Three’s Company

We did everything in purple this week. One little boy who had no purple clothes made a purple hat to wear to school! I also saw a lot of purple clothes, pony tails and clips on the girls, even purple shoes. We had purple fruit snacks and purple grapes for snack. I love the creative ways you all think of to help reinforce the color of the week.

Our purple color page was made by gluing purple ovals onto a grape cluster shape. We will save them for our color books. We also made Larry Boy who is actually a cucumber turned super hero from VeggieTales! Many of us painted with purple at the easel too. We painted purple hand prints to make praying hands to remind us how much God loves to hear from us in prayer.

We have been learning about Joshua’s faith that God will do what He says He will do. Joshua led God’s people (Abraham’s children) to the promised land but when they got there they found a city with a huge wall surrounding it. Joshua didn’t know what to do so he prayed. God answered his prayer in a very unusual way. Joshua and all the people were told to walk around the city many times for seven days and on the last lap they blew their trumpets and shouted. At that very moment the walls of the city crumbled.  We know that our God can even knock down that big wall because our God is great and strong and mighty so we sang our song, My God is So Great. You can read the story in the Bible by clicking here.

In our story this week, The Falling Leaves by Steve Metzer, we saw four fall colored trees; red, orange, yellow and even purple. The leaves on each tree were making plans on how they would float off the tree and where they would land once the wind picked up, but the wind had different ideas for them. They landed in a mud puddle. Only yellow leaf, who was willing to let the wind take charge of his flight to the ground, ended up on the ride of his life, viewing many parts of the world that he had never seen before and ending up on a beautiful, warm pond with a family of ducks. We compared that to how God wants us to let Him lead us and obey His commands rather than try to make our own way. What a great adventure we can all experience when we allow God to take charge of our lives!

You might have noticed our very empty hallway walls. Usually, by this time of year they are filled with pictures and children’s art work. We are anxiously waiting for the go ahead to fill them once again when the fresh paint has cured. Keep your eyes open to a hallway transformation!

Looking forward to Brown Week!