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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 15
- Theme: ”d” is for Desert
- Bible Story: John the Baptist
- Bible Verse: “…John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand.’” (Matthew 3:1-2)
- Letter: d
- Number: 9
This week we had a hard time getting back into the swing of things, but we did enjoy several fun projects together! Here are a few activities we did:
I was brave and brought the sand indoors for our desert theme (for just a little bit)! We have very few desert theme animals, but it didn’t seem to stop the girls from having a good time!
The girls received a sand art kit as a gift, so we pulled it out and tried our hand at some sand art. It was messy, but captivated their attention for quite a while!
Nine was our focus number this week, so I wrote the number nine and had my daughter paint her thumb green. Then, she stuck it on the paper nine times. She added needles after the paint had dried.
My daughter outlined the letter d with glue and sprinkled some of the left-over sand from the sand art kit on the printable (included in the download below).
We talked about how it is hot during the day and cold at night in the desert. I pulled out a pile of clothes and had my daughter sort the clothes according to what she would wear in the summer when it’s hot and what she would wear in the winter when it’s cold.
For this desert theme art project, we just tore pieces of construction paper and glued them to make a sunset background. Then, we added a cactus silhouette. I used the cactus shape in the download (and cut off the prickles) to trace for the silhouette.
This is a simple busy bag idea. Just print the cacti included in the download on cardstock paper, cut them out, and store them in a plastic bag–along with some clothespin “needles.” Your child can look at the number on each cactus and clip the corresponding number of clothespins onto them. I adapted this idea from Two Teaching Mommies.
We learned quite a few things about John the Baptist this week. Although we didn’t end up making a special locust and honey snack (idea included in the lesson plans), we did make these handprint dove cards after talking about John baptizing Jesus. I simply folded a piece of black paper in half, painted my daughter’s hand white, and pressed it onto the front of the card. After it dried, we added an eye, beak, and feet!
While your hands are messy, you might as well make a handprint camel, too! This went along with one of our read aloud books–Is A Camel A Mammal?
Finally, we added our “d” card to our treasure map.
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Stephanie says
such a lovely home school. so organized and full of creativity. I’d never thought about turning the hand print upside down to create a four-legged animal. Super!
Kayla rice says
We just finished our first day. X marks the spot. My girls were so into it. They loved it. The treasure map and hunt was a huge success. I can’t wait for tomorrow 🙂
Rose says
Hi Stacie,
I am happy to discover your curriculum. I am in the process of opening a Christian preschool. I would like to order your curriculum. I would like a year supply, and want to make sure it comes with assessment materials so that I can easily send home reports. I would also love to have the lesson plans as well. There may be other things I will need, but not aware of at the moment. I have taught before, but have never had my own school. I am new to this. Can you mentor me. I want to be affiliated with you. Looking forward to hearing from you, thank you.
Sincerely
Rose
Rachel says
Thank you for providing such a wonderful preschool curriculum. My 4 year old absolutely loves school and looks forward to it everyday. I love that my son is learning all of the necessary things before kindergarten while also learning about God’s Word.