Noah's Ark

Last week we discussed the story of Noah’s Ark. We read many books about the story of Noah’s Ark, looked at various pictures of real boats, and did many experiments involving water. We also learned that the Hebrew word for ark is “teivah”.

We worked together, because we have such a small class, to create an ark out of craft sticks, glue, and brown paint to create an ark. We also used blue, aqua, and green finger paint to create the water. We included pictures of stuffed animals two by two that the children brought to school. Finally, we created a rainbow using scented paint for each color. 

Each child also made a small Ark to take home in the same way – ½ of a paper plate, brown paint, and smaller craft sticks. When this was dry they got to put as many animal stickers on the ark as they wanted. To finish this project each child used the other ½ of the paper plate and created a rainbow with crayons, paint, tissue paper, colored glue and beads, oil pastels, and watercolors.

To end our discussion, we created yummy edible Arks! Each child got ½ of a whole wheat pita, a kid-friendly plastic knife with some chocolate frosting and animal crackers. We put the items on the plate and asked the children to create an Ark!

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Colorations® Simply Washable Tempera - brown (WSTBR)
Colorations® Washable Finger Paint - set of 10 (CWFPS)
Colorations® Crayons
Colorations® Tissue Paper
Colorations® Glitter Glue Classroom Pack - set of 30 (GGCLASS)
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Colorations® Outstanding Oil Pastels Classpack (COPACK)
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9" White Paper Plates - 100 pieces (DIXIE)

Day Five of the Seven Days of Creation!!

Day 5:

On the Fifth Day God created animals that live in the ocean, like fish and other sea animals and animals that fly in the sky like birds and butterflies.

First we created a sky and an ocean. In order to create the ocean, the children spooned dark blue powder paint all over a poster board. We then put it outside in the rain. After it had been outside for a while we observed that as the powder got wet from the rain it covered the board with a thick, textured blue paint. On another rainy day the children spooned light blue powder paint on a poster board and, after it was out in the rain we suddenly had a sky for our birds!

We read The Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale and then the children made their own rainbow fish by first painting cut out fish and then gluing sequins and metallic “scales” and eyes on them. The children also created other ocean animals by first coloring them with oil pastels and then painting with watercolors.

We read Inch by Inch about an inchworm that measures all different kinds of birds. We also read Waiting for Wings, which is about the life cycle of butterflies. To make the birds and butterflies the children first used bright watercolor paints to paint the cut out animals; after the paint dried, the children glued multi-colored feathers on them. They also painted a big bird which is “flying” from the ceiling in front of our Creation Boards.
The children went “fishing” as they searched for fish hiding in a mixture of cornmeal and corn kernels. They also examined toy insects with magnifying glasses....

JOIN US NEXT WEEK for DAY SIX of the SEVEN DAYS OF CREATION.