Mondays I’ll be blogging about our more ‘formal’ learning time with Cutie Pie. It’s only about 45 minutes 3 times a week of rather informal but directed interaction based on Hubbard’s Cupboard 3’s curriculum. Basically I go in the same sequence as the curriculum, but pick only certain things to try with the kiddos in addition to learning about the Bible Story of the week.
Last week we concentrated on the letter G.
The Bible story for the week was 12 spies in Canaan. In addition to reading the story in the Bible, we read it in the Children’s Bible we have. We talked a lot about the Giants found in the promised land as well as the Grapes. We also thought a lot about why the Israelites would have not wanted to follow God even after He brought them through trial after trial and how we can trust Him in our everyday lives for more simple matters.
I decided to do marble art again with the kiddos, similar to that found on the 10 Days of Christmas Fun over at 1+1+1=1, but we did our marble art on plain white cardstock and cut it into stars, which became Garland on our big mirror in the living room. The kiddos also used Glue and Glitter to decorate a big letter G, and made a Gigantic mess! But it was fun! They ended the week making Gingerbread men out of construction paper. They had plenty of items to choose from to decorate them, but they chose just eyes. We especially love Cutie Pie’s guy with 3 eyes!
Cutie Pie keeps talking about Santa loving him and bringing him Gifts. We don’t necessarily want him to think his Gifts come from Santa, but from his family members that love him, so we’ve spent a lot of time talking about the real reason for Christmas and the story behind the Christmas celebration story with St. Nicholas involved. We also stressed that many kiddos he meets will wholeheartedly believe in Santa, and that everyone who Gives Gifts is a Santa in a way, so we shouldn’t ruin it for them. We Give because we love…and so family movie night this week was Veggie Tales St. Nicholas, The Story of a Joyful Giver. Cutie Pie has been silent on this issue for a few days, and since then was a sheep for our church’s living nativity which resulted in pretend playing we’re shepherds going to worship Baby Jesus. I’m wondering if he’s understanding all this.
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