This weeks book is Christian, The Hugging Lion. If you haven't already seen the video of this lion bought from a store, raised by two men, released to Africa and successfully becoming wild but not forgetting his two friends watch it here. I know it's the cat lover in me, but I get choked up every time. Anyway, the story's been turned into a picture book, and I couldn't resist. We enjoyed reading the story together and watching the youtube video. We talked about why it would be fun but not a good idea to have a lion as a pet. 
And we talked about unusual friendships. This really became our theme for the week. We read Aesop's Fable of the Lion and the Mouse and talked about that unusual relationship. We talked about the Good Samaritan and why it was unusual for the Samaritan to help the man. We read Isaiah 11:6, "The wolf will dwell with the lamb...the calf and the lion will feed together."
And we talked about unusual friendships. This really became our theme for the week. We read Aesop's Fable of the Lion and the Mouse and talked about that unusual relationship. We talked about the Good Samaritan and why it was unusual for the Samaritan to help the man. We read Isaiah 11:6, "The wolf will dwell with the lamb...the calf and the lion will feed together."On this theme of unique relationships and opposites, we spent a day talking about another L word - lamb. We read about lambs and then drew a lamb using Adam's handprint. He then filled it in (maybe a bit too much) with cotton balls for that woolly lamb look :) The practice L's make a nice finishing touch.
Here is Adam "roaring!" It's fun to be a lion :)
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