Mrs. Schenck's Blog

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Wine Into Water, John 2

A Wedding Party

One day, Jesus and his helper friends (disciples), went to a wedding party. It was a happy time for everyone. There was food to eat and wine to drink. But Jesus' mother came over to him. "Something terrible has happened," she said. "They ran out of wine!" Then she looked at the servants. "Do whatever Jesus tells you," she said. There were six very big stone jars nearby. Jesus told the servants, "Fill those jars to the top. Now dip some out," said Jesus. "Give it to the people." The servant dipped out the water. But it was not water anymore! It was wine! The people drank it. Some of them said it was the best wine at the party. They did not know it had been plain water. But the servants knew. God had given Jesus special power, because Jesus was God's Son.

Key Points:

What the children will learn (keeping it VERY basic):

Jesus fixed the problem at the wedding. He helps us solve our problems. He cares.
He performed a miracle.

Children will learn about Jesus’ power through exploration of the story of Jesus turning water to wine. Jesus turning water to wine at the wedding in Cana, tells of the first of Jesus’ miracles (not magic), and is significant because it shows how Jesus revealed his power to the people. Jesus is truly all we need.

Song:

Running Over

Running over, running over

My cup is full and running over

Since the Lord made me

I’m as happy as can be

My cup is full and running over

verse 2 since the Lord saved me

verse 3 since the Lord loves me


Dances (that might be done at weddings), we will try them
Hokey Pokey
Waltz
Duck Dance
Hora-Hava Nagila

Activities:
Snow in Sensory table: Discussion points-hot or cold, melting, using words to describe,
Mitten lacing
Creating Pink Flamingos
Cupcake Art
Books
Flannel and Magnetic board-Fun with Hearts
ABC's (A-F): book making, videos, songs, tactile letters and exploring objects that begin with these
    letters
Finding the color pink and hearts in the classroom
#7: counting to 7,  counting 7 stickers, recognition of #7
Learning about Dental health
Folder Games: colors and shapes
Matching clothes and hanging them on the wash line
Sorting plastic hearts by color
Bible Story: watching a slideshow of the story, reading the story from a Children's Bible,
  dressing up for the wedding, acting it out (eating, dancing, singing & playing musical instruments),
  painting a story handout, making a wedding poster, viewing wedding pictures, turning water to wine

It was a terrific Tuesday in RM A. See for yourself.

She loves to play with the shape sorter.

Tool time.

Cooking in the kitchen.

Vroom...

Time for the class to sponge paint their cupcakes.

We placed 7 stickers on #7.

We matched cupcakes to the math card.

The friends painted the flamingo pink.

Girls and boys love to use markers on the white board.

Making a picture with PDO friends is always fun.

This is our cooperative valentine poster that we made last week.

We used water color paint on the Bible story handout.

The class added pink feathers to the pink flamingo.

Jesus' 1st miracle.

Pages from our story.

Enjoying quite time with our books.

They are so into the books.

I told the story of the mitten.

We found pink in our room.

 We are learning about Dental Health this week.

After reading the Mitten story to the class, I repeated the story using this song. As I held up the animals the children sang the song too.

Mitten lacing.

The Commons was occupied so we switched rooms and played in Mrs. Derrington's room for recess.

We used the sensory box filled with rice and colored lids.

We found hearts in RM B.

 We enjoyed playing with the stuffed animals.

We got dressed up for the wedding at Cana.We acted out the story, and imagined what it was like to see Jesus' first miracle.

Walking to the wedding.

Here we are at the feast. Oh No, they ran out of wine! No worries Jesus took care of everything.

We think there might have been music at the wedding. Here we are dancing.

If there was dancing there was music so we used the instruments..... oh what a sound we made.

That was our day. Blessing to all.