Days 1-3 of Creation

This week will kick off our "Creation Theme" for the year.  

Day 1

I started out by asking Parker if he knew any of the days of the week.  He said "no."  I said them in order and had him repeat after me.  I sang the "Days of the Week," song and had him clap along.  Then we said the date together.  We will be doing this almost everyday.

We reviewed the sounds for A-F, and he remembered them all!  Yay!  Then we learned the sounds for G-L and recited their verses.

Our new verse for this week was,

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth." - Genesis 1:1

He ordered numbers 1-10.

We read the creation story in here,

We went back and looked at just Day 1, and sang this song to help us remember.

(To the tune of "Are you sleeping")

God created, God created,

Day and Night, Day and Night.

That was on the first day, That was on the first day.

It was good, It was good.

We went over to the table for our Day 1 craft.  Parker painted the bottom of the #1 with black water color to represent night, and the rest stayed white for day.

Day 2

After singing the days of the week and saying the date, we sang the Apples poem song from last week.  We reviewed sounds A-L, and then learned the sounds and read the verses for M-Q and reviewed our Genesis verse.

He sorted the shapes into two piles - shapes with straight sides and shapes with curvy sides.  

He made the straight-sided shapes out of popsicle sticks.

We sang the Day 1 of Creation song from yesterday, and then read the creation story in this Bible.

We figured out exactly what Day 2 was, and sang the next verse of the song.

God created, God created,

Sky and Clouds, Sky and Clouds.

That was on the second day, That was on the second day.
It was good, It was good.

Then he painted the  #2 with blue water colors.

 

After it dried, he pulled apart cotton balls and glued them on for clouds.

Day 3
We did the "Days of the Week" song, date, sounds and verses for R-W, Genesis verse,
and then he filled in the blanks of the alphabet.

I loved watching Parker do this.  When he wasn't sure, he went back to the beginning and sand the alphabet until he got to the blank. I think he sang it half a dozen times by the time he was done.  What a great way to figure out the right letter!

Next, he did some cutting strips.

I have to give a shout out to my neighbor for letting me borrow her camera until we purchase a new one.  I'm not quite a pro at it yet, hence some the blurry pictures.

He loves cutting! When he was done, we read the creation story out of our third and final Bible.

We sang the first two verses of our creation song, and then added this one.

God created, God created,

Land and Plants, Land and Plants.

That was on the third day, That was on the third day,

It was good, It was good.

Then he painted the #3 green for land.
I think he was kind of over the whole water color thing since it was our third day of doing it.

Then I gave him some squares of tissue paper, had him crumple them up, and then glue them to the #3  to represent more kinds of plants.

You're doing great, Parker!  I'm so glad we're off to a good start =)