Happy Thanksgiving! Have a wonderful time with family and friends!
Our table activities this week include activities with candy corn, turkey create, pattern blocks Thanksgiving theme and dot painting.
Small group activities are making a Mayflower to set sail- on Monday we experimented with sail shape and placement to see if we could get a "Mayflower" to sail. We are also making a pine cone turkey.
Our KDI for the week is History- Children understand past, present and future.- This is a concept that continues to develop. We talked and read about the Pilgrims' first voyage almost 400 years ago and used literature to see the differences. How Thanksgiving that we celebrate is different from the Thanksgiving celebrated in the past.
Jesus Time- This is our last Old Testament story. This week we hear the story of Daniel and the lions' den. The Israelites had been taken captive by the Babylonian nation. King Nebuchadnezzer took the most promising young men and trained them to be his advisers. When the Persians conquered the Babylonians, King Darius kept Daniel on as his adviser. Daniel was in his old age by then. He continued to worship the true God and with God's help, gave good advice to King Darius. Daniel was the king's favorite. The king's other advisers were jealous. They plotted to get rid of Daniel. They encouraged the king to sign into law a decree that commanded everyone to worship only the king for the next month. They knew this would get Daniel into trouble because he wouldn't stop worshiping the one, true God. They did get Daniel into trouble and the punishment was for Daniel to be thrown into a pit with hungry lions. King Darius couldn't change the law, and he was regretting the choice he had made. He wished Daniel well and told him to pray for protection from his God. Daniel was calm and trusting. He knew that if he died, God would take him to heaven and if he lived, God had saved him. King Darius returned to his palace, but he paced the floor all night and would not eat or drink. In the morning, he hurried to the pit to see if Daniel's God had kept him safe. When he called in, Daniel answered that angels had come and shut the mouths of the lions. God had protected him and kept him safe! The King Darius had the jealous advisers thrown into the pit. God keeps us safe here on earth and at last home in heaven! Something to be thankful for!
Books of the week- "Oh, What a Thanksgiving!" by Steven Kroll, "Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving" by Dav Pilkey, "Clifford's Thanksgiving" by Norman Bridwell and "My First Thanksgiving" by Tomie dePaola.
May God bless you with a happy Thanksgiving! We have so much to be thankful for!!
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