August -- Week 3
Circles
Ideal for
16 months -
2 1/2 yearsCREATIVE
ACTIVITIESSPECIAL TOYS & GAMES BIBLE LANGUAGE MONDAY Make Paper Plate Frisbees--Decorate with dot stickers, markers, crayons or whatever. Talk about how the plate is a circle. Throw Frisbees--Toss the frisbees you made around the room. Outside, throw regular frisbees. Recite:
"God created all things." John 1:3*****
Read
Jesus Turns Water Into Juice, page 94
Attention Getter:
Tell this story at snack time when you serve juice.Sign Language: Drink
*****
This Is a Circle - sung to "Frere Jacques"
This is a circle, this is a circle.
How can you tell? How can you tell?
It goes round and round,
No end can be found.
It's a circle, it's a circle.*****
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Planning Ideas.Flash Cards and/or Felt Shapes:
Water Into Wine from Trueway Kids
Letters: A, B
Number: 1, 2
Color: Red
Shape: Circle
TUESDAY Make a Circle Collage . . . glue lids, old CDs, dot stickers, hole punch, etc. on a paper plate. Play Let's Go 'Round the Hula-Hoop
Tune: London BridgeLet's go 'round the Hula-Hoop,
Hula-Hoop, Hula-Hoop.
Let's go 'round the Hula-Hoop,
Round the circle.WEDNESDAY Teach all or some of this Water Into Wine lesson and crafts from Misson Arlington.
Chip Drop--Cut a slit in old oatmeal containers big enough for poker chips to fit in. The children love to drop the chips in the hole. Talk about the shape and color--especially the red ones. Make a trail of chips to put in the containers. THURSDAY Lego Stamp--Stamp the top of a Duplo Lego onto a stamp pad and make prints of circles on construction paper. Be sure to write this month's Bible verse on the papers. Get the tunnel out and let them go in the circle!
Dont' have a tunnel?
Use a Hula-Hoop.FRIDAY Use Bingo Dobbers on paper plates to make a pretty picture. Ball Day! Roll balls of different sizes. Talk about their shape. SNACKS & ALTERNATE ACTIVITIES Snacks
Banana Rounds
Carrot Rounds
Peas
Cookies
Ritz CrackersRoll Ball in Paint then down some newsprint or newspaper.
Make a round Sun. Paint a paper plate with white glue and sprinkle with cornmeal.
Play Ring Around the Rosie Check out Circles on my Theme Page. Please take a moment to read Pamm's House Site Disclaimer. Thanks!
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All praise and glory go to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Apart from Him, I could do nothing. (John 15:5)