Merry Christmas!

Here is a better picture of our tree. The picture in the previous post, our tree looked pretty sad.

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We are both enjoying our time with our own kids! Cassie went to Florida to spend time with her husband's family. While they were there they even got to go and meet Mickey and friends. Jen went to Oklahoma to visit her grandmother.

We are missing our school friends though and can't wait to see everyone on the week of the 6th!

Before school was let out, we had a week full of festivities. We made a Christmas Wreath with our hand prints.

We also made "special" reindeer food!

One Tuesday we were able to watch the rehearsal for the older kids' program and on Wednesday we went to watch the program. They did a wonderful job.

Our school raised close to $1000.00 from raffle tickets! Way to go!!! The money is helping out a HIS KIDS family during this Christmas Season.

We had our parties on Tuesday and Wednesday. We think everyone had a good time. We had great food and it was nice to just get to visit with everyone!

We will be back on the 6th!

Exciting update on our Library!

As most of you have probably noticed our class is missing an essential center! It is our library/ book center. The second week of school our book shelf completely fell apart. We have nothing to put all of our books in, so they have been in our resource/workroom. A new book shelf was ordered for us. Not to bore you with any details, but in order to purchase a new piece of furniture for our classrooms, there needs to be a few different approvals other than just Heathers. Once we got all the approvals that were needed, we ordered our new bookshelf. Well, turns out that the bookshelf had been discontinued so we had to start from scratch on the approval process. We finally have now gotten all the approvals that we need and the new bookshelf has been ordered!
Last week, Tracy and Kimberley (the toddler teachers) were donating one of their bookshelf to our resource room and it was up for grabs whoever wanted it. Well we snatched it up before they were even half way down the hall with it :)
So...it looks like in the New Year, we will have two bookshelf for our library and book center!

Christmas

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.....

You can't tell in this picture but the lights are actually 'on' on our tree. We also have several more ornaments on the tree now thanks to all of our friends who have helped us to decorate it :)

First, we are so sorry that it has taken us so long to update the blog. We have both been very busy, both of our husbands have been out of town and all we can say is that it has been CRAZY!! Thanks for understanding :)

December 1-4

Our unit this week was Brrr....it's cold! Fortunately we had a day or two that we did actually need to put a coat on "Dude!"

We talked all about how the weather can get colder in these winter months!

Our bible story this week was Joseph's Colorful Coat, Genesis 37.

We read the books: Animals in the winter, Snow Days, Bear's long nap & Mr. Snowman!

We had snow in our sensory table. The kids really enjoyed playing in it.

In Art Center this week we made snowmen out of our footprints. We made the Picasso Snowman. The Picasso Snowman is such a neat craft to reflect on if your child was here last year in our toddler class. They do this same craft (it is in your scrapbook), it is amazing to see how much they have grown in just a year!

We also played with "special snow" playdough!......(white playdough with glitter in it)

December 8-12

Our unit this week was Christmas Time is here! We talked about the true meaning of Christmas!

Our bible story was An Angel visits Mary, Luke 1:26-38. We talked about how special Mary was and Gabriel.

We read the books An Angel Visits, the 1st half of the story of He's Here from the Jesus Storybook Bible, and An old lady who swallowed a bell.

In Art Center this week, we finished up our Christmas Tree footprint pot-holders, did marble art to make a candy cane, and worked on some special pieces for our scrapbook.

On Tuesday the Mayde Creek choir came to the school to sing some Christmas songs. We were able to go and listen to them preform. We were both very proud of class, they did a wonderful job sitting, listening and enjoying the program!

We practiced using scissors in our sensory table this week with Christmas wrapping paper!

We worked on sorting with Christmas bows. We also got to work on making a birthday cake for Jesus. We also had a birthday celebration for Jackson P. and Lily's birthdays from our Wednesday/ Thursday class! The kids enjoyed yummy Santa cookies and cupcakes!

Upcoming Event

12/16 at 12:00-12:30 our Monday/ Tuesday Party

12/17 at 10:30 the 3's, 4's, & Transition Christmas Program

12/17 at 12:00-12:30 our Wednesday/ Thursday Party

12/17 Raffle drawing for the Christmas Baskets

12/17 Lily's last day, we will miss her so much as her family is moving to San Antonio :(

12/18 Early Dismissal. Classes will let out at 12:30.

A few questions have been asked about the parties. Parents are definitely welcome and encouraged to attend. However, if you work, or if you are simply not able to attend....this is OKAY!! Do not beat yourself up over this. If a child is there without a parent, we will make sure that he or she gets a little extra love and attention from us!! A few people have asked us if both parent's need to come to our party. Of course all are welcome to attend but again, if you need to work, it is certainly okay if only one parent comes.

It is a school wide suggestion, that if you come to the party you will take your child home with you when you leave. At this age two good-byes can be hard on them and confusing.

We know that there has been some confusion regarding the date of our Wednesday/ Thursday class party. We originally said the party would be on Thursday the 18th. It has changed to now Wednesday the 17th. We want to make sure Lily will be able to attend!

For our party we ask that you bring a book for our book exchange rather than presents for each student. Please bring a wrapped gift that both a boy or a girl can enjoy!

***Please know that our class will be watching the program on the 17th. Our class does not preform in this program. Both of us have children that will be in the program. We will be sitting with our families, our class is going to be sitting with the other 2 yr. old class and a fabulous parent volunteer (Thank you Rhonda!!)

