Preschool Week 4

This week we continued on in Genesis, focusing on the story of Abraham and his son, Isaac.  Other objectives for the week included the letter C, the square shape, and the color brown.

Since we are in our first week of Lent, we began the week on a little Lent side project. We made a crown of thorns as our Lenten “wreath”.  Next we placed sand inside the crown of thorns to remind us of the forty days Jesus spent fasting in the desert.  Last, we placed a white pillar candle in the center as a sign of the hope we have to look forward at Easter.  (The white pillar candle will remain unlit throughout Lent and will later become our Paschal candle at Easter.)

Painting the "thorns"

 

Adding the thorns to the "crown".

 

Finished product

Isa’s next project involved making a cotton letter C on brown paper, this was a modified Little Hands to Heaven activity.

A little help from mom

 

Gluing on the cotton

 

Proud of her work!

Day two started off with a Little Hands to Heaven activity which involved coloring Abraham’s tent and painting stars in the sky.  This project stems from God’s promise to Abraham that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Coloring Abraham's tent

 

Painting 'stars' in the sky

 

Finished project

Next we did some more work with squares.  Gluing various color and size squares, something I just made up myself to spend more time on the square shape.  I thought it’d be easier to find squares in the home but aside from all the boxes from our move into the temporary rental home, square shapes were surprisingly difficult to find in our normal day to day setting.  Rectangles abound, squares…not so much.  A weird, little discovery for me as I searched high and low for more than 2 square shaped household examples that morning.

Gluing colorful squares

We finished up the day with two Learn and Grow activities that I combined into one sitting.  Painting brown onto cows, and on one of the cows adding painted legs.  I modified the legless cow activity slightly since I didn’t have wooden clothespins.  Instead, we painted and glued popsicle sticks for the cow’s legs.

 

Painting her cows

 

Completed cows and squares projects

Day three began with a modified Learn and Grow activity.  Isa glued C-shaped macaroni onto a brown letter C. 


 

Gluing macaroni to her C

After that, we continued on with another Learn and Grow activity.  This one involved painting a small carton red as a ‘barn’ for cows.

Reloading her paintbrush

 

Painting the 'barn' red

No sooner did she finish painting the barn when she literally fell asleep in her chair…sitting up and paintbrush in hand!  Poor girl was tired from so much playing and learning.  Mom had to wash the paint off her hands before laying her down for a nap, but she went right back to sleep as soon as she was put down. 

Week 4 was our busiest week yet, jam packed with loads of activities and learning.  We spent a great deal of time outside playing since the weather was perfect this week, cool and sunny every day.  And in addition to introducing new things we also spent time reviewing things introduced in the previous weeks.  We took Friday off as a just have fun day, she earned it!

Until next week...