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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 7
- Theme: ”I” is for Insect
- Bible Story: Moses (Through the 10 Plagues)
- Bible Verse: “The Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.” Exodus 8:1
- Letter: I
- Number: 2
Here are a few activities we did:
One of our favorite activities was learning about the 10 plagues from the Bible in a hands-on way. Here is what we did:
1) Water to blood: I put red powdered drink mix in the bottom of a dark container and had one daughter pour clean water into it.
2) Frogs: We just hopped around like frogs.
3) Gnats or Lice: The girls put various colored office dot “bites” all over them.
4) Flies: I sprinkled pepper on the girls hands and they “shooed” it away (it’s a stretch, but it was all I could think of)!
5) Diseased Livestock: We made our toy cows fall over like they were sick and/or dead.
6) Boils: We used bubble wrap to make “boils”.
7) Hail: I threw marshmallows at them!
8) Locusts: We made our grasshoppers jump.
9) Darkness: The girls covered their eyes and walked around in darkness.
10) Death of the firstborn: We “painted blood” (really we used tissue paper strips) around a doorway.
We practiced forming the letter i with craft sticks and office dots in the Alphabet Notebook (which is just a notebook with each letter of the alphabet written on a separate page).
We made a few “jumping” grasshoppers.
A bug jar is essential to a unit on insects! Here is another example of an insect jar we’ve made in the past.
It was such a nice day, we went on a bug hunt.
She made play dough bricks while listening to the story of Moses and pharoah.
We did a simple review game we did to practice letters and sounds.
I wrote the number two on a sheet of construction paper. My daughter used pieces of yarn to outline it.
We made fingerprint insects on the printable i (included in the download). We have a few different fingerprint ideas over on this Bug Hat post.
A few other activities to try:
- Make a Caterpillar to Butterfly craft.
- Try out a Bee Buzzer.
- Paint a Ladybug Rock or make a Ladybug Snack.
- Make a Butterfly Lunch.
- Give away some Butterfly Snack Bags
- Paper Chain Caterpillars
- Caterpillar Cookie Cake
Recommended Resources:
- What’s in the Bible (Volume 2)
- Caterpillars, Bugs & Butterflies: Take Along Guide (Take Along Guides)
- Pharoah Pharoah
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Insect Lore Live Butterfly Garden
- Fascinations AntWorks Illuminated Blue
- Zobmondo Entertainment The Ladybug Game
Find more recommended resources here.
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Tami says
!! Super! Bring them on over to my house–we can find some flies here! I love the way you put the photos together for the plagues. Great activities again!
Teacher@Home says
http://teachinglittleonesathome.blogspot.com/2013/05/god-little-explorers-infant-insects-and.html
This was our ‘i’ week with God’s Little Explorers. We are really enjoying our trip through the Bible. Thank you Stacie!
Stacie Nelson says
Yay!! 🙂
Laura Cox says
snack – ants on a log
celery sticks with peanut butter and raisins (ants) on top
nicole says
hello I did this last yr with my boys and had plans to use some of the lessons this year to go with some b4fiar stuff…but a last minute move from ny to tn and a unexpected but exciting 🙂 pregnancy not to mention the newfound mobility of my baby girl kind of..halted all homeschool plans. Particulary because I am feeling very sick. Anyway I discussed it with my husband and he suggested maybe just starting out with this again because its pretty easy to do with the kids, they like it and its all planned out. My oldest is only 4 so..hes technically not kindergarden age anyway. Anyway my question is how would you suggest starting since I didn’t start in september..I’m a little off season wise. Would love any suggestions
Stacie Nelson says
Hi, Nicole! It’s really up to you. You could do the first week as an introduction and then just jump in where we are–or you can just work through it at your pace. I don’t think it really matters unless you really wanted to have the lessons on Jesus’ birth fall at Christmas and the Resurrection lessons to fall around Easter.
I’m so sorry to hear you are not feeling well–that can be so difficult. Praying that you will have renewed strength!