Journey to Bethlehem

Tonight we visited MVBC's Journey to Bethlehem. It was SO good, and I'm so glad we went. At bedtime each night we've been reading a little board book about the true Christmas story. The scenes in the "walk through play" were almost identical, so Emma was really able to make a text to self connection (check out that snazzy teacher talk;).

The scene with King Herod was a little scary, even for this Mama. He asked us if we planned to follow "this baby Jesus", and when we answered yes he began screaming at us to get out. Every scene after that Emma asked, "is that mad man going to be here?"

A few of the scenes were outside, so Kristen came and got Luke and took him into her scene (the marketplace). This is how we found him when we were finished...