Noah's Ark Prayer Flip Books- w/ Free Printables!

We kicked off our first RE class of the year with new and improved prayer flip books, similar to our bumble bee hive books and theme of the previous year.

Our theme this year is Noah's Ark.  Our bulletin board states "We Noah Our Prayers", and is covered in blue butcher paper.  For each student, we created small Noah's Ark boats listing out their required prayers to memorize for their grade level, and have a space at the bottom in a wave for the child's name.  You can find these Prayer Checklist sheets on our Free Printables Page. 

For our class project for the day, we had the children create their own Noah's Ark Prayer Books.  These flip books, similar to our bee hives last year, can be printed, cut out and stacked to make cute booklets containing all of the required prayers.  The flip books can also be found on our Free Printables Page.

Hope you like these...they took awhile to create, but I like the more polished final look that we have this year as opposed to the bee hives last year.

 

Noah's Ark

Today we covered Noah's Ark. We started out class by working on a coloring sheet for our Mary coloring books (see earlier post). We then went to circle time, where we continued to work on the Hail Mary prayer, and used our new liturgical mat (see separate post) with a candle to discuss the liturgical season and color (green/ordinary time).

We retold the story of Noah's ark, with a children's bible and a small Noah's ark toy. We then completed our art project for the week, a Noah's ark made out of paper plates.

We found the project description here: http://christian-parenting.suite101.com/article.cfm/make_a_noahs_ark_paper_plate_craft

Basically, we bought the cheap paperplates from the drugstore. On one whole plate, we had the kids draw the top half with a rainbow, and the bottom half was left blank. We cut a separate plate in half, and colored it like a boat, and stapeled it to the blank half. For the animals, we had the kids draw animals or use cut outs included with our Blest are We handouts (if you have this curriculum available to you).

This worked well for our kids, perfect for kindergartners, maybe on the more basic side for first graders.