They are precious in his sight..

Jesus loves the little children

All the children of the world

Red and Yellow, Black and White

They are precious in his sight

Jesus loves the little children of the world

If you have grown up in a church, you have heard the song, "Jesus Loves the Little Children." This song is really, really old.  In fact, it's in the Baptist Hymnal from 1946. During Bible, we talked about how no matter we look on the outside, we are created by a perfect God who made us in his image.  After all, We are fearfully and wonderfully made. We also talked about how this song is kind of wrong.  We have never walked down the street and seen a person that was actually red, yellow, black, or white.  I went around at held up construction paper to every kids' arm.  We decided none of us were exactly those colors. I announced then that we were going to create self portraits of our faces.  We were not the color of the paper plate.  So, we need to find out our skin color.

During the previous week, I made a trip and got a whole bunch of paint that was around skin tones.  I then tested each of the kids, we (as a class) determined our skin tones.  I wrote them on the board.  Some of the kids refused to let me wipe off their hand from the paint.  They wanted to show Mom and Dad.  It was fine by me.  The first grade teacher even stopped in to find our her skin color.

Today, we started working on our faces.  Here are our finished products for the day:

I will post the finished projects when completed

We've also been reading Flat Stanley.  We, along with the K5 an 1st grade classes, colored Flat Stanley and are mailing him places that Mom and Dad have chosen.  We'll see how that turns out!