Sunday, November 8, 2009

November 2 - November 5, 2009

Our unit this week was Community Helpers!

We talked all about different people who are our Community Helpers. Our Bible Story this week was the Burning Bush.

We had a great time reading so many Community Helper Books in our Library Center. We listened to Sparky (a firefighting book) in our Listening Center too.
We played with different Community Helper Vehicles and sand in our Sensory Table.We played with Rescue Heroes!
We also worked with many fun tools!On Tuesday and Wednesday we focused on Fire Fighters! Here we drew fire on a house. We then talked about how Fire Fighters put out fires. (sorry...I don't have any pictures of the blue crayon "water" done over all the red "fire") We had a great time using this poem to play a game. The children would pretend they were sleeping Fire Fighters, at the end of the poem we would make a loud "bell" noise and the children would run around the classroom looking for the small "fire" we had hidden. They would then use their imaginary water hoses to put out the fire.In ART this week we made a Doctor Bag collage using all real things that could be found in their Doctor's office. (so sorry.... forgot to take a picture of this project)

We also did a group painting project. We worked as a team to paint "fire", then we cut the paper to resemble flames. Our WONDERFUL director Ms. Heather asked us to come and visit with her for a little bit. She talked to us about Fire Safety. She also let us watch a very short ELMO video about Fire Safety. She then gave each of us a Fire Truck whistle and a Fire Hat!Of course the highlight of our week was getting to check out the Fire Truck and meeting the Fire Fighters.The weather has been gorgeous lately, so we have been taking advantage of it! We stayed a little longer outside to just play and enjoy our AWESOME playground! We also celebrated Mollie and Brennan's Birthday this week!

Love,
Cassie and Jen

God keeps His promises!

Noah's Ark!
We had such a great week during our Noah's Ark Week! We talked about Noah, his family, how he listened to God, the Ark, the animals and God's promise!
Everyone could not have looked any cuter dressed in their animal costumes for our annual Noah's Ark Parade! Thank you so much to all the parent's who were able to attend. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

In ART this week, we stamped animals on an Ark 2 by 2!We also worked with Fingerpaint to create a rainbow!

This week we worked in some of our tried and true preschool centers.
We worked with our animal puzzles.
We worked on matching foods in our Dramatic Play Center.
We played with cars in our Transportation Center.We read new books that were purchased by our wonderful parents at the book fair in our library center! Also, we worked with Play Dough.
Love,
Cassie and Jen

Thursday, October 22, 2009

October 19-22, 2009

Creepy Crawlers!

This week we learned all about Creepy Crawlers! We talked a lot about caterpillars, butterflies, spiders, and all sorts of different insects!

Our bible lesson this week was The Ten Plagues from Exodus 7-12.

Sometimes we will try out a new song or project that we think is going to be a HUGE hit and then it flops. Other times, we will be given something that we aren't in love with, but will try it just to mix up our circle time. This was the case this October Song. For whatever reason this song is a HUGE HUGE hit in our class. They LOVE it. It was so cute this week, during playground and center time we heard a few different kids just singing this song to themselves! Hopefully the November song will be just as popular!
In Art this week we painted a butterfly.


And we made a spider web using Marble Painting!We searched for spiders in our sensory table. They were hiding in shaving cream.

We also worked on "untangling" spiders that were caught in webs! (The webs were pillow stuffing)
We had fun playing with all the bug puppets and reading bug books!We also worked with insect stampers in our play dough center!
Cassie and Jen

Monday, October 19, 2009

Noah's Ark Parade

It is that time of year again for our Annual Noah's Ark Parade! The Parade will be on
Tuesday the 27th and Wednesday the 28th.
The Parade will begin at 9:15.
We will walk around the staircase in the South Lobby.
After you drop off your child you may go to the South Lobby.

Please have your child wear a "comfortable" animal costume! Please know that you do not need to spend a lot of money for these costumes! If fact, some of the cutest costumes in the past have been very simple ones! The kids will enjoy this so much more if they are able to move around and comfortably participate in the parade!

We can't wait to see what animals all of our friends are going to come as!

We even get to dress up too....Here is a hint of what we will be... We make the sound Bzzzzz!

Friday, October 16, 2009

Carpool

Since this is our first year at the preschool to do carpool in the 2's class, we want your feedback. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns at all. Also please let us know how you thought it went this week!

We were very proud of our classes. Several other teachers complimented them on how well they did waiting in the carpool line!