PreK - Week 17

This was our first week back to school after Christmas break. It was also our first week of Little Hearts for His Glory. Samuel really liked it. After our first day, he said, "Mom, this is like the first school we did. I loved that school!" After asking him a few questions to figure out what he meant, I found out he was talking about when we did Little Hands To Heaven. His excitement made me glad that we had decided to switch back. So, what did we do this week....

Little Hearts is a broad overview of world history from Creation to the present day, so we started this week by learning what history is. We talked about how history began when God created the world, and will end when He returns to take us home. We also talked about how Jesus was the most important person in history and how all history before Him looked towards His death and resurrection, and how all of us now look back to it.

We also have been doing a rhyme and motions called God's Creation that teaches the names of the 7 continents. Samuel loves this and asks to do it several times a day. He even made Daddy do it with us one day when he was home.

Each week, there is a memory verse and devotions that go along with it. This week's verse was Matthew 19:14. I had planned to go over the verses with Samuel, but not really make him work too hard at memorizing it since he has AWANA verses too, but he suprised me on the second day by having the verse completely memorized. The devotions come from the book Devotions for the Children's Hour and Samuel seems to really enjoy them. This week we talked about who God is and where He came from (he has always been).

We also started reading The Adventures of Reddy Fox. Samuel looks forward to finding out what kind of mischief Reddy will get into each day. I've been suprised at how well he listens because the book has very few pictures, but he's done very well.

Here's some pictures of some other things we did...

Samuel waddling like a penguin on Antarctica (it was part of the rhyme we did)
For math, he wrote the numbers 1-5 and then had to glue the appropriate number of Cheerio's next to each one.

Working on his readiness skills workbook

One of the activities to help learn his Bible verse. We played "basketball" with a pair of rolled up socks. Each time we made a basket, we had to recite the verse. He did great!

Another math activity...we filled a ziploc bag with liquid soap. I would set out a certain number of legos and he had to "write" the correct number

Working on an art project to illustrate that Jesus is at the center of history. We tore up black paper and then created a collage for the background. Then we put the cross in the middle.

One of Samuel's language arts worksheets. We've been working on the letter I this week and he had to draw a picture of something that started with I. He drew an igloo. That's the abominable snowman standing in the doorway.