JSB: Week 8 - God to the Rescue! and God Makes a Way

 I combined the stories of Moses and the plagues (pgs. 84-91) and the parting of the Red Sea (pgs.92-99) into one week. If you would like to break these two up I have it set up fairly easy to do that.

We had two verses this week. They were:

"Let my people go!" and "The people of Israel went on dry land, with walls of water on their left and right." Exodus 14:22

The songs we sang were: Trust and Obey and All the Way my Savior Leads Me. I am sure many know All the Way either from Rich Mullins or Chris Tomlin. Another song is great in telling the story of the Israel escaping out of Egypt is Passover Us by Andrew Peterson:

Well, we all remember Moses on the banks of the river
He said "Pharaoh, you've got to let my people go.
You don't want me to have to tell you this ten times over--
Denial ain't just a river, you know"

And we all remember Pharaoh, he just wouldn't do it
So the plagues they came upon Egypt one by one
His heart was hard and the other nine just couldn't move it
So the last was the worst: the death of the firstborn son

But the Lord, he gave to Moses a word for the people
He said their firstborn sons would live to see another day
"Put the blood of a lamb on the doorway and death will pass right over"
That night all of the children of Israel prayed,

CHORUS
"Lord, let your judgment Passover us
Lord, let your love hover near
Don't let your sweet mercy Passover us
Let this blood cover over us here"

So the years went by and the people they whined and they wandered
And only sacrifice atoned for the sins of the land
So you see the priest he placed upon the holy altar
The body of a spotless lamb
And he prayed,

CHORUS

For our math time we ordered the events of the plagues. It was a little hard to find some pictures that worked for preschoolers but I think they work in the end. Here are the Plague Cards we used for the activity pictured below.

A and E getting ready to put the plagues in order.

E putting the plague of flies in the fourth spot.

For our art project time we decided to make frogs. We cut out circles for the body. I cut out four green strips for each girl to make the limbs. I then cut out two red strips for a tongue. The girls did an accordion fold for the limbs and tongue. For the parting of the red sea we put two pieces of blue paper on each side of a brown and then the girls drew fish and sea animals into the water.

A coloring the eyes on her frog.

E folding the limbs for her frog.

A gluing on her frogs limbs.

E and A showing off their frogs.

JSB: Week 7 - The Warrior Leader

"The Warrior Leader" (pgs. 108-115) is about Joshua and the Battle of Jericho. We combined this a little bit with the lesson from week 6.

Our vocabulary for this story was fortress. A really enjoyed hearing about fortresses and their similarities to castles.

For our song we decided to go with a traditional children's song and sing "Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho." We have since been singing the song about wherever we go.

For our math time we made a "fortress" of our own by building our own version of Jericho.

A and E putting up the walls of the city.

E adding some more to the walls.

A and E putting houses inside the walls of the city.

The finished city. They even put in a little gate at the front!

We continued learning about castles in our social studies time. Castles and Forts by Simon Adams had some decent images about very early cities and fortifications that would have been seen around the time of Jericho.





For art time we worked on making a shield.

JSB: Week 6 - The Forgiving Prince

The Forgiving Prince (pgs. 76-83) tells the story of Joseph, being sold into slavery in Egypt and bringing his family to Egypt to join him.

The verse for the week was:

"God sent me before you to preserve us." Genesis 45:7

Our vocabulary for the week was: dream, magnificent and famine.

In history we read about Egypt. The Story of the Nile by Dr. Anne Millard was great for the pictures to look at and talk about different things we found. I didn't like that the book was not arranged chronologically (it was set up geographically by heading north on the Nile). Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley went more in depth than we were ready for but was great to look through and read little bits here and there. The illustrations were very well done. Our last book was also entitled Egypt by Julie Murrary.  This book was good for giving a little bit of history and some more modern information too. The text is a little, not much, bit more age appropriate for early elementary grades.

For our art project I drew a basic, I mean really basic man, on a piece of paper. The girls used the watercolor paints to color a "coat of many colors."

A beginning her painting.

E almost finished.

E and A showing their handiwork.

JSB: Week 5 - Son of Laughter

The story of Isaac, laughter, a son born to Abraham and Sarah (pgs. 56-61). The verse we used for this week was:

"Look to heaven and count the stars if you are able. So shall your descendants be." Genesis 15:5

Our vocab for the week was trust and sacrifice.

The song we sang was "Trust and Obey."The third verse goes along well too.

Verse 1:
When we walk with the Lord in the light of His Word,
What a glory He sheds on our way!
While we do His good will, He abides with us still,
And with all who will trust and obey. 

Refrain:
Trust and obey, for there’s no other way
To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

Verse 3:
Not a burden we bear, not a sorrow we share,
But our toil He doth richly repay;
Not a grief or a loss, not a frown or a cross,
But is blessed if we trust and obey.

For our math time we practiced counting as high as we could. A and E really don't like to count so we have trouble getting past 20. So I thought we could use our animal cards from Noah to help us practice counting. It got us up to 80 so it was a good start.

For science time we looked to the sky. We read two books about the sky. The Night Sky by Robin Nelson was a good beginning book but it only focused on the moon. The Milky Way by Steve Kortenkamp was the other book we used. This book had some information I thought was really good for A and E but then there was some details I didn't want to get into, so we skipped it!

For our art project we decided to make a lamb face mask. A and E practiced their cutting skills by cutting a pink triangle and two large pink ovals. We glued the pieces onto the back of a white paper plate. I drew a mouth on and cut out two holes for eyes.

A cutting one of the pieces for her face mask.

E putting her cotton balls around the outside of her plate.

Baa, Baa. Looks like we have two little lambs wandering around!

JSB: Week 4 - A New Beginning

A New Beginning (pgs.38-47) tells the story of Noah.

Our verse for this week was a little longer and more complicated than I anticipated but it is a good representation for the story of Noah. I think if I were to do this lesson over I might paraphrase it some. Anyways, here is the verse:

 "I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth." Genesis 9:13

The vocabulary we had this week was: ark, plan and rainbow.

A really enjoyed our song for the week Standing on the Promises. The second verse seemed to be very applicable with Moses in the storm and rain for 40 days. Check it out below!

Standing on the promises of Christ my King,
Through eternal ages let His praises ring,
Glory in the highest, I will shout and sing,
Standing on the promises of God.

Refrain

Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God my Savior;
Standing, standing,
I’m standing on the promises of God.

Standing on the promises that cannot fail,
When the howling storms of doubt and fear assail,
By the living Word of God I shall prevail,
Standing on the promises of God.

For math we worked on counting to 40. (We have trouble getting past 20 sometimes so this was helpful in getting us to count higher.) We tried to find all sorts of things that would help us to get up to 40. Some of our favorite things to count were:

For science we read about rain and rainbows. Some rainbow books we read were: Nature's Light Show: Rainbows by Kristen Rajezak and Science Matters Rainbows by David Whitfield.

Our art project was to make a rainbow.I cut out a white piece of paper to look like a cloud and then we cut strips of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. We glued the strips on the cloud.

E adding her colors on.(We put them in order backwards so they would be in correct order when it was flipped over.)

Next we added some clouds. We pulled apart cotton balls and glued them on to the cloud.

E and A showing off their rainbows!