Three’s Company

What does Madame Blueberry, a bluebird and the whole earth have in common? They are blue and were created by our children last week! What fun we had as we painted with feathers and sponges, glued and traced our hands to complete our masterpieces. Some will be saved for color books, some for our art show in February and others to hang on our hall walls. We watched a short clip from the VeggieTale video, Madame Blueberry where we learned that a grateful heart for all that God has given us and not more “stuff” brings us true happiness. We also met another Crazy Color Creature… Blue! We sang, “Blue, Blue, has the flu. Crazy Color Creature! Blue, Blue has the flu! Crazy Color Creature!” We learned that blue is not only a color but it also means sad. Madame Blueberry was blue because she always wanted more stuff and our crazy color creature was blue because she had the flu.

We had a bewildering Science lesson when we washed different color “stinky socks” together only to be surprised by the final outcome. Mrs Ferrante  threw some red and yellow socks in the washer (blue bin) and we all helped agitate the clothes by singing, “Shake it baby, shake it. Shake it if you can. Shake it like a milk shake. Shake it once again. Hey!” while Mrs. Ferrante shook the bin. When the “wash” was finished we found the socks were no longer red and yellow but had turned orange. We then looked through red and yellow translucent circles and noticed when we overlapped them their color turned orange! Through this same method we found that red and blue make purple and blue and yellow make green. The process of making secondary colors from two of the primary colors was reinforced at our easel when the children had the opportunity to paint with two colors.

We continue to learn that God keeps His promises. Many years ago God sent a big flood that covered the whole earth but He protected Noah, his family and the animals by telling Noah to build a big boat called an ark. Noah obeyed God and was protected and blessed. When the flood subsided God put a beautiful rainbow in the sky to remind us that He would never cover the whole earth with a flood again.

We helped Noah build and get the animals on the ark. We hammered the nails in the boat with our hands, sat in our boat (chairs), felt the rain (Mrs. F sprayed us with water), and rocked back and forth to the rhythm of the waves. Each of us chose two animals from the pile of toy animals and brought them on the boat with us where we would all be safe. When we obey God’s commands we know that God will keep us safe and bless us too. The best promise God ever gave us was a Savior. He sent His very own son to die on the cross and rise again to pay the penalty for our sin. This promise is for everyone! He promises all that believe will be saved! God keeps His promises!

Monday October 5 & Wed Oct 7 2009

Tuesday, October 6 & 8, 2009