Let There Be Light

So this week was our first unit on the specific days of creation.  We learned about light.  We were out of town for part of the week, so it was kind of spread out.  I think I got the point got across.

Day 1

Since we have been singing the Days of the Week song and saying the date everyday, 

we started this week by reading 

 

Then we counted to 40 together, counted to ten in Spanish, and learned how to identify numbers 11 and 12.  We reviewed last week's verse, and then learned our new verse,

"Jesus said, "I am the light of the world." - John 8:12

We sang the first verse of the "God Created" song, and did a little experiment with light.  I cut a hole in one end of the shoebox and Parker looked through it and told me what he saw...nothing....darkness.  

Then I cut a hole in the side, gave him a flashlight, and he said "Let there be light!" and turned on the flashlight.  We talked about how amazing it was that God didn't need to anything except say the words and light appeared for the first time.  Parker played with this for a little while.  The kid love flashlights =)

Then we read

reviewed the Jolly Songs we'd already learned, and did lessons 4 and 5 in our reading book.

Day 2

Today, we did some color clipping 

We read

We brainstormed different light sources and decided whether they were man-made or God-made.

Then we played on the light box.  

I put two strings of christmas lights under the clear bin and put parchment paper on top.  Then I cut shapes out of tissue paper so he could make different pictures with them on top.  

We reviewed Jolly Songs, did reading Lesson #6, and then listened this book on CD.

Day 3

After singing a few silly songs, Parker connected the push pins on the cork board in number order with rubber bands.  He was giving me a hard time earlier that day about not wanting to do preschool, but he sure loved doing this =)

This was something we've never done before, and actually he just came down from his rest time and saw me blogging about this and asked to do it again =)  Score!

Then we played this Rhyming Board Game from this set.

We reviewed Jolly Songs and did Lesson 6 in our reading book.

Finally, we read a bunch of books in the dark with flashlights =)