Ww is for winter woods.

This week our theme is winter woods and the letter Ww.

Table activities this week include making beaded icicles or bracelets, paper snowpeople, playing with snow inside, tinker items to make a snowflake, snow playdough, and cut snowflakes.

Small group activities include painting on snow, making a snowy tree suncatcher, adding a Ww is for winter woods page to our journals.

KDI for the week is Natural and Physical world: Children gather knowledge about the natural and physical world. We look at snow and snowflakes, how animals hibernate, why is it winter and answer other questions and think of more about this time of year.

Jesus Time- This week we hear the story of Jesus healing the paralyzed man. Jesus was preaching in a house in Capernaum and people filled the house to the door. Four men came carrying their friend who had somehow become paralyzed for Jesus to heal. There was no way for them to get in the house. In Jesus' day, the roofs on houses in Israel were flat, used for drying grain and storage, so the friends carefully carried the man to the roof of the house, lifted up the roof tiles and lowered him down, right in front of Jesus. Jesus' first words to the man were, "Son, be happy, your sins are forgiven." Some who were listening to Jesus thought, "Who does this man think he is, to forgive sins?" It was then that Jesus told the man to get up, roll up his mat and walk home. And the man did! Just like that, his atrophied muscles became strong and well again and he was healed. He was forgiven. We need to be forgiven too. And that is why Jesus came to live and die and rise again on earth, so we could be forgiven!

Books of the week- "Over and Under the Snow" by Kate Messner,  "Stranger in the Woods" by Jean Stoick and Carl R. Sams II, and "Best in Snow" by April Sayre.

Tomorrow is our field trip conducted by Leslie Science and Nature Center, but held at Gallup Park! If you haven't signed up, you can still come! It is $6 per participating child. We'll meet at 10:00am at Gallup Park, 3000 Fuller Road, Ann Arbor, MI.

Have a great week!

Our snow creations!