Circle Time Weekly Schedule 2009-2010 Term 2

Circle Time Weekly Schedule
2009-2010, Term 2
Week 1
Monday
-Scripture of the Week: Proverbs 10:4
-“Poor is he who works with a negligent hand,
But the hand of the diligent makes rich.”
-Manner: Diligence and hard work are the mark of the virtuous man.
-Can you see this in your story books? Why is hard work important?
-Work on memory verses
-Little Pilgrim’s Progress: 2 chapters
-Poem of the week: The Father and his Children from Oxford Book of Children’s Verse pp. 75-76
-Song of the day: How Firm a Foundation
Tuesday
-Singing Songs
-Hymn: I Need Thee Every Hour
-Folk: Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy (Celtic)
-Song of the day: Be Thou my Vision
Wednesday
-Art study: Pieter Brugel the Elder
- Landscape with the Fall of Icharus
-Read the myth of Dædelus/Icharus from The Age of Fable
-Challenge: can you find Icharus in the painting?
-Song of the day: The Drinking Gourd
Thursday
-Bible Story: One story from The Jesus Storybook Bible
-History: Beacon Lights reading
-Song of the day: Victory in Jesus
-Nature journal entries
Week 2
Monday
- Scripture of the Week: Proverbs 19:15
-“Laziness casts into a deep sleep,
And an idle man will suffer hunger.”
-Manner: A wise man does not waste his time, nor does he love sleep.
-Why is this? Is playing a form of idleness? Why not?
-Poem of the week: Henry’s Secret from Oxford Book of Children’s Verse pp. 82-83
-Song of the day: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Tuesday
-Singing Songs
Wednesday
- Landscape with the Fall of Icharus
-Song of the day: The Old Oaken Bucket
Thursday
-Song of the day: Great is Thy Faithfulness
Week 3
Monday
-Scripture of the Week: Proverbs 23:20-21
-Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine,
Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;
For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.
-What does the word “glutton” mean? How is this different from what we
talked about over Christmas, from enjoying your feast meals? What is poverty? Why would the Teacher
connect gluttony to poverty? What does it mean to be content? Is the gluttonous man content?
-Manner: Do not desire a feast every day of the week, but rather be content with what you have, and crave for
wisdom instead.
-Poem of the week: The Glutton from Oxford Book of Children’s Verse p. 83
Tuesday
-Singing Songs
Wednesday
-Children’s Games
-Bruegel is famous for landscapes populated by peasants, and he is sometimes called Peasant Bruegel for that
reason. Do you know what a landscape painting is? (Landscape paintings have as their main subject a wide
view, showing many details of the land, usually lots of natural scenery, elements of Creation.) Do you
remember how the first landscape reminded us of the myth of Icharus? Each of his landscapes can remind us
of something or tell us something. What do you see in this landscape?
-Song of the day: Be Thou My Vision
Thursday
Week 4
Monday
-Scripture of the Week: Isaiah 49:13
-“Shout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth!
Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains!
For the LORD has comforted His people
And will have compassion on His afflicted.”
-Manner: A wise man always has reason to rejoice, for his God is the LORD, and He
has done great and mighty things.
-What do you have to rejoice in?
-Poem of the week: Laughing Song from Oxford Book of Children’s Verse p. 87
Tuesday
-Singing Songs
Wednesday
-Children’s Games
Thursday
Week 5
Monday
-Scripture of the Week: Psalm 119:9-10
-“How can a young man keep his way pure?
By keeping it according to Your word.
With all my heart I have sought You;
Do not let me wander from Your commandments.”
-Manner: A wise young man keeps close to God’s Word and when he is old, he
does not regret it.
-Poem of the week: The Old Man’s Comforts and How He Gained Them from OBCV p. 93
Tuesday
-Singing Songs
Wednesday
-Tower of Babel
-Read Genesis 10:1, 6-10; 11:1-9
Thursday
Week 6
Monday
-Scripture of the Week: Galatians 5:13-14
-“For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into
an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole Law is
fulfilled in one word, in the statement, YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS
YOURSELF.”
-Manner: God has called us to serve one another in love.
-How can we serve each other? What does this mean?
-Poem of the week: Written in the Album of a Child from OBCV p. 105
Tuesday
-Singing Songs
Wednesday
-Tower of Babel
-Do you remember what a landscape is? Is this painting a landscape? (Answer: No, the subject is not a wide
view, but the tower itself.) How do you know? What do you see in this painting?
Thursday
Week 7
Monday
-Scripture of the Week: James 1:27
-“Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans
and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”
-Manner: True worship of God means caring for those in need, especially those without a
man to provide for them.