***A note regarding our raffle drawing.

If you have not already purchased tickets for the amazing baskets in our lobby, please let me encourage you to do so. Not only will you get a chance to win, but more importantly all the money from this goes to a His Kids family who is very much in need this Christmas Season.

MUCH LOVE,
Cassie and Jen

Happy Thanksgiving

What a crazy fun week we had!

Typically our Monday/ Tuesday class and our Wednesday/ Thursday class do the same things. But this week, things were a little bit different due to "special" art surprises!




The weather was so beautiful too, we threw some of our lesson plans out the window and went outside for some extra playground time. We really wanted to enjoy this good weather while we could!

This week we talked about all that we were thankful for! The kids were very sweet. Most of them said their Mommies and Daddies, there were a lot of brother names and sister names too. We talked about being thankful to God for so many of our blessings.


On Monday Matthew K. brought our class some yummy special cookies to kick off our week of celebrating!
We learned a new "Thankful Song" it goes:

We are thankful
We are thankful
Yes we are

Yes we are

Thankful for our families

& our friends who love us

Yes we are

Yes we are

We also worked on matching turkey feathers at one of our centers.


Our Wednesday/ Thursday class made a turkey from Spin Art!






The highlight of the week was definitely our Thanksgiving Celebration. We were able to thank and praise God!

Monday/ Tuesday Class

Wednesday/Thursday Class

Our Celebration Pictures!

We are so thankful to be able to be with your children every week. We are having a wonderful time with each of them!

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Cassie and Jen

Community Helpers and Under the big top

Can you believe it is already November?!?!

We have had a very busy past two weeks!

November 3-6

We talked about Community Helpers! We focused on the color brown.
Our bible story was the Burning Bush, Exodus 3.

We talked a lot about different people who help us. We talked about doctors, mail carriers, teachers, police, fire fighters and ambulance drivers.

The kids played with emergency vehicles in sand in our sensory table.

In art we made a doctors collage and a fire painting.

The highlight of the week was when the fire fighters came to our school. We got to explore the fire truck.

We also, practiced our STOP! DROP! & ROLL!

November 10-13

Our unit was Under the Big Top! We focused on the color yellow!

Our bible lesson was Daniel's scary sleepover from Daniel 6.

In Art Center, we made a circus tent, free painted with yellow paint, painted cotton balls to look like cotton candy, and even worked some on our scrapbooks! We were busy in Art this week!

We also had an extra special Take and Make! Thank you so much for bring Tom the turkey his feathers, he looks GREAT!

We played with a new center this week. Sometimes, it is cute to see how much the kids really enjoy a very simple center. You do not need to spend a lot of money or do anything extravagant! We simply died noodles, hot glued a different shape/color noodle to a foil muffin tin, and let the kids sort the noodles! They loved this!!

The kids are really enjoying taking care of their plants, we wanted to share a few cute photo's of them!

Thanksgiving Party

Next week we will have our Thanksgiving Parties! They will be on Tuesday and Thursday. The Thanksgiving Party will be an "in-class" party. This means that you will not need to come up for the party. Don't worry though, parent's are welcome and encouraged to attend our Christmas and End-of-Year party!! If you have signed up to bring something for the party, you will just drop it off on Tuesday/ Thursday morning when you drop off your child. If you signed up to bring money for the nugget tray, please give that to us on Monday/ Wednesday. If you signed up to pick up and deliver the nugget tray, we will give you the collected money on Tuesday/ Thursday morning. You can go thru Chick-fil-a drive thru, ask for a small nugget tray and then bring it up to the school. We will need the nugget tray before 12:00.

Canned Goods!
His Kids Weekday Preschool is doing a canned good drive. All of our donations will go to Angels of Light! The class with the most cans will receive and ice cream party. Our classes are doing well, but we are not in the head of the pack!

Christmas Basket Donations

There have been a lot of questions regarding our Christmas Basket Project. Hopefully this will answer any questions that you might have! Each class will be collecting items to go into different themed baskets. The themes include: family fun, toys for boys, giggles for girls, etc. I will say that these baskets get some really NEAT things in them. 3 years ago, I won the Arts & Craft baskets, and had enough crayolas and play dough to last all of my kids a full year! After the baskets are put together, they will be displayed in the front lobby. You can then buy raffle tickets for the basket(s) that you would like a chance to win. The drawings will be after the Christmas Program that the 3 year olds, 4 year olds, and Transition class does. The collected money raised will go towards a person/family based on Heather's (our wonderful director) discretion.

Love, Cassie and Jen

Happy Birthday!

We had a Birthday Celebration for our October birthdays in our Wednesday/ Thursday class!

Happy Birthday Sarah Jane, Frederick, and Jackson S.!

Found the Memory Card!!

Wonderful news!!! I found my memory card! I am such a dork. It was in my change purse the whole time. This is the part that I am embarrassed to admit. It must not have ever been in my camera when I took pictures of the kids for Noah's Ark. So here I am taking TONS of pictures of them dressed in their costumes with my camera, with no memory card. So..... if you happen to have pictures of your child in their costume and any pictures of the parade, I would GREATLY appreciate it if we could have a copy!
Thank you!
Jen

I have added pictures to the post below :)