Daniel and the Lions' Den

Story Bus: Moses, King, Others, Lion (I would normally have more lions; however, we are in process of moving, and I must have already packed the others away.) The toddlers loved this story.  They listened to this one better than any other story! They enjoyed roaring like a lion!

With every story we learn, we focus also focus on a certain letter.  This story, we learned about the letter Ll.  They glued paper on the lion and tried tracing the Ll.  I usually hold their hand and help them trace the letters.  Then, I let them hold the crayon themselves and "trace" (more like color) the letter on their own.

For physical education time, or I call gross motors, we played a game called SWAT.  The kiddos had to swat the "lions" (balls) with a huge flyswatter.  They loved it even though it was a bit challenging.

We also made our own lions out of paper plates.  They always want to put the glue on themselves, so this time I let them.  Then, they placed the already cut up paper onto the paper plate to make a lion.  I drew the faces on for them.  I took a picture of all three so you could see the different levels of students I have.  

We also acted out the story.  We have playhouse castle in our backyard, so I had the toddlers act out the story of Daniel and the Lions' Den. I had to show them where to go, and I did the talking. But they still had fun acting it out especially roaring like the lions do!

We painted with forks to make a lion.  They enjoyed doing this a little more than the other because it involved paint, and they love painting especially because I try to allow them to paint with several different utensils and not just paint brushes!