This week is National Fire Prevention Week.
I am going to take the opportunity to work on fire safety. We will be learning about fire safety, 911, Stop, drop and roll. We have a video from the Danger Rangers to help us out. We have talked about smoke detectors and fire escape plan. We have practiced a few fire drills here as well. I have received some booklets from FEMA to send home. We will talk about them and color them. I will then send them home for your children to discuss them with you. FEMA has some really good disaster info on their website. http://www.fema.gov/kids/teacher.htm
Here is also a link to a websites and ideas for you to do things with your children at home. http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/firesafety.htm For any of you that were here last September and did Oogles N Googles, you should have the Community Helpers cd. It is loaded with safety songs! We have been listening and discussing the cd as well.
This is also October and we will begin working on Fall. We will make pumpkins for our Pumpkin Patch wall. Today we sang "5 Little Pumpkins". Ask them about it, they all know how to sing it.
We will also read the Parable of the Pumpkin Patch.
The farmer plants the seeds in June in all the neat little rows. They grow in the dark ground all through July. Then each one has a green shoot pop out of the ground and vines begin to spread all over the ground. The leaves on the vines catch the August sun, then tiny buds sprout into pumpkins. Each pumpkin is different. Some are tall, some are short, some are lean and some are round. Some even had lumps and bumps... but they were ALL pumpkins. Just as each and every one of us looks different, but we are all God's children. God loves us all the same.
Then October came and it was harvest time. All of the ripe pumpkins were harvested. The farmer picked one large pumpkin, taking good care of it. See pumpkins are tough on the outside, but soft and squishy on the inside. A pumpkin will break to smithereens if dropped. That is just like us, we may appear tough on the outside, but we are soft and squishy on the inside. If someone is mean or hurtful to us, we break just as the pumpkin when dropped.
The farmer washed all the dirt off of the pumpkin. The farmer had a special plan in mind for his pumpkin. He had to clean out the seeds and the slimpy pulp from inside the pumpkin. The farmer carved triangles for his eyes. See pumpkins have eyes that don't blink. They see everything, just as God sees everything. The farmer then made a square for the nose and a wide smile. The farmer put the pumpkin on the porch with a candle inside. Boy did that pumpkin glow! Everyone saw the glowing pumpkin smiling at them. God wants us to shine our light upon the world in the same way.
Everyone knew that the farmer turned a simple pumpkin into a simply glorious sight.
This is the same way, God offers us the chance to be made new, full of joy and full of light, shining like stars in a dark world.
"If anyone belongs to Christ, then he is made new. The old things have gone; everything is made new!" 2 Corinthians 5:17
Next week we will resume our normal lessons.
1 comment:
What a great idea!
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