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 :)

Creepy Crawlers

We are so sorry that we skipped last week with a post. Ms. Jen got sick and was out of school on Wednesday, then out of town (in New York!) on Thursday-Sunday. Ms. Cassie's computer completely crashed. So neither of us were able to update the blog last week.

We are also so very sorry...but Jen has somehow lost the memory card from her camera!!! This is absolutely AWFUL news! We had some of the best pictures on this card that had not been developed yet. If you have any pictures from the Noah's Ark parade, or any individual pictures of your child dressed in their animal costume, we would GREATLY appreciate a copy.

Last week (October 20-23) we learned all about Creepy Crawlers and worked on the color purple! We talked a lot about bugs, spiders, and butterflies! We had spider webs all over our room. Some were even hanging from Dude :)

Our bible story was The Plagues from Exodus 7-12.
We read the books: The Very Busy Spider and Oh My! It's a butterfly.
In our art center, we made a spider web from marble art and we painted a butterfly purple.
In our sensory table, we got spiders loose from sticky webbing one day and the next we found spiders hidden in shaving cream!

(Before)

(After!)
The kids thought that it was so funny to sing The Itsy Bitsy Spider and then get "rained on" when we sang "down came the rain." We sprayed them with a water bottle!

This week (October 27-30) we are learning all about Noah's Ark! The parade went great for both classes! We were very proud of all of our little animals.
Obviously our bible lesson this week is Noah's Ark from Genesis 6-9. The kids loved naming different animals that were on board the "big boat!"
We are reading the books Why Noah Chose the Dove and A New Beginning (from the Jesus Storybook Bible.)
In Art, we made a rainbow winged dove. The kids dropped food coloring on coffee filters and then sprayed them with a water bottle to make the rainbow wings. We are also stamping animals two by two on an ark.
In our sensory table we have the Little People Noah's Ark and water!

Next week there will be a visit from the Fire Truck!! We are very excited. We will be learning all about community helpers. Our bible story will be The Burning Bush from Exodus 3.

A few Tid-Bits!

• We can not thank everyone enough for all the books that were bought and donated to our class from our Scholastic Book Fair. Obviously we are both HUGE fans Scholastic books! They are such a great price and you can NEVER have too many books!


• We also want to thank everyone for all the items from our wish list! You guys are the greatest parents and we could not do all that we are doing without YOU! Plus, our rooms smells WONDERFUL from our new candle :)
  
• Tote Bags are in! If you have not purchased yours yet, please see Heather or Suzanne in the office!


• If you are wondering why we have not started library yet, it is because our bookshelf broke. We have ordered a new one and we are waiting for it to come in. In the mean time all of our books are in a huge pile in our resource room :(


• We will be starting our canned food drive for Angels of Light. This is such a truly worthy cause and such a great way to set an example for our children. Plus, class that donates the most will receive an ice cream party! Let's show the rest of the school what Class 2A is made of!!

Love,
Cassie and Jen

Noah's Ark Week

Be getting your favorite animal costume ready! Noah's Ark days will be Tuesday 10/28 and Wednesday 10/29.

If you are new to His Kids, we will do a short parade of Noah's Ark animals starting at 9:15.

Please do not feel like you need to spend a lot of money on an animal costume, the children will wear them for only about 30 minutes!

We can't wait to see everyone in their costumes!

Get out and VOTE!

Early voting starts tomorrow. Please go and vote while we have your children :)
You can go to the Cinco Ranch Branch Library (8am-5pm) or University of Houston on Mason (10am-7pm).

Me and my family

Our unit this week was All about Me and My Family! This is one of our favorite units, the kids LOVE to talk about their family! We asked each one who made their family and everyone said that their Mommy did. We talked about how God made all the people in our family and that each family is so special. Our show-n-tell was wonderful this week! The kids really loved showing off family pictures!
We focused on the color black this week.

In Art this week, we made our black books and our family collages!

Our bible story this week was Joseph saves his family, Genesis: 42-46.

Dad's and Donuts was also this week. Thank you so much to all the Dad's that were able to attend! We hope all of the Dad's will enjoy their coffee mug!

Next week our unit is Creepy Crawlers! We will be talking all about spiders, bugs and even butterflies!

Scholastic Book Orders

If you ordered books with the first Scholastic Book order, I wanted to give you an update.
I was beginning to wonder if I might have done something wrong with the order since it seems like to has been a while since the order had been placed. I checked on it tonight and it has been shipped! It is expected to arrive on 10/15. However, the preschool mail gets shipped to the Woodway location and then sent over to the West location. So it will probably be more like next week when the books actually arrive to us. I am going to look into getting the books mailed directly to the West location for future shipments.

Thank you very much for being patient!