Little Hands Toward Heaven - Unit 14

This week we finished unit 14. We continued learning about David this week, and learned the Letter L. The first day we read about how David became king. We also talked about how people obeyed David because he was the king, and practiced following directions.

The next day we read about the Ark of the Covenant returning to Israel. We also made our L out of tape. Samuel wanted to make his dinosaur walk on the L.

I have added a couple of workbooks to our day to help Samuel with writing skills and fine motor skills. He loves doing them and will usually do 4-6 pages a day if I don't stop him sooner. He has learned to hold his pencil correctly and is getting really good at following directions.

The next day we read that David sinned and God punished him. We talked about different behaviors and whether they were good or bad. Samuel also worked on his L worksheet. He did a great job finding the L's on the page. For our art time, he drew a picture of David with a sad face and wrote the word NO to show that David had done something wrong and was sorry. You may not be able to tell in the picture, but Samuel drew tears coming out of David's eyes. He also drew a yellow crown around his head, but I don't think it showed up in the picture.

The following day we read how God forgave David even though he had sinned. We also talked about how even though God forgave David, there were still consequences for his sin. We also read a devotional about lying. Samuel made an L craft.

The last day we read about David's son Absalom. Absalom's hair was caught in a tree branch as he rode his mule. We did a craft project where we cut different lengths of yarn and laid them out on the table. Samuel chose the longest piece and glued it on the tree branch, and then continued to choose the longest piece that was left until we got to the shortest piece. He was supposed to glue them on the tree branch in order, but he had his own ideas about where they should go.