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Seasonal Activities

Seasonal Changes in Nature

Day 130of 180
Week 26of 36
15Minutes
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Learning Objectives

1

Identify typical activities associated with each season

2

Understand how seasonal changes impact outdoor activities

3

Develop appreciation for God's design of seasonal variations

Ecclesiastes 3:1

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 (WEB)

Demonstrates God's intentional design of seasonal changes and rhythms

📦 Materials Needed

  • Season pictures
  • Seasonal clothing/toy props
  • World English Bible
  • BibleMouse Resource Guide: PK4 Science

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Recap yesterday's lesson about clothing in different seasons

💭 Review Question: What did we learn about dressing for different weather?
2Teaching (5 min)

Explore seasonal activities through interactive discussion

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Summer: Swimming, playing at park
  • Winter: Sledding, building snowmen
  • Spring: Planting flowers, flying kites
  • Autumn: Raking leaves, collecting acorns
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What's your favorite thing to do in summer?
  • Have you ever gone sledding?
3Activity: Seasonal Activity Charades (6 min)
discussion

Act out activities for each season, family guesses

📝 Instructions:
  1. Draw a season card
  2. Mime an activity from that season
  3. Family tries to guess the activity
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Parent demonstrates, child copies

Challenge: Child creates own seasonal activity mime

4Closing (3 min)

Review seasonal activities and Bible verse

📝 Review Questions:
  • What activities did we talk about today?
  • What does our Bible verse tell us about seasons?

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll explore rock collections in our BibleMouse Science lesson

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

PK4 children are developing understanding of time and seasonal changes

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Use animated, enthusiastic tone
  • Encourage physical movement during lesson
  • Connect activities to child's personal experiences
🤔 Common Struggles:

Distinguishing between seasons, understanding abstract time concepts

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child's ability to name activities and relate them to specific seasons

Extension Activities

  • Create a seasonal activity scrapbook
  • Take a nature walk and discuss current season's characteristics

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