God’s Little Explorers: Week 9 (R is for Rocks + David & Goliath)

Welcome!  Here are this week’s lesson plans.  You can find the printable plans at the bottom of the post.  If you’d like to know more about God’s Little Explorers Preschool Curriculum, head over here.  Please feel free to share your ideas in the comments or send me an email!  Also, if you find any errors, please feel free to let me know.  This is a work-in-progress!!

God’s Little Explorers Week 9

• Theme:  ”r” is for Rocks
• Bible Story:  David and Goliath
• Bible Verse:  “The battle is the Lord’s.” 1 Samuel 17:47
• Letter:  r
• Number:  4

Here are a few activities we did:

Ha, ha…it was a little bright when I took this shot!  The girls decorated “mean Goliath” faces on paper plates.  Then, I measured up 9 feet and stuck the plate up there — I wanted them to get an idea of how tall Goliath was!

We took turns pretending to be Goliath (and standing up high on the island)!  Using the pom poms from our Pom-Pom Stuff-It Box, we tried to “hit” Goliath in the head.  I had this idea to put a loop of tape on the forehead of Goliath, but it didn’t work as well as I had hoped!  If you were quite close and a good shot, it stuck.  Otherwise…not so much.

We went on a rock hunt…

Then, we examined, sorted, and stacked the rocks in groups of five.  We practiced counting by fives with active skip counting.

My youngest daughter actually had the Bible story at church this week, so they painted rocks!

We broke out the highlighters and searched for the letter R in the newspaper.

We also played a few outdoor number review games.

More ideas:

• Tumble Painting with Rocks
• Stone Soup Party
• Rock Carving

Resources:

• If Rocks Could Sing: A Discovered Alphabet
• Stone Soup

Find more resources here.

 

Download God’s Little Explorers:  Week 9 Lesson Plans here.

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