Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! May God richly bless your gatherings of friends and family!

This week we are listening for and looking at the sound of Ww for wishbone. Each child will receive a little wishbone to take home on Wednesday. They are pretty little, so keep an eye out for little siblings.

Our table activities are playdough and bead and seed play, create a turkey with paper parts, Thanksgiving themed dot painting and Thanksgiving pattern block pictures.

Our small group activities are making the Mayflower and trying it out to see if it is sea-worthy and adding Ww is for wishbone to our journals.

Our books for the week are "Thanksgiving Day Thanks" by Laura Malone Elliot, " 'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving" by Dav Pilkey and "One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims" by B. G. Hennessy.


The KDIs we are looking at this week are-

History: Children understand past, present, and future.- We are talking about pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe, family traditions, things that link us from past to present and to future.

Vocabulary: Children understand and use a variety of words and phrases- Lots of holiday words and new Bible story words that we don't really use any more like 'manger' or 'tabernacle'


Jesus Time- This week we are hearing about Samuel who is Israel's last judge. The Israelites had conquered the promised land and had established themselves as it's residents. God was their ruler and he made his will known through judges that he chose. The priests were from the tribe of Levi and they ran the worship in the tabernacle, kind of a tent church, that many Israelites went to for the special celebrations. One Israelite family that attended worship there was a man named Elkanah and his two wives, one of which was named Hannah. Hannah had not been able to have any children and Elkanah's other wife teased her about it. The priest Eli found Hannah sobbing in the tabernacle and asked her what was wrong. When she told him, he assured her that she would have a child by the next time they would visit the tabernacle. That son was Samuel. When Hannah again came to the tabernacle with Samuel when he was 5 years old, she presented him to Eli and told him that she was giving the boy back to God for service in the tabernacle. Samuel lived with Eli and his family and his mother made him a new coat and brought it when she visited each year. One night as Samuel was sleeping, God called to him and told him that the Israelites would soon fight a battle in which Eli's sons would die. Samuel would then be responsible for Israel's worship at the tabernacle and telling the Israelites God's word. Eli's sons were not honoring God in the way they lived their lives and Eli had not disciplined them, teaching them right and wrong. Because we love God and love our children, we want them to know what God says and hold them accountable for their actions before it leads to consequences that are life changing! 

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!- NO SCHOOL on Friday, November 24 for Thanksgiving.

Mrs. Schneck