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

The end of our b week was heavy on activities that did not include pencil and paper. Bible We read the story of Jesus walking on water again and touched on Jesus calming the storm.  I did not feel like the kids were grasping this concept completely.  To help I looked for a video for a visual retelling. There were many videos on this and we watched a couple. Together we also played out both stories.  I put on some awesome storm sounds in the background.  After the main story was told we ran into a couple sea monsters and made port in California.  I have no idea where 'California' came from. In the picture Doll Dragon is on the boat and Little Dragon is swimming in the sea. A fun way to experiment and talk about Jesus walking on water is Obleck!  Our obleck was blue to appear close to water.  Obleck sits as a liquid but if you apply pressure to it it becomes solid.  It is quiet neat.  Because of these properties we talked...

Dragon Snack I made dragon snacks on Tuesday to incorporate the letter D with food.  We had donuts last week and I didn't -or couldn't think of-another food that started with D so I made this. The kids were really excited when they sat down to the dragon.  I will have to think about doing this more often. We started our day off with a review on Adam and Eve and I gave each of the kids a card with Adam, Eve, or the Snake on it so they could act out the story. The role playing was fun! Stations:  Reading station- again today this station had a lot of attention.  I don't know if it the dinosaur and dragon books or they just like reading right now.  Discovery bottle- the kids all liked looking in the bottle.  I did not sit and encourage searching for specific items but it was our first discovery bottle and wanted the kids to have a chance to look first.  Dice sensory station- I put a tub of dice on the table with some small metal cups and a...