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

Bible The end of the week the story of Jesus feeding 5000 was well known to the kids.  Both Dragons also had their bible verse memorized mid week. To conclude this week of 'hungry' we did a bible verse craft (below) and had 1 last picnic.  There were not as many animals this time but the Dragons enjoyed each others company and the banana bread.  :) Crafts Bread and fish basket Materials:  brown construction paper (2 shades) another piece of construction paper (kids choice) glue stick stickers markers pencil Step 1: I cut out basket shapes out of brown construction paper. Step 2: While the kids decorate their baskets with stickers and markers cut out bread shapes out of the other shade of brown construction paper.  Step 3: Each dragon chose what color they wanted their fish to be.  Step by step the dragons drew their own fish copying off the board.  Step 4: Cut out the fish and glue them and the bread pieces to the d...

We don't get the chance for field trips often so myself and the kids were very excited about our field trip. We visited the city for our field trip.  We went to the downtown library and rode a trolley to the Peanut Shop. Our first stop was the library.  We wanted to make the field trip educational and read a book about trolley's before we went on our trolley ride.  The downtown library was huge!  There was a nice turtle display up for kids to touch and explore.  The librarian took the time when we walked in to talk to the kids about turtles.  There was a real turtle shell too!  There were plenty of things to play with.  Lego blocks, trains, a doll house, a pretend kitchen with table and chairs, and a sleeping area for baby dolls.  There were also plenty of books (of course) and puzzles.  The dragons also enjoyed looking at the city and watching the cars drive by.  After a good ...

This post is full of name activities which were a lot of fun!  Bible The second half of the week we spent more time discussing the bible story.  I didn't think the kids would get much more out of the short story in our bible.  We played out Jesus calling his disciples together.  The kids and I all took turns calling names and following the leader.  First we called each other by name (or pretend names) then called out any of the disciples names remembered.  This was a fun activity to remember the disciples and talk about how we follow Jesus. While we played follow the leader I asked the kids how they can follow Jesus. I also asked them if they would get up and follow Jesus like the disciples did.  With no questions, if, and's, or buts. We played a 'what disciple name can you remember' game.   I asked what they remembered, they yelled out names and when they got one right they got an m&m.  Simple rules.  I like that. ...

Names.  What is a name?  That is an interesting question for a preschooler.  After I asked I had a couple minutes of silence.  They really had to think about it. A name is what we call someone/something.  We identify something/someone by their name. I asked a couple more questions What is your name? What is your nick name? What are your animals names? Stuffed animals in our case because we don't own a pet.  We spent some time naming most of the stuffed animals the kids owned. Then we talked about their pretend names.  *rolls eyes*  Who knew there would be so much fun in the topic of names.  Bible On the topic of names we talked about Jesus and his twelve disciples.  This was more fun then I had originally thought it would be.   I used the felt board to help with Jesus and his twelve disciples.   We sang a Twelve Disciples Song too. We don't really know what the disciples look like so together the...