Have a wonderful week, and remember NO SCHOOL next week as it is Spring Break.

Mrs. Shelly