Big Energy-Little Learners...Can I do it all?

Bible The second half of the week we took our understanding of Mary and Martha a bit further by acting it out.  Putting on their shoes per say. The Dragons used the felt board for a retelling. They also used puppets to act out the story.  We continued to focus on our bible verse as well.  We played a matching game and did a simple craft.  I printed out 2 sets of the bible verse and cut each word out.  We used the pieces for a matching game.   After all the matches were found all the pieces were put back in the middle face up.   The Dragons then put the verse together in the right order from start to finish and glued it onto a blue piece of paper. Blue Little Dragon colored his blue dinosaurs for his color book. Many of our activities incorporated blue without the sole focus being on blue. Alphabet To decorate the letter o printout the dragons used bottle caps.  This was a really fun activity, a new way to pain...

Focusing on opposites was a ton of fun!  I wish we had more time to go over this.  Not because it was the kids weren't catching on but because there are endless opposite activities.   The one thing we did not get to do due to scheduling is have an opposite day.  That would have been awesome. Bible Story is Mary and Martha.  Mary and Martha are different and they react differently when Jesus enters their home.  Even in the pictures you can see they Mary sitting and Martha standing.  They are opposite, which is our main theme this week. Bible Verse: " Be still and know that I am God." -Psalm 46:10 After our first reading of Mary and Martha we took  the morning to be still like Mary before being busy like Martha. We discussed: What the differences or opposites are between Mary and Martha. Why Mary made the right choice.  Why Martha was mad. I wanted to make sure The Dragons understood that it is okay and good to serve others, but we...