Review: Noah's Ark Lesson Pack

Noah's Ark Teacher's Companion

This set comes from Oriental Trading, I didn't purchase this as it was a gift to my family from a friend.  I am really impressed with these story boards though - they are very colorful and with a really young kid they can understand what is going on just by looking at the picture.  My son would interrupt while telling the story, to ask me questions about what was happening in the picture.... so, the first time I went through it with just the pictures and having him ask me questions and I answer them and then point key things out in the picture that were relevant to the story.  The next couple of times, I told a briefing of the story, then we reviewed the pictures again, and then I asked him the questions that were on the back of the story cards.  They have questions for younger children and older children, along with ideas/concepts to concentrate on.

I would definitely recommend this teacher's companion for a church setting for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarten-first graders.  And a definite for homeschooling, if you want something that is inexpensive and helps with story telling with a visual. :)

This is the packet the story board and instructions come in.

There are 8 story cards in all.

This is the first story card (front side).

First story card (back side).

Includes questions for younger on the left side and questions for older on the right side.

The story briefing is in the middle section (upper) and keyword/concepts in the middle section (lower).

Blessings!

~Bekah

Noah's Ark Make a Sticker Scene

Noah's Ark Make-a-Sticker Scene

I purchased this set from Oriental Trading.  At first I wasn't so sure if my little guy would even want to do this, but once I pulled it out he was VERY excited over it.  And I was happy, he was excited about it.  The stickers on the sheet were easy enough for him to pull off by himself and he stuck them wherever he wanted them.  While he was sticking on some of the stickers, he noticed that some of them were key to the story, for example, the dove with the olive branch, so he told me this one needs to be flying in the air towards the ark because there is a tree but no where for the dove to land yet.  And there were circles with rain drops in it, so he told me these need to be in the clouds because it rained for a long time.  He was sad there wasn't a rainbow sticker though - he was like, "where's the promise sticker?" Too cute!

Needless to say, this was a good investment.  It comes in a pack and there is enough for 12 scenes.  I think I'll hold onto these for when we cover the story again.

Have Fun and Be a Blessing!
~Bekah

Rainbow of Promise

This week our theme is Rainbows.  We will be reading Noah's Ark and different rainbow theme books.  To learn the colors of the rainbow, we watched the Cat in the Hat episode on rainbows to learn the rainbow color song - it's really cute.  Here is our poster board for this week:

This is a math activity, I made the arks by drawing them

on construction paper and putting the even numbers on them.

The animals I printed from HERE, I had him match the boy and girl

animals together then place the correct number of animals on the ark.

This sorting activity, I found clipart off of Microsoft Online

and looked for animals that were facing left and right.

I created columns in MS Word and labeled them left and right.

My son sorted the animals by the direction they were facing.

Sidewalk Chalk Art

I helped him make the rainbow, and he colored it in.

Then we wrote "God's Promise" on it.

This was daddy's surprise when he came home.

I put a rainbow coloring page underneath a white sheet of paper

and had my little guy trace the rainbow.  He decided to use

the colors of the rainbow to make it and colored in the clouds.

Have more to come...

I have a rainbow size sorting activity.

Rainbow tic tac toe game.

Rainbow science activities.

And some rainbow crafts still to complete.

I'll also take pictures of our Noah's Ark story boards

from Oriental Trading (I'm very impressed with it!).

Have fun and Be a Blessing!

~Bekah