This week in preschool....January 13-17, 2014

Lord, I love .....Your House.  Psalm 26:8
This week we are learning about 12 year old Jesus when He went to the temple in Jerusalem with His parents.  His family started home, and they could not find Jesus.  Mary and Joseph went back to Jerusalem, and after looking for Him for 3 days, they found Him in the temple, listening and teaching.

Jesus Time enables the children to:

• hear stories about Jesus, their Savior and Friend
• feel secure in Jesus' love
• rejoice and express feelings of praise
• talk to Jesus in prayer
• sing their praises
• be happy knowing that there is a place for them in heaven because of Jesus' death and resurrection
• discuss ways to share Jesus' love with others

Everyday that we have someone absent, we pray for that friend, and when that friend comes back, we thank God for helping our friend get better or keeping them safe on their trip.  We sing everyday as we wait patiently for friends to take turns using the restroom, ask your child what their favorite song is.


This week we have toilet tissue in our sensory table, we are using our fine motor skills to tear off sheets, then tear them into smaller pieces.

We used our torn tissue and we made snowmen.  We drew 3 circles, a large circle on the bottom, a medium circle in the middle, and a small circle on top.  Then we used the markers to make a face for our snowmen, and arms, then we spread glue around the middle and large circle and added our torn tissue.  When we use markers or crayons we are working on holding the writing utensil the proper way, not with our fists.  These projects are helping us learn process by following more than 3 step directions.

In Art, we also made marshmallow snowmen, which we drew our circles again, and this time we outlined the circles in glue and counted out marshmallows 10 at a time and added them to the outline. This activity also helped our fine motor skills with drawing the circles, holding the marker, and picking up the marshmallow and we use our eye hand coordination to place the marshmallows on the glue line.  We also made an icicle craft by making a line of glue, we let gravity pull it down, and added glitter.  We used paper towel rolls dipped in white paint to make snowmen, and we made our own paper creations of snowmen, like we read about in Lois Ehlert's  Snowballs.  First, we had to cut out the circles, then glue, and last, decorate. We have had lots of fine motor practice this week.  Our classroom looks like a winter wonderland, please stop and take a look.

In center time we continue to work on our names, we continue to use the light table to find the letters, now we added playdough, where the children roll out the dough into a long rectangle, and then they spell their name using the letter cookie cutters, some spelled it and kept it in the dough, where others cut the letters out like cookies.

We also used wiki sticks to make the letters in our name, and milk jug caps with letters on them to form our names.  We also went searching in our sensory rice table to find and count different items.  We made name snowmen too!!  We are learning our letters and sounds.  We also used our bingo markers to follow a path to help the snowman get his mittens.

Our fun in science was to talk about things that will melt.  Just look outside and our snow day snow is gone!

This week we read....
Snowmen at Night
Snowmen All Year
Snowballs
The Biggest, Best Snowman
All you Need for a Snowman



Just a reminder that next Tuesday, January 21 we will be making snowmen out of milk jugs, please bring your clean gallon or half gallon jugs to school, if you have extra we would appreciate them in case someone forgets.

This week in preschool...January 8-10, 2014

The Lord has fulfilled His promise that He made.  2 Chronicles 6:10
God kept His promise to send Jesus, our Savior.  He forgives us when we forget He is in control.
We read from the Children's Bible about Simeon and Anna, who had been waiting many years to see the Christ Child.  They learned that Gods keeps His promises.

Oh Come, let us worship and bow down.  Psalm 95:6
We also read about the Wise Men that followed the star in the East to come and worship Jesus. They brought gifts of frankincense, gold, and myrrh.  After the Wise Men worshiped Jesus they returned home by another way, and did not return to Herod.

Welcome Back!  I pray that you had a blessed Christmas and New Year!  This week has been great fun, even though, we had two snow days.

In Art, we made snowflakes out of coffee filters, which helps us learn shapes, folding , and work on our cutting skills.  We made star pictures, using cookie cutters, and dipping them in white paint and putting it on black paper.  We made popsicle snowflakes, by gluing them into a snowflake shape and adding glitter.  We had to count out 4 popsicle sticks, and using a paint brush helps us learn to hold a pencil.  We talked about how no two snowflakes are alike, just like people.

In Center Time/Small group this week we are working on our names.  We find our name tag, then we take it to the light table and find the letters to spell our name.  We brought snow in and colored it with markers.  Then our snow melted.  What a great way to incorporate science!   We have white play dough, that we can make stars, snowmen, and snowballs.  We used our iPads to count, sort, and find which kind of candy has more or less in the bag. At the block center the friends work cooperatively to make some magnificent creations.

This week we read...
Snip, Snip, Snow!
Winter is Here!
Ten on the Sled
No Two Alike


Book orders were sent home on Wednesday and Thursday, I will be submitting the order on January 15.

Those children that come to school on Friday, January 17, we will be making our snowman from collected items from home.  We will be reading Snowballs by Lois Ehlert, and the children then make there own snowman from the items that they bring in from home.  I will be sending a bag home for them to collect their treasures in.


Those children that come to school on Tuesday, January 21 will need to bring a clean plastic milk jug, gallon or half gallon is fine, we are going to be making more snowmen.

Please check your child's box of extra clothes to make sure they are the correct season and size.