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Parents Day Out Unit 7 • Learning About Good Food Do not expect younger preschoolers to understand how to express gratitude or thankfulness. Foundations for thankfulness become attitudes in children because they observe adults expressing thanks. Music During resting and sleeping times, play a quiet recording. At other times during the session when infants and toddlers are playing, you may want to play segments from the cassette tape or CD ‘Specially Special Songs. Provide jingle bells sealed inside small plastic bottles, a coffee-can drum, or other safe noisemakers for younger preschoolers to shake, rattle, or pound while they listen to music. Use your singing voice to interest or calm a child, naming the child in the song. “I Have a Good Friend” and “Thank You, God” may be adapted to include the names of specific children. Nature Bring fresh flowers for preschoolers to smell. Tie the stems of the flowers to a coat hanger to make a mobile. Hang the flower mobile out of reach of the children but in a location where you can hold children up to the mobile as you touch and smell the flowers. Since many flowers are poisonous if eaten, do not allow children to handle flowers. As you look at the flowers with a child, say: “God made the flowers. Thank You, God, for pretty flowers and for Maria’s nose to smell the flowers. A verse in the Bible is ‘Thank You, God.’ ” Allergy Alert! Post an allergy alert on the door notifying parents of the flowers to be used in the session. Teaching Pictures Locate the pictures “Joey Eats an Apple,” “Fruit,” “A Family Walking,” “My Family Thanks God,” “I Love My Family,” and “Thank You, God, for the World” (pictures 8, 9, 12, 14, 20, and 21 from WEE Learn Teaching Pictures for Two-Year-Olds). Teaching pictures displayed in the room provide you with opportunities for conversation with children about things for which you can thank God: good food, family members, friends, Jesus, the Bible, flowers, trees, and so forth. Make a “thank-you box” by taping four pictures onto the four sides of a large cardboard grocery box. As an older infant crawls to the box or as a toddler climbs in and out of the box, talk about the pictures. Toys and Games Prior to the session purchase five or six colorful plastic bangle bracelets. Younger preschoolers enjoy handling, mouthing, and carrying these bracelets. A large plastic bottle with a long slim neck is ideal for stacking the bracelets onto. Also provide a rock-n-stack toy. Infants and Toddlers 6
Parents Day Out Unit 7 • Learning About Good Food Additional Ideas for Toddlers • Blocks—Provide large soft plastic farm animals and several empty shoe boxes. As toddlers use these along with cardboard blocks, say: “God made the animals. Thank You, God, for the animals.” • Homeliving—Place empty food containers and cartons in a large grocery bag. As toddlers pretend to eat food and feed dolls, say, “God loves you.” Read the Bible verse in the Bible “Jesus said, ‘Love one another.’ ” Say, “Thank you for helping one another and for taking care of the dolls.” • Puzzles—On a small blanket on the floor place the wooden puzzles “ Farm Animals,” “Fruit,” and “Vegetables.” As toddlers work puzzles, say thank-you prayers for animals and food. Evaluation • Did you feel gratitude for blessings in your life as you taught preschoolers today? • Name specific things for which preschoolers heard you thank God. RESOURCES Bible • Read to Me Bible for Kids • 155819844X (NIrV) • Read to Me Bible for Kids • 1558198458 (KJV) Books • All About Baby! (Dorling Kindersley, 1994) 1564585301 • Baby Farm Animals (Penguin Putnam) 0721495486 • I Eat Fruit (Tofts, Zero to Ten) 1840890002 • I Eat Vegetables (Tofts, Zero to Ten) 1840890010 • I’m Grown Up (Miller, Little Simon) 0689800436 • On the Farm (Brown, Dorling Kindersley) 1564582698 Pictures • WEE Learn Teaching Pictures for Two-Year-Olds 0767333381 Music • ‘Specially Special Songs: Music for Early Childhood Songbook • 0767334884 Double Cassette • 0767334825 Double CD • 0767334817 Puzzles (Constructive Playthings) • “Fruit” • CP-903 (4 pieces ) • “Transportation” • DL-4001 (5 pieces) Puzzles (McGraw-Hill Children’s Publishers) • “Farm Animals” • J040010 (5 pieces) • “Pet Pals” • J48086 (4 pieces) • “Vegetables” • J48089 (4 pieces) Parents Day Out curriculum is published by LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention, One LifeWay Plaza, Nashville, Tennessee 37234. © 2002 LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. All rights reserved. Infants and Toddlers 7
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