-Do you know any widows? Any orphans? What should you do for them? How should
you act toward them?
-Poem: The Beggar Man from Oxford Book of Children’s Verse pp. 109-110
Tuesday
-Singing Songs
Wednesday
-Landscape with the Parable of the Sower
-Read: Luke 8:4-15
-Review the four soils and then ask the children to identify them in the painting.
-Isn’t it interesting that a landscape can also depict a parable?
Thursday
Week 8
Monday
-Scripture of the Week: I Timothy 5:4, 8, 16
-“[B]ut if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to
practice piety in regard to their own family and to make some return to their
parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God…But if anyone does not
provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied
the faith and is worse than an unbeliever…If any woman who is a believer has
dependent widows, she must assist them and the church must not be burdened,
so that it may assist those who are widows indeed.”
-Manner: We are responsible before God to take care of the widows in our own families.
-Discuss the Greek: some of it implies preparing beforehand (i.e., living life in such a way that one is prepared
for this event), some of it implies defending or providing necessary aid, etc. Children as well as grandchildren,
men and women, are all referenced here.
-What do you think about this? Are you ready to care for your grandparents or parents someday? How can you
be ready for this by the time you are grown?
-Poem of the week: My Mother from Oxford Book of Children’s Verse pp. 114-115
Tuesday
-Singing Songs
Wednesday
-Landscape with the Parable of the Sower
-What do you remember about this painting from last week? Is this a landscape? What makes it so?
Thursday
Week 9
Monday
-“Four things are small on the earth,
But they are exceedingly wise:
The ants are not a strong people,
But they prepare their food in the summer.”
-Manner: It is wise to prepare for the future.
-Think about the concept: What does it mean to be prepared? What do you need in the
winter that you do not need in the summer? What do you need every day? How do I help you prepare the
things you need? When you are grown, will Mommy do these things for you?
-Poem of the week: The Pin from Oxford Book of Children’s Verse p. 117-118
Tuesday
-Singing Songs
-Poem of the week: The Pin from Oxford Book of Children’s Verse pp. 117-118
Wednesday
-Hunters in the Snow
-Briefly discuss the “Little Ice Age” which followed the Medieval warming period, and extended into the mid-
1800s.
-Iceland was frozen and the sea ice went far out from the island itself
-Rivers froze so deeply that carnivals could be held on them and ice skating became very popular
-Greenland was so frozen that settlement was no longer possible and it was abandoned and/or the
people there died. It was not farmed again until at least 100 years later
-Entire harbors, such as New York Harbor, froze (that was in 1780)
-If you were a painter, and the weather was increasingly frosty, and you painted landscapes, what would you
paint? What would be your subject?
-What do you see in this painting? Do you think hunting was important during a time of harsh, long winters?
Why?
Thursday
Week 10
Monday
-Scripture of the Week: Leviticus 19:9-10
-“Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very
corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. Nor
shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your
vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the
LORD your God.”
-Manner: Do not take everything for yourself; leave something for others.
-If a farmer leaves something in his field, how does this help the poor? Does he pick it himself and give it to
the poor? Do you think it is good for the poor to have to come and get it? Has our family ever “gleaned” that
you can think of? Why would it be good for us to do some of the work ourselves? Explain dignity.
-Poem of the week: The Gleaner from Oxford Book of Children’s Verse pp. 120-121
Tuesday
-Singing Songs
Wednesday
-Hunters in the Snow
-What do you see in this painting? Do you like it? Why or why not?
Thursday
Week 11
Monday
-Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool,
Much less are lying lips to a prince.”
-Manner: Speak in a way that is fitting.
-Do you know what the word “fitting” means? Discuss. Do you speak
differently to an adult than to a child? Do you speak differently at a party than
at a funeral? Do you speak more loudly outside than inside? Than when folks
are awake, versus when they are asleep? Drive home the idea of propriety in speech.
-Poem of the week: Loving and Liking from Oxford Book of Children’s Verse pp. 129-130
Tuesday
-Singing Songs
Wednesday
-Peasant Wedding
-What do you see in this painting? Can you find the bride and groom? What are they carrying the plates on?
What else do you see?
Thursday
Week 12
Monday
-Scripture of the Week: I Samuel 12:24
-“Only fear the LORD and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for
consider what great things He has done for you.”
-Manner: Live a truthful life.
-Does the LORD ever lie? Should his children lie? Does God see you
when you are speaking? How can you honor Him in what you say?
-Poem of the week: Truth the Best from Oxford Book of Children’s Verse p. 137
Tuesday
-Singing Songs
Wednesday
-Peasant Wedding
Thursday

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