Continuing letter D...

If you haven't read my post about our letter of the week, the letter D then you can catch it here. Since we spent most of last week with an impromptu family vacation and play dates with our friends, we had to split up the bible lesson we had previously planned. Keeping with the letter D theme we decided to do the days of creation bible lesson and split the lesson plan up accordingly over seven days. Each day we reviewed the previous day/days that we had already covered then moved onto the creation of that day. While we usually use our children's bible to cover any bible lessons we plan, this time we the Bible for Kids app on our Kindle. While this app really just covers the basics of the bible story, it gives them a hands on experience that I really love. Our preschooler loves interacting with the different features throughout the story.

We decided to make our own crafts to go along with this bible lesson for the week and while I have seen many versions of these crafts, we decided to go the number route. This helped reinforce the numbers we have learned as well as help our preschooler keep each day in order for him. The actual craft is fairly simple, I pre-cut out the numbers 1-7 for our toddler. As we covered one day at a time we chose together how our son would want to decorate his numbered day to go along with that specific creation. Here is what we came up with:

As you can see these are fairly simple and I let our preschooler be in complete charge, some days he chose to decorate with paper and other days he simply wanted help coloring (and yes those lovely stick figures were all my doing ha). We just completed our last day of this bible lesson and I just have to say that I was completely happy with the overall outcome. And while the actual lesson is fairly large compared to our usual bible lessons, I am happy to report our preschooler retained all of the information. The crafts not only helped our son remember everything ,but also gave him a visual aide in case he forgot. Win, win in my homeschooling opinion. As I had also mentioned in the first post of our letter of the week D, we wanted to not only cover our bible lesson for the week ,but also some of our family favorite choices for books this week. This week's new favorites are the following:

 

 

Dinosaur Tracks was such a big hit with our preschooler that we incorporated our own dinosaur tracks activity by using our finger paints and a small handful of our own dinosaurs we have around our home. So, if you are anything like our family you probably have more than enough dinosaurs laying around your home for this activity and hopefully some paint. If you do not have any paint on hand then I have a simple recipe you can get here. And here is our final craft to wrap up our week of the letter D:

On a side not the dinosaur's tracks are a little hard to make out in the photograph ,but it was a fun little activity to wrap up our dinosaur filled week. And both our toddlers really enjoyed getting to make their own sets of tracks. We hope you enjoyed this letter of the week as much as we did. Stay in touch for our next post as we venture into the next letter of the week, the letter E. We have some fun crafts, games, and Montessori style skill learning in store.