Monthly Archives: May 2011

Joseph’s Colorful Coat

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In accordance with the ABC Jesus Loves Me Week 6 lesson, we spent a week talking about Joseph’s colorful coat, his dreams, and how he ended up in Egypt after his brothers sold him.  I did use the Bible verse from the curriculum this week (Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21).  I love Steve Green’s Hide ‘Em In Your Heart CDs, because they do a great job of helping us memorize Scripture.  I just wish they incorporated Bible reference so we knew where to find the verses!  Here was our iPod playlist for the week:

For our Bible Notebook, Ian made a “coat” from a tissue paper collage.  I found a paper doll online, then saved the image and enlarged it so it would take up the full page.  Then used it to draw the outline of a coat for Ian to fill in with tissue paper squares.


After it was dry, I cut it out and helped Ian paste it over the Joseph paper doll, along with the hair he chose for him.

Every week when we add our latest creation to Ian’s Bible Notebook, we read through all the previous pages.  He’s getting very good at “reading” the memory verses!

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Noah’s Ark

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Here are some highlights from our week learning about Noah’s Ark.  The ABC Jesus Loves me Week 5 lesson focused on the part of the story where Noah builds the boat, but since we had just had this glorious rainbow over our house the week before, I wanted to do the whole story so we could get to the part about the rainbow!

Once again, I diverged from the lesson plan on the memory verse.  I wanted Ian to have a verse in his heart that would comfort him when he felt scared, as Noah’s family must have felt on the ark.  So we sang this to the tune of “Ring Around the Rosie”:

“Keep me safe my God, for in you I take refuge.  Psalm chapter sixteen, verse one.”

When I got out the flannel board with the figures for the story of Noah, Ian was a little disappointed.  He kept asking for Adam and Eve.  Luckily, he got over it (don’t they always?) and soon was enjoying telling the story himself.  Whenever he’d get to the part where it was just the ark all alone on the water, he’d call out to me to sing the Bible verse song.

Here was our iPod playlist for the week:

  • “Genesis 6-7” from the ESV Audio Drama Children’s Bible from Faith Comes By Hearing (including the song “Noah Walked With God”)
  • “Noah & the Ark” story on CD by the Paul Winter Consort (which I found at our library)
  • “Who Built the Ark?” from a CD of Bible songs I found at the 99-Cent Store
  • “Noah, Build A Boat” from The Singing Bible

For our Bible Notebook, Ian fingerpainted a rainbow (though I wish we’d done it directly on the paper, as our print didn’t turn out so well) and then I made this ark from www.janbrett.com* for him (though I had to cut it down a bit both to make it fit on our paper and to place it on the water rather than the land).  Then Ian glued a collage of blue construction paper to make the sea.  (You can’t tell very well in this picture, but the ark has “peek-a-boo” flaps to reveal animals underneath.)

*After reading the Amazon reviews of Jan Brett’s book On Noah’s Ark, I decided NOT to read it with Ian, as much as I enjoy her illustrations.  The main complaints reviewers had were that she 1) left God out of the story (!), and 2) made up a granddaughter who is not in the biblical account to be the main character.  I didn’t want to confuse Ian by reading something that told a story so different from the Bible.

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Adam and Eve eat the fruit

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I’m still trying to catch up to what we’re actually learning about, but I do want to put up at least basic posts for the Bible stories we’ve already covered.  A family crisis last week has kept me from writing, but I’d like to be caught up by the end of the day today (which will be a little easier since we ended up taking about a week off of any “school”.)

Ian was already familiar with the story of Adam and Eve in the garden, but it’s a favorite so he didn’t mind spending a week on it.  This was the first week we incorporated a “letter of the week.”  Ian really liked writting the letter in a rice tray, and he enjoys the pictures in Big Thoughts for Little People so much, he always wants more than just the page for our letter.  I let him look through the rest of the book, but I tell him he’ll have to wait until “K” week (or whatever) to read about the pages that catch his interest.

For our memory verse, I strayed from the ABC Jesus Loves Me Week 3 lesson.  As I was looking at the activities in the lesson plan I came across this verse and it seemed more appropriate.  I want verses that Ian can really internalize, words that will express the feelings in his heart as he grows in his relationship with the Lord.  Psalm 119:10 seemed more “personal,” so I set it to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”:

“I will seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.  Psalm one-nineteen, verse ten.  Psalm one-nineteen, verse ten.  I will seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.”

I did go with her suggestion of teaching “Oh Be Careful, Little Eyes, What You See.”  Ian loved this song and asked me sing it over and over.  I love the message and know we’ll refer to these lyrics many times in years to come.  Here was our iPod playlist for the week:

Our Bible Notebook was a big hit this week.  I saw this idea for a fingerprint tree and used the “alternate paint idea” of pudding.  Since I’m always battling with Elijah not to smear food all over his high chair tray, I thought he’d love being a part of this project.  Not so much!  He screamed and refused to touch the pudding, even after I smeared a little on his lips.  Ian, on the other hand, had a blast!

I mixed up a batch of chocolate pudding to use for the trunk (and for us to eat for dessert that night), plus a batch of vanilla to dye with food coloring for play and our notebook page.  Here’s the finished product!


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