Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Thank you for checking out our Tuesday...

We did a GREAT job at our Christmas service on Sunday!  I am so proud of the hard work from each friend in the class doing his/her very best "performing" our song!  Thank you to Mrs. Helmkamp for the class photo...

A couple reminders...

12:00 Dismissal on Thursday, December 22…School will dismiss at 12:00 on this day to begin Christmas Break.  There is NO half day care option, please make arrangements to pick up your child at 12:00 this day.  We will not be eating lunch at preschool, but we will have morning snack. 

There is NO school Friday, December 23 - Tuesday, January 3…blessings on your Christmas Holiday! (school resumes on Wednesday, January 4, 2017).

As Christmas is drawing near, please consider joining us for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day worship services:

Zion Lutheran Church-St. Charles:

Christmas Eve Services: 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 11:00pm Christmas Day: 9:00 am

On to our day...

While free choice was in full swing, I had some friends come over for a December interview!  I took dictation as I asked many questions about his/her thoughts and ideas about Christmas!

Large motor time was in the commons today as our playgrounds were too wet and muddy!

Being a little silly is sometimes just what we need!!!

Or...playing a fun game of ring around the rosie is perfect too!

We finished morning meeting with our friend the gingerbread man.  One friend at a time came to the front as I read a page of our gingerbread book!  Each page gave our gingerbread man a positional word or direction on where he was supposed to run!  Each friend's job was to place the gingerbread man in the correct place in relation to the gingerbread house.  Understanding spatial relationships and positional words are early math skills.

Time for small groups (centers)!

With me, we built snowmen!  The bottom of the snowman had an uppercase letter, the middle had a lowercase letter, and the head (with hat) had a picture on it.  Our friends job was to build the snowmen by matching the uppercase letter, lowercase letter, and then finding the picture that started with that letter.  Recognizing/Identifying letters and words that begin with that letter sound are early literacy skills.

These Christmas trees were empty.  Our friends sorted ornaments by color or design to decorate each tree.  (Sorting is an early cognitive skill)

With Mrs. Hopkins we worked on "roll and color gingerbreads".  Each took a turn rolling dice, counting the number of dots, then finding the gingerbread man with that numeral on it to color.  (Quantifying and connecting numerals to their quantities are early math skills)

We love books and we love getting to "read" to friends.  We used pictures to give us clues what the story is about.  We used those clues to "read" the story to each other!

We love our gym time!!!

A little soccer with friends...

or to practice our ball handling skills!

During Jesus Time today Zippy reminded us that sometimes we have to wait for things.  We don't always get things right when we want them.  But, we get them in God's time, when he is ready for us to have them.  Just like he knew the right time to send baby Jesus to save us from our sins!