Scriptures Discussed:

	Colossians 1:16b "...all things were created by him..."
	Psalm 98:4a "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord..."
	Ephesians 5:19b "...singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord"
	Philemon 7a "For we have great joy and consolation in thy love..."

Academic Objectives:

	To classify objects according to texture, shape and color
	To exercise auditory discrimination
	To personify different kinds of lines and associate behavior with the personalities of each line
	To create a pattern using a number of lines
	To observe the results of mixing two colors
	To relate sound to visual image
	To study how facial expression and body language reflect emotion
	To analyze a work of art using a three-part method

Production Objectives:

	To design a collage of found objects
	To explore wavy and zigzag lines by drawing them
	To enjoy the sensory experience of fingerpainting
	To make several drawings that relate an emotionally-charged event

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Scriptures Discussed:

	Proverbs 1:5a "A wise man will hear, and will increase learning..."
	Isaiah 41:10a "Fear thou not; for I am with thee:"
	Isaiah 64:8 "...we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand."
	Psalm 32:11a "Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice..."

Academic Objectives:

	To use creative thinking to develop a variety of lines
	To discuss simple dolls from the past and their purpose
	To develop the senses by making a variety of comparisons
	To explore the character of a tree by assuming a variety of poses
	To define resist as pushing away
	To define potter as a person who makes bowls and plates out of clay
	To exercise the tactile sense and to reinforce line

Production Objectives:

	To make a simple doll
	To explore with modeling clay and to create a visual representation
	To use the resist technique to apply paint over oil pastel
	To arrange shapes on a page
	To practice the skill of tracing

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Scriptures Discussed:

	Proverbs 20:12 "The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them."
	Psalm 22:3 "...O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel"
	Ecclesiastes 9:10 "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might"
	Genesis 1:31a "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

Academic Objectives:

	To practice cutting with scissors
	To reproduce a color by mixing
	To practice creating mind pictures, and to associate, using the sense of smell
	To examine a still life by Paul Cezanne
	To examine an orange through creative role play
	To discern between shades of orange
	To examine and compare common features of different animals
	To identify shapes created by intersecting lines
	To reinforce visual memory
	To find geometric shapes in objects and in our surroundings

Production Objectives:

	To practice the collage technique
	To practice drawing different kinds of lines
	To create an image from a shape
	To create patterns with shapes using the collage method

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Scriptures Discussed:

	Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."
	Philippians 4:19a "But my God shall supply all your need..."
	Genesis 1:27a "So God created man in his own image..."
	Genesis 8:22b "...summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

Academic Objectives:

	To examine lines and shapes in native American blankets
	To find evidence of man's artistic nature in clothing, blankets, and household items belonging to native Americans from long ago
	To examine the homes of native Americans from the past
	To see man's artistic nature in paintings on tepee walls
	To note differences in color, size and shape among the birds and animals in the picture display
	To practice visual memory
	To explore shapes patterns
	To predict the next shape in a pattern, based on a sequence
	To recognize order in a pattern
	To reinforce the concept of shape

Production Objectives:

	To plan a blanket pattern using stripes
	To describe objects according to color, line, and shape
	To create a representation of the native American tepee and its surrounding environment
	To practice drawing from a story
	To create patterns with shapes using the collage method

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Scriptures Discussed:

	Psalm 133:1 "...how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!"
	Ephesians 5:1 "Be ye therefore followers of God..."
	1 Thess 5:14b "...be patient toward all men."
	Genesis 1:31 "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

Academic Objectives:

	To make decisions in a group setting
	To observe different responses to the same problem
	To strengthen an understanding of the identity of certain geometric shapes
	To explore variations of certain geometric shapes
	To view the body and wings of a bee as a combination of geometric shapes
	To see a flower as a combination of geometric shapes
	To explore the image of a bug as a combination of shapes

Production Objectives:

	To create images from shapes
	To assemble the body of a bee from a group of geometric shapes
	To draw the body and wings of a bee
	To explore variations of geometric shapes
	To recognize and draw the shapes of flowers
	To draw and paint representations of bold, beautiful flowers
	To attempt to represent a bug with modeling clay
	To draw a variety of bugs

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Scriptures Discussed:

	Ephesians 4:32a "And be ye kind one to another..."
	Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights ... he made the stars also"
	Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
	1 Corinthians 12:14 "For the body is not one member but many"

Academic Objectives:

	To attempt to interpret the subject matter of a painting
	To develop sequencing abilities by imagining possible past events that might have led to a certain situation and by projecting the possible outcome of a situation
	To recognize how we can all interpret events differently
	To develop visual discrimination skills
	To arrange shapes into a sequence
	To be able to recognize a cylinder
	To define a circular cutout as a disc
	To define a mobile
	To identify patterns created by God

Production Objectives:

	To practice creating a composition, composing it from the imagination
	To create a mobile
	To practice painting patterns with line and shape
	To decorate cylinders and discs with patterns
	To invent patterns using line and shape or a combination of both
	To contribute to making a quilt
	To draw images from the imagination

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Scriptures Discussed:

	Genesis 6:14a "Make thee an ark of gopher wood..."
	Genesis 7:5 "And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him."
	Genesis 1:20 "...Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life..."
	Genesis 9:13 "I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth."

Academic Objectives:

	To study the distinguishing features of a variety of animals
	To explore photographs of life under the sea
	To practice visual discrimination and visual memory skills

Production Objectives:

	To make paper animals
	To help build and paint Noah's ark
	To create the scene around the ark by making items such as trees, flowers, birds and clouds
	To solve practical problems such as how to make flowers stand up and how to suspend clouds in the sky
	To choose from among sea creatures and types of vegetation to make a 3-dimensional representation of life under the sea
	To practice sponge painting
	To mix modeling clay
	To create a rainbow from modeling clay

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