Parker Prep: Days 4-7 of Creation

This week started off with Parker's 4th Birthday! We had a great day going out to breakfast, playing legos, going to an indoor trampoline place, and meeting up with friends for ice cream. I can't believe he's already 4! We started preschool on Wednesday this week =)

Day 1

We started with singing the "Days of the Week" song, and saying the date. Then we went through the letter sounds we learned last week, A-W, by saying the picture on the card and the sound that the letter makes. We learned the sounds of Y and Z, reviewed their verses from last year, recited last week's verse, and then learned our new verse for this week,

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." - John 1:1

We are working on recognizing numbers 11-15, so we went through those a few times and then he clipped 15 clothespins to the card.

Then we sang through the creation song for days 1-3, and read

We sang the new verse for the fourth day,

"God created, God created,

Sun, Moon and Stars, Sun Moon and Stars,

That was on the fourth day, That was on the fourth day,

It was good, It was good."

I had some dark blue sparkly tissue paper I cut in to squares, and then I drew a sun and a moon for him to cut out. (If you haven't notice by now, my art skills are REALLY lacking. I drew three horrible excuses for a moon and then said forget it!)

I thought it turned out pretty cool!

Then we transitioned into our new reading/phonics routine. I am using this book,

combined with Jolly Phonics, easy readers, and whatever else I find that encourages phonemic awareness. I went through and wrote down when we would be learning which letters, so I knew when we would learn the Jolly Songs for them. First, we learned Jolly Song M and Jolly Song S. He loved them! For a kid who doesn't really love silly songs, I was thrilled that he liked these, because I sure do. We went through the first lesson and will be doing this four days every week until we finish.

I had him put the number 1 in the 100's chart so we can keep track of what lesson we're on, and learn some number patterns while we're at it.

Day 2

After the usual beginning activities, we reviewed numbers 11-15 again, and then he did a push-pin activity to continue strengthening his fingers for writing.

Then we sang the first four verses of the creation song, and read

We learned the Day 5 verse,

"God created, God created,

Birds and Fish, Birds and Fish

That was on the fifth day, That was on the fifth day,

It was good, It was good

For our Day 5 craft, he put bird stickers on the top and sea creatures on the bottom of number five. This is also a great fine-motor activity.

For our reading time, we sang Jolly Songs M and S again, did lesson two, and put the number two in the 100's chart.

Finally, before bed, we started our first ever chapter book,

He was really into it and didn't want to stop after we read the first two chapters.

I think we are all going to love this new bedtime routine.

Day 3

Today we sang, "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands."

Then Parker did a pattern blocks picture of a dog and a bunny.

We sang the verses for days 1-5, and read

We learned the Day 6 verse,

"God created, God created,

Creatures on Land, People, too

That was on the sixth day, That was on the sixth day,

It was good, It was good"

and the Day 7 verse,

"Then God rested, Then God rested

From His work, From His work,

That was on the seventh day, That was on the seventh day,

All was good, All was good"

He stuck animal stickers to the number 6 and Ryan drew on a stick-figure Adam and Eve.

And he stamped Z's onto the number 7 to symbolize God resting. I just love how God didn't actually need to rest after creating a whole universe and everything in it... He just wanted to admire His creation, and He knew we would never rest unless he allowed a special day for it =) I'm just so thankful for that!

Parker stamped Z's on the 7.