This week in preschool...December 16-20, 2013

Glory to God in the highest!  Luke 2:14

This week in Jesus Time we have been reading Arch books:  Mary's Christmas Story, Joseph's Christmas Story, The Shepherd's Christmas, and we read The Pine Tree Parable, as we continue to learn about our Savior's birth.  Jesus is the BEST GIFT!    I invite you to join us at one of our partnering churches for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services, if you do not have a church home.  A note was sent home from Mrs. Shirley that lists all the service times at each church.  May the love of Christ shine in your lives this Christmas season.

This week we have been busy finishing our parent gifts and wrapping them so they are ready and waiting under the Christmas tree.  We made model magic ornaments, we rolled them out then used cookie cutters to make Christmas shapes, and after they were dry we painted them.  We also easel painted.

In Small Group, we made patterns with rubber stamps, and we made bead candy canes, which helped our fine motor skills, and more patterning.  Patterning helps us build our math skills.

We had the 5th graders come and read Christmas stories to us.

When we choose the block center we learn to engage in meaningful work, and improve our small and large motor coordination. We learn to share ideas and work together in a group, and develop concepts such as big/little, more than/ less than, equal to, shape, size, color, etc.  We express our creativity, and experience open ended thinking.

We played Christmas Bingo!

We sang for the Young at Heart group Christmas luncheon, and shared the love of Christ through song.

This week we read:
Is It Christmas?
Christmas Kisses
Pete the Cat Saves Christmas
The 12 Days of Christmas
Bear Stays Up
S is for Snowman, God's Wintertime Alphabet
Away in a Manger
The Friendly Beasts
Silent Night
Oh Come Little Children


God's Blessings to each of you this Christmas!  See you in January!

This week in Preschool...December 9-13, 2013

For unto you is born...a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.   Luke 2:11

This week we have read from our different children's bibles, The Most Special Baby, Good News, and What's All the singing About?  We learned about the journey that Mary and Joseph had to get to Bethlehem to be counted, then there wasn't any room.  They stayed in the stable that night and baby Jesus was born.  The angels sang and the shepherds came to visit Him, and they told everyone about Jesus.  That is our job too, Go and Tell Everyone.  We also read The Legend of the Candy Cane, which we learned that the candy cane is like a shepherd's staff, Jesus is our good shepherd, it is a letter J for Jesus, and the red reminds of Jesus's blood, and the white is for how we are clean because He die on the cross and took our sins away.

We are still busy making surprises, but we made paper gingerbread people, we painted with scented paint and made candy canes by rolling marbles around to make the stripes, and we made Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer from our hands and feet, and we drew what we thought would be under the Christmas bow.

At Center Time we have been baking this week, we made gingerbread cookies, measures, mixed and baked 2 birthday cakes for baby Jesus. YUM!  They were really good!

I am amazed each and everyday at the new structures that they build.

Our stories this week:
The Gingerbread Girl
The Gingerbread Bear
Moosletoe
Merry Christmas Big Hungry Bear
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
Christmas in the Barn
Who is Coming to Our House?
Snowmen at Christmas


Thank you to everyone who brought in the supplies that were needed to bake our Happy Birthday Jesus cakes.

Thank you for joining us for a special chapel on Thursday as we celebrate our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ's birth.

Christmas Break is December 23-January 5