This week we are learning about Adam and Eve and the letter A.
Today we read our own version of the story, twice.
Trying to teach a three year old is a fine line between wanting her to learn the truth and not wanting to give her nightmares about snakes, evil, and sin.
The version of the story that we discuss is very simple.
God made Adam and put him in the Garden of Eden, Then he made a woman to keep Adam company and he named her eve. He told Adam and Eve not to eat from his special apple tree. Then one day a snake saw Eve and told her that it is silly that God does not want them to eat from the tree and that she should try it. So she disobeyed God and she ate an apple and she told gave some to Adam also and he ate it. Then God came down and was upset with them and told them since they had been bad and not done what he said they would be punished.
It is VERY simplified, but it works for the age that Gracie is. As she gets older she will learn more details about each story.
Today we just did a few coloring sheets as our craft time and we also did a worksheet to work on learning to write Aa.
Here are the worksheets that I found online and used for our coloring and learning time.
Gracie colored them all just like a three year old would. She starts out staying in the lines for the most part but by the end of learning time she has started to scribble. She can also make a very good uppercase A, but is still struggling to make a recognizable lowercase a. That will be the one we work on the most this week!
DAY 2 -
Today we went back over the story and I included her in it to fill in certain parts. She remembers a lot more than I thought she would after just one day.
She asks questions that are so innocent, yet so hard to explain to a preschooler.
"Why did God put the snake there?"
"Why would he put that apple there if he did not want them to eat it?"
Such great questions, that show me that she is thinking about it all and taking it in. Makes my heart proud to know that I am filling her full of knowledge of God and the bible stories that so many kids do not get the opportunity to learn. It seems that it crosses my mind in the long nights after everyone is asleep, while I am up trying to find coloring sheets and crafts to do, that it would be an amazing privilege to be able to spread the word to the innocent children that would otherwise not get to hear it. I do not even mean in other countries, though that would be amazing also, but the kids in our own streets that are not afforded these opportunities. I have been researching but just cannot find the right outlet to do this.
Anyway, back to the lesson at hand... Apples and AAAs and the Garden of Eden.
Today after the story we did our craft. Today's craft was an apple. I used leftover felt from Christmas and cut into small squares. Then printed an apple and let her go to town gluing the squares on the apple! It turned out so cute and she had so much fun! While she glued we talked about the story and about how disobeying God was not a good thing.
Here is the apple template that I used:
Here is the finished product:
I am still trying to decide what we will be doing for our act of kindness this week. I want to do something special, so I will be on the hunt for ideas. If anyone has any feel free to comment and share your suggestions with me. I would love to hear everyone else's ideas.
Update: Our act of kindness was to sign up to host a Brazilian soccer coach. You can read about that here!
It was something that just popped up and we used it as a learning experience for Gracie!
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