We had a great start to our week!
1 quick reminder...
Week of the Young Child at Zion is May 2nd - 6th! There are fun activities being planned for the week. Start planning now for the dress up days to help us celebrate:
- Movie Monday…PJ day!
- Taco Tuesday…Silly Sock day!
- Workout Wednesday…Dress like your favorite sports character!
- Thankful Thursday…Favorite Color day!
- Favorite Book Friday…Dress like your favorite storybook character!
We were excited to jump right in and get to work at our pet store! We were also excited to see that some new pets and grooming tools had arrived over the weekend! Dramatic play is a wonderful way to construct the world as he/she sees it!
Luke improves his hand-eye coordination and problem solving skills as he builds with Interlox!
Brooke expressed her creativity as she painted a beautiful butterfly picture!
While others were enjoying free choice time, each friend spent some time on his/her April interview. He/she told me all about the story of Jesus filling the nets (our Bible story from last week) while I took dictation. He/she then drew a net and filled that net with little fish (stickers...tiny ones to improve small motor control)!
Three cheers for a wonderful morning of outside time. Not only are we improving our large motor skills, we get this time to improve social skills while playing with friends!
To wrap up morning meeting we voted on a name for our pet store! Our 2 choices:
"Palace Pets" or "Kid's Critters"
After day 1, "Palace Pets" is running away with the vote...but, we will see what tomorrow holds. This graph was easy for us to see that "Palace Pets" has the most votes so far!
For science time today we continued working on our ladybug journals. Most of our larva have moved on to stage 3, pupa. We looked at models and our tiny pupa as each friend drew a picture of stage 3 (pupa) of our ladybugs. Our pupa won't look like much is happening, but much is taking place inside. In about 7 - 10 day they will emerge as stage 4 (adult ladybugs). We are excited and anxious to see what that looks like as metamorphosis takes place!
Time for small groups (centers)!
With Mrs. Burnham, each friend observed his/her 2 bags of beans and drew his/her observations for "day 8" in his/her own "Bean Journal"! We will continue to watch and journal our beans for another week. Some aren't doing much but growing mold, while a couple are sprouting and growing!
Oh no!!! Our caterpillar needed some help being put back together! His body is numbered from 1 - 20, our job was to put him back in order from 1 - 20 or 20 - 1! Success for some was leading the group, asking for the next number. Success for others was finding the next number and placing it next in our "caterpillar puzzle".
And...small group #3 is TOP SECRET! Some of you just might get to see what we were up to the end of next week!
We made our way to the preschool playground for a bit more exercise and fresh air!
During Jesus time today we remembered that we can learn about Jesus at Church, in the Bible, Sunday School, and preschool. But, we learned that we can learn about Jesus while playing at the park or while sitting at the dinner table. We can learn about Him anywhere that the Good News can be shared with others!
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