Get Wisdom - Joy

~Bella is 30 months~

Our lesson this time in our "Get Wisdom" book was on JOY.  I felt this would be a good time to teach what the difference is between Joy and Happy because the twins would be having there party and opening presents.  So we talked about the questions and Bible verse in Ruth Younts' book.  

Then we did an object lesson with bubbles.  I don't know if Bella really got the connection.  I think the Birthday party was a better example to her.

Anyway here is our play with bubbles.  We used nontraditional bubble blowers...

Here bella is reciting her memory verses. I decided to make flash cards instead, which you will see in the video.  I am also considering figuring out signs to the verses to aid in memory.  She is really into sign language right now.

Resources:

Ruth Younts "Get Wisdom"

http://kidsofintegrity.com/joy-8

Get Wisdom - Kindness

~Bella is 30 months~

So if you have the book I am using, you will notice I am not following her order.  I have decided that as I teach Bella, I am going to teach according to her need and skill level.  I felt as if the next one Ruth Younts had in her book should wait until she gets a little older.  So I decided we would work on Kindness!

We started with reading from the book, looking over the memory verse and talking about what the picture had to do with being kind.  We then worked on what some examples of kind and not kind actions are in her day.

Next we discussed the story Jesus is kind to the children, Mark 10:13-16.  What was nice about this is this was her Sunday School lesson at church also!  So we mainly just reviewed this story.

Next I saw this idea on the website that I have been using to get help with extra ideas for each lesson:
Kindness germ

At an early age, kids learn to be germ-aware. Parents regularly mention concerns about hand washing, nose blowing, nose picking, nail biting and covering mouths when coughing or sneezing. Begin by reviewing basic hygiene rules and expand your discussion to tell your children that there is one germ that they are welcome to spread all over the place: the kindness germ!

Kindness is as contagious as the common cold. Explain that when we are kind to each other, it softens our hearts and makes us want to be kind to others as well.

Discuss ways you can spread “kindness germs” everywhere! Throughout the course of your study, whenever your children wash their hands, cough, sneeze or blow their noses, it can be a reminder to ask God to wash away any unkindness and to ask Him to help you spread kindness germs instead.

This was a fun one we kept up throughout the days we talked about kindness.  Everytime a germ would be spread, we would see if we could spread a Kindness germ also!  If nothing physical could be done a simple word of kindness - I love you, I like your hair, etc. - would be done instead.

Then we also talked about the story of how Ruth was kind to her Mother-in-law.

For our activity, we made Mother's day cards for the Grandmas and Aunt.

The twins were a little curious

More Get Wisdom Work

Resources:

"Get Wisdom" by Ruth Younts

http://kidsofintegrity.com/kindness

Get Wisdom- Obey

~Bella is 28 months~

For our Obedience lessons we used the memory verse Col 3:20.  We talked about obeying right away, with a happy heart. 

So I had her make a face of what it would look like to obey without a happy heart....

And with a happy heart....

Then we did an activity to help with the whole idea that you have to Listen first with your ears and then Obey right away with your heart.

To help her with the idea of being quick to obey, I had her walk in paint and make foot prints on a piece of paper.  Her foot prints would remind her to "run" quickly to obey!

She got to wash her feet off in the sink, which was very exciting!

 The first Bible story we focused on was Abraham and how God asked him to do something hard (Leave his home and go to an unknown land) and yet Abraham obeyed.  We focused on how God loves to reward us for our obedience (Abraham was given a son for his obedience and great land)


The next part of Obedience we talked about, was obeying only halfway.  I used an example of following directions on how to clean pennys.  I said the directions told me to use salt and vinegar, but I thought we didn't need to salt, so I didn't add it.

So I had her put the dirty pennys in just the vinegar and see if it would make them clean. She stirred them around, and it did not...

 So then after adding the salt and stirring them, we laid them out to see if they were clean...

 Once she made the connection that we needed to follow all the directions in order for it to work, we read the story of Moses and him striking the rock to get water for the Israelites.  We talked about how because he didn't obey all the way, they had to wander more in the dessert.

More Get Wisdom Work

Resources:

Ruth Younts "Get Wisdom"

http://kidsofintegrity.com/obedience

Get Wisdom - Listen

~Bella is 28 months~

So Since Easter is over, I needed to find something else to do to guide us in Biblical training.  I have decided that I am not going to confine myself with this to certain time frames.  So the book I am using is called "Get Wisdom" by Ruth Younts.  It is an awesome book.  It has 23 Lessons.  She has provided a definition, a Bible verse, questions to ask, an image to go with the lesson.  Then in the back of the book she has even more for you with each lesson.

So our first lesson was about Listening.  We read the lesson and the Bible verse. The image was a bunny for the big ears.  

So we made a bunny ears headband she could wear to remember what the lesson is about.  She really loved this.  And we would be going throughout the week and she would put her fingers up by her forehead and say "Ears... Listen?" hehe

So we next read this book about listening. We talked about this then in relation to her daily life.

We also read the story of Jonah and talked about what happened when he listened and when he didn't.

Then I had her play a listening game online.  She had to listen to the sound of the animal and then tell me what animal it corresponded with. This is the first time I let her do something on our computer, so this was loads of fun.

Then for our memory verses, I have made memory cards to be a visual aid for her.

Resources:

http://www.dltk-kids.com/t.asp?b=m&t=http://www.dltk-holidays.com/easter/images/c-ears.gif

Get Wisdom by Ruth Younts

http://www.fisher-price.com/us/littlepeople/clubhouse/games.asp?section=animalsounds&gameID=LP_AnimalSounds